This is journalist Karen Attiah, the only Black opinion columnist at the Washington Post. She was just fired for sharing a statement made by Charlie Kirk insulting Black women.
RETWEET if you stand with @KarenAttiah!
When Tiffany Cross referred to WH adviser Stephen Miller as a “white supremacist,” apparently, people who don’t own dictionaries were outraged
Fortunately, we found someone who can clarify things https://t.co/NTQYZBua2w
We found hundreds of examples of federal agencies purging their websites of anything Black, including:
-Profiles of Black military heroes (Army)
-Documents on the Tulsa Race Massacre (National Archives)
-Resources for teaching about slavery (NMAAHC)
https://t.co/cveNUPZZKY
There’s an African American adage that explains the Jillian Michaels/Trump/Smithsonian/slavery debate:
“Black people know white people better than white people know themselves.” https://t.co/fkVEZwB8yR
I love that the people crying “release the Epstein files” ALSO want to prevent museums from teaching the history of the human trafficking system created by powerful white men who sexually assaulted the women they held captive….
Because it’s “divisive.”
I could write a full length paper on the use/misuse of black American colloquialisms and cultural gestures like “the dap”. Even phrases like “my bad” or “for real” are used in every day language but started off as slang and people were considered less intelligent when using them.
Trump on January 6: Nancy Pelosi stopped me from sending the DC National Guard to protect the Capitol.
Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard.
Make it make sense.
As a person who was born and socialised in russia, I tell you what Putin and russia think about having a Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska.
It means Putin goes to... russia. Let me explain why - in this thread.
First, you need to know that the "Alaska myth" is essential for russia /1
When 5 black boys were falsely accused of raping a woman Trump wanted them to get the death penalty.
Yet Ghislaine Maxwell raped little girls and he gets her into a country club. See the difference?
What happens to a democracy when Confederates and lynch mobsters and segregationists and all-white jurors and gerrymanderers and vote suppressors and insurrectionists and election deniers aren't held accountable for their actions?
This. https://t.co/bt7JRYYnm2
How did American Eagle get people to buy jeans that look like how celery tastes?
They used the same marketing strategy that made Cornflakes the #1 cereal
It's why a billionaire nepo baby funded German "research" in the 1930s
It's why the SAT exists https://t.co/Y5BsGhbobb
Literally none of this is true.
By now, it has become apparent that this man is much dumber than people initially thought, but here is why this specific act of ignorance is so common.
A thread.