Iola (eye-ola) Leroy

M.Div., Minister, Scholar, Romance novel junkie, Addicted to tv's Scandal, MadamSecretary, Underground, and QueenSugar. SVU and #Bensler. #WakandaForever

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

George Wallace won, y'all. Today, tomorrow, and forever.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Here’s a fun exercise in Critical Race Theory:

In the entire history of this nation, name 3 issues concerning race, equality or freedom where a majority of white people were on the right side of history AND black people turned out to be wrong.

Follow me for more brain teasers.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Black people saved this country and are now under attack, and those attacks have only intensified since the Republicans’ bigoted mascot lost. But you wouldn’t know it if you only listened to white leaders.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/3AayfeUTyK

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

CHALLENGE:

Before sharing another #MLK quote or asserting what he would stand for today, read ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ and reply to this tweet with something you learned.

Share this challenge far and wide.

Letter: https://t.co/JNgS16IoCC

[Stephen Robinson (Bluesky at @playtyperguy.com) @SER1897]

No, contempt for Black people is a white racial inheritance. You have to actively fight against it, get in heated debates with family members at holiday dinners. Few people do this. It’s the racial equivalent of that treadmill gathering dust in the basement.

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

“Castrate, kill, remove voting rights,” the soon-to-be Georgia sheriff's deputy wrote in a text found by the FBI. “The only problem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”

Very disturbing report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
https://t.co/bbKSqxZeeD

[The Langston Hughes Review @LangstonReview]

“Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.” – Langston Hughes, 1937.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

Same.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

@MamaGuvie @ElieNYC @RoArquette Have you read a U.S. history book. Black people don't fair well when the only people making policy are white.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

@ReadInColour I think it's mostly a StL/EStL thing. I seldom hear about it when I'm in other places.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

Too white for my taste (the Quaker part anyway).

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

'In America, Black people are always expected to wait — for recognition, for opportunity, and for justice.' -- @reneeygraham

If patience is a virtue, Black people must be saints https://t.co/4h0481rlHa via @BostonGlobe

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

It's worth point out that Black people have only *really* been allowed to vote between 1965 and 2013 and for the other 186 years, a majority of white people have been perfectly fine with restricting Black participation in the democracy.
So, @SenatorSinema isn't actually new.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[✨meg frank (they/them) ✨ @peripateticmeg]

lol

[Tera Hunter @TeraWHunter]

In a nutshell, the failure to punish violent seditionists after the Civil War in 1865 has continually haunted American democracy ever since.

[Iola (eye-ola) Leroy @rainekasey]

Same way y'all have handled the priest sexual abuse issue?

[Facing History @facinghistory]

Honoring the struggle for liberation & justice w/ these books by @agordonreed @ClintSmithIII @HC_Richardson @DrIbram @KeishaBlain @TaranaBurke @BreneBrown Robin D.G. Kelley, & @esglaude -- join us. #Juneteenth #facingourhistory https://t.co/gHfcP6SU8L