Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz

San Diego / Long Beach 🏝 I like politics, sociology and memes. Student. 🎓 (She/her).

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

"White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.”

—Where Do We Go from Here? Speech in 1967

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

If all these people who resort to saying “what MLK taught us” actually studied his work, they'd understand he was a radical, anticapitalist and anti American imperialism.

[Kevin McCarthy @SpeakerMcCarthy]

Critical Race Theory goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught us—to not judge others by the color of their skin. The Left is trying to take America backward.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

How are you going to tell me we can’t afford universal health care in this country when our proposed defense budget is $753,000,000,000?

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Those tweets don’t even make sense. They’re just garbling words together at this point to say they’re bothered by Black activism when they clearly don’t engage with it well enough to even know what the politics are. They’ve no idea what they’re talking about.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"Nations need to control national memory, because nations keep their shape by shaping their citizens’ understanding of the past," Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob.

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

The sooner we as a people begin to accept that these systems all work together, the sooner we can begin to form a global consciousness.

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

ICE conducts training for Colombian National Police Officers https://t.co/gC0CeQcek2

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

@AshWoodySoc @csuf So well deserved! Congratulations!!

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

I always imagine what the world would have looked like if Fred Hampton had been allowed to continue his leadership. He really could have been the next Malcolm X, but bigger, because he wasn’t religious

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

White people are always offering Black people their blueprint for our liberation & it always involves some version of, “persuade us to care in a way that doesn’t offend us or we’ll have no choice but to keep reinforcing the system that harms you.”

[Honey, the land! @angryblkhoemo]

Reminder that, yes, everything IS about race, actually.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Today, after 510,000 deaths from COVID, 0 House Republicans voted for COVID relief.

On January 6, with no evidence of electoral fraud and after domestic terrorists attacked the Capitol, 139 House Republicans voted to overturn the 2020 election.

What more do you need to know?

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

There's no such thing as being both "a social liberal and fiscal conservative."

Being fiscally conservative means cutting from social programs that aid the disadvantaged; they never cut from the military or corporate subsidies. Supporting social programs means investing in them.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

How about we “means test” corporate tax breaks

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

@Lannceer SO HANDSOME I MISS YOU

[leighsandra @fkalisy]

assess your own community’s needs and organize in your *own* area before you pack up and try somewhere else

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

I guess Ashley forgot that her dad is denying universal health care to people during a pandemic. She must have also forgotten that her dad pushed against $2,000 monthly stimulus checks. Super empathetic

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

“Dad is so empathetic and has the ability to recognize pain… and to comfort.” -Ashley Biden says about her father, President-elect Joe Biden

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

64% of the House Republican delegation signed on to Trump’s failed Supreme Court bid to steal the election. That tells you all you need to know about the modern Republican Party.

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

Sociologists: I will use the word privilege to describe the advantages systemically conferred onto a dominant group through the oppression of a subordinate group.

The internet: anything about other people that I am jealous of is now a privilege

[Andrea Ruiz-Velediaz @rebeldedrea]

Joe Biden's "I know what's best for you" discourse is dangerous. Just another neoliberal with paternalist attitudes.