Michael Harriot

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.

Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.

But it's not over.

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Not "all white people" are wrong. But when it comes to race, the majority of white Americans have been on the wrong side of every single racial issue in the 248-year history of this country.

So why would anyone even care what they think about Black art?

Why White People* Didn’t Like Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance

*Not all white people. Some exclusions apply. Void where caucasity prohibited.

It’s only been ONE DAY and I’m already tired of hearing white people explain why a few hundred armed, trained killers might make the public feel safer.

You know which “public” they’re talking about.

Gonna be a long week.

I will call the goddamn police

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Before everyone arrives from that other app, I want to make a confession:

I'm planning a robbery

I already have a target, a crew & a blueprint, I just need 1 more thing:

Will you help me recreate the greatest Black on Black crime in US history?

A story

An announcement

A (final) thread

Donald Trump delivering remarks at the DOJ is like Pontius Pilate giving an Easter speech

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."

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It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities.

Maybe it’s their culture

Did I do it right?

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.”

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill

Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

Black Women, White Apathy and Why a Leopard Ate Jimmy Kimmel's Face

Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim of "cancel culture." But he is the perfect example of what happens when white people are silent in the face of racism.

Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History.

The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter:

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For 5 decades, police officer Roger Golubski sexually assaulted Black women and forced to give false testimony that he used to send Black men to prison while he ran a sex trafficking and drug cartel in Kansas City Kansas

www.theroot.com/a-criminal-i...

A Criminal Injustice: How a City Ignored the Rape, Murder and Terrorism of Black Women for Four Decades

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman.The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.The most neglected person in America is the black woman. —El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

The other countries should put a 100% tariff on Teslas and luxury vacations from Harlan Crow

Ezra Klein is never ever ever going to say he’s wrong.

He knows he’s wrong, though.

He just thinks he’s smarter than y’all.

If I send you this, grab your coat

Scott Jennings just talked to Lindsey Graham for 20 minutes

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

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Is it fascism yet?

Shadeur Sanders can still go in the first round if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES

This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote

But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…

The “crisis” is white people.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends. goodauthority.org/news/2024-br...

I’m beginning to think Q-tip was going to kick it regardless of our answer

Teaching unwhitewashed history is not DEI. Stocking a Black-owned brands THAT PEOPLE BUY is not DEI. Recruiting HBCU grads is not DEI. Addressing racial disparities is NOT DEI. Treating LGBTQIA people like PEOPLE is NOT DEI

Trump isn’t dismantling DEI

He is reconstructing a WHITER supremacy

DEI Is the New Black

The demonization of anyone who is not white, straight and male is a tradition as old as America.

Remember when people were criticizing comedians for things they said actually said and even though nothing actually happened to them, Joe Rogan and Dave Chapelle and all the “edgy” comedians said the “cancel culture” was coming from the left?

Good times.