Michael Harriot

Stephen A saying he would divorce Serena Williams for cripwalking for Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance is hilarious considering how hard he tap dances for Hannity’s show

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.

A thread.

Still searching…

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

A thread.

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.

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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

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?

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:

A thread.

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.

Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are:

20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services
24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
26% of postal workers,
30% of the Dept. of Education

That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.

How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress

For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

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.

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

“The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters ‘DEI’
added to the site’s address…

The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “
‘deimedal.’”

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address

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.

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.”

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...

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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On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white

100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...

And how "The Great Gatsby" became white

Gatsby’s Secret

Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.

I will call the goddamn police

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I've seen so many people online using the government shutdown as an opportunity to demonize people who receive SNAP benefits, WIC and any kind of government assistance.

Here's the thing:

I agree with those people.

We need to end the WHITE welfare state

BECAUSE welfare works.

A thread:

The anti-CRT/DEI/WHITE movement predates the American education system. But don't take my word for it...

Read the primary sources

Hurry up. It might be illegal soon.

Primary Sources: How Black People Invented America's Education System

...And why the people who hate DEI, affirmative action and an educated population have always wanted to destroy it.

Trump is expanding the Afrikaaner refugee program, which is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are trying to take land from Whites

You can't understand this story if you don't know 1 of the greatest stories in all of history

A thread

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Exclusive: Trump poised to expand refugee program for white South Africans

President Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the ​U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter.

I’m old enough to remember when “America First” meant staying out of foreign wars & no govt overreach & protecting citizens & respecting the sanctity of life

They have no values. Stop pretending it’s a political party & not a cult whose leader will never ever be wrong

They will murder you.

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.