Alexandria West on Twitter: “A BIG congratulations to Jennifer Richeson for receiving The Career Trajectory Award from SESP today, becoming the first Black individual to ever receive this award. As a biracial bicultural social psychologist, your speech meant so much! #StandingOvation @jaricheson @SESPcon http://bit.ly/2pK6MAx
This week, we’re starting with the Good News first!
Jenny Holmes on Twitter: “Today I had the amazingly moving experience of telling a client that after years of being barred from voting, she can cast a ballot in the upcoming election! Time to expand that outcome to the rest of Florida’s returning citizens as #Amendment4 intended. #imnotcryingyourecrying” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2MIrRnQ
Julie Ebenstein on Twitter: “BREAKING: Florida federal court holds that the right to vote cannot be denied based on a person’s inability to pay fines and fees! #Amendment4” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2pSA9k1
Molly Jong-Fast on Twitter: “Hillary Clinton chooses not to share a stage with the lady who jails the kids. https://t.co/vucdPS68nm” / Twitter http://bit.ly/31GGb4v
Rebecca J. Kavanagh on Twitter: “In 1946 Monroe Georgia, a mob of 30 White men lynched 4 young African American men and women. Despite a grand jury hearing evidence from more than 100 witnesses, no one was ever indicted. Now, a court may rule that those grand jury transcripts be unsealed. http://bit.ly/2BBZB05
Astronaut Stephanie Wilson is the voice of Mission Control for the all-female spacewalk – CNN https://cnn.it/31JaoQD
Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD on Twitter: ““… it appears Mr. Cummings may be the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol.” https://t.co/HJslATAPqi” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2BC3S3A
Hundreds of Doctors to March to White House to Demand End to Trump Administration’s ‘Inhumane’ Treatment of Migrants http://bit.ly/32LWH4H
Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/32KFxEG
NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill memorialized with USPS Forever stamp | PBS NewsHour https://to.pbs.org/2BGS8g4
Princeton seminary will pay $27M in slavery reparations – nj.com http://bit.ly/2MK6Ucd
Madison Security Guard Marlon Anderson Will Get His Job Back http://bit.ly/2MICwPn
Ari Berman on Twitter: “House Judiciary Committee just passed Voting Rights Advancement Act, bill to restore & expand Voting Rights Act. This is big first step to strengthening historic civil rights law SCOTUS gutted” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2W7EMmC
NativeAmericanSoul on Twitter: “Native American Pride. What Tribe are you from? https://t.co/vopHBbZjKd” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2WipOu8
And now the news related to white supremacy:
[thread] Karen Attiah on Twitter: “How careless white America has been with black pain. The same careless spirit that allows Trump to compare lynching to a constitutional process. The same spirit that sees slave plantations as romantic venues. That spirit that loves black forgiveness after white violence.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2pK8zpf
“Trump’s lynching comments exemplify white America’s carelessness w/ the black experience in the country. The same carelessness oozed out of Joe Biden when — in a response to a question about slavery — implied that black families need social workers to help raise their kids.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2BGHPJ0
“And then I think again, it’s not white America’s carelessness with black pain. White America enjoyed it. Cultivated black pain. Lychings were entertainment. Sadistic public spectacles. White people even made photos and postcards of lynchings as souvenirs.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2MKrzNq
“The spirit of white supremacy interplays delicately with Victimhood. White America will harm us in the form of media commentary, racist policies, and pop culture representations… Then turn around and call black folks an angry Twitter mob when we use social media to resist.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/32Kxfwu
“When black people warned about the dangers of Trump, its because we knew what America is capable of. That America’s institutions have been used to shield those who have caused enormous harm to the marginalized groups in this country. We knew. We knew. We knew.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2W9pg9C
“White America and its media will have to reckon with the fact that Trump (and Trump supporters’) attacks on Muslims, immigrants, refugees, black people was and is shocking, titillating, amusing, grotesque — but not disqualifying. His abuses have become public spectacles.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/32Kga5T
“For almost 4 years we have watched Trump and his enablers rhetorically and politically lynch and abuse the vulnerable both and home and abroad. Some parts of America have been watching in horror. Others have been watching with glee. But we’ve all just stood by, watching.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/32KX27R
Blues and Abstract Truth on Twitter: “WTF from the classroom: today gave a lecture on the white supremacist systems of Jim Crow & Apartheid. Showed a docu which featured a young Nelson Mandela, I paused & asked if they knew him, no one did. I revealed he was Nelson Mandela & half the class hadn’t heard of him. Laawd!” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2ogHqtN
Maya Wiley on Twitter: “#AOC is an extremely effective interrogator & elevates the concerns we should have about #white supremacy on social media. #ZuckerbergTestimony” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2ofpQGx
The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success | The New Yorker http://bit.ly/2WcrLIq
The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2odIwq0
ICE Deleted Surveillance Video Of A Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In Its Custody http://bit.ly/2W9XSIN
So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first. – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/31JYk1w
Ethical Society of Police – ESOP on Twitter: ““Officer Ray Villalvazo reported Murrietta looked at him and reached for his waistband, so he feared for his life.” This is an officer with a warrior mentality that murdered a 16-year-old because he lost a foot pursuit. Running from the police shouldn’t be a death sentence.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/31KY5De
Jon Cooper on Twitter: “ALERT: @FBI, have you seen this? == Right Wing Watch on Twitter: “Rick Wiles warns that if Trump is removed from office, veterans, cowboys, mountain men, and “guys that know how to fight” will hunt down Democrats and kill them. http://bit.ly/32Lppmd
[thread] Megan Ming Francis on Twitter: “After having spent the last 15yrs researching the violent history of lynchings in America…Im still not recovered from POTUS tweet yesterday However, I will say this: it is dangerous. Fraudulent fears of violence against whites were often used to *support* #lynchings of AfAms” / Twitter http://bit.ly/31LhhRg
The Tennessee Holler on Twitter: “NEW: “We got a QUEER running for President… the white man has very few rights.” Watch @SevierCounty Commissioner Warren Hurst’s homophobic, bigoted outburst Monday, telling folks to “wake up”. Mayor’s office: 865-453-6136 Hurst: 865-453-8513 WVLT: http://bit.ly/2W8tmis
US takes step to require DNA samples from asylum-seekers – seattlepi.com http://bit.ly/31N53rj
Rescuing Native Americans From the Imaginative Prison of the Past – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/31HMuVM
Ibram X. Kendi on Twitter: “A lynching! A lynching? I’m thinking about the lies, the kidnapping, the rope, the torture, the cheering crowd, the death portrait, the people walking away with body parts of my ancestor. THAT IS WITNESSING A #LYNCHING. The audacity of this White male supremacist.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2obdMWC
brittany packnett cunningham on Twitter: “I want you all to read “Lynch Law” by Ida B. Wells, the Black woman activist who forced America to reckon with her own racial terror, to understand why #lynching is not a term to toss haphazardly. http://bit.ly/2W9MXPe
Trymaine Lee on Twitter: “This yr marks the 100th anniv. of the Red Summer of 1919, when hundreds of African Americans were lynched and murdered across the country. Thousands more would follow. Lynching was used to beat Black people as far back into slavery as possible. The president is not being lynched. http://bit.ly/2pS8nEE
Opinion | Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/32Fepa1
Abby D. Phillip on Twitter: “Trump knows what a lynching is & what it means in this country. And the fastest way to create a cycle of controversy is to invoke the county’s deepest & darkest racial wounds for his own ends. It should be called out, but let’s stay focused on the facts.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/32ICc8V
jordan on Twitter: “I can’t emphasize enough how increasingly common “civil war” and “armed conflict” rhetoric is becoming among right-wing talking heads http://bit.ly/2BGYdt2
Trump’s Asylum Ban Could Apply Retroactively to Thousands of Migrants Even Though Officials Promised It Wouldn’t — ProPublica http://bit.ly/2WgEw4H
These unhinged far-right Christian fundamentalists believe God killed Elijah Cummings for opposing Trump: ‘Don’t mess with the Great White Hope’ – Alternet.org http://bit.ly/2Wb5ryM
The bitter harvest of Richard Bibb: A descendant of slavery confronts her inheritance http://bit.ly/31KLkZv
‘Watchmen’ and The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that No One Remembers http://bit.ly/32W4lJG
‘Watchmen’: The Making of the Tulsa Race Massacre Opening http://bit.ly/2pNeR7G
Vanita Gupta on Twitter: “”They noted in the complaint that African Americans comprise 4% of Minnesota’s voting age population, but account for 20% of the total number of disenfranchised people not in prison.” Important new voting rights lawsuit in Minnesota. Thank you, @ACLUMN. http://bit.ly/31N3rhf
Brian Steven Smith Indicted In Murder Of Another Alaska Native Woman http://bit.ly/32JOzSj
Latest ADL Data: At Least 12 White Supremacists Arrested For Plots, Attacks & Threats Against Jewish Community Since The Deadly Pittsburgh Shooting https://yhoo.it/31JW4HA
Feds Admit 1,250 More Immigrant Children Were Separated From Parents http://bit.ly/31JaMyz
HUD officials knowingly failed ‘to comply with the law,’ stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds https://nbcnews.to/32I699a
Marine combat veteran who served in Iraq facing deportation to El Salvador https://nbcnews.to/2pOPYs6
Cherry Hill school district rejects a Philly businessman’s offer to wipe out students’ lunch debts http://bit.ly/2MIsuhc
Tim Wise on Twitter: “Today’s reminder of what country we live in: Mississippi installed the 4th version of an Emmett Till memorial marker. This one is bulletproof. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to why, and what happened to the first three.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/31F76xD
Local 4 WDIV Detroit on Twitter: “An African American security guard told a student to stop calling him the N-word. It cost him his job. http://bit.ly/2ofmLWZ
AP: Migrant children may be adopted after parents are deported without notifying their deported parents | TheHill http://bit.ly/31EgCBe
Detained Mexican Immigrant Dies After Officials Wait Hours To Transfer Him To A Hospital http://bit.ly/2Wf4w0u
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II on Twitter: “Trump describing ethnic cleansing as a school yard fight b/w Turks & Kurds is more white nationalism. To him, they are just juvenile people of color, not real nations or informed adults like us. If they kill each other, it’s alright.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2WceIa3
Fatherless Son on Twitter: “This is from the president of Small Business Consultants of Ohio. https://t.co/I2eDORuUAD” / Twitter http://bit.ly/31I0LSh
Fox News Apologizes for Confusing John Lewis for Elijah Cummings http://bit.ly/2W9yhj4
Trump judicial nominee faces another setback – POLITICO https://politi.co/2WckIze
@kingsrush on Twitter: “Amid all this recent drama in the White House, please don’t forget: Hundreds of brown kids are crying themselves to sleep in some detention center, wondering where their moms and dads are. #FuckTrump #CloseTheCamps #ChildrenInCages” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2pSHOyM
[thread] McKay Smith on Twitter: “1) In June of 1945, after the war with Germany had ended, an American Army officer in Frankfurt moved into an abandoned apartment and did what he could to make it livable. Opening a closet door, he discovered an album of photographs. ==> “According to what he could read of the captions and see of the photos, he wrote, the images appeared to depict “activities in and around Auschwitz, Poland.” http://bit.ly/31JSZHw
Critical Resistance on Twitter: “The SF jail system represents the grave racial and economic disparities of the city. 56% in the jail are Black, almost 40% are houseless, over 30% are in need of mental health care, and 25% are youth under aged 25. #Shutdown850” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2MIT6yD
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