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I lived in #Egypt when Anita Hill testified in 1991. Being in the US as Christine Blasey Ford is testifying is making obvious what I’ve been thinking since we first heard from CBF. And this is going to be another of my threads about white American women.
I have to wonder # how many white American women in 1991 were able to distance themselves from Anita Hill because she is Black? Because now the woman testifying is white and blonde. And that is an essential Q to my threads: where have white women been all this time?
Because if you are just now horrified at the way patriarchy enables and protects sexual predators, what America have you been living in? Because white, rich patriarchy has enabled and protected sexual violence against Black women for centuries.
Amy Siskind is out here blocking black women and deleting their criticism and I have some thoughts.
While no one should be punished for changing, Amy Siskind said some real shit. For years. Before Trump offended her. That is it’s own problem, and one that has to be accepted.
Because in order for this #resistance thing to work out, the power can’t come from converts alone. It has to come from the people who weren’t being heard the entire time. And Amy is sitting right in the middle of a credibility gap.
We’re at the SRO (school resource officer) review committee meeting. The committee meeting Monday was cancelled. Superintendent & FCPD Chief Roessler rejected the proposal to edit line by line & are presenting a new draft of the Memorandum of Understanding they edited themselves. 
@nakasec already told us almost all of their comments/edits were rejected in this draft. Other committee members are frustrated that they’ve participated in this show but weren’t really listened to in the process. It’s a sham they call this community engagement. #NoCopsInSchools
Shirley Ginwright thanks committee members for their 52 pages of comments and edits. Says this meeting will be a walkthrough of the entire draft and then they will hear comments at the end of the meeting. #NoCopsInSchools
Today at 3pm PST/6pm EST social media/phone storm @ Marin. Protest at 645pm.
#ThomasAndSally #EndItNow
Event page: facebook.com/events/1577889…
#ThomasAndSally #EndItNow
Event page: facebook.com/events/1577889…
"Long days on the plantation. Slaves worked from sunup to sundown 6 days a wk.No such thing as a good slave owner”
#ThomasAndSally #EndItNow
#ThomasAndSally #EndItNow
#ThomasAndSally has a line in it where Thomas says to Ben Franklin "I don't beat them [his slaves]."
#EndItNow
#EndItNow
