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Aug 16, 2018 13 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Let's talk about #Omarosa for a second time...
Cut the dumb broad narrative out. It's misogynistic b.s.
If you truly understood code switching you'd get the underlying game she's working
I do not in any way condone her nonsense from before. She was claiming community but being extraordinarily selfish
But you know....I know a thing or two about what happens when House Negroes get disgruntled
She did what our Ancestors did....she collected those secrets and spent their capital when personally beneficial and expedient. This isn't new. This is one path of Black survival. Why do you think Jefferson installed lazy Susan's and dumbwaiters? To keep the enslaved from spying
I am watching us get distracted by Brennan ..myself included...when really we need to skip on back to Omarosa just to watch him lose his mind that a Black woman...got the better of him.
No she's not my buddy or yours...she was admittedly complicit. A welcome token...but you remember Samson?
Samson took everybody out when he was no longer empowered by superficial strength.
So sit back, relax, let her do her. She doesn't have to be your friend as long as she's his enemy.
One more thing. If he wants to see a dog he should look at the tape of him on Howard Stern judging the looks of his pregnant wife.
But the most vicious ads for freedom seekers (runaways) were from slaveholders who felt that their "servants" were ungrateful...sometimes calling for their death rather than their return.
Posessing Omarosa was Drumpfs way of symbolically posessing and controlling Black America. If this smacks of some torrid unfortunate Antebellum trash novel...well....

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Sep 2, 2018
I was a Revolutionary In Residence at @colonialwmsburg I take exception to this part of the Atlantic article. The voices of Black living history professionals matter. I agree with the majority of the piece but this part needs context.
WE NEED MORE AFRICAN AMERICANS VISITING HISTORIC SITES RELATED TO ENSLAVEMENT AND RESISTANCE!
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTERPRETERS NEED TO BE PAID COMPETITIVELY TO REMAIN ON STAFF AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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Nah. I have serious issues with this article. I am not sure whether or not I was approached but yeah....I see issues. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b…
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The ppl I celebrate splashed on Florida water cologne&crushed dark bricks for blush.They chose their children's names by Bible prophecy or by season or day of the week. They resisted white supremacy by making irresistable music genres.Their doors were painted "Haint Blue..."
Their grandparents were the Antebellums.They had hog bladders for firecrackers.Names were based on whispers frm Africa.Jesus wasn't official&spirit in the trees weren't obsolete.Cotton tobacco rice&sugar defined life.They fought&prayed.They paid an enormous price for our freedom.
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Aug 23, 2018
I really cannot stand it when people obscure the histories of Washington D.C. and Maryland and call them Northern. To do so is to obscure the powerfully deep role that enslavement and segregation had in shaping not only the region but American History.
I would argue we stop making the word "Condederacy" synonymous with "The South."
Many Southern folk cultural elements dominate Maryland's Appalachian Highlands, it's Southern coastal plain and The Eastern Shore. Central Maryland was built by trade in enslaved grown tobacco, wheat, corn and later the export of Black bodies to the west and south.
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When I was in an abusive relationship my ex who is white would use the I'm going to call the police on me all the time and did once and even started screaming that I was attacking him even though I was outside and was screaming for help and called the cops myself.
The dispatcher was Black. She told me to have empty pockets and hands. She saved my life.
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Let's have a chat brother Jamal.
Black historical interpreters are not slaves. They interpret the lives of our Ancestors. Without them our past lacks a critical voice bolstered by our contemporary experience.
When you say "play" it assumes that I'm cosplaying. NOPE. Dressing in period clothing is not easy or fun. I'm also not an actor or reenactor.
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