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@Karnythia
Sep 25, 2017 • 11 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Tired of people telling me troops fight to defend the flag or the anthem. So, let's have a quick thread of the oath of enlistment. Ready?
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,

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Oct 9, 2018
So this is actively debunked every few years. It's not the soul food, it is the racism & lack of health care & the stress of poverty. Correlation is not causation.
A. An actual soul food meal is 2/3 vegetables. Meat was expensive and was often used more as seasoning than as a main ingredient. B. Quality of ingredients matters (hi, let's talk not just about food deserts, but the subpar food sold in low income areas)
B. Soul food takes time to prepare. The average person actually doesn't have it every week much less every day. Can you guess what is a common factor in low income areas? Fast food. And yes some of that bills itself as soul food. It isn't.
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Oct 5, 2018
Black folklore permeates our cultural norms. And he had access, likely would have been assigned at least some in English classes. There's an argument to be made about academic privilege, but an actor with a career in Hollywood that stretches back 20 years ain't it.
Black American folklore has been on summer reading lists since the 80's. It shows up on Banned Book lists (see the regular fights about Beloved), and is in picture books. That's before we get into anything related to hoodoo & family traditions that granny told you about as a kid
I knew about burying a straying man's drawers in the yard by high school. That brooms needed to be tossed when you move long before that. Greens & black eyed peas for New Years? Grew up on that one. And I went to Charles Kozminski a 99% poor Black inner city school
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Aug 22, 2018
So, the diocese changed the rules this summer, but they have no mandate from anyone to demand natural hair. Natural colors maybe. This was a policy written to exclude Black students. And in a place with a robust public school system it wouldn't matter.
wafb.com/story/38929771…
But this isn't a town with a robust public school system. The ratings on the middle schools are...not great. Her parents were literally sending her to what is probably one of the best options available. The school knows that they have a disproportionate amount of power.
Instead of making education the first priority someone had a power trip over hairstyles. It won't be about education, it might not even be about overt racism in their head. It could be the kind of personal dislike that leads to bans on braids or Afros. Still racist but covert
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Aug 21, 2018
So hey can we talk again about being visible online as a woman in media and ways you can insulate yourself from things like this? Because a lot of folks are awful & unfortunately many platforms fail to be worth a damn so you have to find solutions for yourself.
I just DM'd someone who made an announcement yesterday to ask if anyone had explained how to scrub their personal info. Because congrats but also there's this problem that happens right afterward that many people will politely pretend isn't as predictable as sunrise.
Blocking is your best friend. Your best. Whether you are using a list or an autoblocking with a bot, you need a way to block en masse. Because pile ons are a thing & the easiest way to ride them out is by blocking in advance. It's going to be largely the same accounts anyway
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Aug 11, 2018
I mean, when Black women told you that Twitter's business model relies on keeping people who will tweet for hours on the platform regardless of their behavior what did you think we meant? Twitter needs harassers, kooks and so on to keep the metrics up.
Case in point, some of you remember the guy I have tweeted about in the past who made a patreon to get paid to stalk & harass women & called it performance art. Fun fact, he spent up to 23 hours a day online. On twitter sending & deleting threats. He would camp out in mentions
Twitter knows about him (law enforcement knows, other platforms know, everyone knows) and here's the thing, Patreon shut down his account. It took a while & was a mess, but they stepped in. Twitter? Not so much. Even after he was being prosecuted.
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Aug 8, 2018
I keep seeing people insist that Beyonce's ancestor story is wrong & hi let's take a detour to manumission laws & how often people had to buy loved ones & own them for a period of time before they could legally free them. Little known aspect of history but it exists.
Okay so manumission started in the US in the 17th century (yes, basically as soon as there was slavery there were paths out of it), and initially in Virginia it was a straight forward process. Enslaved people could by their way or be granted freedom for a variety of reasons.
Elizabeth Freeman's lawsuit ends slavery in Massachusetts, slaves who fought in the Revolution were freed after the war, slaves were freed upon the death of their owner & so on. Free black populations went from 1% to 10% very quickly. Which is where manumission laws changed.
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