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Oct 9, 2018 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
re: that last RT...
winding back the clock a bit: race has always been central to how movement conservatism and its institutional organs have been organized.
People point to the SCOTUS decision in Roe v. Wade as the catalyzing event of the modern evangelical movement, but as the historian Randall Balmer writes, its genesis is actually two decades earlier, in the white backlash to Brown v. Board.
Wow. Van Dyke guilty on 2nd-degree murder. More verdicts coming.
The jury found Jason Van Dyke guilty on all charges related to the fatal police shooting of LaQuan McDonald — save for official misconduct. Wow.
Oct 3, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
With all due respect to the point this person is making...you don’t have to really contort your brain too much to think of all the many places and ways it’s not safe for certain kinds of young men to walk alone at night.
i said this backwards: the notion that racism (and specifically antiblack racism) is a central part of American life is a feature of Black conservatism — and that notion is pretty incompatible with white conservatism.
And this is, again, why you have plenty Black folks with conservative leanings who will never vote Republican. Movement conservatism is organized around the imperatives of whiteness — it's why, for example, the NRA didn't rally around the case of Philando Castile.
Sep 29, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A few things jump out in these "first time i was called 'nigger'" responses:
~ the # of times this involved random white dudes in trucks driving by + shouting it
~most respondents were school-aged
~ being the "The Only One" in class/on a team/whatever when it happened
re: these, my first time being called it was at a church function, by some white boy from "the pocket." if you're from South Philly, you know where that is.
i've talked about this on here before, but like...i didn't have a bank account until i was 24 — until i started working at the New York Times — because I couldn't *afford* it. I couldn't afford ATM fees and minimum balance fees or the $10 min to use my card at the bodega.
Sep 20, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is important.
to expound on this, the audience research shows that the main way people pick up new podcasts is thru shout outs on other podcasts; if you have a sense of who you want your audience to *be*, you have to go where they *are.*
A whole bunch of podcasts you listen to today do not exist without Another Round.
Period.
Sep 14, 2018 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
In 2000, a Haitan American man named Patrick Dorismond was standing outside a bar in midtown Manhattan. A plainsclothes cop walked up to him and asked him where he could buy crack.
“What are you doing asking me for that shit?” Dorimsond asked.
A scuffle ensued, for some reason. Another plainclothes cop shows up. At this point, none of the officers have identified themselves as cops. One of them pulls out his gun and shoots Dorismond to death.
I'M HERE FOR SERENA SHADING JORDAN HAHAHAHA
"To be compared to Jordan and Ali...it's...well, mainly Ali because of what he meant to the world..."
Sep 4, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Deleting that bc it would become a thing with meetings with higher-ups or whatever.
But come on. COME THE FUCK ON.
a less-important reason why it's not worth your time trying to interview mendacious bigots is that they are necessarily bad conversations.
You spend your whole time as the interviewer having to extemporaneously fact-check some jackass on IQ hereditarianism or whatever tf.
Sep 4, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
yeeaaah. about this.
bit.ly/2NMUJcV
two wks ago, we got a letter from a listener. She's a white lady who teaches mostly Latinx kids in the city; her kids go to an all-white schools in the 'burbs. her oldest peeped game: "why are there brown kids at mama's school but none in our neighborhood? 🤔 "
Sep 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Kristi Tolliver is a whole problem/
this mystics game is stressing me out
it feels like the writer is wrestling with the dissonance of raising a Black daughter and his experiences w/ secondhand antiblack racism... while also clinging to his old ideas abt the kind of ppl who take issue w/ antiblack racism.
A NYU professor is invited to go back home with bae to meet his family...only to discover that he comes from a powerful clan of Jesus-Lions.
#CrazyRichAslans
A NYU professor is invited to go back home with bae to meet his family...only to discover that bae comes from a family that made its fortune thru a restaurant chain that specializes in pepperpot + rice-and-peas.
A thing that's come up re: one of the Ask Code Switch answers from the live show in Birmingham: the great and good @gdouban pointed out that a ban on interracial marriages remained on the books in Alabama until 2000.
What we didn't say onstage — altho it came up in scripting — was that the ban was obviously unenforceable bc of Loving v. Virginia. But "unenforceable" doesn't mean symbolically insignificant: a bill to strike that ban died in committee as late as 1998.
Aug 23, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🤔 we were JUST talking about the consequences of demographics in how news gets covered and affects the way readers understand things like ed policy + policing. Here’s an ex of what analysis looks like from someone who prob hasn’t a lot of contact with from justice system. 😐
Prosecutors throw mad charges at people all the time; if they convict you on just one of them, you might face significant prison time. As a defendant, YOU have to *run the table* to not get locked up. TV is a lie; something like 96% of crim cases never go to trial.
Aug 22, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
look. your girl's humor has ALWAYS been laced through with contempt for poor Black folks – jokes about "ghetto names" or whatever. It was always gross and worthy of side-eyes; even if she were American-born, it would raise questions about internalized anti-Blackness.
but she's not American-born. And she has talked herself about how she had to "learn about slavery in college."
*All of that matters* in how people have metabolized her humor, about what kind of experiences are okay for her to caricature or lampoon.
Aug 21, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
the top-line number of police-involved deaths also papers over all of the non-fatal (but still catastrophic) unnecessary contact Black people have with the police: Sterling Brown wasn't killed by the police; he was "only" tased and hospitalized, etc.
Philando Castile was likely one of the "only" police-involved deaths in the jurisdiction where he was killed; the police also stopped him 45 times BEFORE the day they shot + killed him, and for no cause that could be reasonably ascertained prior to a stop. n.pr/2nT5ZJs
Aug 20, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Woooow. Congrats, @sewellchan!!! latimes.com/about/pressrel…
Lemme tell you abt this dude Sewell. One time he called the @nytimes metro desk when i was a clerk like, “hey, Gene...can you put me in touch w/ the editor who has my story?”
And i was like, “okay, WHICH one?” That day he had 3 solo bylines, two co-bylines, and 2 contrib lines.
