#Race

Brandon Straka

BrandonStraka

1. George Floyd was murdered, there’s no way around it. Now, Minneapolis is burning with rioting and looting. Floyd’s murder wasn’t part of a systemic plot to kill black people.

Troy Simpson

TroyPSimpson

A thread. I have listened to Scott Morrison’s speech on ‘identity politics’. He seems to believe freedom depends on morality (and morality depends on God). Whereas, I believe freedom depends

Alex Chohlas-Wood

LX_CW

Last year at @CompPolicyLab, we created the country’s first race-blind charging platform, intended to reduce racial bias in prosecutor’s charging decisions. We’ve analyzed the data! Here’s what happened when we

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,

LL McKinney

ElleOnWords

If you don't mention the race of every character in your book, I don't wanna read it. I'm done with things that reinforce the white default. There are a few

Iesha Small (“eye-ee-sha”)

ieshasmall

Not expecting ppl to always be polite in the face of what is actually repeated trauma over time. Non black partners of black ppl (incl NBPOC). You need to make

LIB girl in Denver | IG:asamellow

asamellow

Who do you think gets more hate for dating outside their race? Black men or Black women? Why? The worst comment was when someone said I was dating my white

Robby Soave

robbysoave

I don't man to belabor this, but Nikole Hannah-Jones has said the right invented the idea that 1619 project is about replacing 1776 as true date of founding. Here is

Noel

Noel28607917

So every poll keeps saying that Biden has a commanding lead, yet this flies in the face of hard data...Follow this thread for more...@DrinkTheQoolaid @QouBou @JennSomebody42 @XtremeRaptor18 @SixQ2020 @BannedDeplorab1 @Gunny_Q

Jay Van Bavel

jayvanbavel

Unpopular opinion: there is no horse race to cover for the 2020 US election. Opinions about Trump are so deeply entrenched that the polls don’t move + Biden is extremely

Analyst

RawData_Science

Two people, person A and person B. Who is the fastest driver? My hypothesis is person A as they have held their licence longer and currently drive a sports car.

Jerry Dunleavy

JerryDunleavy

Trump's full George Floyd quote. Here's Trump's quote about George Floyd along with Biden's response to it. Trump's quote. Biden's response. Biden's quote tweet of the characterization of Trump's quote

How Fun Is That?🇺🇸🗽

CanSirBear

I've spoken with very few people that don't think racism is a problem. I think most people recognize it and even see it around them. What is most shocking to

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

I found an Observer piece I wrote in 2001: growing complexity of opportunity and disadvantage on race in Britain. For a Race in Britain 12 page special after summer 2001

Raymond Chang

tweetraychang

A lot of Christians are using the CRT label as a dog whistle to villainize those seeking to address racial injustice.Most people don’t even know what CRT is or have

Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn

SarahSoonLing

They are not too young to talk about race. Today I’m especially talking to my Asian American folx. How often do we train our children to believe they are “almost