#Race

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Covid-19 attacks groups who are most vulnerable and in America, no one is more vulnerable than poor black people (and poor Native people.) A host of issues ensured black people

Retired Golden Girl ✨ (black parents but biracial)

Girlgoldened

Stephen Jackson, the same man who told millions of people that Black Women are the downfall of Black Men is now mourning his brother, George Floyd.If you called Black Women

frog

filthycattle

1. Just gonna share some thoughts on the word "racism"Let's start with the fact that it's a made up word and concept and it was not a thing 100 years

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

Friends, especially White friends, in academic medicine wondering what you can do and what issues you can advocate for. A non-comprehensive breakdown by specialty. I remind you that pledging to

🚩Shepherd🏴

NeolithicSheep

Good thread.I feel like responsible farming calibrates you for this -- things happen on an annual time scale, sure. But over all, the struggle to build the soil, to nurture

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

OK, I'm going to have a short thread on racism despite being white & thus incur the wrath and dismissal of a certain kind of anti-racist who works on standpoint

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Brilliant paper. No meaningful difference in cognitive ability between Black & white children at age 8 mos.Even without controlling for income, home/prenatal conditions, etc.Yet “deep roots” literature in econ. development

Condoleezza Rice

CondoleezzaRice

My thoughts on this moment in our history:https://wapo.st/3cyCnbh I grew up in segregated Jim Crow Alabama, where no one batted an eye if the police killed a black man. So

Kristina Beverlin

krisbeverlin

Please take a minute to read this thread and understand that one of the most important congressional races in the country has a special election in Western NY on June

Woke Up EXACTLY Like This

FTWTMPS

While police work and media coverage continue around racist Amy Cooper's shocking attempt to weaponize racism and the police against innocent birder Christian Cooper, this matter has been used, poorly

yibi⁷

xyrkives

Alright before I go offline. Here's a bit about culture in my country. We hardly have culture appropriation here. What we do have, is alot of culture appreciation. But the

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADBy now, @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS know how much we love them.I perused mainstream media Websites today, and I was reminded of a phenomenon I saw in the 1980s and never

Iona Italia, PhD

IonaItalia

Just watching a horrible thing happening on here in real time. A young black guy & a woman got into some kind of a traffic altercation. It wasn't recorded so

Candice Hare

CandiceHare_

Shout out to @AndrewNJHawkins for making me feel old today when he reminded me of a deep dive I did five years ago on a few North American runners who

Shaun King

shaunking

BREAKING: We are on a call with @BernieSanders right now and he just told us that he is stepping down from the presidential race. He will be going live to

Leilani

lelaballerina

YES. Leguizamo absolutely nailed his performance as Tybalt, he had incredible mastery of the language! It's not the interpretation of Tybalt I favor* but it's a damn near flawless performance.