The Spirit of 50/50 loomed large over the #RepublicanConvention last night. This is a ghost I run into every single time I have a conversation about race or injustice with white folks who have not yet done the work to interrogate the way they see the world. #spiritof5050 1/

The Spirit of 50/50 haunts conversations w/ white folks and their allies; compelling them to ennoble whites doing evil by removing moral analysis and supposing all are, not only equally human, but all are equally virtuous and credible. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 2/

Case in point: #VeryFinePeople on both sides in #Charlottesville. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 3/

Another case in point: Glassy eyed Don Jr. bellowed #bs saying George Floyd’s death was bad, but police are heroes. This minimizes the horror of Mr. Floyd’s death and puffs up the morality and nobility of police. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 4/

The #McCloskeys were an attempt to elevate the moral cause of the encroached upon white suburbs and hack at the moral nobility of #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 5/

And then you have POC allies of #whiteduplicity: @NikkiHaley “America is not a racist nation.” She magnified importance of her South Asian immigrant family’s rise and framed the slaughter of #Emanuel9 as proof of American benevolence. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤬" title="Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤮" title="Spuckendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Spuckendes Gesicht"> #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 6/

Finally, @SenatorTimScott: #RNC2020 used his black body to place #cancelculture, #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> and calls to reimagine our world all in same frame; labeling frame: Socialist (a bogeyman in white imagination). Then minimized black pain. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 7/

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ... that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)

Watch for #Spiritof5050. It attempts to call good “Evil” (or minimize it) and evil “Good” (or erase it). #RepublicanConvention 8/8