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My dude, you explicitly asked "what makes Harris black in an American sense" and I gave you a detailed (as much as Twitter can be detailed), historically-grounded answer and instead
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Here, Du Bois is useful. "The black man is a person who must ride 'Jim Crow' in Georgia." Which is to say, what makes Harris "black in an American context"
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“Changing the rules of the Senate to allow simple majorities to pass legislation is a form of Trumpism” is not a serious argument.https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-democrats-take-the-senate-our-democracy-is-in-a-new-kind-of-danger Do the
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regular reminder that the idea of “black on black crime” as a unique form of violence is an attempt to pathologize the general fact that violent crime happens between people
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the thing about these interactions — which end with an arrest, not death — is they are still incredibly traumatic, still represent a gross abuse of authority, and are fairly
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we’re watching JOHN CARTER and thus far it isn’t bad just...generic? Willem Dafoe is good though as a green Martian warlord guy. yeah, it’s written and directed as a standard-issue
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watching BATMAN BEGINS for the first time in a good while. first thought: the first 20 minutes of this movie is very effective. Well-paced, well-edited, tells you a lot about
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We started BARRY LYNDON last night — will resume at the intermission this evening — and so far I think it might be my favorite Kubrick? At least half of
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we watched the WACO miniseries this week and while it was a little paint-by-numbers, both Taylor Kitsch and Michael Shannon give really strong performances, with Kitsch as a true standout
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Trump, a life-long believer in the “power of positive thinking,” sincerely believes that if he and his administration just asserts that they are making progress against the virus, it will
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Everyone who says this stuff wants you to believe we have no choice but to force everyone back into the market to work but the truth is that we have
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re: the Civil War, today — while reading Jonathan Sperber’s terrific “Marx: A 19th Century Life” — i learned that August Willich, a prominent German communist & political opponent of
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