It's unfortunate that this has to be said, but American lives are not more valuable than Afghan lives.
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a lost soul trying to find my way...
Columbus OhioJoined October 2011
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it's not lost on me that a white man can murder 8 asian women and be arrested alive but breonna taylor was killed by police while she was sleeping.
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Abortion is not a bad word.
Abortion is not a dirty word.
Abortion is not a shameful word.
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R coup attempt is also a replay on the centuries-long meta narrative that the country belongs to whites, that whites are under attack, and that 'we' are trying to take what's rightfully theirs
we ignore this settler/racial logic, its violence/history, to our collective peril
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America only gave us $1200 to survive this year. Let that sink in for a min.
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White woman harasses black man sitting in his car outside his home.
She doesn’t believe he lives there.
Then her face cracks when he walks through the front door.
#KarensGoneWild
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Smh at my kid.
Her dad can’t help that he was blessed.
But she ain’t gotta go telling the whole neighborhood my secret.
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I had a white woman therapist a few years ago who literally let me talk for 5-10 minutes about my stuff then would talk about all her childhood issues the rest of the time. Then was surprised and hurt when I told her why I was leaving her practice...
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Two weeks ago, I called my company-sponsored therapy hotline number bc I was at my wits end. When I was talking to the woman, I began talking about what I was going through.
Then, I brought up racism and the woman started crying.
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TW: Rape, police retaliation
In June, Norman, OK cut the police dept. budget by $865,000.
In retaliation, an NPD officer doxxed a female city council member, to "teach her a lesson".
On Saturday, her duplex was broken in to & her neighbor—mistaken as her—was brutally raped.
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Some people really just shouldn’t tweet. I can’t figure out why this man keeps doing this to himself 🤦🏽♀️
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If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology.
We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter
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After the murder of Breonna Taylor, Louisville city council has just voted 24-1 to INCREASE the police budget by $750,000 and to cut $775,000 from local libraries. This is structural violence.
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Was having a similar convo with the hubby last week. 💯 to the water/ice dispenser in the fridge door plus central a/c, dishwashers, patios, trampolines and name brand food...most of which I have now or could afford now... twitter.com/cpoliticditto/
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Yesterday, a group of youth organizers and myself were peacefully protesting. This man pulls up and asks what we’re up to, eventually harassing us and telling us to “leave America if we don’t like it” and that “Black lives don’t matter”. Twitter, please help me find him.
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Earlier this week I reported on the Columbus police budget. One of the key findings was we spend 3.5 times more on uniforms than we do on
Then this drops:
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White South Jersey Cop Charged After Pepper Spraying Black Teen Who Was Just Sitting on a Stoop
This is the ninth — yes, ninth — police department that the cop has worked for. He’s 31 years old.
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A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stencilling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. “Karen” lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatter
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Spike, Spike, Spike 🤦🏽♀️
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Spike Lee defends Woody Allen against 'this cancel thing': 'Woody's a friend of mine' share.ew.com/WCcGnnv
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Kathryn Johnston was 92 years old when plainclothes police officers burst into her home in a botched drug raid. They fired 39 shots at her. They killed her.
#SayHerName #BreonnasLaw
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These 5 Black women were all killed by police in Georgia. Take some time to learn their stories today. Their lives mattered. #SayHerName
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If your white kid made an adorable sign proclaiming black lives matter but you opted out of your neighborhood predominantly black school then you are not teaching your kid that black lives matter.
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One thing that has annoyed me about this is the idea that one kid deserves better than another. We can afford to live in a different part of town but my kid(s) don’t deserve better than the other black kids in my neighborhood
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White progressives in columbus who won’t send their kids to CCS...
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If your white kid made an adorable sign proclaiming black lives matter but you opted out of your neighborhood predominantly black school then you are not teaching your kid that black lives matter.
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The kids are great
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Youth-led march in Columbus, Ohio in neighborhood of School Board President Jennifer Adair's house demanding for Columbus Police be fully removed for Columbus Public Schools. #CPDoutofCCS #columbusprotest #BlackLivesMatter
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Yesterday, 50,000 people in Sydney, Australia, defied police and a Supreme Court order banning the planned march, and protested in support of Black Lives Matter.
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Six teenagers pulled off the region’s largest protest against racism and police brutality in recent memory. huffp.st/A18dvwW
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now lets charge and arrest the officers who murdered breonna taylor
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An autopsy has found that Manuel Ellis, a black man who died in police custody in March in Tacoma, Washington, was killed as a result of oxygen deprivation and the physical restraint used in his arrest
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Seeing our babies out here peacefully protesting & demonstrating with such conviction, fills me with both immense pride & pain.
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When's that arrest coming for Breonna Taylor's killers, though?
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Breaking!: The Minneapolis School Board just voted to terminate its contract with the police department.
This. is. huge.
for context:
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Y’all can understand a white kid shooting up a school cuz he was bullied after 4 months of school but don’t understand why an oppressed group is compelled to burn shit down after 400yrs
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It is 3am and a dude has just messaged me to let me know I’ll probably still be fuckable even with the scars
One cannot simply make the men stop
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Coming from the woman who defended Brett Kavanaugh. Just sayin 😒
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What happened to George was horrific! We all feel sick and upset about it. But we need to stop the continuing violence in our cities. It’s not helping the cause. Very upsetting to all. 
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I condone everything black people do to get freedom
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Boosie was just calling Dwayne Wade a bad father for being accepting of his daughter claiming that Zaya isn’t old enough to know what she wants. Yet he’s paying grown women to perform sex acts on his 12 year old sons! Y’all prefer pedophelia over homosexuality and it’s disgusting
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