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@ClintSmithIII

Writer. Teacher. PhD Candidate studying incarceration, education, & inequality. Author of Counting Descent.

Joined January 2012
Born 25 August

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  1. “Colonialism needed to move large populations of people—slaves and indentured labor—to work in mines and on plantations. Now the new dispensation needs to keep people in place and move the money—so the new formula is free capital, caged labor.”

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    Jan 3

    There are nearly 60,000 kids locked up in America’s juvenile and adult jails and prisons. Caging kids is an American tradition. Trump didn't start it, but we can end it. by

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  3. It’s not worth getting into positions of power just to propose policy that feels “realistic.” It demands changing the conversation & doing radical things bc that’s what a moment requires. Because sometimes people need to be pushed to understand that something better is possible.

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  4. So when I see ppl who express admiration for something like the abolition of slavery, but who turn around & say that something like The Green New Deal is unrealistic, it seems to demonstrate a lack of understanding of how meaningful social change has ever happened in the country.

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  5. The US had quite literally never existed w/o the institution of slavery alongside it. The first enslaved Africans arrived in 1619 & the US became an independent nation in 1776. Abolition required imagining a country that had never existed, a radical reconception of the republic.

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  6. I’m always struck by ppl who express admiration for those like Douglass & Tubman while labeling policies that attempt to build a more just & moral society “unrealistic.” Do these ppl think abolishing slavery was widespread & popular policy proposal in the 19th century? It wasn’t.

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    Jan 3

    Rep. Lauren Underwood sworn in as the youngest black woman in Congress

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    Jan 3

    Tell the children in your life that they can tell you anything. SHOW them, through the way you act. Be a safe harbor for them so that they know you will believe them and protect them. And I don’t just mean little children.

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    Well, we need y’all to do it because the table landed on us

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  10. this morning i woke up & hit the spin move & i can confirm that it is still strong

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    Jan 3

    The first two Native-American women to serve in Congress embrace one another. ❤️😭

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  12. Jan 3

    in college our soccer team had a boy band party where we did coreographed dances to a medley of nysync songs so if my political enemies ever decide to come for me i hope they pull the clips of my stellar spin move & body roll combo during the chorus of bye bye bye

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  13. Jan 3

    very much agree with this sentiment. the idea of writing, first & foremost, as a form of self-study (from brian dillon’s “essayism”)

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  14. Jan 3

    Shout out to every person who was on the frontlines of the the fight for a $15 min wage when the push began years ago. So many ppl said it was impossible but these organizers, led by the workers themselves, completely changed the landscape of the conversation & changed the game.

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  16. Jan 2

    I really enjoy buying used books because you get some small insight into how someone else experienced that book before you. Every highlighted sentence, underlined passage, circled word, & dogeared page is like being part of a book club with a stranger you'll never meet.

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  17. Jan 2

    every single democrat in congress should be supporting this bill

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  18. Jan 2

    *premier league club (before i get ratio’d by all the bundesliga fans)

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  19. Jan 2

    very curious how this will all work out but there’s no doubt that it’s exciting to have a young american player at a top european club

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  20. Jan 2

    think about all of the people who had trips planned for months to visit these museums & who now won’t be able to

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