Let me tell you all the Black women you don’t speak for…
You don’t speak for the Black woman who is a trusted friend and manages all of the business/finance of @TheNorthStar.
You don’t speak for the Black woman who serves as the Editor in Chief of @TheNorthStar.
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It's so easy to say "don't give it attention" when it's not you. I've spent years not giving it attention and just watched as my life morphed into something I don't recognize. I am now stopped on the street even when I'm not with Shaun. It's not some Twitter beef for me.
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I want these words to be a record of my position.
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You are literally obsessed with my husband! Seriously, how do you have so much time on your hands??? I bet if you spent half the time actually helping people as you do trying to make the case that my husband hurts people, I think we’d have won this fight for justice by now!
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You clearly live and die by twitter. Get a life! And not one built on the platform of maligning people you’ve never even met before.
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You X%$^A*&!#&S have mastered inuendo. I never read one tweet or post from any of you until today and I’m shocked at the nothingness of it all. I thought there must be something compelling to get people riled up the way I’m told they are. It's a nothing burger.
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Who is it that you’re supposedly protecting from my husband? Is it the Black woman (my Spelman sister) who accused Shaun of stealing money from Cyntoia Brown when he never raised money for her? Is it that Black woman you’re protecting? Because she chased a big dog and got bit?
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Does being Black & queer mean you don’t have to answer for your lies? So now Shaun hates & harms queer people because he defends himself against attacks regardless of who they come from? Are you serious?
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So now Shaun hates & harms queer people because he defends himself against attacks regardless of who they come from? Are you serious? He’s proudly raising and loving a Black, queer daughter! But you don’t actually know us, so you wouldn’t actually know that.
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Shaun threatens Black women who post complete fabrications about him with lawsuits??? As he fucking should! He has a responsibility to protect the reputation that helps to put food on his children’s table. It would be negligent of him not to.
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I don’t care who you are. If you tell complete and utter lies about Shaun or our family that cause real harm to our ability to make an honest living, then you should be sued. Period.
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You have an agenda and that agenda has served you well. So now you literally need these things to be true about him. You’ve staked so much of your platform and reputation on your unnatural obsession of and hate for my husband.... I've never seen anything like it.
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You’ve staked so much of your platform and reputation on your unnatural obsession of and hate for my husband that you’ve got nothing left when your baseless accusations are proven untrue. You need them to be true so badly or else YOU are a fraud.
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And I’m sure you’ll say this isn’t the case. That you were somebody before you jumped on the hate Shaun bandwagon and that you’ve got business other than disparaging my good name. But at this point Imma need you to prove it. Do something good in the world and show me.
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You’re talking to disgruntled former
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But just so we’re clear, thanks to the THREE BLACK WOMEN now running
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Shaun has many flaws. He is well aware of this. I am brutally honest with Shaun. He thinks every idea he has is a good one. He can be selfish in his personal life because of how giving he is in his public one. He lets me carry too much of the burden of raising this family.
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Shaun so badly wants to make the world a better place that he used to start projects he could never actually have the capacity to manage -adding to my strain. He now hires teams to do what he can't. He can be mentally absent at home because of the weight of the work he does.
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Our marriage has struggled under the weight of the work Shaun does. I find myself reading old accounts of wives in the Civil Rights Movement - trying to understand how they bore it all. It feels so unbearable sometimes.
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So when you ask why Shaun hasn’t answered this accusation or resolved this question, it’s because he has a wife at home that is calling him to task about the amount of time he spends on bullshit. It’s because he has a business to run, and articles to write, 5 children to raise..
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So when you ask why Shaun hasn’t answered this accusation or resolved this question, it's because he has victims to support, a book to edit, a phone call to take, a child to pickup, a doctor’s appointment not to miss....
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So when you ask why Shaun hasn’t answered this accusation or resolved this question, it's because he has a school conference to attend, a meal to eat, a candidate to push for, a birthday present to buy, a recital to watch, and the occasional award to accept!
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You could NEVER comprehend the pain, stress, and heartache involved in being a partner in this work. The sleepless nights. The ulcers. The headaches. Trying to give your husband space to do important work, but drowning under the weight of it all yourself...
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You could NEVER comprehend the pain, stress, and heartache involved in being a partner in this work.... Constantly trying to rise above the noise, and the ugliness. The lies and deliberate disparaging of your name. It's so very hard.
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There are days when I’m ashamed to even walk into my office. To have to look people in the face knowing they’ve read the latest bullshit about me online. It’s horrific!
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Knowing when you pick your kids up from school that parents at the door are going to want to talk to you about the latest lies they saw about your family when all you want to do is grab the kids and go. I don’t even recognize my life.
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And you may say that we signed up for this. I can confirm for you that I did not. Having your name and reputation obliterated by strangers for things you did not do should not be par for the course in the fight to end police brutality.
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Having your sleep stolen (not because of the pain of a hurting family-though I’ve had those too), but because of your own anxiety over seeing your own loved one treated with such evil. It's unsustainable.
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I don’t mean to whine. Our lives are mostly good. We lead humble lives in a nice apartment, driving beatup cars, but our lives are comfortable enough. When I think of all the actual suffering taking place in the world, I feel horrible to complain.
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When I was praying & asking the Holy Spirit to encourage me, I was reminded of the fact there are innocent people currently rotting away in prison w/ no hope of acquittal. I’m trying to outlive lies in the comfort of my home. They’ve literally lost their freedom because of lies.
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My pain doesn’t compare to people struggling in prison. And yet, pain is relative. It’d be one thing if it was just white supremacists and bots. And we’re aware that there’s plenty of bots driving these attacks. But when it’s your own people, the pain hits different.
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