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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I’ve had folx tell me I just need to grow thick skin. It’s been five years of this bullshit, and I don’t think my skin can grow any thicker. I’m in counseling. My kids are in counseling. Other activists are literally killing themselves over this stuff.
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WE ARE PEOPLE. And words have power. You can’t just say horrible things about someone and expect it to mean nothing. You can’t launch entire smear campaigns and expect it not resonate in their actual lives.
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Or maybe that’s your goal. You want my children to be asked about it at school. You hope to ruin my career. You aim to destroy my marriage. In your “service” of Black people,
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@DeRay was to center yourself and push another Black woman out of the spotlight in service of your own personal vendetta. Rihanna earned and deserved that night to highlight her good work. But you made it about you.Show this thread -
You showed your true colors when you got so in your head about Shaun, that you stole an important moment from a worthy Black woman. What you did on Thursday was not righteous
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@Deray. You and@Nettaaaaaaaa threw another Black woman,@TamikaDMallory, under the bus for her honest work in gathering countless statements from families that Shaun helped. All this talk about protecting Black women and Shaun doing harm to Black women. Hypocrites!Show this thread -
The good news is that Shaun will continue this work until the day he dies. God literally wired him to do nothing else. He’s been grinding on behalf of others since the day I met him as a 15 year old girl in church. This is who he will always be.
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Part of the reason there is so much to say about Shaun is that he’s been failing forward for a long time. He’s no johnny come lately. He’s BEEN helping people in need for over 20 years. And here's the thing...
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Shaun's been doing this. And every time you come for him, Twitter might help you trend, but when the dust settles, it’ll ALWAYS be clear who did the work and who just talked about the people who did the work.
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I am going back to my life as a mom and wife who works quietly behind the scenes to move the needle on race equity. Haters will never tire of making new claims & accusations. I can't control that. They can decide what the best use of their time is, but I don't have the time.
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Yes, I wrote all of these tweets. I already see you lying about me and lying about Shaun saying he wrote them. He literally had nothing to do with this, but I must speak for myself. We're getting back to doing the work. You should too. //THE ENDpic.twitter.com/E059zchCDQ
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Forget that you weren’t “there” either sis...neither was he

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Honey, no we were not. And I don’t believe he was either, to be frank.
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I have read this and decided that it’s actually Shaun who wrote this mess.
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Girl what does this have to do with him dodging questions about the funds that were raised or threatening Black women with lawsuits?
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Nope, not even he was there for a story that isn’t true!

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Sis you married a hwite man who steals deal with it offline and leave us alone!
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