nylah burton

@yumcoconutmilk

Freelance Writer | Words | hung out in classrooms for 4.5 years | blackety black code-switcher

Denver, CO
Joined February 2016

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Dec 2018

    I wrote a piece for , about Alice Walker’s antisemitism. When writing this article, I had one question: What’s the root of her hatred? That question led me down a really sad rabbit hole.

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    That term “fast” as a descriptor for little black girls is a huge part of the reason many of you still struggle to see black women and girls as victims now.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Do NOT listen to Marie Kondo or Konmari in relation to books. Fill your apartment & world with them. I don’t give a shite if you throw out your knickers and Tupperware but the woman is very misguided about BOOKS. Every human needs a v extensive library not clean, boring shelves

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  4. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    I have re-read this thread countless times today and I am overwhelmed with feeling grateful for this community that I live in and work in, and for the friends that I have made along the way. , thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Crazy how the same people who believe Black people are naturally inferior won’t believe that climate change is a thing. Wow, what selective science.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    This was the thread we needed this morning. Thank you, Michael ❤️

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    I love the fact that we have multiculturalism embedded innour bedrock...the Torah...and not the purity people assume.

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  8. Retweeted
    29 Dec 2018

    a lot of cis people use 'learning someone's pronoun' as a copout from doing the important internal work of actually reconsidering their impression of the person's gender

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    A blanket of snow has covered the Navajo Nation, but roads are unplowed because federal maintenance has stopped. Many people are now trapped in their homes, unable to make the 20- or 50-mile journey to buy water, groceries and medicine.

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  10. Jan 3

    Blaming us for our pain is the only way they can live with what they’re capable of. Resist this way of thinking. Be aware of where it comes from. And spend your energy dismantling these awful, inhumane and evil systems.

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  11. Jan 3

    Racist and anti-black conditioning is in all of us, but it is strongest within the people who benefit the most from using this conditioning to justify the horror that this state has brought to black and brown bodies.

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  12. Jan 3

    If I felt this level of defensiveness, imagine what others feel. Others who are much more invested in this system. Others who have made their fortunes from this system. Others who have out people here. What would they do and say to distance themselves from this horror?

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  13. Jan 3

    It was distressing to me, and I had to blame this man somehow, because I needed to believe that I was safe.

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  14. Jan 3

    I needed to know that bc I needed to know what he had supposedly done, because I needed a reason to believe that this could NEVER happen to me. That I would never be clinging to my son or my partner, hoping for a few more moments before the state murdered him.

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  15. Jan 3

    Justify it somehow. And even with all my beliefs about criminal justice and mass incarceration, even with the things I read and preach everyday, I became overwhelmed with the need to ask “but what did he get convicted of?”

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  16. Jan 3

    As my partner was telling me this, I became overwhelmed with this aggressive and defensive energy. Hearing this story distressed me so much that I felt the need to distance myself from it. I wanted to either tell my partner to stop talking about it or...

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  17. Jan 3

    She was sobbing and crying bc she didn’t want to let go. And her husband was trying to remain composed, bc he didn’t want her last image of him to be one of weakness and despair. He was excecuted at 12AM

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  18. Jan 3

    About how one black inmate’s family was only given two hours to say goodbye to him before they executed him. The wife was clinging to her husband, who had been condemned to die by that state. The guards ripped her from her husbands arms when time was up...

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  19. Jan 3

    Thread: My partner has been reading “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, which talks about the lessons he’s learned as a death row defense attorney. Today he started sharing a heartbreaking story from the book with me...

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    HOW is R Kelly still out here as a free man? Our society hates black women so much.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Passing is a term that has a deep and complicated history in black communities rooted in legal definitions of race along the black/white colour binary. I think it's really important that we do not co-opt that history to mean something else when there are other options.

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