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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 6h

On this day in 1883, the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which forbade racial discrimination in access to public accommodations and facilities.

Oct. 15, 1883 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Civil Rights Act, Legitimating Segregation

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 7h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 3h

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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FoodLab Detroit @foodlabdetroit.bsky.social · 8h

Presenting these amendments as if they arose in a vacuum or had no connection to race, slavery, or white supremacy is an act of historical distortion that sustains misunderstandings and protects the interests of those resistant to confronting the truth.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1d

They love to pretend not to know why the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments exist.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1d

They love to pretend not to know why the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments exist.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Again, the argument is that the Voting Rights Act violates the Constitution (14th and 15th Amendments) because you have to take race into account in order to draw a map that has a second majority Black district and taking race into account violates the Constitution.

It's an ouroboros of stupidity.

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MellowYellow @queeribbean.bsky.social · 19h

Man fuck yall making me cry n shit 😭

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 1d

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 16h

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Dr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 16h

Can only take these beautiful D’Angelo posts in small doses.

Damn, man.

My soul wants to perfect the playlist I created, but my heart is hesitant… resisting the pain.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15h

"Send It On" has been my favorite D'Angelo track since I got my hands on the Voodoo CD back in the winter of 2000. Co-written with Angie Stone, and (IIRC) dedicated to their son. 🖤

(Much love to Kool and the Gang for gifting us with "Sea of Tranquility" back in the day.)

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Send It On D'Angelo Instrumental

YouTube video by I am bald so what?

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Dr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 14h

It’s a struggle bus choice, but I think this one’s my favorite.

It just takes me to a sacred and joyful place and captures much of what we feel when inundated by infatuation and the prospects for Black love.

youtu.be/h3y2aP0B4Ic?...

D'Angelo - Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine (Official Video)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 14h

I love this video.

One of the reasons I love it is because my capacity to do things has been severely reduced.

This was avoidable!

I did not have to develop long COVID. All it would've taken is for the people who got me sick to have chosen to wear a respirator on the day we would have shared air.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14h

made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one.

full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

The Reconstruction Amendments were adopted to end slavery and provide Black people with equal rights, including the right to vote.

To use those same amendments as weapons of white supremacy today is not just legally incorrect—it is a tragedy.

Voting rights are on the Supreme Court’s chopping block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 13h

“Ensuring representation for Black voters, they continue, “perpetuates discrimination.” This claim doesn’t actually make sense…the lawyers admit that there is currently racial disharmony and then suggest that the only way to end it is to let white people take representation from Black people.”

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

The Reconstruction Amendments were adopted to end slavery and provide Black people with equal rights, including the right to vote.

To use those same amendments as weapons of white supremacy today is not just legally incorrect—it is a tragedy.

Voting rights are on the Supreme Court’s chopping block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD @wunpini.bsky.social · 9h

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 8h

Don't they even check after they've used to the plagiarism machine?

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 9h

Alas, there is still some joy left in the world.

Now do the rest of Oprah’s Merry band Monsters & Minions of Maga.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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Keesa McKoy @kmacsthoughts.bsky.social · 9h

This entire thread is hilarious, but this.

Words to live by. 😭😭😭

We all human after all. But don’t do too much.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

You may bring 2 red flags into the relationship (nothing to heavy… things that can be improved upon)

But two is all

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

The thing that you wanna reinforce on a date is that you don’t serial kill

A duster does not say that

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Teenagers clearing rubble in the South Bronx to make space for a community garden, 1975-83, by Mel Rosenthal.

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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 3d

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JanDen @jand87.bsky.social · 14h

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Quan Burton @quantessentialr.bsky.social · 9h

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Listen To and Vote Like Black Women @bullet1982.bsky.social · 9h

As a 20 year former staffer on Capitol Hill, the ethical and policy higher standard for liberals versus conservatives is real. It's even higher for members and staff of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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