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L Bates

@theafricanus.bsky.social

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Pan African Scholar, historian of the US urban environment, Army brat, US Army vet, master electrician, social & environmental justice activist, Life Long Learner “…ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” James Baldwin

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 2m

OUCH, that was harsh, but on point.

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The birth control pill made publicly available in the 1960s along with increased immigration from non-European countries made the trend more acute.

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 7m

The suggestion that the whites would become the minority of the U.S. population was predicted by statisticians in the 1960s based on census data along with birth and death rates across the U.S.
The KKK has been fighting civil rights in the U.S. since 1866.

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 2h

Roberts is on track and working hard to become a worse chief justice than Rodger B. Taney or Melville Fuller.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 3h

This day has been predicted since the 1960s.

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Tony Ewing @tewing.bsky.social · 8h

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 9h

Rachel Is Absolutely 💯 Correct !

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 3h

He got it from:
David Curtis “DC” Stephenson, Edward Y. Clarke, & Elizabeth Tyler who put the phrase into common use.
The 2nd era KKK imploded in spectacular fashion:
Stephenson imprisoned for murder 1925.
Tyler died apoplectic rage 1924.
Clarke guilty of Mann Act 1924, died in obscurity after 1940.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 3h

The young man standing with them, an Olympic Silver Medalist from Australia, wanted to wear a black glove in solidarity, but the Americans only had one pair — he instead wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on his uniform in solidarity.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 6h

On this day in 1968, Black Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos faced death threats and expulsion for protesting racial inequality.

Oct. 16, 1968 | Black Olympic Medalists Face Death Threats for Protesting Racial Inequality

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

calendar.eji.org

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 3h

African Americans have never had the right to protest or resist in the U.S. to resist or fight an enslaver is a death penalty offense. It is why the constitution grants the president the authority to put down rebellions, as he sees them, without congressional approval.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 4h

No Freudian slip, he just said the quiet part out load, and will blame the media and political left of misrepresenting his christian fascist BS.

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 4h

He also neglects to mention that Nazi race laws and hatred is based on ideas imported from the United States.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 4h

Weird that prominent GOP operatives using Nazi imagery & slogans seem not to know Johnson’s alleged “principles of the Republican Party.”

Weirder still that Musk—then in Trump’s inner circle—did a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day, to the delight of Republicans.

I guess Johnson did Nazi that stuff!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 4h

He neglected to mention that:
Whiteness is a founding principle of the U.S. (Naturalization Act 1791).
Slavery is a founding principle of the U.S. (Fugitive Slave Act 1793).
The 13, 14, & 15th Amend radically improved those founding principles & some have been trying to reverse them ever since.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6h

With its higher-education compact, the Trump administration is pushing schools to embrace an admissions policy that “might ensure that the next generation of diverse leadership is stopped before it begins,” Kevin Carey argues:

The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda

A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 4h

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 5h

OK, I am up for it.
What do you have in mind?

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 6h

Americanism as it usually appears is akin to racism.

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 6h

Fasism, communism, socialism are not the same thing.
Those who spread this nonsense know better, it is the masses who repeatedly fall for this BS. This is exhausting, but then that’s the point.

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L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 17h

In deed.

L Bates @theafricanus.bsky.social · 20h

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Why Is the Pentagon Afraid of the Press?

Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit media scrutiny.