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The most satanic person alive. coenet.org/news-impact/...

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Make no mistake. Harvard isn’t standing up to Trump because they care about equity and justice www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/u...

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Claude McKay wrote this poem in 1919 in response to the Red Summer of the same time. Literally and metaphorically, it is so applicable to our times as leaders and presumably people of good will. Audrey Lorde said it another way: Silence will not save us.

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Read this for yourself… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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“Hate is your reward for our love Telling us of your God above.” -Bob Marley, Crazy Baldhead

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Make your own caption…..

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Sometimes karma comes through sports. 40-22.

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I see better than I hear.

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Watching CNN tonight to see if anything has changed….

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I slipped and went to McDonald’s today…. Not tomorrow. #boycott

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They think they can block something they didn’t create. #Black history.

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I never asked anyone’s permission to study Black history—and I don’t need it now.

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Started listening to African beats while I write today. The ancestors are speaking to me….. #amwriting

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..I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964

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How dreadful that someone who has been a U.S. citizen for only 22 years has such power….

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I saw a white man in the subway yesterday begging for money. He was loud and boisterous. The passengers near me looked uneasy, afraid. Should I have choked the begging man to death?

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Writing about this soon….

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Best memoirs of 2024? #memoir, #writing

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Whoa….so scholars are reading my research on racial climate at elite liberal arts colleges.

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Well, that should have been on November 5th…

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If they don’t support racial justice or diversity now, they never did in the first place. #walmart

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I’m tempted to go into the attic and read old drafts of my near finished memoir, Home Before Dark. Maybe there’s something I cut long ago that now fits. Possible? #memoir, #revision, #storytelling

The most satanic person alive. coenet.org/news-impact/...

Make no mistake. Harvard isn’t standing up to Trump because they care about equity and justice www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/u...

Claude McKay wrote this poem in 1919 in response to the Red Summer of the same time. Literally and metaphorically, it is so applicable to our times as leaders and presumably people of good will. Audrey Lorde said it another way: Silence will not save us.

Read this for yourself… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Hate is your reward for our love Telling us of your God above.” -Bob Marley, Crazy Baldhead

Make your own caption…..

Sometimes karma comes through sports. 40-22.

I see better than I hear.

Watching CNN tonight to see if anything has changed….

I slipped and went to McDonald’s today…. Not tomorrow. #boycott

They think they can block something they didn’t create. #Black history.

I never asked anyone’s permission to study Black history—and I don’t need it now.

Started listening to African beats while I write today. The ancestors are speaking to me….. #amwriting

..I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964

How dreadful that someone who has been a U.S. citizen for only 22 years has such power….

I saw a white man in the subway yesterday begging for money. He was loud and boisterous. The passengers near me looked uneasy, afraid. Should I have choked the begging man to death?

Writing about this soon….

Best memoirs of 2024? #memoir, #writing

Whoa….so scholars are reading my research on racial climate at elite liberal arts colleges.

Well, that should have been on November 5th…

If they don’t support racial justice or diversity now, they never did in the first place. #walmart

I’m tempted to go into the attic and read old drafts of my near finished memoir, Home Before Dark. Maybe there’s something I cut long ago that now fits. Possible? #memoir, #revision, #storytelling

Trevor Noah and Elon Musk are both from South Africa. See the difference?

Just a few of my favorite memoirs.