My tweets

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• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: In the early morning hours of August 28, 1955, 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till was dragged from his great uncle's…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: Till was pistol-whipped into unconsciousness, tortured, and beaten so severely that when his body was found, he could only…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: His "crime?" Till was alleged to have whistled at a white woman -- a charge she later admitted that she made up. /3
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: Till's murderers? Despite numerous witnesses and overwhelming evidence, they were acquitted of the crime. And because in 1…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: As noted above, Till was brutalized so badly his body and particularly his face were unrecognizable. His mother chose to h…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: That courageous act -- something that must have been horrifying for her -- galvanized the Civil Rights movement and brough…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: Neither of the men responsible, who publicly ADMITTED they were responsible, were ever held to account -- though they were…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: Both the murderers eventually died of cancer after miserable lives of crime and ruin. But the man most directly responsibl…
• Tue, 16:15: RT @Stonekettle: There are a number of memorial markers to Till in the Mississippi Delta. To this very day, White Supremacists routinely se…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: THAT is what lynching is. 10/

• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: And Emmett Till was hardly the only one. Between 1877 and 1950 more than 4000 African-Americans were lynched in this count…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: And so here we are today, in the shadow of those bodies and Donald Trump declares himself a victim and covers himself in t…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: All of America should be ashamed of this President -- a wealthy white man at the very pinnacle of power who himself once a…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: After THIRTEEN years in prison, those teenagers, those young men of color, known as the Central Park 5, were conclusively…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: To this day, Donald Trump STILL claims that those black men are guilty and should have been executed. He has never shown a…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: We all should be outraged at Trump's pathetic and disgusting attempt to equate the legal and Constitutional consequences o…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: Any decent human being who has even the slightest awareness of the absolute horror of Jim Crow and America's history of ra…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: Trump's endless attempts to hijack the pain and suffering and history of others to his own self-aggrandizement is a blight…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @scalzi: Actually, this is what people do when you make it clear you're an actively unpleasant piece of shit. They decide not to let you…
• Tue, 16:16: RT @Stonekettle: Ah, the old I'm Mentally Ill And Can't Even Remember My Own Name But Please Listen To My Conspiracy Theories About Governm…

• Tue, 16:17: RT @Stonekettle: This is a death sentence. We're sending them into a war we abandoned to genocide, among allies we betrayed, no support,…
• Tue, 16:17: RT @jonfavs: Wow. From Bill Taylor’s statement: “Ambassador Sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman. When a b…
• Tue, 16:18: RT @tedlieu: Dear Senator @LindseyGrahamSC: Based on your statement on national TV, thank you for keeping an open mind on impeachment. You…
• Tue, 16:18: RT @catvalente: Zappos has a massive data breach in 2012 and a class action lawsuit has been settled. As one of the affected customers my s…
• Tue, 16:18: RT @ewarren: Lynching is a horrific stain on our country's history, and it is beyond disgraceful for Donald Trump to invoke one to avoid be…
• Tue, 16:19: RT @JulianCastro: Trump waged a campaign to have the Central Park 5 killed. He claimed Barack Obama wasn't born here. He called Nazis in…