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#BlackLivesMatter #Justice4Jamar Tweets 11.24
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#BlackLivesMatter #Justice4Jamar Tweets 11.24

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.23
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.23

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.19
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.19

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[VIDEO] Obama praises Mizzou protesters…

President Obama says he supports the protesters at the University of Missouri for speaking out against the racism they say they’ve experienced on their campus. “The civil rights movement happened because there was civil disobedience, because people were willing to go to jail,” Obama told George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. I want you to be somebody who’s strong and sees themselves as somebody who’s looking out for the vulnerable.’ “But I tell ’em, ‘I want you also to be able to listen,’” Obama continued.

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#Immigration Tweets 11.13
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#Immigration Tweets 11.13

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#BlackOnCampus

#BlackOnCampus (2015) is a Twitter hashtag that went viral this week in the wake of protests against racism at US universities – Yale, Mizzou and, now, at Ithaca College. In all three cases, those in authority refused to face up to the racism at their universities.


Racism at universities is nothing new: PWIs (Predominately White Institutions) have always been racist. First by not admitting Blacks at all, then by making them and other students of colour feel unwelcomed and unsafe, turning a blind eye to the racism they face, writing it off as “isolated incidents”, being “oversensitive” and so on.


Black Twitter weighs in:

 

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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.12
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.12

#BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou Tweets 11.8
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#BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou Tweets 11.8

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#PoliceBrutality Tweets 11.3