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Bro, you’re a gift. Thank you for all you do and make available to us and our children.

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Very kind of you to say! What should be the next topic?

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I agree! This is super practical and so so helpful!

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I truly enjoyed doing it. What should we talk about next?

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Jun 20, 2022Liked by Jemar Tisby, PhD

Whoa thanks for asking! It’d be incredible if you did a similar breakdown like this, but on the history of Independence Day (Fourth of July) and the tension that Black Americans have in regards to celebrating it as an “all-inclusive” holiday.

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Oooh. I really like your idea! Making a note!

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Nice! And IF you have the time and capacity to discuss this before the Fourth of July that’d be so helpful to be able to think through before the holiday comes. But no pressure to make it happen! Haha

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Thanks for what you're doing! You asked for feedback on what topics could be discussed in some of your teach-ins. What about something like "Quotes that Give the Game Away". Then discuss quotes like the following and others:

Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo We have successfully frozen their brand-'critical race theory'-into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. 498 Christopher F. Rufo Replying to @realchrisrufo and @Conceptuaames The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. PM 2021 Web App.

Lee Atwater

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.

John Ehrlichman

“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

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My brother, that is a BRILLIANT idea!!! And really intriguing examples you gave. Thank you!

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Cool. Glad you like it. If I come across any other quotes I can pass them along to you as well.

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