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Neil Williams

@NeilSPWilliams

Lecturer Political Science @GSUPoliSci. Political behavior, race, democracy, and more. Love reading, music, and the comedic rule of three.🇧🇧🇺🇸🌎

Atlanta, GA Se unió Temmuz 2018
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Neil Williams
Neil Williams@NeilSPWilliams·
Thrilled that my article, "From plantation sugar to a bittersweet democracy: Black democratic attitudes in the English-speaking Caribbean", is now available online to read at Politics, Groups, and Identities. doi.org/10.1080/215655…
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Variety@Variety·
Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong." "I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News. Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee." "It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together." variety.com/2026/tv/news/m…
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fico@fico_chu·
so happy for my papasito benito but i really need well-intentioned liberals to understand that his story is not about immigration and the american dream. it’s about success DESPITE american colonization. it’s about making it big, and still being able to call puerto rico home.
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Chev B.
Chev B.@damnthatschev·
The vibe of the performance felt Caribbean af. Didn’t have to speak Spanish to connect with it
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David Hundeyin
David Hundeyin@DavidHundeyin·
According to the white men at the IOC, the picture of the Haitian Revolution's leader is apparently a "banned political symbol." This would be like making George Washington's picture a "banned symbol." Once again, the minute you peel back the façade half an inch, the world and your African place in it have not moved an inch from 1700. Always remember that and never get lost in the sauce.
The Spearhead@Spearhead_Af

Haiti Team Forced To Remove Image Of Revolutionary Leader From Uniform Design By Olympics Committee When Haiti’s Winter Olympics team takes the stage this year in Italy, it will be doing so in style… but not quite the style it intended. The Caribbean nation was forced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to remove an image of Toussaint Louverture, one of its founding fathers, from its team's uniform design. The IOC cited the image’s “political symbolism” as the reason for the ban, but the regulatory body’s claimed “political neutrality” has drawn criticism, with many pointing out inconsistencies, double standards and a clear Western bias. Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian Revolution from its insurgence in 1791 until its victory in 1804. Waged by enslaved Africans in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and inspired by African spirituality, the Revolution ended with Haiti’s independence from French colonial rule, and the birth of the modern world’s first black republic. But France never got over its defeat, and two decades later, armed with superior gunships, imposed a crippling financial debt on Haiti under the pain of annihilation. It would take Haiti 140 years to pay off this debt, and the country has limped from one Western-imposed crisis to another ever since.

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carlos buburrón
carlos buburrón@CBuburron·
BAD BUNNY LOGRÓ LO QUE BOLÍVAR SÓLO PODÍA SOÑAR !!!
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Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬
Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬@njlightfoot·
Like when have we ever seen a Vincy flag ? A St Kitts flag? a Bahamas flag? A Belize flag? an Aruba flag? And again, an Antigua flag?? At the Super Bowl?? I was undone by the last 1.5 mins of that show.
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Elmo
Elmo@elmo·
That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
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Bringing back institutions makes sense when you consider they also put suffragettes, unruly wives, queer people, antiwar and civil rights protesters in them too. “Crazy” just means “not normal” and only people in power decides what “normal” is.
Insider Paper@TheInsiderPaper

JUST IN - President Trump: 'Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums. We are going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers but you've got to get the people off the streets'

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Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬
Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬@njlightfoot·
“The reproduction of human property, and the social relations of racial slavery were predicated upon the belly. Plainly put, subjection was anchored in black women’s reproductive capacities.” -Saidiya Hartman, “The Belly of the World” (2016)
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Brett Chapman
Brett Chapman@brettachapman·
@SenFettermanPA The Louisiana Purchase was very bad for Native Americans and they were not a party to it. Be serious.
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Tony Martin
Tony Martin@mrtonymartin·
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
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Black Americans
Black Americans@BLKAmericans_·
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston
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