Loren Harris

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@Olas_Truth Appreciate this thread! Insightful and evidence based.

Source: ‘Fatal Attraction’ “When Anna Murray Douglass died in the summer of 1882, Douglass made no apparent effort to contact Assing. Eighteen months later he married Helen Pitts, a white woman almost 20 years younger than Assing. The following August, Assing killed herself.” Link: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

Many famous Black men in the arts and actors who supported and helped finance the civil rights movement were partnered w/ white women. Quincy Jones talked about how they used interracial marriage as a “revolution and freedom” to prove to white men they could have what they had.

@Phil_Lewis_ Why would anyone else ask a question. It doesn’t seem “speaking up” is the matter.

Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again while speaking to media in Kentucky nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

@Kyla_Lacey Plus a woefully antiquated and inadequate social safety for the inevitable moments of economic crises that lead to financial distress.

Asking why women aren’t having more babies in a country with the highest maternal and infant mortality rate in the developed world, no mandated maternity leave, childcare higher than in state tuition in over 30 states, and school boards afraid of facts is hilarious.

Plus a woefully antiquated and inadequate social safety for the inevitable moments of economic crises that lead to financial distress.

Jaylen Brown, who recently signed the biggest contract in NBA history, says he wants to use it to combat the “unsettling” wealth disparity in Boston “I want to launch a project to bring Black Wall Street to Boston and help bridge the wealth gap.“

@IanVRowe Further, your statement suggests students are somehow setting terms. This is simply as untrue as it’s always been for Black people in the U.S. We’re will adapt and achieve in spite of more exclusionary rules set by people who have little regard for us.

@IanVRowe With respect, reconsider this proclamation. We already have evidence from states where AA was eliminated that the absence of race based admissions doesn’t change perceptions about the merits of Black achievement. I don’t get why we’d even care about “those” perceptions.

Years from now, black students admitted to top schools will say Thank you Supreme Court for a decision that removes the perception the only reason I got in is due to my race. You re-established merit as the core criteria to be considered against a standard bar of excellence.

Black boys deserve to become men and Black men deserve to become elders.

@ALLE1NAD @Kyla_Lacey Lol. Got it. Thanks and same to you

Post racial America

@msolurin Yes but why?

@historyinmemes Profoundly sobering image and thoughts. While we may not be able to travel to other life it seems other life may capable of traveling to us.

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

@_mykavelli And the grease soaks through to the bread creating that stickiness between the bread and sausage.

When southern black moms & grandmas would send you out the door with a fried egg and sausage sandwich wrapped in foil. A country delicacy. 🤌🏾✨

@dissentingj @ProfMMurray 😂

@LorenHarris_ @ProfMMurray Loren, I have been working all day away from a computer. Be patient. Lawyers don't offer push-button analysis.

Some initial thoughts on Allen v. Milligan. Media is trumpeting this as a "victory" for the Voting Rights Act. And it is. And I don't want to be a turd in the punchbowl... but this is pretty weak sauce from this Court.

@dissentingj @ProfMMurray Fwiw, I appreciated Prof Murray’s plain stated analysis as well. But perhaps you have further insight/illumination to offer?

@ProfMMurray I call this "being a "designated driver"--not a, um, turd. We need a sober analysis.

@GbengaAkinnagbe @YouTube Bro do you Mudder??? I’m trying to get Black men to come out.

Most Incredible Tough Mudder Moment You Will Ever See youtu.be/rxzb7SEnPrs via @YouTube