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The Voting Rights Act existed because America could not be trusted. The Supreme Court just told us to trust it anyway. I don’t. My latest for @GuardianUS.
Jamil Smith جميل كريم
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Jamil Smith جميل كريم
@JamilSmith
Faculty lecturer, @UCBerkeley Journalism. Columnist, @GuardianUS. Writer, editor, producer, and audio host. Thinking about identity, politics, and power.
Berkeley, CA
Joined June 2009
- All these folks worried about erasing history when the Confederate statues come down will be thrilled to learn about the existence of books.
- An entire island full of Americans in Puerto Rico are without power right now, and @POTUS is cursing out NFL players at his campaign rally.
- “Slipped” implies that it was an accident.8,000,000 Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study finds. nbcnews.to/3k7qv4A
- Don’t ever say we don’t love America.Dana Clark, and her son 18 month old Mason, wait in line at City Hall as early voting begins in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dana said she wasn’t sure how many people would be wearing masks while they voted so she wanted to be safe. Photo by @kathphoto
- Tonight, @POTUS just threatened to have law enforcement murder Americans. Which is how we ended up here in the first damn place.
- Now, everyone call it “the murder of George Floyd.”
- He never called the white supremacists who terrorized Charlottesville “sons of bitches,” did he? Some of them got to be “very fine people.”
- Tens of thousands stage a peaceful rally in Boston against white supremacy, and he suggests that the crowd is violent. He picked a side.Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston. Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you.
- Matt Gaetz thought it would be funny to wear a giant gas mask on the House floor to mock the panic over the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of his own constituents has died. Idiots like this have no business taking up space in jobs meant for public servants.
- Racism doesn’t just look like a white man in blackface or a Klan hood. Sometimes, it looks like a @senatemajldr calling increased ballot access a “power grab.” My latest for @RollingStone, on Mitch McConnell, persisting nevertheless with voter suppression.
- This was a good use of the time allotted. @RepAOC not only asked Cohen questions that revealed newsworthy information which merit further investigation, but ones pertinent to her district. If you missed it live, as I did, this is her questioning in full.
- Rashida Tlaib did nothing wrong. Elijah Cummings needs a better friend. Mark Meadows needs a dictionary. So do many in the press. She did not call him a racist. She called the act racist. Her statement was not racist. Using black folks as props is racist.
- Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. Her mother was Tamil Indian; her father was born in Jamaica. Birtherism is racism, full stop. You don’t need to support Harris for the Presidency. But if you are black and buying into this, you are aiding and abetting. trib.al/SiDF9Y0
