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AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America.
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Keri Leigh Merritt
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Keri Leigh Merritt
@KeriLeighMerrit
Historian (PhD) & Author: AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN; Masterless Men; After Life; Southern Labor History.
Rocker. Traveler. Questioner. Seeker.
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- I have bad news for all of y’all over 40. Or not independently wealthy. Or not highly educated with extremely marketable skills. Or not bi- and/or trilingual.
- Labor historian here: Papers not reporting but the US is in the midst of biggest general strike since 1863/4. service industry gutted. If it’s not yet in your city/town, it soon will be Ppl’re not gonna work for $7/hr in a pandemic & still be in debt w no healthcare. Fuck that.Saturday marks the first time America has ever gone 12 years without a minimum wage increase. It was $7.25 on July 24, 2009. But with inflation, it is now worth $5.76. Stop asking if businesses can afford it and start asking why workers got an effective pay cut for 12 years.
- Y’all - this has MADE my day. If I do end up securing funding for a new Civil War doc, you’re *definitely* in, my dude. (Still crackin’ up over the Mississippi boy with the low country accent comment 🤣😂🤣).
- Rando guy on LinkedIn: can you send me a PDF of your book? Me: Sorry, I don't have one. But you can purchase the ebook from Cambridge or even Amazon! Him (huffily): I don't PAY for knowledge. Me: Well good luck with that, motherf****r.
- Psychologically it’s easier for Americans to scapegoat southerners than it is for them to *really* examine how deeply entrenched this dysfunction is throughout the *entire* country.To everyone out here blaming the people of Alabama and Georgia for these monstrous abortion laws and saying we deserve it for voting these people into office - y’all have a lot to learn about gerrymandering and voter suppression
- This is some antebellum shit right here. (*whispers*: guess what the next move will be? Making loads of petty crimes felonies before the next election...)Florida legislators advanced a bill that is expected to limit the number of former felons who can vote, in part by requiring former felons to pay back all court fees and fines before they can register. nbcnews.to/2Tlj7EB
- Retuning home and reality sinking in. My boys’ sports cancelled for the foreseeable future, tons of neighbors sick, & school closings TBD bc there’s literally not enough staff. Again, remember that this country - under both Rs & Ds - left you alone in a DIY-pandemic, to die.
- Hey Atlanta if you haven’t been outside yet there’s chlorine smoke all in the air this morning. It’s literally visible - it’s NOT fog. Turn off your AC, close windows and doors, and don’t go outside if possible.😔
- it's been a bad day but in a Zoom parent-teacher conference I learned my 8yo - upon hearing another child say "ew" at someone being gay - not only lectured the entire class on how LGBTQ rights don't infringe on any of their personal rights, so why care?...
- Remember what happened when we didn’t hold the leaders of the 1861 insurrection accountable??? They & their heirs were back in *complete* political power within about a decade.
- Stop saying Amy Coney Barrett was “taught,” “brainwashed,” “trained,” “indoctrinated,” etc. She’s a grown-ass woman and *everything* she’s doing is in calculated self-interest.
- During early #Reconstruction it was common for Black politicians to be expelled from state legislatures. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley was expelled from GA’s Senate bc he grinned with “full teeth” at a white senator while winning a debate… #tennessee
- As someone who’s read an awful lot of Jim Crow era court records and newspapers, I can tell you with absolute, complete certainty that the lynchings we know about far, far underrepresent the sheer violence & bloodshed throughout America for so many generations.
