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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸
@guang_lie
ADOS 🇺🇸, lover of 華語文學, a former pan-Africanist, oh and I love food (and I only go to the gym so that I can eat more...)
Texas, USA
Joined October 2017
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    To my ADOS Fam, if you see any “receipts” (historical documents, video clips, audio recordings) of mine that you think might come in handy, please download them, screen record them, etc.. I don’t care. I’m trying to get off Twitter again, but I want this information out there.
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    Liar liar pants on fire. Your mother transferred 20K to a Canadian Bank when ya’ll moved from Berkeley, CA to one of the most affluent suburbs of Montreal back in 1976. 20K adjusted for inflation is over 100K USD today. Your two immigrant parents had PhDs from UC Berkeley. Your
    A January 1970 photo of Vice President Harris with her sister, Maya, and their mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris.
    I grew up in a middle-class household. For most of my childhood, we were renters. My mother saved for well over a decade to buy a home. I was a teenager when the day finally came—and I can still remember how excited she was. In college, I worked at McDonald’s to earn spending
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    I’m crying… 😭😭😭
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    “I don’t give a damn if Joe Biden knows us! I want to know what the policies are! I don’t want empathy. I don’t want folk huggin’ on me. I want policy, policy, policy!” @esglaude was preachin’ on MSNBC.
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    “The full armor of Africa.” 🤭
    Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson got on the full armor of Africa. Coweried down for the bat Batman movie about to go down under the dome of the US Capitol.
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    There is no Black and brown coalition in Houston, Texas. After a Hispanic man was placed in charge of the Houston Community College, he is alleged to have systematically discriminated against Black educators and professionals so that he could replace them with Hispanic people.
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    This lawsuit was settled February of this YEAR: “$100 Million Potential Class Action Alleges Preference for Hispanics Under Chancellor Maldonado forwardtimes.com/news/state-loc…
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    Replying to @Chuz41830541 and @TheKingofReads
    Also, before tendering your resignation, make sure you have already taken your personal items/documents home. Companies that handle sensitize documents /proprietary information often pay severances to get you out the door ASAP to protect company “secrets.”
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    On 「The Color Purple」: “I thought the movie was awful really…” James Baldwin December 12, 1986
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    They are really trying to shove this woman down our throats.
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    Replying to @DiscussingFilm and @NBRfilm
    Willow Smith would be better.
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    Replying to @guang_lie
    Here is a dossier of immigration documents on Shyamala Gopalan Harris, the mother of Kamala Harris, that was released by the U.S. government. Read it here for yourself, and then tell me what exactly about her mother is “middle class.” uscis.gov/sites/default/…
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    Please keep this same energy now that ICE is on a rampage. Africans and West Indians need to stand on business. 🙏🏽
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    WATCH: “If my ancestors helped build this son of b*tch, why would I say I’m African?...I ain’t African-American, I’m a f*cling American...Africans don’t like you. Nigerians don’t like you. They’re taught and trained when they come over here they don’t f*ck with you.” Kwame Brown
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    The only reason why Kamala Harris’s family were renters is because as new UC Berkeley PhD graduates, her parents had to move to universities that had job openings for both of them — places that had career opportunities for people in two different departments, and not because of a