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@ijbailey
@ijbailey
Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. Harvard Nieman Fellow. CIDP survivor. Epileptic. S.C. native. Free expression dude.
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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    @ijbailey
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    Sep 12, 2025
    I’m one of the Black professors on Kirk’s watchlist of professors he smeared and wanted to have fired. How is that doing things exactly the right way? Grieve his death, yes. But don’t whitewash his life.
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    Kelsey Piper
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    Sep 12, 2025
    Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."
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    @ijbailey
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    Jan 1, 2025
    There was a time, pre-Elon, when Twitter was great for breaking news. A major event is unfolding in New Orleans, and I can barely find it here.
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 28, 2025
    If Tim Walz was the wrong person to motivate white-working class men, we have to grapple with why Donald Trump was the right one. But we keep avoiding that question.
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    Caitlin Flanagan
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    May 25, 2025
    Anyone who thought Tim Walz would motivate working class white men has never met a working class white man.
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 23, 2022
    A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 3, 2024
    What should be done about this ugly anti-black racism? Or should we just say this is protected speech?
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    Ashton Pittman
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    May 3, 2024
    A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine. Is this heart warming? (Video: @StaceyJSpiehler)
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    @ijbailey
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    Oct 1, 2024
    This exchange should be studied for a long time. The interviewer read the book, not to gain new insight, but to get angry that it wasn't written from the perspective he preferred. He expected Coates to crumble under his onslaught. But Coates didn't. That's what makes it powerful.
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    Sep 30, 2024
    Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    Jan 1, 2025
    Replying to @CoachJohnsonKF
    Finding breaking news on Twitter was organized pre-Musk. You didn’t have to hear it somewhere else first then go to the search engine here. That’s a huge, profound change. It makes the site less useful.
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 22, 2021
    This is not “unskilled” labor.
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    Vala Afshar
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    May 22, 2021
    People work very hard to put food on our tables
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    Apr 20, 2024
    Ok? Do we want rich students to not care or sacrifice for others?
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    AG
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    Apr 20, 2024
    On the students arrested at Columbia: “A Post deep-dive into the backgrounds of the protesters shows many list multimillion-dollar mansions as their home addresses, according to arrest records, and come from wealthy and powerful families.”
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    @ijbailey
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    May 23, 2022
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    If they cannot stand up and say something about the devastation they caused that boy's family - without being forced to - that's gonna boil my blood even more than it already is. 10
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 23, 2022
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    Every journalist should heed this call from that boy's mom: "I call for law enforcement to halt the practice of disclosing unfounded leads and names of potential suspects without credible evidence. Doing this has real-life consequences and a lasting disparaging effect."
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 23, 2022
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    Here is the family's press conference from a few days ago. And as you can see, there are no law enforcement officials around. This is (still) America, 2022. 6/
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 23, 2022
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    Just recently, they found Drexel's remains and charged an old white dude who has an extensive criminal sexual record. And when they announced it during a press conference held by officials from every law enforcement agency, they didn't mention the 16-year-old boy's name once. 5/
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    @ijbailey
    @ijbailey
    May 23, 2022
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    They devastated the family of that then-16-year-old black boy. They never directly charged him in her case but used his past mistakes to try and pressure him to confess. On national TV, he was called an animal. His mug shot is everywhere. 8/