Rashad Robinson
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Rashad Robinson
@rashadrobinson
Author, Social Change Leader, Strategist, Speaker, Campaigner. Changing rules in media, tech, biz & gov't.
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The presidency is being decided in: - Detroit = 79% Black - Atlanta = 52% Black - Philly = 42% Black - Milwaukee = 39% Black Underestimate us if you want to, but we have proven our power time and time again.- Pictures of nearly one in every six athletes in a study of 188 were falsely matched with mugshots by Amazon’s facial recognition technology. More proof of what we already know: this technology has bias baked into its coding and has no place in public housing or law enforcement.Amazon's facial recognition tech linked athletes to mugshots, ACLU says: dailydot.com/layer8/facial-…
- Elon Musk fired the entire team that identified that the Twitter algorithm amplifies right-wing voices over others. Not the first time we have seen staff — particularly Black employees — punished for flagging how their company's products enable & amplify racism. #TwitterLayoffs
- This is white nationalism, plain and simple. Not even coded.We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!
- Met with Mark Zuckerberg and @Facebook leadership today. It was a disappointment. They have had our demands for years and yet it is abundantly clear that they are not yet ready to address the vitriolic hate on their platform.
- 2 years ago today, Botham Jean was eating ice cream in his own home when he was killed. His murderer said she thought it was her house and that he was a burglar. For him, we fight a system that casts us as intruders in our own homes and allows Black lives to be taken senselessly.
- When Black people protest for justice vs when white supremacists attempt a violent coup
- .@Kaepernick7 kneeled for the first time two years ago today. Through blacklisting and attacks from the far-right, including the President himself, Kap has been resilient. Thank you for starting the conversation
- After extensive convos w/ @ColorOfChange - @PayPal will stop processing payments for a set of hate groups & leaders paypal.com/stories/us/pay…
- Every attempt by the @NFL to rehabilitate its image among Black viewers will ring hollow as long as Kaepernick is still unsigned to an NFL team. You cannot co-opt his message and blackball him at the same time. #SuperBowl
- What DeJoy is doing to the USPS is what many from the GOP would like to do to many of our institutions: 1. Run them like a private corporation & run them into the ground 2. Say public benefits don't work + privatize 3. Deny access to Black, brown, low-income and rural communities
- I don’t know who needs to hear this but Trump officials shouldn't be able to rehabilitate their reputations just bc they resigned two weeks before his term is over or put out a milquetoast statement. The media has a responsibility to name them as the violent enablers they are.
- Let's not overlook the huge win in California tonight for voting rights. Prop 17 passed, meaning parolees have their right to vote restored. With this vote, the people of CA have re-enfranchised nearly 50K voters. #YesOn17 #FreeTheVoteCALIFORNIA we just made history! Thank you for helping us to #FreeTheVote for 50,000 Californians. These are our family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and classmates. This election was the last election they won’t have a say. #YesOnProp17 #FreeTheVote
