Nikole Hannah Jones brought IT and RECEIPTS.
There's been much gaslighting & moderate justifying of the new Florida social studies standards, people stating the "clarifications" were designed to show Black resilience, or were just "facts." So, I thought I'd compare the African-American history standards to the Holocaust's.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
The ENTIRE THREAD
I compared the Holocaust for a particular reason. We are a country with a great deal of anti-Semitism. But when it comes to the Holocaust, Americans believe we are the good guys in the story (watch Ken Burns' America & the Holocaust: NO). Slavery, however, is the sin we own.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
In the Holocaust section, there's no such comparison and cataloguing of other genocides committed by and against other groups. The Holocaust stands on its own, as it should. In fact, the only reference to past times and other peoples is to describe the root of anti-Semitism.Huh. pic.twitter.com/dMN5sjtHYu
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
So, even though the slave trade, slavery, racial apartheid were systemic, systematic, institutionalized, the word is only used to describe African slave traders, which is actually inaccurate. The word racism occurs just twice, once in the Holocaust section, one in AA. Compare. pic.twitter.com/E8xgd1zjay
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
The description of racism in the Holocaust section sounds like America, but no such paragraph exists in the African American history section, even as Nazi's looked to America's race laws for inspiration. pic.twitter.com/ONe5i1b9Cb
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
The African American section spends section after section after section on the abolitionist movement that was always a tiny minority of white Americans, and yet no similar concentration on all the good Germans exists in the Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/mxzDELQYcn
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
I mean, we were founded on liberty & justice & white people were on this quest to end slavery, with the Continental Congress that was totally powerless to do so, and some chief justice's notes in a court case, but we really have no idea why these good white people didn't win. pic.twitter.com/VtVvYKSQBa
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
The Holocaust section does not broach Jewish collaborators, but the African American history sections regurgitates right-wing talking points wholesale by blaming a Black man for the beginning of racial slavery in America. I believe they got this section from a meme. pic.twitter.com/G28Ui3SKTd
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023
Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) tweeted at 5:52 PM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
In fact, as far as I can tell, the only named enslaver in this section is, in fact, a Black man. Huh.
Huh indeed😠😠😠😠
Another interview with the chair!😂😂😁😁
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZT8L7Bt1A/
Congratulations 🎉 🎉
Ciara (@ciara) posted at 10:09 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
“You look at me like that again, we make another kid… You my heart I’m your rib” 🥰😘❤️ @DangeRussWilson https://t.co/9mRrp2B654
(https://twitter.com/ciara/status/1688930428001140736?t=3WifyvUkpy0Z6ipahNLR_w&s=03)
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Samantha B. (@samanthabaisden) posted at 10:51 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Y’all the chair has a wife. 🤣🤣😂😂😭😭😭
https://t.co/Ecu7SxEvbj https://t.co/dLNWMDRujG
(https://twitter.com/samanthabaisden/status/1688759725804892160?t=yltzWhCljXF5B9A7H0Bw0Q&s=03
Florida officials tried to steer education contract to former lawmaker’s company
MGT Consulting, led by former Republican lawmaker Trey Traviesa, was in serious talks to do the work before a bid was announced.
By
Lawrence MowerTimes staff
Ana CeballosTimes/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Published Jan. 11, 2022
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Education Department is under fire for trying to steer a multimillion-dollar contract to a company whose CEO has ties to the state’s education commissioner.
Records and interviews show that, before the Florida Department of Education asked for bids, it was already in advanced talks with the company to do the work, subverting a process designed to eliminate favoritism.
The company is MGT Consulting, led by former Republican lawmaker Trey Traviesa of Tampa, a longtime colleague of the state’s education commissioner, Richard Corcoran.
During a bidding process that was open for one week, MGT was the only pre-approved vendor to submit a proposal — pitched at nearly $2.5 million a year to help the struggling Jefferson County School District with its academic and financial needs.
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Members of the Jefferson County School Board have been outraged for months, seeing the entire process as a way for the state to siphon more money out of a rural, majority-Black school district and into the pockets of the politically connected.
The decision to hire a company to help the three schools — and have Jefferson County pay for it with federal coronavirus relief dollars — came from the Department of Education, they say.
“I’m just going to be honest with you. It’s money,” Jefferson County School Board member Bill Brumfield said in an interview last month. “It’s money and it’s politics, and they are just trying to kick Jefferson County around again like a bunch of little country bumpkins sitting over there and knowing nothing.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2022/01/11/florida-officials-tried-to-steer-education-contract-to-former-lawmakers-company/
Gia, Thee Woke Mafia Consigliere (@ProblemChildFil) posted at 4:18 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Y’all, Michael B. Phelps has asked that we stop sending money to his cash app. What a gracious man, you can tell he has been uplifted by his parents. A highly favored young man. https://t.co/GsDTpPxD37
(https://twitter.com/ProblemChildFil/status/1688660974151389189?t=7trl6y-zvhbEz_UY5XubOA&s=03)
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) posted at 10:07 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
People are sounding the alarm on the “supplemental curriculum” created by PragerU, an unaccredited right-wing group, that has been approved by Florida schools
Frederick Douglass is depicted in a video, saying founding fathers had to “compromise” on slavery & urges kids to work… https://t.co/kogQSuQL39
(https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1688930005793808384?t=Oiy-Vbu5nU5tYykLe1m-KQ&s=03)
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) posted at 1:43 PM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
Florida high schools are now removing Shakespeare, including the full text of “Romeo and Juliet,” to comply with Republicans’ new law restricting “sexual content.”
“I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing at us,” a teacher said.
🔗https://t.co/esgMYrvzXg https://t.co/uC4g3kLSw3
(https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1688984347682975745?t=xd3FNlx8yWwaTwebXFRlBw&s=03)
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Skeptical Brotha 💛🐝🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) posted at 10:37 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
Alabama redistricting: State says two majority-minority Black districts would be unconstitutional https://t.co/flPYuvXJ8y via @ALReflector
(https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1688937492701925376?t=RlAtRERvYpFLfldE2shHrw&s=03)
The pictures on this.
HOW?
HOW?
😳😳😳🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) posted at 8:00 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
A reckless driver was taken to the hospital after crashing their car into the second floor of a Pennsylvania home
https://t.co/NIM3yqICzz https://t.co/NYj4sCbHna
(https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1688897851428868096?t=qVQM9NI5caspZ1-kt5ntng&s=03)
LIPS SO PURSED
rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) posted at 0:32 PM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
This is utterly NONSENSICAL. @FaniforDA Willis deals with state law. Jack Smith is federal. Feds and state often charge the same folks. DAN IS WRONG. “@DanAbrams: Now That Jack Smith Has Indicted Trump on Georgia Conduct, Fani Willis Should ‘Walk Away'” https://t.co/aCx0JCMMHt
(https://twitter.com/rolandsmartin/status/1688966352885727232?t=E0gVQF0WYIfVGuOyaNd8bg&s=03)
I heard this last night on NewsNation.
They’re trying to hawk their network as independent and balanced but my impression is they’re more right wing than balanced, especially Abrams.
I think Abrams was just pandering to wingnuts.
Trump committed crimes in the state of Georgia and he needs to be indicted and put on trial for those crimes. Period.
The ENTIRE PHUCK?!?!?
NBC News (@NBCNews) posted at 0:30 PM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
NEW: Nearly 100 people in the U.S. and Australia have so far been arrested, and at least 13 children rescued, after the fatal shooting of two FBI agents led to the unraveling of a suspected international pedophile ring, officials say. https://t.co/hNpQwhMpTy
(https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1688965916178976777?t=JuSr6QzA38_Dny22tMKKJw&s=03)
The Black Wall Street Times (@TheBWSTimes) posted at 6:33 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
OPINION: The #montgomerybrawl was more than an isolated incident. Whether consciously or unconsciously, those White men & women tried to enforce a centuries-long racial hierarchy through violence, but Black folks said hell no.
History informs the present
https://t.co/4rTaQRZ9Js
(https://twitter.com/TheBWSTimes/status/1688694995660795904?t=z13dv2sQMaFgLWFA944Mvw&s=03)
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) posted at 10:07 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
NEW: There is no same-day voter registration in Mississippi; voters must register 30 days before an election.
But local election officials are free to move polling precincts around—even 13 hours before an election.
And two just moved in Hinds County.
https://t.co/i0zAGIDBUe
(https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1688748860645023744?t=Z8PL1uXqoOUac6RcS_T6Jw&s=03)
Wegner’s Groceries (@grocerieswegner) posted at 8:14 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
14 southern states about to ban folding chairs. 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/tmt6iP5unf
(https://twitter.com/grocerieswegner/status/1688720299200581633?t=LNhAMmv3MjQf0QnsrwWIMg&s=03)
Democrats in Array 🏳️🌈 (@DemsInArray) posted at 8:25 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
Today is the special election in Ohio, where Republicans are trying to strip voters of the ability to change their constitution.
VOTE NO ON ISSUE 1
(https://twitter.com/DemsInArray/status/1688904300989231105?t=WLzZXmOFpH5wgzKM9-G8pw&s=03)
Malcolm 🇺🇸 (@MalcolmKhayyan) posted at 7:40 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
On a deployment😂😂😂 https://t.co/oXXLdWLoGz
(https://twitter.com/MalcolmKhayyan/status/1688711724008955904?t=6dC4GtWvMFNnN5OnjzlLrA&s=03)
Ehren (@CampArlington) posted at 10:08 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
What you need to take away from this is one of the white ladies showed up at a hospital that night with a shoeprint tatoo’d on her face and refused medical attention because all the hospital employees were Black. She also called the cops, because all the employees were Black.
(https://twitter.com/CampArlington/status/1688749058595102720?t=eII9b4JLzXcoTQXhrsucRA&s=03)
Portia J. (@PortiaNoir) posted at 7:29 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Someone commented “thoughts and chairs” on a video of mine about Montgomery and I have been cackling since I saw it.
(https://twitter.com/PortiaNoir/status/1688708865968283648?t=HqDU3_Le2pcwOYinXR_9bA&s=03)
Dr. Virgo, Politics is a Zero Sum Game (@DrVirgo1981) posted at 7:43 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
See the klan steered them wrong. They thought Black people couldn’t swim, they thought they could beat a black person and get away with it, and they didn’t think Black people were educated enough to fill a Hospital. 🤷🏾♀️
(https://twitter.com/DrVirgo1981/status/1688893704222748672?t=HaQshNZYXCMuZo8xOV9zBQ&s=03)
Mr. Christopher (@iamalmostlegend) posted at 3:18 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Jennifer, a contract worker at a Selma hospital, saw the people who started the brawl come in for treatment.
She says they were terrified because everyone on the hospital staff was Black and said, “Everybody’s n***ers in here,” then called the police.
Here For THEE Comments 1 (@forthecomments1) posted at 0:37 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
OMG, one of them went to hospital with a footprint in their face? They went to a hospital that was predominantly staffed with BP, in a predominantly Black city, and said “Its nothing but Nigs, here”?
(https://twitter.com/forthecomments1/status/1688786507572629504?t=c1oQg9L8uZEk2oGFNonD-w&s=03)
These clowns
CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) posted at 9:27 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
🚨BREAKING: A GOP lawmaker’s wife says she’s been replacing “terrible” “Unchristian” books with Bibles in local Little Free Libraries in Arkansas.
Jennifer Meeks, wife of Arkansas State GOP Rep. Stephen Meeks, thinks people shouldn’t read books that “don’t align with our… https://t.co/7PRelgqxZz
(https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1688919889938194432?t=8Z0Qn7vp2adqMykzAXVy6Q&s=03)
Ronnie D
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) posted at 9:20 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
“In his third staff shakeup in less than a month…”👀
https://t.co/7RToMPn1YA
(https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1688918028162109441?t=5-lyaban_XETcBk52a8NmQ&s=03)
DCPetterson (@dcpetterson) posted at 4:55 PM on Sun, Aug 06, 2023:
Some false media narratives being pushed: A thread.
There are six interrelated false media narratives being pushed that I’d like to debunk.
I sometimes won’t stress the false narratives as much as I’ll stress what’s true.
1/18
(https://twitter.com/dcpetterson/status/1688307878686568448?t=77MA_R-i3N3cfF8dVLfogg&s=03)
DCPetterson (@dcpetterson) posted at 4:55 PM on Sun, Aug 06, 2023:
1) Prosecutors do NOT have to prove Turnip knew he lied. It doesn’t matter to prove his guilt.
Example: I say the money in First Natl Bank is all mine, then I go steal it. Prosecutors don’t have to prove I knew the money wasn’t mine. They just have to prove I took it.
2/18
(https://twitter.com/dcpetterson/status/1688307885376466944?t=whXLn2LJ7Tjwgp8W3jHRoQ&s=03)
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) posted at 0:24 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Let’s be clear. Black folks defending another Black man from the racist fuckery of white men is not criminality. It’s justice. It’s standing their ground. It’s vicarious defense of others. Fuck around and find out.
(https://twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/1688601939985219584?t=cA3OkCBXUt3_hV-8M3PnjA&s=03)
Skeptical Brotha 💛🐝🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) posted at 4:35 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Donald Trump expected to be indicted in Fulton County this week | https://t.co/AtxNYfBfni https://t.co/YMMxKqcegU
(https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1688665112834347008?t=5I3KpHEc-kfb-mnKBGAVZw&s=03)
Bloated IG Political Commentator (@coreybking) posted at 10:03 AM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Lift Every Chair and Swing, and Fade in the Water have ended me! I will return when I get some oxygen! 😜
(https://twitter.com/coreybking/status/1688566422648049665?t=lL6z3w1Uq7ElSIOnD1dvNA&s=03)
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 5:49 AM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Can’t believe I was alive to witness the Montgomery, Alabama Steamboat Uprising August 6, 2023.
Y’all made the ancestors proud! Also, never stop recording run ins with nonBlack people who assault/attack Black people. This could’ve gone a whole other way without video. https://t.co/mKLB61fZdb
(https://twitter.com/colorfullstory/status/1688502558006849536?t=PydIGxcb1XL0JVGHols7Ag&s=03)
Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) tweeted at 8:09 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders a hearing on the DOJ’s Motion for Protective Order. https://t.co/I8hIXUvB5e
(https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1688718958369886208?s=02)
Jason (Hawk PTOOH) (@EscaflowneClown) posted at 9:43 PM on Sun, Aug 06, 2023:
You already know what time it is when you see Black men skipping. Black people were not playing in Montgomery Alabama videos! iconic. #BlackTwitter https://t.co/zHGMDKfvAB
(https://twitter.com/EscaflowneClown/status/1688380363729477632?t=wJJtZJxH7MfMTngWIpf_hQ&s=03)
Renee (@PettyLupone) posted at 8:52 PM on Sun, Aug 06, 2023:
Father Gawd, yo chirren have put footage of the Montgomery brawl over *Try That In a Small Town* and I am coming to meet thee. https://t.co/ucbSc1VJSc
(https://twitter.com/PettyLupone/status/1688367360686862336?t=Q3RXvFhqWIUXW3HWTxKIeg&s=03)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) posted at 3:50 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
I’m really upset with these Montgomery brawl “training” videos… https://t.co/sjQ78z599R
(https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1688653843968487424?s=03)
Dolt45 getting a mugshot and perp walk like everyone else in Georgia?
Hope Restored In DFW (@Kennymack1971) posted at 8:58 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
This is going to send the MAGAs into a rage. Treating him just like everyone else? Oh they gonna be BIG MAD.
(https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1688731315795902464?t=_VEPVw_WKnFMF3maSjuAVQ&s=03)
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 6:23 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
So the Paper Mache Pirates are on the clock app klansplaining “what if it was in reverse”
They like to pretend as if the roles aren’t already in reverse like we haven’t consistently seen Black people brutalized by white violence for centuries
Sit down Scott! https://t.co/DrbmBNGaG3
(https://twitter.com/colorfullstory/status/1688873505322917888?t=WmH05hScgcusHlGdDpDl0g&s=03)
Rugged Amethyst #TexasBorn #CaliBred (@groove_sdc) posted at 3:37 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
A reminder that Derek Chauvin is a POS coward who killed a defenseless Black man he’d been terrorizing for years because he thought he’d get away with it.
The people defending him know this but they’re defending his lawless murdering ass because racism.
F*ck them both.
(https://twitter.com/groove_sdc/status/1688831678645501953?t=y1EST2zW7W4bJNJSL4M4-A&s=03)
TRUTH
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 6:39 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
Somebody get Dr Henry Louis Gates Jr and PBS on the phone for a documentary before Prager University and McGraw-Hill white washes and lies about what happened at the Montgomery Steamboat Uprising https://t.co/uu7h3kRKmQ
(https://twitter.com/colorfullstory/status/1688877690143506432?t=jLlNJz-YdjhIP3heKqh-XA&s=03)
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
wheredowegofromhere (@missk84) posted at 8:51 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
My favorite parody so far 😂
#montgomerybrawl #MontgomeryRiverFront #MontgomeryRiverboat https://t.co/5YbcmperCM
(https://twitter.com/missk84/status/1688729538992160768?t=nZFlmqHXTvwpD26oO2a1rg&s=03)
Renee (@PettyLupone) posted at 2:16 PM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
Yeah, sooooooo… Black people have made this an official holiday now. It’s done and done. We’ll celebrate every year. BYOC. #AlabamaSweetTeaParty
(https://twitter.com/PettyLupone/status/1688630249368772609?t=BsffSDJ2Gs_Ewhs7kEx4BA&s=03)
BWA HA AH AHA HA HA HA HA
Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) posted at 11:04 AM on Mon, Aug 07, 2023:
The #BattleofMontgomery should be re-enacted every year on Juneteenth, starting with a swim to the dock and concluding with a white chair ceremony.
(https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1688581810148478976?t=pwkTG_h2rJxNaZ-9mTwtBQ&s=03)
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PragerU
Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) posted at 7:00 AM on Tue, Aug 08, 2023:
These videos are revisionist trash…straight up propaganda,
Yet, it is not surprising that the administration of the fascist Governor of Florida is promoting it in their schools.
https://t.co/KzNNQ0Y7kb
(https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime/status/1688882873170907137?t=sFyqDrALeV2DEa6C4hpd-w&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊