Ida Bae Wells

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@CatfishHokes I am finding this incredibly annoying. Do y'all really think I don't understand the dynamic at play here and that many people in the region don't consider themselves Black or white? North African is not a racial category. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Maverickk324 Of course Arab people are not considered Black. In the US, according to the Census, they are considered white. And, some Arab people also considered themselves racially white in America. But everyone in the Middle East and North Africa is not Arab, which is my POINT. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@senowens @beigegoat45 Race in the US has never been about skin color. And the Middle East and North Africa are not countries. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@JCThePplsChamp I know the problem they're trying to address. I disagree with the method. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ShtpstrGeneral You refute your own point. If most kids don't want to be a pilot, how does that explain racial disparity. It doesn't. And I love that my hair makes y'all mad. Keep crying. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ShtpstrGeneral Lol. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@senowens @beigegoat45 North Africans are counted as white unless they are Black. Again, let's be precise here if we are talking about creating a new racial category. Also: what is a race? This is why these categories are and will always be problematic. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ShtpstrGeneral One, that's false. Most commercial airline pilots were never in the military. Easily verifiable fact. Also, you have no idea what Black children want to be when they grow up. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Crabman_Adam72 @hulu Who created those boxes and the racial categories and why. Let's start there before getting into the nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Maverickk324 What. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Maverickk324 @beigegoat45 Um, do you really think I don't know that? You just made my point and didn't even know it. Creating a race out of a geographic location means there will be people from North Africa who will be of different races so how is that a racial category? — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@BriKeiRay Who created the category Sub-Saharan Africa? That designation is anti-Black, let's be clear. And there is no such category on the Census, nor is it considered a racial group. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@omarhnoureldin @uscensusbureau I understand the problems with the Census category. I just also think creating a new racial group is problematic, and certainly one that assumes North African means not Black. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@beigegoat45 Well, some are and some aren't, no? However, I do understand because of power dynamics why being counted as white in America doesn't make sense. I just think creating a new race of North African doesn't make sense. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@AeynaLali As I said, it is a false divide. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@logoff151 I understand not feeling "white." I've always chafed at North African versus so called "Sub-Saharan" African. Further, this is just extremely imprecise. If I am Black African but from North Africa, what am I on the Census. How is a region a race? What is a race? — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Freehatch What is the other argument? — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Just shows once again how race is a sociopolitical construct to order power relations. Watch the RACE episode of #1619hulu on @hulu — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

A new racial category? I'd like to hear more about why creating a new racial category of Northern African makes sense. These are geographic regions, and create a false divide between North Africa and I guess Black Africa? — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @MacFarlaneNews: ALERT via @cbsnews - Justice Dept seeks to seize money that's funneling into prison inmate account of James Alex Fields… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JonWiener1: .@The1619Project on @hulu "is the best example of what Black Studies is supposed to be." Robin D. G. Kelley explains on @th… — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @crampell: Professor who has been teaching at a Christian college in Florida for 20 years has his teaching contract put on hold after pa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @madebyhistory: "These joint commemorations are testaments to a complex truth that Americans have long struggled to understand and accep… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @smccurry3: My review of Kidada Williams’ powerful new book. It hits you hard. ⁦⁦⁦@KidadaEWilliams⁩ . During Reconstruction, a bruta… — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @BET: .@nhannahjones sits down with @marclamonthill to explain how the anti-Critical Race Theory protests started as a movement against… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrentNYT @nytimes 🙏🏽 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Thank you so much. Your words means so much. #1619Hulu is an argument about the country we are and an argument for the country we can be. The last episode, JUSTICE, shows we do not have to be victims of our past. We have a choice. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@tadsmooth @BET Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

I will always represent my hometown: WATERLOO! Congratulations on the launch of #AmericaInBlackBET @BET — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@best_of_luck_25 @TabbyMaeKerr @jerryquickley Why did America do that for 350 years straight? — PolitiTweet.org