Ida Bae Wells

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere @adamliptak @adamliptak is talking about what SCOTUS has allowed in terms of affirmative action. Through a series of rulings, SCOTUS has ruled that only affirmative action for diversity is constitutionally allowable, but that is not why affirmative action was created nor why it exists. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@FordWavy @MrRDPierce My dad was born into a sharecropping family. UNC wasn't even an option for him. But that's besides the point: This is such an unserious response. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

(And this didn't make the point you thought it did. 😂😂😂) "People that mindlessly lap up talking points to then regurgitate are the entire reason I even know your name." — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@zesty_snarky Haha. Thought so. You all always fall apart as soon as you have to prove your claims. Have a good one. 💀 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere If I immigrated to China and there was an admissions program to address the legacy of discrimination against Hmong people, I would not consider that discriminatory against me. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere I just don't like how it's being framed incorrectly and ahistorically. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere And here's the thing: affirmative action does not help that many Black students. Black students, even with so-called affirmative action are under-enrolled in college compared to their proportion of the population. And, it's clearly going down under this SCOTUS. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere Asian Americans are the most racially integrated racial minority in America. Even if they are low income, they do not on average life in high-poverty neighborhoods and attend high-poverty schools. You all want to flatten the Black experience but you cannot. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@GaneshIsHere Let me say, once again, that affirmative action was not about addressing general disadvantage but about remedying 350 years of legal discrimination against Black Americans. It is not discriminatory toward Asian Americans, who also benefit from Black freedom struggles. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@Paul_Ryans_Pecs Why contrary data does Sowell have. Be specific. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@zesty_snarky Oh, I know the critiques. I'm not the one making a claim. You said a myriad of historians so I am asking you to name them. If you can't back up your claim but were just regurgitating a conservative talking point, just say so and stop wasting everyone's time. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@blind_scholar All serious inquiry into racial inequality. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@zesty_snarky The historians, that is. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@zesty_snarky Could you list them, please. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Also, why do all "free thinkers" think exactly alike in the most predictable ways? 💀 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@zesty_snarky You mean the historians who wrote for the 1619 Project. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Critical election reporting from ⁦@cassandrajar⁩, who will be discussing this and other efforts to subvert democracy at the ⁦@C4JDHowardU⁩ Democracy Summit Nov. 15 ⁦@HowardU⁩ https://t.co/fx7EqIVJBI — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@pinotarheelred @jstillings1 @JeremyPhilosoph Which text specifically? And where he says what exactly? — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Anyone who responds to evidence of racial inequality by suggesting I read Thomas Sowell gets an automatic block. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ashleemports Oh, yes, now I remember you. I thought I'd muted you. No one respects a token. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ashleemports @ProfessorHipps If suggest you read this essay. None of that closes the racial wealth gap. https://t.co/HYMMR97zbM — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@ashleemports Imagine thinking that is a new thought. Let's just pretend that we can bootstrap our way out of systemic inequality. Black people just need to work harder, amirite? Just like those 43 % of white admits at Harvard who had lower test scores but parents or grandparents attended — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

This will be 🔥🔥🔥 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@JoAnnePSears These sad people who think Google can substitute for knowledge, who don't know that graduate schools were forced to integrated before undergraduate as part of LDF's legal strategy but undergraduate didn't come until after Brown. And that the AA case is about undergrad. — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @kawulf: Speaking of history, historical memory and Elmina, a place I visited in 2008 and abt which I have never been able to say anythi… — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @LaurenKGurley: BREAKING: 97% of the University of California's 48,000 academic workers have just voted authorize a strike. This was l… — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @KevinMKruse: "The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world." Carl Becker, annual address of the president of… — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@JoAnnePSears "Free thinker." 💀💀💀 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@JoAnnePSears This was the law school, my dear. I also love how you think this changes the argument at all. 💀 — PolitiTweet.org

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

RT @WhatAboutClass: This Garrison banner in the @MHS1791 digital collections rules so hard. https://t.co/PpDDNpSHem — PolitiTweet.org