Waleed Shahid

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Interesting times when Chuck Schumer is voting to cut the Pentagon budget by 10% and Kamala Harris is voting with Republicans to stop him. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ezralevin: @daveweigel Because he's out of touch with his district. One reason for the primary challenge is simply that his constituent… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daveweigel: Rep. Richard Neal, facing a primary challenge in September, has an ad about how he got COVID relief money to a country club… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlexBMorse: Proud to be Jewish. Proud to be gay. Proud to grow up working class in Western Mass. Proud to be progressive. https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlexBMorse: It's easy to say that addiction and loss aren't political when you haven't experienced them personally, or when you have th… — PolitiTweet.org

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hamilton is a play about cancel culture's role in central banking — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: “This violent language is about power...and it’s not new. There are only 79 of us women of color who have ever served in t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: “These are the words that Rep. Yoho levied against a congresswoman that not only represents NY-14, but every congresswoman… — PolitiTweet.org

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My dad has not received his unemployment check for 5 straight weeks. After being on hold for two hours with @DOES_DC weeks ago they said they would address the issue within three weeks. Nothing has changed. No contact, not even a single update. This is so crazy and outrageous. https://t.co/oAruLGltff — PolitiTweet.org

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"It hurt. It hurt to leave my family...I felt abandoned, cast out. I'm a very forgiving man, and I was able to forgive this. But it was probably the hardest thing I've ever done." "The pain of that experience is something that I will never be able to forget." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I said I thought this phrase frightened people...'We don't believe in sloganeering. We believe in programs.' "The next day's headlines read: 'JOHN LEWIS BREAKS WITH SNCC OVER PHRASE BLACK POWER.'" "A week later came my last public appearance as a member of SNCC." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The way he was using it, I thought it tended to create a schism, both within the movement itself and between the races. It drove people apart rather than brought them together. But at that time Stokely was not interested in bringing people together." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I had so many thoughts about ["Black Power"]. The way I had always understood the phrase, it had more to do with self-reliance than with black supremacy, though that distinction was hard to see, especially through the fire and spit which Stokely...tended to deliver the message." — PolitiTweet.org

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"MLK...and Carmichael jockeyed for control of the crowds, sharing their different positions on black nationalism and nonviolence and arguing among themselves. All the cracks and fissures and divisions within the movement were literally put on stage, [the press] had a field day." https://t.co/UZVuZCu2yf — PolitiTweet.org

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"In the aftermath of my 'de-election,' I was naturally besieged by the press. I shared none of my feelings and thoughts with them. Even with all that had happened, I still cared about SNCC, I still wanted it to have every chance to succeed." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Breaks were created; wounds were opened that would never heal. I didn't consider it so much a repudiation of me as a repudiation of ourselves, of what we were, of what we stood for. We denied and denounced ourselves that night. It was a very sad thing, very tragic." — PolitiTweet.org

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"My life, my identity, most of my very existence, was tied up in SNCC Now, so suddenly, I felt put out to pasture...when I was alone, it hurt. It hurt more than anything I'd ever been through." — PolitiTweet.org

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"By the time I got home to Atlanta, my phone was ringing off the hook. There was a lot of emotion coming through those lines, a lot of crying." "Julian...wrote me often telling me it wouldn't be long before he'd be leaving too: [he said] 'The crazies are taking over.'" — PolitiTweet.org

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"I thought about the fact that no one had spoken up for me. Not one person. I didn't get upset, maybe because I couldn't let myself feel it. If I had, it would have hurt too much. I just couldn't have gone on. So I locked my feelings away." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Finally at 5:30 that morning...Stokely Carmichael was the new chairman of SNCC." "I went back to my room drained, exhausted, dazed...I was so tired I couldn't think or feel. It wasn't until I woke up late that morning that I realized what had happened." "It was over." — PolitiTweet.org

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"It went on for several hours, people raising their voices and shouting, all these feelings bursting out, just a torrent of pent-up frustration and anger. It was almost like a mob." "I just sat and listened. I didn't speak." — PolitiTweet.org

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"And I have to say it hurt. We had been through a lot together, Forman and I." "I had never thought he would turn on me. Nor did I imagine my own family, the SNCC organization as a whole would do the same. But that's what happened as the night moved into early Sunday morning." — PolitiTweet.org

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"By a vote of 60 to 22, with a lot of abstentions, I was reelected as chairman." "More than half were gone when Worth Long stood up and made an announcement. He wanted to challenge the election." "I came to suspect Jim Foreman was in part responsible." — PolitiTweet.org

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"What it was about, in the end, was who was 'blackest,' and it was hard to tell where the lines were. The people who spoke out were very loud, but the vast majority simply listened. It was hard to tell what they were thinking." "And then close to midnight, came the vote." — PolitiTweet.org

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"It got very low and nasty, very bitter and mean. People stood up and said we needed someone who would grab LBJ by the balls and tell him to kiss our ass. We needed someone who would stand up to Dr. King and tell him the same thing." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I again spoke my piece about keeping whites among our membership and got some backlash about that from some of the more strident voices in the room." — PolitiTweet.org

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One year after Selma, John Lewis was ousted from his leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Excerpts from his memoirs: "The subject we kept coming back to again and again, was the relevancy and even the possibility of interracial democracy." — PolitiTweet.org

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The obituaries of John Lewis mention that he was SNCC's Chairman. But virtually none of them mention how he actually *felt* when he was ousted from that role in 1966, just *one* year after Selma -- so I read his autobiography: "It hurt more than anything I'd ever been through." https://t.co/xEV82vxp0Y — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamaalBowmanNY: Proud to endorse @CoriBush, a leading organizer in the Ferguson uprising that sparked the movement we’re seeing today.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: Justice Democrats on the move. @JamaalBowmanNY endorses @CoriBush. https://t.co/zHh8HQlZL9 — PolitiTweet.org