This evening, I was reading a facebook post that consisted of several smartphone photos of a tweetstream. I was partway through when the post disappeared with a message that the content was no longer available.
This is the second time today that I’ve been caught up in the midst of a thread purge on facebook. The first was Jim Wright’s post about 9/11. He reposted it with his commentary on his blog.
I didn’t even remember the name of the twitter account that had written the tweets, but with a couple of searches on key phrases from what I remembered, I was able to turn it up, and learned that the tweets are from Elexus Jionde. And I found several tweets relating that Twitter had decontextualized the tweets, making the stream difficult to follow. In my horror of censorship, I decided to capture the tweets in a blog post. I’ll post this blog to Facebook.
I tweeted about this blog post to Elexus Jionde.
White people cant ever let go of 9/11, a single day in our history, but want you to get over 300 years of racial oppression lol
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
racists and "im not a racist but…" racists love to act like there wasn't a large period of racial motivated fuckery after slavery
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
The Dunning School was a HUGE group of historians who perpetuated the idea that reconstruction was a failure & blacks were better in slavery
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
The KKK began in 1865 as a social fraternity that terrorized freedpeople in ghost costumes pic.twitter.com/THmID1WI7D
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
millions of whites owned and used products that showed black women as highly sexual or unattractively asexual pic.twitter.com/FU9AouxKtT
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
Jim Crow Laws surfaced in 1881 and stayed in place for 3/4 of a century. pic.twitter.com/RUI485CfU9
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
Meanwhile, those crafty former slave owners re-enslaved blacks via sharecropping. They gave land and demanded high quotas & higher interest
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
Sharecroppers never had enough money for the tools and land they had been given. Many stayed destitute & uneducated pic.twitter.com/YwAUqmOyIj
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
A film that galvanized whites against the alleged black rapist problem, Woodrow Wilson gave the film two thumbs up pic.twitter.com/ahyMj1WAic
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
In 1921 whites ruined a prosperous area of OK known as Black Wall Street. Never heard about this in grade school pic.twitter.com/9jsSAdu8sa
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
In 1961, angry white mobs attacked integrated bus riders during Freedom Summer. The riders were beaten and jailed pic.twitter.com/NbWT9g42Yb
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
I haven't mentioned the shitty housing discrimination practices that barred blacks from moving out of planned ghettos, btw
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
The US govt gave blacks cheap housing, but often denied families with the man involved. The fatherless jokes not funny
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
The Unfair Housing Act wasn't introduced until 1968 and was still problematic. Talk to a family member about their experiences buying homes
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
Hoover directed his agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize, or otherwise eliminate" these groups
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
His actions culminated with the Black Panther raid of 1969, where Fred Hampton and others were murdered pic.twitter.com/7Pern8HFBH
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
The War on Drugs churned out billions, created jobs in law enforcement and prison industries, and re-enforced black discrimination
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
My point? Bringing up that slavery was long ago to derail black civil unrest is in the same vein claiming the Browns will win the super bowl
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
It is CRUCIAL to examine history to understand attitudes and social norms. We must look back. And not at those fugly govt issued textbooks
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
So to end this thread, never forget 9/11. For sure. But don't forget the rest of this shit either. Please.
— elexus jionde (@Lexual__) September 11, 2016
I will read her book. I hope you will, too.