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Jamil Smith جميل كريم
@JamilSmith
Faculty lecturer, @UCBerkeley Journalism. Columnist, @GuardianUS. Writer, editor, producer, and audio host. Thinking about identity, politics, and power.
Berkeley, CA
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    Montgomery Square, the newest @eji_org Legacy Site, memorializes the Montgomery bus boycott and modern Civil Rights Movement. It is also a warning to all of us. I talked with Bryan Stevenson about memory, erasure, and what history demands for @GuardianUS.
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    New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure
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    Aug 16, 2017
    All these folks worried about erasing history when the Confederate statues come down will be thrilled to learn about the existence of books.
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    Sep 23, 2017
    An entire island full of Americans in Puerto Rico are without power right now, and @POTUS is cursing out NFL players at his campaign rally.
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    Oct 20, 2020
    “Slipped” implies that it was an accident.
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    Oct 18, 2020
    8,000,000 Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study finds. nbcnews.to/3k7qv4A
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    Oct 19, 2020
    Don’t ever say we don’t love America.
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    Oct 16, 2020
    Dana Clark, and her son 18 month old Mason, wait in line at City Hall as early voting begins in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dana said she wasn’t sure how many people would be wearing masks while they voted so she wanted to be safe. Photo by @kathphoto
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    Jamil Smith جميل كريم
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    May 29, 2020
    Tonight, @POTUS just threatened to have law enforcement murder Americans. Which is how we ended up here in the first damn place.
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    Apr 20, 2021
    Now, everyone call it “the murder of George Floyd.”
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    Sep 23, 2017
    He never called the white supremacists who terrorized Charlottesville “sons of bitches,” did he? Some of them got to be “very fine people.”
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    Aug 19, 2017
    Tens of thousands stage a peaceful rally in Boston against white supremacy, and he suggests that the crowd is violent. He picked a side.
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Aug 19, 2017
    Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston. Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you.
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    Mar 7, 2020
    Matt Gaetz thought it would be funny to wear a giant gas mask on the House floor to mock the panic over the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of his own constituents has died. Idiots like this have no business taking up space in jobs meant for public servants.
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    Matt Gaetz made light of coronavirus by wearing a gas mask. Now he is in quarantine.
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    Jamil Smith جميل كريم
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    Feb 3, 2019
    Racism doesn’t just look like a white man in blackface or a Klan hood. Sometimes, it looks like a @senatemajldr calling increased ballot access a “power grab.” My latest for @RollingStone, on Mitch McConnell, persisting nevertheless with voter suppression.
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    Mitch McConnell, Enemy of the Vote
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    Feb 27, 2019
    This was a good use of the time allotted. @RepAOC not only asked Cohen questions that revealed newsworthy information which merit further investigation, but ones pertinent to her district. If you missed it live, as I did, this is her questioning in full.
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    Feb 27, 2019
    Rashida Tlaib did nothing wrong. Elijah Cummings needs a better friend. Mark Meadows needs a dictionary. So do many in the press. She did not call him a racist. She called the act racist. Her statement was not racist. Using black folks as props is racist.
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    Jamil Smith جميل كريم
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    Jun 29, 2019
    Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. Her mother was Tamil Indian; her father was born in Jamaica. Birtherism is racism, full stop. You don’t need to support Harris for the Presidency. But if you are black and buying into this, you are aiding and abetting. trib.al/SiDF9Y0