My tweets

• Thu, 12:50: RT @mauracunningham: .@GradHacker is looking for guest contributors! If you're a grad student & parent, we want to hear from you https://t.…
• Thu, 12:50: RT @abbygoodnough: From my Louisville series: lots of new Medicaid enrollees seeking mental health care. Long waits for appointments. http:…
• Thu, 13:10: #CultofCompliance - Living While Black. Four incidents that made the news yesterday. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:10: Incident 1: Sitting while black. Not showing ID. Result = tased in front of children. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:11: Incident 2: Hands in pockets while black and autistic. Result: Tased. Now seizures and something that may be PTSD. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:11: Incident 3: Not walking while black. Result: Tased repeatedly and killed. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:12: Incident 4: Not resisting while black. Police shout, for the cameras, "Stop touching my gun!" as they beat him. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:13: I include a Florida incident: the white father of an autistic man. He, too, was tased as police shout, "stop resisting" for the camera.
• Thu, 13:19: One vital lesson for us white folks: There is no correct "behavior" that protects a black man from the police. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo
• Thu, 13:21: All behaviors - standing, sitting, walking, not walking, showing hands, hands in pockets - are suspect. http://t.co/93wSb6hfZo #racism

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