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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 year

I have a lot to be thankful for this year.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 month

I have bad news for all of y’all over 40. Or not independently wealthy. Or not highly educated with extremely marketable skills. Or not bi- and/or trilingual.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Labor historian here: Papers not reporting but the US is in the midst of biggest general strike since 1863/4. service industry gutted. If it’s not yet in your city/town, it soon will be Ppl’re not gonna work for $7/hr in a pandemic & still be in debt w no healthcare. Fuck that.

Dan Price

@DanPriceSeattle

3 years

Saturday marks the first time America has ever gone 12 years without a minimum wage increase. It was $7.25 on July 24, 2009. But with inflation, it is now worth $5.76. Stop asking if businesses can afford it and start asking why workers got an effective pay cut for 12 years.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Goodbye, kind soul. You were the closest thing to a father I had. And you fought death almost as hard as you fought both the Nazis AND the Soviets. One day I will tell your story. Rest well.💔💔💔

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Y’all - this has MADE my day. If I do end up securing funding for a new Civil War doc, you’re *definitely* in, my dude. (Still crackin’ up over the Mississippi boy with the low country accent comment 🤣😂🤣).

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Rando guy on LinkedIn: can you send me a PDF of your book? Me: Sorry, I don't have one. But you can purchase the ebook from Cambridge or even Amazon! Him (huffily): I don't PAY for knowledge. Me: Well good luck with that, motherf****r.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Psychologically it’s easier for Americans to scapegoat southerners than it is for them to *really* examine how deeply entrenched this dysfunction is throughout the *entire* country.

Cassie Miller

@cassiepmiller

5 years

To everyone out here blaming the people of Alabama and Georgia for these monstrous abortion laws and saying we deserve it for voting these people into office - y’all have a lot to learn about gerrymandering and voter suppression

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

This is some antebellum shit right here. (*whispers*: guess what the next move will be? Making loads of petty crimes felonies before the next election...)

NBC News

@NBCNews

5 years

Florida legislators advanced a bill that is expected to limit the number of former felons who can vote, in part by requiring former felons to pay back all court fees and fines before they can register.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Retuning home and reality sinking in. My boys’ sports cancelled for the foreseeable future, tons of neighbors sick, & school closings TBD bc there’s literally not enough staff. Again, remember that this country - under both Rs & Ds - left you alone in a DIY-pandemic, to die.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

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3 years

it's been a bad day but in a Zoom parent-teacher conference I learned my 8yo - upon hearing another child say "ew" at someone being gay - not only lectured the entire class on how LGBTQ rights don't infringe on any of their personal rights, so why care?...

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Remember what happened when we didn’t hold the leaders of the 1861 insurrection accountable??? They & their heirs were back in *complete* political power within about a decade.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Stop saying Amy Coney Barrett was “taught,” “brainwashed,” “trained,” “indoctrinated,” etc. She’s a grown-ass woman and *everything* she’s doing is in calculated self-interest.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 year

During early #Reconstruction it was common for Black politicians to be expelled from state legislatures. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley was expelled from GA’s Senate bc he grinned with “full teeth” at a white senator while winning a debate… #tennessee

Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one strain of the movement began almost exactly a century before—in 1865—during...

www.aaihs.org

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

As someone who’s read an awful lot of Jim Crow era court records and newspapers, I can tell you with absolute, complete certainty that the lynchings we know about far, far underrepresent the sheer violence & bloodshed throughout America for so many generations.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

I'm seeing some misinformation here re: non-slaveholding southerners fighting in the #CivilWar since @TheTattooedProf 's #RobertELee thread went viral. So let's get a few things right:

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Yeah too late

The Hill

@thehill

2 years

Kagan warns that Supreme Court legitimacy at risk if it strays too far from public sentiment

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

A foreshadowing of the fascism to come.

Ana Ceballos

@anaceballos_

2 years

BREAKING: DeSantis suspends four Broward County School Board members, appoints replacements

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

7 years

Fewer than 5,000 African Americans gained land. Instead, the #HomesteadAct was a huge wealth transfer from Native Americans to white Americans & white immigrants. See my essay:

Land and the roots of African-American poverty | Aeon Ideas

The Homestead Act gave 1.6 million white families – and fewer than 6000 black families – 160 acres of virtually free land

aeon.co

James A. Garfield National Historic Site

@GarfieldNPS

7 years

In addition to Emancipation Proclamation, the Homestead Act went into effect #OnThisDay in 1863. Turned 270 million acres in 30 states from federal to private ownership, including to women & African Americans. Check out our @NatlParkService colleagues at @HomesteadNM for more!

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

4 months

Now you know why they’ve been: 1) destroying tenure 2) purging activist profs 3) getting rid of as many worker protections as possible

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

New thread that I will add to over the coming days as I re-watch Ken Burns' The Civil War. I'm gonna call this #WhyWeNeedaNewCivilWarDocumentary . 🤓 ( @netflix listen up!)

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Keri Leigh Merritt

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3 years

but also then told the kid that the kid might grow up to be gay so stop the negative talk. And then ended the diatribe telling them they all should worry about climate change instead.😹✊

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

I can’t believe a sniveling prep school rapist gets to make decisions about MY fucking body.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

I think today’s the perfect day to repost. Solidarity, lady academics. Solidarity.✊💅😹

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

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Ppl don’t realize but this was actually based on the work of Lost Cause historians writing all the way into the 1980s (e.g. Grady McWhiney). They held that the Civil War was NOT over slavery but rather a clash bw two white cultures: the Anglo-Saxon North & Scotch-Irish South.

Moira Donegan

@MoiraDonegan

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Does anyone remember that part in Hillbilly Elegy where Vance is like “the reason my community was broken was because they were descended from the barbarian Scots-Irish.”

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Sending all my ♥️♥️♥️ tonight to parents of immunocompromised kiddos and children 5 and under. I hate that we have failed you.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

CDC reports record number of child COVID-19 hospitalizations

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

4 months

As someone born in Mississippi, I cannot emphasize enough how ***extra brave*** these U Mississippi kids are. In case you don’t know, “Ole Miss” is a play on words for “Old Missus,” just like “Old Master.” Plantation slavery’s literally enshrined in their chosen nickname.

Joshua Nguyen, PhD 🧼🧽

@joshuanguyen03

4 months

This is why i get upset when folks discredit activist work in the South. You gotta have extra smarts, optimism, & conviction because you have structural powers & old-fashion cultural weight against you. My activism was stronger when I lived in Mississippi than anywhere else.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 months

We live in one of the richest nations in the history of the world and I’m currently texting friends in one of its biggest cities to see if they need to come over to shower or bathe because they haven’t had CLEAN WATER in four days.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

The existential crisis of loneliness in this country has been entirely underrated - esp given its oversized role in this precise moment.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Wow - this has blown up, thank you. (And many thanks to @TheTattooedProf & @PatrickIber for the shout-outs). For those who are asking, yes, this is pretty much all from my book:

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Just your periodic reminder that Kavanaugh perjured himself multiple times. Aaaand we still don't have answers on where all that money came from....

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Stop wasting your time reading what a wealthy white woman with a BA in *religious studies* thinks about DuBois & historiography. You’re welcome.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 month

No lie someone legit lit up a cigarette in the skyclub this morning like we were in Mad Men times

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@MarkNagi

1 month

Airport bar managers this morning

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

This is not about babies. Not about fetuses. It’s about complete & total control over women & girls. Not just sexually. Not just bodily. But *complete* control over every aspect of our lives.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

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I can tell I’m gonna need to translate the ways JD Vance’ll pretend he’s not an Ivy Leaguer hired to demagogically drum up the younger white working class vote. (Bad hire btw) It’s a poor white thing - esp in Appalachia - to drink sodas like Mountain Dew instead of water.

Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 month

@melnickjeffrey1 He’s really talking about soda but is trying desperately (but unsuccessfully) to CLASS signify.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

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2 years

My thoughts on the Kevin Kruse plagiarism allegations: The silence re: this story has been astounding. There are two main reasons for the silence: 🧵/1

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

When Dick Cheney's the voice of reason you know we're living in a complete shitshow.

Seung Min Kim

@seungminkim

5 years

Dick CHENEY tells PENCE at closed-door retreat in Ga — “We’re getting into a situation when our friends and allies around the world that we depend upon are going to lack confidence in us.” via @costareports @AshleyRParker

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 year

Defunding libraries isn't just about education and literacy - it's a primary tool of class oppression.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Yeah...conflicted about this. Aren't women academics nearly *always* shamed for their personal lives if they've been productive? Furthermore, if I don't "boast" about my own work, believe me: Ain't no man gonna do it for me.

Aileen McHarg @[email protected]

@AileenMcHarg

6 years

Proposal: any academics boasting on social media about how productive they've been in 2018 to be required to add a report on the state of their personal life.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Introvert confession: sometimes in between conference sessions I sneak back up to my hotel room for 10-20 mins of decompression - silence & alone time.🤓

Doctor PMS

@Doctor_PMS

6 years

@FromPhDtoLife I’m 110% extrovert, but even for me conferences are exhausting! I always have bittersweet feelings after it’s done. Happy to have some physical rest, but missing the social interaction.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 month

@wickettred That’s so messed up i know in Italy “bloodline” includes adopted children

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

1 year

One thing I’ve not seen on national news re: climate change is that in the Deep South right now, we’re having days each week when the heat advisory is so high kids can’t go out side for recess and all sports are cancelled.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

18 (FIN). The slave regime of the South - the #Confederacy - needs to be remembered for what it was. In 1867 Union General John Pope wrote a letter to Ulysses Grant, expressing his concerns about how the Civil War—and the causes of the Confederacy—would be remembered in history:

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Happy to be writing for @SmithsonianMag for the first time! Many thanks to @BrianWolly for being a great editor. #CivilWar #ReconstructionPBS #documentary

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Whenever I give “history” talks, a big part is making sure ppl understand WHY they don’t know certain things, or why they learned outright lies. History IS political, & ppl understand that. But most importantly, historiography gives ppl reasons to change their erroneous beliefs

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Also, I hardly ever talk about this here, but I actually DID adopt one of my sons, & I can tell you Amy Coney Barrett is undoubtedly a *profoundly* shitty mother to have adopted children & not recognize the pain inherent in ALL ADOPTIONS, no matter how idyllic.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

I still don't understand why Dems (particularly in these states) haven't organized massive "drive/bus people to the polls" programs - not just in cities but *especially* rural areas!

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

740,000 people dead. Seven hundred forty thousand. More than the 1918 flu. More than the Civil War. More than AIDS. And still, no healthcare.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Now 11 days into taking care of kids w COVID. I’ll write something up about our experiences after we are though this, but it’s gonna be longer bc now my husband has a bad breakthrough case. I’m completely exhausted. Stressed to the max. So worn down. Sending ♥️ to all y’all.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

9 yo son: you know I chose you to be my mommy. Me: really? How did you do that? Him: I was alive before I was alive. Me: 😳

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

I thought I'd have a nice, quiet #ValentinesDay tomorrow, but now it's ON.🔥 Was asked to testify before the #Georgia #Senate Oversight Committee tomorrow about why #ConfederateMonuments need to be removed. Please send me good wishes for a sharp mind & sharper tongue.✊

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

All the rich ass people saying “just take the bus” have A) never taken a bus & have NO IDEA how unreliable they are & how many hours waiting for/changing buses adds to ur day B) believe America is only major cities- discarding rural, suburban, & even small city ppl yet AGAIN.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Yesterday was a supremely horrible day for America and I’m still reeling. But I wanted to share good news: I did get the call that my baby boy’s (the one w the horrible accident this year) biopsies came back negative for everything bad and I’m so damn grateful…♥️🙏♥️

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

yeah i don't give a shit about her hair, it's the rancidness of her soul that's the problem.

Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾

@KwikWarren

3 years

This is a sitting United States Senator.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

The first iteration of this flag I’ve actually liked.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

As I hold my feverish baby shaking with chills tonight, all I have to say is too little too fucking late.

Yamiche Alcindor

@Yamiche

3 years

A WH official says President Biden's COVID speech is now Thursday & that he will speak about his plan to stop the spread of the Delta variant & boost vaccinations & "lay out a six pronged strategy that will help us do just that, working across the public & private sectors."

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@KeriLeighMerrit

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@axelsoiv In *some* countries but that is not permanent residency if you are truly trying to flee somewhere

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Thread as promised on the Solid White ( #Confederate ) South thesis, including the "herding thesis," culture of honor, "Cracker culture" tropes, & why overturning these rids us (false) history written by white supremacists.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Any good 19th c historian will tell you to stop making Civil War comparisons. The real comparison is Reconstruction, with pockets of racist terrorism & massacres, & (increasing) political assassinations & insurrections.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

@RVAwonk

2 years

BREAKING: A militia member is suspected of having just shot and killed a former judge in Juneau County, WI. Sources say the suspect was carrying a hit list that includes other politically-motivated targets including Governor Evers.

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2 years

PLEASE stop getting history from people who are not historians. Industrialization didn't "make slavery redundant," in fact, the 2 worked well together in certain circumstances. Slavery ended bc the enslaved fought for freedom, over & over. Won by rebellions & labor stoppages.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

I really wish we’d stop calling outright lies “misinformation.”

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

i guess it was only a matter of time after taking care of sick people for the last 3weeks. I've been feeling bad & finally took a test. I have a breakthrough case of COVID. And my husband is still really sick, day 6 of running a fever. I don't know what to do at this point.😭

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@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Omg elder care is so stressful. Solidarity with all y’all going thru it.✊♥️

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

I got shingles in my early 30s, while trying to write my dissertation & raise an infant and a toddler (neither of whom ever slept!😫). It was horribly painful, & stress *totally* brings it on. And rn, some of y'all are the most stressed you've ever been. Get the shot.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Yesterday was Mr. Rogers' birthday. I recently watched the doc on his life & ugly-cried my whole way thru. It was this scene, tho -filmed in 1968 -a time of great racial strife, when white supremacists were pouring acid in pools where Black children were swimming - THIS scene...

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6 years

How do ppl not know many of the OG country ⭐s were progressives?? Cash: "I wear the black for the poor & the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times."

ABC13 Houston

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6 years

FANS TURN ON WILLIE: Country singer @WillieNelson was called just about every name in the book after announcing he's playing during an upcoming rally for Texas Democratic Senate candidate @BetoORourke .

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6 years

And due to our history of slavery without reparations, & the subsequent ravages of racism, it also means that the vast majority of that wealth is inherited by WHITES.

Christopher Ingraham🦗

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6 years

Per Thomas Piketty roughly 60% of America's wealth is inherited, meaning most of America's riches are owned by people who didn't work for them.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

I’m abt to break. After 3 weeks in the hospital starting in August, my father-in-law has been in hospice w 24/7 care dying a slow, horrible, agitated death. Now my mother-in-law’s in the ICU. They are our only family, & us theirs. Comforting my emotional sons tonight.💔

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 months

Happy to share my latest on capitalism and the underdevelopment of the US South - it’s one of the most important things I’ve ever written.

Aeon Magazine

@aeonmag

5 months

‘Plantation slavery had made the planters rich, but it left the South poor.’ On capitalism and (under)development in the American South.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

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3 years

I’m starting to realize that the events of the past month have really triggered my PTSD over almost losing my child in a horrific accident in April. Imma log off this site for a while. Love to all y’all. Please be kind to each other.♥️

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Really struggling to not become completely depressed by the state of my chosen industry, and by extension, the state of the country. The subject of history is dying - being actively killed off; and nonfiction book sales have plummeted - ppl just aren’t reading. The old forms

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@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Just wait till the interstate fighting starts... y'all better brush up on some early 1800s legal history.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Almost a week into breakthrough COVID & I am only getting worse - have completely lost my voice. Luckily got a teledoc appt this morning & have to get on steroids & antibiotics. Telling y’all this is no joke. *Nothing* is worth getting this.

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I know I’ve been quiet but I’ve been hard at work grant writing & script writing. Thrilled to announce that @TheCivilWarDoc1 is now fiscally sponsored by The Southern Documentary Fund. We have some big grant applications ready to go & are ready to get this film made!

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3 years

Strange how no one talks about death toll anymore

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6 years

@KeishaBlain @politico Some of my fave #twitterstorians not yet listed: @jmjafrx , @marthasjones_ , @SKBlakney , @profgabrielle , @ProfJeffries , @loumoore12 , @WorldProfessor , @GuyEmersonMount , @AustinMcCoy3 , @drjelks , @robgreeneII , @CrownVictoria22 , @CulturedModesty , @william_sturkey , @HilaryGreen77 #FF

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5 years

Can’t fuckin wait. Signed, A historian

Dan Rather

@DanRather

5 years

Sarah Sanders, we hardly knew ya. Actually that’s not really true. Your tenure serving this administration will now be in the hands of historians to judge.

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You know what’s truly a scam? Paying taxes and not having free universal preschool & childcare like other developed nations.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Happy #Juneteenth #Juneteenth2018 . If you don't know about the holiday, do yourself a favor and read up today. #twitterstorians THREAD (1) In my many years as a historian of the 19th c. South, I've read well over 4,000 interviews with/narratives of the formerly enslaved.

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Pres #Carter used to speak to every freshman class @emory . For mine, he was asked abt the 1st time he met #RosalynnCarter . I remember vividly: he choked up, tears rolling down his cheeks as he recalled the movie lights flickering across her beautiful face. What a rare, true love

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2 years

I’m just saying a complete general strike would be a helluva a lot more powerful than marching or protesting…

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@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Tips for dealing with MAGA relatives: Cut them off & live your life free from hate. 😘 xo

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@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Waiting with bated breath...😂🤣😂 This will go well with my two martini lunch, lol.

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@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

South Carolina & Brazil, together again... just as in the days of slavery & the Confederacy.

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@NikkiHaley

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Congratulations to Brazil’s new President Bolsonaro. It’s great to have another U.S.-friendly leader in South America, who will join the fight against dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba, and who clearly understands the danger of China’s expanding influence in the region.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

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@LopezJantzen Exactly

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Shame on @politico 's all-white historian list. So patently racist. I publicly vow that if I'm ever included in something re: historians, I'll inquire about who else is included & if there are no Black scholars, I'm OUT. And I'm calling on other white historians to do the same.

Dr. Keisha N. Blain

@KeishaBlain

6 years

Thanks, @politico , for your all-white list of #historians offering insights on 2018! Here's a thread of some other historians in the United States who you did not know existed. I'll start with a few & others will contribute to the thread to help you out.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

***whispers*** evictions are also a means of disfranchisement

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Just sent my favorite email reply (bc it reminds me of the absolute absurdity of academe *every* single time): "Sorry, but I'm not taking on non-paying work at the moment."

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

People telling women to “act civilly” and not protest at someone’s home who’s attempting to take away our rights to control OUR OWN BODIES is so ridiculously absurd and hypocritical I can’t even…

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

I’m furious today: 1) one son was asked by a stranger -a GROWN ASS ADULT- his “adoption story.” (Don’t EVER do this, none yo fucking business) 2) other son got laughed at by a teacher when he said his grandfather survived the Germans in WWII. (He did.) WTH is wrong w ppl???

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Well, you’re looking at the newest member of the Board of the Friends of the Georgia Archives and History. Many thanks to @sdpatenaude for recommending me. Power over archives = power over the narrative of REAL history.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

2 years

Now's the time for a really good think piece on the lasting, devastating damage moderate liberals did to the New Deal.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

Y'all do realize that both his anger & his privileged-little-white-boy tears are ONLY because he truly thinks that the world OWES him this job... Ain't no entitlement like prep-school white boy entitlement.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Always goes back to that @ADtheBand lyric, one of my fave lyrics ever: “Raise your fist but also Raise your children So when you die the movement moves on…”

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

As a woman w several years more life experience than AOC, I wish I could tell her one thing: Stop responding to EVERY single personal attack. They're trying to wear you down - mentally & emotionally. Save your energy to defend others. ❤️, your older sisters in the struggle

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Ocasio-Cortez rips Washington Post writer's "resentful" column comparing her to Sarah Palin

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

3 years

Literally getting “confirmed COVID cases in your child’s school” emails EVERY SINGLE DAY now.

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

6 years

If y'all only knew a fraction of what Kemp's done to suppress Black & Brown voters down here... This is an illegitimate election. Period. @staceyabrams *should* fight. Give ppl time to expose all of Kemp's dirty work.

Black History Heroes

@HistoryHeroes

6 years

Stacey Abrams Vows To Fight On: 'We Still Have A Few More Miles To Go'

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Keri Leigh Merritt

@KeriLeighMerrit

5 years

Just spent the night at a swanky charity event for children with cancer - and providing them with actual universal health care was not mentioned once.

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