@marwilliamson sorry, I don’t tweet often and I messed up the tweet thread. Please see my profile for several follow up tweets. My point is, systemic racism starts at birth and is then reinforced by an under-funded education system. How do I convince my racist parents of this?
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1/ You’re right. If a child can’t read by the age of eight then the chances of high school graduation are drastically diminished and the chances of incarceration greatly increased. That’s why we need to stop funding public schools primarily on property taxes.
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2/ Millions of American children live with chronic trauma. 13 million hungry even before the pandemic. PTSD just living in their neighborhoods. “Trauma rooms” common in public schools. We need Dept of Children & Youth to harness & coordinate the expertise needed to change this.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @Shawn_Phelps
3/ Don’t worry about your parents; they get to vote however they want. Just work as hard as you can to elect people who see things your way. Like these: progressivecandidatesummit.c…

Jun 5, 2020 · 1:30 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Of course and I love that you’re doing these interviews... but just like how abolition didn’t end racism, neither will voting in non-racists. I see my parents as a microcosm of people who don’t identify as racist, yet have racist beliefs. Somehow, we have to sway people like them
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For example, my dad is disabled and collects both disability and social security... yet he constantly complains about the “welfare state.” There has to be some way to make him see the hypocrisy, I just haven’t found it.
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I guess my point is: if we don’t figure out how to heal people’s hearts, we can elect all the progressives we want - and those people will riot, and they’ll be bringing guns. Somehow, we have to get through to them. It’s easy to villainize them, but the truth is they’re misguided
Replying to @marwilliamson @Shawn_Phelps
Marianne is right, Sean. If we know two racist voters, we register 3 new voters to outweigh their effect, or convince 3 “not sure” but persuadable voters. It took my county 30 years for those 1980s rightwing voters to come around - we don’t have that long to wait.
Replying to @marwilliamson @Shawn_Phelps
You pretty much care about you