Louisville mayor candidate: Gunman aimed directly at me
https://news.yahoo.com/police-louisville-mayoral-candidate-unharmed-18284592... A Democratic mayoral candidate in Kentucky’s largest city said he is “shaken but safe” after a man stormed his campaign headquarters Monday morning and fired a weapon point-blank at him. Craig Greenberg, who is running for mayor of Louisville, said he was at his campaign office with four colleagues when a man appeared in the doorway with a weapon. “When we greeted him, he pulled out a gun, aimed directly at me and began shooting,” Greenberg said at a news conference several hours after the attack. The person closest to the door managed to get the door shut, he said. The staffers barricaded the door using “tables and desks," and the suspect fled, he said. “Despite one bullet coming so close that it grazed my sweater and my shirt, no one was physically harmed,” Greenberg said.
https://news.yahoo.com/police-louisville-mayoral-candidate-unharmed-18284592...
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" Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 " " #OneBillionVoices For Liberation #FreeThemAll #FreeTheLand #JasonWalker #StephenAddison Jan 11 · 6 min read A Revolutionary Love Letter January 10, 2022 Dear fellow beings, I am writing this to remind you how great you are. During our short stay on this glorious planet we all have been collectively dehumanized and reduced to political talking points — Black, white, liberal, conservative, Christian, criminal, boss, worker, activist, etc. We have been educated to use our minds narrowly and forced to identify ourselves with roles that trap us in a collective perpetual state of anxiety. We have forgotten how harmonious this thing called life is and have fallen victim to a vicious circle of pain and suffering. Many of our friends are suffering from a deep feeling of alienation. They have accepted the belief that we live on this little planet in a solar system on the edge of a galaxy — a minor galaxy — and concede, “Ah, well — we really are unimportant after all. God isn’t there and he doesn’t love us, our government doesn’t love us, our neighbor doesn’t love us and nature doesn’t give a damn.”* Our sick, manipulated brethren will weaponize common sense and tell us to “face to facts” — as if facts are something outside of us as if life were something we encounter as foreigners*. They will tell us that communism and collectivism has never and will never work and refuse to even explore these “childish” (or inferior) ideas. Admittedly, some ideas and feelings are difficult to understand — not because they are intellectually complicated, but because they are unfamiliar or estranged. We simply have not been brought up to accommodate them.* Likewise, the biggest lie we tell ourselves is that serious adults do not play the games of children such as hide and seek*. The sobering reality is that both juveniles and older people are playing a lifelong game of hide and seek where we all try to avoid sinning, getting shot, or getting locked up — a game where you must avoid hell, jail, and the graveyard at all costs. Our situation is one of political warfare and for many of our friends, politics on this land has meant nothing but confronting the violent tools of racist bullies and sick killers who view the world as a system of mutual exploitation and maximal selfishness. Out of this negative conception, we, the people, yearn to create new rules for our grown-up game. While we can redefine politics as the desire of individuals and groups to satisfy their basic needs first: food, shelter and clothing, and security for themselves and their loved ones — some of our so-called Black leaders endorse a tactic of confrontation reducible to simply voting for Democrats and holding political offices. As Huey Newton puts it, “The Black leaders have led the community to believe that brutality and force could be ended by subjecting the people to this very force of self-sacrificing demonstrations.” By expecting someone else to take full responsibility for our liberation, these reactionary so-called Black leaders are committing an act of political suicide. The revolutionary consciousness of the masses must understand that the struggle against the negative forces of genocide and fascism will not end at the ballot box of the ruling class. Attempting to get within one of the two major parties has caused our leaders to become co-opted with their interests shunted to the background. They have become expendable. Kwame Ture writes: “Perhaps there was an additional naive assumption that all that was needed was to elect a few powerful and talented black mayors, appoint some black police chiefs and heads of school districts, and by all means register and vote. Surely, this process of playing by the rules would lead to improvement, not decline in status. Surely, such efforts would yield more than negligible benefit. But this has proved not to be the case: Now, in 1992, there is abundant evidence that blacks are more alienated and frustrated than two decades ago.” Further, Newton again reminds us, “A spiritual death has been the experience of millions of Black people in the United States. This death is found everywhere today in the Black community. Its victims have ceased to fight the forms of oppression that drink their blood. The common attitude has long been: What’s the use? If a man rises up against a power as great as the United States, he will not survive. Believing this, many Blacks have been driven to a death of the spirit rather than of the flesh, lapsing into lives of quiet desperation. Yet all the while, in the heart of every Black, there is the hope that life will somehow change in the future.” As dialectical materialists, we do not believe that life will somehow change in the future, but rather we objectively understand that life is always in a constant state of change, transformation, and flux. Accepting this premise, we move in the present moment to rid ourselves of outdated programs and modalities that lead to our self-destruction and begin to help the massesdefine their needs, realize their strength, and go into action along a variety of lines which they must choose for themselves. Before I close, I invite you to read the closing remarks of Newton’s Resolutions and Declarations: “There can be no real freedom until the imperialist-world-enemy-number-one-has been stripped of his power and put in his rightful place as one of the people rather than the ruler of the people. Then and only then will unity and harmony truly prevail. So we resolve to liberate our communities in order that we might serve the true interests of the community. We who are gathered here by our presence do indicate that we believe that every community has the right to define, determine and control institutions so that they reflect the integrity of the community. Therefore we declare that all communities of the world have the freedom to determine their own destinies. We declare that all communities, by their very existence, have the power to specify what institutions will be set up within them and what cultural values will be propagated through them. We declare that all communities have the right to determine what laws will govern their territories and what officials will be placed in leadership. We who are gathered here do declare by our presence that the physical and social characteristics of the people of our communities shall never be used as a basis for exclusion from any aspect of life in our communities. We declare that our goal is to destroy all elements of the oppression. We pledge ourselves to end imperialism and distribute the wealth of the world to all the people of the world. We foresee a system of true communism where all people produce according to their abilities and all receive according to their needs. Recognizing the possibility of a cultural lag between the destruction of the oppression and the erection of a new world based on that which makes us human, we call for all people in the communities throughout the world to participate and be represented in decision making in direct proportion to their presence in the population under consideration. Whether on an intercommunal level, a regional level, or on a local level, we hold that all people have the right to proportional representation within the framework of revolutionary intercommunalism and communism. We are here gathered for the solemn purpose of formulating a new constitution for a new world. We must become even more conscious of who we are and why we are in these circumstances. Then we must change these circumstances and construct a new world which makes use of all the technology and knowledge we have accumulated. When we have developed a system that functions in the true interests of the people and established it in full, then the word “work” will be redefined as meaningful play. We will have eliminated the cause of all our problems and can live according to a Constitution of Revolutionary People.” My call to action is simple. Voting and petitioning will not be sufficient for our liberation, but in the current moment it will be strategically used to reach the masses. I do not want to speak of a long road ahead of us because no such road exists. We are already here and it begins with you. Secure your number amongst the billion and commit yourself to win a new world side by side with a united left front. “From all according to ability.” Radicalize your natural environment, organize the people around you, and watch our numbers grow. All Power To The People, Quintez Brown " Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation 15 Dec 2021 Quintez Brown, 21, is running to represent District 5 for Louisville’s Metro Council. “Frederick Douglass said that the youth should fight to be leaders today, because the men who run this country are sick.” - Kwame Ture 69 86 30 227 12,298 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin Feb 10 We are re-entering the zeitgeist (environment) of a pro-police & high crime narrative that allowed Biden, Clinton, the other Dems & Republicans to pass the 1994 crime bill, w/ the support of 2/3 of the Black Congressional Congress. No more mass incarceration. 11 47 5 110 5,734 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jayda ☆ @jaydajohn__ Feb 9 PSA: this ON-CAMPUS Purdue University police officer Jon selke physically and brutally attacked student Adonis Tuggle after being called on while in an argument with his girlfriend @LifeAtPurdue care to explain 12 317 17 363 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 10 CW: CAMPUS POLICE VIOLENCE AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY Bri Latto🎰💸 @Britney_Bailey_ Feb 9 Please share. This is Purdue University’s Police Department. Officer Joe Selke Badge#91. #purdueuniversity #purdue #mitchdaniels #pupd #boilermaker #BoilerUp #justice #PoliceBrutality Show this thread 33 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Gregory Pecked @Gregory_Pecked Feb 10 Read this thread to see who the criminals are that are stealing from us and calling it “inflation”. Lindsay Owens, PhD @owenslindsay1 Feb 10 As you read today's inflation report, pay close attention to what the CEOs who set prices are saying. We got our hands on the latest batch of earnings reports, and it's a doozy. They're literally bragging about hiking prices while hiding behind "inflation." The receipts...(1/7) Show this thread 2 16 41 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 10 If racist white Republicans say, “crime is out of control in the Democrat-run cities [where Black ppl are]” & the response from Democrats & Black Leaders™️ is, “Yes. Crime’s out of control. Let’s ramp up policing & incarceration”… You realize they’re co-signing the racism right? 1 361 20 1,589 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 10 🖐🏾 22 4 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted The490Project @The490Project Feb 10 Commonwealth Attorney: 595-2300 County Attorney: 574-6336 This is the first in a series of four action steps. Come back tomorrow for the next one. 1 5 6 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted The490Project @The490Project Feb 10 People are Dying in Cages in LMDC. What can you do? Contact The Commonwealth and Jefferson Co Attorneys' Offices and ask them to stop requesting bench warrants with cash bonds for anything other than alleged offenses that present a legitimate threat to community safety. 1 16 18 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Ra | Wise The Dome TV @RakeemShabazz Feb 9 New books 12 21 4 113 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Vince @Vint13 Feb 9 One of the hardest Wikipedia thumbnail texts ever 120 11,946 240 126,934 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dwayne Wong @DOmowale Feb 9 When a Negro has finished his education in our schools, then, he has been equipped to begin the life of an Americanized or Europeanized white man... -Carter G. Woodson 5 47 2 127 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Da’Shaun | they/them @DaShaunLH Feb 9 my brother was shot a few days ago and will be on bedrest for at least 2 months. folks are raising funds to cover his medical expenses as well as his living expenses while he is down. please donate & share! gofundme.com/f/help-cedric-h… Help Cedric Harrison with Recovery Expenses, organized by Kathy Lindenmayer On February 6, 2022, Cedric Harrison and three other bystanders were sh… Kathy Lindenmayer needs your support for Help Cedric Harrison with Recovery Expenses gofundme.com 38 1,694 32 926 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jeremiah Ellison @jeremiah4north Feb 9 North High School students occupy the rotunda at Minneapolis City Hall—many community members have joined in with them. It’s a powerful moment. The poise and courage these moments demand from our young people is quite unfair. But they always rise to it. #JusticeForAmirLocke 20 547 29 2,441 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives 23 Sep 2021 1821 America: 2021 America: 55 1,982 111 4,211 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jhai ©️ 1997 @god_jhai Feb 9 I'm Black, not a Person of Color, and I'm not a minority, I'm Black, I'm not unimportant, I'm not irrelevant, I'm not minor, nothing about me is inferior, nothing about me is incompetent nor inadequate. My genes are not a hindrance, my race isn't cursed, and my skin is perfect. 2 1 12 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Patience. @patiencezalanga Feb 9 It’s wild to me that people can literally read the most horrific stories about the Minneapolis police department and not once ever consider that if this is what they’ve shown us publicly, what else could they be doing that we do not know? 3 28 176 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Patience. @patiencezalanga Feb 8 MPD was really just trying to flex their power & show us that they could still kill us. They were set on retaliation, on killing Marlon, and it ended with killing Amir. That’s it. & if you think that’s outrageous then please explain Chauvin to me. Please explain the “hunting.” 4 77 1 336 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Mark Vancleave @MDVancleave Feb 9 Sights and sounds from last night's rally for Amir Locke in downtown Minneapolis. It was (by my count) the fifth consecutive day of action and protest since Locke's killing by Minneapolis police during a no-knock warrant raid last Wednesday. 12 239 12 669 30,691 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Renee @paix120 Feb 9 For the "died from, or died with" people insinuating 60k is an overcount, please look at the research on excess deaths, and for deaths post-covid from things like cardiovascular damage. Your denial of COVID-19's impact is not supported by data/research. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts Nature - Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure. nature.com 30 604 21 3,287 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 I will never forget the levels of gaslighting we experienced in 2017. Taught me a lot. Glad it is all on record. We were called “sensational” and got 4 years of Trump and a pandemic 🙃 (This was a precursor to the current fascist anti-CRT crusade) Heather Fountaine @WHAS11Heather 17 Nov 2017 There are students and parents here who want to see Manual High Principal Jerry Mayes fired, and others who want him to stay. Hear both sides at 11 @WHAS11 1 1 3 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Bianca @BiancaTylek Feb 9 So relieved to see so many people interested in learning more about the prison industry. If you’re eager to start… 1) Take a 30-sec action to end slavery at EndTheException.com 2) Follow @WorthRises, we fight the prison industry 3) Learn more now at worthrises.org/thecurriculum #EndTheException Did you know that slavery is still legal? The Thirteenth Amendment included an insidious exception, it's time we #EndTheException. Join the movement to pass the Abolition Amendment. endtheexception.com 30 627 21 2,351 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil Feb 8 It’s not paranoia. This is literally what’s been happening. Cops lie through media about the “rise in crime,” media prints cops words, cops point to articles & say see “crime is up!” elected officials then comment & say oh the cops are saying they need more support then more $$ SHough610 @SHough610 Feb 8 Replying to @PplsCityCouncil Listen, this is going to sound paranoid but it feels like the local media and LE are working symbiotically where the media hype up the rise in crime and LE gets to pretend their funding was cut and that’s causing the rise in crime? 3 15 64 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted David Menschel @davidminpdx Feb 8 Minneapolis student walkout in protest of police no-knock raid killing of Amir Locke. Nicole Neri @nicolehneri Feb 8 Replying to @nicolehneri people are still filing in. Personally, this is the biggest walkout I’ve ever seen Show this thread 46 3,371 57 14,019 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 "[a] major obstacle to helping black people organize structures which could effectively fight institutional racism was fear... For decades, black people had been taught to believe that voting, politics, is 'white folks’ business.' And the white folks had indeed monopolized" 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 "there will always be those black people who will vote for whites against blacks because they fear economic and physical reprisal, because of an embedded belief that politics and voting are indeed “white folks’ business.” These people are lost." 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 UofL Alumni should be outraged by this anti-union, prison labor investment 1 5 19 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted eric a johnson @blkpasz Feb 9 Great read Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 “Reality—lessons learned through cold, hard years of suffering and political sell-out—told them that they had to stop the pattern of compromise, that they must not compromise this time just to preserve someone else’s liberal image.” 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 I hope Bianca exposes Aramark, a partner of Louisville’s premier anti-racist metropolitan university Bianca @BiancaTylek Feb 9 You really want to understand how many corporations are profiting off mass incarceration? Starting tomorrow, I'm going to expose a new corporation or executive engaged in the prison industry daily. And I won't be going into the vault, recent sources only. Follow now. Show this thread 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 “Reality—lessons learned through cold, hard years of suffering and political sell-out—told them that they had to stop the pattern of compromise, that they must not compromise this time just to preserve someone else’s liberal image.” 1 3 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 “Black people are or ought to be leery of meaningless coalitions—coalitions put together essentially for the purpose of a maintaining a “United liberal image”; coalitions which do not and cannot speak to the real needs of the black people.” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 Kwame Ture: “Institutions and political organizations have no consciences outside their own special interests… If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it, and that is precisely the lesson of the Reconstruction era.” Jason Call for Congress @CallForCongress Feb 6 Have you see the documentary The Corporation? Best ever. Watch it. And there’s a New Corporation available too Show this at family gatherings thecorporation.com/ 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Total Liberation Collective @tlcollectivedc Feb 8 Amir Locke deserves to grow old. Rest in Power. 9 42 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jason Call for Congress @CallForCongress Feb 6 Have you see the documentary The Corporation? Best ever. Watch it. And there’s a New Corporation available too Show this at family gatherings thecorporation.com/ 1 2 1 10 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 I will forever say the name of Jordan Edwards. Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 Thread: “Understand the reality of our situation…” 1 2 4 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 In 2022, Minneapolis police officer Mark Hanneman lynched Amir Locke in less than 10 seconds while executing a no knock warrant 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 “… people are already dying who could be saved” 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 Wake up Louisville… “Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act.” 🥷🏾 @afropessimistic Feb 8 LAPD’s own crime data shows that crime has mostly gone down. Justifying hiring more pigs based off of how people supposedly “don’t feel safe” while ignoring actual data is gonna take us to a dangerous place 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 Follow @_theghettomonk’s bookstagram for study recommendations 🔥 1 1 1 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted back to the thesis @_theghettomonk Feb 9 The only reason I was doing stuff to grow my bookstagram was so I could post links in my story. IG gave everyone that feature so now I just make my posts and go 1 5 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 A very important quote for you to read today. Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt Feb 8 "People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." - Assata Shakur 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt Feb 8 "People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." - Assata Shakur 3 207 8 489 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted All African People's Revolutionary Party (Ka-Ji) @KaJiAAPRP Feb 9 Last night we aired our 56th episode on the importance of primary sources featuring our comrades jamilah and Evan. Tune in by clicking the link below, be sure to like, comment and subscribe! invidious.namazso.eu/06kquGN9ETY 7 14 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted ساميه 💚 @muslimahsamiyah Feb 9 "The Party has defined a social purpose and it is committed to socialism and to the ideology of Nkrumahism." Kwame Nkrumah Address at the First Seminar at the Winneba Ideological School, 3rd February, 1962 📘 Revolutionary Path [PDF]: panafricanperspective.com/kw… 5 9 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted HBNAssembly @HBNAssembly Feb 8 Replying to @HBNAssembly @RootResearch @TimFindleyJr Here are the Black political candidates and seated officials that stand with West End residents. #StoptheTIF #Gentrificationisviolence 1 4 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 9 Rise to the occasion Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 I see love in their smiles 🖤 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 George Jackson: “that’s me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity. I’ve lived with repression every moment of my life” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Ours kids know George Washington and not George Jackson? 1 3 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 George Jackson: “that’s me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity. I’ve lived with repression every moment of my life” 1 5 1 8 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Lowcountry Action Committee @LCTakesAction Feb 8 This is a question you have to ask yourself: do you truly believe that a country that allows people to die daily of starvation, homelessness, police terror and lack of access to medical care, actually goes around the world to protect other people’s “human rights?” Be foreal now… 1 34 1 70 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Lowcountry Action Committee @LCTakesAction Feb 8 Think really hard about it. Everybody you know is struggling. You couldn’t get a COVID test right now if you tried. Your kids are back in school with no actual protections in place. Your granny land is in danger of being stolen as we speak… who is protecting your human rights? 1 14 18 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty Feb 8 🧵 Today, while heading to the House floor for votes, I respectfully asked my colleague @RepHalRogers to put on a mask while boarding the train. He then poked my back, demanding I get on the train. When I asked him not to touch me, he responded, “kiss my ass.” (1/3) 4,742 15,362 3,068 46,920 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 8 Wow it’s almost like the revolt against masks is really just another proxy battle of white supremacy Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty Feb 8 🧵 Today, while heading to the House floor for votes, I respectfully asked my colleague @RepHalRogers to put on a mask while boarding the train. He then poked my back, demanding I get on the train. When I asked him not to touch me, he responded, “kiss my ass.” (1/3) Show this thread 110 5 522 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted robmolou @robmolou Feb 8 Population rank of Louisville neighborhoods if they were Kentucky counties. Newburg - 25,743 (45/120) Shively - 23,363 (51/120) Shawnee - 12,452 (88/120) Russell - 10,531 (98/120) Old Lou - 8,349 (109/120) Beechmont - 7,659 (110/120) California - 6,523 (115/120) Riggs Lewis @RiggsLewis Feb 8 Kentucky has 120 counties. Excluding Jefferson Co (Louisville), KY’s average county size is 30k. Therefore, Louisville is equal to 36 KY counties in one. Each neighborhood is like a unique county, be it interesting, historic, challenged and proud. #MyLouTedTalk Show this thread 4 5 1 19 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted HBNAssembly @HBNAssembly Feb 8 Join us February 10th at 6pm: Louisville Political Education for Liberation is hosting a special session on the West End TIF. Do you know what that is? Do you want to learn more? Join us. To register: linktr.ee/LPEL #LPEL #StoptheTIF #SpecialSession #WestLouTIF @LPEL | Linktree Linktree. Make your link do more. linktr.ee 6 1 5 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Tune in Louisville #politicaleducation HBNAssembly @HBNAssembly Feb 8 Join us February 10th at 6pm: Louisville Political Education for Liberation is hosting a special session on the West End TIF. Do you know what that is? Do you want to learn more? Join us. To register: linktr.ee/LPEL #LPEL #StoptheTIF #SpecialSession #WestLouTIF 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai 26 Feb 2021 If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. 3 1 13 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai Feb 8 These deaths are tragedies, and the blame starts with our broken legal system that monetizes freedom and dehumanizes those it comes into contact with. Folks in jail are not serving actual sentences but awaiting trial and (presumed) legally innocent. 3/ 1 1 12 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai Feb 8 to remain there indefinitely are accessories to this state-sanctioned murder. As lawyers, we cannot accept this practice. As a community, we must push for the end of cash bail as it criminalizes poverty and maintains systems that literally kill people. 5/5 1 1 18 Show this thread Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai Feb 8 Being arrested should never be a death sentence, but it is in the American tradition of violent carceral systems birthed from white supremacy, that target Black and brown bodies. And the prosecutors and judges who knowingly send people to jail for minor offenses and allow them 4/ 1 2 16 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai Feb 8 The jail remains understaffed but overpopulated with people with out-of-county warrants, being held for non-violent offenses, who simply cannot afford to purchase their freedom. LMDC cannot account for, much less, provide basic care to those in their custody. 2/ 1 1 18 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🧚🏾♀️ @tribecalledkai Feb 8 Here's a headline deserving of national attention. "In just 3 months, 6 human beings have died in Louisville Metro Jail, and the city has done nothing to stop these preventable deaths from happening." 1/ 1 52 2 116 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 The youth should fight to be leaders today, because there is something terribly wrong with our systems downtown. #SixDead Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation 15 Dec 2021 Quintez Brown, 21, is running to represent District 5 for Louisville’s Metro Council. “Frederick Douglass said that the youth should fight to be leaders today, because the men who run this country are sick.” - Kwame Ture Show this thread 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation 15 Dec 2021 Quintez Brown, 21, is running to represent District 5 for Louisville’s Metro Council. “Frederick Douglass said that the youth should fight to be leaders today, because the men who run this country are sick.” - Kwame Ture 77 86 31 227 12,503 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 I read about this in Luther Adams’ book Way Up North in Louisville: “So many industries were located in Louisville that it rapidly became one of the most important defense centers in the nation … the area [was] a vital part of the American role as the arsenal of democracy” Evan Kerr @evanjkerr Feb 8 Louisville manufacturing was on another level at the beginning of the 20th century 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Javionne Gee @eihtbeezy Feb 8 Scenes like this should make everyone upset. It’s crazy how normal and routine America has made police terror. Just Getting My Shit Off @antdamisterie Feb 8 Replying to @eihtbeezy watching that just makes me wanna fire up Minneapolis police 1 6 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 “The world of humanity now turns; the oppressed are beginning to feel their strength. We are beginning to feel our power. It is in our unity that we will find victory, and we are NOT WORRIED about unity; the contradictions, as I said before, will force that unity” Stokely Speaks 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil Feb 8 Solidarity with the youth!! #JusticeForAmirLocke ✊✊ Nicole Neri @nicolehneri Feb 8 Replying to @nicolehneri people are still filing in. Personally, this is the biggest walkout I’ve ever seen Show this thread 2 36 1 166 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Neo-colonialism is the worst form of imperialism. For those who practice it, it means power without responsibility, and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. @AAPRP 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Neoliberalism doing Tom Brady numbers in Louisville 🤦🏾♂️ 3 14 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Dollar democracy? Gladys Bautista WLKY 🏁 @GladysMBautista Feb 8 #NOW: Councilwoman Keisha Dorsey, Councilwoman Cassie Chambers Armstrong and other council members endorse Democrat mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg Those here say it is important for a mayor to be willing to work hand in hand with council to get things done @WLKY 1 6 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dr. CBS @blackleftaf Feb 8 Not having money, or being “broke,” is not an insult—it’s the material reality of exploitation and oppression (or superexploitation). That “broke” is used as an insult conveys how much we hate poor people, especially if they’re Black. 4 650 38 2,543 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Moxie☭ @Comrad3Moxi3 Feb 7 and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing." ~Frederick Douglass 5 49 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Moxie☭ @Comrad3Moxi3 Feb 7 When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, 1 6 50 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Moxie☭ @Comrad3Moxi3 Feb 7 "In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky, her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. 1 38 1 162 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 8 Remember this. Remember this. Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt Feb 7 “The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.” - Huey P. Newton Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dr. CBS @blackleftaf 27 May 2021 An amazing and powerful speech by Walter Rodney about the important of African Liberation Day published by @AgendaReview SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972 blackagendareport.com/speech… SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972 | Black Agenda Report At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.” Editors, Black Agenda Review “We are saying... blackagendareport.com 22 65 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted UHURU. @mudiwauhuru Feb 7 “the artists role is to raise the consciousness of the people. to make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. that’s how I see it. otherwise, I don’t know why you do it.” — amiri baraka 1 5 14 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Savvy☭ @sleepisocialist Feb 7 44 2,169 56 13,703 Show this thread Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Twin Cities Citizens' Report @TwinCityReports Feb 8 TOMORROW: A state wide student walkout is being organized. Students will meet at Central High School at in St Paul at 12:20 and march to @GovTimWalz 's mansion. I will be covering. 1 9 1 46 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Twin Cities Citizens' Report @TwinCityReports Feb 8 LAST NIGHT: Protesters put up several crosses reading "Amir Locke" on interim chief Huffman's lawn. 5 79 309 4,574 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Twin Cities Citizens' Report @TwinCityReports Feb 8 Signs from the press conference: 3 7 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted daviss @daviss Feb 8 Protest around Minneapolis tonight on I-94 and Hiawatha. Earlier today activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, who co-chairs the Mayor’s “Community Safety Workgroup”, was joined by other mothers who continued calls for the Mayor to fire interim police chief Huffman and officer Hanneman. 3 18 78 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Read ‘Island Futures’ by Mimi Sheller @KimCommie Feb 7 One of the earliest accusations of genocide filed to the UN was against the US govt in 1951 over its treatment of Black Americans-The US intercepted the papers and warned it would “help Communism”…In 2022, conditions have not changed. RIP to Amir Locke & Isaiah Tyree Williams 🙏🏾 62 199 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted little onion @zola_ellen Feb 6 I’ll never forget at 25 being abused by a known organizer, asking for help, & a former mentor telling me that I needed to forget about it because, “the movement”. There’s no sustainable movement when abusers are leading the charge. In fact, it’s the very antithesis of abolition. 22 580 23 3,651 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted halima 🍇 @marxistmulli Feb 8 I think “the personal is political” intends to connect personal experiences with larger political phenomenons, instead of constructing one’s entire politics from personal experiences 4 208 11 1,139 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Free Jamil Al-Amin Free Mumia Free Em All @BelovedBrudaNev Feb 8 Lack of political education be having folks ready to risk it all defending celebs when political prisoners dying in prison 32 4 100 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 8 This Rogan/Spotify situation is showing how much people aren’t motivated by any real ideology beyond white supremacy & anti-Black racism 2 306 9 2,496 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 8 Some of the most intense censorship in this country is around people who speak up for Palestinian rights. If y’all care so much about free speech, put your thumbs to work on that. 692 36 3,783 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted 🦄 @catlynsavado Feb 7 is there also a correlation between the series of school closings, the constant investment in harm-doing, and the fact that we still dont have a nurse and social worker in each of our schools or do we enable these arguments when we decide to dehumanize children & communities? Gregory Pratt @royalpratt Feb 7 Mayor Lori Lightfoot said there was a correlation between remote learning and the rise in carjackings in early 2020. For some kids, she said, it was "pure boredom." 2 161 1 573 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Yannick Giovanni Marshall @furtherblack Feb 7 My latest. Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish Feb 7 "[US] Democrats appeal to a moderate Republican right that does not exist." — #AJOpinion by @furtherblack ⬇ aje.io/jrfgyz 2 11 2 41 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 7 This and Malcolm X’s “Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from” might be my favorite quotes Inkani Books @inkanibooks Feb 7 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive...”- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) 4 10 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Inkani Books @inkanibooks Feb 7 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive...”- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) 6 1,260 43 5,208 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted White Lotus Magazine @whitelotusmag Feb 7 LMDC exists primarily to cage those too poor to buy their freedom. The jail is incapable of providing even the most basic care to those in their custody. If we #endcashbail in Louisville we can significantly reduce the danger LMDC poses to the community 9 1 23 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 7 #BlackHistoryMonth 3 7 120 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 7 #BlackHistoryMonth Claudia Jones School for Political Education @ClaudiaJonesEdu 17 Sep 2019 Charlene Mitchell, the first Black presidential candidate that ran under the @communistsusa ticket in 1968 on the electoral struggle while running as an open Communist (1/2) Show this thread 2 7 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 7 FURunMyReparation$! @BKTruth22 Feb 6 3 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted The African Blackwood @arsenalcode Feb 7 "Philosophers have long conceded that every person has two educations: that which is given to them, and the other that which they give themselves. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the most desirable" - Carter G. Woodson 18 36 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta Feb 7 Struggling to see what is new about this in Black politics. This has been the model of Black Democratic Politics for forty years: playing outsider to the base, functioning as an insider within the system itself…claiming progress, often voting regressively. See Lightfoot in Chi New York Times Opinion @nytopinion Feb 4 Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York, “is offering a new model for how Black leadership can operate in a predominantly white political system — leadership that is simultaneously progressive, moderate and conservative,” @Dr_CMGreer writes. nyti.ms/35LutNY 26 559 19 2,936 Show this thread Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 7 This … 💯 We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 7 I’m grieving. I simply can’t be on top of everything every day. If people ask me how I’m doing, I want to have the courage to say, “the police keep murdering people. I’m not ok.” Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 7 I’m grieving. I simply can’t be on top of everything every day. If people ask me how I’m doing, I want to have the courage to say, “the police keep murdering people. I’m not ok.” 2 232 8 2,069 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 7 The relationship between the USA & Black people has always been one of authoritarianism. That’s why Black people created the “Double V for Victory” campaign during WWII calling for defeating fascism both abroad AND at home. The constant bothsides-ing of everything is unproductive 1 51 2 310 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 7 People are engaging in abstract, theoretical debates about threats to free speech but not dealing with the concrete realities & current practices of how things like speech & protest are treated by the govt, namely the disparate treatment of racial justice protesters vs far right. 1 80 1 369 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted isa @endsanctions Feb 6 the US is an empire. any and all “revolutionary” analyses concerning its role in the world today should begin and end in acknowledgment of this as fact 8 134 3 865 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted sharrieff rahseem de'Johnette 💡 @_sharrieff_ Feb 6 #BlackHistoryMonth All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) @AAPRP Feb 6 aaprp-intl.org/how-to-join/ 6 9 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Thinking about all the US military bases in the South and in Africa. Thinking about New Afrika. #FreeThemAll #FreeTheLand Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Ɔsagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Quotes @NkrumahQuotes Feb 2 As long as a single foot of African soil remains under foreign domination, the world shall know no peace. 2 90 3 276 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted AAPRP Southwest US @aaprpsouthwest Feb 3 'Building a revolutionary organization with a mass character capable of confronting, and ultimately defeating the utter reactionary neo-confederates/neo-fascists and the neo-liberals alike is what is needed.' #HoodCommunist hoodcommunist.org/2022/02/03… How to Withstand the Neo-Fascists Conquest of Power - Hood Communist As of this writing we have a little less than two years before the neo-fascists install a reactionary dictatorship by the end of January 2025. hoodcommunist.org 7 1 11 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) @AAPRP Feb 6 aaprp-intl.org/how-to-join/ 23 2 90 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Guess who will stay SILENT as more people die in Louisville’s jail: That one “premier anti-racist”metropolitan research university Gentrification ✅ Mass death ✅ Police partnerships ✅ Diversity 😂 equity 😂 INCLUSION 😂 We know what MLK said: 4 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 We’re told that we have a court system where everyone is entitled to a fair trial & presumed innocent until convicted & yet we have militarized police forces that are acting as judge, jury & executioner in the street. We have ppl dying in jail without ever facing trial. 254 7 1,095 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Louisville 2020: “We demand the resignation of Mayor Fischer, who has done "a 💩 job at representing what humanity can look like, a 💩 job at protecting Black women—not just Black people, Black women” Louisville ‘22: Louisville jail finds 6 dead in <3 months under Mayor Fischer 1 1 1 7 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Police are piss poor leaders. They should not lead anything and yet we have them leading ENTIRE CITES. This leadership is rooted in genocide and colonialism so we are fools for assuming a bad tree will bear good fruit! Matthew 12:33 THE FRUIT DEFINES THE TREE Stephanie Wolf @StephRWolf Feb 6 Jail officials have, in the past, attributed the string of deaths to staffing shortages. But Metro Council president David James told WFPL News Sunday that he doesn’t think that’s what’s at play here. He said it’s because of “piss-poor leadership.” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Black News Channel @BNCNews Feb 1 "African American men, ever since we got here, have been demonized, we've been seen as this sort of giant predator or a potential predator, and the only way we can be controlled is through state violence, or political violence or death," says @TorraineWalker. #StartYourDay 7 79 4 176 3,637 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted back to the thesis @_theghettomonk Feb 6 The brothers Malcolm intended to send were members of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) who operated as the paramilitary wing of Malcolm's Organization of Afro-American Unity Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker Feb 5 A telegram Malcolm X sent to MLK after witnessing an attack on peaceful protesters in St. Augustine, 1964. #BlackHistoryMonth Show this thread 2 28 67 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Louisville’s “criminal justice system” is the only infrastructure that is constantly funded and reinforced by the bipartisan white power structure. The intrinsic violence of the jails and the police upholds our racial and economic disparities and our leaders are COMPLICIT. ACLU of Kentucky @ACLUofKY Feb 6 Replying to @ACLUofKY Despite these clear and consistent demands from large swaths of the community – including the ACLU of Kentucky, LSURJ, @The490Project, and even the FOP – @louisvillemayor, Metro Council, and elected judges and prosecutors have failed their community. Show this thread 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 ACLU of Kentucky @ACLUofKY Feb 6 Today another person died in Louisville’s jail, bringing the total to 6 in recent weeks. Dangerous conditions are fueled by overcrowding made worse by cash bail. Roughly 74% of the people detained in Louisville jails are there only because they cannot afford bail. Show this thread Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 The490Project @The490Project Feb 6 One life lost is too many, six lives lost in less than three months is a disgrace to our city and a testament to our lack of care and compassion for one another. Today we lament. Tomorrow we organize. Stay tuned for action steps. 1 3 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Marc Murphy @MurphyCartoons Feb 6 6th death in a jail in which we are presumed innocent. How many have to die before immediate, emergency measures are taken? Might have thought it would have been one. Two, worst-case. Six. @louisvillekygov @louisvillemayor @TimFindleyJr @Seasoned4u @courierjournal @ACLUofKY 2 Show this thread Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 The question is what did you do in 2022 when six people died in your city’s jail in less than three months. Six people. As @The490Project said, one life is too many, but six is a disgrace to us all LOUISVILLE. Please follow @The490Project & @ACLUofKY for action steps. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ 3 11 35 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted ACLU of Kentucky @ACLUofKY Feb 6 Despite these clear and consistent demands from large swaths of the community – including the ACLU of Kentucky, LSURJ, @The490Project, and even the FOP – @louisvillemayor, Metro Council, and elected judges and prosecutors have failed their community. 1 3 1 8 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted The490Project @The490Project Feb 6 One life lost is too many, six lives lost in less than three months is a disgrace to our city and a testament to our lack of care and compassion for one another. Today we lament. Tomorrow we organize. Stay tuned for action steps. 1 15 1 34 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted The490Project @The490Project Feb 6 Thread for more info. ACLU of Kentucky @ACLUofKY Feb 6 Today another person died in Louisville’s jail, bringing the total to 6 in recent weeks. Dangerous conditions are fueled by overcrowding made worse by cash bail. Roughly 74% of the people detained in Louisville jails are there only because they cannot afford bail. Show this thread 2 9 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Kings @ItsKingsBruh Feb 6 Its a lot of issues with data collection related to Covid19 and thus the conclusions drawn, this includes the negative outcomes people tout for the ineffective status quo policy. Hard to get folks to see it tho cuz scientific illiteracy a huge problem. Been wantin to write on it 1 5 1 37 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 6 White people regularly abused, sold & murdered Black people they’d had family connections with for generations, including direct biological connection. So I don’t know where folks got the idea that someone isn’t racist b/c they have specific Black ppl they show affinity towards. 123 5 629 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Times New Afrikan, 1312 pt. @TheeWokeKing 27 Mar 2020 "Land, bread, and water – not a complex intellectual discourse on the ontologies and epistemologies of colonialism and its antithesis – are the deepest interest of the masses." - Alieu Bah content.redvoice.news/land-b… 1 25 2 83 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Revolutionary Blackout Network @RevBlackNetwork Feb 5 Reporter interviewing white people about their opinion of a proposed civil rights bill in Albany, Georgia (1964) The Black Detour 24 133 37 356 17,152 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives Feb 5 George Stinney, 14, was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair. Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after his execution! #BlackHistoryMonth A THREAD! 163 4,291 359 8,335 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 This is an incredible reflection of how a society comes to normalize mass death. southpaw @nycsouthpaw Feb 5 NYT May 24, 2020: U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss NYT February 5, 2022: 900,000 Dead, but Many Americans Move On 1 5,242 65 17,810 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Don Salmon @dijoni Feb 6 Get this book family ASAP before they ban it. 5 38 3 95 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Madeline Potter @madeline_cct Feb 5 Okay, here’s a long(ish) thread now I’ve had a chance to calm down. The Roma people are of Northern Indian origin. In Europe, Romas are visibly brown, which is what led to a history of persecution, that started off with 500 years of slavery and led to the Holocaust. (1/) 460 13,162 1,437 40,796 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 🐀🏁 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Marimba Ani: “As Wade Nobles says, the types of questions we ask are influenced by the culture to which we belong” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 I will never forget how in the aftermath of G Floyd, they tried to demobilize protest by presenting a series of reforms they claimed would “decrease fatal police encounters by __%”. It was the cold, calculated way they discussed it & implied there’s an acceptable level of death. 1 959 16 5,738 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 Zimmerman murdered 17 y/o Trayvon Martin during Black History Month under the first Black president. It showed me many contradictions at the age of 11. 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 6 .Too many kids are dying 💔 #TrayvonMartin February 5, 1995 - February 26, 2012 3 7 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Nick Streiff @nickstreiff Feb 5 Protesters now marching through downtown Minneapolis. #AmirLocke @WCCO 178 4,336 302 17,977 418,297 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey Feb 6 Minneapolis Police Department. policescorecard.org/mn/polic… 67 2,487 171 5,676 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Mark Vancleave @MDVancleave Feb 5 At least a thousand protesters currently at Minneapolis Police 1st precinct. Organizers demanding charges against officers involved in killing of Amir Locke and resignation of Mayor Jacob Frey. 34 614 34 3,072 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 6 Once again— people are lying in claiming they don’t understand how racism & colorism works. If they had no concept of race they wouldn’t use racist tropes to cosplay blackness. They wouldn’t police Black hair or imitate Black physical features. People. Are. LYING. 1 229 4 1,314 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Twin Cities Citizens' Report @TwinCityReports Feb 5 The match for #AmirLocke is sizeable compared to any recent marches. I'd estimate 1000 plus people. 39 904 62 3,937 73,352 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Tony Webster @webster Feb 5 Community members are gathered at Government Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, and are chanting Amir Locke’s name. 25 641 27 3,256 45,783 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 I am BEGGING people to STOP saying we have “socialism for the wealthy.” No we don’t. We have capitalism. It’s all capitalism. Folks are going to abuse terms until words have absolutely no meaning anymore. 1,194 54 8,459 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Sybrina Fulton @SybrinaFulton Feb 5 Happy Heavenly 27th Birthday to my Son/Sunshine. Rest in Power #TrayvonMartin my Prince of Peace, Mommy got you 😘🙏🏾👑💔#OurChildrenMatter #10YearsLater #StillStandingStillStrong 1,533 21,996 1,172 94,823 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted James Ray ☭ @MakeItRayn_ Feb 5 This headline will never not make me chuckle 471 5,930 943 73,859 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin @JoshuaPotash Feb 5 All this is to say we need to organize and take power, build power power in a mass movement, because the basic problem will never be solved otherwise. Capitalism will always trend in this direction, and will never fundamentally change itself. Learn, organize, build something new. 15 230 11 1,760 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin @JoshuaPotash Feb 5 I don’t think people are angry enough that bridges are collapsing, thousands are homeless, millions are hungry, a pandemic is running rampant, teachers and nurses are leaving their professions, and our government’s response is to endlessly increasing funding for police and war. 258 19,521 591 83,479 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted mikey @BlackThruHist Feb 4 Last night we lost my little cousin to suicide. Always check up on the little homies and show love, long live Patrick. Rest peacefully, you always alive in my heart. 108 66 4 762 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted josh! @queersocialism Feb 4 collaborating with “national leader” deray in the aftermath of yet another police killing, after the story that just dropped bringing light to his character earlier this week, is actually so insulting yet so incredibly on-brand for a democratic party politician Max Nesterak @maxnesterak Feb 4 NEW: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey implements immediate moratorium on no-knock warrants 5 91 1 402 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dedan Waciuri @waciuri_dedan Feb 4 It’s crazy how the Revolution of the 60s and 70s have been replaced with this legal revolution- a Revolution built and ran by the Blk bourgeoisie who’s interest is not in the masses. Black activism has been reduced to mere symbols and tokens 9 1 46 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 This is literally what structural racism is. I don’t know how to help make it clearer to ppl who still don’t get it. Limited $ for housing 🏚💸 Limited $ for healthcare 🏥💸 Limited $ for education 📚💸 But unlimited $$$ for militarized police who kill ppl & teargas protesters 1 230 6 1,133 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 Who is disproportionately evicted & discriminated against in housing? Black ppl. Who is less likely to have adequate healthcare? Black ppl Who is targeted by predatory lending? Black ppl And who is disproportionately harmed & killed by police? Black ppl This is what racism is 1 214 2 1,230 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 When we say “we need more affordable housing, healthcare & debt forgiveness” and the government response is “no, we will increase police spending instead” that is one of the most blatant examples of modern structural racism. But liberals keep normalizing it & ignoring the data. 1 2,916 61 13,879 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 It’s not like we’re funding essential services while also spending billions on police. The govt is DRAINING essential services to fund cops & prisons. This is the actual issue the political establishment doesn’t want to address b/c it’s the nuts & bolts of structural racism.// 95 1 304 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 The reformist proposals that get presented to the public at times like this are about ignoring the bigger picture— the government is draining our communities of lifesaving resources & diverting it to militarized police forces. This is the issue. 1 362 6 1,176 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 We don’t even get news reports on all the instances of police killing & abusing people each day. We know it’s happening but it’s largely ignored. We’re told to focus on shoplifting instead. Why? We can’t upgrade the HVAC units in all the schools but we can give the police tanks? 1 81 1 326 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 5 Slavery & colonialism aren’t separate issues. The colonies were plantations. That’s why they were formed. 415 14 2,339 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Cathi Young @CatherinesYoun1 Feb 4 Another young black man was lynched in Minneapolis 2 days ago. Is Minneapolis the capitol of lynchings now? 13 160 5 284 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted MPD150 @MPD_150 Feb 3 we shared a version of this image back in 2017, then this one in 2020; a few days ago, someone had the idea to add a "you are here" to the "lack of meaningful change" segment, but we've already moved past it. 1 105 8 220 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Tony Webster @webster Feb 4 Amir Locke was referred to as a “suspect” four times in the Minneapolis Police's initial press release. Asked why, the Mayor didn't know, and the Chief said they didn't then have as much info as they do now, and they're unclear if he's even connected to St. Paul's investigation. 43 411 90 1,054 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim Feb 4 "As long as political leadership relies on policing to resist, sidestep, and quash demands for transformation, police will continue to kill, and cities will continue to burn." — @micahinATL & @shedefendsit nymag.com/intelligencer/2022… The Failure of Police Reform Atlanta’s city government spent decades on half-hearted measures meant to address police violence. nymag.com 3 30 52 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted MPD150 @MPD_150 Feb 4 ...those details can matter, but they shouldn't obscure the fact that police busted into an apartment and shot a man sleeping on the couch in under ten seconds. Whether that ends up framed as a procedural mistake or not, it's what policing is, and it's why we're abolitionists. 3 120 3 476 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted MPD150 @MPD_150 Feb 4 ...As the next few days fill up with details, don't lose sight of that big picture. There's going to be a lot of talk about the precise mechanics of no-knock warrants, at what decibel level the police announced themselves, the exact position of Locke's finger on his firearm, etc. 1 58 288 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted MPD150 @MPD_150 Feb 4 As national media starts to tune in, let's first and foremost affirm that Amir Locke was a human being. Everything else, even things that are important, is secondary to that. Any posting, sharing of media, etc. should start from there. People aren't just symbols or hashtags. 10 656 13 2,240 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 Whether it’s George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amir Locke, Laquan McDonald or the case of Anjanette Young, we’re talking about instance after instance of high level officials engaging in coordinated cover ups of police violating people’s civil rights. This is about a SYSTEM. 1 219 8 726 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Louisville Dad (Boosted & Masked) @LouisvilleDad Feb 4 Just because someone has a degree from MIT does not mean they are smart. This is some of the worst logic I’ve ever seen. And he’s a Councilmember in our city. It explains a lot of what’s wrong in Louisville. Councilman Anthony Piagentini @CMPiagentini Feb 4 According to the CDC, a kid under 14 is 27 times more likely to die from an accident than COVID. In other words, if you drive your kid to school, you put them at 27 times greater risk of death than from COVID. All COVID restrictions on kids should stop. 2 1 7 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dan Berger @dnbrgr Feb 4 Between talk of how “mild” omicron is, discussion of easing or ending public health guidelines, and celebration at rising job numbers, it can be easy to overlook that 100,000 people in the US alone have died of covid in less than two months. An incalculable, incomprehensible loss Harun Maruf @HarunMaruf Feb 4 BREAKING: The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 900,000 — less than two months after eclipsing 800,000: @AP 26 2,571 35 6,361 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 4 Last month … #JasonWalker Today … #AmirLocke Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Jan 10 #JasonWalker #Fayetteville #StephenAddison 2 3 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 4 #JasonWalker #CJLofton #AmirLocke #StephenAddison + so many more. Too many names. We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 I can’t even keep straight the different headline-making cases of people who’ve been murdered by police since December. It’s gotta be at least 4 or 5 that I’ve seen just between scrolling the TL or watching the news… Families demanding video, investigation, explanation. 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 I can’t even keep straight the different headline-making cases of people who’ve been murdered by police since December. It’s gotta be at least 4 or 5 that I’ve seen just between scrolling the TL or watching the news… Families demanding video, investigation, explanation. 53 4 245 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 “We need bodycams to prevent police brutality” ➡️ “The bodycams weren’t working” ➡️ “The bodycams were on but we won’t release the video” ➡️ “We’ll release portions of the video months later after court order” ➡️ “Don’t believe your eyes” ✌️police reform✌️ 1 247 6 943 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 Make note of it because it’s going to happen again soon 37 1 462 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 I just want to again point out how whenever there is an uprising, we are presented with a parade of famous figures who emerge to demobilize protest & then disappear from commenting on the issue after it seems things have calmed down. 1 451 20 2,460 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 The thing that is hardest for people to confront is that white identity itself is a racist construct. There is no white identity independent of structural racism. Whiteness has no meaning independent of racism, predominantly white spaces are a form of structural racism. 1 1,496 191 6,406 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 A nation spends more money on weaponry than on healthcare, housing & education, then wonders why there’s mass violence & death 1,217 21 5,892 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 I want everyone to let go of this idea white society means well & is just waiting for us to persuade them that we’re human, normal & law abiding. The entire history of colonialism & slavery demonstrates otherwise. They didn’t bomb our churches over concerns of illegal guns. 163 4 653 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted BNO Newsroom @BNODesk Feb 4 U.S. CORONAVIRUS DEATH TOLL - Feb. 2020: 1 - Mar. 2020: 1,000 - Apr. 2020: 10,000 - May 2020: 100,000 - Sept 2020: 200,000 - Dec 2020: 300,000 - Jan. 2021: 400,000 - Feb. 2021: 500,000 - Jun. 2021: 600,000 - Oct. 2021: 700,000 - Dec. 2021: 800,000 - Feb. 2022: 900,000 164 1,436 221 2,752 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Your Friendly Butch Anarchist @butchanarchy Feb 4 Last year Minnesota passed a police reform bill that included restrictions on no-knock warrants. This week in Minnesota Amir Locke was murdered in his bed by police acting on a no-knock warrant. Reformism doesn't just fail. It is complicit in every life lost by police violence. 24 2,385 41 7,671 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 4 5 people died in Louisville’s jail in less than 50 days. We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 Replying to @BreeNewsome We’re told that we have a court system where everyone is entitled to a fair trial & presumed innocent until convicted & yet we have militarized police forces that are acting as judge, jury & executioner in the street. We have ppl dying in jail without ever facing trial. Show this thread 1 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted olivia @livlikespolicy Feb 3 About a year ago, my mom, one of my sisters, and I were trapped in our house for the scariest moment of my life - the 2021 Texas Blackout. The air was so cold it hurt our skin, a pipe burst, and we boiled water over candles. Right now, people across Texas are facing that agian. 8 616 18 2,664 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 The only real solution is to defund & shrink police forces WHILE ALSO investing in more proactive measures to prevent violence & harm. The enormous amount of $$$ spent on police is not preventing violence & police themselves are a major source of gun violence & murder. 1 97 2 400 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 4 Passing new laws is not a solution to the reality that police keep breaking existing laws, engaging in cover ups with the assistance of municipal governments & then receiving increased funding & support from the federal government. This is an issue of state-sponsored violence. 1 390 6 1,187 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted In the Spirit of Mandela @inthespiritt Feb 4 On Feb. 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo was assassinated on his apartment stoop by four NYPD murderers, who fired a total of 41 shots, striking him 19 times. Amadou was unarmed. #genocide #genocideforprofit #humanrights #immigrantrights #AmadouDiallo 12 16 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 4 WITH KEYS!!!!!!! A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis Feb 4 Watching the police enter Amir’s home, with keys, only to shoot him dead 9 seconds later. That 9 seconds is now being added to all of hell filled minutes of Black folks being lynched by the police that are permanently archived in my mind. I can’t delete them. 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis Feb 4 Watching the police enter Amir’s home, with keys, only to shoot him dead 9 seconds later. That 9 seconds is now being added to all of hell filled minutes of Black folks being lynched by the police that are permanently archived in my mind. I can’t delete them. 1 28 1 76 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Benjamin Dixon @BenjaminPDixon Feb 4 Not trying to hear about Kanye, his new purse, his new album or whatever is being promoted to number one on Twitter. Minneapolis police killed a black man while wrapped up in a blanket sleeping on a couch. Say HIS NAME Amir Locke 297 8,411 248 31,474 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump Feb 4 As #BreonnaTaylor showed us, no-knock warrants have deadly consequences for innocent law-abiding Black people! @MinneapolisPD executed a no-knock warrant yesterday at 6:48am, killing Amir Locke while he was wrapped in a blanket on the couch. Now we demand #JusticeForAmirLocke!! 1,444 8,770 4,174 14,751 1,261,584 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Will Stancil @whstancil Feb 4 Bodycams show us almost everything the MPD told us about Amir Locke's killing is a lie. The officers snuck into the apartment, did not announce themselves, surprised him, he did not aim a weapon at officers. The shots fired were, of course, from them. Also, he was not a suspect. 218 7,535 530 21,983 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 4 CAN WE GET AMIR LOCKE TO #1 ?? Retweet and #SayHisName ! #AmirLocke Benjamin Dixon @BenjaminPDixon Feb 4 Not trying to hear about Kanye, his new purse, his new album or whatever is being promoted to number one on Twitter. Minneapolis police killed a black man while wrapped up in a blanket sleeping on a couch. Say HIS NAME Amir Locke Show this thread 1 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Georgia Fort @ByGeorgiaFort Feb 4 VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Body Camera footage of the Minneapolis Police Fatally Shooting Amir Locke during the execution of a search warrant for SPPD where Amir was not listed as a person of interest according to an attorney who has spoken to the family 416 1,840 1,165 3,542 496,189 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Mac @GoodPoliticGuy Feb 2 absolutely obliterated 578 12,019 1,025 133,435 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Medic Kim on 38th @medickimw Feb 2 If you're looking at Minneapolis Twitter & need a reminder: - No reforms were implemented after George Floyd's murder - The police were never defunded - No bodycam footage was released in Winston Smith case - Roughly 200 MPD filed for disability bc they didn't want to change 36 2,042 32 6,567 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Patience. @patiencezalanga Feb 3 You know, Winston Smith would’ve gone about his day, like it was any other day had they not decided to kill him. Amir Locke would’ve done the same as well. Ending their life was a decision. 2 84 2 489 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Esha K @eshaLegal Feb 3 God knows what happened to the list of slave owners crimes. There was no red army to make them stand trial. They got to reform in the south and bring back similar systems. 6 138 1 1,403 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackRadicalMonth #AfricanLiberationMonth 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Georgia Fort @ByGeorgiaFort Feb 3 Civil Rights Attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong shares an update on the fatal police killing in Minneapolis. She says the man who killed, Amir Locke, was a licensed gun owner & wasn’t a named suspect in the search warrant. She’s demanding the body cam footage be released immediately 6 186 22 339 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Documenting MN @DocumentingMN Feb 3 He was sleeping on the couch of the home that MPD was supposed to be searching but instead barged in, and Amir, a licensed gun owner, allegedly got up out of shock and was murdered in 9 seconds. 103 2 402 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Documenting MN @DocumentingMN Feb 3 Minneapolis Police Department murdered another person this morning. Minneapolis Police Department murdered Amir Locke 13 1,114 32 3,102 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin Feb 3 "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." - Zora Neale Hurston 4 196 8 520 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted YALF Africa @YalfAfrica Feb 2 In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that are not so well off in wealth of soil and sub-soil are enjoying the highest standards of living. #WalterRodney @RodneyProject @uk_rodney @PrinceIfoh 1 13 16 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 Integrating kids into the community is an important first step. There, we truly learn to love ourselves and each other. Isabel Rodríguez @ecomentario Feb 2 Replying to @ecomentario Our places of education, work and leisure are segregated and exclusionary. In reality, our schools and places of work should be open for anyone having something to contribute and anyone wishing to learn something. Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 James Baldwin (1948) 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 "the Negro ... is almost always acting. A Negro learns to gauge precisely what reaction the alien person facing him desires, and he produces it with disarming artlessness. The friends I had, growing up and going to work, grew more bitter every day" - Baldwin Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 Everything. Toby Rollo @TobyRollo Feb 2 Replying to @TobyRollo It is our cultural antipathy toward children that inspires our general disdain for ignorance and illiteracy. Entire peoples disparaged as "child races", allegedly frozen in a state of "cultural infancy". Everything shifts when we change our thinking about childhood. Everything. Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Toby Rollo @TobyRollo Feb 2 Today, in the era of the digital revolution, child labour has been exported to the global south. Most children in the west are now perceived as the future of whiteness, which requires their habituation into capitalist modes of production in schools. 4 21 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Toby Rollo @TobyRollo Feb 2 Children were also essential for the success of the industrial revolution, so essential that the adults with whom they competed for jobs fought to have them removed from the factories, and placed in schools. 1 2 21 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Toby Rollo @TobyRollo Feb 3 Most contemporary progressive social movements target government, corporations, and other institutions dominated by adults. This is one of the main reasons they remain unsuccessful. Conservatives, by contrast, have been targeting children with great success for the past 30 years. 5 13 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Toby Rollo @TobyRollo Feb 3 The success of the civil rights movement was due in part to radical changes in relations between adults and children in the 1940s. We are witnessing the loss of those hard won gains because the young were abandoned in the 1980s. 1 8 19 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 "We (Americans in general, that is) like to point to Negroes and to most of their activities with a kind of tolerant scorn; but it is ourselves we are watching, ourselves we are damning, or––condescendingly––bending to save." - James Baldwin 1948 Greg Gilhooly @GregGilhooly Jan 2 Antonio Brown is so self-destructive in pushing boundaries that he's begging for attention, crying out to for help, and hoping to be saved, understood, healed. Something is seriously wrong and he needs help, not scorn. Been there, done that. Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted RPAMC☭ @revpanafmc Feb 3 “failures” are just a means to study what may have went wrong. “failures” shouldn’t be embraced through a framework of defeatism. 10 31 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 3 "one cannot help observing that some Negro leaders and politicians are far more concerned with their careers than with the welfare of Negroes, and their dramatic and publicized battles are battles with the wind." - Baldwin in 1948 1 2 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted aaron | אהרון ☭ @afromaterialism Feb 2 book recommendations are the window to your intellectual development 2 10 4 124 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 2 #MLK : “Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is Capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive …” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 2 “We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” #MLK Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Zinn Ed Project @ZinnEdProject Feb 2 "...the race question is being brought before Black & white children daily in their homes, in the streets, through the press & on the rostrum. How, then, can the school ignore the duty of teaching the truth while these other agencies are playing up falsehood?" -- Carter Woodson 1 13 18 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Browning ☭ @commieunclerico Feb 2 Replying to @mojowjowjow7 @DabSquad_Slank They also for decades gave black players less compensation for injuries from their playing days and they justified it by essentially using Charles Murray’s Bell Curve logic. Evil all around 1 4 13 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted SLANK @DabSquad_Slank Feb 2 NFL plantation masters NPR @NPR Feb 2 Ex-Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleges in a lawsuit that the NFL is racially segregated and "managed much like a plantation" — charging that its 32 owners, none of whom are Black, profit from the labor of its players, 70% of whom are Black. n.pr/34uISNC 2 17 52 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 2 #MLK : “The plantation and the ghetto were created by those who had power, both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. Now the problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power.” 1 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted deej @fanoniscanon Feb 2 Additionally the idea that religion excludes racialisation is a nonsense which misunderstands how race becomes reorganised to produce a religious racialisation. It’s why I always come back to the need to understand racism as technology adaptable to fit the needs othering. 3 112 2 586 Show this thread Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted deej @fanoniscanon Feb 2 It should go without saying; but Jews were racialised and persecuted via progroms prior to the holocaust. The holocaust reconstituted racialisation through the production of a “superior” aryan racial ordering and positioned Jewishness as antagonistic as such requiring eradication 4 277 14 1,661 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Feb 2 Thread: تريستان \ read blood in my eye @tristang300 Feb 2 People who come out of prison can build up a country. Misfortune is a test of people’s fidelity. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.” — Ho Chi Minh Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted YALF Africa @YalfAfrica Feb 2 An even bigger problem is that the people of Africa and other parts of the colonized world have gone through a cultural and psychological crisis and have accepted, at least partially, the European version of things. (3/3) 8 18 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted YALF Africa @YalfAfrica Feb 2 superior and that the responsibility for the economic backwardness of Africa lies in the generic backwardness of the race of black Africans. (2/3) 1 6 19 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted YALF Africa @YalfAfrica Feb 2 The interpretation that underdevelopment is somehow ordained by God is emphasized because of the racist trend in European scholarship. It is in line with racist prejudice to say openly or to imply that their countries are more developed because their people are innately (1/3) 1 21 43 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt Feb 2 "Black power frightens them. White power doesn’t frighten them. Stokely is not, you know, bombing a country out of existence. Nor menacing your children. White power is doing that." - James Baldwin 2 107 301 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 2 I’m still sitting with @MsKellyMHayes post about the need for “a counter culture of care” b/c that’s the only real way we get free. It’s the only thing that is truly opposite of all the societal & systemic evils that plague us. We have to reorient the society around mutual care. 1 186 12 775 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted People’s Programs @ppls_programs Feb 2 Maurice Bishop is a Caribbean Revolutionary from the Island of Grenada. A leader of the New Jewel Movement, a revolutionary party that fought for the liberation of Grenada from under the heel of European neo-colonialism and est. the People’s Revolutionary Govt. of Grenada (PRG). 1 56 2 107 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 2 Always gotta follow the money. And we need to talk about how money is a corrupting force in politics that is undermining the concept of democracy & self-governance as much as attacks on voting rights & fair elections Rolling Stone @RollingStone Feb 1 New financial disclosures show Kyrsten Sinema is raking in cash from big GOP donors rollingstone.com/politics/po… 1 297 7 1,318 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Cool Breeze 🌬 @Rlacey33 Feb 1 Dr. Woodson explained that “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” In February of 1926, Dr. Woodson announced the first Negro History Week. 2 30 40 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin Feb 1 This is the behavior of an occupying army, not a "civilian" police force. In mass, they mourn their own as heroes when killed while demonizing those that they kill (on a much more frequent basis) as criminals deserving of death. 12 152 15 521 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Black Americans @BLKAmericans_ Feb 1 William Headly, escaped slavery from a plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina, 1862 - 1865 180 12,022 625 70,754 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Marx Jackson @SixTenSocialist Feb 1 It's Black Radical Month ❤🖤💚 put down your European theory n read Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, George Jackson, Claudia Jones, Fannie Lou Hamer, Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon,Jalil A. Muntaqim, Marcus Garvey,CLR James,Gerald Horne,Huey Newton,Steve Biko. 2 41 2 107 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Dwayne Wong @DOmowale Feb 1 In his book "The Mis-Education of the Negro," Carter G. Woodson pointed out that the school system indoctrinated African American students to hate their African identity. That process continues to this day. 10 174 16 463 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted #PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley Feb 1 Black Panther community center, Harlem, 1968 6 1,125 21 6,437 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi Feb 1 The foundation of global capitalism. 1,470 211 6,128 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Darryl Young Jr @DarrylYoungJr Feb 1 This morning, the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth Kentucky State University became the most recent HBCU in the past couple of weeks to have to go on high alert after receiving bomb threats. There hasn’t been a time that Black folks haven’t been terrorized in this country. 11 1 31 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Feb 1 Really important to understand that policing & prisons are a BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY. It is not simply a philosophical approach to “public safety.” It is a lucrative enterprise that relies on locking as many people in cells as possible & making $$$ from their incarceration. 112 3,234 94 12,086 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Lindsy Wallace @LindsyWallace Feb 1 Tonight we honor the lives of Kenneth Hall, Rickitta Smith, Stephanie Dunbar, Gary Weatherill, and Keith Smith who lost their lives inside cages at Louisville Metro Corrections all within six short weeks. Tomorrow we continue to demand change from those who hold power. 19 41 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Sara Butryn @MsButryn Feb 1 Look, we are watching public education be dismantled and critical thought be demonized as our state government undoes democracy at every turn. I have no interest in being remembered as the person who, for optics, smiled silently through it. 6 16 1 98 Logo Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚 Louisville, KY medium.com/@quintezbrown6/a-… Joined December 2021 Tweets 1,107 Following 804 Followers 429 Likes 1,207 95 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted derecka @dereckapurnell Jan 31 This is part of a larger collection of essays and reflections about the movement. Here's the full timeline: nymag.com/article/black-live… 10 Years Since Trayvon The story of the first decade of Black Lives Matter. nymag.com 124 6 353 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted micah @micahinATL Jan 31 Atlanta is one of the most surveilled cities in the world and it hasn't made people any safer! No to surveillance and policing, yes to resourcing communities. atlantamagazine.com/news-cul… Atlanta’s surveillance network keeps growing, and growing, and... By the end of 2021, Atlanta’s 3,300 surveillance camera network is expected to grow by roughly 250 cameras. atlantamagazine.com 28 96 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted mikey @BlackThruHist Feb 1 Happy Black Radical Month. Forward ever to African liberation 12 1 28 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt Jan 31 There is a fundamental contradiction between labor and capital. 7 28 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis Feb 1 “Opposing slavery and hating its victims has become a very common form of abolitionism.” –Frederick Douglass 3 168 6 559 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Joshua Alexander Crowder @crowder4ky Jan 31 A small step in the right direction, but we will not be able to fully decarbonize our city without returning LG&E to public ownership and revitalizing our mass transit infrastructure. 89.3 WFPL News @WFPLNews Jan 31 Louisville is testing the waters of making its own electric utility in order to meet climate commitments. @RyanVanVelzer reports. wfpl.org/louisville-asks-for… 1 3 28 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Araya @arayabaker Jan 31 Another suicidologist, tapping in with more pointers 👋🏾: A living wage adjusted for inflation would go a long way in preventing suicide. We can't expect people to want to live, when they literally can't afford to––no matter how hard they work. $7.25/hr since 2009 isn't livable. Andréa Kaniuka @andreakaniuka Jan 31 Just a suicidologist here begging you to please stop sharing news articles with headlines detailing suicide method. Please reportingonsuicide.org/wp-co… 20 2,726 33 8,498 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Yannick Giovanni Marshall @furtherblack Jan 31 “Police retraining” and “reform” should be understood as phrases useful for the liberal coverup of white supremacist atrocity. They function as apologies for the institution rather than demands for “change” (which would be meaningless in colonialism). They shouldn’t be debated. 1 7 23 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Marc Murphy @MurphyCartoons Feb 1 Nazi demonstrations in Florida, six HBCU‘s receiving bomb threats, an ex-President encouraging violence against his opponents, attacks against synagogues, @GOP state legislatures - including in Kentucky - acting like junior varsity Fascists. They’re here. @courierjournal 12 119 11 257 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted We Can Build A Better World 🕊 @BreeNewsome Jan 31 Neoliberals literally siphon funds from healthcare, housing & education (which are both also a public health issues) & funnel them to the policing & prison industry. This further destabilizes society, engineering the very circumstances they claim we need police for. Kathleen @MeKathleen Jan 29 Replying to @MeKathleen wsj.com/articles/biden-to-sa… Show this thread 6 373 9 1,231 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Berkeley Free Clinic Outreach @BFCoutreach Jan 31 The new meaning of endemic that’s arisen during the COVID pandemic isn’t based in disease dynamics. Public health professionals, medical providers, journalists, and government officials are increasingly using the word endemic to mean some version of “getting back to normal”. 5 183 11 1,119 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jordan McGowan @coach_jmcgowan Jan 31 I haven’t said nothing here but Friday my wife & children came home to our house on fire. There was an electrical fire in the attic that apparently had been burning for hours possibly a day & it fell through the ceiling into the master bathroom exploding on the toilet & shower. 4 38 4 28 2,864 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted ساميه 💚 @muslimahsamiyah Feb 1 "We say under Pan-Africanism that we talk about the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. In America we live in a capitalist system. We say a capitalist system is stupid, backward, ridiculous, irrational—we know that." Kwame Ture, 1977 24 45 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jessica Bellamy (any/all/y’all) @JBellaGraphics Jan 31 Replying to @HBNAssembly @WestEndPartners @jgb_foundation @ChurchillDowns @uofl @SCKY_1879 Sign the petition to #StoptheWestEndTIF ipetitions.com/petition/stop… Petition Stop the West End TIF: Nothing About Us Without Us Campaign Stop the West End TIF: Nothing About Us Without Us Campaign ipetitions.com 2 3 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted HBNAssembly @HBNAssembly Jan 31 Summary: Board members call into question the validity of the West End Opportunity Partnership’s grant agreements. Finance committee didn’t even know about the agreements before they were signed. #StoptheTIF #StoptheWestEndTIF #Louisville @jgb_foundation @WestEndPartners #ados 2 1 4 123 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Jessica Bellamy (any/all/y’all) @JBellaGraphics Jan 31 Funny that the board is now in the same position as West End residents. Things are being done without their consent, knowledge, and input as well. Also, this org is a mess. Let’s call it and #StoptheWestEndTIF ! HBNAssembly @HBNAssembly Jan 31 The West End Opportunity Partnership (@WestEndPartners) is a fraud! 4 part video thread compiled from Jan 29th Board Meeting. @jgb_foundation @ChurchillDowns #KyDerby @uofl @SCKY_1879 #ADOS #StoptheTIF #Louisville #LouWestEnd #RespecttheWest #CardsAgainstGentrification Show this thread 6 9 Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Marc Murphy @MurphyCartoons Feb 1 Louisville City Jail: Six people have died from neglect or abuse in this jail in the past year. Let‘s buy some large concrete balls to keep people from breaking in. Jefferson County District Court Escalators @CourtEscalator Feb 1 Check it out, @WeAreLMDC grew some balls. 1 8 1 28 Show this thread Quintez Brown - District 5 retweeted Javionne Gee @eihtbeezy Jan 31 What our local leaders won’t say is that Black males are disposable in this city and are not valued members of our communities. We are the bear the gun violence damn near alone and no treatment or socioeconomic based solutions are coming, only prison: if they catch your killer. Congresswoman Cori Bush @RepCori Jan 31 This was a tough weekend in St. Louis. I'm heartbroken over the deaths of 3 members of our community on Cote Brilliante. We are working every day to put an end to gun violence by addressing its root causes so we can save lives and our community can heal. 2 21 2 48 Quintez Brown - District 5 @tez4liberation Jan 31 2022 is the year of the Tiger. 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