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Today
2:15 PDT: The President delivers remarks at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California
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Morning everyone.
Archive for June 18th, 2015
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Charleston
As I said on the Tweet Machine, I wasn’t going to post this ‘On This Day’ photo because of the horror of Charleston, but then…. it’s imagery like this, of our wonderful *black* First Couple, that drives the bigots insane.
So, **** them:
Our President.
Our First Lady.
Endless love for them.
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MUST READ: Remembering the #CharlestonShooting victims (fuller stories on each person) washingtonpost.com/graphics/natio…
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2025Charleston
The faces
I weep
I cradle my wife
I cradle my kids
I have no words
I am lost
In an ocean of hate http://t.co/gh7qoEbQks
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) June 19, 2025****
No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2025A protective hand and a bulletproof vest for the mass murderer.
A murderous choke-hold for the cigarette seller. http://t.co/Lb8Ja4z5zZ
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
America's "well-regulated militia" #DylannRoof #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/qcZBaovP8P
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The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) June 18, 2025Susie Jackson, 87, oldest victim of #CharlestonShooting
She must surely have thought, in 2015, those days were gone http://t.co/Q3ZT6fDtRh
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
Why when a White racist commits acts of hatred against Blacks, why is it the Black race is always asked to explain it?
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Michael Hargrove (@MichaelHargrov1) June 18, 2025America
2015
And still we lose our brothers + sisters to hate
Tonight, I hug my black son + daughter even closer http://t.co/ANmJcMVAgC
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) June 18, 2025****
Cynthia
Susie
Ethel
DePayne
Clementa
Tywanza
Daniel
Sharonda
Myra
#CharlestonShooting
Rest in peace. http://t.co/2tqYE6rKev
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
Tone deaf: Bernie Sanders holding loud pension rally yards away from #CharlestonShooting prayer circle that starts at noon
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Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) June 18, 2025'Bernie Sanders has consistently voted against gun restrictions... opposed background checks'
mic.com/articles/12098… http://t.co/TEdrpU9rwa
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 19, 2025****
A rare honest voice:
As Americans we must stand together against domestic terrorism fueled by an ideology of hate.
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Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2025****
She’s since deleted her account.
We’ll wait to see if the ever ethical Miami Herald …. :roll: …. deletes her as a contributor:
Real tweet from @MiamiHerald columnist @AJDelgado13 http://t.co/TbJVJlS3g8
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
I gotta get to work, but one quick thing before I go: We don't teach the true history of white supremacy in this country.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025We call Jim Crow "segregation" as if it was about lunch counters and movie theaters, not lynching and disfranchisement.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025****
We talk about lynching as if it were lawlessness in the night. Lynch law was THE law.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025We teach the Civil War, but not the collapse of Reconstruction. We teach the bus boycott but not the 80 years that went before.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025****
We teach about colored water fountains but not black children executed by the state for imaginary crimes.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025Teach the young people you know about white supremacy and how to fight it. Because their schools won't. studentactivism.net/2015/06/18/how…
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2025****
All of this. This is not just for white people who pass down racism to their future generations. This is for white people who stay silent in the face of white supremacy. Racism and white supremacy is not for Black people to fix. It is on YOU. When that father, mother, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, cousin, grandparents spew racist rhetoric, makes racist jokes, uses derogatory words to describe black people, promotes negative stereotypes of black people and laughs it off as just a joke and you stay silent, you condone it. This is serious. It is about people’s lives. Do not stay silent
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Fellow white ppl, today is the day to look at your white friends and family in the eye and say "Black lives matter."
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025Yesterday was the day, too. But if you aren't already having this convo, start now.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
Don't be cowards. You risk what, criticism? An argument? We are talking about black people's lives at stake.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025I will be telling my 6yo white son what happened last night on our way to camp this morning and then I will tell him that black lives matter
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
I'm not saying this for praise but just for you to know that I think white kids should be in convo now. Bc you know black kids are.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025A 5yo black girl survived last night by playing dead. Surely my 6yo white son can survive a conversation about why she matters.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2025****
if you read anything about the #CharlestonShooting, let it be this piece on who the victims of the shooting were: buzzfeed.com/jessicasimeone…
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andrea (@zevallos_andrea) June 18, 2025IMPORTANT READ: Coroner names 9 slain in downtown #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506…
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2025****
#CharlestonShooting victims include "brilliant" pastor, recent college grad: cbsn.ws/1JXhUw5 http://t.co/TynN76GAIL
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CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 18, 2025I'm not feeling these Je Suis tweets. The SC victims were black folk in prayer and bible study. They weren't drawing race-baiting cartoons.
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Aniyar Uoke (@eclecticbrotha) June 18, 2025****
Proof once again that on some important issues, Justice Roberts is a fool
2 years ago John Roberts overturned heart of Voting Rights Act because he said "things have changed dramatically" in the South
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 18, 2025Since PBO's election Republicans have screamed it's time to 'take our country back'
No, Dylann Roof didn't act alone http://t.co/QBw7775d56
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025****
Look at the smirk on his face. This is what the face of terrorism looks like
Dylann Roof, suspected gunman in SC church massacre, escorted from Shelby, NC, Police station en route to court. http://t.co/JslPeyenJh
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ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2025MORE: Roommate: Alleged Charleston church gunman “was big into segregation and ... wanted to start a civil war" -- abcn.ws/1K11nWB
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ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2025****
Truth
Stop using some ambiguous mental illness to justify white men who are terrorists. Racism and entitlement aren't mental illnesses.
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2025Media: lol we don't know why he did it
Dylann Roof: I did it because I hate black people
Media: lol we don't know why he did it
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2025****
Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks on Charleston, S.C. shooting
youtube.com/watch?v=hDlpVF…
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2025Deny voting rights, healthcare, equality, dignity. Fly the confederate flag over state buildings. Purchase a clue, @nikkihaley
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meta (@metaquest) June 18, 2025****
Birmingham, AL
Oak Creek, WI
Overland Park, KS
Charleston, SC
Attacks on houses of worship are a STAPLE of white supremacist terrorism.
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Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) June 18, 2025How Charleston's Emanuel AME Church triggered white southern militarism bit.ly/1d4bTiL http://t.co/uX79c7O2ox
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 18, 2025****
Sen. Clementa Pinckney's desk in the state Senate chamber is covered in a black drape, with a single rose. http://t.co/tkH6NljOHy
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Robert Kittle (@RobertKittle) June 18, 2025Reverend Clementa Pinckney was the youngest senator in South Carolina's history ti.me/1LkPdXn
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TIME.com (@TIME) June 18, 2025****
This devil killed 9 Black people and you're worried about how Black people are gonna react? Fuck you.
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#WeWillShootBack (@SankofaBrown) June 18, 2025In the belief that every moment of joy is a rebellion and that every bit of collective work is a revolution twitter.com/theandregeorge…
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W.E.B.B.I.E DuBois (@fivefifths) June 18, 2025****
Black people: "Thugs"
Arab people: "Terrorists"
White guys who routinely are responsible for mass killings in the US: "Troubled loners"
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Ian (@iboudreau) June 18, 2025White men are 31% of the U.S. population, but 71% of mass shooters. Can we talk about the white male culture of violence yet?
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Goat Lady (@civilwarbore) June 18, 2025****
Four little girls in 1963. And here we are, in 2015. Still.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2025We can't worship. We can't play. We can't sleep. We can't fight.We can't comply. We can't run.We can't stand. We can't breathe. We can't BE.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2025****
NRA - "If only someone had a gun to stop this bad person with a gun!"
Black person with toy gun - <gets shot by police>
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Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) June 18, 2025Don't tell Black people not to be enraged. They have every right to be enraged. We have been provoking them for five hundred years.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025****
The African American community has been far more peaceful toward white America than we ever have been toward them. Never forget that.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025*We* are the ones who need to stop the violence. *We* are the ones who need to stop the hate. *We* are the bad guys. *We must change.*
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2025****
Any news source that doesn't peg motivation as pure racism is in malpractice territory now. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2025The flags on Dylann Roof's jacket are white supremacist patches. Referencing white ruled African states. #AMEShooting http://t.co/h3xpfhL7pf
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2025****
Fellow white folk: do not allow anyone to equivocate on Charleston. A white man shooting up a historic black church in prayer is terrorism.
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STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) June 18, 2025Republicans who say Christianity is under attack sure were silent about 9 black people gunned down in a church today. #CharlestonShooting
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Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) June 18, 2025****
Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506… http://t.co/0IFOXu1KDH
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2025The confederate flag waves today at the #SC statehouse, while the other flags fly at half … ift.tt/1Fp631Z http://t.co/xFVH7QLDWy
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 202518
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