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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Aug 22, 2025, 09:44 AM Aug 2025

The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media

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Sherrilyn Ifill
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The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social


‪Sherrilyn Ifill‬
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Read it and weep.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...

The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media
How did Jillian Michaels become a CNN-certified slavery scholar? The answer is in Joe Scarborough's text messages.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T04:20:08.140Z
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The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 OP
Direct link to Harriot's essay on Substack LearnedHand Aug 2025 #1

LearnedHand

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1. Direct link to Harriot's essay on Substack
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:03 AM
Aug 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelharriot/p/the-great-un-blackening-how-trump

EDIT: I meant to add this is a very powerful article. It highlights the ridiculous unbearable whiteness of being of the cable/linear TV companies.

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