These tweets -- on everything from The Help and Watch the Throne to the crop of GOP candidates and Mississippi hate crimes -- capture the pop culture and political moments we'll remember (and some we'd rather forget) from this week:
Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley [5]): Because the best way to start a conversation about race is by suggesting I watch a sugar coated white savior fantasy. :/
Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisi [6]) Re Allen West, "He still has a high-top fade. He's not leading me anywhere." bit.ly/pHSt3J [7]
Cory Booker (@corybooker [8]): Less than 1% of our community is responsible for 90% of the violence. We must focus on strategies beyond incarceration. More to come
Cord Jefferson (@cordjefferson [9]): The cadre of thin white models in the back of the Maybach in the "Otis" vid really clarifies how Watch the Throne is a black power album. :(
Terry McMillan (@MsTerryMcMillan [10]): Can you imagine Michele Bachmann running this country? Or, Rick Perry? For all the grandstanding, the GOP/TPs should be embarrassed as hell.
Awkward Black Girl (@awkwardblkgrl [11]): That awkward moment when you politely ask a co-worker how they're doing, they say "bad," and you don't follow up ... because you don't care.
Kai Wright (@Kai_Wright [12]): "Reverse Racism" thrown around in ugly Miss. hate crime. Gotta say again, power, not prejudice drives racism @colorlines [13] soc.li/2XyUJDR [14]
Mark Knoller (@markknoller) [15] The Galesburg football team offered up its team cheer for Pres Obama. "Win the Day" they shouted. "That's what I say every day," said Obama.
Cornel West (@CornelWest [16]): Brother @TavisSmiley [17] and I believe that poor brothers and sisters of all races must come together. #povertytour [18]
In other news: VIDEO: Michele vs. Michelle. [19]
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