Cornell William Brooks
@cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social
Prof., Harvard Kennedy School
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent
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NOT GIVING UP
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
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If an Afghan national “ambushed” 2 National Guardsman, we can only hope in the hunt for possible co-conspirators that innocent DC residents & innocent immigrants aren’t punished. This horrific violence should not incite wanton violence against immigrants & greater weaponzation of the NG.
BREAKING: The suspect in the shooting of National Guard members near the White House is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021, AP sources say.
Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard troops to DC after shooting of soldiers
The Trump administration has ordered 500 more National Guard members to Washington following the shooting of Guard troops.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If an Afghan national “ambushed” 2 National Guardsman, we can only hope in the hunt for possible co-conspirators that innocent DC residents & innocent immigrants aren’t punished. This horrific violence should not incite wanton violence against immigrants & greater weaponzation of the NG.
If an Afghan national “ambushed” 2 National Guardsman, we can only hope in the hunt for possible co-conspirators that innocent DC residents & innocent immigrants aren’t punished. This horrific violence should not incite wanton violence against immigrants & greater weaponzation of the NG.
BREAKING: The suspect in the shooting of National Guard members near the White House is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021, AP sources say.
Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard troops to DC after shooting of soldiers
The Trump administration has ordered 500 more National Guard members to Washington following the shooting of Guard troops.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If an Afghan national “ambushed” 2 National Guardsman, we can only hope in the hunt for possible co-conspirators that innocent DC residents & innocent immigrants aren’t punished. This horrific violence should not incite wanton violence against immigrants & greater weaponzation of the NG.
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The #NationalGuard is neither a civilian gun target nor
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Two National Guard Members in Critical Condition After Shooting Near White House
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The #NationalGuard is neither a civilian gun target nor
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
The #NationalGuard is neither a civilian gun target nor
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Two National Guard Members in Critical Condition After Shooting Near White House
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The #NationalGuard is neither a civilian gun target nor
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
a political prop. We can both grieve the pain of 2 guardsmen shot AND lament their needless deployment to DC. Pray for NG families—& that the White House responsibly deploy not dangerously misuse our troops.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Amen!
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Amen!
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So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓
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A 🧵
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A 🧵
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓
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WHEN the administration racially weaponizes ICE,
deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,
& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,
THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.
deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,
& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,
THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
WHEN the administration racially weaponizes ICE,
deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,
& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,
THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.
deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,
& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,
THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.
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“Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining.”
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining.”
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…
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The moral downgrade in vocabulary is an open invitation for hate groups to continue to embed in our military. Read previous gov. reports on hate groups in the military. Did Black, Jewish & other American vets die for this? @ap congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-…
https://congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-…
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The moral downgrade in vocabulary is an open invitation for hate groups to continue to embed in our military. Read previous gov. reports on hate groups in the military. Did Black, Jewish & other American vets die for this? @ap congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-…
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Just HOW ignorant and immoral do these people think Americans are?
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just HOW ignorant and immoral do these people think Americans are?
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism
A 🧵
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A 🧵
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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“Us” against “them” invariably means “we the people” being racially segregated to be politically subjugated—with few even noticing we are being played. #racism #xenophobia #Antisemitism #Islamophobia
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“Us” against “them” invariably means “we the people” being racially segregated to be politically subjugated—with few even noticing we are being played. #racism #xenophobia #Antisemitism #Islamophobia
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Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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NOT GIVING UP
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
November 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM
NOT GIVING UP
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky
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ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
CON GAME
This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,
intimidating nonwhite citizens,
to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy
—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH
ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g
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First this administration, disrespects & desecrates the memory of Black World War II vets like Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. THEN they export hate abroad by disrespecting Black vets at a cemetery in the Netherlands.
As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”
As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
First this administration, disrespects & desecrates the memory of Black World War II vets like Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. THEN they export hate abroad by disrespecting Black vets at a cemetery in the Netherlands.
As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”
As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”
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VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD.
During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.
During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD.
During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.
During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.