On July 6, 2020, a 24 year-old Black woman Twitter user retweeted a tweet with the names of several Black rappers including Kweli, and included her own original tweet that noted that almost all of them were married to light skinned women.[61][62] In response, he tweeted at her hundreds of times for over two weeks, and stated that he would tweet her for the next 13 years.[61] She posted a statement that her goal had been to point out colorism and that she had received death threats due to Kweli's constant tweets.[63] On July 23, Kweli announced on his Instagram that he was leaving Twitter "for the green pastures of Patreon."[61] A spokesperson for Twitter stated that his account had been permanently suspended "after repeated violations of the Twitter rules...Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public conversation. Violence, harassment and other similar types of behavior discourage people from expressing themselves, and ultimately diminish the value of global public conversation."[64][65]
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