Just A Black American
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“Nothing beats failure but a try.” #ADOS https://t.co/kGA0xLNSdK
Joined December 2019
She deserved to lose for several reasons, but this one right here ranks highly for me. She was gonna have to eat these words one way or the other.
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This post is lacking context here. Ppl love to say that the city of Detroit is messed up because it’s majority Black. But Black ppl didn’t set up its pension system, Black ppl didn’t set up the city charter and the tax system. Also, Black ppl didn’t make the decision to center….
"This is not the white people fault, ya'll don't take care of your sh*t. Black people need to stop living in denial.". Black man drops hard pills as he tours the black area of Detroit:
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The economics of the city on only ONE industry. Black ppl didn’t make any of these decisions. Detroit, like other rust belt cities felt the economic impact of manufacturing jobs being outsourced overseas, and how it dealt a major hit to blue collar workers. Not Blk occupancy.
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The problems of cities like Detroit existed long before Blk ppl came along and increased their numbers in such places. Nobody thought to replace those manufacturing jobs because nobody cared. Detroit is a case study in Blk ppl inheriting issues that white ppl have left behind.
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Do not think for a second that the conditions of cities with majority Blk populations like Detroit is just because of them, they are political. During reconstruction, states were given money & grants to build & improve living conditions. But the ppl giving the funds were white….
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And thus, more economic opportunities were given where the race/ethnic majority in places was white, so they had more opportunities to stabilize their communities, which ultimately left Black ppl & their communities with little to nothing.
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In America:.Ghanainan=Black American .Egyptian=Black American.Nigerian=Black American .Barbadian=Black American .Jamaican=Black American .Haitian=Black American .Bahamian=Black American.Ethiopian=Black American.Black American=Black American . The people who see the problem, IYKYK.
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I don’t remember where I read it, but it was said that about 50% of white households today are products of the homestead act, which black ppl were excluded. Factor in red lining, the loss of land, employment & compensation disparities…you’re competing against the government.
Black people miss out on every wealth transfer. Why?.
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The craziest thing about this discussion is that you have black people fighting harder to prove and validate her blackness than she will advocate for black people specifically if elected. That’s the disconnect for some, I’d imagine.
Why do Y'all need Kamala Harris to be Black so bad?.
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We JUST had a white judge exposed for making racist remarks against Black Americans specifically. Please take the veil off.
White people do NOT know the difference between Haitians and anybody else in the Black diaspora, so this means that that entire shithole town is terrorizing ALL of its Black residents.
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Denzel Washington’s portrayal of Malcolm X, Angela Bassett’s portrayal of Tina Turner, Jamie Foxx’s portrayal of Ray Charles. the list goes on. These are biopics that people still reference to this day! Do not sit here and lie saying no one out of 35+ million has the “training”.
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A black person who calls reparations begging…🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩.
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DL Hughgley was dunking on Tim Scott, and in the midst of his rant, he uttered black & brown, and I immediately switched stations. Everybody ain’t gonna make it. 🤷🏾♂️.
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Still having difficult conversations with family about Obama. Whew! Give me the strength. 🤦🏾♂️.
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This tweet alone made me have to put my phone down. Like seriously, wtf?!?
I remember when the dark skinned dude with dreads was caught off guard in the back of Sasha Obama's picture and I saw Black Women saying he looks like a rapist or predator. Yall make some super racist assumptions about other black people, especially Black men.
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Because he played stupid every time we brought up reparations. 🤷🏾♂️.
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What the hell does “culturally African American” mean??.
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My Dad has passed today, and has made his transition to the next life. I don’t even have the words, it’s a lot to take in….
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You got folks leaving majority black countries for majority white western ones, and they wanna talk about black Americans “promoting whiteness”. Please miss me. 🥱.
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@MoniquePressley Real quick: does Meghan even identify as a black woman? Think carefully now.
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Y’all are literally gonna black & brown and bipoc us to the death.
This country was absolutely built on hard work Dr. Phil…on the backs of Black, Brown, and lmmigrants from all across this WORLD! Many of which who were forced to do so! . SLAVERY. Let us know when you’re ready to tell the WHOLE story.
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@Jidenna Name ONE hotep group that has orchestrated the public execution of a person, anywhere at any time in history, and was allowed to do so with state sponsored legislation and was codified into law. Idk who you’re signaling to with this ahistorical take, but it doesn’t match reality.
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The support for Tariq nasheed is proof positive that there’s a serious anti intellectualism problem in the black community, and it’s a grave one. That man has done irreparable damage to the modern reparations movement, and I’ll die on that hill. It is what it is. 🤷🏾♂️.
Ya'll may not like this, but I am glad we have both these thought leaders. We need to offer a carrot and a stick and we are not going to reach all our people with only one style of communication. 👌🏿
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Biden said black parents need social workers & record players because they don’t know how to raise children. He said we lack diversity, unlike the latinx community. Said “we ain’t black”, if we dared not to vote for him. And these nakers rewarded all of that with a presidency. 🤦🏾♂️.
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From the archives. take a listen to this y’all.
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Didn’t DL hugely also cheat on his wife AND have a baby outside of his marriage? Yeah. be mindful of who you take advice from. .
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The ADOS fam is poppin! This the most followers I’ve had on any platform outside of Facebook. I love y’all for real 👊🏾.
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Your views on reparations today are a good indicator of what your views on chattel slavery would’ve been if you lived in those times.
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Take your own advice. She’s a Brahmin caste Indian, Jamaican American woman of color. Being born in a country doesn’t confer ethnicity. Me traveling to India or Jamaica doesn’t give me those identities by osmosis.
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@gwendolynw__ “More quiet than we ought to be”. I’m sorry, who’s “we”. You’re posting from London, what’s your lineage? 🤔.
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@NkosiSpeakz Africa has 54 countries, hundreds of tribes, & they speak thousands of tongues. They have restrictions on how to, or if you can even become a citizen, & they have visa restrictions on travel between certain countries on the continent. Yet we’re divisive? When were we ever united?.
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@jemelehill @VICETV @staceyabrams @ilazer Is this what it’s come to? Is the the ideal way to appeal to black voters? First it was converse shoes. Then it was wannabe timbalands. Now it’s stripper poles? I just don’t see how this is helpful. 🤷🏾♂️.
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Did your ancestors come to the US in chains, or on planes? Where were your ancestors on June 19, 1865? .These two questions should clear through a lot of uncertainty with questions about lineage.
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It was illegal for our people to learn how to read and write at one point. it was ILLEGAL to educate us. let that sink in and marinate. .
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We are living the consequences of when an irresponsible nation doesn’t exile its traitors.
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@TiffanyDCross The way this question is worded is strange. Most Black Americans are several generations removed from the continent. How can you “go back” to a place you’ve never lived? How can you return to a place where you weren’t born? And what exactly are we “going back” to? #QTNA.
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The mob that burned Ocoee in 1920 to stop ADOS from voting. Hundreds died, most by being burned in their homes. Many victims were children who could not escape the flames…And you use this imagery to invoke rage and support for voting but not reparations? Fixed it for you.
The mob that burned Ocoee in 1920 to stop Blacks from voting. Hundreds died most by being burned in their homes. Many victims were children who could not escape the flames. and you may not VOTE?.(The Teach the Truth tour will be in Ocoee tomorrow.)
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Many thanks to all who are interacting with this thread. I would like to personally recognize & thank @breakingbrown & @tonetalks for my political education. Please consider donating or supporting their work in #ADOS by supporting them and @ADOSorg
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#ADOS apparently can’t get reparations until capitalism is dismantled, white supremacy dismantled, Gaza is freed, homelessness is over, world hunger is over, national healthcare, UBI, etc…Always adding more ingredients to the soup, and that’s my problem with the socialists.
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I can’t take these online so-called “anti imperialist” Blacks thinking they’re holier than thou b/c they don’t wave the American flag, when many of them travel, work, or live in the states. Many of them have family who pledged allegiance to that flag in a naturalization ceremony.
I saw someone say “Beyoncé is reclaiming U.S. patriotism” to show “Black Americans remain the architects of this country.” *yawn* —there is no reclaiming what that flag represents on stolen land. It is a symbol of imperialism and a reactionary aesthetic.
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“Negroes too busy arguing about who’s black and who’s not based on proximity to American slavery…” Translation: Y’all negroes’ laser focus on your experiences in the US context is getting in the way of me needing y’all to mule for international struggle!” Say it with your chest.
Negros too busy arguing about who’s black and who’s not based on proximity to american slavery instead of the fact that we’ve all been marginalized by the same people… let us know when it drops 💪🏾.
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Ehh, erm…No, no, no. This is definitively something that needs to be hashed out more…How is it that ppl who come to America voluntarily can connect to ppl who descend from slaves? This is an appeal to some kind of connection, or kinship…I think it leads to confusion. 🤷🏾♂️
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The ONLY reason I even know of NAARC/NCOBRA is because of #ADOS. That speaks volumes about the efficacy of these orgs who’ve been around for. how long???.
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Jim Clyburn, AND Tim Scott are all on the same team with regard to how black people are to be handled. They just play different roles. We just have blind folds on.
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“We’re all black because white people said so!”.“We’re all black because white people can’t tell the difference!”.“We’re all black because police can’t tell the difference!”. Even if any of this were true (it’s not) who tf cares? Y’all have psychological issues and need help. 👀.
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You know, I don’t really hear about the spending power of non black groups. is it just me?.
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I wanna see an #ADOS men’s panel, cuz that naacp panel wasn’t it. Antonio Moore, Prof. Darity, Reggie from Boston, Marlon Watson, Chris Logsdon in Sacramento, I know I’m missing a few folks. help me out, y’all!!.
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All these dnc apologists tryna shoot down reparations saying “no politician can do anything that only benefits one group!” Lies. AIPAC benefits who? DACA only benefits who now? Abortion only benefits who again? Yeah, I thought so.
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So, let me get this straight…Arabs, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ+ people have the benefit & privilege of being single issue voters, and from my pov, aren’t given much grief about it…But Black people can’t? Nah, that’s not gonna work.
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@KamalaHarris You’re not gonna do anything specific for them tho. They live vicariously through you, which is why a significant amount of them were duped. 🤷🏾♂️.
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This is what happens when you don’t de-confederize a nation.
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So this Nigerian man won an art contest to paint one or several prominent 19th century ADOS Black American figures, and he’s on social media calling the progeny of our ancestors akata?!?! Is this really what we’re doing? @WorcARTS.
@Greenlight_88 So, an Anti-Black American bigot who denigrates us on social media, referring to us African Americans/ Black Americans/ ADOS as “ak*tas” was selected to paint a portrait of Frederick Douglass? . @WorcARTS
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@bodega55th You honestly expect alumni donations to pick up the slack for the financial disparities between hbcus and pwis?? 🤔.
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I want a Juneteenth flag emoji on here NEEOOOWWW. Who do we need to talk to to get it done??.
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Kamala’s mother is Indian, and I’ve seen a few people say that she raised her daughters as black. What does that even mean? How can an Indian woman raise her children as black Americans?.
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What’s the point of electing people to office to change things then to turn around and say “oh, well they’re powerless, their hands are tied.” 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️.
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Someone with the last name “Nguyen” (if that’s your real last name) doesn’t have room to decide who is or isn’t Black American. Mind the business that pays you.
For the uneducated Trump supporters that will say Kamala isn’t African American because her family is Jamaican: . 92% of Jamaicans are Black. She was born in Oakland. So being of African heritage and American, means she’s African American.
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“Black American actors just don’t have the training, or desirability. They need to work harder and level up”. Definitely sounds like something a bigot would say.
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There is no problem black people have that cannot be traced to white supremacy.
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@SubriaWhitaker Now you’re trying to play the moral high ground when your peers & contemporaries are actively wishing police brutality & other ills on us over these election results. This criticism rings hollow, especially given that you had your electoral hopes set on white women. Now eat crow.
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@AMG4life87 Doesn’t Ghana have the highest amount of AAs living there outside of America? Seems highly doubtful that they’re trying to lord over y’all. For some, they actually wanna lay roots their and make a home for themselves, but this is the response they get? Noted.
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Okay, so when more waves of Black Americans go over to African countries and drive up the cost of living and disrupt the natives’ way of life with their American dollars…I don’t wanna see/hear anyone crying about it. Turnabout is fair game, right? 🤷🏾♂️.
This is why legal immigration is just as detrimental to Black 🇺🇸 as illegal immigration.
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Black people are married to a notion of “moral solidarity”. Other ppl know that resources are limited and that politics is sometimes a zero sum game. If their group eating means we starve, they’ll take it. Meanwhile, we’re tryna make sure everyone eats, even to our own detriment.
Black ppl have a "solidarity" obsession, not because of it's strategic political value in advancing our agenda, but because we are trying to prove to other racial & ethnic groups that we are worth reciprocity. And that's a problem.
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“. In 2014, 63% of black Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States had at least a bachelor’s degree. In Nigeria, however, only 7% of the population had earned a bachelor’s degree.” “Immigration and the remaking of Black America” - Tod G. Hamilton.
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@AfricanaCarr No. THIS is weaponized ignorance. How do you expect to legally dismantle whiteness if you see us as mere immigrants with no ties to the US? Your rhetoric is dangerous because it leaves us in a position of perpetual, fractional citizenship. A plant uprooted.
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What has hindered him from doing these changes over the past four years?.
President Biden issues warning to Black Americans, promises change if reelected
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“A reparations seed dies in intersectional soil”.
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Y’all see how they move? Y’all see how this works? Black Americans do something they don’t like= “dumb Black Americans”. Black Americans do something they like or wanna take credit for= “We’re all Africans!” 👀 Y’all don’t think we pick up on that? 🫤.
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Y’all have to get a little more creative.
African Americans think they own blackness and therefore can't engage in conversation about race with people from other countries without centering themselves and their history, even if it has NOTHING to do with them.
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Just letting any idiot get behind a mic and spew bs. Y’all see they NEVER try this with Caribbeans or other Blk ppl, only BAs. Why? Because America is seen as an illegitimate nationality despite the contributions of our ancestors. Who benefits from BAs being “nationless”? 🤔.
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In what context does this look any better? I’ve never seen her so casually and dismissively say what she will NOT do for a specific portion of the electorate. She thinks what’s good for America will be good for Black ppl by default. History disagrees. She’s a trickle down peddler.
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Funny how no one puts these conditions & stipulations on diasporans when they come to America. That’s because you don’t see Black Americans as “real”.Americans, & y’all have no issues steeping on us to get resources. Let’s keep this so-called “anti colonial” energy consistent. 👀.
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It was easier to sell Obama to black voters in large part due to Michelle and their daughters. She provided him with cover to be seen as “black enough” to be palatable to black voters. Kamala doesn’t have that, she deviated from the playbook. That’s a mark on her, not us.
Former President Barack Obama has a “tough talk” at the Black voters for Harris event in East Liberty. He addressed that Black men have not been as enthused about Harris as during his first run, and he sought to encourage them to join Harris’ movement
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Again, the Haitian flag and the flag of the Dominican Republic have the exact same colors as the US flag. But no one in the diaspora would fix their mouths to say they’re waving the flag of the “oppressor”, want to assimilate, or want to be imperialists. Only Black Americans. 👀.
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Thank you for acknowledging her! Not to dismiss Rosa at all, but there were other people who defied racism like she did. It’s a shame that she was considering an “imperfect” spokesperson at the time. I want Claudette to get ALL her flowers.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but. disagreeing with an opinion is not an act of violence.
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A year or so ago, they were calling us Russian bots. Now they wanna have “debates” with said “bots”. Ya gotta love it 😂😂😂.
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@KimberlyNFoster You act like we already got our reparations and that we have the socio-political bandwidth to shoulder other community’s issues on equal footing with our own. Clean that up.
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Speaking of #Blackjobs should he be re-elected what is Biden and his administration going to do about investing in Black men to get better jobs? 🤔 It seems like they completely forgot about this:
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Kamala specifically went on record that she will do nothing that specifically benefits black people, and NO ONE held her feet to the fire on that. That comment should’ve been career suicide. I will never not mention that. Don’t let others ignore/get away from acknowledging that.
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I’m getting the feeling that some people think #ADOS is saying something along the lines of “my slavery is better than yours, which means we’re better than other blacks!” Do you have any clue how f*cking ridiculous you’d have to be to actually believe that? 🤦🏾♂️.
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Can we get a Juneteenth flag emoji on this thing??.
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Y’all, my mom just fell and broke her ankle. Please pray for her strength and a speedy recovery. I’m trying to keep it together. .
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Beyond tired of you celebrity negores with an identity crisis going on trips to Africa to “find yourself” or to attempt to fill the “gaps” in your identity, whatever that means. 🤷🏾♂️.
Being in Ghana opened my eyes to who I was! Unless you are a Native American, your roots are NOT here and it’s perfectly natural and liberating to embrace that!
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So, I ended up quitting my job. Tired of the environment & felt like I got all I could get in my role there. I can get more money doing the same thing in other places. Definitely interested in what the future has in store for me.
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Them: “WE ALL DESCEND FROM AFRICA!”.Also them: “MBJ is NOT Trini, he’s appropriating our culture!”.Me: … … … 👀🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️. The right people will get this, and that’s fine.
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@Dknight10k Translation: “I am a COWARD, and I’m too scared to fight for justice for my people and a better future for my children. because I don’t wanna piss off the political establishment.”.
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While people are talking about vaccines with covid, and mention Tuskegee, I’ve seen that there was an “apology” 👀🙄 offered to survivors of those wicked experiments, but has any financial redress been paid??.
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I want to know how you can empower someone living in abject poverty with just financial literacy. Alone. No money. Just the info. I wanna see a financial literacy advocate turn a minimum wage into six figures. Any takers?? Lol.
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