Tiffany N. Younger, PhD
@TiffanyYounger4
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Sociomedical Scientist-Activist. At the intersection of health, the economy, and Black women. Postdoc: @yalemed
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About 4% of Ph.D’s are Black women. That means about 96% of “reliable” knowledge is produced by non Black women.
Which results into society forcing Black women to adhere to the dominant imagination.
We will continue to resist.
My ancestors imagined me here 🖤
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Me looking at my momma when she out here slaying these dragons everyday!
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I am a Sociomedical Scientist.
Excited to share I started my Postdoc at Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry.
Studying the impact of the economy on Black women’s health & wellbeing.
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Thank you all for this! But I want to clarify
#KentajiBrownJackson
is NOT my mom. This picture by
@sbmaneyphoto
touched my soul and I captioned this picture in response to me understanding what it means to have a mom who is a public official!
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No weapon formed against me prospered.
It didn’t work!
Not white supremacy.
Not patriarchy.
Not coloniality.
I finished this degree with my edges and my humanity.
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South Bronx made✅
Parents who were victims of the crack epidemic ✅
Ward of the state✅
Father died from covid-19✅
Attended public schools k-12 in low income communities✅
A single Black mother ✅
CPTSD survivor ✅
Thriving ❤️
I am not the imposter here.
I am the expert 😉
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Hey new followers!
I'm a professor, scientist, activist and single mother of a dope brilliant 5 year old.
The fact that folks are confusing me for Judge Ketjani's daughter is a honest mistake but also amplifies what we all witnessed this week during the hearings.
We tired.
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Excited to share my first solo academic article. I intentionally did not publish much as a student. I am committed to truth telling. I am committed to meaningful scholarship. And now they cant take away my Ph.D so I will speak 🗣️.
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When they say “restore order” they mean colonization and oppression.
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@KiaSpeaks
Sis! I was about to tweet and ask if white women get their hair searched. i just went through and the way they did my faux locs smh. Isn’t this racist?!
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Stop telling Black women to be humble.
We exist in a world that hates us.
Yet still we rise!
Leave us alone.
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Finally a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare 🍾👏🏾🍾🙌🏾
A zoom dissertation defense
Monday I defended my dissertation among some of my closest friends and family yesterday!
Seven years and three degrees later and this chapter is over 💃🏽
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@ME_McCullough
Pay us what you owe us: An exploratory study on Black Womens Experiences with Wealth.
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Y'all I finally watched
@CoryBooker
strategically take up space during his speech so our Black sister could rest. Today I am so grateful to the many Black men who have protected and held space for me. Who let me unravel and just be and stood firm in their love for me.
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I canceled my final class and assignee an online assignment. What I have witnessed as a member of faculty in the name of imperialism is crazy. People’s children have been doxed, arrested and suspended.
We are at the end of times.
I teach my last class of the semester at Columbia this coming week, and the university has made this situation into a warzone.
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I'm already Loved.
I'm already chosen.
I know who I am.
I Know what you've spoken.
It is written.
#JusticeKentanjiBrownJackson
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The photo of
#KetanjiBrownJackson
that
@sbmaneyphoto
took and I posted done went viral on my account.
I want to clarify i'm not her daughter! I am
@SheenaWrightNYC
daughter. I added a caption to a photo that made me think of my momma who is also a public official!
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@NicoleLewisLCSW
also, we need to stop judging single moms for taking care or their responsibilities period. This is also a class/ race conversation. I have never hard someone say Kylie jenner should have chose better she is definitely a single mom
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Did yall know enslaved persons labor was used to pay tuition fees for property owners sons to attend the ivy league?!
This dissertation process got me looking at my degrees from these institutions sideways 😒
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My former boss a white woman stole a research idea that was a study for Black women and put “all women”. The study was on lived experience which is basically my dissertation.
And this is why I will never work for another one again.
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Policy courses should always begin with colonialism and slavery.
Not the industrial revolution.
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Teaching my students to have direct honest conversations is hard because faculty don’t know how to do it.
Politeness is killing us
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I am a professor not a “public figure”.
I will not stay silent while university administrators and politicians use their power to repress students right to protest.
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I had a white women Director who I worked for last year tell me to "behave" when I explained to her that the research we were using was not intersectional and did not fulfill our mission as a network.
Does every every black woman get treated like Ketanji Brown Jackson at work because although I'm black, as a man, even I haven't had to deal with this kind of shit.
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@RebeccaGivens07
@sbmaneyphoto
Thanks for this! I didn't know who took the picture it was floating on instagram and it touched my soul!
@sbmaneyphoto
such a powerful picture!
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@uche_blackstock
should have been appointed NYC health commissioner(not that she wants to lol). I am really concerned for us all. This is a state of emergency. Lines for covid testing and food pantries is all I saw on my run from the Bronx to Harlem.
I hate it here.
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I am child of Black woman who is a trained attorney and has dedicated her career to social justice! The look of
#KentanjiBrownJackson
daughter is all too familiar.
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Yesterday I had a break down around my dissertation.
Today I woke up with news I got the Provost dissertation Year award…money to think.
Nobody can’t tell me God ain’t on time.
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Today I have a six year old 😭. My doctoral colleague said she really is a material outcome of my PhD process. I just had her when I started and we still here figuring it out 🥰.
And she is the reason why I will continue to fight for liberation for Black girls.
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I am happy folks are witnessing this hearing and the different power dynamics that is happening. Please think about this as you interview candidates for some of these "executive" positions y'all have. This is happening in real time everyday to Black women who are overqualified.
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Whiteness is in direct conflict with our humanity.
Thank you all for reading my first solo article it really means alot I was so afraid to publish but I realized that was whiteness!
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So my daughter doesn't know it's Christmas. And she's in this pool living her best life! We don't have no presents and sis is gonna be ok. I'm about making new traditions!
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Part 1.
Go to Paris.
Twirl, twirl, and twirl
Channel my inner Black girl.
My ancestors imagined this.
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Trauma informed work environments will make it so that Black women won't have to be so damn magical and resilient. But that we will be treated like a human being based on a set of policies and practices that center liberation in organizations.
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I promised my 5 year old a christmas spa day with christmas mock-tails in fancy glasses as I wrapped up my last meeting until jan 15 🤸🏾♂️.
I love doing life with her 🤎
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This country is saying:
let us act like we didn’t enslave humans to build our economy. And then let’s gaslight them into thinking that Affirmative Action isn’t needed if they work hard. While holding on to the stolen wealth they built off of our ancestors.
Savagery.
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@Julie_Hinton
@uche_blackstock
@jballs1908
@theNASEM
White women really gotta stop this. It is exhausting. It isn’t allyship and it is irresponsible.
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Today I have to speak to the Black students at Columbia school of social work who are going into this world of chaos........
My God.
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Lean In is white feminism.
As a Black woman I do not subscribe to the lean in framework.
Because when I get to the table.....ima abolish it.
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My 5 year old is learning photography this summer. 3 times out of the week we go out to central park and we pick a part of nature to focus on. At night we print them out and paste them in a book and tell stories about what we saw.
She really allows me to relive my childhood💕
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@JZPhilosophy
I love how folks love to downplay adjuncts as if they’re he is less valuable. These are said narratives. Society has a way in forcing us to negotiate our value.
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It was so powerful to witness!
Shout out to my white women accomplices who said “sit back sis, I got this”.
#AnswerTheCall
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but sitting in traffic listening to this White Woman Call….and it might be more transformative than the black woman call. Why? Because watching white women hand themselves their own ass is something I NEVER THOUGHT I’d see….
#AnswerTheCall2024
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Got my first grant focused on Black women by Black women! Thank you
@ColumbiaSSW
let's "Heal as we Build"! Details to follow :).
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Spending this Friday evening running our first cohort "Healing as Build" for Black women and gender nonconforming folks. Thanks
@ColumbiaSSW
for the micro grant to launch this project!
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Stop telling Black women to be nice.
I am not nice. It isn’t my job to please you or center your comfort.
It is my divine right to simply BE.
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My therapist just explained due to my C-PTSD I am experiencing extreme emotional flashbacks while reading the thoughts and trauma of other Black women for my dissertation. And this here is the disability I didn’t account for 🤦🏾♀️ in my timeline.
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After a rough academic week. Today I woke in complete gratitude for the Black/Brown people in academia who held space for me and held me accountable for my actions and reactions.
I am because y’all are.
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Y’all, The United States is the Ghetto.
Aunty Nancy Pelosi would never let this happen!
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Soooo after watching Tupac’s “Dear Mama” docuseries I am now thinking that it wasn’t the east coast beef that killed him.
It was his political genius. And given what I know about this country and Blackness…….
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I am in awe of the students who are risking their professional futures. They have been doxed, suspended, arrested and evicted.
Yet still they persist.
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@Skippy1405
@sbmaneyphoto
I want you to consider how your response is indicative of the ongoing interrogation we witnessed publicly of a Black woman supreme court justice. Lastly as a white person should you tell me what to do with my tweets?! You confused because of your interpretation?
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Y'all Ted Cruz been problematic. And honestly this exchange is one I see Black women having to endure daily.
These questions are inhumane.
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@DrBlackDeer
Yes I hear you. And not
voting is not. They killed my ancestors for voting. I will vote and fight for Palestine. Both can be true.
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yup. It's the normal for some of us. Imagine interviewing at a university who is looking for a scholar on race and the search whole committee white 😩. That was my experience last month 😭. "prove to me that you know what you are talking about".
It's inhumane.
I cannot imagine having to explain 7754332990987 times why I’m qualified for a job…………………………………. To white people.
FOR 3 DAMN DAYS.
My God. This is making my skin crawl.
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My child on vacation asking is the Black woman making her omelette her auntie because it is the first Black person she has seen on this resort in 2 days 😩.
The woman said: yes I am!
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Academia is hard but when Black men with power show up for you and encourage you and cultivate your innovation and say "tell me how i can support you. You can do this". Literally made the start to my semester feel so much better! Thanks Dean
@DrDesmondPatton
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The supreme court is the ghetto.
White women will be impacted most though 🤷🏾♀️.
Y’all keep hurting y’all selves trying to exclude us.
Our liberation is tied.
The Supreme Court just decided that Black and Brown people were starting to advance just a little too much for their liking.
This is how whiteness stays in power.
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I don’t want “scholars”critiquing my scholarship unless they can understand the difference between: race, racism and anti-blackness.
This is the least I ask.
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@NicoleLewisLCSW
she’s absolutely right. Basically they are saying: “how dare she not be exploited and extracted from?”
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My uncle was killed by the cops 17 years ago while pulled over.
I called my grandma this morning to checkin.
I checked in with my mom this morning.
None of us are ok. But both of them said "we will keep working. We are hopeful".
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I had two graduate students at 2 different universities in a week tell me: “You are the first Black women Professor I have ever had.”
And this is my why.
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Today's lesson is:
All choice ain't equal. Some of us are choosing from lack.
lack of resources
lack of access
lack of capital
lack of agency
lack of mobility.
But somehow we've been all been held accountable equally.
The math ain't mathing.
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They done killed this Black man and now we gotta go into the weekend like this.
I hate it here.
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I am closing out this doctoral chapter as a Brief and Brilliant presenter at SSWR 🗣️.
My talk titled:
Epistemology of the Oppressed: centering lived experiences as knowledge in social work research and practice.
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@IjeomaOparaPHD
@BlkGrlBrilliant
She's talking about Elon....but him isn't African American 😩. He's South African and he ain't Black. Girl i'm tiredttttttt.
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This is the realest tweet I ever saw.
Im not here to be polite or build a career, I do that in real life.I am here to speak truth to power.
Imma be honest I really don’t care to use Twitter for career advancement. I can advance my own career on my own. I’m here to speak truths.
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I just received a contract from an institution to do some work this fall and the pay was THREE times what I expected (I did not initially send a rate) PLUS a travel stipend.
Lesson here: We are of high value 🙌🏾.
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@TheNapMinistry
We are moving toward liberation. Equity is just a step. She need to go talk to her ancestors about this here topic 🙄.
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I am resting.
We(Black women) told y'all. This country will eat us all alive.
I will not pass this fear and fight to my child. I refuse.
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My dissertation defense is set.
A doctor of philosophy is loading……….
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congrats Dean
@DrDesmondPatton
and Dean
@Prof_HeidiAllen
on your new appointments at Columbia School of social work. I admired both of you and your work! Cant wait to see the evolution 🙌🏾
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I am Reviewing the economic social policy sections in my dissertation and hands down
@povertyscholar
is over cited because she has literally paved the way for me to build on her work. I love when scholars are clear and direct in their writing!
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Let me be very clear about research like this. It is unethical and very dangerous.
Studying the economy without talking about how it was created is elementary.
This is a racial capitalist economy Period.
This is what happens when White Rage & White Fragility take over any sense of reason. This group will not stop until they prove that anti-Black racism does not exist in CPS. And they simply don't care about the harm they cause along the way.
@SageJournals
is complicit as well.
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Today in my quiet time I thought about the experts/ scholars i look up to like
@CourtneyCogburn
@DrDesmondPatton
and i'm like "if they can do this i can do this" despite the institutional structure that makes our jobs so hard.
We can do this.
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I am thinking we need a moratorium on racial equity "conversations" in white spaces without a space for Black futurism. We need space and time to redefine: equity and liberation. Those definitions can't be defined by the oppressors. Who's gonna fund Black women to do this?
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One thing ima do is be a mom!
Issa slumber party going into my daughter's 5th bday week!
Issa Black girl magic week 🎉
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@DrBritWilliams
Dr. Williams i'm crying!! This is me in students papers and i'm like "you can keep the w lower in white" lol
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@symbiobotanist
Thank you for this. I just completed my doctoral journey after 7 years. My baby was in my womb when I interviewed. She is 7 now. Life was tough for 7 years. I wish I had someone tell me “its not giving up. It’s choosing love”.
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Y'all today I start teaching advocacy while I am actively organizing with folks on the hill to get us some voting rights passed. Every semester I am living and teaching my work.
It is exhausting but it is why I love teaching!
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Living my dream life: Teaching Power Racism Oppression and Privilege (PROP) to students
@ColumbiaSSW
on a Thursday evening and we are watching Beyoncé's Brown skin girl while on break.
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Not the contractors in my house listening in on my panel discussion on antiAsian hate and white supremacy and them asking if they can share the information with their family. I hired a dope Chinese young contractor who is committed to building wealth for his family! Here for it!
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I taught advocacy this afternoon and we started with a Dr. Huey P Newton and Dr. Tupac Shakur(he's an honorary PHD in my head) grounding us in a framework of Liberation! My students then unpacked the psychosis of whiteness and really reflected on what we inherited as a society.
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I love ending my night with me and my 5 year old daughter having a dance party in my room. We pick one song a night and we jam out. These are the memories I envisioned for us when I was pregnant.
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Every time I want to give up I read evaluations and notes from my students.
They think I helped them but they have no idea how they keep me going.
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Excited on International Women's Day to announce my fellowship with
@InsightCCED
. As a Liberation Health Science fellow and as I complete my finally year as a PHD I couldn't imagine doing it without the work of this team. Truly centering race and gender
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I got my first rejected manuscript from a journal. However, review
#3
gave me some instrumental feedback and they clearly laid out the path forward. Their feedback was worth the submission!
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Grateful to be a BRESI Fellow in addition to getting the provost dissertation award.
I dedicate my career to filling the research gap on Black women and girls 🤎
Congratulations to the entire BRES Fellows cohort, especially our two students,
@TiffanyYounger4
and Britton Williams ().
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I got my interview for my doctoral program this day while I was in labor. Literally ready to birth a gift to the world ❤️🤎.
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@ElleLettMDPhD
wtf is this?! we in 2022!!! We are not a different species for them to observe. I want white people to study the psychosis of whiteness and leave us the heck alone 😩.
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This child told her teacher she wants to be a
scientist-ballerina 🤎.
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The hearing for supreme court justice is triggering as ever! It reminds me of the questions I get every day from medical professionals and who dont understand the power of racism.
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@uche_blackstock
@nrookie
nope! They are literally asking to be at the tables of white supremacy and capitalism without abolishing the systems and structures along the way. Scary!!!!!
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@amadi11
You are worthy! Still bright brillant and Black! Go ahead now brother hold ya head up you are existing in a system not made for you yet you still thriving!
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