Khadijah A. Robinson
@dijadontneedya
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In the business of Blackness
Atlanta, GA
Joined December 2010
Entrepreneurs: there is only 1 type of validation that matters for your startup, and that is customers who PAY. Nothing and no one else matters or makes a viable business. To ease any confusion, here is a list of things that do NOT matter when proving your business works:.
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A Black man surpassing a white man who called us n!ggers to grab the top spot in the genre that white folks have tried to lock us out of for decades is CHEFS FUCKING KISS.
Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” surpasses Morgan Wallen's “Last Night” to become the #1 biggest country chart hit of the 2020s decade globally📈.
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I got IDd last night, but as I was rummaging around in my purse for my ID, the dude saw my checkbook and said "nevermind" 😭😒🤣 FIRST OF ALL.
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I want Black people to free ourselves from the shackles of caring what white people think of us, as if they are the arbiters of good behavior.
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So, we talk a bit about friendship breakups, but not enough. One of the most painful things that ever happened to me in my LIFE was when my best friend of 20 years completely ghosted me. Less than 2 weeks after I served as the maid of honor in her wedding.
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Angelina Jolie walked by me today at Spelhouse homecoming and I just KNOW this is the Blackest shit she ever seen in her life.
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Storytime. So, back in March, I was tired as shit of America. I was dealing with a lot of niggery on multiple fronts, and then coronavirus started becoming a real thing too. When I made the executive decision that I wasn't going into the office anymore, I decided to head to Naij.
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Regular reminder: BLACK PEOPLE ARE NEEDED AT JURY DUTY. All-white juries convict us at much higher rates and also give us harsher penalties. Lack of Black jurors literally leads to loss of freedom. Please serve if you can.
Summoned for jury duty….i feel like this is snitch adjacent lol.
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If you're wondering at this point did I put a hit out on a fucking chicken, the answer is yes. Yes the fuck I did.
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Sometimes, I sit down and think about how Monica Lewinsky was just 22 when her 49 year old boss, the most powerful politician in the world, groomed her for sex IN his office. and our society somehow made her the scapegoat while he just lived his damn life. 🥴.
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@TheDejaKing Not too loud or they'll start screaming that immigrants are stealin our jobs 🤭.
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Seriously, people who have committed genocide, assassination, war, slavery, and torture on every continent for the last several centuries are the first people to tell you, "violence is not the answer" . I just want it to make sense.
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So I got my glass of rosé and we go to the staff quarters with Roo-boy in the bag. This nigga is cluckin all nervous like he KNOWS what's about to go down. I'm like. don't be all quiet now Roo-boy. You had a lot to say in the streets at 4:56 every morning.
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Honestly, the breakup of my relationship paled in comparison. I had been with him 2 years. I had been with her for life. I couldn't BELIEVE she would do that to me, and just cut me out like that. The money was one thing, but the ghosting. Whew. I spent TIME in therapy on this.
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I would like to talk about how many Black folks stay locked into jobs and careers they hate because financial security has been drilled into their heads by generations who were kept from ever achieving it.
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Now, the wild part is, I don't even eat chicken. I'm pescatarian. Not to be confused with Presbyterian. I ain't been responsible for a chicken death in over a decade. But it's the principle of the thing.
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That was it. That was the end of my friendship with my best friend of 20 years. Me loaning her much-needed money that I really didn't have because I loved her and her son, and her subsequently ghosting me so as to not pay me back. It hurt so bad at the time.
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@layxsnv My granddad did this a couple times. He knew EVERYTHING about that phone. He was a jazz musician, born in the 20s, played with the greats, and before he died, he was using Skype to play drums with his former bandmate in europe. Jamming across continents in his living room.❤️.
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I will say that since then, "no" has become deeply embedded in my DNA. And I say it frequently. I'm sure that lesson had saved me from other, potentially harder ones. But yea, moral of the story is, those friendship breakups can be worse than romantic ones.
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I mean, at this point, it was like 20 cases of rona in the whole Nigeria, meanwhile America didn't know its ass from its nostrils and kids were licking toilet seats. So being "stuck" in Nigeria was a serious whatever to me.
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Meanwhile, I just woke up at 8 somethin on the lovely Saturday morning and I was like "you hear that?".
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About an hour later, he back. And guess who wit him?. [Real life footages. Proceed with caution.]
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We met in 5th grade. We'd been friends since. In high school, I moved away, and we were so close that our families discussed actually letting me stay and live with her fam so I could finish high school. We both went to college in Atlanta.
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When I say that this nigga Roo-boy AWOKE at 4:37 every morning and started hollerin for the next 12 hours straight, I am not exaggerating for clout. There was not a morning nor a nap that this nigga didn't disturb.
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Now, I know it's a lot of shit going on in the world. Niggas dying every day B. World on lockdown. Economies tanking. Lives changing. So I'm tryna keep perspective. But however this Roo-boy is terrorizing me day and night with his nonstop cockadoodledooing.
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I started waking up and just looking out the window at this nigga Roo-boy as he walked around this abandoned building yard where he hung out, just hollerin and screamin like a whole crackhead.
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I felt for years like I could never trust anyone again. No one had my back. The only people I should ever deal with had to be related to me, and even still. I was a paranoid and depressed wreck.
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I asked if Roo-boy had any last words. It was only right. This nigga looked me in my eyes. I looked back. We stared at each other for a good lil minute.
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Last night, I was on an American Airlines flight from DC to Raleigh. I witnessed a white woman harassing the Black man next to her the whole flight, then accusing him of taking her photo to the attendant. Police were called. Until I said something, he was treated as aggressor.
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Then my man's Roo-boy started to amp up and prepare to give his last cockadoodle fucking doo. Not on my watch. This ain't no damn Marvel movie.
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Apparently I'm supposed to shout myself on threads like this. In addition to being a cold-blooded chicken assasin, I also stan for Black people things. Follow @theNileList and check out for easy access to #Blackowned online shopping.
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I LOVED her to death. She got pregnant the year after college graduation, and I planned her baby shower from London, calling in favors and even having my mother drive in-state to cook and help since I could not afford to fly back for it.
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I also battled that natural inclination I have to help people because I viewed people as fundamentally bad, takers, who would never do for me in return (which, tbf, many people are). Like. this friendship breakup had my mind WARPED. I hate thinking of it till today.
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I am her son's godmother. I routinely flew back to Atlanta (while broke and in school) just to spend time with my godson and with her. She called me the week that she was getting married (it was a last min wedding) and asked me to come be her maid of honor. And I didn't hesitate.
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But I do still mourn that closeness we had, or that I thought we had. That lifelong friendship that I assumed would be there. And the person that I was who just gave and trusted and loved and wasn't so damn jaded before that period in my life.
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I highly recommend therapy and grace for YOURSELF first and foremost, and then for other people. We are all flawed and learning as we go. And everything happens in divine order, just as it should. ❤️❤️.
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That was the last time I had a real conversation with my best friend. She stopped answering calls after that. Her husband paid me back part of the money, the rest is still owed today. That was in 2018. In 2020, she texted me an apology. In 2021, I saw her for about 30 min.
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I had to put him out the house and come up with his portion of the money to buy the house, or I would forfeit the earnest money that I had already paid - which was more than $30k. I was SO stressed out, just a crying wreck all the time. I still came to her wedding for her.
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My friend told me she lived in "West Midtown" and I got over there like. baby, this is Bankhead! It's still spaceships over here 🤣.
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Now. I have known other roosters. Like I said, I grew up in Georgia. But I ain't never in my whole country ass life, encountered no shit like this broke ass Rooster, Roo-boy.
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I'm reporting ALL of these hate tweets on my page, yall need to stoppppp 😭😭.
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Then I looked over at a bowl of chicken vindaloo we ordered and it hit me.
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Now, to add color to this - I was going through the worst break up of my life (at the time). My ex and I lived together, were under contract to buy a house together, and were planning to get married - when I found out he was lying about his life and money and was an alcoholic.
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8,500. Not dollars. Naira. So just over $20. Bet.
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As for me. I am READY. Feelin like a real mafia boss.
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I did, however, grow up in Savannah GA, so I know anout weird country city shit. Like chickens. In the city. Makin noise. Now, let's introduce my archnemesis. We'll call him Roo-boy. He is. was. a rooster that lived in the hood apartment block next to our building.
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I told her I HAD to get my money back to close on my house because everything was falling on me alone now. She told me she took a 401k drawdown and it was on the way. I gave her the money (a few thousand dollars) because I couldn't bear to think of my godson on the streets.
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And just in case y'all need more footages. WARNING: GRAPHIC POULTRY CONTENT. This is Roo-boy chillin in my freezer, anxiously awaiting a stew. It's a cold world for him fa real. 🤣
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Roo-boy started entering my dreams with that loud ass crowing. I'd wake up feeling like Roo-boy was literally in the room with me. Check the time. It would be 5:12 am.
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One day, I'm sittin at the dinner table and just ruminating on the challenges I'm facing in life. Stuck in a foreign country. Work starting to pile up. Business I launched is going thru changes. Store ran out of sundried tomatoes. But most pressing on my mind is Roo-boy ass.
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A week after the wedding, about 2 weeks before my house closing, she calls me crying and asking for money. She said she was facing eviction (which she never told me before even though I'm a lawyer and could have helped). She told me she would pay me back within 3 days.
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So I called the steward and dashed him the 8.5k. Told him go secure the fuckin chicken.
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Now, Lagos is a big ass city. And I don't like to be on that whole "Africa is so wild and different from the WEST" P, so I try to approach it like other big cities. But some shit really ain't the same.
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Always unpopular opinions about workers working. Never unpopular opinions about companies respecting workers, paying them more, working them less, not destroying our planet, contributing positively to society, or anything like that!.
Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.
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So fast forward like a day and a half to yesterday, when I get out the shower. I'm putting on my ivory butter from @AramiEssentials feeling all luxurious and happy, and who starts hoopin and hollerin?. Roo-boy.
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And as I think about all the bad things people have done to me in my life, that one hurts the worst, still. My mother has always encouraged me to forgive her and think of her point of view (likely embarrassment at not being able to pay me back). I try. Truly.
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Here to remind everyone that I am not a woman of color. I'm a Black woman. Thanks.
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Then I started waking up at 4:42 am like. what thee FUCK is that noise. ?
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I booked a flight for a few days later, got my life together, and roll bounced to Lagos.
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I got here 3 days before they closed the borders up. International airport closed a couple days later. Looked like I was here for the long haul.
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The most INSANE fallacy about becoming an entrepreneur is that you "work for yourself." WRONG! Entrepreneurs work for their customers. Clients. Investors. Regulators. Partners. Lenders. You absolutely do not become your own boss, you just acquire infinitely more bosses.
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I've lived in other countries before. Plus I'm here with family. So I'm extra fine. I just started getting settled and living life.
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When I FIRST FIRST heard Roo-boy, it was a normalish time of morning and I was slightly entertained. Like oh okay, someone got a rooster just in the middle of Ikoyi like that. Huh.
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I think I've mostly gotten to a place of forgiveness. Her father passed away last year, and I called her to check on her multiple times and also contributed to the go-fund-me for his funeral expenses. I genuinely felt for her.
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@RevNunnWisdom That was me for weeks as I tried to understand how my best friend could just ditch me like that. When I was already struggling.
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So I call the steward over. Start askin him about the price of chicken. Whole chicken. Live chicken. Whole live male chicken.
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I start describing Roo-boy to him and ask him to go find the owner and get a price. How much is it going to cost me to bring Roo-boy into my possession?.
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It cost me my time on a night where I was already exhausted, but I would do it again. All we have is one another, as so many of these situations continue to make clear. And as much as Black men get me riled up, I will never sit by and say nothing when you need me.
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This is the worst "big-budget" Black movie ever made.
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Yesterday, a man who had sat at a table next to mine when I was out at dinner, waited 20 minutes outside for me to leave the restaurant, then followed my Uber from VI to my house in Ikoyi. He jumped out his car and demanded I give him my number when I was at my gate. Scary.
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I'll add that I have recently been struggling a LOT with guilt. Esp. since her father passed. I really want to there for my godson and I feel guilty that I've spent 0 time with him since this happened. It's not his fault, and I'm his godmother. I don't know how to handle that.
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A lot of folks are asking, so YES, I got my house and I don't know what the people who wronged me got except gone from my life 👋🏽.
@DSTBlaze I truly, honestly, don't know HOW I made it through that year. I was so hurt. I cried EVERY tear possible. But then again, I cried those tears in my new house that God still saw fit to allow me to buy while those people were wherever they were 💅🏾.
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Black people: how many times do y'all press the lock button on your car keys before you're satisfied that the doors actually locked? It's at least 3 for me.
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It's clear from the replies that our girls are doomed. But, we knew that. 1 in 6 US women are raped or suffer attempted rape in their lives. Rape culture doesn't start with the rape. It starts with the way we are conditioned to view women and sex, and men and responsibility.
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I was the only other Black person in first class besides this man. My Black woman and lawyer brain played out possible scenarios quickly and felt compelled to speak for him. There is a thin line between an accused Black man and a dead Black man in America.
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@mvargasish I really admire how you entered a conversation where no one was speaking to or about you and decided to chime in.
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Steve Jobs was a white male when he started Apple rent-free in his parents' garage. Jeff Bezos was a white male when he started Amazon with $$ from his parents. Mark Zuckerberg was a white male when his parents paid for him to go to Harvard & start Facebook. So much brilliance 🥴.
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1 IMPORTANT thing: I'm seeing several replies saying this would drive you to su*cide. PLEASE, NO. Thank God that things never got there for me. If you are going thru it & feel this way in the least, please open up to someone you can still trust. Don't let them take your life too.
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I'm hiring ASAP for a Marketing Director at my Black-owned ecommerce marketplace startup, founded last year with @Diddy. $140k+ pay, benefits, and equity! #marketingtwitter . @blackmarketers1 @TheOfficialBECA @BWMarketers @AamaHouston @hireBLACKmrktrs.
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However, my reputation apparently precedes me. That chicken hasn't made a goddamn sound since he's been out there. He's out there walkin around extra quiet.
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Chapter II: Tha Block is Hot. Y'all not gone believe this shit right here. Or, you probably will considering that some of my TL called it quick fast. THERE IS A REPLACEMENT CHICKEN. ffsffsffsffsffsffsffs
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What bothered me most was how close I felt the entire situation was to turning out very differently. In the first instance, the FA took the woman's word that a Black man photographed her as truth. What bothered me most is that no one else spoke up until I did.
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I am looking to hire a(n openly Black) social media coordinator. Who understands THEE culture. Does bomb work. Has experience with ecommerce brands. And is based in or has very easy access to Atlanta. I will value your work, mental health, and pay you what you're owed.
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Everyone in surrounding seats had heard and seen this woman's erratic behavior the entire flight. Many had turned to look and shake their heads. But as the FA intervened and police were called, these people were QUIET. They knew that man was defending himself against craziness.
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Men, do not do this. Ever. I was so shook. This is psychotic behavior. It's aggressive and it's unacceptable. Women have to deal with enough in this world where men murder us every day. I just thank God there was security at the gate.
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