Tyrone Polk - Freedmen 🇺🇸
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American Freedmen, Reparationist, Delineationist, Historian & Certified Historical Interpreter, Independent Researcher, Independent Voter
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@iamCatoAmir
has been encouraging me to post my exchange with
@WhipClyburn
. He knows I'm more of a behind the scenes person. Lol. Glad we were able to address Clyburn. Please follow suit to get at your Reps. abt Reparations & Blk Am. issues when they have their townhalls. Peace.
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8.5 million views in a 24-hour span. That's wild! IDC what any 1 says, Katt Williams has always remained relevant because he's talented, but more importantly, he stands on principle. We supported him when the powers that be tried to discredit & destroy him. That's real power!
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@latimes
The shooter was an adult who almost caused civil unrest/white mob rebellion if he assassinated Trump.
Yet you have his what seems like his HS photo & the headline he was a bright student .
This all coded language & imagery to make him look innocent & non-threatening.
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We've always shown love to the African Diaspora.
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@byjuliapoe
And you had some former NBA players & one current talking about taking it easy on CC plus WNBA players need to stop hating. Meanwhile, Reese is competing as she should while being vilified by a certain group, if you know what I mean.
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Any American Freedmen (Black American) who has visited Africa & says they felt at home is lying. I visited Ghana during a time when I was earning a BA in Africana Studies. I was a super Pan-Africanists. It took me going to the "Motherland" to realize I'm American.
Ghanaians
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@ZhengaBeauty
Of course, enslaved Africans brought traditions & customs to the Americas & some of those carried on for generations. At the same time, we have our own unique culture we developed thru out time. i.e. AAVE, negro spirituals ( the origins of blk 🇺🇸 music), roasting, soul food, etc.
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@unclelukereal1
What should we call the black men Kamala wrongfully prosecuted? The California 6.
You shills act as if she absolved from ruining black people's lives.
Her "tough on crime" stance was similar to Biden & Clinton.
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Coconut tart? Yeah, that must be the Caribbean influence.
No Black American (Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen), on both sides, is going to have that dish in their top 5. Most of us probably never even heard of it.
Case in pt. All blackness is not the same.
#delineate
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Speaking of Jewish Slave Owners let's discuss the Sheftalls. They were a multiple generation slave owning family based in Savannah, GA. A former house of the Sheftalls is now the Historic Savannah Foundation.
@ADL
Where's the reparations & an apology to the enslaved descendants?
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A prime example of how Caribbean Americans can delineate without being called divisive.
That "we all black" goes out the window real quick when they feel the need to differentiate.
It's cool. Their con game is up. The same applies to these Africans & so-called
Tonigh join us on a national call to mobilize Caribbean-Americans in support of Kamala Harris' historic Presidential campaign! RSVP at
P.S. Happy Emancipation Day to all my trinis!!! Today we celebrate our freedom & heritage 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
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Fortune Investment Properties LLC, (Asian owned), has targeted/shut down Black 🇺🇸 owned businesses in Brunswick. The blk community is calling for a boycott of A-Town Wings & several other properties under Fortune. Plz rewteet 2 spread the word. Thnxs.
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@CBSNews
Kamala is Indian (🇮🇳) & Jamaican. She is NOT a Descendant of American Slaves/Freedmen (Black American).
Stop misleading people with that header.
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@seanleon
As someone from the States, I'm old enough to remember the Toronto Hip Hop scene before Drake. Saukrates, Choclair, Kardinall, K-Os, etc.
I even remember Swollen Members, Moka Only & the Razcals in Vancouver. I still play "Top of World" from time to time.
Drake got the T dot
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@ycinnewyork
@KeithPowersNYC
@CMNantashaW
@NYCCouncil38
@NYCSpeakerAdams
So when black people speak up against racism perpetrated by Jews & Asians we're labeled anti-semitic & anti-asian. This is the new way to try to silence us instead of genuinely addressing not only anti-black rhetoric but also the physical displacement of us by these groups.
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@oaktreesnsea
@staceyabrams
@larazaatlanta
Black Americans (Freedmen) are the 2nd largest ethnic group in GA. What politician running for state office would be so dismissive of such a large group if they respected their potential political power?
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@plies
@KamalaHarris
We don't like Kamala because she fought against a 2011 SCOTUS ruling that ordered the state of CA to reduce its nonviolent prison population. She almost caused a constitutional crisis & held was almost held in contempt.
We don't like Kamala because she wanted to increase
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@TatyanaAli
Very interesting. Because when we, the Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen (Black Americans), try to delineate, we get called divisive by Africans & Caribbeans. Yet, you all are naturally delineating right now.
Be sure to let your Caribbean folks know, esp the Jamaicans,
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2 Hispanic members of Congress, 1 (D) & 1 (R), intro'd a bill to provide pathways to citizenship for illegals w/ proposed billions in funding.
While
@TheBlackCaucus
idly does nothing to improve our deteriorating socioeconomic & cont. 2nd class citizenship/ bottom caste status.
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Dear my Caribbean and African friends,
As Juneteenth approaches do NOT be like the Brooklyn based org.,
@caribBEING
.
This org. had to the audacity to host a Juneteenth event but excluded American Freedmen/Descendants of American Slaves (Black American) vendors.
Excluding
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@ElectGallardo
I'm more excited abt
@Marcel4Congress
than I'll ever be 4 you or any of the DSA backed candidates. Many of you don't realize how anti-black you all can be. Also, I don't see reparations 4 blk 🇺🇲 on your campaign site🤔
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@AdinHaykin1
You also failed to mention black soldiers were forced to be stationed west of the Mississippi River due to anti-black racism by whites.
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@isaiahrmartin
F**k your hope! Obama willingly destroyed black wealth.
F**k your superficial slogans & empty feel-good moments as well.
Black Americans are on the cusp of socioeconomic-political destruction & you shills are basically telling us to eat cake.
You are terrible people with
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I'm originally from Seattle, WA, just like Angela Rye. Her & I are close in age as well. Rye went to Holy Names HS, which is a predominantly wight all girls private school. In addition, it is one of the most elite schools in the area.
During my time, most American Freedmen from
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A Pan-Africanist Jamaican asked why we need to remove the Pan-African flag from Juneteenth?
I explained to him some of the earliest celebrations of what is commonly known as Juneteenth. Our ancestors [not his] celebrated the (domestic) holiday using the American flag because
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@pierrefleury_
A 1901 Juneteenth celebration by Descendants of 🇺🇸 Slaves aka Freedmen.
Know the History of us & why WE are the 1st group that MUST claim the 🇺🇸 flag. WE built the country! Full🛑
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At the Red Rooster in Beaufort, SC. It's the spot where
@Marcel4Congress
& I met when I 1st arrived from NYC. He only knew me online but went out of his way 2 make sure I was good in my new home. It's how we all need to look out for each other. My brotha is a real one 4 that.
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@tariqnasheed
Hidden Colonizers is perfect. We have to expose all the non-FBA groups who tether and/or undermine us. They have hidden in plain sight this whole time.
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I made one comment about wishing ADOS the best on their advocacy a couple days ago now I'm blocked. Mind you, I never said anything negative about ADOS, Yvette, or Tone ever on SM. This stuff is real petty & been petty for a min. What are we really doing here, seriously?
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I've been a Homelessness Prevention Case Manager in rural S. GA for a month. I can confirm overwhelmingly the majority of the homeless population is black 🇺🇸 (Freedmen). Also, our #'s have to be far worst than reported national 40%. HUD counts staying w/others as not homeless.
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@NYCSpeakerAdams
Black 🇺🇸 been in NYC since the 1600s. We never collectively acted violently toward any other group & always been accepting. Yet, RN we're made the face of anti-asian hate & anti-semitism while other group's hatred, violence, & displacement of us goes unnoticed. This bias must 🛑.
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@OmarJimenez
@Bakari_Sellers
@MrShermichael
As a heads up, just saying your black is not going to cut anymore. We clearly see now the Dems are propping up descendants of African & Caribbean immigrants to cosplay as Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen (Black Americans). We're shutting down their nefarious agenda.
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@theonlyjasonlee
This pic is of black people working for white owned media companies. It's not the Black media.
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@certifiedjared
But Drake is being alienated by the culture. That's not a win.
Also, dropping the hard ER shows he didn't grow up in the culture.
@X87Melanin
According to Drake it's pronounced "Nigger". There's a hard " e, r" there. Most African-American Blacks don't use it. But those from Canada do. Common mistake.
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@elrheymusic
It shows you nothing abt Hip Hop. Kendrick actually rapped in different cadences as well.
You Drake fans are sour losers. Just hold the L & move on. Get ready for the summer vibes bops, the lane Drake should have stayed in instead of thinking he could go toe to toe w/ a true
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@CABlackCaucus
This is despicable, unethical & downright cruel. This is not okay what you have just done. You crushed the hard work of the lineage-based reparations activists in your state. You also crushed the hopes of Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen community across the country. You
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@nhoodpublicist
I expect Drake to send the Rutherford County Library System a cease and desist.😄
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@kennymxu
U left out Black 🇺🇸 ancestors were used as chattel slaves. They were used as a commodity to be sold & traded. This created the 🇺🇸 economy & wealth. It's the reason why the Confederacy put our ancestors on their currency. We held special value that no other group could produce.
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@VanJones68
Wrong. Black Americans have saved our democracy over and over again while continuing to be treated as 2nd class citizens. Too many Jewish people have been silent, complicit, or have participated in our disenfranchisement.
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@ajamubaraka
You need to direct this energy towards Kamala supporters, not us who are actually demanding specific policies for our vote.
Also, why are we always the scapegoat for U.S. Imperialism? You act as we are the ones forcing Congress to give Israel billions in dollars to fund a
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1866 Anti-Freedmen propaganda. Interesting how not much has changed. Only now, it's being done by so-called people in favor of lineage-based reparations.🤦🏾♂️
Trying to discredit the Freedmen is erasing your history/lineage. It's self-destructive behavior.
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@RepCori
So the Descendants of U.S. Chattel Slavery brought the discussion of the wealth gap to the national stage only for Dems. like you to turn around to advocate for closing the Latina wage gap? Ur district is almost 50% Black & 3% Latino. U have no business being their rep.
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@unplugfitX
@tariqnasheed
$203 million in additional assistance went to your homeland last month.
Your people are receiving training with our US Treasury dollars for the business they create in America.
Sounds like your people aren't pulling themselves up by their bootstraps Amrou.
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@KimberlyNFoster
We, the Descendants of 🇺🇲 Chattel Slaves/Freedmen, realize now the POC coalition is virtually non-existent. Too many POC acquiesce to WS by being complicit. Non-Blk POC have civil rights bcuz of what our enslaved ancestors endured. RN, it's vital to prioritize our needs w/o shame
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@MarioHTXX
Drake combined what people been saying online into his diss. That was not calculating at all. It was reactionary & not getting ahead of the curve.
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@unclelukereal1
Naw. We saw that awful interview you did with Kamala. It's best to stay a listener.
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Plantation "style" weddings are just as sick & inappropriate as slave quarter AirBnB's. They must be called out. Also, J. Lo is now officially a White Latina. No one with a real black abuela would co-sign this Gone with the Wind B.S.
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Shout-out to Lord Jamar, who I believe said he is of part Guyanese descent, for keeping a buck about how American Freedmen (Black Americans) created Hip Hop. I loved the analogy he used about how Hip Hop roots are in Funk, Soul, and R&B, all Black American creations.
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@KSEconomist
1. US Chattel Slavery (1776-1865)
2. Convict leasing, vagrancy laws, & Sharecropping (1865 - 1980s)
3. Urban Renewal/Gentrification (1930s - present)
4. Iran-Contra Scandal/Crack Era/War on Drugs (1970s - 1990s)
5. Mass Incarceration (1990s - present)
Reparations r owed, period!
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@TiffanyDCross
I've been to 🇬🇭 twice. There's nothing for us over there. It's only good to vacation. It's incredibly hard to sustain yourself over there w/o real connections & min. 10s of thousands of dollars. Tiffany Cross should be ashamed of selling r ppl fantastical dreams.
#reparations
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@Grambling1901
@WhatsUpwithFSUB
C'mon Grambling. You have to do your research. Our American Freedmen ancestors celebrated Juneteenth using the American flag. Please stick to the proper colors. Not these Pan-African colors. It's not a Pan-African holiday. Thank you.
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@unplugfitX
@tariqnasheed
Yet we spoke up when people in your country were experiencing a genocide.🤔
We have more empathy for your own people than you do.
People are currently starving to death in your homeland, but we stay rent-free in your mind. Get your priorities straight.
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@WendellPierce
The
@CABlackCaucus
&
@GavinNewsom
just sabotaged reparations for American Freedmen (Black Americans) in CA. It's clear they didn't want to set the precedence of economic justice & repair.
The Dems are just as Anti-Black American as Republicans. Voting for a party that's out
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@TheDiaspora93
If Carribbeans didn't experience the Confederacy, the KKK, vagrancy laws, lynchings, Jim Crow/Segregation, Rosewood, Camilla, Tulsa, etc. then they don't have anything modern in common with Black American Southerners. This line blur is a PA reach w/ no respect to S. 🇺🇸 History.
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@NPR
Psst mainstream media, publishing blk writers to denounce r beloved icons (i.e. Kyrie & Chappelle) as antisemitic is a WS trick we're frankly getting tired of. These writers have no accountability n r community & makes ur publications look
#antiblack
. Understand the sea change.
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@michaelharriot
And a good portion of immigrants are indifferent and/or are hostile towards Black Americans' struggle for socioeconomic justice (lineage-based reparations).
A good portion parrot WS talking points & use Anti-Black American tropes to denigrate us.
You even have elected
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Started a new job in a new town.
Asked my FBA/Freedmen co-worker does she know a Black 🇺🇸 biz where I can get my hair retwisted? I stressed I didn't want an African hair braiding spot. Tired of a lot of them disrespecting us while in our homeland. + just want to support my own.
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@spicebae_
So, a first-generation Nigerian American can be country, but Beyoncé, who has centuries of generational southern roots, as a Black American, can't.🤔
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@UConnCallMeJo
We're proud to be American every year & all year long. From our culture to our fight for equality & justice, our influence is global.
In fact, our influence inspired Kwame Nkrumah when he went to Lincoln University, a historically black college & university (HBCU).
He went
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Heard Freedmen/FBA hating agents of chaos said the boots on the ground Reparationists @ Clyburn's fish fry were disruptive & not there to dialogue. Well,
@Marcel4Congress
& I had a dialogue last summer. Guess what, Clyburn was just as dismissive & gaslighting. Now what?🤔
@iamCatoAmir
has been encouraging me to post my exchange with
@WhipClyburn
. He knows I'm more of a behind the scenes person. Lol. Glad we were able to address Clyburn. Please follow suit to get at your Reps. abt Reparations & Blk Am. issues when they have their townhalls. Peace.
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@POTUS
If you truly wanted equity for Black Americans (American Freedmen), you would sign an Executive Order on reparations.
Half of these actions are symbolic. Some actually benefit other groups as well. The others don't benefit all American Freedmen.
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The way this YT woman is holding Jim Clyburn's face I see why he's the house whip. I'm getting parentalistic plantation vibes. I'll be damned if I'm the 3rd most powerful man in the 🏠 of Reps & let this woman son me like that. I know
@Marcel4Congress
wouldn't allow that either.
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@AdinHaykin1
Was it a hard pill to swallow for the 5 Civilized Tribes to be enslavers of black people, lose their land in the SE United States, walk the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma but still keep their slaves then fight with the Confederacy?
Are they colonizers, too?
Again, you know nothing
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@_DosFlakos
@worldemcee
You forgot to say Black American music adopted by Black Caribbeans & Puerto Ricans.
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@freedomrideblog
@quantumblackne2
We wave the 🇺🇸 flag to recognize our ancestors' contributions to building the country & all the great things we've accomplished despite oppression. We're not confused. We know our history in this country is rooted in its foundation. We're uniquely 🇺🇸 & will not anyone erase that.
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@Phil_Lewis_
And all you Democratic Party fascists keep trying to shame us for not supporting the Dems, esp. Kamala.
F*** you and that Anti-Black American (Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen) party.
We know the
@CABlackCaucus
acted on behalf of Gov. Newsom, who is closely tied to
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The reason why I've been going so hard against the red, black, and green (Pan-African) colors being used for Juneteenth is not only because it has no business being associated with the emancipation of American Slaves.
It also has to do with honoring Callie House. She led the
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@jimmyfromda12
Y'all stay lying. Also, that's not the point the lady is conveying in the video. Nispey & Kendrick embodied the Black American struggle in their music, Drake does not. Therefore, we don't go to him for inspiration.
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I'm tired of the Dems "we have to save our democracy" BS speech. BA been saving this country from itself since its inception. We've gotten 0 n return. We're being socio-economically exterminated &
@TheBlackCaucus
thinks voting & infrastructure is the cure all.🤦🏾♂️😤😡
#reparations
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@MitziG219
@larryelder
I never bombed 🇺🇦, yet my tax $ goes towards funding their war w/ Russia. No 1 has a prob w/ that but when we demand reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, white terrorism, being locked out of the New Deal, housing & employment discrimination, Iran-Contra, etc every 1 has a prob.🤔
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@PresidentAdaeze
We're American. Guess who are the first ones to tell us we're American when we visit Africa, Africans. Our DNA is comprised of African, European & in some cases indigenous American, making us an admixture group with our own ethnicity. U ppl never factor in geography & history.🤦🏾♂️
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@unclelukereal1
Like we don't have beautiful FBA women & beautiful beaches as well.🤦🏾♂️
Your homeland's economy mainly relies on tourism, btw.
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@Ajaiye1805
Choosing well to do Black immigrants for their colleges & universities over Freedmen (Black Americans) is one way WS differentiates.
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@XXL
Of course, No Vaseline & Ether are two of the best diss songs, but what Kendrick did to Drake is unprecedented. He set a new bar for current & future rappers/mc's/lyricists.
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It's wild 2 think the Descendants of U.S. Chattel Slaves/Freedmen had more authentic political representation in the 1860s & 1870s then today. The
@TheBlackCaucus
should be embrassed to consider themselves our political leaders. They don't walk in our icon shoes & never will.
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@OGA_Femii
@HenriettaSnacks
This is a short list of some of the problems Nigeria currently has.
You all receive millions of dollars in US aid as well.
Also, all you migrant to predominantly Black Americans cities.🤔
Your country is on the brink of economic & political collapse, yet we must get our
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@ABrown59089177
No. All blackness is NOT the same. The geographic differences along w/ the history & culture are why we're not all the same.
You can love coconut tart as a Black American, but you know dang well that's not a part of our culture. It's not divisive to point that out.
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Whether ADOS, DOAS, B1, FBA, or Freedmen. WE all need to be respectfully blitzing Janet Yellen right now.
Infusing the Freedmen's Bank into the BIPOC propaganda apparatus is going too far.
#freedmensbankforum
#BIPOC
#janetyellen
#ustreasury
Email Janet Yellen and let her know what's being done with the freedmens bank is unacceptable. Please be professional. Janet.Yellen
@FRB
.gov
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Just a snippet of
@DawnAlstonPaige
going in at today's St. Helena's Community Meeting. The residents are paying taxes w/o getting basic necessities such as proper sewage, youth programs, child services etc. The Black residents can't even visit their buried loves ones.
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@Marcel4Congress
I wonder if
#godfrey
said the same thing when those illegals ran up on Nancy Pelosi?🤔
He knows nothing about protests & activism. You're supposed to catch elected officials wherever they are at.
Godfrey epitomizes performative blackness.
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@mercash22
Right like White ppl, including Jews, saying how terrified they are of Black men is not an
#antiblack
racist trope that have got men lynched & castrated throughout this country's history. Also, Jewish Slave Owners weren't terrified when they were enslaving Black people.
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@KarenAttiah
Why only focus on Liberia? What about Sierra Leone?
Also, there were about 4.5 million black people in the U.S. in 1860 (4 million enslaved & 500,000 free blacks). Only about 15,000 of them migrated to Liberia.
Also, why didn't you bring up the American Colonization Society
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@YtH8r
@Marcel4Congress
Nothing Marcel said has anything 2 do w/ COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO dismantled Freedmen/FBA revolutionaries 4 fighting 4 their human rights in the US. Ur doing the very thing ur accussing Marcel of. Ur interfering w/r spec. fight 4 Reparations. Being lineage spec has u PA losing it.
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@ElectGallardo
@Marcel4Congress
Another dismissive Non-Black POC.🙄 This is the reason why I stopped volunteering for the
@DemSocialists
& now focus on FBA/Freedmen issues. Many of these progressives don't understand out History, plight, & our need for specificity i.e. reparations & protective class status.
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@ArtOfDialogue_
Black men & women have plenty of reasons not to vote for Kamala.
The black celebrities shaming their own community tactic is not working.
We actually do our research.
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@ReverendWarnock
This has to be the most uninspiring Senate runoff election. Warnock ran all these ads attacking Walker's character but then used his own mother's struggle as a sharecropper to signal to older Black Americans to vote. Mind you, this man dodged
@Marcel4Congress
? abt Reparations.
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@TierGawd
@ajamubaraka
1. There's nothing Pan-African about calling yourself the Duke.
2. Similar to Garvey, many of you PAs are consciously & subconsciously enthralled with European/Western ideologies/standards. It's why you live in the US & not Africa.
3. How are we a disgrace when we are picking
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Afro-Latinos feeling entitled 2 be part of a musuem intended 4 the DOAS/Freedmen/FBA is just another example of y we must cont. 2 disaggregate, gatekeep, & reject PA. Afro-Latinos, African & Carribbean immigrants need 2 decolonize their minds as well. Ur behavior is unacceptable
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@Bakari_Sellers
Says the man who couldn't rally a room at the
@BlackVotersMtr
event in Columbia, SC. I was there. Marcel checked you from the crowd w/o a mic. What about that failed TV you had which you needed April Ryan & Angela Rye to help carry you. Ur just a pawn 4 the Dems. U hold no power.
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@espn
She didn't want to get hit with that hard screen again, so she faked an injury.
#fakewhitehope
#jordanrules
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I listened to a 🇬🇭 prof. insert himself into our lineage struggle on the Butler Plantation honoring the ppl who were sold during the
#weepingtime
slave auction. He left out the role the Fante & Asante played during the slave trade. PA allowed Blk Immigrants to think they're us.
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@itsellemurasaki
Choosing racial & gender identity politics over demanding policies for your community, that's in desperate need of resources, absolutely makes no sense.
Ignoring an elected official's record of harming your community is completely self-destructive behavior.
Putting your own
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The Indiana Freeman Newspaper was in circulation from 1884 to 1927 (43 years). Booker T. Washington was a major contributor to the publication.
Further proof that Freedmen/Freeman was an intergenerational term.
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@AP
The
@CABlackCaucus
&
@GavinNewsom
are the blame for denying reparations to the Descendants of American Slaves/Freedmen (Black Americans).
They just proved how Democrats don't want economic justice for Black Americans in the state.
They just made it harder for Kamala because
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@SupJaniceHahn
@JacksonLeeTX18
#HR40
is just a commission to study reparations for Black Americans. The Descendants of 🇺🇲 Slaves community rejects this do nothing bill. We're demanding a new bill w/ allocation of $. I advise u contact
@SandyDarity
&
@naasdorg
for more details.
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@AsmTinaMcKinnor
@KillerMike
@CABlackCaucus
In other words, you & the
@CABlackCaucus
want 5 years of hard work from lineage-based reparations advocates, particularly in CA, to die.
Why table such pivotal bills for next year when you have the power to introduce & pass them now?
Also, why worry about Republicans when
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@sschritz2
@ChuckCallesto
Your ancestor most likely received a war pension. Freedmen (Black American) soldiers didn't. Plus, their wartime wages were stolen by White agents who managed the Freedmen's Savings & Trust Bank.Learn the history & why we're demanding reparations for said damages & past crimes.
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