Translation: white capital has tapped Keith Lee to redirect his audiences dollars away from independent small Black business to corporate chains using the tried and true cover of philanthropy.
Food reviewer & Influencer Keith Lee has landed a national brand deal with Pizza Hut to launch the “Keith FamilLee Community Pizza.” They will be hosting 2 Pizza parties at the high school he and his wife attended and donating $50,000 to the schools.
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
My wife and I were just discussing the fact tht ados community collapse has led to skills not being passed down and created a market to exploit... now we pay "Africans" hundreds for braids you used to get on the stoop
John Boyega will star as young Eli in a ‘BOOK OF ELI’ prequel series.
The series is set 30 years before the film in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear event.
(Source: Deadline)
Class reductionist dominate the white left cause they are unwilling to confront the fact that whiteness is at the root of class struggle in a society built by racialized slave labor & in order to make the progress the claim to want theyll have to deconstruct their inate privilege
"Black joy is both a form of reparation and comfort on college campuses. As a group that was denied equal access to higher education through the majority of our nation’s history." – Michael Omole, LDF client
@0liviajulianna
This feels like a dishonest conflation between Mexican wage labor and systemic sharecropping to appropriate the historical legacy of
#ADOS
to exploit the political capital born out of said legacy
From the comments, it's clear it hasn't hit most of us that this is all our future. Retirement is a thing of the past for us due to the calcification of white wealth & our imposed bottom casted outgroup status. w/o a radical transformative justice oriented political shift
@BreakingBrown
Imagine walking up to the disproportionately Blk homeless and saying "sorry, but I cant/wont advocate for your immediate need bc of climate change." Completely off the rails... how does anybody take it seriously
@Prof_AllanH
It's not a juneteenth festival if it's celebrating Ghana Africa... ghana was founded in 1957. The 1st juneteenth goes back to 1865. That's not reclaiming, it's colonizing
PSA: There's no such thing as "brown" men... not politically, culturally, or socially
It's nomenclature that was coined to avoid Blackness on their journey towards becoming white.
Ppl are weirdly committed to an attempt to make
#ados
perpetrators of imperialism and not victims because it legitimizes their bigoted disregard of our unique plight as they collaborate w/ imperialists for access to the "American dream"
Marjorie Taylor Greene, on the house floor in her introduction to censure Illhan Omar called Omar "representative of Somalia... i mean Minnesota"
😂
Shit getting spicy
@BreakingBrown
Didn't envy say out his own mouth in one of the vids he was responsible for the whole crew and put them on... said something like "there would be no Cesar without me and ill say it to their face bc they know its true"... how you go from that to he didn't know it's a scam
TN a 🤡
Soooo.... we can't claim the flag but we can claim the VP office? What critique do we have of this political hypocrisy?
Yall are dangerously unserious.
Does Black America understand what I am telling them? Look the Federal Reserve chart says all of Black America has $270 billion in private business. Jeff Bezos by himself is worth $211 billion. None of what Black folks are talking about matters this is the whole ballgame.
#ados
@Youngm831
He was blatantly wrong and still posted the video w/ this soldiers plates... racialized terror is a badge of honor for these white supremacists.
@_theghettomonk
He knows. imo, that's just not a door Drake wants to open... bc the kendrick retort wit a clever "synagogue of satin" bar would go nuclear.
Any reparations bill "in the spirit of NCOBRA" is a grift meant to misappropriate political capital...
It's unfortunate you haven't figured that out yet
It’s unfortunate that the
#Reparations
bill signed by
@GovKathyHochul
is whitewashed, watered down and lacks key provisions originally drafted by my dear Brother CM Charles Barron to put power in the hands of the community instead of hand picked bureaucrats. I look forward to
@ArtOfDialogue_
Chastising your community for discussing rap beef, particularly one that centers the contrasts btwn artists as it relates to identity & decadentveil, instead of putting energy into "freeing our ppl" while you sit under palm trees sipping🍹 is..... an interesting choice.
@estoyfriio
If your braids were big and ugly, maybe you need to take that up with your ppl. But you're right about a different economic time. I'd say, seeing as we are in economic collapse and they charging stacks per head, the necessity has arisen again.
Not every day a Black father brings home a war criminal head of state instrumental in mass incarceration and the construction of the modern police state to meet his Black sons who are disproportionately likely to fall victim to his bad policy...
I despise the capitalist economic system, but this framing is dishonest and only serves to prolong, disincentize, and demotivate a particular justice claim by predicating it on the complete overthrow of the global capitalist order, a standard not applied to any other claim.
Chattel Slavery happened BECAUSE of capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy and imperialism. It's the whole reason why we are owed reparations in the first place. The system needs to be rebuilt IN ADDITION TO reparations. Come on, fam... WAKE UP
1. ALL ppl are of African descent
2. Blk immigrants prior to 70s/80s was to the right of the decimal
3. CHOOSING to immigrate to an openly hostile antiblack nation then facing oppression should not be conflated w/
#ADOS
multigen FORCED enslavement claim simply bc of melanin
@JohnECochran_
So, people of African descent in the United States for Jim Crow aren't owed anything?
People affected by attacks on Black communities, eg Tulsa & Chicago?
During the drug war & mass incarceration?
Ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods?
Marcus Garvey?
Your coverage of this important topic was executed poorly bc it failed to account for the remaking of Black America since the inception of HBCUs; so it fails to properly identify the original mission of HBCUs to address a lineage cost of
#ADOS
, not flat blackness or poc...
Historically Black Colleges and Universities are diversifying their sports rosters — recruiting international athletes for golf, volleyball & tennis. But some students and coaches ask… at what cost?
Read & Listen to the full story on
@wabenews
:
@tonetalks
I have a millennial college friend who's an accomplished lawyer but struggles mentally bc his mother, uncles, in laws etc. claim he's a failure bc he doesn't own a home/property by now & not rolling in dough. They really have no clue about the data... or the damage they've done
So people don't impersonate officers to commit crimes? 2A rights don't vanish because an officer is present... where do yall get the notion that your cowardice is justification?
The deputy was at the correct address, knocked and announced LOUDLY. Roger Fortson knew a police officer was knocking and he still came to the door with a gun in hand. If the deputy hesitated, he could have been killed.
The Black boule are terrified of engaging politically educated grass roots Black advocacy because our critique of their neoliberal politic exposes the true purpose of their elevation by white capital
Coates is supposed to speak at some place in my neighborhood tonight but he has blocked himself off from taking any public comment or engaging w the audience in any way. whats he afraid of?! 🤨
You would... bc you're too politically ignorant to realize he's asking the wrong question.
It's not why is Blk celebrity supporting Trump, it's why do Dems who get 90%+ of the Black vote meet w/ Black celebrity instead of Black poli sci
ALL of Black celebrity is problematic
Perfectly stated
imo, it's not the fact that it was in "a Blk church" as some have stated... as if protecting the sanctity of the space... that was shot when you invited Biden
But in THIS space, the protest should be laser focused on anti ADOS oppression & repair...
If the president was speaking at a synagogue after an anti-semetic terrorist attack, would it be okay for me to disrupt his speech yelling for reparations?
@ComptonMadeMe
@RevBlackNetwork
Class reductionist choose to adopt a right wing framing of racism ws as solely a "social issue" to minimize & obfuscate the fact that it's actually the primary foundational economic injustice of the century that's the catalyst to broader oppressions
The dems & republicans are apparently not the same and the 1994 crime bill is in the past so we should just forget about it cause thats not Joe Biden anymore.
@GovKathyHochul
@JBWasAGenius
great!
How much compensation was secured for
#ADOS
? Are you committed to uplifting the survivors of anti ADOS hate? How have you honored the memory of those whose labor & bodies forcibly served under duress as the capital from which the rest of NYs wealth subsequently sprung
Your mistake is not staying ten toes down on the
#downballot
political strategy. Wearing that dem loss like a badge of honor and not shame will show them you'll do it again if necessary. YNB doesn't know her ass from her elbow
Some just ain't cut out for this...
@YNB
If you would read a book, you would know that I have already admitted my mistake. And I have done so on television. But that doesn’t matter to you. Damn. We are all here fighting this fight for a better world. And you keep doing this nonsense.
"...close your ears whenever Candice Owen's talkin/ but get intrigued by whatever Oprahs offerin/ might as well close the coffin..."
They ain't gon like this one
@RansomPLS
On National Fentanyl Awareness Day, we focus on the immense human cost of overdose across America.
That's why I'm working with
@TheJusticeDept
to combat this tragic crisis in San Francisco by removing deadly fentanyl from our streets and reducing related violence.
So called "ADOS" and "FBA" are merely anti-PanAfricanist disinformation groups that poorly hide that agenda behind the reparations movement (which was started by PANAFRICANISTS). No one should be surprised if it is discovered that they are cointelpro-style government ops.
There is no broad base of support to be achieved with those unwilling to attack whiteness as the root of our class startification. Agreeing to their terms all but guarantees continued racial inequity which should be a deal breaker for the Black left.
@GreeneAhsan
@DiazAndytwelve1
You're so out of your depth you don't realize we're not even having a racial discussion. And ignore how seemingly race neutral policy is weaponized by bigoted personell. Please stay over there and stfu
@KamalaHarris
just green lit EYL, scammers of the Black community... legitimizing them on a national stage using the power of
@VP
office, ensuring their continued hustle for the next decade or more. The exact opposite of what representative government should be doing.
@NAKlMUSHlART
@corgi_astr80302
@DAQUANDSG
Agreed... I liked the franchise too back in the day but let's be real. Dude illustrated aliens with more humanity than Black ppl. And we got niccas defending this anti Black bigotry against critique bc he died? Sad indeed
@guang_lie
It's just performance for the white gaze. That's why, just like with everything else, the negative false narratives about our traditional dishes are attributed to ados culture but whenever it's being celebrated by white folks for it's unique contribution to cuisine it's "african"
@Black_Action
I'm disgusted by his political ignorance & naiveté. Joe Biden is directly responsible for sending more black men, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, to jail than most ppl I can think of. Is he putting money on they books?
Ashanti being pregnant at 43, Janet Jackson being pregnant at 50 and Halle Berry being pregnant at 47 is proof that you don't have to rush and start a family 🥰
@CiCi1BeMe
That's good for you... but I've literally seen women get micros done on the stoop & in kitchens. If you've been paying stacks since the 90s, we'll I'm glad you got it like that. But making an observation about my community has nothing to do w/ diaspora war until you make it so
@Eden_is_falling
@JCColtin
Exactly...
Such an odd take from a mayor that called 🇮🇱 the 6th borough...
Sometimes I think these ppl forget the internet exists
Taraji P Henson explains how she was paid 150k for the movie Benjamin Button but brought home a little over 30k for 5 months of filming, just enough to pay her son’s private school tuition.
#SAGstrike
@BreakingBrown
"Not worth it?!"
This fight for justice is worth EVERYTHING
Makes you wonder what they really got into the space for in the 1st play
How easily grifters abandon the mission...
@donmega1833
@Black_Action
WTF does them knowin these ppl, invitin them, or singin that song have to do w/ collective BLACK POLITIC? What expertise do any of them have? Do you let actors that play doctors on TV cut you open? It's your/their unseriousness that offends me
@BreakingBrown
@rocketboss313
Unfortunately thats how our institutions do those fighting the good fight against ws. I've heard Morehouse didn't full throatedly associate w/ MLK Jr until after his death bc they didn't want white backlash targeting the school. It's messed up but it's a sign you're the truth
Food insecurity is rising, but Republicans are trying to cut SNAP in the upcoming Farm Bill.
We must fight to increase access to food stamps, not cut them.
@BreakingBrown
So now the same cities that criminalize homelessness, clear homeless encampments, and allow citizens to die in the cold every year are building winterized tent shelters...
Sometimes allyship means knowing your role & playing your position
If a non black immigrant don't get a say on Black American issues, then why should a Black immigrant?
The real question is why would they want to? Would we go to their home and do the same?
@NonHumanMedia1
The reparations movement lives today in spite of the Black bouguasie, not because of them. All it is to them is content for speaking fees, book deals, mcarthur grants, and tenured positions. The nerve
@AttorneyCrump
A non profit called "Black Ambition" giving money to non Black business huh? 🤔... wonder why the org isn't called "poc/ Black and brown ambition" since their mission isnt uplift of black business... sounds like fraud to me.
POC politic got most of us in a headlock.
That's what true solidarity would have looked like...
But this disrespect is the result of a Black American left that fails to draw boundaries to solidarity and make tangible demands of allyship, like reciprocity, with other oppressed groups