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I actually think this is a very, very important question.
@SavetheChildren
@TeklehaymanotG
Today, I struggle to understand how the same ppl who failed to speak as nearly 1 million Tigrayans were meticulously condemned from the earth have now found within themselves the moral authority to demand all people speak about an issue rooted in many of the same conditions?
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Katt Williams on how the U.S. media strategically uses language to dehumanize the victims of our imperialist wars.
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This totally reminds me of Topher Grace in BlacKkKlansman talking about how Spike Lee would pull him to the side to give him notes on "make it more racist" and Topher was like "uhhhh, no my guy, don't pull me aside, give your note publicly so they know this wasn't MY idea" 😭😭🤣
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Re: "walkable cities" and "15 minute cities", there's a quote I saw some time back that said something like "if you live in a 15 minute city, but your batista can't afford to live closer than 30 minutes away, you don't have a city, you have an amusement park."
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Now is a good time to rethink how we live in relation to the natural world around us, there are some "normals" we don't need to return to.
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Confirmation that this is actually absolutely the right approach
#BREAKING
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#WhiteHouse
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#Biden
believes that move by
#ColumbiaUniversity
students to take over building is 'absolutely the wrong approach'
#US
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Amazing how backwards we've gone with 4c hair representation
this afro sheen commercial from 1971 lives rent free in my mind.
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Elon grew up in apartheid South Africa. This is the same counterrevolutionary/counter-insurgancy calculus that apartheid engineers were making as Black South Africans refused to back off their militancy. This isn't just a broken clock moment, this is an oppressor calculus moment.
“If you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few Hamas members"
Elon Musk shared his thoughts on Israel’s approach to achieving their stated goal of destroying Hamas in Gaza while speaking on the Lex Fridman Podcast on Thursday
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Anyways this person is an antiblack racist and when we talk about how antiblackness persists even in moments of nonblack genocide, here's yet another example
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That's literally why rainbow capitalism was always critiqued though, bc corporations can't be allies and they'll abandon us when it benefits their bottom line. That's why the gays who weren't about assimilation told us not to tie our liberation to their marketing departments.
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@haaniyah_
So, her full name is Abimbola Awosanya. Here's her LinkedIn page with all her work details:
She's a licensed realtor with Keller Williams Real Estate, here's her contact info page:
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At a certain point to get the representation you want you gotta dismantle shit. Not agitate for a space at the table: chop the table to pieces, set it on fire, and create the images we want and the systems to support it.
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People are allowed to talk about what you put them through. For however long they need to.
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Oohhh good time to remind folks that Eric Clapton is a raging fucking racist and an utter cunt and neither of these crusted over open bed sores would be anywhere if it weren't for the BLACK MUSIC they spent their lives appropriating.
Music Legends Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Team for Anti-Lockdown Single ‘Stand and Deliver’
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How did y'all create an abolitionist movement where the leading voices are nonprofit professionals instead of prisoners, quickly
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Wait till you learn that dark skinned Black people can be mixed and/or have multiracial heritages...............
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a reminder that folk singer and Civil Rights activist Odetta was the person who inspired Bob Dylan to pick up a guitar in the 1st place.
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General reminder than nonbinary people, trans men, and gender expansive people are also affected by this ruling, not just cis women.
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This book >>>>>>>>>>>>> the entirety of that transphobic British wizard lady's entire oeuvre
I will be taking no questions at this time.
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cause he DOES
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One of the things abolition doesn't grapple enough with is how whiteness itself is a form of policing and if you abolish the cops tomorrow you will still be left with mini-fascists who will pick up the slack
The driver's 2-year-old and 16-year-old daughters were inside her car at the time.
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"Michael Jackson didn't need all that production" tell that to his JET. PACK.
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*BARISTA. If your BARISTA can't afford to live closer than 30 mins away is what I meant djdjsjdj. Batista clearly has the means to live wherever he wants 😭
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I personally find the situation with Ana to be personally demoralizing bc after all the work I've done, at personal risk, to trace how nazis/alt-right use social media to target marginalized folks....to see so many of my mutuals just hop on the nazi doxx bandwagon......🙃🙃🙃
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OH REALLY NOW. THE PANIC BUTTONS IN THE BLACK CONGRESSWOMAN'S OFFICE HAD BEEN RIPPED OUT BEFORE THE MOB GOT THERE.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT HOW THIS WASN'T A COUP ATTEMPT.
AOC telling Instagram viewers tonight that she had “a close encounter” during the Capitol insurrection in which she thought she might die makes this detail from Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff in our rebuilding of events all the more chilling.
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go watch ANY of his live tours from between the late 80s onward
go look up the partents for the inventions he created JUST SO he could be extra af on stage
and pls be quiet until you do
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Cardi literally majored in political science in college you dumb fuck.
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Do these "Vote Blue" people understand that voter suppression and gerrymandering is a bigger threat to the Democratic party's majority than non-voters????
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So about photography's role in imperialism and empire..............
How much did America lose its collective mind after 9/11?
Annie Leibovitz photographed George W. Bush’s national security team for the cover of Vanity Fair.
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"MJ ain't need all that theatrics" BRUH MAN HAD AN ANGEL FLOAT DOWN FROM THE CEILING TO EMBRACE HIM WITH HER WINGS WHILE HE CRIED TO THE END OF "WILL YOU BE THERE" WHAT ARE YOU EVEN SAYING
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America has been separating children from their parents before there was even a America proper, y'all gotta stop acting like slavery and genocide are fairy tales and not the foundation of this country.
That clown Kelly said “the children will be taken care of, put into foster care or whatever” WTF. “WHATEVER” what hell does that even mean. Who would have ever believed AMERICA would separate children from their parents. Holy Mother of God.
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we're at the point that we need to stop engaging Kanye like he's still primarily a musician and start responding to him like the burgeoning cult leader he is.
Kanye standing on a mountain he owns.
While looking at the 6,713 acres he owns.
This is the hardest flex of the year.
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for fucks sake, it's just that she was white. that's it. that's the ~mystery~.
a pretty enough white woman who used being a pretty enough white women to scam a bunch of stiff dicks and hype beasts (also white) out of their money. DASSIT.
In the new Theranos documentary on HBO, Elizabeth Holmes remains a vexingly sphinxlike figure:
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so let me tell you about this thing called the Black Lives Matter movement....................
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i don't want jail for these folks i want their money taken and given to working and under class folks
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i wish ppl would keep in mind that we're not "getting close" to anything, getting kidnapped/disappeared by law enforcement and having laws written to justify it has been the reality for people of color in this country since before it was technically a country
We're getting close to the "rounding up dissidents for execution" phase of the nazi takeover
Antifa isn't an orginization, which allows them to label anyone who dissents as a terrorist
Under the patriot act we can be held indefinitely without charges
We'll die in custody
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So, more personal news, only happier this time — I've been accepted to an MFA program at Duke University, I start in the fall.
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Bree Newsome Bass is posting about abolition while suing a North Carolina workers collective for calling her out, AND while her husband sues a Black woman who has accused him of rape. No more false activist idols.
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my advice for college students:
learn the names of service workers. if they ever go on strike or protest their working conditions, support them. if they accept tips, tip them.
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I'm old enough to remember when BET pulled Rihanna's "Man Down" music video because it depicted her shooting her rapist. Hip hop don't want Black women to defend ourselves.
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Ironically there were hella walkable neighborhoods and communities throughout this country them yt folks came through and bombed them out, urban rewewed them out, gentrified them out etc
Only to turn around and be like "we really should create walkable cities" 🙄
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The main reason they really don't want y'all to riot over the Memphis police beating is that since 2014 they've been trying to con y'all with the narrative of "wet don't need a whole new system, just more representation" and this proves what a lie that is
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That's what Kwame Ture said.
The plan of empathetic people is to shame people who are not capable of shame and that is why we fail. Take their money and things.
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It's one justice system working like it's supposed to.
Terrill Thomas died in April 2016 after being denied water for seven days at Milwaukee County Jail.
Jacob Chansley stormed the U.S. Capitol and was moved to a Virginia jail so corrections officials can provide him with organic food.
There are two justice systems in America.
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But yeah, the dynamics Caleb is highlighting is why I'm always suspicious of ~urbanists~ pushing for walkable cities etc. Because we know how segregation works in this country, we know who their ideal inhabitants of these urban utopias really are.
i lived in a walkable neighborhood and it was one of the most racist, fatphobic, homophobic places i’ve ever lived. my anxiety became debilitating. i began to hate leaving my house bc of the way ppl on the street treated me. my overall health declined and i’m still recovering
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I also feel a way about that little Black girl at the protest because from personal experience? I know y'all love a smart articulate gifted Black girl child, until she becomes a smart articulate gifted Black woman. Then you bring out all the gear to crush/silence her.
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my dad, a teacher in North Carolina, just sent me a pic of him at the walkout. look at how stoked he is 😭🖤
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"Michael Jackson didn't need theatrics" SORRY, CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MICHAEL'S *FIREWORKS*
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........ cause bthe shit just came out like two weeks ago?? look im sorry that no one cares what rolling stone thinks about music or culture anymore but this isn't gonna make us give a fuck either
It's almost 2020, why are we still talking about Baby Yoda?
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i ain't be here for Chrissy Teigen ever since she called 9-year old Quvenzhané Wallis "cocky," and, after The Onion posted them deleted a tweet calling Wallis a "cunt," Teigen asked if they were hiring. you attack Black children without apology you get no country from me.
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oh please. migrant farmworkers suffer and die in vegetable and fruit fields. quinoa and soy farming displaces indigenous folks and makes foods central to their diet too expensive. almond farming increases drought. there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, anywhere.
@TreeMoMoore
@kikimancy
she is literally defending killing innocent animals for food. im allowed to be angry. not everyone is calm 100% of the time
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Academia is crumbling, Black studies is under the most direct state-sanctioned direct attack it has in decades, now is a time to protect and support the grassroots knowledge keepers, educators, archivists, curators, artists, etc.
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"So frequent is the assertion in feminist discourse that masculinity is inseparable from patriarchy that many feminists use “masculinity” and “patriarchy” interchangeably in their theorizing, treating them as one in the same. +
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"MJ ain't need theatrics" YOU MEAN THE DUDE WHO ENTERED SHOWS WITH FUCKING MILITARIES IN TOW
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Having actual personalities and sets of shared interests not based on extreme dieting.
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This is why I believe in being honest with myself and others about not liking someone for entirely personal (& potentially petty) reasons, bc I don't have to co-sign nazism to feel justified in my dislike!!!
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Emmitt Till's murderers said the same thing about him, actually.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Breonna Taylor is now attached to me for the rest of my life,' Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly says in exclusive interview with
@ABC
News and Louisville's
@courierjournal
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this is fueling my belief that ppl who think Kanye is innovative don't actually know much about Black music/Black music history/Black expressive culture in general. he's not doing anything new.
just bc you consume Black cultre doesn't mean you respect it or understand it.
Nah Kanye is on to something . This Ginuwine so anxious gospel 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Not my lane, but I know whole generations of 1st generation comedians whose whole schtick is playing up their foreign otherness and making fun of their immigrant parents suddenly couldn't breathe at this part
“Most comedians don't get booed enough. That's how you end up with Michael Blackson, who is a real African, doin a fake African accent.” - Katt Williams
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So the next time 4chan threatens my kids, it'll be okay because people think I'm annoying too, huh? Hm.
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the real tea is that a lot of y'all's fave academic "radicals" love to talk a big game about how oppressive academia is but in truth they're fully invested in academia and their "radical activism" is another form of careerism.
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Sarah BEEN told y'all.
"The GOP has been hijacked by a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. This is not a secret."
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Thinking about how they got us to start streaming so that we'd stop illegally downloading and now we pay them $$$ monthly to essentially rent music that they can take away from us whenever they feel like it
not even joking. everybody stream call me by your name hard today because it may no longer be available tomorrow and there’s nothing i can really do about it. thanks for all the support tho! 🤍
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re: folks having existential crises bc they figured out that Beyonce and Michelle Obama aren't anti-capitalist left-wing radicals:
idk maybe if folks stopped outsourcing the radical politics they're too chickenshit to live, then maybe we wouldn't be having this whole ~moment~
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Fuck anyone who builds this kind of house anywhere in the country, honestly, but *especially* in existing neighborhoods that have completely different architecture
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This account was created this month, has only made this post, and its bio says "actuvis," can we please not be such easy marks
#yourslipisshowing
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THE MAN WHO ENDED HIS SONGS AND SHOWS POSING LIKE JESUS ON THE CROSS?? WASN'T??? INTO???? THEATRICS????? YOU SAY????????
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Why do you refuse to properly light dark skinned subjects
United States Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 2022 / For
@voguemagazine
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We can watch women being murdered, raped, and degraded in all kinds of ways on tv - and in multiple Oscar contender movies, I'm willing to bet. But showing a woman dealing with postpartum is "too graphic."
Burn it down.
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Yeah, fuck this movie. Netflix's colorism when it comes to Black women is so fucking unacceptable, THIS was Stagecoach Mary. Not this skinny light chick.
Zazie Beetz is Stagecoach Mary who, after she was freed from slavery, became a mail carrier known for “liking liquor and gunfights”.
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honestly i need less tweets being like "stop stanning Obama" or "Obama was a much better president" and more tweets examining how having a Black president precipitated a specific racial backlash that brought the antiblack and settler colonial roots of the US into stark relief
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JUDITH BUTLER SAID "PERFORMATIVE" DOES NOT MEAN "FAKE" SO Y'ALL WANNA BE THEORISTS CAN CHILL NOW. DO SOME ACTUAL READING OF BOOKS VERSUS GETTING ALL YOUR THEORY FROM TWITTER THREADS.
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Dave Chappelle's joke about news anchors calling Ja Rule during 9/11 for his thoughts should not still be relevant in 2021, I wanna know wtf is up with this dude's connections. What powerful ppl he hooked up with bc this don't make no sense
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Is it terrifying, sure, but it was entirely predictable........and in fact was predicted!!!!!!
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your annual reminder that Black punks BEEN critiquing Afropunk for YEARS now and the current popularity of the festival is absolutely built on the re-marginalization of the Black punks who created the festival in the first place.
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Why the everloving fuck would Jay Z and XXXTentacion be sharing a stage together, fuck is wrong with these baby hip hop fans
@THEREALSWIZZZ
I thought he was talking about XXXTentacion. I never heard anybody refer to DMX as “X” honestly.
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NEVER FORGET THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE RAPE OF ENSLAVED BLACK WOMEN
HAPPY FUCKING FOURTH OF JULY
They found Sally Hemings' room at Monticello. It was windowless--and right next to Jefferson's bedroom.
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Well all these trad wife "birth control was a mistake" accounts that been popping off lately are looking even MORE like psyops/astroturf
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I'm with this sentiment generally but it's wild how this argument seemingly has little to say about transportation in rural and semi-rural areas
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1st. don't let your hatred of Beyonce specifically and Black women generally override your common GOTDAMN sense.
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meanwhile euro folks in the 1600s were telling us sex was bad and bathing in shit water
A 17th century shunga woodblock printing from Japan depicting two women having sex. One has tied a tengu mask around her waist, and penetrates her partner using its long nose.
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Good morning to my fellow Black folks who knew they were Black from birth and
grew up identifying as Black and didn't need to be told they were Black in a ~mystical dream~ in their early 20s to know so or identify as such. 😘🤗
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Anyone know this quote??? I was trying to find it last night but had no luck
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because it's not really a strong economy.
Analysis: Kids are losing health coverage despite the strong economy
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Frankly I think a lot of the charge against Black folks using academic language on Twitter? Is because it's harder for y'all to steal our analysis when we use big words.
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