A Better Health, MD, MPH

Pan-Africanist, Physician, Public Health Epidemiologist & Public Health Practice Expert, Chronic Illness Patient, World Citizen.

[_𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔰 ℌ𝔢𝔯_ @CharcoalEpitaph]

The suffering of a disabled person only matters when they want to die, but not when they want to live.

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

The number of economically secure, able-bodied liberals whose response to hearing that economically insecure, disabled people are coerced verbally and/or systemically to accept MAID is "LIES. NEVER HAPPENS" is staggering.

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

Able-bodied people who aren't in economic precarity need to SHUT THE FUCK UP about how essential it is that the government prioritize maximizing access to medicalized suicide while it is busy gutting access to hospice, disability support services, & eldercare.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Being accused of shoplifting is not a death sentence. Being the child of someone accused of shoplifting is not a death sentence. A one-year-old is dead because police decided to open fire into a vehicle knowing a Black child was inside.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

If you call the police because you *think* you saw a mom stealing diapers, you deserve to go to hell

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

@tessalee2161 I know it sucks. I sympathize 🫂

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

Anyone depending on the disability system to be a true safety net is in for a very rude awakening. The disability system in the US is designed to make you homeless & destitute. Its a travesty.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

People vehemently believe that there are safety nets in place if you become disabled. That no matter what, you have all your needs met. If you believe this, you’re in for a rude awakening if you ever become disabled.

[Black Alliance for Peace @Blacks4Peace]

From 1804 to Juneteenth, the struggle continues.

As Haiti takes the world stage against Brazil on June 19, we honor the revolutionary legacy of the first Black republic and the ongoing fight for Black liberation, sovereignty, and self-determination.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

Rest in power, Walter Rodney, who joined the ancestors on 13th June 1980. Walter Rodney turned the world order on its head by delivering a correct analysis of the roots of underdevelopment. He understood the dialectical relationship between Africa's underdevelopment and Europe's emergence as a world power.

In his magnum opus, 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,' Rodney explained that prior to the European Slave Trade, Africa and Europe did not necessarily have a huge gap in their internal development relative to the needs of the people living in various African and European societies. However, through the slave trade, colonialism, and neo-colonialism, a massive developmental gap was created between Europe and Africa that exists to the present.

In addition to working as a scholar and a historian, Walter Rodney was a revolutionary involved in the struggle. Born in Guyana, he studied at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica before completing his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the United Kingdom. He then moved to Tanzania to teach in what was then a socialist country led by Julius Nyerere. He also went back to Jamaica to teach at the University of the West Indies.

In 1974, Walter Rodney went back to Guyana to teach African history. He also got involved in political organising with the Working People’s Alliance. Guyana's leader, Forbes Burnham, marked Rodney as a threat. On 13 June 1980, Walter Rodney was assassinated when his car was bombed while he was driving. He passed away at the age of 38.

[Chisomo Kalinga, PhD @ChisomoWrites]

For those who were asking how they can support the African nurses whose homes were burned down in Belfast two weeks ago, there is a link here! Please share!

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

Be like Africans of the region who just say
"Congo Kinshasa" vs "Congo Brazzaville" to tell you which Congo they mean.

[Noite de Copa @Noitedecopa]

🔎 VOCÊ SABIA?

Muita gente acha que Congo e República Democrática do Congo são o mesmo país... MAS NÃO SÃO! 🇨🇬🇨🇩

Os dois são países diferentes, possuem governos diferentes e obviamente, capitais diferentes:

🇨🇬 Congo (República do Congo) tem como capital Brazzaville.

🇨🇩 República Democrática do Congo tem como capital Kinshasa.

🔎 Mais uma curiosidade: 🇨🇬 Brazzaville e 🇨🇩 Kinshasa são as capitais de países diferentes mais próximas do mundo, ficando uma de frente para a outra, separadas apenas pelo Rio Congo.

📰 Noite de Copa

[Abasi ⌖ SPR @abasimalungu]

A person from Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Congo, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, and Ivory Coast should know their people resisted slavery and fought all throughout the Diaspora.

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

This is fascinating & something I didnt know. I need more info on this & these articles are tip of the iceberg I suspect https://t.co/D1FCRCqmWs and https://t.co/HcR6A0MkJT

[MARTY @blakademik]

What!? There has been continuous migration between autonomous Afro-diasporic communities, in Philadelphia and Haiti specifically, since as early as the 18th century. What are we talking about?

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

it is context about how the world is structured & systems of power.

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

Can we also admit Black American dominance is partly a byproduct of USian hegemony of the world via language, culture & economics? Its problematic to be gleeful about a flavor of cultural imperialism. That doesnt take away from the beauty of Black American cultural production but

[. @dntbsryhobcarfl]

@TrapBasquiat Black American culture is THE defining Black culture around the globe and ray Charles can see that. That’s not even argument that should be entertained in the year of 2026.

[. @dntbsryhobcarfl]

@TrapBasquiat I get your point and I don’t even disagree I just think 1. This is an issue that exists online more than in real life 2.instead of focusing on celebration and preserving culture I see people being ignorant, xenophobic and divisive and I will never stand for that.

[Fanon’s Dreams @TrapBasquiat]

Black Americans celebrate Juneteenth because it was the day we all could officially say we were free. It has relevance to the whole group, with a specific relevance to Texans. That’s why it has meaning outside of black American Texans. That’s also why you’ll see Texans with a unique celebration for Juneteenth (whether that is official or not idk, but I’ve seen it).

You can be a black person in America that is not a “black American” and participate in/celebrate Juneteenth, nobody should have a problem with that. The problem that people are speaking on (which to be clear, is not my experience personally) is that other cultural experiences are encroaching on ours via music, food, marketing for Juneteenth but not accommodating black Americans, and that is not right. I don’t even understand why people don’t agree tbh.

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

@SkylerB97 Alot of bougie Black people get possessed by the spirits of 80 year old white women & say wild shit about Black youth in 3rd spaces. Like how are you hating on Black kids when you were one? Make it make sense.

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

@kingebarrington blaming us for situations & the results of systems we didnt create.

[A Better Health, MD, MPH @BHealtha]

@kingebarrington 🎯. And we each have amazing resistance histories that are linked. The reasons we struggle economically & social development-wise isnt because of laziness, degeneracy, giving up- its because of systematic pillaging, extraction & subjugation of our communities/countries & then