The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.
This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.
Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center!
Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more.
Tickets available at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.
White Americans in 2026 are every bit as racist as their predecessors were 1n 1960. They love quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when it’s safe, sanitized, and stripped of its sting.
They post his lines about unity, peace, dreams, and being judged by the content of your character, while ignoring that the fact that King was arrested, surveilled, hated, and ultimately killed for confronting the very systems they now defend.
They celebrate his words but reject his work. Because the same movement that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, facing clubs, tear gas, and bloodshed, forced this nation to pass the Voting Rights Act.
And now, as that very law is being dismantled piece by piece, the same people quoting King are applauding the rollback. They praise the man while betraying the mission. They honor the quote while opposing the cause. They invoke Selma but side with the forces that made Selma necessary.
The racism didn’t disappear, it just learned how to dress itself in court opinions and talking points. In 2026 it’s no different in substance than it was in the 1960s. The hypocrisy is as clear as ever. They don’t want King the agitator, they want King the ornament.
We must now summon the strength of our ancestors, lean on the God of our weary years, and continue the fight they started, because quitting was never an option, and freedom has never been given, only won.
“You Can’t Shake Hands With the System That’s Still Choking You.” — Thomas Sankara
They called him radical. Dangerous. Impossible.
But what if he was simply honest?
Thomas Sankara refused to pretend that oppression could coexist with friendship. In the 1980s, he challenged foreign dependence, rejected neocolonial control, and demanded dignity for Burkina Faso—even when it made him enemies.
His message was simple but uncomfortable:
You cannot build freedom while embracing those who profit from your chains.
Today, decades later, his words still echo across Africa and beyond.
Are we truly free… or just negotiating with power?
References:
Thomas Sankara Speaks
We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions
Credit: African Echo
3 Staged Assassination Attempts.
Starting multiple wars.
Murdering 160 School Girls with a Tomahawk Missile.
All to distract from the fact…
He Raped Children.