Prosper

Do your homework | Do your work | Let me just say: Peace to you if you’re willing to fight for it | I Ching | Aut Tace Aut Loquere Meliora Silentio | 1 Co. 3:18

[Prosper @BaldwinBlue]

@Elsie_560 Critical thinking.

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@KE_MrBlack Many units of mathematics and physics. Epistemological humility on deck. The more I learned, the more I realized I knew nothing. A paradox, a beautiful paradox. Also, the kids who actually acted and performed like they knew something were likely (insecure) educated idiots.

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@DannyDGlover I recommend reading Zakiyyah Iman Jackson if you haven't already.

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@_falsi1ke Many variables: they lack your peace, inner joy, freedom, charisma, creativity, ability to deal with "lack of control" (the English poet John Keats beautifully coined it "negative capability"), internal fullness, etc. Again, mentioning a few of the plethora of variables here.

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@LilithBlack25 "I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea. I am the sweet tooth, the sugar plantations that rotted generations of English children‘s teeth...Where does it come from? Ceylon - Sri Lanka, India.“ (Stuart Hall, 1994)

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@Archaicmind3000 What of Coco Gauff's clear defensive, mental, and tactical mastery, eh? Be more original than tweeting content that evokes cliched racist tropes.

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@LilithBlack25 Short answer: capitalism and resource(s) (extraction). Guess which continent has the most (natural) resources, which happens to have the most Black people? I also recommend checking out Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" if you haven't already.

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@theoxora recommend reading the book "Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora" if you haven't already.

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where can i watch the nuggets vs. timberwolves game and bypass this political theater?

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@FurkanGozukara Reminiscent of this video, where Noam Chomsky told Andrew Barr that they were the status quo https://t.co/MZGEYTP1vG

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@Uncommonsince76 Woe to those (even someone like the late William Buckley) who thought they could have a good-faith discussion with a man whose record shows he prioritizes personal success over almost everything else and repeatedly shows an inability to grasp other people's perspectives.

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@HorrorGorl When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

—C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

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@bloody_osiris That good ol' military training.

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@c_lispector_bot Spurning pleasure can simply mean someone is disciplined and principled, not necessarily fearful.

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@DijahSB do not confuse monetary riches with spiritual riches.

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@Timberwolves @NBA Elementary basic critical thinking skills: stand with Minnesota against? Who? What? Where? When? How? Why?

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The older I get, the less I understand how grown men lack sexual discipline. A few minutes of pleasure only for the devil to laugh (word to Schopenhauer) in your ears afterward.

That energy is better spent in so many other ways.

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@QueenAnticommie Look at how uncomfortable the brother is. Let's imagine what would happen if this were reversed. SMH.

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@GodwinsonHerold @xspotsdamark Wrong. Black was/is a capacious category determined, in part, by those fighting against oppression (e.g., the Polish soldiers who fought with Haitians were considered Black!)

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@LRNROSE Check out the late Dr. Tyler Stovall's works, if you haven't already (e.g., "Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light," "Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness," and "The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony").