Boomer Ink™

🎤 Baby Boomer. Black Church. Big Bible. Bigger mouth. 🙏 Elder | Evangelist | Intercessor | Slightly Petty ✒️ I write. I pray. I gather. 🦋

[Boomer Ink™ @BoomerInk]

Found my first Twitter account today.

September 2017.

Before Boomer Ink.

Before Substack.

Before the blue check.

Just a Black woman with convictions, a keyboard, and something to say.

Today I updated my status, got my blue check, and took a walk down memory lane.

The receipts are still there.

So am I.

🖊️ Faith. Advocacy. Movement.

Still a little petty with purpose.

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@jeremyct I’m following you-who are you?

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If Born Into Resistance resonated with you, I hope you’ll read my newest story, The Night My Mother Was Detained. These stories are connected—threads of family history, memory, and the times that shaped us.
Now on audio-listen here.

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Not just rock stars—we had our own groupies too. While they were singing about backstage passes, we were listening to Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Graham & Grand Central Station, and songs like “She’s a Groupie.” Black music had its own culture, its own stars, and its own stories. We didn’t borrow the experience—we lived it. And I was the jail- bait! 💥

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First of all, there is no ADOS–FBA coalition, so that tells me you’re upset about something else. Don’t bring that negative energy over here—we’re busy building. Maybe instead of complaining about what we’re doing, you should go build something yourself.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

“ADOS/FBA” has become a catchall for any analysis of Black Americans as an internal thirdworld colony who (along with natives) are subject to ongoing genocide as the basis of the sociopolitical order all other groups in the US are incentivized and rewarded for participation in.

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So what’s your solution? What does “unity” actually deliver—and what are we expected to give up for it? ADOS is about solutions, not slogans. As it stands, we’re the only game in town with a concrete agenda.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

We don’t get to “unity” by ducking uncomfortable truths so folks can miss me wit the bullshit. The fact this is reality AND folks wanna lie and gaslight and play dumb and demand WE play dumb about our genocide as a sociopolitical adhesive is what leads people to cults like ADOS.

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High Negro Style: The Supremes, Motown, and the Business of Respectability
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Born in 1962. Raised during Massive Resistance.
This is the story of a little Black girl growing up in the Sixties—what I saw, what I lived, and what it taught me about America.

👇🏾 Right here: https://t.co/NS5Y1MuQXS

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@nativelandpod You’re late to the party again-we’ve already had this discussion-so why would we listen to you?

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@MrDavX No-cause they’re the same coin-different sides.

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@aj_inapi You’re not here to teach me anything-you’re here to learn -New Guinea 🇬🇳

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@mahloozer @aj_inapi We built the country -and your folks benefited the most and still benefit-go read a book start with this one-
https://t.co/pkAOZyGYhs

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@mahloozer @aj_inapi And It’s good a thing you’re not in charge.

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@mahloozer @aj_inapi Said the cat lady!

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@mahloozer @aj_inapi Said the man from New 🇬🇳!

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Every people has its own historical struggle and its own political claims.

ADOS politics comes out of American chattel slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, exclusion from federal benefits, and wealth theft inside the United States.

PNG has its own colonial history, its own sovereignty questions, and its own development challenges. Those experiences don’t automatically make someone an expert on ours.

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@aj_inapi @SexyDaSleeze33 Now what we’re saying about foreign policy again?

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Here a key facts about Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries on earth, with more than 800 languages and hundreds of distinct ethnic groups. People have lived there for tens of thousands of years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited regions in the world.

The eastern half of the island was colonized by Britain and Germany in the late 1800s. After World War I, Australia took control of the former German territory, and by 1949 Australia administered both Papua and New Guinea as a single territory.

PNG became self-governing in 1973 and gained full independence from Australia on September 16, 1975, under its first Prime Minister, Michael Somare.

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History is complicated. A man can break a barrier and still leave unanswered questions. To many, the first Black president represented progress. To others, he represents eight years of watching symbolic victory fail to become material change. Of course the letters that get read are often the ones that celebrate the moment—not the ones wrestling with the disappointment that followed.