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[Tanekalouit-Touraouet ⵜⵏⴽⵍⵡⴷⵜ ⵜⵡⵔⵡⵜ @AishaDaughter]

Genocide of the Congolese people is a class example of how an African people are being failed by the African elite class that lacks a moral compass and a sense of sacred responsibility to their ancestors and descendants..

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Do not forget the BROTHER sacrifice so many things. He was abused and mistreated by Trump and the NFL.. Colin Kaepernick.

[Tanekalouit-Touraouet ⵜⵏⴽⵍⵡⴷⵜ ⵜⵡⵔⵡⵜ @AishaDaughter]

How did Africa go from fighting against colonialism and imperialism to collaborating with Neocolonialism/Neoimperialism?
We need deeply critical, urgent, and analytical view of internal agents who facilitate external imperialism in Africa.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

DNA testing cleared him in 1994. North Carolina kept him in prison for ten more years anyway. Darryl Hunt.

He was 19 when he was convicted of a 1984 rape and murder. He had no connection to it. A key witness was a Klansman's former wife. Another was a hotel worker who later admitted she had been pressured.

In 1994, DNA excluded him completely. The courts responded that the DNA did not prove someone else had acted alone, and refused to release him.
He served another decade.

In 2003 the DNA was finally run through a database. It matched a man already in prison, who confessed within days.

Darryl Hunt walked out in 2004 after nineteen and a half years.

He spent the rest of his life working with other exonerated men and people coming out of prison. He died in 2016.

The system knew he was innocent for a full decade and made him serve it. That is not a mistake. A mistake ends when you find out.

DNA cleared Darryl Hunt. North Carolina still kept him in prison for another ten years.

That sentence alone tells you why these stories need to be remembered. Our book documents up to 150 cases of wrongful imprisonment, racial injustice, violence, and lives permanently altered by a system that failed to correct itself. https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Ziyad Yakubu @Ziyad_yakubu]

This reminds me of an old Cold War joke.

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet in a bar for a friendly drink.

The CIA agent says, “I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up.”

The KGB agent replies that they do their best, but American propaganda is even better, because Americans believe what their media tells them.

The CIA agent is shocked: “But there’s no propaganda in America.”

The KGB agent starts laughing.

The joke captures something real about American propaganda: the people consuming it do not experience it as propaganda.

The United States is absolutely repressive, but it often operates differently from the cartoon version of repression people have in their heads.

You don’t necessarily need a government censor sitting in a newsroom telling a journalist what he is allowed to say.

The coercion happens in the corporate office of the CEOs. A journalist gets called into a meeting. His program isn’t being renewed. His editor is being replaced. His access disappears. His network decides that his show no longer fits the direction of the company.

Mehdi Hasan had his show cancelled by MSNBC in November 2023 as part of a “programming restructuring,” immediately after he had become particularly prominent for his confrontational coverage of Israel and Gaza, including a widely viral interview with Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev.

Joy Reid’s show The ReidOut was also cancelled by MSNBC in 2025 as part of a “broader programming overhaul.” Reid subsequently said that people had warned her that her outspoken coverage of Gaza could cost her her job, and she later argued that corporate pressures were shaping what journalists inside major media organizations could comfortably say.

You don’t need an official censorship bureau when people understand which opinions are professionally dangerous. They start censoring themselves.

That is the part of American propaganda that people miss.

It doesn’t always look like the state marching into the newsroom.

It can look like ownership, editorial selection, access, advertising, career incentives, or a cancelled program.

Then there is the biggest of all: Hollywood. The American bourgeoisie understands something important: in a pluralistic liberal democracy, whoever controls information controls the people. So, through strategic ownership of key platforms, they can shape what people think while maintaining the illusion of freedom.

The Pentagon has had a documented relationship with the American entertainment industry for decades, providing productions with military equipment, personnel, and technical assistance while exercising influence over how the military is portrayed.

There has been extensive work by academics such as Marwa Hassan, Samuel Martínez, Jack Shaheen, and Sulaiman Arti on how Hollywood movies routinely constructed Arab and Muslim characters as dangerous, evil, inept, and fundamentally opposed to the Western protagonist even before the 9/11 attacks, laying the groundwork for the war on terror.

Martínez examines media and political discourse before 9/11 and argues that those earlier representations helped prepare the ground for the post-9/11 security response. He specifically discusses Hollywood’s recurring portrayal of Arabs and Muslims as terrorists, often in dehumanizing or one-dimensional ways.

Jack Shaheen catalogued roughly 1,000 American films and documented recurring negative stereotypes of Arabs.

Even AI. When you casually ask ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, or any other AI about Mao Zedong, they will readily tell you how many people he killed, even though the majority of those deaths were consequences of his policies not direct executions. Ask them the same question about Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Trump, and they will give you context, the chain of events, and even go as far as admitting there were mistakes. Everyone else does not get that courtesy.

So when someone says, “America doesn’t have propaganda because journalists are free,” I think they are confusing the absence of Soviet-style censorship with the absence of narrative power.

You can have a genuinely free press and still have an incredibly powerful propaganda ecosystem.

Those things are not mutually exclusive.
And that is why I think the comparison with China and Russia needs to be more sophisticated than “they censor their media; America doesn’t.”

America does not just censor media. It controls the narrative not only for Americans, but internationally as well through ownership of key platforms, amplification, access, professional costs, and so on.

And that brings me back to Nigeria.

Nobody serious should deny the appalling security situation in Nigeria. But reducing Nigeria’s extraordinarily complicated security crisis to “Christian genocide” is absurd.

Nigeria has suffered Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorism, banditry, communal violence, farmer-herder conflict, kidnapping, and criminal violence. Both Muslims and Christians have been victims. Entire communities have been devastated regardless of religion.

And yet Washington pushed the simplistic “Christian genocide” frame, with the help of some useful idiots. Now we have 200 U.S. personnel deployed to Nigeria for “training, intelligence gathering and counterterrorism cooperation.”

We also have U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones operating from Bauchi Airfield.

AFRICOM has also conducted a joint operation with Nigerian forces against ISIS in northeastern Nigeria, purportedly killing a senior ISIS/ISWAP commander and ISIS’s global second-in-command, Abu Bilal al-Minuki who had already been reported killed by the Nigerian military in 2024.

So you don’t need to believe that every American journalist is sitting in a room receiving instructions from the CIA.

That is not how modern propaganda has to work.

America can create an information environment in which particular interpretations become dominant because they are rewarded, amplified, and institutionally safe, while others become expensive, marginal, or professionally dangerous.

And once that happens, you don’t necessarily need someone standing over everybody telling them what to say.

[Professor 💯Dolf D💯 @DolfDoofinsky]

American doctor telling Maasai tribesmen how their diet of red meat and raw milk is not only unhealthy but unsustainable

[#FreeCongo @msNzuya]

#FreeCongo 🇨🇩
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[Tanekalouit-Touraouet ⵜⵏⴽⵍⵡⴷⵜ ⵜⵡⵔⵡⵜ @AishaDaughter]

Aimé Césaire wrote about how imperialism reduces human beings to mere commodities. The mass killings in Congo are permitted by the international community because global capitalism values Congolese minerals far more than Congolese lives.

[Tanekalouit-Touraouet ⵜⵏⴽⵍⵡⴷⵜ ⵜⵡⵔⵡⵜ @AishaDaughter]

The conversation that we Black people need to having is how we can physically disrupt the corporate and state supply chains that profit from Congolese cobalt and Sudani gold while Black African children starve and die in Congo and Sudan.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

She walked into a store with two dollars in her hand for a bottle of orange juice that cost $1.79.

The owner accused her of stealing it, grabbed her by the sweater, and — as the girl turned to leave — shot her in the back of the head.

Latasha Harlins was 15. Los Angeles, March 1991.

The security camera recorded all of it. The money was still in her hand when she fell.

The owner was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The maximum was sixteen years.

The judge gave her probation, four hundred hours of community service, and a five-hundred-dollar fine. No prison. Not one day.

Latasha Harlins was thirteen days past the Rodney King video. Los Angeles held both of those facts at once for a year, and when the King verdicts came in, the city exploded — and a great many people in it were thinking about a girl and a bottle of juice.

Her family says she wanted to be a lawyer.

Fifteen years old. A dollar seventy-nine. Five hundred dollars.

Compare those last two numbers for a moment. That is the whole post.

Latasha Harlins was 15. Her life was worth more than $500.

And hers is not the only story where the value placed on a Black life was painfully different from the consequences that followed.

We documented up to 150 of those stories in 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For.

The names, the cases, the unanswered questions—they’re all there. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[Black @LilithBlack25]

The hypocrisy is quite loud

[BLACK-MEDIA-HUB✊🏿 @BmediaHQ]

Tulsa was not the only anti-Black massacre in American history. From New Orleans and Colfax to Wilmington, Elaine, Rosewood, Ocoee, and many others, racial violence devastated Black communities across the United States, destroying lives, homes, businesses, and generations of progress. While this map is not exhaustive, it serves as a reminder that these events were part of a broader history that deserves to be remembered, studied, and discussed rather than forgotten.

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

By 1807 2.3 million Africans had been landed in the British Caribbean and 388,000 in the mainland colonies (U.S.A.). However, in 1807 the African population of the islands was 775,000 compared to 1.4 million in the U.S.. In #Jamaica and the other islands, Africans were worked to death and replaced by new imports, while Africans in the U.S. expanded their numbers through natural increase. #Caribbean
From A TALE OF TWO PLANTATIONS: SLAVE LIFE AND LABOR IN JAMAICA AND VIRGINIA (2014) by Richard S. Dunn

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

There’s a Black Farmer In Colorado thats been going live everyday crying out for help bcuz white people in his town keep vandalizing his 1000 acre ranch, messing up his live stock, and threatening his families lives DAILY. And the police won’t do anything about it. They are in on it! They actually put HIM in jail for trying to protect his family 🤦🏾‍♂️His Name Is CW. He’s a Veteran. He Is The Owner of Freedom Acres Ranch. YT people love to say r@cism don’t exist but I promise this won’t go how they think it’s gona go. It’s not 1942 and we the ppl BEEN TIRED like leave us df alone 👏🏽😮‍💨

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Just in case anyone is being seduced by the prospect of a cashless society Please read what has happened in Sweden where paying cash is already a think of the past amd the freedom it provided.

[Steven Kefas @SKefason]

Now you are making beautiful quotes, but you punished me in prison for 162 days without trial and punished the Adara elders for over 100 days until your AG advised you that they do not have any case to answer.

Haba mallam!

[Deonte Ford @DeonteFord1]

We often hear about how Africans, "Kingdoms" got wealthy trafficking slaves to European. But, European goods accounted for just 2% - 10% (depending on region) of African economies at the height of the slave trade. This book provides firsthand accounts from European merchants.

Ashanti was already extremely wealthy & powerful before the arrival of Europeans to the gold coast, primarily from the trade of gold, cloth & Ivory. They became even more wealthy after the abolition of the slave trade.

Dahomey was already a military power before their involvement in the slave trade, as evidenced by the fact that Dahomey conquered Wydah, a slave trading state which was actually backed by European firepower.

This narrative isn't supported by facts, but by the desire to find an African equivalent to Western slave economy. The reality is that the involvement of Africans in the Transatlantic Slave Trade was marginal & most outside of the purview of African states.

[Denis Rancourt @denisrancourt]

This is no accident of war. This destruction is exactly what the USA empire (yes, empire) wants: To destroy Asia and China's access to energy while making them coercively dependent on USA-controlled supply; the same model used in Europe and against Russia. They don't care about elections. They seek permanent world dominance engineered by violence.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Former Refugee: "I Witnessed Foreign Aid Workers Drop Off G*ns, Alcohol & Dr*gs to Refugees"

Congolese refugee in Botswana Tina Nyambwe says she can’t trust the United Nations after all of the human rights violations she witnessed as a child.

Can you blame her? Drop us a comment.

Follow us: @Spearhead_Af

Video credit: tina.sambo.96 (Facebook)

[Chima @Chim_a]

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[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

Dell IPO made so many employees rich that it transformed Austin as a whole