Tess

Unfortunately, my politics are rooted in a deep love for humanity and the exhausting belief that a better world is actually possible.

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

I am in disbelief that after Javits Frimpong was shot in the stomach, he laid there on the concrete for 30 minutes b/c multiple people saw him, walked by and didn’t call 911.

He could’ve survived. So many people failed him and that’s a reflection of a “me first” community.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away.

Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately. 

All of New York City is mourning this tragedy.

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

It’s particularly ironic watching Africans who glorify Black American gang culture and consume music that romanticises gang violence express outrage when the consequences of that same culture affect one of their own.

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

@berabose_ But I guess there’s truth to the saying that when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression…

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

This is such an important conversation to have, but misogynists and classists aren’t ready to confront the very social structures that allow them to benefit from these inequalities…🙂‍↔️

[‘bose @berabose_]

Unpaid care work is work But since in most homes nobody is paying….The least we can do is share the responsibility and support each other.

Care work isn't just cooking. It's childcare, cleaning, fetching water, caring for elders and the sick etc…

#VoicesOfCare

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

@f0rag00dtimeee I should start tagging them because HALLO GET DOWN

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

Some pan-Africanists develop such a strong sense of moral superiority over other Africans that they end up reproducing the very same hierarchies and prejudices they claim to oppose. It’s almost funny how much they resemble the very oppressors they condemn.

[MAZI OJUKWU @Styleherbalist]

Rapper Cardi B Speaks Out About Ghanaian 15-Year-Old Javits Frimpong, Who Was Fatally Shot on His Way to School in Bronx, New York. #JusticeforJavitsFrimpong #javitsfrimpong

[Infamuhs 🇬🇭 @GabbyMensah3]

Saw a video of an African American telling us, African people in the diaspora to not start a diaspora war of the back of the situation. While I agree Javits’ story must be told on its own, when will we actually have a serious conversation about how African American kids treat African children JUST because they are different?? Myself and soo many others have been bullied by African Americans when we were younger but we don’t talk about it now see where that has ended us? Yall won’t shut up about the unfairness of slavery and segregation and even how yall feel yall are being discriminated in 2026( rightfully so )but when we want to bring up xenophobia within African American children especially then yall wanna basically tell us “not right now!” Everyone is impossible.

[Sniffs 🐟🚯 @firstniggerian]

The concept of complaining about racism against black people but proceeding to be xenophobic to all black people outside your country

[Essie Bell💓 @MsEssieBell]

Diaspora wars.. Meanwhile the black boy who was killed and any black boys who killed him will all be added to the Black on Black crime statistics undivided by ethnicity.

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

I was informed today that a lot of special needs / disabled girls and women are put on birth control by family members because they are at risk for being raped by men. That thought never even crossed my mind, that is so vile.

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

@niyanak2 They’re actually so bored, it’s insane 😭

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

When I saw African Americans saying Africans are not Black, I knew it was a scheme Todd set up 🫩

[Asia Leeds @AsiaLeeds]

The CIA did their big one with diaspora wars

[Goddess 🎀 @prn63ss]

i mightttt have taken the term “bringing the heat” a little bit too literally…

[Tess @Christinegatesi]

@smwhrincph @mongi_writes 😂 You know… the CIA couldn’t stand seeing an African and an African American happily married on reality TV after decades of trying to keep us divided, so they deployed Todd to sabotage the marriage. He’s ALWAYS at the scene of the crime…

[Teo @teoomasan]

Academically I’m at the point where i understand why people cry at their graduation.

[silly s @sourbrains]

this is schizophrenia

[Asia Leeds @AsiaLeeds]

The CIA did their big one with diaspora wars

[sijuadeeee🍒 @ivy_2638]

I love Academic validation like mad, I feel more like myself when I do very well in my studies