Desmond Ricks

Father of 3, and Seeker of truth.. Live, Love, Grow

[Phish @phish]

100 AT THE GARDEN. Phish returns to Madison Square Garden for a four-night New Year’s Run December 30-31 and January 1-2, with the January 2 show marking the band’s 100th at @TheGarden. You don’t get to 100 without making some friends along the way.

Request tickets now through Monday, October 12 at Noon ET → https://t.co/SWBytoSO8H. Tickets go on sale to the general public October 16 at Noon ET. Travel Packages go on sale tomorrow, October 8 at Noon ET → https://t.co/HQOJZh2U2U

#PhishMSG100

[AllHipHopcom @allhiphopcom]

Ghostface x Scarface x Kool G Rap - Red Bull Freestyle

Killer Bars! The OGs aren't giving their crowns up!

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

When the Mississippi River broke its levees in 1927, thirteen thousand Black refugees were stranded on a strip of high ground at Greenville — and the National Guard would not let them leave.

Boats came. Boats left. The boats were for white families.

The Great Mississippi Flood covered an area the size of several states. In Greenville, Black flood victims were held in the open on the crown of the levee — a strip only a few feet wide in places — for weeks.

They were kept there deliberately. Planters feared that if Black labor evacuated, it would never come back to the cotton fields.

So the Guard sealed them in. Refugees were made to unload relief supplies at gunpoint. Food was distributed to Black families only in exchange for work, and in some camps only to those wearing labor tags.

A man was shot dead by a guardsman for refusing to work.

Herbert Hoover, running the relief effort and running for president, learned about the conditions. A Black commission he appointed documented them. He promised reforms — including land for Black farmers — in exchange for keeping it quiet through the election.

He won. The promises were never kept.

The Black South drew its own conclusion. The flood accelerated the Great Migration: hundreds of thousands left, and Black voters began the long shift away from the party of Lincoln that reshaped American politics.

They dammed the water and dammed the people behind it. One of the largest forced-labor episodes of the American twentieth century, and it has no memorial.

This is why we must keep documenting our stories that they try to erase. Get yours: https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

That was then. This is now.

Up the Reds ❤️

[Netflix @netflix]

MOURINHO, a three-part documentary, is coming to Netflix August 11.

With exclusive access to Mourinho himself plus interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, John Terry, Iker Casillas, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Didier Drogba, Marcelo, Samuel Eto'o, Javier Zanetti, Frank Lampard, Petr Čech, and more of football's greatest names.

[Desmond Ricks @DDRicks23]

@byjoelanderson He’s a fucking coon

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Kollege Kidd @KollegeKidd]

India Arie reacts to Yung Miami's viral song "Spend Dat"

"I finally realized that not everybody wants to get free."

[Desmond Ricks @DDRicks23]

@hugolowell @mikefreemanNFL @WIRED It would have been more beneficial for them to report this when it happened instead of waiting for their book

[Desmond Ricks @DDRicks23]

@KevOnStage You are correct!

[GoldenKnight @GoldenKnightGFX]

LEBRON JAMES LITERALLY CREATED A TEAMMATE TO THROW AN OOP TO IN THE PLAYOFFS MAN STOP ALL THE DEBATES

[Desmond Ricks @DDRicks23]

@ABCPolitics Coon

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

This shit is out of control! Where is Congress??!!!

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

There are ALWAYS just enough Democrats to vote for War and Wall Street.

It is not a coincidence.

It is the objective: Maintain the illusion of democracy while preserving capitalism.

The entire system must go. No more Republicans. No more Democrats.

A better world is possible.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Trump has attacked one country per month since winning the soccer peace prize

[Matt Castelli @CastelliMatt]

Why is a US war in the Middle East being launched and run from Mar-A-Lago?

If you are going to send our troops to war and put American citizens in danger, get the fuck off the golf course and back to the White House.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

We always have money for war, but not the money to feed our children or give them healthcare

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

[Richard @ricwe123]

Imagine starting a major war with Iran over their nuclear program when this is on the official White House website.
😂😂😂

[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

The adults before us willingly ruining the world and expecting us to help them