ManzaMuza

Learning to surrender, learning to learn...

[Lynn Gedeon, PMP @LynnGedeon]

I will never talk down on Black people. I don’t care where you’re from.

Haiti. Jamaica. Nigeria. America. Brazil. Anywhere.

We have all had to survive systems that were never designed to make life easy for us.

We can disagree. We can correct each other. But I will never tear down another Black community just to make mine look better.

That kind of division does nothing for us.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

A Georgia doctor wanted to find out how much heat a Black body could take before it collapsed.

So he dug a pit, built a fire in it, and put an enslaved man inside. Repeatedly. Over months.

The man survived and later escaped to England, where he dictated what had been done to him.

His name was John Brown — not the abolitionist; a man enslaved in Georgia who took that name after he got free.

He was lent to a physician named Thomas Hamilton who had a theory about treating sunstroke and wanted to establish how deep a Black person's skin differed from a white person's.

Brown's own account describes being placed in a heated pit on a stool, covered, and kept there until he collapsed, over and over, while the doctor timed it and tested remedies. It describes blistering experiments on his hands and skin to measure how many layers could be stripped.

He survived the experiments. But the world nearly forgot what was done to him. We must never forget https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@AkuaWalters @JamaicaGleaner Must be for him specifically, or this administration... cyaan Michael's Jamaica 😭

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@JamaicaGleaner Do we know why he supposedly committed this crime? 🤔

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@Fata_dana_pound Amen

[Zj Sparks 🇯🇲 🕉 Whatever We Imagine @Sparkiebaby]

Share this please! Mandeville duh unno ting and help find this thief!!

Imagine a young yute and him fiancée jus a try mek it and dis big grey tone man ah guh rob dem

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@Sleekjamaica A how much gold wi one go tek dah month yah?? 😅🏅🥳🎉

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@Burkindi_ And THAT'S how you do it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.

He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.

Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.

He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.

Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.

He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.

He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.

He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.

The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.

The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.

Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.

He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@miaamormottley @WorldSkills Congratulations Barbados! 👏🏾👏🏾

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@ranold_b @heartnstatrust Bro, same 😅 Jamaica is a big deal, wherever we go 💪🏾

[HEART/NSTA Trust @heartnstatrust]

🇯🇲🥇 BREAKING NEWS: JAMAICA STRIKES GOLD!

Brandon Brown has won GOLD in Optoelectronic Technology at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, sharing the top honour with a competitor from Korea!

This is a landmark moment for Jamaica and the Caribbean. #WorldSkillsJamaica

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@AttorneyCrump Ugly racists just spewing hatred under this video. Not a damn thing has changed in all these years. Smh.

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@Inspirenaire Let's be real, it would NOT be a Black man doing this in reality. Kinda spot on that it's a brother doing the demonstration tho 🤔

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@mamachell We should run this back... For the culture.

[Grace Davidson @Gracehuldah]

Jamaica 🇯🇲 sign an MOU with the US to take deportees and decided not to share it with the Jamaican people. Can you imagine? And you all sit there playing politics before standing up for your country regardless of which party u support. This is not about politics. Demand answers!

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@JamaicaObserver It's so sad in the comments. We are indeed a lost people. 😔

[ManzaMuza @ESSEnonSeem]

@peakmann1e Please, stop asking stupid questions.

[Micetor @micetor]

For those unaware this was shot in Jamaica 🇯🇲 and will not be a stereotypical representation of the Country.