Huey P. Newton said, “I do not expect the white media to create positive Black male images.” A white woman strangled her three children to death, and yet the lone Black male juror who refused to acquit her is now being cast as the problem. She is given context, sympathy, illness, and complexity. He is given suspicion.
She committed the violence, but he becomes the villain for refusing to excuse it.
Here’s something Black folks have long understood, in the United States a Black man does not need to commit violence to be treated violently.
I wish the conversation y’all were having around this was more so on how detrimental social media & influencer culture is on kids and young adults. How it shapes their views on their own lives and makes them feel like they’re not doing enough or ever going to be enough unless they have their yacht moment. Expand your brains I beg
What Amazon is actually doing is threatening New Yorkers with slower, more expensive deliveries, if NYC forces them to stop exploiting their workers.
Your reminder that the wealthy few at the top try to keep us divided because they fear class solidarity more than anything else.
I think Raven-Symoné’s real issue is that the exact demographic of Black people she tries so hard to distance herself from are the same people who saw themselves the most in Raven Baxter. And THAT is the part she can’t stand. Which makes it even more confusing because those same Black people are a huge part of why Raven became as famous and culturally relevant as she is.
Texas please listen , Abbott has no intention of actually getting rid of flock cameras or data centers. He is pausing it so he can get reelected. He brought it all here in the first place! VOTE HIM OUT.
This is a fact. Stop giving me the sample at the beginning of the song. Let me figure or do homework on why this beat is so good if it is a sample in it..
The literacy crisis isn’t just about people struggling to read words. It’s about losing the ability to understand context, infer meaning, question information, and form your own conclusions. And relying on AI to do all that thinking for us is only making the problem worse.
comments saying he’s more black than her because he grew up with black people around. Why are we treating our race like it’s a fucking club that non-black people can get in if they live in the hood or act a certain way ?