Tsepho

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.

Some notable cowboys!

A THREAD

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.

Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."

[Musa Ronalds @MusaaRonalds]

Let me educate you not with anger, but with truth. You assume South Africans lack exposure. You assume we believe other African countries are poor and undeveloped. That is not the case. We know the reality. We know Nigeria has oil. We know Ghana has gold. We know Kenya has tech. We know Botswana has diamonds. We know Zambia has copper. We know Zimbabwe has platinum and lithium. We know the DRC sits on $24 trillion in minerals. We know Africa is rich.

But here is what you do not understand, wealth beneath the ground does not translate to prosperity above it. You can have all the minerals in the world but if your leaders steal, your constitutions hostile towards humans rights, if your institutions are corrupt, if your people are divided by tribe, if your healthcare collapses, if your schools crumble, if your youth flee then you are poor. Not in resources. In governance. In accountability. In dignity.

We do not look down on Africa. We look at the mirror Africa refuses to face. We see our own flaws corruption, unemployment, crime and we fight them. We protest. We vote. We demand better. That is what makes us different. We do not run. We stay. We build. We hold our leaders accountable, even when it hurts.

You say we lack exposure. But we see you. We see your leaders flying overseas to get treated, some in our country to get medical treatment, while your children starve. We see your ports exporting raw minerals while your people have no jobs. We are not blind. We are not ignorant. We are honest.

The difference between South Africa and many other African countries is not wealth. It is the willingness to confront failure. We own ours. You run from yours. That is not a lack of exposure. That is a lack of accountability. And until you fix that, no mineral, no resource, no tweet will save you. Go home. Fix your house. Then talk to us about exposure.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@txjen77 @OrevaZSN You mean spit like a cobra from beneath the tongue-I was the only one I knew who could do that

[Covie @covie_93]

The face that launched a 1000 MAGA meltdowns.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@odedanilo Yebo, and I will even clap my hands together in disbelief and say: "Joh!"

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@odedanilo Let me see ...

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@odedanilo If you look at my timeline I don't have a single like but now...

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@odedanilo Life goals. I'm inspired bhuti ❤️

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@Rendani666 Always nice to hear stories with happy endings. Also I didn't realize that humans were responsible for verifying selfies in real time; I thought it was automated.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@Rendani666 I'm trying and failing to understand what kind of problems I would have that I couldn't fix for myself if I already had R800 000 to my name. 🙄

[Sandile99 @RichardRSA]

@Acyn I'm a white person in south Africa. What a load of toss this is. Trump and Elon need to take more or take less medication, not sure which.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@anishmoonka Thanks for answering a question I had for the longest and which I bever found a satisfactory answer. I still wonder why non carnivorous land animals such as elephants kill humans but no whale has ever attacked a human- besides sperm whales that were defending themselves

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.

We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@odedanilo Unrelated: why do you'll call it a jersey when it's a T-shirt?

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@fkmakhanda @Rendani666 Thank you

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"She saved a stranger’s child with $15. Decades later, she discovered why he had been searching for her.

In 1982, a Kenyan boy named Chris Mburu stood on the brink of losing everything. He was the brightest student in his rural district, studying by lamplight inside an earthen house without electricity. But his family could not afford his school fees. Without help, his education would end — along with any chance of escaping a life spent picking coffee in the fields.

Meanwhile, across the world in Sweden, an 80-year-old kindergarten teacher named Hilde Back came across a notice for a child sponsorship program. She chose a name from a list: Chris Mburu, Kenya. She began sending $15 every school term. There was no recognition, no expectation of gratitude — just a quiet decision to help a child she believed she would never meet.

That small amount changed everything.

Chris stayed in school. Over time, he and Hilde exchanged letters. She asked about his teachers, his studies, and his dreams. Through her words, he realized she wasn’t just part of an organization. She was a real person who believed in him. And he never forgot her.

Chris eventually graduated at the top of his law class at the University of Nairobi. He later earned a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard. He went on to become a United Nations human rights lawyer, helping prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity around the world.

Yet one thing always weighed on his heart. He had never properly thanked the woman who made his journey possible. In truth, he barely knew who she was.

In 2001, Chris founded a scholarship program for children like himself — talented students from poor families whose potential might otherwise be lost. He asked the Swedish Ambassador in Kenya to help him locate his mysterious sponsor so he could name the foundation after her.

They found her. Hilde Back. Still alive. Still living quietly in Sweden.

Chris traveled to meet her for the first time. He expected to meet a wealthy philanthropist. Instead, he found a humble, warm woman living simply — genuinely surprised that anyone considered her actions remarkable.

Then filmmaker Jennifer Arnold began documenting their reunion. During her research, she uncovered something Hilde had never told Chris.

Hilde Back had not been born in Sweden. She was born in Nazi Germany in 1922 to a Jewish family. At sixteen, when Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws banned Jewish children from attending school, strangers helped smuggle her to Sweden. Her parents stayed behind because Sweden’s refugee policies did not allow older Jews to enter. Both were later sent to concentration camps. Her father died there. Her mother disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Hilde survived the Holocaust because strangers helped her escape. She lost her own education because of who she was.

Fifty years later, she quietly paid for the education of a child across the world — a child who would grow up to fight the same hatred that destroyed her family.

When Chris learned her story, he wept. Hilde, meanwhile, had no idea that the boy she sponsored had devoted his life to prosecuting genocide.

In 2003, Hilde traveled to Kenya for the inauguration of the Hilde Back Education Fund. The entire village welcomed her as an honorary elder. In 2012, she returned again to celebrate her 90th birthday, surrounded by hundreds of children whose futures had been transformed through her generosity.

Hilde Back passed away on January 13, 2021, at the age of 98.

Today, the Hilde Back Education Fund has supported nearly 1,000 Kenyan children in continuing their education. Many have graduated from universities around the world. Many now give back — mentoring younger students and contributing monthly donations to support the next generation.

One woman. Fifteen dollars. One child.

That child created a foundation. That foundation changed hundreds of lives. And those lives continue to change others.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@PopBase In the Joe Ledger novel Extinction Machine the then POTUS (based on Barack Obama) is abducted by aliens in and held hostage until the antagonists (one of whom becomes POTUS later in the series) returns the world ending alien tech they have acquired... Make of this what you will.

[Tsepho @FuzeZn9]

@kinziefur @Mr_Husky1 Wow, that's amazing