MrG

Executive Director

[!Nspirenaire⚠️ @Inspirenaire]

Who said that the youth are not out here taking care of their elders!!! They are lying!!! Y'all stop letting them lie on your generation!!!

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Viola Ford Fletcher, a Black woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. She spent her final years fighting for justice and telling her story.

[!Nspirenaire⚠️ @Inspirenaire]

Such a very smooth voice, love to hear it.

[DJ Kam Bennett @KameronBennett]

the most beautiful piano I’ve ever heard 😍

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Got me watching with a whole grin on my face! The talent, the style, the joy…🖤

[𝔇𝔯 𝔊𝔬𝔡 𝔄𝔟𝔢𝔥 𝔬𝔬𝔬 @Mr_Therapistaf]

Someone help me out here… I’m fuming with rage. Maybe I didn’t hear it right but I need someone to make this make sense to me.

[Chief & Queen @LyfAcrosBorders]

I can’t believe this level of greediness and unappreciative energy.

Watch this sh!t 👇🏾😞

She has a man with a job, a house, and kids...the kind of life so many women say they want. Yet she’s still complaining about his “AMBITION.”

Be honest: Is this ungrateful entitlement, or is wanting more actually valid?

C & Q ✍️🏾
𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒖𝒔 - 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒔. 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

They called the police on a little Black kid for being too good at soccer.

[Demar The General @DemarJohns47935]

This is for all you racist and dumb tethers who didn't think #FBA invented 💩I bet you can't live without our Black American inventions. If you think you could put money where your mouth is fool and break yourself 🤔🫡

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

He missed the school bus. So Brennan Walker, fourteen, walked the route from memory and got lost, and knocked on a door to ask for directions.

A woman screamed. Her husband came down the stairs with a sh0tgun.

Rochester Hills, Michigan. The morning of 12 April 2018. His phone was dead. He had never had to walk it before.

He knocked. Through the glass he tried to explain he had missed the bus and needed to know which way the school was.

The woman inside started shouting that he was trying to break in. Her husband, Jeffrey Zeigler, a retired firefighter, came downstairs with a sh0tgun.

Brennan ran. Zeigler came out onto the porch and fired at the back of a running fourteen-year-old. The shot missed. It is on the house's own doorbell camera, which is why we are not relying on anybody's memory.

Brennan kept running until he found someone to call his mother.

Zeigler was charged and convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and a firearm offence, and sentenced to four to ten years.

Brennan's mother, Lisa Wright, said afterwards that she had taught him what to do if he got lost. Go to a house. Knock on a door. Ask an adult.

Every parent teaches that. It is the single most basic instruction there is.

He did it exactly right, and a man fired a shotgun at him for it.

He was fourteen, and he was late for school.

This is why in our book we confront the painful history too many people never hear. We must never forget these injustices

Get yours: https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[BLACK FLAG 🏴🇺🇸 @FlagBlack007]

Men date younger women for a multitude of reasons. Thoughts 💭 ⁉️

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Son did this while giving his mother away 😂

[Raphousetv (RHTV) @raphousetv2]

Man Goes Viral After Revealing How 5 Minutes Of Anger Cost Him 20 Years Of Freedom.

[The Buck You Will @TheBuckYouWill]

WE ARE BEING POISONED.

Make smart choices.

DON'T EAT GARBAGE FOOD.

(There is no playing with your health.)

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

He was lying flat on his back in the road with both hands in the air, shouting that he was a therapist and the man beside him was autistic and holding a toy truck.

A policeman shot Charles Kinsey anyway. Kinsey asked him why.

The officer said: "I don't know."

North Miami, Florida, 18 July 2016. Kinsey, 47, was a behavioural therapist. One of his patients, Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 26-year-old autistic man, had wandered out of a group home and was sitting in the middle of the road playing with a silver toy truck.

Someone called 911 and reported a man with a gun threatening to kill himself.

Kinsey did everything. He lay down in the road on his back. He put both hands straight up in the air where they could be seen. He shouted his identification, his job, his patient's condition, and that the object was a toy. It is on video.

A SWAT officer fired three rounds. One hit Kinsey in the leg.

Then he was rolled over and handcuffed, bleeding in the road, and left there for a reported twenty minutes before an ambulance got to him.

He asked the officer why he had shot him. He has testified that the answer was: *I don't know.*

The officer, Jonathan Aledda, said he had been trying to protect Kinsey and believed Rios Soto was armed and a threat. He was charged — which is itself unusual — and tried twice. The first trial produced a conviction on one count of culpable negligence. A judge threw it out. A second jury acquitted him in 2019.

Nobody has been held responsible.

Kinsey survived and gave interviews, and the sentence he keeps returning to is the one everybody should take from this.

He was unarmed, flat on his back, hands up, announcing himself, in daylight, on camera.

He did everything right, and it did not matter.

Every Black parent in America who has ever recited the rules to a teenager — hands visible, say sir, do not move, announce what you are doing — has had to reckon with Charles Kinsey, because he followed all of them, perfectly, out loud, and was shot anyway.

[Geri Perna @GeriPerna]

A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied.

But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other.

One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion.

The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon.

And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another.

The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there.

The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other.

Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

Absolutely correct. 💯

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

She was patient and she figured it out on her own. A win is a win! 🖤

[Belle femme noire 🇺🇸 FBA B1! @WiseSkillfulOne]

#Storytime

"Stop playing with your daggon' life, or lose the one you have."

📮 Be careful out here...When meeting people from the internet.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

Meet Roy Allela, a Kenyan 🇰🇪 man who invented smart gloves that can convert siģn language movements into audio speech. He made it for his six year old niece who was born deaf. That’s how the idea of smart gloves came to fruition.