They’re doing the same thing to sports they did to music education. Many of the greatest musicians to ever live first touched an instrument at SCHOOL. That became an opportunity for the poor to move up socioeconomically. Especially Black kids.
Same can be said for what And1 league was. Cities taking hoops out of neighborhoods, creating private schools to recruit from, etc. All of it is to control the opportunities for poor kids and kids of color to get educations or access to wealth.
It’s that deep.
I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates.
We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to.
https://t.co/gPNz4waWs2
Jay-Z = the epitome of “fake deep.” If you don’t read, you probably thought the silly shit he said was “profound” or “wise” when it really is just a slow nigga who thinks his money makes him qualified to speak. Like…most other billionaires.
Michael Manley’s love for Jamaica, and his friendship with Castro, is why the CIA destabilized Jamaica. They did it by sending in an “economic hitman” (there’s a documentary about it on YouTube) and by arming inner-city youths with guns, which helped spark a bloody political election. Before that, there were no guns in Jamaica, and the Jamaican dollar was equal in value to the U.S. dollar.
That eventually cascaded into a CIA-backed drug trade involving Jamaican gangsters who were given visas to New York. This later fueled the “Posse Wars” between Black American drug lords and rival Jamaican factions (Shower Posse and Spranglers Posse). There’s also an episode on the show American Gangsters on this. Shower Posse alone were responsible for 1500 murders in NY and Miami in the 80s during the height of the drug trade.
Some of those same factions were also involved in the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, shooting him several times (Jim Brown is the culprit. Long story on him, who the government ended up double-crossing and killing). Bob Marley was pushing unity and peace in the midst of the CIA orchestrated political violence. Right as he planned a peace concert between the two warring political factions, he was shot the day before the concert. A plot to silence a respected voice who the people would listen to.
The violence and destabilization of so many Third World countries isn’t accidental. It’s often a system engineered to create dependence on the United States, steal their resources and keep people focused inward, fighting each other, which ultimately weakens both the population and the country itself.
shoutout to the truth tellers who are relentless and unending in their spread of awareness and love for community. it is a usually thankless and oft resented role.
Jimmy Cliff, the soulful reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with "The Harder They Come," "Many Rivers to Cross" and much more, has died at the age of 81.
Story: https://t.co/iKVGH61DSZ
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
This is exactly how the sneaker game should be moving. When they sit, ship em off to Ross or Burlington so they can markdown. I can’t believe that there’s really a community of people who WONT buy these because they AREN’T expensive. Fools. $85 on the Military Blues? Yes that’s how the game should be. Unfortunately there’s a hype beast reseller that’ll cop these for the $85…and get them off for $220-$250. And I don’t knock nobody hustle, if niggas will buy at that number, handle ya handle. You still a fuckin hype beast dweeb tho.
A lot of my Title I students are about to struggle this winter. If SNAP cuts hit, school might be the only place they get a meal.
That’s why BronxGiving matters. We feed families, we remind kids they’re seen, we show up when no one else does. #FeedTheBronx#BronxGiving#snap
Brandon Scott has been the mayor of Baltimore since 2020, he was 36, and the crime rate is at record lows.
Let young progressive leaders who actually care about their communities and constituents come through and try something different than these recycled “experienced” leaders.