HeAero

Let's do this right the first time.

[C 🔆☀️🌞 @mcg_celeste]

I would like to clarify several of my positions so that no one can misconstrue my thoughts or what I say.

I identify as Black American. I also identify with the term American Negro. I do not mind the term Afro-American.

I do not identify with "African American," and I never have. At the same time, I have nothing against people who choose to use it. I simply want to make it abundantly clear that identity is a matter of personal choice and preference, and no one speaks for me or my family.

I view African American as a label imposed from the top down. Whether those who promoted it understood that many people found its introduction disrespectful is beside the point. In my view, the label was misguided because Jesse Jackson explicitly framed it as a way to give us an identity similar to Irish Americans and Italian Americans. That comparison has never made sense to me because our historical experiences are fundamentally different.

I do not identify as FBA. However, I respect anyone's right to self-identify as such.

When I say Black American, Black America, or Black Americans, I am referring to a distinct American ethnicity, not merely a racial category.

Race has played a significant role in how people have been classified in the United States, and much of our history has been shaped by that framework. However, I do not view race as a biologically meaningful or inherently valid classification. Rather, I see it as an externally imposed social and historical construct that has had real consequences.

That said, race is not the only way people are classified. In the United States, Black can function as both a racial label (black) and an ethnic identity (Black).

I hope this clears up any confusion about my position regarding Black America and our history, culture, heritage, and identity. ❤️🌟🖤

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power

(video: defiancedispatch/IG)

[nija. @batbglobal]

I kinda hate that we’re still riding on 20 year motion instead of anything new because the city is being gentrified and the Black people who are the soul of the city keep getting pushed out.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Waffle House workers rally in Atlanta, demand $25 an hour wage and safer conditions https://t.co/pTYao33WCV

[C 🔆☀️🌞 @mcg_celeste]

This is weird. I hope more people start calling it what it is.

There is no reason for another group to take a Black American cultural celebration and center themselves in it.

None of that food has anything to do with Texas or with the ancestors who were emancipated there.

This is weird.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A Tennessee school district has banned Alex Haley’s “Roots” under the state’s so-called ‘Age-Appropriate Materials Act’ https://t.co/oPStQvkAic

[DAP/ADOS TRIBE🇺🇸 @Black_Action]

@LouisianaKidd Hate Crime in the United States
https://t.co/hY4KgDkAn2

[HeAero @LibraBM3]

@RashadStark This is so crazy to be hearing ngl

[BlackSword @Blacksword011]

And it’s called EBONICS. Not AAVE.

[Daily Berserk 𒉭 @daily_berserk]

#BERSERK #ベルセルク

[Daily Berserk 𒉭 @daily_berserk]

#BERSERK #ベルセルク

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Students at South Carolina State University protested Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette's selection as commencement speaker. The university later rescinded the invitation

Now, a small group of Republicans within the statehouse is calling to defund the HBCU https://t.co/5VmGndrKfw

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This woman is at the Soda Museum & there’s a Jim Crow Era Segregated Coca Cola drink machine there. These were used in the mid 1960’s so black people had to buy their’s on one side & whites on the other. I also read that blacks had to pay a penny more than whites for one.🤬

[BearCoffeeCake🧸☕️🧁 @bearcoffeecake]

Good golly, who wouldve thought!! 😀

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Bottle” — a groove you move to, and a story you can’t ignore.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Luther Vandross locking in to drop the first verse on his debut single, 1981.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

No one knows how many people die in Mississippi's jails, in part, because many of the state’s hundreds of local law enforcement agencies find reporting requirements burdensome, state officials say

https://t.co/Nr4dkpzX7A

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Remembering and reclaiming…Thank you, #YaraShahidi and #TaraRoberts.