Black mental health matters

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[🎀 planet clarke 🎀 @planetclarke]

“Women have a hard time submitting to men because it’s hard for Gods to submit to their own creations” altered my brain chemistry a little bit ngl

[NBA @NBA]

Josh Hart and his family during portraits 🧡💙

[Zito @_Zeets]

KAT is an NBA champion before all those players that was said to be more masculine and tougher than him. Hilarious.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Jalen Brunson is the king of New York

[Dr. Neighborhood Publicist @nhoodpublicist]

The one thing everybody keeps dancing around about this case is that we have got to do something about toxic masculinity and what we’re teaching boys about what it means to be a man. If we cared about that more, the likelihood this happens is slim to none.

[RealTimBlack @RealTimBlack]

Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.

FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.

FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.

FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.

FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.

FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.

FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.

Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?

You already know the answer.

Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.

Stay Dangerous.

[Don Moolio @_ReeMiddleChild]

Karmelo Anthony has recieved more time (35 years) than George Zimmerman (no time), Daniel Penny (no time), Derek Chauvin (22.5 years), Amber Guyger (10 years) & Rick Chow (no time) COMBINED. This is unacceptable to any sane thinking, no racist person.

[Me @KirkWrites79]

After talking to some my friends, I was shocked to realize how many people check to see who watches their stories or don’t like their posts. I was struggling with why they even care. They had explanations but none quite made sense (to me).

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

You cannot spend years breaking a child's spirit and then expect a few words in adulthood to repair what took years to destroy. You cannot teach a child to fear your footsteps, your voice, your moods, and your anger, then expect them to see you as a source of comfort later in life.

[سيدة @Ajoke__xx]

Somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop, heal from what broke you, live in your own space, reconnect with your discipline, and learn to love yourself again. It’s very important that you see that journey through.

[Ous'B 💚 @BongsMahlangu_]

Years ago I took a guy out on a date and he ordered a steak well done. I finished the date and knew I wasn't seeing him again.

Fast forward a week of radio silence and he messages me asking when is the next date? I said "Oh, you finally finished chewing?"

...I was out of line, but I was right.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.

[Douglas. Just Douglas. @DougieRams]

I wish Black folks would stop playing into respectability politics, I mean we all know shorty was innocent but even if he stole water his penalty shouldn't be fucking death.

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

Yes and Black people have typically been DENIED small business loans that allow us to OWN in our own communities so this is a double edged sword, especially if the proprietors are Anti Black while relying on our patronage.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Black children have never been safe in this country. It has been an endless cycle of violence and dehumanization.

[tha don @SanaaMania]

And maybe this is crazy, but Cyrus Carmack-Belton didn’t deserve to be shot by Rick Chow even if he *had* stolen the water

[🌿O.G. Botanist Johnson 🌿 @Thugg_Speedman]

Civil suit that MF into the ground ma'am.

He doesn't deserve to live a quiet life

[legallyminded @legallyminded]

Shooting someone in the back after chasing them for over 100 yards is not self defense…

[in charge of the girls @AmeriKraut]

a black victim and no black jurors...