If anything, NYC is culturally Black. Almost everything NYC is known for comes from Black ppl since the creation of hip-hop. The lingo, the clothes....most modern impersonations of someone "from NYC" is usually of a Black person.
the publicist of the woman gassing the atmosphere with her private jets literally being named Tree Pain has convinced me that we live in a simulation created by a really uncreative person
Cardi B continues to use her platform to advocate for the history of black African Americans to be properly taught in schools.
"They want to diminish slavery as free labour but I wasn't free labour, it inhumane, it was torture, the worst in humankind history".
Eve revealed that her drink was spiked at a 2007 VMA after-party after she left it unattended. She said, "Missy came in to check on me, but I was just so unable to collect myself. Then who walks in? Janet Jackson. I had never met her before, so her first introduction to me was seeing me hysterical. None of that mattered to Janet. She actually just sprang into action and told people to get water, hot sauce, and a piece of white bread. That knocked me right out of my hysteria. So basically, Janet Jackson saved my life.
Today’s Economics: Class Reductionism.
Any political movement that reduces every form of oppression to class will fail to understand racism. A movement that fails to understand racism will ultimately fail.
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The biggest irony of people complaining about France being to African is that If France had its way, France would be majority African today. France granted French citizenship to all its African colonies in 1946, and again reaffirmed it in 1958, but Africans ultimately rejected it in favor of full independence.
“I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood. This man never broke his word. I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of history will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for the English, La Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright, consummate flower of our earlier civilization, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, Toussaint L’Ouverture.”
-Wendell Phillips