Mars♠️

idk I just work here

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

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[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@stoppfeenin Black ppl are so obsessed with someone being gay omg

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@rgsace Pls tell me morigesh or fey is getting something too

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@PredecessorGame we need this NEOWWWW

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

???

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@PredecessorGame Remove 6 cards and bring back 5 and also nerf the characters they're too strong

[#LiquidateRealMadrid🥷🏽 @M_avirik]

this show kills me😭😭😭😭😭

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@frickyuu This movie was a fever dream😭

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@FlLMDORK Did she lie ??

[𝒮𝓀𝓎 @porcelainskys]

This how ik we lost as black people cuz this mf is a convicted rapist , a drug addict, but y’all praising him for not being …gay? BEING GAY IS ALL YALL CARE ABOUT YOU DEADASS? I hate you mfs I swear on my life

[revel @_iam_determined]

Watched these and still turned out gay af.

[nonya business @rabum_alal_941]

This is a prime example of why we deserve reparations, it’s not just about slavery white people. It’s about the sabotage we have to endure time and time again. You tell us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps we do it and then you come and slice our legs out from under us.

[Mars♠️ @MarsSpady]

@va1kyrieee @F_Candy_119 Hey😂that's kinda rude.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1663, Queen Nzinga Mbande, a warrior queen of the Nzinga and Matamba and one of the greatest female African rulers died. She led the stiffest opposition to European dominaion in Africa's interior, winning battle after battle against the Portuguese.

Nzingha, also known as Ana de Sousa Nzingha Mbande, was a 17th century Queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in southwestern Africa (Ngola was both a name and a title in Ndongo).

Nzinga was a powerful monarch who successfully kept the Portuguese out of her land for 35 years. In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) she conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory and aligned herself with the Dutch.

During the late 16th Century, the French and the English threatened the Portuguese near monopoly on the sources of slaves along the West African coast, forcing it to seek new areas for exploitation. By 1580 they had already established a trading relationship with Afonso I in the nearby Kongo Kingdom. They then turned to Angola, south of the Kongo.

The Portuguese established a fort and settlement at Luanda in 1617, encroaching on Mbundu land. In 1622 they invited Ngola (King) Mbande to attend a peace conference there to end the hostilities with the Mbundu. Mbande sent his sister Nzinga to represent him in a meeting with Portuguese Governor Joao Corria de Sousa. Nzinga was aware of her diplomatically awkward position.

She knew of events in the Kongo which had led to Portuguese domination of the nominally independent nation. She also recognized, however, that to refuse to trade with the Portuguese would remove a potential ally and the major source of guns for her own state.

In the first of a series of meetings Nzinga sought to establish her equality with the representative of the Portugal crown. She converted to Christianity and adopted the name Dona Anna de Souza. Shortly afterwards Nzinga ordered the conversion of his people to Christianity.

In 1626 Nzinga became Queen of the Mbundu when her brother committed suicide in the face of rising Portuguese demands for slave trade concessions. Nzinga, however, refused to allow them to control her nation. In 1627, after forming alliances with former rival states, she led her army against the Portuguese, initiating a thirty-year war against them. She exploited European rivalry by forging an alliance with the Dutch who had conquered Luanda in 1641. With their help, Nzinga defeated a Portuguese army in 1647. When the Dutch were in turn defeated by the Portuguese the following year and withdrew from Central Africa, Nzinga continued her struggle against the Portuguese. Now in her 60s she still personally led troops in battle.
She also orchestrated guerilla attacks on the Portuguese which would continue long after her death and inspire the ultimately successful 20th Century armed resistance against the Portuguese that resulted in independent Angola in 1975.

Despite repeated attempts by the Portuguese and their allies to capture or kill Queen Nzinga, she died peacefully in her eighties on December 17, 1663.

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Happy 84th birthday to Claudette Colvin!

She refused to move to the back of a bus 9 months before Rosa Parks, the NAACP did not want to use her to represent them because she was 15 & pregnant.

Other women who refused to give up their seats before Rosa Parks

A THREAD!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Aunt Polly Jackson, was an escaped enslaved woman who worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad helping others escape.

She was known for fighting off slave catchers with a butcher knife and a kettle of boiling water. #BlackHistoryMonth 

A THREAD!

[Corn ✧⍣ @cornski]

if you’re lactose intolerant open this

[sheryl lee ralph @thesherylralph]

There must be a respect for human life. This young English teacher was in a car accident and had an anxiety attack and somehow he ended up tased to death by LAPD

[Steve @thahumorguy]

Me after someone buys the house i had saved on Zillow, that I was gonna buy in 10 years..