Patrick Knight

Ecclesiastes 4:12✝️ | UAPB Grad🦁 | ΦBΣ🤘🏾 | ΦMA 🇩🇪 | Poet ✍🏾 | Model📸 | HHS Alumnus 🏴‍☠️ | IG/SC/TikTok: pattyknight02 | FB: Patrick Knight

[Robert Littal BSO @BSO]

My theory is the goal is to keep Americans as dumb as possible so they are easier to manipulate and keep the poor, poor. Because simple things like literacy would greatly enhance people’s ability to see through BS.

[Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton]

A peer-reviewed study found Black patients matched with Black doctors were 27% less likely to die in the hospital. A separate study found Black residents live longer in counties with more Black primary care physicians. “Find A Black Doctor” exists because the disparities are real

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

I hate "I don't see color" folks. See my black skin. Understand what it means. Acknowledge its mistreatment. Act accordingly.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash]

One major reason Republicans have worked so hard to defund PBS. It actually informs the general public about the truth regarding US history, no whitewashed myths.

[Dwayne @TheStevenDwayne]

Mind you, when it was convenient yall was saying lame ass shit like “I am not my elders and ancestors.” Like they were ever weak. Just for them to show up and do more than us in their seasoned years while we tweet.

[Rep. Terri A. Sewell @RepTerriSewell]

This is a five-alarm fire. Black political representation in America is under attack.

[AthletesInSpace @AthletesInSpace]

There’s something deeply sinister about a Southern culture in America that will celebrate Black athletes entertaining them on college football Saturdays, yet resist the voting protections and political representation those same communities have historically fought for

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

If we’re asking Black student athletes to boycott the SEC to fight against the white supremacist southern state governments, also ask Black professional athletes to contribute money to support young people giving up college scholarships.

[Pearl Rose @hipearlrose]

the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US! its watershed spans NY, PA, WV, MD, DE, VA, and DC!!! this travesty leeched toxic chemicals into the food, water and land for millions of Americans and the US GOVT HID IT FROM US FOR MONTHS!!!!!!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Happening in Tennessee right now:

[Better Mental @_bettermental]

Track gratitude and achievement with a journal.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

[Persimmon OT @OtPersimmon]

Some of you are so desensitised to healthy relationships that peace feels boring. You crave drama and call it love.

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Side effect of the literacy crisis is people not recognizing literary devices anymore

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

You are not "healed" just because you cut everyone off, blocked your exes, and sit in your room alone making aesthetic videos about "protecting your peace." True healing is only tested in the presence of triggers, conflict, and intimacy. Being peaceful because you actively avoid all deep human interaction isn't emotional growth; it is just self-imposed quarantine. You are still broken; you just removed the audience

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

Embarrassing that the Supreme Court legalized this. Shameful.