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[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

We go again in the name of Jesus 😌

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Thank you Lord Jesus for my best year yet.

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

It’s difficult, but it’s not an issue.

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Where will the fun be if we already know all there is to know

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

The goal is to go to one of those show tunes events to sing Hamilton. But I gotta go learn other songs- small price to pay for Hamilton tbh

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

I’ve been licking an insane amount of ice cream these past couple weeks

[𝑁𝑎𝑑𝑖. @luvblessingz]

“Please respond to this email by the 10th”

Me opening and reading the email on the 27th:

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players:

“You know I'm seeing a little bit of-
‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them.

Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’

I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks.

Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤”

(via Naomi on Threads)

[🎧Astro girl🫧 @Amarachukwuuu]

meanwhile nigerian celebrities in a regular award show

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Okay I’m gonna need the decision makers to start manufacturing malt zero

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

I guess grapes that tastes like cotton candy is one of the perks of capitalism…

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

‘It is finished’ thank you Jesus

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

I’m going to need the third season of paradise yesterday

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Sterling K. Brown the man that you are 🙌🏾

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

There needs to be zero sugar malt.

[𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬🥷🏾 @lordbrazes]

they should open it and move it to the museum, or is that reserved for african kings and queens only?

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

not yall rebranding colonialism as long-standing relationship

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Lmao not my grandma calling Google olofofo 😂😂

[Tele ✨ 👸🏾 @RetroxFuturistc]

Nick fury’s the best thing to happen to marvel

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

The Kanye West comparison remains the best description to show this imbalance.

He is a black man with a severe documented mental health condition and when he made antisemitic statements, the world collectively decided that his illness did not grant him a pass to spread hate. World leaders made statements, he was ostracised from a lot of his business deals, he lost millions of dollars.

The "nuance" of his severe bipolar disorder was set aside in favour of the outrage from the Jewish community. Yet, when the roles are shifted and the perpetrator is a white man with a neurological condition, the "nuance" suddenly becomes the entire story.

If an institution's first reflex is to explain away a slur rather than address the harm it caused, they aren't being inclusive, they are choosing to prioritize the social comfort of the person who spoke over the fundamental dignity of the people who were targeted.

Look at how quickly people(mostly white) online rushed in to explain that he has Tourette's. Before anyone had even finished processing what happened, the conversation had already shifted to defending the speaker. It’s not that the condition isn't real or relevant. It's that the instinct to protect the speaker seemed to arrive faster than the instinct to acknowledge the harm.

Once it comes to black people, the emotional burden is by default, expected to flip. So that the people who heard the slur are now expected to demonstrate empathy before their own reaction is even treated as legitimate.

None of this requires denying the reality of Tourette's or pretending the outburst was intentional. A neurological condition can explain why something happened without erasing what it felt like to hear it. Both truths can sit together. A fair response has to acknowledge that even with a lack of intent, the reality of the harm is still there. Aggressively writing a 10 page thesis on Tourette's to shut down conversations doesn't do anyone any favours.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Censored one Black man and allowed other Black men to be called the n word on public television

[Big chef Liyah 🖤 @alli_ya7]

Italian’s I’m so sorry 😩

Your pasta goes well with Ata dindin, not heavy cream 😭😌😌