john macdonald

Don't let an algorithm tell you what you know.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention - Heather Heyer

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@NotoriousLyf2 @kingkapoor72 @metpoliceuk So tell me with 100% certainty what happened before the video.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@NotoriousLyf2 @kingkapoor72 @metpoliceuk No I don't. You nor I are in possession of the facts.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@RmSalih I think he's more a Christian when Convenient rapist.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@NotoriousLyf2 @kingkapoor72 @metpoliceuk You really making an anonymous arrest request?
Fairly spineless,no?

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@omoelerinjare1 There's a ridiculous amount of accounts that record or share videos made by anonymous fully masked people trying solely to provoke or scare.
I swear they have a whiff of suicide by cop to them.
Why do these producers never out themselves as much as they do their subjects?

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

🤣🤣 My pops passing on 'Soul Train' was a generational wealth fumble for sure. But in my pop's defense, he was a civil rights journalist and Don Cornelius made this ask near the end of the 1960s. At that point my pops had spent 20 yrs covering every black atrocity you could name. Imagine you are a civil rights journalist, and you have spent the last twenty years of your career covering. MLK & Malcom Assassinations, riots in Watts, Detroit, Chicago, Soweto Riots, Zimbabwe/Rhodesian civil war, Emmitt Till, Little Rock Nine, the Freedom Riders, the March on Washington, Bloody Sunday. Four little girls, Medgar Evers and some deep voice negro walking to your office talking about “let me hold a stack so I can create a TV show where black people dance all night, I'll make you a producer." All my pops knew was pain. He couldn't even fathom a world where happy Black people would be viewed as a commodity. So of course he loaned Don the money because he wanted to support him, but he never truly saw the vision and chose to be reimbursed on his investment before the show ever took off.
It remained one of his biggest regrets until he died. We weren't even allowed to watch Soul Train in my home. We could only watch Solid Gold. My pops was a proper hater. 🤣

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[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@dhaevian It's great to point out when people are wrong.
I get that.
Teach these people.
But put your face out there as well. At the end of the video put yourself on camera and tell your intention.
And also, if the person posting isn't the one filming, give proper credit.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@ctkulp @NancySinatra Why would you ever go there?
Produce your name so we can examine you and your father.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@HaleyforMI Follow the money.
She's acting like she'll be fine even if Rogers loses.
She's been promised something.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@RonSFriedman Who are you asking?
Also, are you asking because you don't know?

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@RVAwonk We're so complacent when individuals crave and scheme for unlimited power.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@stacker_sports @BlueJaysDad True. Could not slide to save his......chin😗😛

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If he keeps saying things like that, it will become impossible for Canadians to pay for their own drinks in any bar in the democratic world.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@davidfrum Bravo eh?

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

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[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@fightazon These accounts that are in such a rush to post without any effort to provide context.....
Makes me think they're just pro-violence.

[BLACK-MEDIA-HUB✊🏿 @BmediaHQ]

In December 1958, a 21-year-old Black law student named Bruce Carver Boynton was riding home to Selma for Christmas when his Trailways bus stopped in Richmond, Virginia. During the layover, he entered the bus terminal restaurant and sat in the section reserved for white customers. The Black section was visibly unsanitary, while the white section was clean and empty. When Boynton was told to move, he refused.

The police arrested him for trespassing. He spent the night in jail and was fined $10. But Boynton was a law student at Howard University, and he understood that interstate passengers had federal protections against racial discrimination. Instead of accepting the conviction, he appealed.

His case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Thurgood Marshall argued on his behalf. On December 5, 1960, the Court ruled 7-2 in Boynton's favor. The justices held that the Interstate Commerce Act prohibited racial discrimination in facilities serving interstate bus passengers, including terminal restaurants that functioned as part of the transportation service.

The decision was groundbreaking, but a Supreme Court ruling did not instantly change what happened on the ground. Segregated bus terminals across the South continued operating. That gap between the law and reality became the target of the Freedom Rides in 1961. Black and white activists deliberately traveled through the South on interstate buses to test whether the Boynton decision would actually be enforced. They were met with beatings, arrests and a firebombing in Anniston, Alabama.

By November 1961, federal regulations required interstate bus terminals to remove segregation signs and end discriminatory practices. Boynton's case had helped provide the legal foundation that made those changes possible.

His story also carried a deeper connection to Black education and activism. Boynton was born in Selma in 1937 to Samuel and Amelia Boynton, civil rights activists who worked to register Black voters. His middle name, Carver, honored George Washington Carver, who had taught his mother at Tuskegee and served as his godfather.

Bruce Boynton later became a civil rights attorney and spent much of his career fighting discrimination. He died in 2020 at 83. What began with a hungry student refusing to move in a Virginia bus terminal became a Supreme Court case that helped expose how much work remained after segregation was declared unlawful.

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@hwinkler4real Who else just got a warm feeling when reminded we still have Mrs C?

[john macdonald @StartingOver68]

@lowesy_n @ExtremeFootbal4 To help clarify for Americans, Pele is on the right.