Bishop Talbert Swan

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He darn sure wasn’t white

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@stephenasmith went to the White House to break bread with Donald Trump, Kid Rock, and Bill Maher. Now he’s defending himself by suggesting that refusing to have a conversation would be foolish and that his engagement was about helping the Black community.

Well, Stephen A., since you claim this was about helping Black people, I have a few questions.

The Trump administration has gutted the federal workforce, disproportionately impacting Black women. Did you secure any of those jobs back?

Trump has waged an all-out assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Did you get a commitment to restore any of those protections?

His administration has worked to erase Black history from federal institutions and public education. Did you convince him to reverse those policies?

His administration has pursued redistricting schemes that threaten Black political representation. Did you get him to oppose those efforts?

ICE has been guilty of racial profiling, abusive detention practices, and deadly enforcement tactics against Black and Brown immigrants. Did you get any commitment to end those abuses or change his immigration policies?

You reportedly raised unemployment among Black women and funding for HBCUs. What concrete commitments did you walk away with? What policies changed? What resources were secured? What did Black people actually gain?

Because sitting at a table with the president is not an accomplishment. Getting a picture, sharing a meal, and having a four-hour conversation are not victories for Black America.

ACCESS IS NOT ADVOCACY. PROXIMITY IS NOT PROGRESS. AND A SEAT AT THE TABLE MEANS NOTHING IF YOU LEAVE WITHOUT BRINGING ANYTHING BACK TO THE PEOPLE YOU CLAIM TO REPRESENT.

You can call it whatever makes you feel important. But don’t insult our intelligence by dressing up your personal invitation as some great act of service to Black people.

So tell us, Stephen A., exactly what did you accomplish for the Black community? Not what you discussed. Not how gracious Trump was. Not how wonderful the dinner went.

WHAT. DID. YOU. DELIVER?

Because as far as any publicly documented results are concerned, the answer appears to be NOTHING.

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These glacier 🫏 ‘s swear they be doing something heroic when they call Black people the N-word

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This right here is a perfect illustration of how white privilege operates in American media, even in sports.

A’ja Wilson wins her FIFTH WNBA MVP award, further cementing herself as one of the greatest players in the history of women’s basketball. That’s a historic achievement worthy of celebration. But look at how Fox News frames the story. Rather than center the Black woman who actually WON, they center the white woman who received ONE first place MVP vote out of 74.

Let that sink in. A Black woman makes history, and somehow a white woman’s disappointment becomes the headline.

And the hypocrisy of Fox News is particularly glaring. This is the same network that routinely rails against DEI, attacks affirmative action, and lectures America about meritocracy. We’re constantly told that achievement should be based on merit, not race. Well, here stands A’ja Wilson, whose excellence, accomplishments, and dominance have earned her a place among the greatest athletes of all time. Yet somehow, we’re supposed to be more concerned about why Caitlin Clark wasn’t recognized.

Apparently, merit matters until a Black woman outshines the white woman they’ve decided should be the face of the league. This exposes a media culture that can barely acknowledge Black excellence without finding a way to center whiteness.

Black women have been dealing with this nonsense for generations. They have to be twice as good, accomplish twice as much, and prove themselves repeatedly, while white women are celebrated for their promise, potential, popularity, and proximity to greatness.

A’ja Wilson didn’t win an award for potential. She won because of PERFORMANCE. She didn’t need a media campaign to manufacture her greatness. She earned it on the basketball court.

One woman won her fifth MVP. The other received ONE first place vote and was left off 19 ballots. And Fox News decided the second story deserved the headline.

That’s not sports journalism. That’s a reflection of whose excellence America celebrates and whose accomplishments it struggles to center.** Black excellence shouldn’t have to compete with white mediocrity for recognition.**

Give A’ja Wilson her flowers without making Caitlin Clark the centerpiece of the bouquet. 👏🏾🏆

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Wypipo can see UFO’s, Elvis, Big Foot, and the Loch Ness monster, but not RACISM. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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@Shaq, I know you’ve been hopping into comment sections all over the internet coming for folks who criticized that honorary badge, so you may pull up over here too, but I’m going to say what I have tonight say anyway. You’re too old, too rich, too accomplished, and too connected to be this easily impressed by a souvenir badge and a photo op.

Under the racist Trump administration the Justice Department’s civil-rights enforcement infrastructure has been gutted, veteran attorneys have walked out the door, police-misconduct enforcement has been dramatically weakened, and the federal government’s approach to civil rights has been fundamentally redirected. Yet here you are, skinning and grinning beside Kash Patel accepting an honorary FBI badge like somebody just gave you another championship ring.

C’mon man.

It’s ceremonial. It gives you no authority. No investigative power. No sworn-agent status. It’s essentially political theater with a toy attached.

Bruh, the optics are bad.

For a Black man with your enormous platform to lend your celebrity to the sycophantic, anti-Black leadership of this FBI at this particular moment is wild. Black celebrity should not become a prop that helps sanitize institutions and officials that denigrate Black people and refuse to protect their rights.

You have collected championships, MVP trophies, endorsement checks, degrees, businesses, and more money than most people will see in several lifetimes. You didn’t need Kash Patel’s honorary trinket for your résumé, Dr. O’Neal.

Some photo opportunities simply aren’t worth the picture. And this was one of them. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Don’t preach about men in women’s sports while making excuses for men in children’s bedrooms. Don’t preach about homosexuality and abortion while defending an adjudicated rapist and unrepentant racist. You lose all credibility when you turn a blind eye to sexual abuse, dishonesty, cruelty, and corruption because the person committing it carries your preferred political banner.

You cannot turn morality into a weapon against the people you condemn and then turn grace into a shield for the politician you support.

If your convictions disappear when they become politically inconvenient, they were never convictions in the first place, they were just talking points.

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Tell me again, how white privilege doesn’t exist.

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When Donald Trump took office, regular gas averaged about $3.11 a gallon. Today it’s over $4.20. Since then, grocery prices, electricity, natural gas, hospital services, rent, and other everyday costs have all risen. Electricity is up roughly 10.6%, natural gas 9.3%, hospital services 8.9%, groceries 3.4%, and overall consumer prices about 5.1% from January 2025 through the latest available CPI data.

Trump also promised Americans a $2,000 tariff dividend. That payment never materialized. Now, ahead of the midterms, he is promising every American adult $5,000 if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate—a proposal Reuters reports would cost more than $1 trillion.

The record is there for everyone to see: higher household costs, an unfulfilled $2,000 promise, and now a new $5,000 promise tied to the outcome of an election. Voters can decide for themselves what that record says about credibility.

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Dear Mike Davis:

First off, to hell with you and the clique you claim…

Black people aren’t “minorities” and whiteness isn’t the human default. On a global scale, white people are vastly outnumbered by the non-white world. “Minority” is a political label, not a statement about who makes up humanity.

And since you’re handing out one-way tickets to Black Americans because you don’t like what we have to say, allow me to make a counteroffer.

We’re staying.

Black people have been on this soil for centuries. Our ancestors cleared it, cultivated it, built its cities, constructed its institutions, fought in its wars, enriched its culture and helped turn America into America while being denied the very freedom and citizenship you now arrogantly suggest we surrender.

So here’s the Mike Davis European Repatriation Package:

One complimentary one-way ticket across the Atlantic

Six months to locate whichever branch of Europe your ancestors departed from

A complimentary genealogy kit so you can determine whether Poland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, England or somewhere else should prepare for your arrival

Assistance completing the paperwork to renounce the American citizenship you think is so disposable

Directions to the nearest ancestral European cave

And since you’re so preoccupied with a Black woman’s hair, we’ll throw in a complimentary lice repellent comb so you can untangle your hair and your twisted argument.

Consider everything in this counteroffer already prepaid by the centuries of uncompensated forced labor extracted from our Black ancestors, the very debt at the heart of the reparations claim America still has not settled.

Telling Black Americans to surrender their citizenship, leave the country and “never come back,” followed by a crack about a Black woman’s “nappy” hair is the exact kind of racist and sexist vitriol that comes from a pathetic and disgusting maga piece of human refuse.

Raven Schwam-Curtis offered a cogent argument on reparations. You answered with misogynoir, exile fantasies, and puerile insults about Black hair.

Your offer is declined, Mike. We’re staying. You’ll simply have to learn how to live in a country where Black people neither require your permission to be American nor your approval to speak.

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Where have you been living? Black people recognize this country just fine. Police brutality, racial profiling, state violence and abuse of power didn’t start with ICE. This isn’t a new America, it’s the same old America showing up at somebody else’s door.

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@Acyn It’s horrific what we’re allowing ICE to get away with. I don’t recognize this country anymore.

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He’s down the street from you living in the White House.

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Who are you calling a “ghetto Black b*tch,” @LauraLoomer?

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