@BarackObama@MichelleObama@ObamaFoundation Beautiful. First Lady Michelle Obama is full of beauty, elegance, extremely smart and sophisticated, these qualities could never exist in the current administration..
Forever My First Lady!🤍🤍🤍🤍🌹🌹🌹🌹
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
🔥 @cthagod on Josh Hokit attacking Michelle: “All you do when you bring the Obamas up is remind people what is currently missing from the White House. The Obamas set a standard for decency & class & poise & intelligence... Now that bar is in hell.”
(H/T @MarcoFoster_)
Thursday is the National Day of Prayer. The question is not whether the church will pray, but what the church will pray for.
Will you pray for comfort, or for conviction?
Will you pray for power, or for justice?
Will you pray for your preferences, or for God’s righteousness?
Because prayer, in Scripture, was never a performance. It was a confrontation.
When Amos cried out, he didn’t ask God to bless a corrupt nation, he said let justice roll down like waters.
When Isaiah spoke, he rebuked a people who prayed loudly but oppressed the vulnerable quietly.
When Jesus Christ taught us to pray, he did not say protect our power, he said Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
So what will you be praying for? What God will you be praying to? The God of the Bible or the god of white Christian nationalism? 
Will you pray while ignoring the racial animus that poisons this nation?
Will you bow your head while Black history is erased and truth is rewritten?
Will you lift your hands while civil rights are dismantled piece by piece?
Will you say amen while those who abuse children are protected and survivors are silenced?
Will you whisper prayers for peace while justifying genocide and cheering war?
Will you call on God while defending a president who glorifies violence and celebrates the death of his enemies?
Or will you finally pray like the prophets prayed?
Pray against racism, not around it.
Pray against fascism, not in silence about it.
Pray against authoritarianism, not in partnership with it.
Pray for the oppressed, not just for the powerful.
Pray for truth, even when it disrupts your comfort.
Pray for justice, even when it costs you something.
Because the God you claim to serve is not impressed with empty rituals wrapped in patriotic language. God is not moved by prayers that ignore injustice and protect oppression. God does not bless hypocrisy dressed up as holiness.
The question is not whether America will have a National Day of Prayer, the question is whether the church will have the courage to pray prayers that God will actually hear.
A BILLION dollars.
Not for lowering costs. Not for helping families. Not for anything that actually makes the cost of living more affordable.
A billion dollars for Trump’s ballroom.
While folks are out here struggling to keep up with rent, groceries, gas prices, utilities, and rising healthcare costs — this is what Republicans are prioritizing.
@stephenasmith@stephenasmith Stephen, stop w/ your pseudo agendas & narratives. We DO NOT trust you as someone who advocates for the Black community. You speak for you & agent orange delusion only. Your community card is revoked. You are complete trash & full of shit. #ShitforStephen 🗑️🗑️🗑️
@stephenasmith@stephenasmith Stephen, stop w/ your pseudo agendas & narratives. We DO NOT trust you as someone who advocates for the Black community. You speak for you & agent orange delusion only. Your community card is revoked. You are complete trash & full of shit. #ShitforStephen 🗑️🗑️🗑️
Gerrymandering has always been a tool of white political power in America. Don’t fall for the false narrative that the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana vs Callais was about stopping discrimination against white voters. Sadly, we have Black preachers out here justifying the weakening of the Voting Rights Act and parroting these white supremacist talking points. 
The very word ‘gerrymandering’ comes from an 1812 scheme designed by white politicians to manipulate district lines for political advantage. In the South, after Reconstruction and especially after Black people gained voting protections through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, white lawmakers weaponized the practice to dilute Black political power, fracture Black communities into majority-white districts, and preserve white control even when Black citizens made up large portions of the population.
That is the actual history.
White politicians drew maps to make sure Black votes carried less weight. They packed Black voters into a handful of districts or split them apart across multiple districts so Black communities could not elect candidates of their choice. Gerrymandering worked hand in hand with literacy tests, poll taxes, racial terror, voter intimidation, and Jim Crow segregation.
Which is why the Louisiana v. Callais decision matters.
The case exists because Louisiana’s congressional map minimized Black representation in a state where Black people make up nearly one-third of the population. The issue was not Black people trying to “take white seats.” The issue was whether Black voters would have a fair opportunity to elect representation proportionate to their population and protected under the Voting Rights Act.
MAGA Black preachers pushing a white supremacist revisionist narrative that Black people were somehow “gerrymandering white people out of seats” is historically ignorant and politically embarrassing. It is house knee grow energy on steroids. For most of American history, Black people were not even allowed full participation in the democratic process, much less control over district maps.
The same people who ignored or defended decades of racial gerrymandering against Black communities are suddenly pretending to care about fairness only when Black voters begin challenging white political monopoly. That is not principle. That is propaganda dressed up as patriotism. And too many people are repeating it without knowing the history or deliberately lying about it.