Fried Plantain🔥

Award winning fashion designer - Blac Flamingo Apparel B’dos 🏳️‍🌈

[Fried Plantain🔥 @_RheaMelissa]

The Coralia dress in Cuba.
I made dis🥺

[Fried Plantain🔥 @_RheaMelissa]

@krishtun_ Umbrella about to be pack up neat in every bag I leave the house with.

[Fried Plantain🔥 @_RheaMelissa]

About to be outside all season with my Krishtun merch.

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni]

Me in the group chat reading everyone's message but not saying anything

[helkum @he1kumwya]

My hand after I take a mean nap laying on my arm.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

I love how outspoken she is and doesn't care about backlash

[kordell @lledrook]

holy shit he beat the fuck outta him LMFAO

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fifteen Kalinago chiefs walked into a meeting with the British and French empires in 1660 and walked out with both sides agreeing the island was theirs. Their descendants still live there today. You just watched some of them dance.

The Kalinago are the only native group in the Eastern Caribbean still around from before Columbus. Almost every other native group in the region was wiped out by European disease, slavery, displacement, or war. The Kalinago survived because they made Dominica too expensive to conquer.

They had the land on their side. Dominica is mountainous and wild, full of dense rainforest. Kalinago warriors raided European ships and ambushed anyone who tried to land on the coast. After nearly two centuries of failed invasions, both empires finally gave up. They signed a treaty making Dominica officially Kalinago land. That deal lasted more than a hundred years.

When Britain finally took the island in 1763, the Kalinago kept the rough east coast. They are still there. In 1903, Britain officially marked out the 3,700-acre territory, roughly six square miles. About 3,000 Kalinago live there today in eight small villages. The whole area runs by Kalinago rules. The land is shared and can only be sold to someone of Kalinago descent. Every five years, the Kalinago vote for their own chief and a six-member council to run the territory. Police based in Salybia keep order. They send their own representative to Dominica's parliament.

Two Kalinago women lead Dominica today. Sylvanie Burton became the country's first female and first Kalinago president in October 2023. A year later, Anette Sanford was sworn in as the first female Kalinago chief in almost 400 years.

The Kalinago's main traditional dance group is called Karifuna. The traditions they keep alive survived Spanish ships, French plantations, British soldiers, and Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that ripped the roof off almost every house in the territory.

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

“Girrrrl, Ba Sing Se finna be lit tonight” 😂

[𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖉 @6looted]

Embarrassing your child in front of relatives or friends for a quick laugh can damage their self-esteem for a lifetime

[Fried Plantain🔥 @_RheaMelissa]

Blue Box Cart ATE! All 10’s for the costumes.

[i told niggas chill @LanoMSM540]

beenie man and beenie maam

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Michael Manley’s love for Jamaica, and his friendship with Castro, is why the CIA destabilized Jamaica. They did it by sending in an “economic hitman” (there’s a documentary about it on YouTube) and by arming inner-city youths with guns, which helped spark a bloody political election. Before that, there were no guns in Jamaica, and the Jamaican dollar was equal in value to the U.S. dollar.

That eventually cascaded into a CIA-backed drug trade involving Jamaican gangsters who were given visas to New York. This later fueled the “Posse Wars” between Black American drug lords and rival Jamaican factions (Shower Posse and Spranglers Posse). There’s also an episode on the show American Gangsters on this. Shower Posse alone were responsible for 1500 murders in NY and Miami in the 80s during the height of the drug trade.

Some of those same factions were also involved in the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, shooting him several times (Jim Brown is the culprit. Long story on him, who the government ended up double-crossing and killing). Bob Marley was pushing unity and peace in the midst of the CIA orchestrated political violence. Right as he planned a peace concert between the two warring political factions, he was shot the day before the concert. A plot to silence a respected voice who the people would listen to.

The violence and destabilization of so many Third World countries isn’t accidental. It’s often a system engineered to create dependence on the United States, steal their resources and keep people focused inward, fighting each other, which ultimately weakens both the population and the country itself.

[𝕛𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 @heyyitsjanea]

amazing how you managed to fit every woman in a single photo

[🦢 @meishato]

Saying women can’t choose to have abortions unless we’re raped is telling us we don’t EARN autonomy over our own bodies until a man violates it.

[☈€ᗰ☡€↳ 🥀⭒ @ohremzel]

adults seemed way more adultier when i was little

[ShareACocaColaWithDee 🥤 @TheyCallMeDee_x]

Yall does get real nasty when people don’t take yall side on things, wow 😕

[O bounce! @ore_sportsman]

I'm seeing lots of ppl telling the ppl of St Lucy not to complain about the water because they re-elect the MP.. but i jus got a foolish question.. so if the DLP candidate had won the seat the water woulda automatically clear up?