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[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

16 Montreal police officers are under investigation for keeping the locs of apprehended Black men as trophies. No, this isn't the U.S. It's Canada. The depths of racism never cease to shock, turning human beings into targets and their identities into souvenirs.

[yeah right @Duwop5000]

Loll n still no mugshot or photo. But y'all was broadcasting the face of the black kid that didn't shoot the cop🥴

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

If we apologized to children more, we would have more adults that accept accountability for their actions.

[Follett™️ @rat3dr3a1]

Please reshare

[♤ @acegenesis94]

It was a cool and lovely, breezy afternoon. You could feel it cause it was the month of June 😌💯

[The Tropixs @Tropixsofficial]

Jamaican pilot Jabari Brown has been released by authorities in Paraguay after prosecutors determined there was no evidence linking him to an alleged drug trafficking operation involving a private aircraft that arrived from Miami. Brown had been detained as part of the investigation, but authorities later concluded he had no involvement or knowledge of the alleged operation. Three other individuals remain in custody while the case continues.

[brandi 🦇 @mikeyswayy]

Fun fact that I don't see a lot of people mention or is even talked about in schools, but Terry was Métis !!

[Louise Litt @moni_lisa]

I miss the days when dancehall and hiphop had this kind of synergy. We had collabs. We had music videos. We had artistic direction and styling. We used to be a proper country.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[LNR @JamaicanLabrat]

Kartel made Emergency 21 years ago and the only thing that's changed is the name of the politicians. Actually, one of those names hasn't even changed either.

Two party, but a di same sad song dem a play
Poor people money lean back and rockaway...

[𝕺𝕾𝕳𝕬𝕹𝕰 🇳🇱 @i_am_oshane_]

You’re missing the best two

[sean @ji_er684]

Rasta dem back up!

RT for good luck

[♤ @acegenesis94]

Want it, want it, cyah get it. Get it, dem nuh want it

[Pedrito. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @iRealPedro]

how the banning of daggerin music and romping shop led us to a declining birth rate, in this essay, I will.

[♤ @acegenesis94]

Ironically and/or coincidentally, this is the 2nd time he's done a Hill and Gully song

[Thoughts & Brayers @BrayForJade]

I’m old enough to remember the outrage when Elephant Man sampled and remixed all those church songs.

Loooool and of course he’s on this riddim because he’s never too far from the scene of the crime .

[brad @indimindofbrad]

That fi reach them for every red thread in the shirt

[Jénay 🇩🇪 @elementofthe_6]

Can somebody explain why Give me a try by Sizzla is so good?

[♤ @acegenesis94]

Tbqh, I think it *IS* because it's multiple songs talking sexually explicit lyrics and consecutively. If it was 1 song, a few clean ones and then a next, maybe. But all at once like this?

[🏰 CASTLE @seanchriscastle]

@IrishandChin the Skeng song is “x rated” (by the standard you just applied)

many singles have been considered outrageous before; can’t agree that because it’s multiple songs.

[♤ @acegenesis94]

That last point there... (no pun intended)

[Akua Walters 🇯🇲 🤽‍♂️ @AkuaWalters]

This is my annual Bob Marley appreciation post.

- My dad used to watch him play football a stadium
- Ziggy and I both went to the same Highschool in Jamaica and ONE of us DIDN'T become a Zionist
- Babylon kill the Rasta and stab the eye witness

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[Yenkunkun Pikibo @moniquepowell]

I think being anti-patois is always tied to some sort of classism...even if self-directed. Personally I'm proud of being able to switch fluently between the two and I use them both everywhere, even in corporate spaces (there's always at least one raised eyebrow when I do that, which I ignore...as there's nothing 'inappropriate' about any of my languages).

[Ķàppà Ďan🇧🇧 @kappa_dan64]

Caribbean Twitter anybody know about or remembers this movie??