Byron Johnson

@vitaminb

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Do you ever struggle to fully identify with one of the U.S. political parties?

Most Americans hold complex beliefs and ideologies that don’t always align with a particular party.

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

You think they're ever gonna admit the Epstein shit? These wockaflockas won't even admit he hired the wrong pool boy.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

'Intentarán matarme y sumir al Congo en guerras interminables porque saben que una África unida e independiente, tanto política como económicamente, marcaría el fin de su dominio y el comienzo de nuestra verdadera libertad".

Patrice Lumumba, lider anti-colonial congoleño, vaticinaba en 1960 lo que pasó en el Congo, fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por Bélgica y EEUU.... apenas un año después de estas palabras.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el partido de esta noche entre Congo y Colombia en el Mundial, un hombre congoleño se quedó inmóvil durante los 90 minutos imitando el saludo del líder anticolonial congoleño, Patrice Lumumba.

Lumumba fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por EEUU y Bélgica en 1961 por conseguir la independencia del Congo ante el colonialismo y negarse a que los imperialistas siguieran saqueando los recursos de su pais.

Aunque los imperialistas disolvieron su cuerpo, no pudieron borrarlo de la historia, 65 años después, Lumumba sigue presente para millones de personas.

[I Am… @HarmoniEquality]

A colonized mind will fight harder to protect the master’s image than to recover its own dignity.

- Frantz Fanon

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

There is nowhere in the world where African people are truly free and at peace. This is why Pan-Africanism is necessary. Global problems require global solutions.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"El racismo es una excusa utilizada por el capitalismo para dividir a los trabajadores, el racismo es un subproducto del capitalismo. Quieren a la gente atrapada en el racismo para que no vean que hay 2 clases, para que peleemos entre nosotros y no contra ellos".

Fred Hampton, líder de los Panteras Negras, sobre como el capitalismo usa el racismo para dividir a la clase trabajadora.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Elaine Massacre - Sept. 1919 White Arkansans, fearful of Black people organizing, aided by federal troops massacre 200 Black sharecroppers after the Black sharecroppers get a white attorney and demand fair prices.

After the massacre, officials worked on a cover-up, claiming that Black people were planning an insurrection.

The victims stood trial.

The only men prosecuted were 122 African Americans, with 73 charged with murder.

Once again, sharecroppers were murdered and land stolen.

Generational wealth was stolen from the Black community, but by all means, keep talking about the bootstraps. Maybe MAGA farmers should pull themselves up by them. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes if they know that that knowledge will help set you free."

— Assata Shakur

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

“Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.” - Lead Belly

The Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teens falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931, were sentenced to death. NAACP forced repeated retrials. They were finally freed but never recovered.

The first documented use of the phrase “stay woke” happened in the 1930s when Lead Belly ended his song about the Scottsboro Boys by advising Black folk traveling through Alabama to “stay woke.”

The term “woke" was created by Black people referring to being alert to systemic racial injustices. #BlackHistoryWithLana #DemsUnited
#BlackMusicMonth

[Jazz the Professor @Jazzieeiswhoiam]

🧵
#OTD Nikki Giovanni (Jun 7, 1943 - Dec 9, 2024). Poet, writer, commentator, activist, educator. One of the world's best-known African American poets. Her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings nonfiction essays and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. Ms Giovanni was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for her poetry album, ‘The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection’. Additionally, she was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends".
#History
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[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Former NBA All-Star Derrick Coleman is taking a stand for voting rights, withdrawing from an Alabama Hall of Fame ceremony in protest of efforts that weaken fair representation for Black voters. Our ancestors fought, bled, marched, and died for the right to vote. We must continue standing with them. I applaud Derrick for using this moment to highlight that this fight is about something bigger than basketball. https://t.co/imIf9WYrCF

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

“Capitalism cannot reform itself, it is doomed to self-destruction.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.”

—W. E. B. Du Bois,

[Byron Johnson @brytestarr]

@rirokpik too late

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

"If the Negro is not careful, he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it."
— Marcus Garvey

[zellie @zellieimani]

There is no individual freedom without collective freedom. I am not free until everyone is free.

[Byron Johnson @brytestarr]

@MrChuckD and so it begins...

[Byron Johnson @brytestarr]

RT @RoKhanna: I shared with Democrats at the South Carolina Convention today that my progressivism is not rooted in European socialism. It…

[L.A. TACO🌴🌮 @LATACO]

This sign-maker uses the city’s own “uniform” to fix what he sees as a broken system with professional-grade materials. These posters act as a megaphone for the hushed frustrations of the city.

The full story on https://t.co/TgiAafBKAb 🚫🧊

🎥: Erwin Recinos

[Byron Johnson @brytestarr]

@astropriestesss This is an every day affirmation