Chandra

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@8WithaTiara Florida 💙

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@SkylerforNY 💙 Florida

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@RpsAgainstTrump Yes, my daughter and I in Florida!

[Auon’tai M. Anderson @AuontaiAnderson]

Today, I attended a press conference at the apartment complexes where national and local media have falsely reported that gangs have taken over.

Instead, we heard from residents who debunked this narrative and called out the slumlord responsible for forcing them to live in inhumane conditions.

This is a thread of what I saw and heard.

🧵

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@pagetpaget 1. Stand By Me
2. A Few Good Men
I’m not sure of my third, because I love so many movies. Maybe…
3. Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle or Galaxy Quest

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@pagetpaget I love you just the way you are. You’re beautiful. You don’t need to change a thing! ❤️

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

#SaveLegendsOfTomorrow

[RotemChan | 🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 | #SaveLegendsOfTomorrow @RotemChan]

Hey, @Jamesgunn , Reminder that it's never too late to #SaveLegendsOfTomorrow ✌️🏾
#LegendsOfTomorrow

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@RotemChan As much as I want to sit next to Sara, I can’t do it. She should be sitting with Ava anyways. So 9, next to Spooner and across from Astra😍 Although, put Sara in 3, I would sit in 4. Sara and Ava on one side, Behrad and Zari on the other. 🥰 #SaveLegendsOfTomorrow

[em @shinywiglett]

this hits so hard! ❤️‍🔥

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

This man should never have to work another day in his life. He saved the lives of 5 children! Where’s his gofundme? He should at the very least not have to deliver pizzas anymore.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

25 yr old pizza delivery man runs into burning house, saves four children who tell him another might be in the house. He goes back in, finds the girl, jumps out a window with her, and carries her to a cop who captures the moment on his bodycam.

[Scottacular @Scottcrates]

Watch this.

Everyone.

All of it.

Watch this.

https://t.co/pmSoCpgmgm

[sprig |🫐 @sprigopine]

Toyota (yes, the car company) is responsible for my dad’s sudden death. They’re not who you think they are. If you think they care for their employees, you’re wrong. They’re just numbers.

A thread. 🧵
Yes, I’m exposing my personal issues. But I’m sick of staying quiet.

[TizzyEnt @TizzyEnt]

What is happening to the Hernandez family is horrific.

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@RotemChan 2

[Raymond Baker @RayBake]

Disturbing report on the causes behind Iowa's second in the nation cancer rate.

Republicans have tried to suppress this information for years.

@IAGovernor has a billion dollars in reserve. She could clean up our air and water.

She chooses not to.

https://t.co/AGxw1W7lKW

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

Are you familiar with the song “Blackbird” by The Beatles? Most of us are, but few know the REAL meaning behind it…

Paul McCartney was visiting America. He was sitting, resting, when he heard a woman screaming. He looked up to see a Black woman being surrounded by the police. The police had her handcuffed, and were beating her.

He thought the woman had committed a terrible crime, only to find out that "the crime" she committed was to sit in a section reserved for whites.

Paul was shocked. There was no segregation in England. But, here in America, the land of freedom, this is how Blacks were being treated.

McCartney and the Beatles went back home to England, but he would remember what he saw, how he felt, the unfairness of it all.

He also remembered watching television and following the news in America, the race riots and what was happening in Little Rock, Arkansas, what was going on in the Civil Rights movement.

He saw the picture of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford attempt to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School as an angry mob followed her, yelling, "Drag her over this tree! Let's take care of that n**ger!'" and “Lynch her! Lynch her!” “No n**ger b*tch is going to get in our school!”

McCartney couldn't believe this was happening in America.

He thought of these women being mistreated, simply because of the color of her skin. He sat down and started writing.

Last year at a concert, he would meet two of the women who inspired him to write one of his most memorable songs, Thelma Mothershed Wair and Elizabeth Eckford, members of the Little Rock Nine (pictured here).

McCartney would tell the audience he was inspired by the courage of these women: "Way back in the Sixties, there was a lot of trouble going on over civil rights, particularly in Little Rock. We would notice this on the news back in England, so it's a really important place for us, because to me, this is where civil rights started. We would see what was going on and sympathize with the people going through those troubles, and it made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, it might just help them a little bit, and that's this next one."

He explained that when he started writing the song, he had in mind a Black woman, but in England, "girls" were referred to as "birds." And, so the song started:

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting
for this moment to arise."

McCartney added that he and the Beatles cared passionately about the Civil Rights movement, "so this was really a song from me to a Black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith, there is hope.’

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting
for this moment to be free."

[Chandra @cbrown1277]

@NiallOfficial Happy Birthday Niall!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.

One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.

Deepest condolences to their families.

Russia must pay.

📹: TSN

[TG ☕️ @TG22110]

Reminders are a good thing.