For 10 years, Dr. @SonjaSantelises has led City Schools with a belief in every student's potential. As she concludes her service as CEO, she reflects on a decade of progress, thanks the City Schools community, and shares a final message of hope for Baltimore's young people. Watch her farewell message: https://t.co/skxhMbaquA
What kinda “nigga” basically opens his song by saying “you dare me to say the N-word? Well here it goes….NIGGA!”
What kinda “nigga” say “always rappin like you bout to get the slaves freed” and think it’s a gotcha bar when speaking to a Black man?
What kinda “nigga” does a verse and end every bar for 24 bars says “nigga” at the end of line just to let people know that he can say the N-word whenever he wants? That ain’t how a “nigga” would have addressed those “we don’t wanna hear you say nigga no more” bars.
Drake and his team thinks this about being biracial or colorism. Kendrick’s songs are saying, “you are cos playing with Black culture (in various accents), and nigga that’s cringe worthy.”
A real “nigga” would know better.
The new, highly contagious strain of COVID-19 has been identified in Maryland; only 25% of our city schools have functional upgraded HVAC systems that could guarantee the necessary air circulation for students and staff to remain safe; teachers will have to quickly adapt their /4
**IT TAKES TWO SECONDS TO SHARE** | 11-year-old Salih Offer was last seen in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland on February 14, 2020. https://t.co/4WpDlzIIUp
A spokesperson for Starbucks said the company is banning Black Lives Matter messages "to create a safe and welcoming" environment at stores. https://t.co/74WCnYtcgP
Can someone in law enforcement explain the strategy behind this? I’d like to assume there’s some reasoning behind it, but it sure looks like sheer malice.
Amadou Diallo, 22, from Guinea came to the USA to study. On the morning of Feb 4th, 1999, he was shot 41 times by 4 police officers at the front door of his apartment.
He was unarmed.
All 4 police officers were found not guilty.
Remember him.
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER
Privilege is so blind that it can dance to Bob Marley & even sing his lyrics & not even realize that almost everything he wrote was a direct indictment on its oppressive ways.
George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.