Since it’s #MABMonday 🤘🏿
Some of y’all might know me as Ali Cleaves II but over in Σigmaland I will forever ♾️ be known as:
Τethered Σou1 🕊️🤘🏿💙
Spr 2️⃣3️⃣
The Hellacious Eta Zeta Smooth Dragon 🐉 Chapter
☝🏿Solo Ace C1ub
The Lone W.O.L.F
Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother:
"I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’
Her sister found out two days later:
"She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’
Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says:
“I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’
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White cops, killed Isaiah Kirby. 21 years old. Zoology black student. Three weeks from graduation. No body cam. No dash cam. Just a mother with 17 bullet holes to count and a demand for truth. #
Two Black lawmakers were arrested for their opposition against white state legislators eliminating Black representation in the state of Tennessee.
Absolutely insane things are happening in the year 2026.
WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️
If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it.
What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: a lot of white Americans are not having the conversations they need to be having with each other.
In Black communities, these conversations are constant. They are not optional. They are passed down. They’re how we survive.
If you want to help, start by listening to Black voices on this issue and amplifying them. And especially if you’re white, use your voice too. Join us. Call it what it is: racism.
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