Joz

Dearly loved by the Creator. Christian faith and race. Christian faith and justice. Sports. Pop culture. Theology. Africa. Connecting people.

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday

[Joz @connectingpeeps]

@Spotify @tokischa_sol @nyliberty I have ads but a Premium subscription, what's going on @Spotify ?

[Lance Cooper @lmauricecpr]

The United States has had more than one hundred and fifty years to label the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization and has never done so. The fact that the Black Panther Party was dismantled by the US government but the Klan still exists tells you a lot about this country.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Christians to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires and empathy more than cruelty.

[Robert G. Callahan, II • Author @RCallahanWaco]

Every empire teaches its citizens to fear the people it is exploiting.

[Hashilé 🇸🇳🇲🇱🇳🇬 | Personnage principal @sankurienne]

Pour vous montrer à quel point c’est grave:

• en france (entre 2021 et 2023) les cas de gonorrhée ont progressé de 82 % chez les hommes et de 75 % chez les femmes, pour la chlamydia on est a +39 % chez les hommes de 50 ans et plus et c’est l'IST la plus fréquente qui est en hausse surtout chez les hétéros. Et la syphilis a connu une hausse de +30 %.

• en Belgique; pour la gonorrhée on est à une augmentation de +99 % depuis 2019 (c’est devenue l'IST la plus fréquente chez les hommes), pour la chlamydia c’est +21 % depuis 2019 et la syphilis: +13 % depuis 2019

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

There is no love of God without love of neighbor, and there is no neighbor if I do not draw near. To pause, to be moved, to bend down, to weep before another’s pain — as Jesus did — means entering into the dynamic of love, the very movement in which God has revealed himself. https://t.co/Sp8wiXw1Pr

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Those who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea are victims both of decisions that were made and of decisions that were not made. Indifference to the common good and corruption in their countries of origin; a global economic system that generates poverty and exclusion; fear that fuels prejudice and contempt; the belief that such problems do not concern us; the criminal calculations of those who profit from the suffering of others; the slow and difficult transition from mere emergency management to the development of comprehensive and shared policies. #PastoralVisit #Lampedusa

[Lammy @Lammyisback]

I was invited to a sleepover once in middle school once. When I got there I was the only Black child. My mama stayed for awhile then informed me that I would be leaving with her instead of sleeping there. I was SO angry & cried all the way home. I get it now mama. I get it.

[Robert G. Callahan, II • Author @RCallahanWaco]

It’s amazing how often the sins condemned from the pulpit are applauded in the voting booth.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Tell me how it makes sense that a woman can go to jail for getting an abortion but a cop gets paid leave when he murders a baby...

[Amunet @VintageSitcoms]

Happy Juneteenth!!

[April Ajoy @aprilajoyr]

Telling 8 year old girls to cover up their bodies because men might lust after them is what's actually sexualizing children.

Not queer people existing.
Not drag shows.
Not pride month.

The Church.

[zellie @zellieimani]

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[MANA LEADER☀️ @ManaLeader_]

En Guadeloupe, des lycéennes se mobilisent pour se faire entendre auprès de leurs administrations après la diffusion, par des lycéens, de listes classant des filles comme « violables » ou encore « inviolables » dans leur lycée ainsi que dans des établissements aux alentours.

Selon plusieurs témoignages, ce n’est qu’à la suite de cette mobilisation que l’établissement a commencé à prendre leurs plaintes en considération. Certaines élèves affirment également avoir reçu des menaces de la part des auteurs présumés.

Cette affaire est révélatrice de la culture du viol encore présente dans nos sociétés, mais aussi du manque de prise en compte des violences faites aux femmes et aux jeunes filles. Elle témoigne également de la montée inquiétante des discours masculinistes et sexistes dans une partie de la jeunesse.