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HowardU | 🇭🇹 | ♈️ |Matthew 6:34 | I do it all 📸

[༄ @BENLIKETHIS]

Yulissa Escobar from Love Island USA Season 7 has shared her input on the cast reveal of Season 8 for Love Island USA

“All the niggas fine as hell!”

[Wilson Isidor @IsidorWilson]

ZOE 🔥

#WI18

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

Flying the flag 🇭🇹😮‍💨

[she/her @kayristotle]

@locstarwaitin Law cricket is crazy when you know his name is Legislation Cicada

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

Proof of life

[👤 @jadinho97]

How easy life would’ve been if rice had protein

[pink pilates princess💗 @KUNTAKUNTY]

This is hilarious and I’m irritated pls find them and k*ll them.

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

This counts as #JigabooJargon btw

[Domo Julio @DapperDomo]

More Black men should go to college. While there are challenges, Black women have shown that success is possible despite the odds. We can do the same.

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

The clip of Keke on the breakfast club gotta be ai

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

@jovrnee Waze all the time even if u know where ur going until all sped cameras traps are memorized

[Sarah Dvojack @sarahdvojack]

Things I have heard from people I know who are teachers:

-Parents drop their kids off late and say it's "just when they could get going"
-Kids text their parents drink orders and the parents deliver them to the school secretary DURING THE DAY
-Kids can't sit even through movies

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

The zoom into the bed creaking. I would’ve jumped into the fire

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Pour one out for Montoya, man

This week just keeps getting worse

https://t.co/iiNbY86o7L

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

Oh this real urban

[Uncle Bev @DaronTheChef]

Don Julio x Popeyes?????? wtf. I’m intrigued.. but confused.

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

Why is Oli still texting me

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

They didn’t just kill him. They cut up & dissolved his body in acid. His killers kept his tooth as a trophy and his family only got it 61yrs later. A tooth. Thats all they have left of him. Belgium does not get enough hate imo.

[breathe deep🌊 @E2Sinny]

@TikTokPolicy

[TikTok Policy @TikTokPolicy]

STATEMENT FROM TIKTOK:

In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.

It’s a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States.