I'm Me!

[HuffPost BlackVoices @blackvoices]

Natasha Rothwell's New Show 'How To Die Alone' Is So Refreshing https://t.co/6wM5GoDuSN

[I'm Me! @iamlove_ab]

@joi_orr What's yacht rock?

[Michael Eric Dyson @MichaelEDyson]

A Love Note to Black Women

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Kevin Fredericks is taking his mission to elevate the talents and voices of Black women a step further with a new Patreon partnership. https://t.co/sls6JaygEZ

[Ladyofyourlife @orleansway]

Watch This New Version!!! 😂😂😂😂

[Dr. Umar B @BrandySharay]

The video you didn’t know you needed today

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Not us still getting new angles of the Alabama boat brawl a year later 😩

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Lilian Seenoi-Barr, a former Kenyan refugee, made history this week by becoming the first Black Mayor of Northern Ireland.

🔗: https://t.co/l2ktu6uQmx

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Today’s class is being lectured by Joy Reid.

Dissertation Topic: (Redacted) around and find out.

Please take notes, there will be a quiz directly following.

📹: @MSNBC

[Nikki Fowler @NikkiFowler28]

Kelly Rowland tonight at Amfar Gala speaking on the disrespect she received the other night.

[Nikki Fowler @NikkiFowler28]

Anyone who got too close, argued ‘at’ her, stepped on her dress, laughed afterwards, needs to be fired.

[Nikki Fowler @NikkiFowler28]

Just waking up in Cannes with my espresso to see them disrespecting Kelly Rowland last night on the carpet.

The difference is striking in how ‘some’ are rushed off the steps with arms in her face and stepping on her dress and some, they will wait patiently for.

To see Kelly endure prejudice, and yes I know exactly what that was by the videos and photos, is sad. Guess what? We aren’t the problem, when I can count on ONE hand how many Black women are in the audience at Cannes, maybe the problem is ‘some’ of your ignorant poorly trained security and ushers that need to leave their Karen ism at home.

As someone who has visited France for the past 30 years (me) and has seen a wave kick up on racism post ‘someone orange,’ only a Black American woman will understand what Kelly Rowland experienced on the Cannes red carpet.

In past years, not now, because they know I will ‘all the way’ check them, I’ve had to put ‘some’ ignorant Cannes ushers and security in their place as well. I know that Claire Huxtable finger Kelly has up is pointing out someone who wasn’t raised correctly and is acting a fool.

I thought this year was SO much better, because wow they learned, they smiled, they made happy banter, some recognized me from past years, there seemed to be less aggression and scowls coming from them and they also know I do not subscribe to rude behavior.

The message for those disrespecting Kelly is that we will still keep coming back, you will have to see us living our fabulous wealthy Black lives in abundance and if your are a bigot, you will remain in a state of rage.

[joi @joi_orr]

Me with world-building board games 😭

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Can everybody just Please look at this Ostrich

[I'm Me! @iamlove_ab]

@joi_orr Disrespectful! Dr. J is what it is!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Newborn reacts to mums first kiss
https://t.co/7sRS6Xe0GA

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

There’s an old Gullah Geechee tale about the slick scorpion & the foolish frog:

Once upon a time, there was a very smart frog who befriended a conniving scorpion. The frog wished he could he could be a scorpion. He admired their exoskeletons & how other animals respected their stinger. He loved them so much, he could even speak like them.

The scorpion, however wished he could be a frog. But he knew he could never swim or jump like his friend.

“Dem scorpion gwine sting yuh soonman,“ the other frogs warned. “Him got poison in he bookey.”

“The scorpion is my friend,” he told his fellow frogs. “Plus, I’ve seen a frog eat a tadpole. Why should I be more worried about a scorpion than my own people?”

They tried to explain that scorpions eat the same insects as frogs, but they also EAT FROGS, so they consider frogs to be their competition AND THEIR PREY.

The older frogs even tried to explain that scorpions are born with an exoskeleton because they CAN’T jump. They have stingers because they are not quick enough to catch their prey.

They even warned the foolish frog that the other animals weren’t afraid of scorpions; they just knew the only way a scorpion could hurt them is if they got too close.

“Lissen tuh we, churrn,” said the other frogs. “Unnah seen how dem scorpion do we.”

“This is why we can’t move forward as a species,” said the frog. “We need to stop focusing on the past and let go of that victim mentality”.

But the frog wouldn’t listen.
One day, the river flooded and all of the other frogs began swimming to the banks. But the scorpion couldn’t swim, so he asked the articulate frog for a ride on his back.

“My people say you’ll sting me,” the frog said to his scorpion friend reluctantly.

“Have you ever seen me sting another scorpion?” The scorpion said. “Maybe if your people stopped worrying about being stung and focused on being as articulate as you are, people would respect them more. Now let me ride on your back.”

“Dem scorpion gwine sting yuh,“ the other frogs warned. “Him got poison in he bookey. Unnah de how he do we?”

But the articulate frog wouldn’t listen. “You really should stop hating scorpions so much, he told the other frogs. “Why would he sting me when we both have the same goals? Can’t you see that we’re all just trying to get our of the river?”

So the frog let the scorpion ride on his back. Of course, halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog.

“Why did you sting me?” Asked the frog. “I thought we were friends!”

The frog could see the other frogs watching safely from the bank of the river. The scorpion could see all of the other scorpions drowning. Just before they both succumbed to their watery death, the scorpion leaned in close, smiled, and whispered his response loud enough for all the surviving frogs and the dying scorpions to hear.

“Nigger.”

Anyway, here’s a video of a of a frog getting stung.

[Greg Carr @AfricanaCarr]

Good job @kendricklamar and @Drake : Now that you have everyone’s attention, do Palestine.

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

😫😂🤣😂