James Ponzo II, PhD (EnragedBlackAdemic)

Clinical Assistant Professor. University at Buffalo. |Opinions my own| Ιφθ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

[James Ponzo II, PhD (EnragedBlackAdemic) @jamesponzo2]

Mother Of Buffalo Shooting Survivor: 'Your Thoughts And Prayers Are Not ... https://t.co/LYa3SmWCqx via @YouTube

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[@tiffanydcross @TiffanyDCross]

Byeeeee ✌🏽

[Ty Hill @cheetah]

But we know why though right 🫣

[Pro Football Hall of Fame @ProFootballHOF]

We provided hints earlier today.

Now, we can say that the subject of this week's #GoldJacketSpotlight is @BuffaloBills great @thurmanthomas!

Full Story: https://t.co/4prfCflc68

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

TRE DAY! TRE DAY! 🥳

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The British had Concentration camps in Kenya, 1952 to 1960. They stole trillions of dollars from Kenya, rape the women and girls and killed thousands of African men and boys.

#Africa

[James Ponzo II, PhD (EnragedBlackAdemic) @jamesponzo2]

#MambaForever #Kobe

[NBA @NBA]

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[Buffalo Fanatics @BfloFanatics]

Doubted & Disrespected.. 😤
(2023 #BillsMafia hype video)

🎞️ video by @films_sports

[Bradley Gelber @BradleyGelber]

Josh Allen just shared the following hype video on Instagram with the caption, “Year 6, Go Bills!” 😮‍💨

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

The Buffalo Sabres mourn the life of our legendary broadcaster and a member of our family, Rick Jeanneret, who passed away today.

We send all of our love to his family and friends, and the entire Sabres community.

https://t.co/PWa0TK9DAp

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

A statement from the family of Rick Jeanneret. 🤍

[Syracuse Football @CuseFootball]

Family.

#ProOrange

[ESPN @espn]

Former NFL player Michael Oher, subject of "The Blind Side," petitioned a court Monday with allegations that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into a signing a document making them his conservators and enriching themselves.
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[James Ponzo II, PhD (EnragedBlackAdemic) @jamesponzo2]

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[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Africa’s Oldest Written Languages

When I was in high school, we were taught that the Sumerians were the first to use a written script about 5000 years ago, and that written languages spread out from there to the rest of the world. However, scholars now recognize that writing was independently developed in at least five ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia (between 3400 and 3100 BC), Egypt (around 3250 BC), China (2000 BC),lowland Mesoamerica (by 650 BC), and Peru (perhaps as early as 2700 BC).

Now archaeological evidence suggests that writing started much earlier in other parts of Africa. Except for Egypt, Africa has been ignored in traditional history texts about written languages, but the evidence is there to suggest that this comes from prejudice, not proper scientific study and, like so many prejudices, is wrong.

The oldest scripts in the world to be discovered so far were found at the Kharga oasis in what was Nubia and is now part of present-day Sudan. They were written in what is called the Proto Saharan language. Extraordinarily, they date from 5000 BC. Since Sumerian and other Asian written languages appear about 3000 BC and Greek script was not fully in use until 1400 BC, it appears from this evidence that the Proto-Saharan written language is at least two thousand years older.

Other written tablets were found at Ge’ez in Ethiopia that are up to 3000 years old and yet, astonishingly, that ancient script is still in use, as the main liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox churches and the Jewish community. The vast proportion of inherited nouns are unchanged, and even spelled identically in both Geʽez and Amharic. The Ge’ez script is certainly the oldest written language that is still in use. The closest living languages to Geʽez are Amharic, Tigre and Tigrinya, and in the oral tradition of those peoples, Ge’ez is the oldest language of humans.
Most of the languages of Northern Africa are classified as Afro-Asiatic and this shows the influences of both European and Middle Eastern languages due to migrations, warfare and religious subjugation but there is a surviving ancient tongue in the region: the Tifinagh of the Tuareg people and it has a written form that dates back at least 1500 years. The Tuareg believe themselves to be the descendants of a queen, Tin HInan, known as the mother of us all to the Tuareg, whose tomb was found in 1925. According to legend, Tin Hinan was a fugitive princess who was driven from her home in the northern Sahara. She and her followers nearly perished in the desert but were saved by ants when they stumbled upon grains buried in desert anthills.

The Val and Mende written languages of Liberia and Sierra Leone have been found at the site of Goundaka in Mali, that date back to about 3000 BC so they are also at least as old as the Sumerian written language.

Other written languages existed in Southern Africa, including the Adinkra of the Akan people of Ghana. The symbols of Adrinka are still used today on cloth but may have existed for thousands of years.

Another old written language is Nsibidi of Nigeria and W.Central Africa where early forms are found on excavated pottery that is at least 1500 years old. More studies are necessary to see if these written languages are actually far older.

And many other written languages ….
#Africa

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

White Rhodesians react to Zimbabwe independence & the defeat of Rhodesia by Robert Mugabe in 1980.

[James Ponzo II, PhD (EnragedBlackAdemic) @jamesponzo2]

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[Kalonji Changa @Kalonjichanga]

Happy 78th Birthday to one of our sharpest political minds -my OG, Comrade and Brother, Veteran Black Panther/BLA leader and former Political Prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad! MANY MORE to you. Stay Ready!

[Reecie @BlackWomenViews @ReecieColbert]

I saw many brilliant legal and scholarly takes on the SCOTUS gutting race conscious affirmative action, so lemme just offer this: let's normalize not giving a f&%k about how people think you got your foot in the door. Affirmative action was only a dark cloud over us to the extent that we subscribed to the notion we had to prove we belonged. #RolandMartinUnfiltered #ReecieColbertShow

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

To let you further know the Supreme Court is on some bullshit, they said it’s totally fine for military academies to consider race in admissions. Now why is that? https://t.co/uiF9sScIty

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

This two bit, self loathing, sycophantic, white supremacy apologizing, uncle ruckus, benefited from race-based preferences throughout his entire career, yet sided with conservatives to overturn affirmative action.

Clarence Thomas was admitted to Holy Cross in 1968 in part because the school was actively looking for Black students.

He was admitted to Harvard Law School in 1971 right after it adopted a “race conscious“ admissions policy, but chose to go to Yale at the exact moment it created its first explicit affirmative action program with a goal of 10% minority enrollment.

Thomas was one of 12 Black students in the class of 175. His application was evaluated separately and he received special consideration because he was Black.

When Thomas left Yale he was hired by John Danforth, the Attorney General of Missouri. Danforth admitted it was because he was seeking to have a diverse office and that Clarence Thomas was hired because he was Black.

Thomas left Danforth’s office to work for Monsanto at a time when the company was looking to hire Black lawyers. He went back to work for Danforth when he was a US senator and was looking to diversify his staff.

He then went to work for Reagan’s Department of Education and was offered the job in part because he was Black.

He then became chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a position that six Black women turned down before he accepted it.

His entire career was a result of affirmative action.

This man epitomizes hypocrisy and has always been an enemy to Black progress in this nation.

#SCOTUS
#AffirmativeAction