Jay Dee

Son,Brother,Husband,Father,friend... Thinker..Reflecting on issues of life and people... Doing the right thing.

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

While #CandaceOwens is trying to rebrand herself……… #NeverForget #SheIsNotWithUs #Juneteenth

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom and a reminder that freedom must be protected, expanded, and made real in every generation.

My father wrote, “Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.” Today, we honor the ancestors who endured, resisted, and hoped. And we recommit ourselves to the ongoing work of justice, dignity, and creating the Beloved Community.

#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #MLK #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365

[WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY @CLG98264897]

Amerikkka.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

We need more of this energy. Black people— don’t shop where you’re racially profiled

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

I, Too
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Truth from the great #FannieLouHamer. #Juneteenth

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

The vile comment about Michelle Obama is part of a nearly 20-year project to deny and defile the Obamas because their very existence confronted and did damage to the centuries-old lie of white supremacy and white control.

Part of that project hardened into a cruel conspiracy: Barack was gay and Michelle was trans. It was an attempt to emasculate him and defeminize her, while creating a scandal and branding them as secret-keepers and liars.

As long as the Obamas exist as qualified, competent, unmarred people, an example of excellence, they remain dangerous.

I had to open the library for this man so that he could read and get read. #ReadingRainbow

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

A white teenager is accused of spray-painting racist slurs and Nazi symbols on a Black family’s home in East Baton Rouge Parish.

According to attorney @ryankeiththompson, this family endured months of harassment before this incident. Now, an elderly Black woman says she is afraid to return to her home.

If Louisiana is serious about being tough on crime, acts of racial terror and intimidation must be treated as seriously as any other crime.

No family should have to live in fear because of hate.

Share if you care. 🦾

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A 1-year-old child is dead after police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a vehicle in a crowded Walmart parking lot in Senatobia. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car. They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old. We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Eleven years ago today, nine Black worshippers were murdered during Bible study at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston.

Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney. Cynthia Hurd. Susie Jackson. Ethel Lance. Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor. Tywanza Sanders. Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Myra Thompson.

We say their names and remember the sacredness of their lives.

This was not only a mass shooting. It was a heinous act of white supremacy carried out in a house of worship. We must tell the truth about that hatred, grieve what it stole, and remain committed to dismantling the violence of racism in every form.

#MotherEmanuel #SayTheirNames

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.

I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Donald Trump is a failed president and an unabashed warmonger.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

The Art of the Deal? No wonder he's had six bankruptcies. We lost American soldiers because Trump hated Obama this must.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Joy Reid: Jeff Bezos ripped “Democracy Dies in Darkness” off the masthead of The Washington Post and handed Melania a $40 million documentary bribe for a film that nobody but the cult even watched.

Trump himself posted on his Temu Twitter that my former employer did his bidding when they fired me.

This is corporate media on its knees

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Dr. King daughter set the record straight about the civil rights achievement. They benefit everyone and he did not discriminate against white people..

[Music is Life @ArtOfMusic_]

No other group in America had to survive

•Black Codes
•Convict leasing
•Jim Crow
•Redlining
•Sundown towns
•COINTELPRO
•Assassinations of leaders
•Crack epidemic (CIA linked)
•Mass incarceration
•School segregation
•Destruction of 60+ Black towns
•GI Bill exclusion
•FHA loan denial
•Police lynchings
•Media demonization