khatu noble

Gullible, but principled.
Generally a progressive. Definitely a realist

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

One has to ask why would sanctions and destabilization efforts against socialist governments even be necessary if socialism is a system which will always fail?

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Oh, so European men named all the continents because their minds were ‘panoramic’?

Here’s the reality.

Africa? Named after the Afri, the indigenous tribe of Africa near Carthage. Romans just slapped the tribe’s name on the land so it was nothing more than colonial bookkeeping.

Asia? From Akkadian (Mesopotamian) word “asu / ašû” meaning “east, sunrise.”
For them lands to their east were called the “asu” lands. Greeks took the term and made it Asía - a generic term for the East.

Europe? From Phoenician “ereb / irib” meaning “west, sunset, evening.”No discovery of continents by Europeans here - they simply adopted the directional names the Mesopotamians and Levantines gave to the lands to the west of them

The Americas? Named after Amerigo Vespucci because someone FINALLY told Columbus, ‘Hey Columbus, this isn’t India.’ Millions of people were already living there, but Europeans erased them with a name. Even now the “Indies” shows how messed up Columbus was.

Australia? From Latin term Terra Australis Incognita - simply means “unknown southern land”. Medieval Europeans believed there must be a huge continent far to the south to “balance” the northern continents. Indigenous Australians had already been there 60,000 years. Europeans just renamed it when they mapped it.

Antarctica? From Greek Antarktike which just means “opposite the Arctic” (anti–arktos).

So No - Europeans didn’t name all the continents - they simply borrowed, mislabeled, or erased their existing ancient names. Not genius - just entitlement.

[khatu noble @khatu89]

@Abi_Maila Mamfundisi (vatiswa) generations

[ipeleng @ipelenggg]

i hope it’s becoming clear that patriarchy benefits absolutely nobody except white men. i hope black men start to see that it’s so useless to subsume yourself in a system that was never built for you nor yours to begin with and demand that it benefit you.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

100 years ago, 40% of Americans were in farming. That’s 1% today.

50 years ago, 25% of Americans were in manufacturing. That’s 8% today.

The times, they are a changin’…

[Null @Vhoyde]

People like to think the land issue is just about farming. It's about african cultural existence as well. The lack of land means the end of who we are.

[A Black Doltjie @B____D___]

Motivationally speaking this is true, but did you know that 8/10, your birth circumstance becomes your life circumstance… that’s why the cycle of poverty is tough to break and the rich seem to be getting richer

[son of Baldwin 🌹 @dansmywholename]

Catholics and Anglicans are far more open minded and curious about the Bible and are open to debating it freely, unlike Protestants generally, and evangelicals in particular, who are far more dogmatic.

[khatu noble @khatu89]

@Givenkazeni By far 👌

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Black women die at **THREE TIMES** the rate of white women during childbirth.

Congress must pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act.

There should be no hang up on passing this from so-called “pro-life” Republicans.

[ANDILE MNGXITAMA (MP) @Mngxitama2]

White farmers became successful because of massive apartheid state support from planting to fertilizer, to harvesting to transportation to storage to marketing to cheap credits via the land bank. And cheap slave black labour. Now they turn around and say blacks can't farm.

[tunafish in my kota @jinji_boolin]

i hate a “i hate small talk” ass person. oh you’d like to talk about the economic and political state of the world off rip? fack off. your pathetic attempt to over-intellectualise and deep think every conversation you have does NOT make you the know it all you think it does

[Malume Malusi @UncleCul]

I come from Limpopo …a province that’s second to Eastern Cape as the poorest in the country.

So whenever I come across those “we have mansions in villages” posts you guys like to rotate I feel we are moving away from the real conversations we should be having

[khatu noble @khatu89]

@_Bonga Is it true that these kinda Apps now own your image going forth? They can do with it as they please

[khatu noble @khatu89]

@MimiReeds I stand to be corrected. The Northern Sotho umbrella includes Sepedi and numerous other Sotho-based languages of the Northern provinces.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Slavery, segregation, voting rights, gerrymandering and abortion all have one thing in common:

“States rights.”

Since the first draft of the constitution, “Leave it up to the states” has been code for “Leave it up to the racists.”

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

New study finds that the impact of terrain on water flow direction is negligible once gravity is accounted for.

In other words, water flow is almost wholly explained by the molecular structure of water.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Jerrod Carmichael’s monologue!

[Panashe Chigumadzi @PanasheChig]

White supremacy simply consolidates global anti-blackness

[Chris Goldsmith @TheTennisTalker]

Combined Grand Slam Titles

Venus & Serena Williams = 62

Nadal, Federer & Djokovic = 61