Full grown adults that can’t swim, cycle, skate, backpack, take a gap year, vacation, play an instrument or speak multiple foreign languages. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to leave survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics that no one really talks about
Niggas saying he should have known better sound dumb as fuck.
Black people should not be killing other Black people over a fucking hat or colors, period.
We need to take accountability and clean up our communities.
Y’all get what this is, right? Just by touching you with these gloves, cops can literally force your body to involuntarily spasm in a way that looks enough like “resisting arrest” on a bodycam video to justify beating your brains out & shooting you dead consequence-free
While it's important to call this out, if the average American had any idea how much of everything we eat, buy, and touch is directly tied to prison labor, which this country essentially runs on, y'all would die of shock. It's the engine of the entire economy
“The dress code is the least of the student’s concerns. “I was a little confused myself on the whole dress code thing because you barely ever see anyone really in a bonnet.”
Wouldn’t be the first time a college administration created a story to distract folks from other issues.
they in them data centers cutting up rare books. the literacy crisis will not get better. the earth will get hotter. and it’s our fault. (not mine tho. ion be using that shit)
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
Aye wrap this bonnet and Durag shit up man. No one can find a job, rent through the roof, gas high as fuck, and yall kids are dumb as hell. Bigger issues at hand!
the reason why the state of HBCU's make me so mad is because we *need* them. we need black spaces of higher education. like so bad. but not in their current form. not as an arm of white supremacy and respectability politics. but true black spaces of liberation