#giveyourselfachance

🌻As basic as the UniVERSAL language of LOVE

[#giveyourselfachance @lindo_everyday]

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[ehime ora @ehimeora]

A healer is not someone who offers spiritual services, but someone who surrenders to their heart.

You can heal others with your words, with your music, with your art, with your products.

The heart space heals. Love heals.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré stood before his nation and spoke a truth that had been buried for over a thousand years. He named the Arab slave trade. Not in whispers. Not in academic papers. But in a televised address, to a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim.

"The people came, first the Arab-Muslim conquests. That is over a thousand years of slavery in Africa," he said. He spoke of men castrated so they could not father children. He named the year 1962, when the last slave market closed in Medina. He refused to let silence protect a historical crime.

This was not an attack on Islam. Traoré is a Muslim himself. This was an act of reckoning. He was saying what the entire continent had been afraid to say: that Africa was enslaved by two systems, and only one of them is allowed to be remembered. The West's crime is taught in schools. The East's crime is erased.

The reaction was swift and fierce. Gulf states condemned him. Some clerics called it Islamophobic. But Traoré pressed forward. He announced that Burkina Faso would recall hundreds of students studying Sharia law abroad, warning that some returned with teachings incompatible with national unity. He declared the state secular, and no religious law—Islamic or otherwise—would govern it.

Why does this matter? Because the Sahel is burning. Jihadist groups are recruiting with a distorted version of faith, and that distortion has been imported and funded from outside Africa for centuries. By naming the Arab slave trade, Traoré severed the spiritual authority that foreign clerics have held over African Muslims. He asked a question that should echo across the continent: "Are we cursed?" His answer was no. Africa was not cursed. Africa was conquered, colonized, and enslaved by two different powers. And the only way to break free is to name it, teach it, and refuse to let it be silenced.

[WSKM @WISKIMMUSIC]

Writing in Mandombe Congolese scripture, Congo 🇨🇩

[Meshack Bevhula @MeshackBevhulas]

Hlompho Massko has a message for you. He says look at the current problem that SA faces as the TITANIC. You may think you’re better now but it will catch up with you…….. REPOST this message as much

[The Republic @republicjournal]

In South Africa, a wealthy and influential man is sometimes called a grootman.

But what happens when wealth commands admiration regardless of how it was acquired?

The curious rise of the grootman—and what it reveals about South African society.

Read in The Republic:

[Thembisa Mdoda-Nxumalo @tembisanxumalo]

You will, literally, find women at the forefront of every fight but at the bottom of the food chain💔.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is exactly how history gets twisted, castrated, and morphed into full-blown propaganda.

There is nothing more insensitive and criminally offensive than blaming the poverty in Africa solely on the premise that Africans failed to learn trade, statecraft, and management techniques from their colonial masters. This analysis would only be correct if colonialism was a joint venture where the colonizers brought in their technology and superior machinery, engaged in training the locals on how to use them, and set up a robust educational system to support and sustain that development.

Colonialism never assumed this shape or form. It was evidently a one-way, abusive relationship where the colonizers violently imposed their will and mandate on their colonial subjects. The only technology brought to them were the machine guns used to subjugate the people. The heavy machinery used to refine and process their agricultural crops and mineral wealth was stationed exclusively in the capital cities of the colonial empire. Even the machines that were supposed to assist or facilitate the extraction of this mineral wealth were not brought into the besieged countries, simply because it was cheaper to use bullets to force the people to work nonstop under the scorching sun with bare, medieval farming tools.

The railways built in several parts of Africa and the rest of the Global South do not count as development either. They merely served as a logistical mechanism to facilitate the extraction of resources from the slave plantations to the seaports, not to connect the people or facilitate domestic trade. The schools and courtrooms erected also do not count. They were never fully-fledged learning grounds designed to build professionals who would manage the country for the greater good. Instead, they were grooming grounds for clerks and typists whose sole purpose was to manage the administrative paperwork of wealth extraction. The newly trained judges only served the function of upholding the criminal declarations of the empire whenever it was time to steal indigenous lands or unjustly imprison critics of the colonial plantation.

Therefore, blaming the colonized for not learning how to build railways, skyscrapers, and modern technology from their colonial masters is nothing but a severe manifestation of historical ignorance. Furthermore, the fact that this documentary is based on the Congolese experience makes the entire narrative a total sham.

The Congolese were not only exploited, subjugated, and subjected to genocide by the Belgians. The most damning reality is that the moment they truly voted and rallied behind a revolutionary leader who would work for the betterment of the Congolese people shortly after gaining independence, that leader was violently overthrown. Patrice Lumumba was couped out of office, humiliated on the streets of the Congo, gunned down by a firing squad, and his body was later dissolved in acid. All of these acts were orchestrated by a coalition of Western intelligence agencies, a fact that is now well-documented in history books. In place of Lumumba, Mobutu Sese Seko was ushered into power. He turned the Democratic Republic of Congo into a neo-colonial slave plantation for global powers to exploit as they saw fit, all while Western governments protected his brutal regime.

This is not just about the Congo. We are witnessing in real time how France has carried out the exact same playbook in the Sahel, currently teaming up with proxy forces to topple revolutionary governments and return the Sahelian states back to their default settings as neo-colonial slave plantations. This is the grim reality of virtually all sovereign states in the Global South that once served as plantation farms for Western oligarchs.

The sad reality is that the people who produce these documentaries, and those who amplify them on social media platforms, see, know, and understand all of this perfectly well. The Western journalists who write and depict Africans as savages unfit to govern themselves know this is not the case, but they keep pushing these propaganda pamphlets because it helps sustain the system of extraction. It ensures that the working-class citizens living within the imperial core do not see the poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the foundational sine qua non that sustains the technology, infrastructure, and industrialization they enjoy in the Global North.

They have to be propagandized into seeing our poverty as a testament to our supposed laziness and lower intelligence quotients, rather than as the direct result of centuries of over-exploitation. Even though it has been meticulously proven by economists that for every $1 sent to the Global South in aid, about $14 is extracted and shipped out to subsidize the luxury of the Global North, this information is neatly wrapped up and tossed away. It does not conform to the prevailing narrative that Africa and the rest of the Global South remain grossly underdeveloped despite trillions supposedly spent on "aid."

Of course, the workers of the Global North are also slaves to this exact same capitalist system. But as long as they are housed in nicer prisons and conditioned to see the rest of us working in the open fields of the Global South as "lesser" than them, the capitalist ruling class will continue to sit at the top of the food chain for the rest of human history.

[MA LE BO @Melo_Malebo]

Some of us are actively trying to get away from this kind of consumerism. We want to live on a farm, live closer to the land and grow our own food. Not everything that looks like development is aspirational. There’s freedom in needing less from these corporations.

[Ski @unkn0wnski]

black women transform the world yet we never hear about them

[Sindz. M🇿🇦 @CeendzM]

Once they're registered as asylum seekers, when it comes to jobs, they won't be classified as foreigners anymore. They'll be treated as South Africans and compete with South Africans for employment. We already have high unemployment rate in SA.

They'll receive SASSA grants that are meant for struggling South Africans. At public Clinics and Hospitals they will be prioritized. Public Schools will be full, your South African kids won't have spaces. You will have to fight for space with a terrorist sorry I mean with a refugee.

This is invasion. Many will only see it late.

[Petite Ebony Girl 🇵🇸 @PetiteEbonyGirl]

The people currently killing Palestinians in their own land entered Palestine under the guise of being refugees. I do not want to suffer the same fate.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Amandla!

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

this is an actual masterpiece LMAOOO😭😭😭

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

This is Gregory Green. In 1991, he stabbed his pregnant wife Tonya to death during an argument and then called 911 to report his crime. He was allowed to plead no contest to second degree murder and sentenced to 15-25 years in prison. While incarcerated, Gregory was a model prisoner, and with the support of pastor Fred Harris, he was paroled in 2008 after serving just 16 years.

After his release, Gregory married Fred Harris’ daughter, Faith, who had two children from a previous marriage. Faith and Gregory had two daughters together, but Gregory’s anger and aggression caused Faith to file for divorce in September of 2016. He sought revenge right away.

Before Faith could move out, Gregory tampered with his own car so that the exhaust was re-routed back into the car itself. Late one night, he took his two sleeping daughters, Koi (5) and Kaleigh (4) and put them in the car to suffocate before returning their bodies to their beds.

Gregory then attacked his wife, duct taping her to a chair in the basement before cutting her on both sides of her face from ears to chin and shooting her in the foot — but he wasn’t done. Marching his two teenage stepchildren downstairs at gunpoint, he shot them both in the head in front of their screaming mother before bringing the bodies of Koi and Kaleigh downstairs for her to see. Gregory then went calmly upstairs and — once again — called 911 to report what he’d done.

In spite of clear, indisputable evidence of premeditation, Gregory was allowed to plead guilty to four counts of second degree murder, torture, assault with intent to do great bodily harm and felony firearms violations. He was sentenced to 45-100 years in prison; although this was the second family he annihilated, he will be eligible for parole in just 47 years.

This is the second man I’ve profiled who murdered his family, got locked up, got out, had a second family, and then murdered them too. If even one woman had been allowed to do such a thing, you can bet your life that we’d never hear the end of it.

Ever hear of Gregory Green before today?

[Michael de Villiers @Mikedotcoza]

Process asylum seekers at the borders and provide shelters there. Inland should be for the documented. An asylum seeker who is now running businesses and renting properties without documents is a security risk.

[Lindani M. @LyndaniM]

Boys were never “easier to raise”. Yall just were overly controlling of your daughters and let your sons do whatever they wanted

[Mudzunga @Dzungie007]

We don’t need more politicians who “understand the struggle.” We need leaders who understand budgets, audits, service delivery and resigning when they fail.

[JupiterSzn🍒🍀🎨 formerly, David Ruffin @xo_empressive]

In Japan it’s illegal to teach your children about Hell or to instill fear based religious studies in others. & They labeled it psychological abuse.

[Moshopyadi a’Hlabirwa a’Dimo🇿🇦 @Shopidiie]

Waiting for the day when SAPS will start a statement by saying “We urge men to stop raping and killing women…” instead of “we urge women to be cautious…” as though it’s the women’s fault that they are harassed, raped and killed🤚🏾🤚🏾🤚🏾🤚🏾🤚🏾

[Mia Renaldi @Muirmaid]

Exactly. This is what we need NOT no remake

[mamvulane @fka_tshangela]

there’s nothing i hate quite like being told to be vigilant as a woman. it’s so dehumanising to keep looking over your shoulder everywhere you go.