@abdi_jimi@oliverLirwin2@iclipr The Bible doesn’t mention gambling. But the Quran does O you who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, dedication of stones, and divination by arrows, are an abomination of Satan's handwork. Eschew such abomination, that you may prosper” (Quran 5:90)
@usurpthachef Not that bad. I was on that boat from 2006-2008 9 month deployment and it was spotless. Captain Charles Andy McCawley would’ve never let it look like that.
Black Panther told Black kids: You are powerful. You are brilliant. You are the future.
Lanterns tells them: You are a victim. You are disadvantaged. Never forget that the world sees you as lesser because you’re Black.
One portrayed Blackness as something powerful to inherit. The other treats it like a burden to survive.
That isn’t progress. It’s regression dressed up as representation.
Black Panther told Black kids: You are powerful. You are brilliant. You are the future.
Lanterns tells them: You are a victim. You are disadvantaged. Never forget that the world sees you as lesser because you’re Black.
One portrayed Blackness as something powerful to inherit. The other treats it like a burden to survive.
That isn’t progress. It’s regression dressed up as representation.
Black Panther told Black kids: You are powerful. You are brilliant. You are the future.
Lanterns tells them: You are a victim. You are disadvantaged. Never forget that the world sees you as lesser because you’re Black.
One portrayed Blackness as something powerful to inherit. The other treats it like a burden to survive.
That isn’t progress. It’s regression dressed up as representation.