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@blackbusinessSA @brownsense Discounted from R1.2k to R800 Maasai Twist Braids 📲 Issac 078 617 0945 https://t.co/2NQcoHEz8s

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@pabimono_ So gorgeous 😍😍😍

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@EdKrassen Glad to see these men risk life and limb, securing the life of another living entity; while on the other side of Twitter there are men who say they’d NEVER risk their lives to protect Blck women!

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@FaithG65176141 @kaysexwale @karpowership I guess you’d prefer us sinking even further than stage 6 then?!

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@Sentletse @IrvineMarule Hore o’ang rohaka or not, taba e, e joalo! Interestingly you understand it more than most, mara social media ke social media akere?!

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@Sentletse Mxm! Ho rohaka hona?

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@Banesa_Creative Get in touch with a FB group called “catch-a-ride” something like that.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

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@Siphiwe0611 @SneKhumaloSA @Khostshangela @MsolwaOngenalo Let’s not do this ok?! #NotAllMen but intact #ALLMen

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@queennaija It’s the absolute BEST!!

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@SneKhumaloSA Le ‘na honestly, I just wanna work and deliver for my people but I’d get assassinated cause my views, attitude and determination are hectic! So here I am, doing what I do!

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@Khostshangela @MsolwaOngenalo @SneKhumaloSA I’m just glad blck men are letting us know who they actually are, what they think of blck women and children and the role they are choosing to play in the blck community! It is clear as day! I am thankful for the feedback an enlightenment!

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@SneKhumaloSA I’ll ALWAYS stick up for blck women in EVERY circumstance! If you see the comments by men, in this post, you’ll understand EVERYTHING you need of the role blck men have CHOSEN to play in the lives of vulnerable blck people! Our community is unprotected and under-provisioned.

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@bryanuzoma @dsonoiki @MisterEff89 @swmh69 @lilkjay12 @freauxmama Demanding you take your rightful place in the blck community, as a black man! Your Leadership Place!To be custodian, protector & provider for the lives of all blck women & all blck children, is a form of bullying?! Cum on people, which alternative universe are we now living in?

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@MbalulaFikile My guy, only 30% of the population is employed! Unless this goes up by 40% you continue to score ZERO!!

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@dsonoiki @lilkjay12 @freauxmama This attitude right there is the source of all ills in the blck community; blck men don’t see themselves as protectors & providers of the blck community; of RANDOM blck children & women! Blck men have ABDICATED leadership! Thank you sir for articulating this so clearly!

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@freauxmama The way black men cannot handle rejection! The way they get violent about it! Yoh! 😭😭😭😭

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@dr_lovelee Literally 😀😀😀