Niko Chike

African American in exile in Africa. Searching for world's best habesha restaurant.Woman w/ a brain who isn't afraid to use it. Journalist/Media Tech Designer.

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

Why couldn't we have done more when Darfurians were fighting to defend themselves against the evil janjaweed?Instead, many of us said and did nothing.Or, worse, North #Sudan-ese men were sent to fight in the SAF alongside the janjaweed against the dark-skinned "southerners".Now..

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@thewooga @TheJFreakinC he was trying to protect that other protester.

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@BreeEsq @BootsRiley please, would you provide a link to the original source?

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@derigee @WaltJackman there is a race every year in burkina faso that i believe looks like this

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@derigee @WaltJackman where is this?

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@elonmusk honey, this country was built on slavery--the biggest example of greed and getting something for nothing there has been in world history. The mentality you refer to is not new.

[Kara @UTDKarra]

This Congo supporter posed like a statue and didn’t move for the whole 90 minutes 😭

This is exactly why we love AFCON what a tournament, mannnn.

[Prosper_xau_eye👁️🏑 @prosper_xau]

That’s the part people keep dancing around. Fake passports aren’t usually for convenience they’re for moving people, money, or avoiding scrutiny across borders.

I’m not saying that’s definitely what it was for, but it’s a fair question. Why would someone like Epstein need multiple identities unless there was something bigger being hidden? And if it wasn’t trafficking, then what exactly were these systems protecting him from?

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@Wisdom_HQ soccer

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@yashar Thank you for sharing this, Yashir.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING:

Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Video (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@JDVance is that why i have never seen her natural hair and why she has had cosmetic surgery?

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@continuationism @ICEgov Thank you for sharing this.

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

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[Left in the Bay @leftinthebay]

26 years ago, April 24 1999, over 20,000 people marched in San Francisco, and the ILWU shut down all West Coast ports, to call for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The demonstration was planned on Mumia's 45th birthday. Today he turned 71 years old, and is remains imprisoned

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@leftinthebay I was a student at uc berkeley then. i was arrested with hundreds of others that day; and later released. i thought about this as i prepared for my participation in this december's march for mumia 26 years later with grey in my hair. this cruelty must end.

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@hate5six thank you for this

[hate5six @hate5six]

Scenes from the last 3 miles of the 103-mile long march for Mumia Abu-Jamal, from Philly to the door of the cage that has held him for 44 years and is trying to kill him through medical neglect.

Empty the prisons, from occupied Palestine to Pennsylvania.

https://t.co/bLRqVq6dg5

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner: Drop the Case Against Mumia Abu-Jamal https://t.co/mruRVKQnvJ #mumia #BlackTwitter #philly# #Philadelphia

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.

“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”

I was 19. He was in his recliner.

My mother was cooking for 14 people.

She’d been up since 5 AM.

He’d been up since the football pregame.

I didn’t think anything of it.

That’s just how it was.

Fast forward 20 years.

I’m in the recliner.

My wife is in the kitchen.

She’s been up since 5 AM.

I’ve been up since the pregame.

My daughter walks by and I see her watching.

Not the TV.

Her mother.

Then me.

Then her mother again.

That’s when it hit me:

She’s taking notes.

My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.

He didn’t say it.

He showed it.

Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.

The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.

This morning I woke up at 4 AM.

Not for content.

For the turkey.

My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.

She didn’t say anything.

She just stood there.

Then she cried.

Your kids are taking notes.

Not on what you say.

On where you sit.

The recliner is an inheritance.

Be the generation that stands up.

[Niko Chike @niko_chike]

@Biblicalman thank you for writing this!