Erica✨

Rnb Soul Singer-Songwriter🦋✨️ |
IG & Tiktok: @ericabonsuofficial

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Thanks in part to this filthy website, we seem in very recent times to be slipping back towards a place where whole groups of people, sometimes races or ethnicities, are being blamed for the evil-doing of a tiny minority. It is a profoundly backward, poisonous and anti-British ideology that is rooted in the gutter and represents the road to perdition.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

Within hours of Kemi Badenoch proclaiming Britain to be "the least racist society on earth", entirely innocent Black and Brown people were subject to violent racist riots. Yet again.

As ethnic minorities, we cannot afford to be silent in these times.

[MISSESHABABY. @baddieeey]

After months of people putting his kids, his wife, and his character in the middle of every rumor and accusation they could find, that freestyle tonight felt necessary. Sometimes the best response is getting on stage and reminding people who the fuck you are. #Hov

[🇯🇲7hanos876🇯🇲 @thanos876]

And here-in lies the problem, ppl are blindly voting for a party without being informed of what their policies are.

[Erica✨ @officialericab_]

He defo caught the holy spirit in this performance!!🗣

[Namzy @namzyvibez]

Michael Jackson’s aura was on another level… unmatched, untouchable, and impossible to replicate 😭🔥

Man didn’t just perform… he owned every second of the stage ❤️

[Dédáyọ̀ Roots @DedayoRoots]

In 1879, a British/Scottish medical student named Robert Felkin watched an African healer in Uganda perform a caesarean section.

Clean incision. Banana wine as anaesthetic and antiseptic. Bleeding cauterised with hot iron. Wound closed with iron pins and herbal root paste.

Mother recovered fully. Baby survived.

Felkin noted in his journal that the technique was SO REFINED, it was clearly standard practice, performed routinely long before any European arrived.

At that same moment, hospitals in London and Edinburgh were still debating whether caesarean sections could ever be justified on a living woman.
European surgeons were operating in street clothes, rarely washing their hands, and losing most patients to post-operative infection.

The Africans had already solved anaesthesia, anti sepsis, haemostasis, and wound care.

Felkin went home and presented his findings to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1884.

The knife used in that surgery still exists.
It is now housed in the Science Museum in London.

A silent artifact of a surgical tradition they called primitive.

They didn't discover our medicine.
They witnessed it, wrote it down and forgot to mention where it came from.

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[ਜੀਵਨ ਰਾਏ🔻🇵🇸 @jeevanrai]

Two weeks ago in Abbey Wood a driver deliberately swerved at & ran over a hijabi woman in broad daylight. (CW: the CCTV footage is terrifying.)

Mainstream UK media haven’t mentioned it once.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' https://t.co/fKNudB0K6g

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Diaspora wars are so fucking stupid. You will never get me to dislike another Black person because they came from a different country than me. We ALL are victims of White Supremist systems. Doesn't matter if you're in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa or the Caribbean.

[raw روان✨ @raweezzyy]

Don’t forget about Sudan. Their suffering isn’t documented for all of us to see but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Always remember Sudan 💔

[Ibrahim Khan @unrealpathan]

Gonna say it again, no celebrity has been a bigger victim of misinformation than MJ

[Halle @HalleBailey]

had a singing date with some of my favs…♥️✨

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel never stopped bombing Gaza.

It never stopped killing Palestinians.

It never stopped committing genocide.

And government ministers wonder why we continue to demonstrate in our thousands? End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Halle @HalleBailey]

today… my first solo album, “love…? or something like it, is finally yours. ♥️this project came from some of the most vulnerable chapters of my life —making this album helped me find beauty in the healing.. i hope you can resonate !!! go listen now ♥️

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Weird that Israel released Palestinians it had held hostage for over 20 years, but they want you to believe that this started on October 7, 2023.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Yes, Queen Victoria had a Black African goddaughter and kids are growing up in Britain not even knowing about it.

Anyways, do share her story this Black History Month.

Before she became Sarah, her name was Omoba Aina.

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

I think the biggest indicator of the fact that this wasn't a "conflict" or a "war" or literally anything you can "both sides" is: no part of Israel looks like this

[The Asante Nation @Asante_nation]

History has been made! Ghana has officially secured Geographical Indication (GI) status for Kente cloth, protecting it globally as a true Ghanaian heritage.

This means only authentic Kente, woven in Ghana using traditional methods, can bear the name “Kente.” Just like Champagne must come from France, Kente now belongs, legally and proudly, to Ghana.

But behind this global victory stands the heartbeat of it all, Bonwire, the home of Kente. Generations of master weavers from this historic Asante town have turned threads into stories, patterns into pride, and craftsmanship into culture.

Today, the world celebrates Ghana…
But we say: Ayekoo to the People of Bonwire, your hands have woven Ghana’s name into history! 🕊️

This powerful shot was captured by BBC Journalist Amma Prempeh at Bonwire, featuring a group of the talented Kente weavers whose artistry continues to uphold Ghana’s rich heritage. Ayekoo Amma Konadu Yiadom Prempeh, you've played a major part in this success story of our nation Ghana 🇬🇭