Heart Of A Champion

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[Don Snow 🥶 @Cant_Be_Rated]

Racists have become so afraid of black people that they have to make fake accounts in order to call us niggers lol. Yall great grandfathers who used to hang black people are looking up from hell ashamed that they nutted out such bitch made offspring.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

“I’ll just get gas in the morning” is one of the worst decisions you can make as an adult

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Happy Juneteenth!!

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Happy Juneteenth

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800.

“I acknowledge no master in human form.”

[bean smoothie™ @beansm00thie]

plan A is to lock in, plan B is to blow my shit smoove off

[Peter Burns @PeterBurnsESPN]

Fascinating example of how social media works today… (LONG POST)

Saw a display in the BHM airport honoring the Tuskegee Airmen.

Like 99.999% of Americans, I’m Team 🇺🇸… especially over Nazis.

Posted it.

Most responses were what you’d expect likes, RTs, patriotism.

Then the algorithm shifted.

Started seeing a wave of replies saying:
“Tuskegee success was a myth. Just PR. DEI BS”

The argument?

They had fewer aerial kills than other escort groups, so therefore it was all BS.

So I paused and did a real deep dive
looked for actual historical data from the official Air Force accounts and historians.

Here’s what I found….

They were right. They did have less aerial kills the other fighter groups.

However…..

The SAME data being used to discredit them tells a completely different story if you read the whole reports.

Yes, they had fewer kills.

But here’s the data that they omitted:

Bombers lost under escort (same theater, same aircraft):
• Tuskegee Airmen: 27
• Other groups: ~49, 68, 88

That’s not spin. That’s the mission.

Escort fighters weren’t there to run up kill counts, they were there to protect bombers.

And by that measure, the 332nd was one of the most effective groups in the war.

Why did they have less aerial kills? Was it because they were less skilled?

Historians pointed out the 332nd was known for staying disciplined and stuck with the bombers while others groups tended to often peel off chasing kills.

So both things can be true:
• Fewer kills
• More bombers protected

But here’s the social media lesson:

Same report. Same data.

One side cherry-picks “lowest kills” = “they weren’t good”

But they “conveniently” left out the part where they protected bombers better than anyone.

What I observed? 2 things.

1) Most of the accounts pushing the “myth” angle? Burner accounts, fake names…,people that hid behind a vague account names

2) Setting the record straight wasn’t the goal of the “myth” posters, it was for them to get their personal beliefs off without the actual information they claimed to have used.

Anyway…

Team America 🇺🇸🫡

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died.

Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today.

His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing.

He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it.

He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages.

In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted.

As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan.

His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century.

After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless.

Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23.

The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president.

Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

[sgp @stogolp]

Hey @ChickfilA Open the F*ckin’ restaurant on Sundays, you crazy b*stards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah

[Daquan Wiltshire DSG 🤘🏾🐝 @DAQUANDSG]

So now black people aren’t allowed to be cops or ice agents. Any other jobs that’ll revoke our black cards?

[ĸolαde @twitgameboy]

If you're proud of your Dad. Retweet this.

[Mowgli @fbgwayno]

Back in 2014, Vice would’ve already sent 2 scrawny white dudes to Mexico with nothing but an iPhone 4s & a gallon of water to monitor the situation

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

CBS: 9.2 billion people around the world tuned into the TPUSA alternative halftime show.

[Neb | 🏳️‍🌈 @NebsGoodTakes]

good morning

[The Onion @TheOnion]

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

[project hail breezy 👽 @lifeisbreezy]

how im pulling up next week to help at the black spot #itwelcometoderry 🎈

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

It’s about a month until Christian Nationalists celebrate the birth of a baby they wouldn’t even feed

[Micky D @DeMickyD]

Rockstar: Sorry guys but we're delaying GTA for another year. There will be another trailer soon so don't be mad. 👉👈 🥺

Bethesda: We showed you a mountain in The Elder Scrolls VI seven years ago. It'll be out when we feel like it. Fuck off.

[ClarkQuill97 @CQuill97]

Absolute Batman, you have my heart

[GhettoGronk @ghetto_gronk]

The Jets breaking Mark Sanchez out of prison to start him over Justin Fields next week