Listen to Afro-Iranians talk about what life is like in Iran. @PriscilliaK , an Afro-Iranian filmmaker and founder of the Collective for Black Iranians, told me during a recent interview that the Iranian leadership weaponizes Black pain for PR purposes.
Homeowner waits until construction job is nearly done—then calls ICE on 6 of her own workers.
Woman even provides the ladder used by agent to detain men—who she owes $10,000 for 3 day job.
"She called the damn law on us and now we're totally screwed!" men yell in Spanish. "They surrounded us!—They surrounded us!"
Agents even left behind the workers' van with doors wide open—filled with thousands of dollars worth of tools.
The arrest was broadcast live for about 30 minutes by a co-worker—identified as Bryan Polanco.
"Seeing it is not the same as experiencing it," he explains.
"I’ve seen many videos, and sadly today I had to experience it."
At the end of the video he gets the woman who called ICE on camera: "It is the same woman. Tidying up the house, and still with hatred in her heart."
The incident occurred in Cambridge, Maryland.
Ryan Coogler on being only the seventh Black director ever nominated for an #Oscar: “Hearing those numbers saddens me.”
“I know the truth. That statistic is a lie about the reality. I know there have been Black directors who changed the arc of global cinema — they changed my life and got me into this business that gives me purpose. I’d rather celebrate what they did, against all odds, than lament what award they didn’t get.”
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Selling stolen oil and putting billions of dollars in a bank in Qatar to be spent without Congressional approval is not Constitutional.
Only Congress can appropriate money.
The President can’t legally create a second Treasury overseas for his own piggy bank.
Wake up Congress.
The Young Republicans CAUGHT saying they “LOVE HITLER”, want to put their enemies in gas chambers, and using the N-Word and other slurs 251 times…now want to apologize…
@iammskye1 So, he wanted a child all along and was hoping to change her mind. Because if they both agreed no kids, this 180 is too quick. Don’t give in Naomi.