African American this black American that Caribbean this West Indian that unno nuh see the blood clat cost of living and the Pickney dem illiterate …… crawl up inna uno mumma big front and nyammmm it dry
White teenagers experimenting with drugs get rehab and second chances. Black teenagers get criminal records and prison sentences. The war on drugs has always been a war on Black and brown bodies. Addiction is only a disease when it's white.
Me this weekend explaining to Jamaicans at NAPA for #CaribbeanMusicAwards that Battimamzelle is the Trini name for a dragonfly when they ask, “But why dem ah name de room dat?”
My coworker made cookies…she offered me one and I said no thank you… she said why… bitch cause you wear the same sweater everyday….is that what you want me to say….??!?
A jury convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense. https://t.co/ahmHC5wXaV
Way to bury the lede: Capriglione reportedly told his mistress that he wanted to ejaculate his “baby gravy” into batter for cookies that would be sold at his daughter's bake sale and that he enjoyed that “all of the girls in the neighborhood would be consuming” his semen.
this scene makes me so mad bc the way colonizers invade your land, brutalize your people, and then turn around and make you the "terrorist" in your own home is beyond infuriating
No one cared about this when I posted it the first time, but maybe they will care now. Another snuff film-making serial killer found with thousands of images and videos of mostly Alaskan Native women. He is from South Africa.
For over a year, boxes containing 900 wheelchairs meant for people in Gaza have been sitting in a warehouse because Israel won’t let them in, classifying the wheelchairs as “potential weapons”
I want a theory of suffering that says: you are witnessing a genocide and it wounded you because it SHOULD wound you. the answer cannot always be to create enough distance that you can live normally again. sometimes the answer is to let that wound bind you to an obligation to act
Peter Thiel, a colonising white settler in Namibia, the founder of Palantir who’s drones are being used in the genocide in Gaza. He is backing & funding this project that will see a violent take over a Caribbean island by white people & force second class citizen to Black people.