SaKanda Badu Fro

You can catch me dreaming of WaKanda & Heaven on earth or whatever.

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@Bougie_Pee Yes

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@TeamBettencourt @CyFairISD @GrooganFox26 @ASchneider_HPM @radioguycliff @JeremySWallace @carolinewilb @Katiera_Winfrey @KMcclenagan @TomAbrahams13 @FBugenhagen_ @IngridBarreraTV It is exactly what Nazis did. Take it down or not. The truth is the LIGHT.

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@TeamBettencourt @CyFairISD @GrooganFox26 @ASchneider_HPM @radioguycliff @JeremySWallace @carolinewilb @Katiera_Winfrey @KMcclenagan @TomAbrahams13 @FBugenhagen_ @IngridBarreraTV It is exactly what Nazis did. Take it down or not. The truth is the LIGHT.

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@levarburton 🙏🏿💙

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, @innocence, and @the_mip in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus https://t.co/dJMZEQdQjc

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@StLukes_Health emergency room. I don’t know if you need more staff of what’s happening but you have patients who are serious waiting in the emergency room for almost 5 hours. My aunt is Black with sickle cell in excruciating pain and hasn’t even been given an IV. #Help

[Jaison Oliver @oJaison]

i LOVE this piece

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@MrsBundrige 🤭

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@VanLathan See…

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

One day plant based Whole Foods are going to be available everywhere, cooked with love.. more than just sides.. and people will see the food and think yum yum yum!! I’m people ☺️ and I know gluten & impossible stuff and gmo soy is widely available. But I’m talmbout the good good.

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

So many predators in the world.

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@wisereformer @DailyLoud No. But nice way to camp with fam

[SaKanda Badu Fro @SecundaJoseph]

@LASimmonsTX146 ♥️

[Naima Cochrane @naima]

So...I feel like some additional context is necessary re: Vlad & this bit of beef specifically, bc some folks are too young to remember.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Vlad is whack for a myriad of reasons. But in this you can tell he saw a Black woman and a predominantly white university and tried to use his whiteness against her. DISGUSTING.

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

These types of responses are why people don’t think you move in good faith. Instead of engaging the actual critique, you resort to name calling and misdirection. And yes, though not at all relevant, I’ve been fired twice. Both times, it was for advocating for justice through my platforms. In contrast, you’re using yours to try to get someone fired. Why double down instead of just saying “I went too far in my response to a comment that I disliked”?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Black Americans experience the most hate crimes of any group in America. They live at the bottom of every indicator of well being. They face rampant and documented discrimination in employment, housing, you name it. I really wish pundits discussing campus protests and anti-Semitism would stop using us as the comparison group for what would not be tolerated.

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

No Vlad. This doesn’t “clear the air.” You’re literally arguing that you were weaponizing your power and privilege to threaten a Black woman’s job. And why? Because she criticized you on Twitter about your power and privilege. You could’ve disagreed with @MorganJerkins stance —I actually didn’t object to you intervening in the conversation, even though I disagreed with your point— without threatening her. This is Karen shit.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Uncomfortable truth time. The world feels entitled to Black American culture. We share it so freely because sharing it has been one of the only ways we’ve been seen. Our intellectual, political, and scientific contributions have erased and delegitimized, but the world still agrees we can make you dance, laugh etc.

Since that culture remains our biggest export, we sell it. Because we sell it, every one consumes it, then thinks it’s theirs. It’s not. Our culture is like any other, based on shared history, pain, ingenuity, inspiration, and pressure. There was a tax paid. Like ANY other culture in EXISTENCE you can’t walk in and walk out without an understanding of that tax at the very least. It would be silly to think that.

To think that we should just be fully giving of our art, experience, and cultural invention to the world with nothing so much as a conversation would make us the workhorses of the world.

No.

I wouldn’t expect that from any group in the diaspora. I would expect that if Beyonce did a dancehall album tomorrow, there would be a conversation. I would expect that if Kendrick went Afro Beats and opened a Jollof restaurant we would talk about it. And the obligation we’d have to each other is that the conversation be had with love. That’s the only time we fail, not when we don’t talk about our differences, but when we war about them. But, we are different, and that’s okay.

Gates will be kept, but not necessarily locked.