Folks say “Racism happened so long ago, yall love to play victim”
Meanwhile Ruby Bridges is 71 years old. We have elders in this country that picked cotton, drank from Black only water fountains & couldn’t go into specific dept stores. But folks want me to not speak on racism 🙄
AJ Dybantsa on Terrence Clarke " I Know he would be proud of me, us being from the same city & same hood. All he wanted was people from that Boston Area to do well 🥺🔥
Gillie couldn’t stop LAUGHING after Wallo started teaching his friends “prison rules” and gave them a valuable lesson about never taking food from anyone 😭💀
“Whenever someone give you something that’s not yours, don’t take it… these 2 guys belong to me now” 🤣
In May 2013, a Cleveland neighbor named Charles Ramsey became an overnight sensation after helping rescue Amanda Berry, a young woman who had been missing for nearly a decade.
His live interview right after the rescue became one of the most unforgettable moments in television history.
Charles starts by setting the scene in the most Charles Ramsey way possible:
"Heard screaming. I was eating my McDonald's, I come outside, I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."
He thought it was a regular domestic dispute.
So he walked up to help.
"I open the door and we can't get in that way because of how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through, only your hand. So we kick the bottom and she comes out with a little girl and she says, 'Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry'."
That name didn't hit him right away.
"When she told me, it didn't register until I got to call the 911 and I'm like, 'I'm calling the 911 for Amanda Berry?' I thought this girl was dead, you know what I mean?"
Then the detective on the scene asked him a question that made the whole thing sink in:
"Charles, do you know who you rescued?"
What makes the interview unforgettable is that Charles had been living next door to the kidnapper the entire time.
He had no idea.
"I've been here a year. I barbecue with this dude, we eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music."
He describes the neighbor as someone completely unremarkable:
"He just comes out to his backyard, plays with the dogs, tinkers with his cars and motorcycles, and goes back in the house. So he's somebody that you look and you look away because he's not doing nothing but the average stuff. Nothing exciting about him... well, until today."
When more officers went into the house and rescued two other women, Charles couldn't believe what he was seeing:
"They went up there, you know, 30 or 40 deep, and when they came out it was just astonishing because I thought they were going to come up with nothing."
And then he delivered the line that the entire internet would quote for years:
"I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here, dead giveaway. Either she's homeless or she's got problems, that's the only reason why she runs to a black man."
Victor Wembanyama desperately wanted to learn to do a backflip with the monks at the Shaolin temple.
At 7-foot-5, that didn’t happen. But what unfolded was the most formative summers of his short career that has fueled this postseason run. My exclusive conversation w/ Wemby: