@PopChassid @typetina My mans was asking does he need to kneel or stay seated. It’s evident he wasn’t going anywhere. There are at least 20 cops here smh
@JetBlue @paislytravel. Please do better. Other people on my flight are getting refunds, and employees like Felix are being rude when I am trying to receive mine. Thank you.
1st week album sales don’t mean what they used to and I don’t think that’s understood. At this point, you can sell more albums any given week depending on so many factors. The consistent metric will always be who is buying tickets and physically showing up
This is an important video to share, not just because the great Reggie Jackson is speaking, but because it’s a reminder that we have so many older Black folks walking around today who are psychologically scarred from the racial terrorism they experienced. This country likes to sell this idea that there was some joy in overcoming these experiences, when in reality, it was tremendous pain — so much so that many of our elders don’t even want to discuss it.
LISTEN.
Reggie Jackson reminded the nation that Jim Crow isn’t some moment in the distant past. There are people walking around who lived through it—who still carry the scars of the period.
“I’m a middle-aged Black man. I’ve got all of these degrees, I’ve won cases at the Supreme Court – and I still go to places where I’m viewed as less than, where I’m presumed to be the defendant, or presumed to be dangerous, just because of the way I appear. And that’s a heavy burden,” says lawyer and racial justice advocate Bryan Stevenson.
“I can tell you, because I’m getting older, that when you’re constantly navigating these presumptions of dangerousness and guilt, it’s exhausting.”
I also need America to remember that while Tyla successfully broke in America, America did not break her. She’s a South African artist. WE are over HERE dancing to Amapiano and Afropop music.