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[Praise @tufpraise]

If a monkey or a penguin had done this, the internet would be overflowing with feelings of pity...

[NyamakoroSilla @toubuya]

May her soul rest in peace.
#SaloneX #SierraLeone

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Israel didn’t want you to see this picture. They told countries air dropping aid to not take footage. This is Gaza now. “Precision bombing”, “targeted strikes”. For years Palestinians told you they were being hunted down in an ethnic cleansing campaign. Now do you see it?

[ali @patchfacee]

You always see the elderly shed tears for their children. But to see an elderly person cry like a child for bread out of hunger... This is too much to bear

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The courage of this young woman bigger than sum of Arab world

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

I don’t know if our efforts will do anything.

But I do know that doing nothing isn’t an option.

I ask myself every day what more we could possibly do.

Keep praying for guidance, and keep going.

Don’t stop until the bombs stop.

Don’t rest until our people rest.

[القرآن @Quranconnect_]

I can never delete this from my phone. Reassuring ❤️.

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

Don't Mess Up Your Laylatul Qadr 🌙

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun!
May Allah SWT forgive and have mercy on him

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Allah Grants Victory Despite The ‘Odds’

Join Dr. Omar Suleiman as he reflect on Juz 4 of the Qur'an, focusing on God consciousness and Allah's ultimate mercy.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/6QIxbpnMTc

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

“DEI hire” will never work on me. We can go degree for degree. Resume for resume. Skillset for skillset. Insight for insight.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The problem with UK diaspora Nigerians in particular is that you don't know the history of Black UK immigration, so you don't know your place in that system.

You've never heard of Enoch Powell, or the Windrush era, or "No dogs, Blacks or Irish," or why the UK ever admitted Black migrants in the first place. You think your 2019 "japa" is something that just happened devoid of historical or geopolitical context, based on your personal effort and hard work.

You think your UK skilled worker/care visa makes you a hardworking, educated, taxpaying, contributing member of British society, and you get offended when that recognition is consistently denied to you. Because you don't understand your role in British society and why they gave you that visa.

The first Black UK immigrants in the modern era (the so-called Windrush generation from the Caribbean) were enticed to move to the UK between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, with promises of higher wages than they could get for their skills at home. The immigration pathway was even easier for them than for you, because they were classed as citizens of the British empire, and they did not need visas to move to England.

Due to a shortage of men after WW2, Britain needed labour to rebuild its destroyed infrastructure and revitalise its economy and tax receipts. Hundreds of thousands of men from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St Lucia, etc brought their skills, energy and families to contribute to the UK, like you lot are doing today. The post-WW2 London Underground and the wider Transport For London network were built and staffed almost entirely by Jamaican men. At a point, TFL opened recruitment offices in the Caribbean to recruit migrants directly from there - such was its dependence on West Indian migrants to keep London's economy functioning (sound familiar?)

There is nothing great about the UK's infrastructure today that our Caribbean cousins did not significantly contribute toward. They literally rebuilt the UK's capital and significantly contributed to the growth of other cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford. And after all these undeniable contributions, how did the story end?

In 2015, the UK Home Office started hunting down the surviving members of this generation, claiming that they had no legal right to be in the UK, and they should leave within 30 days or be deported to countries some of them had left before they gained independence. In the 30 years before 2015, the children and grandchildren of these Black migrants who built the UK had been economically and socially converted into an underclass that was overrepresented in crime statistics and invisible practically everywhere else except sports and entertainment.

If you knew all this, you'd have realised by now that your "Skilled Worker Visa" or "Care Worker Visa" is just Windrush Part II, and those "Jamo" people some of you look down on and warn your children against associating with, are exactly what the UK is going to turn your children and grandchildren into, if it isn't merciful enough to deport you and them first. They once used West Indian labour to carry out essential functions that they couldn't themselves, until their population recovered and they didn't need those blackies anymore. They're simply doing the same thing again, with a bit of extra English to massage your ego and make you feel important.

Ultimately your story in the UK will play out the same way as that of our cousins from across the Atlantic - economically and socially restricted to ghettos in a few cities where your children have only 2 real possibilities open to them: somehow make it as a professional footballer, or drop out of school and become a drug dealer in Hounslow with a Drill mixtape on Soundcloud. You and your kids will then be invoked by politicians as a "social burden on the British state" and become the face of the immigration Bogeyman they trot out to white voters every election.

History is very important.

[B. Sade 🎀 @brittanisade]

Shoutout to the women who are doing things differently because they know that in order to grow, change is necessary. To the women handling business and prioritizing their peace & well-being. The women who are only entertaining what’s in alignment. I hope you have an amazing day.

[pretty face 🇯🇲 @sofcknpretty_]

Nggas Be Named Amadou and Don’t Do Shit 😒

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Using poor communities as guinea pigs is an extension of practices dating back to the colonial era, when local populations were viewed as less valuable. This legacy continues in the actions of multinational pharmaceutical companies today.

[F A T I M A @timaxo1]

@aishaluxeee proud sis🥺💕

[qalam writes @qalam_writes]

Advice from our beloved Uncle Khaled (رحمه الله)

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

May god have mercy on your soul uncle Khaled….

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

May Allah have mercy on you Khaled Nabhan. When the Pharoah murdered his wife, she smiled as she looked up at her palace in paradise. The stone that crushed her body was incapable of crushing her soul.

This is why the people of Gaza persevere. Because they know that Paradise awaits them after the misery inflicted upon them on earth.

They believe in the promise of their Lord. Do you?