I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
The fact that the head of the Ku Klux Klan can casually do an interview without being arraigned by the FBI for Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism is truly a slap in the face to all people of color in America
Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
Life fucking loves you. Things work out for you. Doors open for you. Money comes to you. Love finds you. People remember you. Opportunities want you. You keep getting lucky in ways that make you laugh because of course it worked out for you again.
Of course it did. It always does. It always has.
For those of us who take Christmas VERY seriously 😂🎄❤️ I compiled a must-see Black sitcom Christmas marathon:
1. Living Single — S1 E15
2. Family Matters — S2 E13
3. The Fresh Prince — S2 E13
4. Martin — S2 E15
5. Sister, Sister — S3 E12
6. Moesha — S4 E9
7. Everybody Hates Chris — S1 E11
8. Family Matters — S4 E12
9. Martin — S5 E10
10. Everybody Hates Chris — S3 E10
What am I missing? 👀🎄
El próximo octubre de 2027 a esta hora exacta, estarás de pie en los lugares en los que solías soñar. Viviendo tu vida más hermosa y rica. Envíate esto a ti mismo.
Folks have insulted:
My Southern drawl.
My loc’d hair.
My clothes.
My shoes.
My intelligence.
I’ve been called a ghetto Black
b!t€h.
Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build.
This is a lot y’all. It is.
The economy is so bad right now. It’s makes me fukn sick. What in the fuk do you mean people are skipping dinner, they are dipping into their 401k for rent and groceries…they are putting themselves in massive credit card debt? Something needs give…immediately. It’s so sad.
I’ve met more survivors than I can count and I’m the only one I know whose perpetrator went to jail. I think it’s because I knew “what to do”. I knew to get a rape kit asap without showering, brushing my teeth, or eating or drinking anything. I knew to put my dress in a paper bag
They’ll demand a 14-year-old carry her rapist’s baby, but call a 25-year-old man “too young” to face consequences. That’s not morality. That’s misogyny with a halo.
We need to also please be very loud and supportive for Kendall who was violently raped by an LSU football player and bravely told her story to the world
”money can’t buy happiness” was supposed to mean “prioritize things that make you actually happy over greed and material wealth” and not “stop fantasizing about being able to pay your medical bills”