karaM

Digital creator.Educator,student of Christ.

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

These are some of the thousand black women and girls missing in the US. You will not see their faces on the local or national news. But if a white woman or girl goes missing in let’s say small town Nebraska. It would be on ABC, NBC and CBS for a month. Sad but true

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Speaking fluent English while your grandmother's tongue dies in your mouth is not progress. It is the most successful colonial experiment in human history.

They didn't just take your land. They took the language you used to name it. Every time a child grows up fluent in English but mute in their mother tongue, the colonial project wins—silently, generationally, completely. This is not about rejecting English. It is about understanding what was stolen before you decide what to keep.

There are over 2,000 languages and dialects spoken across Africa. Linguists predict that by 2100 more than half will be extinct—not because Africans forgot them, but because Africans were punished for speaking them.

This was not accidental. Lord Macaulay said it in 1835 in his infamous Minute on Indian Education, but the same blueprint was applied across Africa: create a class of people “Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, opinions, morals and intellect.” Replace the mind. Control the continent forever.

Here is what they never taught you: African languages are not primitive. Yoruba has a tonal complexity that English cannot replicate. Xhosa uses click consonants that modern linguistics still struggles to fully map. These were not simple tongues. They were sophisticated systems of thought.

When you lose a language, you don't just lose words. You lose a way of seeing the world. Concepts, medicines, histories, philosophies—entire civilisations of thought—exist only in those languages. When the language dies, the knowledge dies with it. Permanently.

The most disturbing part: many Africans today voluntarily finish what colonisers started. Parents refuse to teach their children their native tongue. “It limits them,” they say. This is not practicality. It is a trauma response dressed as ambition.

Some will say English opened doors. And they are right. But ask yourself—who built those doors? Who decided which language unlocks opportunity and which one marks you as less than? Accepting that system without questioning it is not intelligence. It is submission.

You were not born ashamed of your language. That shame was installed through beatings, policy and generations of conditioning that told you the coloniser's tongue was civilisation and yours was noise. Thousands of Africans today cannot hold a full conversation in their ancestral language. That is not a coincidence. That is a designed outcome.

Ask yourself: if your language disappeared tomorrow, what exactly would be lost? And who benefits from you never asking that question?

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

John Morton-Finney lived a life that makes the phrase “lifelong learner” feel almost inadequate. Born in Kentucky in 1889 to a formerly enslaved father and a free mother, Morton-Finney went on to become a soldier, educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate. He served with the 24th Infantry Regiment, one of the units known as the Buffalo Soldiers, and later served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. But his military service was only one chapter of an extraordinary life devoted to education and public service.

Morton-Finney earned 11 academic degrees, including multiple degrees in law as well as degrees and advanced study in subjects such as mathematics, French and education. He continued studying long after most people would have considered their education finished, earning his final degree at the age of 75. He was also remarkably gifted with languages and became known for his knowledge of French, Latin, Greek, Spanish and other languages. His commitment to learning was not simply about collecting qualifications. He believed education was something that should continue throughout a person’s life.

His work as an educator was just as significant. Morton-Finney spent 47 years teaching in Indianapolis Public Schools and became part of the original faculty at Crispus Attucks High School when it opened in 1927. The school was established during an era when Indianapolis schools were segregated, and Morton-Finney helped build its foreign-language department into one of the strongest in the state. He also encouraged students to pursue higher education, connected them with historically Black colleges and helped some obtain scholarships.

Then there was his legal career. Morton-Finney was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1935, later gained admission to practice before the U.S. District Court, and at the remarkable age of 83 was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1971, at 82, he even challenged Indianapolis’ mandatory retirement age for teachers after the school system attempted to force him out. He continued practicing law into his 100s and retired at 107. Indiana University describes him as having worked in law for nearly 85 years and as being believed to have been the longest-practicing attorney in the United States.

Morton-Finney died in 1998 at the age of 108, but his legacy reaches far beyond the number of degrees he earned or the extraordinary age at which he stopped practicing law. His life shows how education can become a form of service, especially for someone who used his knowledge to teach young people, open doors for others and challenge institutions that attempted to limit his own opportunities.

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[Albertteac @Albertteac]

With the right training she about to be a beast on the track. 💪🏿

[karaM @waut20011]

Kentucky’s constitution gives Gov. Beshear the power to appoint a Democrat to McConnell’s seat. Republicans rewrote the law twice to stop him. I signed — tell him to use it: https://t.co/Wdc0NrTUYZ

[karaM @waut20011]

Check out this campaign! https://t.co/ZNbcgV8Dr0 via @Chuffed

[Barndominium Life @BarndoLife]

Would you choose this barndominium floor plan?

[WE DID NOT DELINEATE @BurnEr92976227]

1729 Inventory on plantation of George Atcheson.
Slaves listed:

Cyrus - Indian Cooper
Bristow - Negr0 Man
Tiles - Indian man
Johnny - Indian Boy
Mingo - Mustee (1/2 African/Indian)
Daffney - Negro Girl
Titus - Mustee Child
Tom - Negro man, etc.

Where you think they all went?

[FBI Boston @FBIBoston]

As a result of an investigation by #FBI Boston's Child Exploitation - Human Trafficking Task Force, Scott Cunha, of Brookline, MA, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for recruiting & enticing a 15-year-old child to produce & send child pornography to him. Cunha also used Snapchat to victimize multiple children in multiple states by enticing them to take nude images & videos of themselves, often in exchange for money or gifts. https://t.co/bzHwEtC3On

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Education can’t teach you this🥹

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.

After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.

This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

On March 5th, 1945, Lena Baker, a maid, mother of three and former cotton-picker, was the first woman to be executed in the state of Georgia. She was wrongly convicted for killing her white employer, Ernest Knight, after he held her captive for days and threatened to kill her if she went back home to her family. Knight promised to kill Lena Baker with an iron bar. She took his gun in self defense and shot Knight. She immediately reported the incident to the authorities and told them exactly what happened and how she shot him in self defense. She was charged with Capital Murder at trial by an all-white male jury. Baker was the only woman executed by electrocution in Georgia. 60 years later in 2005, Baker was granted an unconditional pardon by the state of Georgia.

Don’t forget Lena Baker!! She’s just like all of the innocent black lives lost today and desired to be forgotten and thrown away.

[karaM @waut20011]

@Matt_Pinner 75%

[Andy @Andy68580664]

@BreakingBrown Hence, my unwavering stance on not relitigating the Presidential re-election by a population that Trump morally represents.
I am only invested in advancing the ADOS organization and our political agenda.

[Andy @Andy68580664]

A President’s singular purpose is to govern, not entertain. You people elected a clown because you possess the moral turpitude of a feral caged circus animal. The fact that only now he is beginning to repulse you is a testament to your lack of anything resembling humanity.

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

Right now on Huntington Avenue.

📹: @belovedbrian

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

ALERT: Joe caught the alligator in the Charles River last night!

[karaM @waut20011]

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[CLAM CHOWDER @clamchowder7]

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[Marina @Marinabiagettii]

MILEI NO PUEDE CAMINAR en la Legislatura de Bolivia...
Pero porque todos quieren foto. También fue recibido con un VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO 😎