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[BlackBird444🇺🇸 @BlkBird444]

This the only birthday song I wanna hear from here on out 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😁😁😁 I Love Being Black 🖤

[Je'lon Alexander, M.A. @JelonAlexander]

Definitely recommend this book which adds context to whuppings/spankings going back to slavery.

[love drops @lovedropx]

It is going to be ALRIGHT.

[Living with Trauma & Dissociation @RhiaCrewe]

💜

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@MostlyWNBA Raven like 😬😑🫡

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

You’re asking the wrong question: How is it that white people do not understand that voting overwhelmingly Republican hasn’t improved their lives in decades? Republican presidents have been responsible for the last 5 recessions. The job creation under Republicans vs Democrats in the last 50 years isn’t even close. Trump has given the 1 percent the wealthiest tax cut in history. Republican-led states such as Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana rank in the bottom in every important metric. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and overwhelmingly supported by white voters.

But you’re coming at Black voters?

[. @Fimiye]

Opening Twitter immediately after waking up to check the state of the world is basically our generation’s version of our grandfathers reading the newspaper every morning.

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

Wow, Listen to Dr. Joy DeGruy speak as breaks down the history of #lynchings in America.

Lynchings in #America occured after slavery because they were a reaction to White Fear of what those who were enslaved would do after they were free. She also says due to white fear the white vigilante group The #KKK was born. In the video she also says… They don’t wear hoods anymore. They wear suits.

#fyp #explore #foryoupage #highlights #history #trending #viral

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@SportsonPrime An educational masterclass on defending elite Bigs like Wilson. Spoon is a gem

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@iamMarshh Affirmative action and diversity and inclusion for men and yt players in the W right now.

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@osmanos51951278 Yep she would foul out EVERY game if they called each time she pushes off before she shoots. Those are offensive fouls and they allow her to get away with it. She’s too slow and can’t create space without pushing.

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@kevinblue345 Owners are using white immigrants to make WNBA and NBA less Black to appeal to white American fans who claimed the leagues were unwatchable until white players came. So who is racist? MAGA crying about immigrants taking jobs BUT it’s okay NOW? Bunch of hypocrites

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[I talk hoops 🏀 @trendyhoopstars]

NEWS: Sunday’s matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and Atlanta Dream averaged 1.24 million viewers, making it the most-watched WNBA Sunday game ever in May. ✨

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

In 2021, A'ja Wilson opened up about her mental health: “Everything started after we lost in the finals and I ventured outside the WNBA bubble for the first time in three months. Inside the Wubble, I’d had basketball to focus on. Trying to get that title, trying to prove the doubters wrong about our team’s potential ... it was just all-consuming. It was like being sealed off in an alternate reality. And what made it so surreal was that there was so much trauma and emotion and energy going on in the outside world over the summer, while we were inside this literal bubble of sunshine and hotel rooms and basketball. I kind of made myself numb to everything that was going on. I guess that was my way to compartmentalize basketball versus the anguish of the news that I was seeing on my phone. It was like I wasn’t fully processing the grief of it all.

I was just … empty.

Then, when I finally got out of that bubble and I was back in the real world, it was like something broke.

The decompression led straight into depression.

I just felt so angry with myself. I felt like I’d let my team down in the finals. There were a lot of days when I couldn’t get myself out of bed. It was like I genuinely couldn't even control my movements. I was outside my body, floating up in my own head.

You didn’t do enough. You let everybody down.
You didn’t do enough. You didn’t do enough. You didn’t do enough.

You know how that cycle goes, right?

That anxiety gets up on you.

But I didn’t tell a soul. I kept everything from my family, even my parents, because I didn’t want them to worry about me. As Black women, how many of us put on that mask every morning? Gotta be perfect! Gotta be smiling! Gotta be strong!

As Black women, it’s like ... weakness?

Weakness?

We don’t got time for that!!!

I witnessed it with my own mother when I was a kid. She could’ve had the hardest day at work, but when she came home at night, it was all smiles. You would never catch her slipping. Never see her sweat.

How many of us fall into that same pattern? I mean, I have this vision for myself that I feel like I have to meet — not as a basketball player, but as a Black woman in America. As A’ja. I feel like I need to handle every situation with grace and poise and positivity. I can’t let them catch me losing my cool, right?” https://t.co/WOcRNLE28P

@_ajawilson22 | @LVAces | @GamecockWBB

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@ycinnewyork Asian people don’t fight for equality for all. Just desperate to be accepted in white society while continuing to feel entitled to the hard fought civil rights Black folks have won for everyone. White people have always exploited this weakness of Asians. It’s a losing position

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@whatshesaid_x This same issue crashed the W after a record setting beginning in 1997. They had sell out crowds BUT white male owners wanted straight white women centered. WW however were not the best players so they divested. They wouldn’t continue investment in BW or gays. Here we go again

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@trendyhoopstars A real superstar. She is efficient. No promo player BS or unearned favor. Just hard work and grit. Let’s goo!

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@IsaacHayes3 Many rich Black men have chosen capitalism over their community. They agreed to “take politics out” of their brands to comfort their white fans. For BM athletes, musicians, and movie stars it’s all about money. They’ve allowed themselves to be neutralize when need them most

[NewAdventuresClub @WeAlwaysWin25]

@YaGirlJiggy Cause the girl is a bench player at best. No one in the W gets to volume shoot for stats like that and play horrible defense and turnover the ball and have a terrible attitude. The fake hype is exhausting.