Michael Jackson had 3,000 dancers auditioning…and he picked HER.
This Sri Lankan Odissi queen brought 2000-year-old temple fire to the “Black or White” video and absolutely cooked MJ on the highway 😤
Nobody talks about this part… but it’s lowkey one of the coldest cultural moments in music history.
Look at her explaining how thrilling it felt . ❤️
And that's the issue. NonBlack Luhteenos will gladly ride the coattails of imagined advancements Black folks make but will never explicitly be in solidarity or co-conspirators WITH Black folks bc it means giving up their access/proximity/loyalty to whiteness. Nothing has changed.
“Let the Negro fight his own battles. His problems are not mine. I don’t want to ally with him.”
- Felix Tijerina, in response to League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) working w/the NAACP to prevent certain bills from passing that wld circumvent Brown vs. Board of Ed
@WorldsWebWide@elliotknox121j@WUTangKids Nohe isn't a puff and wasn't charged with it. He paid ppl to fck his girlfriend and he beats up people. He was a mean nasty guy but a pdf was not found.
@Jacegood6@nasescobar316@Sweets_Amber Right there are a lot of FBA that are republicans and conservatives. They're independent thinkers but keep quiet.
@themainman112@nasescobar316@Sweets_Amber It's not stupid. Tether is the correct word this mofo just used it on the wrong person. He's trying to imply something else about Black Americans who are sometimes Republicans or very independent thinkers or very conservative.
@bigshid215@DaBeej7928@nasescobar316@Sweets_Amber Can you trace your lineage 12 to 16 generations in N. America? If you can trace your ancestors in the 18th, 17th, 16th century in usa. If you trace your ancestors before USA was formed you're FBA. If your genealogy paperwork of ancestors say colored, negro, or a tribe your FBA.
@FodderTier@TZARvor@tariqnasheed BLACK=RACE; American = Nationality: USA is one of few countries that uses race as an indicator in how to group people. It has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH AFRICA.
Black American
White American
Asian American
@FluxRembrandt@thehoffather FACTS!!! It takes a village to run up that kind of money and to have it go on for 20 yrs unnoticed. Not only land and houses. I WOULD bet there's fraud citizenship that was being purchased. They need to look into that as well.
@PDTuni@amandalouise416@elonmusk This is a lie. America tech industry was great before H1B visas. Most H1B visas yield the lowest IT jobs and America's cutting edge in Technology usually came from Americans, multi generational born Americans who created all this stuff used. H1Bs is status quo not cutting edge.
@elonmusk You often talk about how great it is to have so many 'smart' immigrants. Really? Here's reality:
1. Due to admissions policies at top technical schools, American students compete with the WORLD'S students for a slot at MIT etc. No other society does this to their kids. Why is this okay?
2. 300k Chinese in the nation now on student visas. Many more in our research universities. By the implication of your statements, you seem to believe this is fine. Amirite?
3. Many foreign students cheat to get here and cheat routinely in our top universities. It's an epidemic among Chinese students and American professors are told to ignore it.
4. 50% of native born Americans have STEM degrees but don't work in stem. This the consequence of careless immigration like 'pin a diploma on every grad' nah. The U.S. became the leader in tech without importing 'talent', Elon - I worked in biz since '83 and watched all this happen with my own eyes.
I'll close w a story. About 20 years go AIG was 'offshoring' it's IT team and fired all the American based workers. They had to train their replacements in order to get their severance - this is inhumane in the extreme and needs to stop. The replacement workers sucked - as they often do, fyi. So they had to go back and rehire a bunch of Americans.
H1B and insane non-regulation of all our visa programs and have allowed native born Americans to be pushed out of tech, we are a minority in tech in our own nation. This isn't normal or necessary or good for our nation.