Wow. They were able to track down the slaves who built the White House. Y’all can never make me hate what our Ancestors Built.
Happy 4th, Black America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@CulturedUpdatez Ocho is saying that B.Marsh is making false equivalencies by comparing him with players whose careers didn’t end like his. McDonalds or not, Ocho has never not been in peak conditioning, he was remarkably durable with the Bengals, & missed maybe a handful of games the whole time.
@SloHoopsFan He’s just vibing to some music, relaxing& enjoying himself, behaviors associated with Humans of all ages.He works very hard to stay in peak condition, & not only are you criticizing normal behaviors, you’re comparing him to a 63 year old. Your post makes no sense.
@closetwhisperer Shamea,Kelli,& Pinky(clout chaser gang), faked beefs to deflect from their own alliance&villainize their Op’s.Using K&her insecurities to accuse the OG’s of an alliance.They stoke K’s irrational despair, 🐷back on it,&pretend to be victims of their own plot all to secure their 🍑
@errandkayblaque If Kenya has to ask you to join, you’re emotional capacity gotta be sorely lacking.Cuz with Kandi (queen of fake tears), everybody acknowledges her pain & tears/shows empathy/support, even her Opps. It’s rare to see NeNe break down, but you ain’t gotta be friends to show empathy.
@freakin_snow Every time he announces a new album/tour somebody always chooses that time, to file a suit, or drag his name. I’m not dismissing any claims, just pointing out a pattern. I understand both sides, but this is excessive.Just cuz someone’s is a celebrity doesn’t make exploitation ok.
@James_O_Hara@Suzierizzo1 Your whole page seems to be dedicated to race baiting. When you deliberately weaponize the term, “race baiting” by projecting your behavior onto the OP calling out a negative behavior. You’re just exploiting racial tensions to justify your racist narrative.
@DawnsMission She’s Asian, possibly Thai, if her pants are any indication. Wearing a 😷in public is a well known cultural& practical norm, especially in Asian countries. Wearing masks also predates the pandemic, so it’s highly narrow minded to think CoVid would be the sole reason for masks.
July 3, 2022. Moss Point, Mississippi. A car carrying 3 teenage girls drives down the I-10 boat launch and plunges straight into the Pascagoula River.
The driver later tells police she was following her GPS. She had no idea it was leading her off the edge and into the water. By the time she realizes what's happening, the car is already floating. Then sinking.
The vehicle drifts 20 feet from shore. Then more. The girls climb onto the roof of the car as it goes under. The water is black. It is the middle of the night. And the Pascagoula River is known for one other thing most people don't think about until it's too late.
Alligators.
Corion Evans, age 16, a student at Pascagoula High School, is nearby when it happens. He hears the girls screaming for help.
He doesn't hesitate for a single second.
He throws down his phone. Pulls off his shoes. Strips off his shirt. And jumps in.
He later says: I was just like, I can't let none of these folks die. They need to get out the water. So I just started getting them. I wasn't even thinking about nothing else.
The car is nearly submerged. The girls are panicking. The water is deep and dark and moving. Corion swims out — 25 yards from shore — and reaches them.
His friend Karon Bradley, known as KJ, jumps in right behind him. Together they help get the girls onto the surface of the sinking car.
But here is what most people miss: Corion doesn't just help them float. He swims them back. 1 at a time. Into shore. Through the dark water. With legs that are burning and lungs that are working as hard as they ever have.
2 girls make it to shore. The 3rd can't swim. She is still on the roof when a responding officer arrives.
Moss Point Police Officer Gary Mercer swims out to help. He reaches the remaining girl and begins pulling her toward shore. Then the girl panics. She grabs him. She pulls him under. Officer Mercer begins to drown.
Corion turns around.
He sees the officer going under. He hears him calling for help. He is already exhausted. His legs are already spent. He has already pulled 2 people through 25 yards of alligator-infested river in the dead of night.
He swims back out.
He grabs Officer Mercer. He says later: I went and I grabbed the police officer and I'm like swimming him back until I feel myself I can walk.
All 4 people make it to shore alive.
Officer Mercer and all 3 girls are taken to the hospital. All of them recover. Chief Brandon Ashley of the Moss Point Police Department later says publicly: If Mr. Evans had not assisted, it could have possibly turned out tragically instead of all occupants rescued safely.
Moss Point Mayor Billy Knight presents Corion with a certificate of commendation from the city. He says: We are proud of the young man for having the courage to forget about himself and jump into the water. It's not often enough that you see people put others above themselves.
The recognition doesn't stop there. The Mississippi Senate formally commends Corion Evans by name in Senate Resolution 32 of the 2023 legislative session — a rare honor for a teenager from a small town.
His mother, Marquita Evans, speaks to reporters afterward. She says: I was really proud of Corion because he wasn't just thinking about himself. He was trying to really get all those people out the water. I'm glad nothing happened to him while he was trying to save other people's lives.
Corion tells reporters he has been swimming since he was 3 years old.
He is asked if he was scared. He says: Anything could've been in that water. But I wasn't thinking about it.
That is the part that stays with you. He knew the risks. The darkness. The distance. The wildlife beneath the surface. The weight of another person pulling you under. He knew all of it and he swam out anyway. Not once. Not twice. Three times.
4 people are alive today because a 16-year-old boy decided, without hesitating for even a moment, that strangers were worth saving.
@elonmusk The devil is always busy, & his followers don’t even know they’re being consumed by him. This post & the commenters that are eating up your propaganda, exemplify that exactly. Why be worried about accusations when you already consistently expose yourselves?
These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South.
he original courageous Freedom Riders movement began in 1961.
The first group, organized by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), had 13 original Freedom Riders:
• 7 Black riders
• 6 white riders
They left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961, riding interstate buses into the Deep South to challenge segregation in bus terminals after Supreme Court rulings had already declared it unconstitutional.
After brutal mob attacks in Alabama, including the firebombing of a bus in Anniston and savage beatings in Birmingham and Montgomery, more activists joined. The movement quickly expanded beyond the original 13.
By the end of 1961, more than 400 Freedom Riders had participated across the South. Many were arrested and sent to Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Prison.
Hezekiah Watkins
At just 13 years old, Watkins became the youngest Freedom Rider ever arrested. His involvement happened almost by accident when he went to the Jackson, Mississippi, Greyhound station to see the riders arrive. In the chaos, he was swept up by police and sent to the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary. Initially placed on death row to intimidate him, he spent several days in the prison before being released. This traumatic experience did not deter him; he went on to become a lifelong activist, dedicated to educating others about the struggle for justice in Mississippi.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
A rare figure in the movement, Mulholland was a white woman from a privileged Southern background who turned her back on social expectations to fight for racial equality. By the time she joined the Freedom Rides, she was already a seasoned activist involved in sit-ins. In 1961, she was imprisoned in Parchman for over two months. She later became the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College, a historically Black institution, and was a primary organizer for the 1963 March on Washington. She famously survived a near-lynching during the Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in.
Ameen Tuunagane (Willie James)
Known during the movement as Willie James, Tuunagane was a relentless civil rights organizer and Freedom Rider. He was part of the waves of activists who traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge Jim Crow laws. His work extended far beyond the buses; he was deeply involved in voter registration drives and community organizing, often operating in high-risk areas where the threat of police and vigilante violence was constant. His commitment focused on the intersection of political power and basic human dignity.
Carol Ruth Silver
A recent law school graduate at the time, Silver joined the Freedom Rides to put her legal principles into practice. She was arrested in Jackson and, like many others, served time in Parchman Penitentiary. During her incarceration, she kept a secret diary on scraps of paper, documenting the harrowing conditions and the psychological tactics used by guards. Her later career was defined by this experience; she became a prominent lawyer and politician in San Francisco, continuing her advocacy for civil rights and educational reform for decades.
Kredelle Pettway
Pettway was a dedicated activist who participated in the movement during the height of the 1960s racial tensions. As a young woman, she joined the ranks of those demanding the desegregation of public facilities in Alabama and Mississippi. Her contribution highlights the essential role of local youth and women in maintaining the momentum of the movement. She faced the constant threat of the Ku Klux Klan and state-sanctioned violence, standing firm in the belief that the "separate but equal" doctrine was a moral and legal failure.
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard walked alone into a dive bar in Laramie.
The openly gay University of Wyoming freshman had just met up with friends to plan LGBT awareness week on the town's campus.
But he couldn't persuade them to join him for a beer afterwards.
At the Fireside Lounge, the 21-year-old somehow ended up chatting to two roofing workers, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, both the same age as him.
The pair saw an easy mark in the 5ft 2in, slightly built student.
Russell went into the bathroom at the Fireside bar and they planned to act like they were gay to try to gain Matthew's confidence.
They’d later tell police they planned to lure Shepard into McKinney's pick-up truck so they could rob him.
Once in the vehicle, McKinney pulled a gun, beat Shepard, and seized his wallet, which contained just $20.
They drove about a mile out of town down a dirt path that ended in a rocky prairie of sagebrush and range grass.
Henderson used a clothesline to tie Shepard to a log fence.
McKinney began to ferociously pistol-whip their captive — between 19 and 21 times with the butt of a very large Smith and Wesson revolver.
"The only time I've ever seen those dramatic of injuries were in high-speed traffic crashes, you know, where there was just extremely violent compression fractures to the skull,” a sheriff later said.
McKinney and Henderson stole their victim's patent leather shoes and left him to die.
He would remain tied to the fence for 18 hours in the frigid cold.
The following night, a teenager fell off his mountain bike and noticed nearby what he thought was a fallen scarecrow or Halloween costume.
He realized it was a person.
As well as a crushed brain stem, Shepard suffered four skull fractures from the blows of McKinney's .357 Magnum hand cannon.
His parents rushed to the Colorado hospital from Saudi Arabia, where Dennis Shepard worked as an oil rig inspector.
Their son never regained consciousness. He died five days after the attack.
Today, the buck fence where Shepard was bound and bludgeoned is long gone.
And so too are many people’s memories of this horrific hate crime.
Don’t forget Matthew Shepard 🙏🏽
@audrawrongspeak Banning Bluey is wild. The show is literally 7 minute lessons on building emotional intelligence thru highlighting authentic, daily parental challenges & family dynamics of modern day parenting, & it gives parents a deep feeling of being seen,all thru imaginative play with kids.