They guy who pulled all Nike gear from his store in Colorado Springs because of the Kaepernick ad? He is closing down his store.
“...perhaps there are more [Kaepernick] supporters out there than I realized.”
@BarkyBoogz
A ww (also my city council member) told me that college kids should be able to call black women ugly because it is free speech and just "mean words."
I told her her face was aging like tapioca pudding outside at a summer barbeque since it is just words.
I'm blocked.
With the help of many great people, I wrote a book! It's an illustrated poem/gift book to reassure the mothers in your life that they're actually doing great. Pre-order it now, or wait until April and steal it from a store.
Y’all would have to follow Colorado Twitter to see this but...this is a much different vibe than any other tragedy. I can’t explain it but it feels both angry and resigned. I’m speaking specifically to my Colorado folks when I say: I love y’all, I see y’all.
Mark Curry was at The Mining Exchange in downtown COS and apparently they harassed him in the lobby. Bro was here putting on a show literally a block away. Mind you, the lobby is a bar and they advertise it as such.
Mia Khalifa’s relaunch as a verified fashion girl has been a baptism by fire. Headlines have scrutinised her every move in the past and the comments section of her Instagram can feel like a battleground. “I tell myself I have made it through a lot worse,” she says on dealing with
I’m hollering at Rihanna performing at the Super Bowl as a fucking sidenote to her current life. Told us she’ll stop by our little halftime and then get back to minding her business.
I’m sorry this is so wild to tweet. The people who show up to protests with gas masks and fire off teargas at protesters is now AGHAST that protesters are now wearing gas masks too?
It’s only fun if they are defenseless, huh?
I’m so proud of my son. I told him to never make statements to cops without an attorney. He did that at the school and now everyone is flustered. My 15 year old said “not without my attorney” and I’m about to go buy him a new skateboard or something cause that was BRAVE.
Maybe the reason so many of y’all having an issue with the fact I would save my husband over my children is because.... y’all having kids before you have husbands/wives 🤷🏾♀️ idk just a thought
Hey y’all,
The very first Black-owned outdoor gear shop is in trouble. They’ve been hit hard during the pandemic and are in serious danger of closing their doors for good.
I’m not surprised nor am I going to give anyone my outrage. If you are doing the work, if you are trying to change the world, if you are working towards equity…keep doing that and ignore the noise today. Better yet, go take a nap. Rest. We need you.
Sidenote:
Doing a “who is a real Coloradan” campaign based on fishing licenses is elitist. It isn’t free to fish and it costs more than people think. Not to mention the culture isn’t one of inclusion at ALL.
Blackpackers finally officially announced our REI partnership! The partnership includes funding, gear, exclusive educational classes, and other awesome stuff!
I’m currently on a zoom award ceremony about to accept my award for one of the women of influence in Colorado Springs. Let me tell you, I never saw THIS coming. And if you know my relationship with Colorado Springs, you’d be shocked too.
send me all the good vibes you can. I’m headed towards two big passes and the highest point on the trail. Gonna go slow and pay attention to my body as best I can.
Today I met a Black man who said they hiked the CT in 2021(and now he’s on the PCT) because they were inspired by my journey. This is LITERALLY the work we are trying to do and this means more to me than anything. It was a pleasure to meet Donavon Potts (that’s also his IG)
Just now noticed the Irish lad smiling at me in the background. He was so sweet. He’s the one I told it was my birthday and then surprised me with the song and all the hip hip hurrah nonsense. You can tell he was pleased with himself lol. He was also cute AF, can’t lie.
All these Black men who had to die to allegedly “change the world.” Before we had bodycams and cell phone videos Emmitt Till’s mother held an open casket of her son’s brutalized body. I want my Black men to change the world and die old men.
I never answer my phone but something told me to pick this particular phone call up.
We just got approved for the grant funding for the Blackpackers aquatics program!!
Y’all. My resting heart rate before the Colorado Trail was in the 90s and frequently over 100. Now? It’s 66. Holy crap the trail improved my heart health.
My son has a new song where he is talking about “ghetto lullabies outside his front door” and I did not raise him in MANITOU SPRINGS for him to get on an album and talk about how rough his neighborhood was
My son is 15 today.
My 1 lb 4 oz micro preemie is 15 years old today, on NYE.
Try was born before I made it to the third trimester and here he is, all these years later, an absolute miracle.
It took me three years but Blackpackers will finally be opening our outdoor school next summer and I am so f****ng STOKED right now. This was the goal all along and my team and I spent these last few years building to this point right here.
Bro. If your employees are "housing insecure" I'm not sure I would bring that up in a debate. Being the CEO of Tattered Cover with impoverished employees is not the vibe you think it is.
Your very housed neighbors are drinking and doing a lot of drugs but you are okay with it cause you can’t see it.
Just know it’s not about the drugs or the alcohol *or* the proximity.
You won’t believe this. I came out for an Irish dancing and dinner party and met another American solo traveler…a Black woman…and today is her birthday!!! Meet Mattie!
Deion Sanders mentioned in an interview that he loves grits for breakfast. Soon, grits were appearing on restaurant menus all over Boulder, Colorado.
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People on EBT should eat whatever they want to eat. If it’s processed stuff folks complain and if it’s fresh and healthy they complain too. I remember when I was shopping at the dollar store with my EBT card to make it stretch. That food made me sick.
I didn’t get a chance to share my penultimate trail journal entry because I was 13,300 feet in the air.
I wanted to share the story of how a zero day in Lake City restored me in more ways than one. (And also a little about what I do on those days)
NEW: Maine's Secretary of State, a Democrat, joins Colorado's Supreme Court in deeming Donald Trump ineligible to appear on the ballot due to his involvement in the Jan 6 insurrection. Decision similarly suspended for SCOTUS ruling.
#copolitics
I don’t know why I’m so sad. I’m so so hurt. Of course I’m happy he was convicted but in some way it made me feel more hopeless. All this. All this. George Floyd is still dead and Black people are still being killed and I don’t believe in the system after a single verdict.
@cprwarner
I came out late in life but had been to Club Q several times before because of my friends. When I came out as queer in 2016, I went there first, because I knew I would be accepted without question.
Sooooo...
....this just happened. I’ve never “won” anything in my life and this one is coming from the Colorado Springs community so it hits DIFFERENT.
Every Coloradan and visitor who wants to enjoy the outdoors should do so freely without discrimination, and thanks to Blackpackers, many more individuals who want to explore and enjoy the Colorado wilderness can.
It's the guns and the bigotry. Simple. So I'm not going to talk about it unless the conversation is centered around that. I have never had any interest in anything about mass shootings that isn't around removing our country's devotion to guns.
It’s funny cause you’ll tell Denver people that you are headed back to Colorado Springs and they look like you just said Salt Lake City. “TONIGHT??? Omg drive SAFE”