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damita jo

2 months

I’m really bothered by our collective inability to see “the other” as human, as needing and deserving care, grace and empathy. It is deeply disturbing AND it will always fuel white supremacy, not our identity’s group’s liberation.

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4 years

In case you needed a visual to explain defunding the police.

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2 years

Now this is a HIPAA violation!

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2 years

This video tells me three things: 1) he’s cheating. 2) he’s insecure. 3) he’s violent.

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🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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6 years

Pretends? Y’all new boys are weird, man.

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2 years

Our niece graduated!!!

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2 years

Having the third wife standing on the first wife’s grave and smiling is brazy!

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3 years

I thought y’all wanted folks to be entrepreneurs and not employees. Make up your minds!

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7 years

Yesterday there was a pic of an officer buying lemonade from a white kid at lemonade stand. Today they arrest black kids for selling water

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7 years

Undercover @usparkpolicepio handcuffing kids on @NationalMallNPS for selling water.

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4 years

At the very beginning of the pandemic, one of my good friends told me to watch what companies with “inside info” do and that’s how you’ll know it’s safe outside.

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2 years

Who raised Keke? Because she’s been a 55 year old black lady her whole life!

Long Live Hariett Tubman

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2 years

Keke is truly a star!!!!

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3 years

Y’all really be arguing with scientists about science.

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4 years

As someone who does digital strategy, I can recognize a digital campaign when I see one. These fools received an “I Love Ellen” toolkit via google drive full of tweets they could copy and paste and here we are...

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4 years

I don’t discard a 40-year friendship on hearsay. The Ellen I know has raised over $125 million dollars for charity and has always been a kind and decent person. I fully support her. Jay Leno

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5 years

One day this will be Blue and Beyoncé.

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3 years

Lauri and JaBria are in kindergarten. They’re big kids now. 😭😭😭

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8 days

I wish I was a fly on the wall in the Knowles Carter household right now. 😭

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4 years

Poor people deserve fun and joy too, guise.

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8 months

And we all sided with Will. 💀

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8 months

Will Smith really slapped the shit out of chris rock on live television and then accepted an Oscar an hour later

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2 years

This baby is having the time of his life and exhibiting amazing athletic ability. He could definitely be a gymnast. Projecting sexuality, emasculation or traits of toxic masculinity onto this baby is a failure of society, not this kid’s mom.

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2 years

Because this is how single mothers raise their sons.

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3 years

The point of a stimulus check is to stimulate the economy. It’s not unemployment. It’s not rent assistance. It’s designed for people to spend money at businesses. So if someone buys sneakers, drip or crab legs...

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2 years

This made me think of the number of times TSA has searched my black girl hair. 🙃🙃🙃

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4 years

You cannot be this irresponsible with the community and call yourself the leader of said community.

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@KiaSpeaks

4 years

White folks are getting rich off legal weed. Our kids are being kicked out of school DESPITE passing drug tests.

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4 years

An Ohio teen was suspended from his school after teachers say he smelled like marijuana. Even though he passed two separate drug tests on the same day, the school has now expelled him because the Northmont High CSI team's noses are better than science:

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3 years

$20 million will fix your credit score; however, an 800 credit score will not give you access to $20 million. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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2 years

Who is an actor turned musician who makes good music? Jamie Foxx is the only one coming to mind.

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6 years

David Hogg has consistently redirected his attention to black people who have suffered the wrongs he’s suffered.

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6 years

David Hogg: Where is Laura Ingraham's apology to LeBron James?

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6 years

In the cabinet beside the sink. Under the sink is for cleaning supplies, garbage bags, and the expired fire extinguishers that I pray works if needed.

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6 years

Y'all put pots and pans under the sink?

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5 years

Parenting isn’t about dominating a little person and making them into who you want them to be. It’s about figuring out who that little person is and helping them become the best that as possible...for them and for the people they will interact with. That shit is hard!

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2 years

Omg! Listening to Beyoncé’s album explains why Drake named his album “Honestly, Nevermind.”

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3 years

So I randomly did the math this weekend and... $15 per hour for a 40 hour work week is $600 per week. It’s $31,200 per year. Y’all really log on here and say that a person shouldn’t make $31,200 a year for work. :(

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2 years

I love culturally competent teaching.

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2 years

I’m thinking of Young Thug’s son who just lost his mom. I hope he’s surrounded by love, care, support and stability right now.

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3 months

Let that Cam Newton video be a lesson: Future ain’t taking down Russell in no physical altercation. 😭

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3 years

My mom was vaccinated in school in the 60s. I was checked for scoliosis in school in the 90s. We’re so distant from true public health outreach that we don’t recognize it. That’s sad.

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3 years

This shit ain't weird to yall? Vaccinating kids inside schools?

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2 years

CW: suicide I can’t remember where I read it…but I recently read that despair was a higher factor in suicide than depression—the idea that nothing will ever change, the exhaustion and desire for rest that comes from that. And that doesn’t always look like sadness.

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@KiaSpeaks

2 years

Who is the evil who?

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2 months

A man tried to open my friend’s car door at the gas station a few weeks ago and we had this exact conversation. That feature is so stupid and I’m certain women were not in the room when it was designed. 😭

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2 months

What's it called when my car automatically unlocks the doors when put in Park & how can I turn that off?

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2 years

Santana and Santana

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5 years

I remember being a teenager and not knowing how to tell boys no. That’s part of rape culture. Not empowering girls with the ability to say no.

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7 years

They arrested Jesus for doing God's work too.

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7 years

A woman allegedly tried to run a Republican congressman off the road over his vote to repeal Obamacare

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5 years

I love black women. Thank you, @cherylwillsny1 .

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4 years

Y’all said the Keri Washington face mask was mean. What about this one?

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7 years

How officers are using social media to gain sympathy after murdering unarmed black folks is a PR case study.

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7 years

Several officers hit w/unknown substance & rocks during demonstrations in #stl city. No serious injuries to report at this time.

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6 months

Keith Lee wants restaurants to service customers equitably, and y’all don’t understand that because yall are clout chasers and not community builders.

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4 years

If only Jay could’ve had y’all fake going to therapy. 😭

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4 years

Beyoncé gone have y’all fake jumping to put y’all jeans on

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10 months

Nancy Reagan!!!!

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10 months

What kind of bird is this? 😳

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7 years

Y’all don’t hate strippers. Y’all hate people who are able to win with something you think is supposed to eternally demean them.

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3 years

“Buy a gun” is a lazy response to give a woman who was threatened or assaulted by a man. Please stop saying it.

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3 years

Anyone who frames vaccination as a personal decision and not an act of community care has already completely missed the mark and does not understand the purpose of vaccines.

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2 years

Men who causal call women bitches are men I don’t share company with. It’s never about one woman and is always a larger indicator of how they feel about women in general.

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2 years

Trouble was not “killed behind a female.” Trouble was murdered by a man who refused to accept a woman’s no.

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2 years

Intraracial convo: y’all weren’t willing to hold Kanye accountable for what he said about the black community.

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2 years

Kanye’s downfall NOT coming from all the disparaging things he’s said about the black community…

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7 years

He killed the video rental industry over a $40 late fee. Be the change you want to see in the world.

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@KiaSpeaks

2 years

I don’t think folks realize how influential Janet is.

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@1814JOSH

2 years

the impact this routine has on the industry > like she’s untouchable

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2 years

“I was ghetto-fabulous and I still am. So ghetto. So fabulous. And people were threatened by that. Now everybody wanna be ghetto-fabulous.” —Mary J. Blige

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2 months

Serious question: when yall don’t like something why don’t you just change your behavior instead of trying to change everyone else’s behavior? “I don’t like period, so I say cycle” was right there. And less characters.

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I hate the word “period” be a lady & say “cycle, menstruation” 🙄

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6 years

We have never seen a male hip hop artist unapologetic stand against his peers and for women like this.

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. @VicMensa addresses backlash for calling out XXXTentacion in @BET Hip Hop Awards freestyle performance: “I vehemently reject the trend in hip hop of championing abusers, and I will not hold my tongue about it."

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2 years

I don’t know if you can conceptualize Michael Jackson’s level of fame if you weren’t there to see. Nothing we’ve seen since is comparable.

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6 years

Reginae is 19 dating a 27-year-old with 4 kids.

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Lil Wayne’s ex Toya warns daughter Reginae not to date rappers

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3 years

Angry at a system that uses weed to punish black folks while rewarding and enriching white folks.

wrong answer FOREHEAD

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3 years

Are y’all disappointed in Sha’Carri or sad for her?

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7 years

I'm really sad that y'all think your value is in your pussy.

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5 years

Ok, I laughed. 💀

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7 years

Reminder: everyone doesn’t want to be free. And some folks will brag about how well they wear the chains.

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5 years

TI ain’t never been this quiet. 💀

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2 years

Listen. Mariah “I don’t know those girls” Carey did an interview for Janet’s doc.

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7 years

Remember when we said people would die because Trump was president?

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Because of Trump, women are dropping their domestic abuse cases in fear of being deported

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2 years

My new favorite take from tonight. A man waiting on a man to tell him how he should feel about my words. 😭😭😭

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2 years

Kanye got me siding with Kim AND DL! He’s my enemy for that alone. 😭😭😭

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3 years

🙃🙃🙃

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3 years

If you watched your friends die at the Travis Scott concert you get one free month of @betterhelp

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4 years

This tweet reminded me about when Kodak Black sexually harassed Young MA for weeks, and men were silent. But he said one thing about Lauren London, and men turned into a virtual army led by the leader of wakanda himself.

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2 years

Missy Elliot don’t do nothing but be kind and gracious and make dope music. Why anyone would disrespect her is…whew, folks are lost.

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4 years

I would much rather have spent the past four years pushing Clinton to be more progressive than exhausting all my energy trying to stop trump from burning it all down with people inside.

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2 years

Molly and Issa got the happy ending that Toni and Joan didn’t get. 😭😭😭

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1 year

I know y’all don’t know white people in real life because the way y’all idolize them is so disconnected from reality.

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The white girlies be married by 24 w a big house I love that for them. Meanwhile my community likes to debate about 50/50 lol

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2 months

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." —James Baldwin

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‘Woke’ people more likely to be unahppy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests

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5 years

I do wish police kept this same energy when white folks made false reports against black folks. 🙃🙃🙃

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2 months

Throwing a white bra is worst than having a white refrigerator

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Offset Discarding That Bra Like Nun Happened Is Talent

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I was SOOOOOOOOOO not prepared for this. 😭😭😭

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6 years

💕💖💕Cardi and Offset created a Bronx fairytale for their baby shower. 💕💖💕

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5 years

This is AWESOME! Public health has been working towards this goal for years, and this picture helps destigmatize living with HIV.

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2 years

Welp!!!

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Being Beyoncé’s husband > being 50

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A lot of Jay Z fans not gon like this, but 50 speaking facts here.

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The Gordy family tree is the most chaotic thing I have ever seen in life.

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2 years

The stuff y’all call black excellence is really just black capitalism, and I want y’all to reflect on that.

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1 year

Y’all hate y’all ancestors. Y’all hate your history. Y’all hate your parents. Y’all hate your blackness. All y’all do is talk about how you wish you had more access to whiteness. My god. It’s so damn sad.

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Black people are the only ones expected to take care of their parents before anything else. When other cultures literally set their kids up for life. A lot of black parents live life as if their kids OWE them something cause they simply did what they were suppose to do as parents

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Katt Williams processing “cancel culture” better than Chapelle.

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6 years

The tea here is she isn't a deadbeat mom. She made her intentions clear from the beginning and doesn't complain about child support. Welcome to Team Single Parent, bruh!

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2 years

Why are y’all embarrassed that your ancestors were enslaved?

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8 months

This explains everything about millennials. Lol

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they let The LOX on Nickelodeon, God Bless the ‘90’s

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2 months

Everybody wants to do sex worker until folks start calling it sex work.

Certified Hoodie Thief 🏁

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Oh….🤭🤭🤭

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3 years

Accountability is a huge part of love. Don’t ask me to love and support without holding you accountable. That’s not how this works.

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5 years

One woman from the neighborhood actually called police the first time she drove by. She thought it was an actual homeless person. That's right. Somebody called the cops on Jesus.

Statue Of A Homeless Jesus Startles A Wealthy Community

The bronze sculpture depicting Jesus huddled under a blanket on a park bench has provoked praise and complaints — and a call to the police — in its new North Carolina neighborhood.

www.npr.org

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Sex is not the worst thing that can happen to your teenage daughter. Not even sex with some raggedy ass boy who won’t respect her. In fact, it’s bound to happen to her at so point based on how y’all raise your raggedy ass boy children.

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Hey guise, before you go to doctor, they give you an HIPAA agreement to sign. Please read it next time. 😭

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@Madonna Thank you so much. I’m so glad he was able to stomp out racism with this deeply moving tribute. Y’all’s hard work and sacrifice to the cause...how can we ever repay you?

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4 years

Her exact words then was, “Don’t go back to work until the CDC sends their employees back to work.” 🙃

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2 years

City Girls is not the reason I know about a birkin. Y’all not gonna disrespect Samantha Jones’s contribution to the culture like this. 😭

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Seeing a lot of folks high fiving her for being a ride or die, but no concern for the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual costs to her. Stop expecting women to endure trauma as a sign of loyalty. Be better!

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4 years

This isn’t Bun B’s first time calling out abuse by men.

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@KiaSpeaks

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Bun B is getting all these spins today!!!

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