Imani Anansa @afro_rriquena Twitter profile

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

6 months

I was baseball Barbie!!!!

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havent seen one person dress up as barbie or ken and that is actually very surprising

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

Why the oppressed gotta educate the oppressor?

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6 years

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The Cheetah Girls was a book series with Black girls from across the diaspora living in NYC dealing with real life problems written by a BLACK WOMAN. Disney switched shit up

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6 years

The Cheetah Girls was so ahead of it’s time. A movie w 4 girls who were diff races w diff body types. They talked abt foster care and having money troubles. Real world issues. They struggled but they frkin worked hard and made their dreams come true. WE STAN THE CHEETAH GIRLS

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Imani Anansa

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Being Latino doesn’t make you a person of color Being Latino doesn’t make you a person of color Being Latino doesn’t make you a person of color Being Latino doesn’t make you a person of color Being Latino doesn’t make you a person of color

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People think this is cuz she “respects her marriage” but I’m willing to bet it’s cuz men are weird and inappropriate

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@mymixtapez

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Fans notice that Lebron's wife Savannah James only takes pictures with females and never with men

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4 months

This is enough for me to break up with someone

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4 months

some women willingly marry man toddlers omg 😭😭

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6 months

That pro-Israel protest in DC finna look like a KKK rally

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@afro_rriquena

5 years

@NYCTSubway @HometownVenus We don’t work for y’all. Y’all got enough money to put cops in stations, you can have them check the machines. Checking machines and reporting on what station doesn’t work sounds like a unionized job that y’all just gave away

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4 years

Noname has dead recommended a plethora of books to read and had a day dedicated to people getting library cards so they could get books FOR FREE. Those bars can’t possibly be about her

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@afro_rriquena

6 years

Aqua was supposed to have a twin in the movies and Dorinda was supposed to be Black 😩😩😩

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@afro_rriquena

2 months

I can’t get over that white dress

𝕄𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕚𝔹𝕝𝕜𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔✨

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2 months

They were sisters

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

Remember when Mexico miraculously found over 1 million Black people in their country?

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@somaliadev

8 years

Afro-Mexicans.

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3 years

@TheRealDaytime Y’all are annoying af. There’s so much mistreatment of people who are incarcerated and y’all could’ve talked about that.

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Imani Anansa

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Tik tok is not to blame. White people been stealing Black language since the late 1800s (as far as I know) and like every decade there’s newspaper articles complaining about white youth adopting Black terms. This didn’t start with Gen Z, we’re just alive to see this

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3 years

@EydensGarden Appealing to your oppressor gets you nothing

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@afro_rriquena

4 years

It is not my fault that your white or white-passing family didn’t teach you about race and ethnicity growing up. But maybe it means something that you weren’t raised to think critically about your identity in society

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

2 years

@DragonflyJonez @iamthedubbaby That’s your friend though so them comments aren’t meant to ostracize him, they’re meant to be funny. Dude in the video is talking about people he is not friends with so it’s not jokes

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Imani Anansa

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6 years

...Latina is not a race. If you read the books and look at the covers, you would know that Chanel is a Black Latina thus making her a part of the African diaspora 🙄🙄🙄

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

@Mariah__Cara @nomiseline It’s people under this tweet really acting like they don’t know what she’s talking about

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

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It’s not lost on me that Amanda Seales has consistently used her platform to provid political education and commentary and I’m not sure the people who’ve criticized her have done the same

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@afro_rriquena

1 year

@ynreekk Y’all so antiblack

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@afro_rriquena

4 years

@hmmclaro Yes and l would argue that white Latinos experience xenophobia in the US, whereas Latinos who are POC experience race-based discrimination

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

@Snow_Blacck I’m seeing a lot of sex trafficker comments and I just wanna say that sex traffickers take kids because they are sex traffickers, not because they wear a certain type of clothing

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

@Lianitis It looks like the sun is in her face

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 years

@hoodopulence People saying this is two diff situations are annoying. Did they not both make arguments for their worth and the treatment that they were/are subjected to? Ok then

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@afro_rriquena

6 months

@bebekittyy Whewww baybeeee this is white violence

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

6 years

@THEKarynDyer I was most mad at Dorinda being white. Like Disney just had to put a white girl in that movie

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

6 years

@pants_so_short Omg l’ve had dudes say they wanna y’all about social issues but they lack not only an analysis of social issues, but critical analyzing skills. I’ve had dudes wanna talk about sports but they’ve never played an organized sport and only watch the NBA

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 years

It’s very possible to be oppressed and oppress others

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

11 months

People on the internet are so annoying. NYC literally smells like smoke as if the fire was in the Bronx. The air is orange. We are 500 miles from Quebec. This has never happened in our lifetimes. It makes perfect sense that someone can’t wrap their head around this

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@DJZeeti

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I can’t wrap my head around it being smoke in New York from a fire in Canada

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6 years

@THEKarynDyer And then they make her the poor foster kid so we can have the most sympathy for the white girl and hate Raven’s character

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 years

@t1ttss My father is the one who raised me to think it’s despicable to listen to what a man has to say

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6 years

@AMarieH9 Not sure what grade you teach but this book is one of the greatest children’s books I’ve ever read

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

2 years

@PhallonXOXO This is more of a disability rights issue. Before she had congestive heart failure she could have had a decent paying job. But now that she receives disability, she can’t have more than $2k in the bank cuz the gov will stop the payments and she still won’t be able to work

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 months

We’re living in an apocalypse. I fear we’re gonna see all types of diff communal living really take off in the next decade

exodia .

@rarestofall_

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telling me you’re moving back in with your parents as a 30 year old man is idk …

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@afro_rriquena

3 years

@thatdamnMJ @muvaLK @KindNarcissist_ @ametitties @NoKidsHive Lol looks like she embodied her meme

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

10 months

Performing r&b in the rain, balance is being restored

ItsCoreyBWorld

@ACoreyBphoto

10 months

Coco Jones performed in the rain at Broccoli Fest the crowd went crazy 🔥 Shot for @HipHopDX

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

@thehill "If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too." That is so disrespectful. These voting lines are ridiculous and people can’t stand in line for hours for various reasons

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

1 year

Lightskin people had whole social organizations dedicated to only obtaining jobs, college degrees, and other opportunities for light skin people. I’d be willing to bet they had their own neighborhoods

Two-piece Advocate

@frazierapproves

1 year

Niggas didn’t go to the well-funded lightskined schools. They didn’t live in the Lightskin neighborhoods that weren’t subject to redlining.

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Imani Anansa

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6 years

Non-Black Latinas think they have rhythm and can dance because they’re Latina but they indeed cannot and y’all be gassin them because they latina

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@afro_rriquena

3 years

@ProfessorCrunk There’s nothing wrong with this. The problem is the original tweet did not say that. It was about formal email etiquette

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3 years

@NiecyNash I thought this was an anti-mask meme until someone explained to me that to them it meant that the same white people who would have supported "whites only" spaces are now complaining because they are being left out

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Imani Anansa

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1 month

It’s no skips on this Glorilla

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

22 days

🗣️🗣️poppin plan b cuz I don’t planned to be stuck with him

Stallion Stats

@MegansStats

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Megan Thee Stallion accepting the Catalyst of Change Award at the 2024 Planned Parenthood Gala.

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While Spanish is a colonizer language & oppresses speakers of indigenous languages, we’re still living under the global hegemony of English. Native English speakers know they don’t require proficiency in an additional language cuz their needs will always be met wherever they are.

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Imani Anansa

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3 years

@HoodHealer What is there to not believe in?

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Imani Anansa

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5 years

@_asslett And the chola aesthetic comes from...

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4 years

@nudycat @phong_131 Nope, send it back.

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2 months

@Van_Coop @girlthatsTELL She looks fine. This not really a “gotcha”

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6 years

@_prettaayyy Girl do you work for Disney? Can you go be bitter some place else. We’re tryna reminisce over here

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2 years

@PhallonXOXO Many people who receive disability still have to rely on others to meet their own needs so I can’t imagine how hard it is with kids. It’s true that this isn’t fair to her daughter and it’s also true that at any point in our lives we can become disabled and be in that situation

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

1 year

Call them dreads. It doesn’t mean dreadful. Idk where y’all got that from

Anita • LA Licensed Tight Curl Stylist

@monarchcurl

1 year

What natural hair opinion will have you like this?

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Imani Anansa

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6 months

@RoyceWhitaker @keatingssixth Yea I get the sense that many white people do at least want a ceasefire but of the pro-Israel rallies that have happened so far, the crowds are all white and the only time I see all white people protesting is for white supremacy

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Imani Anansa

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3 years

@Brownsungod You could play this at the Puerto Rican day parade today and it’s still gonna go up

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Imani Anansa

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3 years

@215GtownKid @owenhabel2 No, this is a skit. People be doing this just to start shit. You can tell it’s fake cuz like who even is filming from this angle

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4 years

@stevozone4_ Imagine “being grown” and refusing to read so you know what you’re talking about

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1 year

@keatingssixth Because your curl pattern doesn’t provide any information on how to care for hair. And most of us have multiple curl patterns on our head

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 years

@samdascam Why he using this pot though?!?

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@afro_rriquena

3 years

It’s wild the type of grace y’all will give Black men at the expense of Black women

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3 years

Abused in his youth… an addict as a adult… Ike Turner served 18 months in prison.. Rick James did similar time. Ike came out a changed positive human being. How long should R Kelly spend in prison -and does a USA system give a man a chance for a man to change his world around?

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@OelScott @Splashystackss

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@dlvinagracia Yea

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4 years

@pearlfectten It’s now acceptable for women to have a job, open a bank account on their own, keep their own paycheck. Women also have more of a choice in who they marry and it’s acceptable to divorce from violent situations. Ask your grandma if she ever got beat

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Idk why parents lie to kids about stuff like this cus kids find out the truth anyway and then they look at you sideways

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3 years

@Fine_and_Faded @simply__mj “The desserts and drinks would help me see it better” 😭😭😭😭

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2 years

@simsimmaaz @ChasingDestinee My friends don’t deserve this so I’ll spare them. Just throwing a blazer on anything bodycon

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 years

@NateHipHopHead Y’all continuing to show that the show went over y’all heads

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

6 years

I’m learning that we tend to have narrow views of Blackness. People are saying how it’s more diverse when it’s not just Black girls. But you can be Black from diff places and the girls in the book were Black and from diff places and had diff cultures. Blackness is not a monolith

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@afro_rriquena

5 years

@dyanathesaint What’s the difference

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

4 years

Yes, very much so. Hispanic is not and has never been a race, it’s an ethnicity. Spaniards are Hispanic. Spaniards are from Europe. If you’re white from a Latin American country, you are a white hispanic

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@afro_rriquena

4 years

@GoodGuyChilly Did 2 Chainz get this same question?

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6 years

@_prettaayyy @lookatchuuuu 🙄they were Black enough. You can be Hispanic and Black and in fact, Chanel was always described as wearing braids.

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Imani Anansa

@afro_rriquena

3 months

I remember when I found out that my grandmother ain’t have no teeth cuz my grandfather knocked em out. I was like 19

The Road Jess Travelled

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3 months

This is why so many men are aggressively attempting to silence women now. They want their kids and grandkids to believe they were good men and their wives were treated well.

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6 months

Idk how what Hamas did is considered a terrorist attack but nothing Israel has done for decades is considered terrorism. White people are delusional

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@afro_rriquena

4 years

Can’t trust no man as far as l can throw him when he flirting with me when my hair straight

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@afro_rriquena

2 years

@winst0nnnn @_tuckerfooley @BigHomieKODAQ I’m not asking you to retract your statement. I’m just adding context as a college advisor who works with Black students in a state where there’s no HBCUs. These are the barriers families face for various HBCUs

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6 years

An all-Black cast is diverse. Black people are not the same person

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3 years

@Fly_Jitt It’s a lot of weird energy under this post. A 20-yr age gap, fine. But dating someone in their early 20s when you’re 20 years their senior is weird

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@afro_rriquena

2 years

@k_salleh @alexissTyler Then buy from the weekly drops

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@afro_rriquena

3 years

@ovaloceans This is a reminder that cishet men would never be able to live under the constant scrutiny of patriarchy

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2 years

If you cannot afford to pay your employees a liveable wage then you cannot afford to have employees How you got the people making your company run suffering the most

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3 years

@NuanceBro How did you forget to mention the 2 people at the end that said the Black person was called the n word?

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@afro_rriquena

6 years

@AMarieH9 I understand. It’s not too late to start reading though!!!!

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4 years

@adriawalkr For what it’s worth, as someone from upstate NY I just wanna add that people assume that explicit racism is more prevalent in the south than in the north, but people from upstate NY know that upstate NY in particular is has klan counties. And so I think the speaker was saying

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3 years

Scholarships be requiring too much from students. Like just give them the money

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@afro_rriquena

3 years

By their logic they should be able to live off of this

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@_SJPeace_

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I think we should cut Congress pay to $7.25 an hour. Retweet if you agree

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@DaraGeez I'm reading global news about healthcare for all, rent freezes, multiple stimulus checks, rapid covid19 tests, and grocery delivery....

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7 years

The Black girl in @FifthHarmony need to go solo. She too poppin right now #TIDALXBrooklyn

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6 months

I find this so interesting cuz right now Anne Frank has more in common with Palestinian kids then Israeli kids

New York Post

@nypost

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Italian mural depicting teary-eyed Anne Frank holding Israeli flag painted over, vandalized with the words ‘Gaza Free’

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@StudPabloJuan @AustinFromFlint No it’s really fine. He can sing and still not be invited to the cookout

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@TheJazzyBelle @TheJ_Miles This a whole fact and his mom is beautiful

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The only one pictured wearing pearls. Everything about Whitley was straight bougie. Regine was more like ghetto fab, Hillary was a spoiled space cadet, and Tony had high expectations

black girl problems

@blakgirlprobs

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who was the bougiest of them all?

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@hiimbobbi When I see Bey, my inner voice says “bae” but my outer voice says “bee”. It’s such a moment of tension in my body

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@BApplebelly @WarriorJohnson

‎The Black Language Podcast: Defund the Grammar Police, The Revolution Will be Multilingual on...

‎Show The Black Language Podcast, Ep Defund the Grammar Police, The Revolution Will be Multilingual - Jul 9, 2020

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If you gotta tell us the girl is Hawaiian and Filipino cuz it’s not obvious then she not appropriate for the role. Her mom must be white cuz they info was omitted. Sounds like white washing

@FangirlJeanne.bsky.social

@fangirlJeanne

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Her father is Native Hawai’ian and Filipino. This is an issue of colorism, not whitewashing or race swapping. If you’re not Pasifika be mindful and respectful of how you speak about about us, our identity, an representation of us in media.

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I’m starting to think shrinkage is just a made up concept under white supremacy to help us explain the length of our hair in relation to white beauty standards

Anita • LA Licensed Tight Curl Stylist

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Is it “shrinkage” or is it the behavior of a hair that is curly?

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@mykefreeman We been pro choice since slavery

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@ambitiousleena Plants and rocks? lmao ok

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4 years

@tvnkth @CameraGuyPablo

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@PhallonXOXO And no you shouldn’t only care about disability rights because of the chance that you may become disabled because there are disabled people right now who are seen as disposable by society and the government

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@_WordSmiff_ This not it

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