Love is the reason.
Without it, we have nothing.
Embrace it, live it & become it.
Lead with Love.
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Partus sequitur ventrem
Reparations.
#AmericanNegro
My brother & I took this photo last month when I was in KC. It was the 2nd one we took bc he didn't like the 1st one since it was obvious he was sick. We took this one & he perked up & smiled. He wanted our last photo together to be a happy memory for me.
He passed today โค๏ธ๐๏ธ
One thing we've learned from the discourse surrounding Beyoncรฉ's new cover art (& singles) is, most of y'all have no idea what Black American culture is. You read our history in a book, but lack the understanding of the nuances of who we are.
This is Black American culture.
Africa doesn't need China, China needs Africa. I hope the people in the many nations of Africa realize this soon. I know y'all get online so maybe you need someone to say this. You don't need anyone but yourselves. You need to unite yourselves. You are whole in yourselves.
The fact that Black Americans allowed the Democrats bully them into voting for Joe Biden in mass, even though he has one of the most prolifically anti-Black racist histories out of our currently elected politicians is fascinating .. but don't mind me, I'm just thinking out loud.
How does a bridge collapsing turn into, 'look at the Black mayor of Baltimore'? The city is 61% Black, of course their mayor is too.. & it has nothing to do with dei or anything else. But racists gone racist, any way they can.
@BlkIlluminism
Africa doesn't need China for anything, Africa needs its scholars to come home and build their own. I really wish that could happen.. It would take just one of the nations to do this successfully-- have their intellectuals come home and help build up their infrastructure.
I didn't expect this post to get so much attention ๐ฅน๐ .. I showed my mom & she's deeply touched. It's been uplifting for our whole family & we appreciate the condolences, encouragement & support. Your loving energy has been felt, thank you!๐๐พโจ๐
(My mom, brother & me, 1980)
@Phil_Lewis_
Is this a hate crime or were they trying to protect their land? What rights do America really have over Native Hawaiians? None. This isn't right.
I have muted this post. Any further conversation, you all can have it amongst yourselves. My point is, Black American Culture is more than what most of you all believe it to be. Travel to the South and Midwest and you will find a culture that includes rodeos and cowboys & many...
When a black person in America speaks out against reparations, the first thing you should do is check their background.. would they qualify? If not, why do you suppose they're opposing it?
These are the women who cry about diversity. They only allow Black women in the room when they want to use Black voices and Black plight to further their anti-Black racist agenda. This picture is a perfect depiction for modern-day Anti-Black hate and 'white supremacy' in the US.
I'm about an hour into this interview, and Putin said that Ukrainians look up to Nazis as heroes which is the main reason he had to actโde-Nazification of Ukraine. It's interesting. He gave a whole history lesson of Russia and how it came to be. So is the US supporting neo-Nazis?
Whoa, they don't want us to talk about reparations.. on MLK Day? This is just crazy!! Like, what does he even mean? One of the last speech's MLK gave was about reparations. This is wrong & disrespectful for so many reasons. They're tarnishing MLK's name & legacy.
@ArielleIvy_
That's your opinion, and if you ever make cover art for an album, and decide to represent Black American Rodeo & Cowboy culture, you don't have to use the American flag anywhere on it. But you don't get to tell other Black Americans how they choose to represent themselves.
display the American flag.
While I don't personally display the flag, I'd never think that I'm the person to tell other Black Americans how to show their pride. I hope everyone has a beautiful day & keep the negative, bottom energy somewhere else bc it does not belong here. โค๏ธโค๏ธ
How can a black person not be attracted to black people? Like, how can a black person have a preference for white or anything other than black? What does that mean.. I honestly don't understand, do you not love yourself? ๐๐ฎโ๐จ
Why are American Negroes the only group of people who are not respected for having a distinct ethnicity? How does this even make sense? If I'm not mistaken, when she accepted the position, she was considered Haitian, but now she's American Negro?
You can't make this make sense.
Hopefully one day the American Negro will realize that whiteness is inescapable except through full confrontation. At any moment its hammer can drop. If and when it does, your reputation, your status, perhaps even your life will be assaulted and used as proxy for the rest of us.
@Natural_OneDurr
I'm old enough to remember going to rodeos and seeing Black American Cowboys wave the American flag. It's fascinating how everyone have their own life experience. I don't personally display the American flag, but I have never, nor would I ever, tell another Black American not to.
@ImGrantStewart
@leahfrombklyn
It's rich people laundering money between each other and calling it "rent." The same way they sell each other houses at over-inflated prices. It's all a shame & this bubble will burst eventually.
@Simply_Rick_
It's full of symbolism that apparently, only Black Americans understand. The flag not showing the stars is another. Black Americans have always flown the American flag as a counter to the racism in this country, in spite of people trying to tell Us this isn't Our country.
@carrieberm
@The_Acumen
The fact that you think only white people are curious is cute lol. You just don't set boundaries for yourself in general, like you really believe it's your right to know what other's know.
Another person's thoughts/actions are none of your business. Get some damn self-restraint.
Reading the comments in this post has me wondering, why don't Nigerians want to go home? I'm honestly curious. They talk about having pride in their country but refuse to live there and help it prosper. This is confusing to me.
Y'all know if Trump make it through the primaries, there's no way Biden can't beat him, right? The Dems better get a better strategy because from what I can tell, most of the country is against Biden.
Everything y'all said Trump was and what he would do, Biden is and has done.
At some point "black" immigrants in America should have collectively looked around the rooms in the colleges & universities & asked themselves, where are all of the American Negroes? But you didn't bc somewhere inside of you, you wanted to believe the lie of WS. Think about that.
I'm voting Republican for 2024 presidential election unless the Democrats get serious about reparations & nominate a candidate worth voting for. No one in this current administration is worthy.
The DNC has just over a yr to convince me & other Black Americans to change our vote.
@BlkAshli
I believe this could be a large part of many of the takes I've witnessed. I also believe this is another way to diminish the legacy of Black Americans, and to remove our claim to America as a founding population. The rest of the people just don't know any better.
@FavGhostwriter
People will meet you and tell you who they think you are based on a character they've created in their heads, then get mad at you for telling them that they're projecting
Apparently we need to start calling ourselves heirs to our ancestors stolen wealth.
As an heir to Black American Negroes, who've had our inheritance withheld and stolen, I demand a check for Black Americans, because our recompense, in the form of reparations, is long overdue.
NEW: New York has secured over $183 million in compensation for Holocaust victims and their heirs.
Hate has no home in New York, and my administration is committed to uplifting survivors and their families while honoring the memory of the six million lives taken far too soon.
3 types of Anti-Black racists I've observed are..
1. Dishonest racist: A person who distorts the truth as a way to justify their racism.
2. Emotional racist: A person whose racism is an emotional gut reaction.
3. Ignorant racist: A person who's racist because it's all they know.
They aren't even trying to hide their dishonesty anymore. She literally says her father is an immigrant, but then he magically became an "African-American", a term they've been trying to PUSH on descendants of US chattel slaves/American Negroes since 1988.
These people are evil.
My father was the son of immigrants, the youngest son of immigrants. And in growing up, he was a unique artist in that he was a cartoonist, very rare for an African American boy in the 30s and 40s. ๐งต
As a Black American, I can criticize the US & still love the country and principal ideals the country was founded forโfreedom, democracy, justice & equality. I dislike how the system implemented the principals. I criticize the system bc I see the potential of what America can be.
@filmbrokevideo
Check my timeline, I've always spoke highly of Black American Rodeo and cowboy culture. You seem lost and confused, so I advise you to find your way to a post of someone who needs your ignorant opinion.
I was watching videos when I realized it was just after midnight. So I came to Twitter just to see the birthday balloons pop up &... this made me smile so big!! ๐ It's the little things that make me smile
(I know I'm corny).๐
Happy birthday to me!! I'm officially 44 ๐๐ฅณ
@DeeTubman2
Her shirt is too small & she should probably go up a size & tho her pants are sort of casual-dress, they're definitely not appropriate for working at Costco.
It's not her body, it's how she's dressed.. Imo it's not appropriate for Costco. She needs khakis or jeans.
@HBCUEndowment
This is such a weird take. That's literally not what an HBCU is-- literally. Basically what you're saying is that you've changed the mission of HBCUs? Am I to understand this correctly?
@HuertasDean
You don't know your own culture. How old are you? Because I'm old enough to remember PR people have a culture that's distinct from everything we do.
I'm not sure why you all feel the need to lie. Copying what another person does isn't participating, it's an imitation.
@chayceabland
My family has always flown the American flag, while I don't fly it, I would never assume to know what the American flag represents for them. It's the arrogance of people like you that makes other people think they have a say on what represents Black American culture.
@plies
I really want to know, how much are those checks they're cutting you?
Hunter didn't fall out the sky and interestingly enough, he hasn't been penalized from the laws his father wrote.. How do you not find a problem with this?
@TheRevAl
Lawman is redundant because
@IWashington
already done it correctly. Hollywood is shutting out our living legends & you're selling out promoting it. We need American Negro actors telling American Negro stories.
We will not support this. It will boycotted.
I unfollowed over 200 people today as a preliminary/main sweep. Sorry if you were one, but I need to protect my mental peace & some of you seem to dwell in negativity. I can't stand for name-calling & destruction, it's counter-productive & toxic.
I'm hoping it cleans my TL. ๐๐พ๐ค๐พ
This is why thereโs no need to battle people over crime statistics. They violently arrest kids outside of stores waiting for their friends after some tether called race soldiers. This is proof that reparations are owed. Their law enforcement & judicial corruption never stopped.๐
@Jen_jen_jen_123
I definitely agree with the grandma.. What were they doing in the bed? If she's in the 9th grade, in 2 yrs she can go to her junior prom & in 3, she can go to her senior. This is weird behavior for the mom & daughter imo.
Why didn't the mother communicate with the other family?
Humans are overweight bc we don't need 3 meals a day. This concept is one of the earliest forms of consumerism brought to you by the agriculture industry.. they also said that milk does the body goodโ it actually doesn't.
No adult needs milk & very few humans need 3 meals a day.
@csstone1161
Touchรฉ.
There's a whitewashed version of events that everyone is familiar with, but yes I agree. There is much more to our culture that everyone outside off of our heritage does not know, nor do they understand.
Unpopular opinion.
A true leader rarely blocks someone on Twitter for a dissenting opinion. You have to be able to stand firm in your conviction against opposition to lead. So if a stranger on Twitter can rattle you enough to knock you off your square, how can you lead others?
If evolution happens on a population level, why is it hard for people to accept that Black Americans aka American Negroes have evolved to be our own ethnic group, with an ethnogenesis in the United States of American? Why is this a hard concept for so many people to grasp?
@francisguy444
This is so fascinating to me.. All these black folks breaking their necks for one of the biggest racist in America's political history. smdh ๐๐
@OmariJHardy
Why place migrants in Black neighborhoods? The most underfunded neighborhoods .. when there are neighborhoods that have an excess of resources & funding. Don't call Black people racist for saying no more taking the scraps off of their malnourished plate; call out the government.
@Natural_OneDurr
I think it's beautiful that people are learning something about Black American culture that many had not known previously. Clearly the history books leave all the beautiful parts out so we shouldn't discourage artists from highlighting it. If it were up to me, it would be taught.
@jukiejones
@HenriettaSnacks
Yep.. And her activity proves that she's the lowest of the low of the bottom of the barrel scum. She's a horrible person, which is why her son turned out the way he did.
@DarkandLuvvly
@kennymxu
I agree. I stopped in the 90s & encourage any/everyone to-- especially the "beauty supply" store. I can't imagine why Black people-- especially BW choose to patronize businesses that despise our existence. We need to learn to be smarter consumers. I've praying for this 20+ years.
@majornija
That's wild!๐ฒ๐ฒ
Has he ever been married? He sure preaches a lot about the responsibility of Black men, Black women & Black family, but he couldn't even build his own?. What does he know about family & marriage life? ๐ค
Everything shes says, the way she moves, and what she represents is a perfect example out of touch with reality.
Where's the anti-Black hate crime bill?
Where's Black American reparations?
Keep your thoughts & prayers to yourself and do something tangible. Don't be a disgrace.
@HenriettaSnacks
@DJROBSWIFT
This is such a strange argument for anyone born before 2000 because we know and remember. Where are all of their Hip Hop stars if they created the genre? Where did they get inspiration; how did they know how to break dance & rap? Why didn't they use samples from their artists?
How many times will you fall for it? I've been voting the lesser of the two evils dnc since 2000-- even 2016 when I swore I wouldn't I did. Not this year or any year following. Stop voting out of fear, and start voting your beliefs.
There is no end to this...
The DNC will be forcing people in the year 2050 (if we still have a planet left) to vote for the lesser of two evils in the โmost important election in history.โ
The only way to break this vicious cycle is to organize outside of the corporate parties.
@powwowasu
I have a question.. are you all against FBA bc of the idea of us being our own ethnic group, or other reasons?
If you're against FBA strictly because of Tariq, what would you call Black Americans who desended from US Chattel slavery?
If other reason, what reason?
Last night my son did a demo of his video game for us.
He's self-taught writing code & it's physics-based, so it's impressive. Today he demoed the VR version...
Essentially, he's building a physics based VG that is VR compatibleโ my mind is blown! I'm so proud of him!! ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐโบ๏ธ
@lareinanegraa_
You should wear whatever you choose to wear. No one is telling you to wear nor display the American flag. I don't even display it. However, and this is important so listen,
YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL OTHER BLACK AMERICANS HOW TO SHOW THEIR PRIDE.
Have a good day.
@munchgod3000
I made more money in my marriage. It can't always be about money. A woman submitting has more to do with attitude and energy, not necessarily how much money someone makes.
@trillmoe98
Also, why do they keep saying that Americans don't want to work those jobs? It's a flat out lie. Americans want a livable wage and as long as they allow non-union, non-citizens to work for lower than the standard cost of living is insane, it will continue depress wages.
@AfroAmericanJay
In HS we were forced to do all school work on our own. Imagine my shock when I got the college & learned ALL OTHER communities work collaboratively on hw & tests etc. It's beyond evil how much they purposely oppress our community. Even the seemingly benign rules aren't so benign.
@GogExperience
Biden shouldn't have made it through the primaries. Trump has never done anything explicitly anti-Black that I'm aware of. He's a nationalist asshole with racist tendencies which isn't quite the same. They're both horrible men however.
@gonnachoom
Was just thinking out loud so perhaps colonize is a bit hyperbolic-- right now, however, Africa doesn't need anything from China. African nations & her people have everything necessary to thrive. Chinese people need Africa more than 'Africans' need China. Unification is the key
@TheONEngland
@BlkIlluminism
Oh I don't doubt it, I'm speaking in the bigger scheme of things. Most leaders in Africa appear to be selfish and put their own personal best interests first, which is to the detriment of the people in their countries.
@NAACPSF1
You help every other ethnic/minority group except us descendants of US chattel slaves. Shame on you. I hope you disappear, or have a hostile takeover from descendants of US slaves. You've been useless & I'm starting to believe your original plan was to obstruct justice for DOUSCS