Mal 10/26 🦂

ON THIS DAY, 139 years ago, my 3x Great Grandfather, Giles Good was lynched by a mob in York County, SC after years of challenging its racist infrastructure. His life and adventures in the Reconstruction south makes him one of my heroes in Black history.

@Teeohenwy @CBSDetroit I said defund not close.

@malball @CBSDetroit We have plenty of those here …

Teenagers took over downtown Detroit on Friday night, marking the second time in two weeks of such a gathering. Business owners are worried that if the social media trend continues, fewer people will want to visit the area. cbsnews.com/detroit/news/d…

Rhodesia 1973, a farmworker was made to search for landmines using a pitchfork so the White man could drive safely

IT’S GAME DAY!!!

@75Hsd @aakashgupta They turned down the bag. Richardson did not.

@aakashgupta Elaine Thompson, shelly ann fraiser price, Melissa jefferson, Carmelita Jeter are all alive and have run faster 100m times

The fastest woman alive flew to rural Australia to chase down amateurs on a grass field for $27,500. The Stawell Gift is a 148-year-old handicap sprint held every Easter in a town of 6,000 people in western Victoria. 120 meters. On grass. Uphill. Lanes separated by rope, not paint. The twist: slower runners get up to a 10-meter head start. The world champion starts at zero. Richardson gave away 10 meters to her closest competitor. Some runners started 25 meters ahead. She had to close that gap over 120 meters of grass while running uphill. She won her heat in 13.8 seconds. In 144 years of the men's race, only two men have ever won from scratch. In the women's race (started 1989), only two women. The handicap system is specifically designed so the fastest runner should lose. The race started in 1878 at the end of the Australian gold rush. The distance, 120 meters, comes from the gap between two pubs in Sheffield, England, where professional sprinting began. Competitors historically trained by chasing kangaroos. 737 athletes entered this year. Prize money: $40,000 AUD. Last year they paid Australia's teenage sprint star Gout Gout $50,000 just to show up. He got eliminated in the semis. The handicap ate him alive. Richardson said it felt like being a kid again, playing tag. The woman who runs 10.65 described the hardest race on her 2026 calendar as "playing rabbit."

@DwightHoward Enjoy Springfield big fella. You earned it.

Lmk if I need to come out retirement 😮‍💨

@JohnSmithj88x @Tyre_94 It’s not certain groups. It’s a lot from every group.

@Tyre_94 I don’t know where these statistics come from. I’m 31 years old and don’t know a single adult that can’t read proficiently. There must be certain groups that are really bringing these stats down if it’s true…

I said it once but I’ll say it twice, when you understand the average American reads at a 6th grade level, everything makes sense

@blinchiic @Tyre_94 0 critical thinking skills.

@Tyre_94 This is not even about reading, this is about being a complete npc rtard. They question nothing and accept everything. Honestly this is a good metric, anyone that stayed there longer than 3 minutes should have been stripped the right to vote

@DetroitPistons @wannabekraze @NBA Motor City Kitties.

No. 1 seed clinched ✅

@okaytayy_ Chapel Hill Mall was the peak.

Dead malls make me so sad cause those were the spots fr. We’d dangle at fairlane, catch a movie, then be at fuddruckers. Like what do the kids do now

@SoWhy @jcash3485 @fasc1nate That’s cuz you think WE all look the same.

@jcash3485 @fasc1nate If you were robbed by the one on the right and the one on the left was in a lineup with 19 people who looked differently, you definitely would have picked him

Richard A. Jones was picked out of a lineup of potential robbers 20 years ago. He was 25 at the time and had two daughters. The problem? He didn’t commit the crime. Incredibly, he met a man in prison who was nearly identical in appearance to him and also had the same first name. Inmates kept confusing the two for each other. Richard Jones on the left and Richard Amos on the right. It turned out Amos was the one who actually committed the robberies. Richard spent 19 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. See more rare photos: bit.ly/44OpIzi

This is some east side ish for real.

Same week a Black man gets dragged limp & unresponsive by cops and dies in custody… This guy wrestles a cop, hops back on his bike and rides off clean no shots fired, no taser. Racial double standard?

@LarryWheels All them muscles and can’t run. Hit the treadmill

Natty or not, stay locked in 🔐

@BullandBaird Imagine learning that black women figured it out years ago.

Imagine the math required to make this guess and aim 4 people at a point in space

This episode was the last one I ever watched.

@prmade313raised Literally

I stopped watching after this episode 😂

@Josh_0SH_B_Gosh @YonaThaNightBo This is insane.

@YonaThaNightBo npr.org/sections/thetw…

It will never cease to boggle my mind just how recent segregation was.

@xsf18cdf @luvblessingz Who cares what party. Wrong is wrong

@luvblessingz And the Democrats were the purveyors of said segregation.