A Better Health, MD, MPH

These are the pants of the child, #Jawad Abu Nasser — a small piece of fabric that stands as powerful evidence of the crime. They bear traces of his blood, reflecting the abuse he endured. A visible hole can also be seen, indicating the insertion of a sharp object, resembling a metal rod, into his foot, with a clear exit point through both the foot and the fabric. The evidence does not end there; there are also marks that appear to be burns, likely caused by cigarettes being extinguished on them. The pants of a child not yet a year and a half old… yet they tell a story that cannot be justified.

It's called "Atrocity Propaganda" and it is used by colonisers in every conflict they provoke to portray themselves as victims and justify their subsequent aggression. Same thing was done in 1991 when the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US was coached to testify before US Congress that Saddam's guards took babies out of incubators and killed them with bayonets. Then the whole story was later retracted quietly. Same thing was done in 2011 when western media began reporting that Gadaffi was a rapist who kidnapped young girls off the street and their parents never saw them again, and that he distributed Viagra to his armies of black mercenaries from Sub Saharan Africa so they could rape Libyans as punishment for rising against him. Same thing was done a few weeks ago when western media uniformly began reporting that "Iran killed 30,000 protesters". That too is being quietly retracted. Whoever repeats these lies is not doing so out of ignorance, because this has happened so many times.

Gender based colonial standards where long hair on women is a requirement to meet criteria for womanhood/femininity. Akin to BM’s short cuts. The styles are cultural but the reason they’re worn is still to perform gender &avoid dealing w the natural hair.

@boohoo77746 @celltowerr You gotta train them to like it a bit messy too or to not say the dreaded words "you need a retwist". But it takes years to get there where they realize no matter how negative they get about your hair you wont change your behavior.

@BHealtha @celltowerr They only like neat (retwisted ) locs and don’t forget they have to be long! That’s when the compliments roll in but God forbid you meet them when your hair is grown out with no retwist, they’ll start being negative again! Weird.

The loc community is not free from the natural hair discourse cause the response to sister locs vs wicks says it all

@chlosih All of Europe is a Black haircare wasteland especially for natural hair. The African diaspora needs to come to the peace table & stage an intervention for the Afro-Europeans. I think Paris & London are equally abysmal.

black british women are milesssss behind both african american women and african / caribbean diaspora in the US too. the obsession with class / beauty maintenance is quite specifically pernicious in the U.K.

Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour. MAKE ME PAY. James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24

Re: ICE mobilized to US airports I’ve been discussing (since 2021) how the US will eventually close borders “from the inside” and restrict people from leaving this country. Allowing ICE to patrol borders (international airports are borders) is a step towards that goal. 1/5

@boohoo77746 @celltowerr Ooh the aunties & uncles had lots to say (I would be jobless/would look homeless) when I started locs eons ago. Now they are the biggest cheerleaders saying "Look thats all her own natural hair. All hers! Its locs". The attitudes are changing slowly.

@celltowerr Don’t know if you’re specifically speaking about the us but as a black person from Europe the amount of people who were vehemently against me getting trad locs because sister locs are more “presentable”….

@jj4ADA @celltowerr Im not understanding what you just said.

@BHealtha @celltowerr No...this is a response to perceived maintenance and upkeep. People place a high value on looks that appear "maintained". By definition, such a look requires maintenance. That feature is counter the narrative associated with freeform locks--or even their name.

@Rhen0311 @celltowerr Yes people have locs using their own hair but if they are still texturist then there is still work to do. Our hair is beautiful the way it grows & we shouldnt have to lay babyhairs, comb out ends, constantly retwist locs to achieve proximity to a white supremacism based standard.

@BHealtha @celltowerr It’s still our NATURAL HAIR

@moneyBgreen @celltowerr Yes! I have empathy as I decolonized my mind too. I retwisted every month cause of "professionalism" & being senior leadership. I asked myself what was unprofessional about my fuzzy natural hair & I stopped twisting as often. My fuzzy roots make folks real uncomfortable though.

@BHealtha @celltowerr Man! When the new growth come in and they’re obsessed with brushing it up and gellin it down so it looks “neat”. Aye man….

My hair fresh out of the shower. I almost never see my hair texture online and even less in person

@SassyE @queenie4rmnola Thanks for sharing. Your hair looks thick, healthy & beautiful. We def need more 4C love & affirmation. For more inspo you should check out Mayowa's World Youtube Channel & Redditors on r/naturalhair especially ones like u/Alice_Fell

@_TheCZA @got_cake Soaking beans is to shorten cook time & remove chemicals that can cause gas, flatulence & GI pains. So no using a pressure cooker doesnt remove the need to soak beans. You will still get a more easily digestible result if you soak then use a pressure cooker then a cooker alone.

You don't need to soak them if you're pressure cooking, but I think she just wanted everyone to look at her tits fr.

My theory is somebody somewhere wants to privatize it. The chaos and destruction of TSA is intentional so private equity can come in and take over. I’ve noticed it’s a reoccurring theme.

Before you head to the airport: Print your boarding pass Turn off Face ID / fingerprint unlock Delete your social media apps Airplane mode Turn your phone off and put it away

Walter Rodney, the author of the must-read book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, was assassinated in 1980, at the age of 38 for his authorship in exposing the predatory corporatocracy model of Western development. His account completely upends the mental model we have been sold, which places countries with the least resources and countries with the least morals at the top of the world economic food chain under the guise of a nonexistent mental superiority. Rodney highlights the "scissors" effect of colonial trade, where the price of African raw materials was kept low while the price of European manufactured goods rose. • Example (Groundnuts): He notes that in the 1930s, a farmer in French West Africa had to produce three times more groundnuts to buy the same amount of imported cloth as he did fifteen years earlier. • The Logic: This ensured that African labor remained cheap while European industrial profits soared, creating a cycle of permanent debt and poverty. And this intentional suppression and undervaluation African labour and resources was done through many inhumane practices detailed in yet another must read book “Confession of an economic hitman”. The African enablers of these models are still here today. They encourage the neocolonialist to pillage Africa by enacting the agenda of the west but with a Black skin. And these subservient African leaders are often eloquent but utterly nonsensical, and they are almost all leaders of western approved “democracies” that have overstayed their maximum terms. Peace to Walter Rodney, may his words carry us through the new African liberation.

African History Doesn't Start With Colonisation The late Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025) was not speaking abstractly when he claimed that the erasure of memory is the first step in colonialism. The so-called ‘cultural bomb’ colonial powers dropped altered our mental landscape by instituting their schools, languages and names. Bit by bit, the process reconstituted entire African societies. If you teach people that their history starts with slavery and that civilisation starts in Europe, you don’t need chains anymore. They will doubt their own past, their own languages, their own capacity. Thus, decolonisation must begin in the soul, in the act of re-membering. Video credit: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (YouTube)

It’s Day 13 of me sharing African women who shaped the political and social fabric of the African continent, yet you may or may not know them. Today we talk about Hajia Gambo Sawaba. She is known as the most jailed woman in Nigeria. Even so went on to be imprisoned 16 times for her activism against British colonialism in Northern Nigeria and her women's rights organizing. Hajia's influence shaped the role of women in political spaces in Northern Nigeria from passive agents to bold voices who defied cultural and religious barriers that told women to keep quiet and just handle domestic affairs. Hajia was definitely ahead of her time especially that she started her political activism at only 16 years old with no formal education. I read her memoir published in 1979 and truly what a woman and what a warrior. Through abuse, betrayal, frequent arrests and being jailed, she always came out of it more radical and ready to fight. Hajia fought so hard for women in the north to get voting rights that other women in part of Nigeria had received. As many women in the north of Nigeria followed the practice of purdah, a form of social seclusion, Hajia went from house-to-house to speak to them. This displeased the Authorities in Kano and, in 1952, she was hauled before the conservative Alkali (Magistrates) Court, on charges of “drawing out women who were in purdah”. The court sentenced her to three months in prison. Yet it didn't stop her. Every arrest, motivated her to do more.