Godwin Harare
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@queenie4rmnola This reminds of how a lot of former Michigan Governors hated Detroit.
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James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are considered sex symbols of the 50s. Who would you consider a sex symbol in the following decades up until now?
Marilyn Monroe: Glamorous photos of the tragic American icon bit.ly/3XXgxrY

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@Rainmaker1973 Only Michael Jordan and Cristiano Ronald would truly understand.
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Charles Burnett on Killer of Sheep (1978):
"Killer of Sheep wasn’t meant to be screened outside UCLA. It was a response to those films with a romanticised social-realist plot, like ABC, where the guys all band together to solve a workplace problem, form a union, there’s a strike, things get resolved and life is happier. It didn’t happen like that in my life. Trying to get a job was one thing, then trying to hang on to it. These were not ‘issues’ – you had to pay the bills, try to stay out of trouble. Then there were historical problems keeping people down that needed to be addressed more than the middle-class view of their needs.
That’s basically what the film is about. It wasn’t showing what Black life is about – it’s only an impression. And I was in a radical mood, right? Now we can smile at that – you’re in college and you think you’re in this revolutionary mix, but when you get into the real world, it’s different. I lived in Watts and I used to go to a barber’s shop. There were these old guys there, from the South, who’d seen a lot of horrendous things and yet were very patriotic. I remember one day it was Paul Robeson’s birthday. And I came in with this, and they were so anti-Paul Robeson, and I said, “What? This is a guy who was fighting for you, standing up for your rights.” And they said, “Paul Robeson shouldn’t have said anything about this country.” So I discovered how conservative a lot of people in Watts were, particularly the older people. The Watts Riots were a young people’s thing, a kids’ thing. I realised everyone wasn’t ripe for revolution – we were in a dream world, trying to get people to march. Civil rights was one thing; but the Panthers was a young thing.
I recognised that because I’d been to college, I’d become ‘different’. I couldn’t be a spokesman for the Black community; everybody has to speak for themselves. So I had to make Killer of Sheep in such a way that it would be about events you would see in the community, but without imposing my views to the extent where it would be moving from one point to another with a resolution at the end. I was trying to show over a period of time what might have happened or what did happen. Because everything in this story did happen – these were all things I witnessed."
— Charles Burnett, interviewed by Alex Cox, Sight & Sound (July 2002 issue)

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🚨 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso is building roads, launching regional development brigades and reclaiming its sovereignty under President Ibrahim Traoré.
For over six decades France kept this nation in an economic chokehold, leaving its infrastructure completely underdeveloped.
Now, through the state led Faso Mêbo Agency, Burkina Faso is utilizing its own national treasury to purchase hundreds of heavy public works vehicles—independently building its own future without begging Paris for aid.
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@Rainmaker1973 Optional solution: Put it in the dishwasher, and half-way through the cycle, take the sticker off.
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This isn’t a joke btw.
This is actually the U.S. economy.
This scam is going to come crashing down. Soon.

maro@ProofofMaro
The entire US economy right now is 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other
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