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I decided to take some self portraits for Juneteenth this year 🥹
Happy freedom day yall 🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿
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Sammy Sky 🦋
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Sammy Sky 🦋
@SammyXSky
Photographer | Visual Artist | Creative Director 🦋
Katılım Ağustos 2009
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I need to start sharing my essays because I recently wrote a piece on how abusive people are extremely uncreative and get stuck in a loop of making the same shit over and over again for decades, because creative evolution requires healing, self reflection and honesty with yourself. That’s also why so many abusers are a broken record that outsource their creativity and rely on “muses” to make anything.
Rap Alert@rapalert6
Chris Brown releases his new single “Obvious” from his new album “Brown” releasing May 8th.
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Shoutout to the camera person that set this shot! #NAACPImageAwards
Chandra@mina_middy
We got your back kings! #NAACPImageAwards
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The black people meeting after a racist event>>>>>>>>
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
Ryan Coogler and Delroy Lindo receive a standing ovation at the NAACP Image Awards: ‘We appreciate all of the support and love we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend … it is an honor to be here amongst our people’
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Ryan Coogler and Delroy Lindo receive a standing ovation at the NAACP Image Awards:
‘We appreciate all of the support and love we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend … it is an honor to be here amongst our people’
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I was today years old when I learned about the American Black Film Festival Honors (award show). Congratulations to Ryan Coogler and his wife, Zinzi Coogler 🥇
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I was engaged to a man with bipolar disorder and one of the main things his and my therapist emphasized is that he was responsible for apologizing and repairing what he effed up during episodes. Being disabled does not excuse the harm you cause. So miss me with the bs
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The way Ryan Coogler and the Sinners cast have been treated this awards season, including now even being subjected to racial slurs during the #BAFTAs, has been deplorable.
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If the Tick Said “Free Palestine,” It’d Be Gone
If a vocal tic saying “Free Palestine” would be cut, why was the N-word aired? Intent does not erase impact. Disability explains occurrence, not institutional failure. The BBC and BAFTA safeguarded power, not people. Racism humiliates by design, and antiblack harm is repeatedly deemed acceptable. Stop explaining Black pain away.
Selective Harm Is Still Harm!
Credit to @kelechn
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This is more thoughtful & direct than anything issued since the incident occurred.
Says a heap.
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
Black filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a BAFTA judge:
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They brought him to the show to get that racist shit off cuz they knew they could blame a disability. They didn’t censor it because if all these niggas were gonna win, at least they could make sure the world still knew they didn’t respect em. Nobody can convince me otherwise.
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The Kanye West comparison remains the best description to show this imbalance.
He is a black man with a severe documented mental health condition and when he made antisemitic statements, the world collectively decided that his illness did not grant him a pass to spread hate. World leaders made statements, he was ostracised from a lot of his business deals, he lost millions of dollars.
The "nuance" of his severe bipolar disorder was set aside in favour of the outrage from the Jewish community. Yet, when the roles are shifted and the perpetrator is a white man with a neurological condition, the "nuance" suddenly becomes the entire story.
If an institution's first reflex is to explain away a slur rather than address the harm it caused, they aren't being inclusive, they are choosing to prioritize the social comfort of the person who spoke over the fundamental dignity of the people who were targeted.
Look at how quickly people(mostly white) online rushed in to explain that he has Tourette's. Before anyone had even finished processing what happened, the conversation had already shifted to defending the speaker. It’s not that the condition isn't real or relevant. It's that the instinct to protect the speaker seemed to arrive faster than the instinct to acknowledge the harm.
Once it comes to black people, the emotional burden is by default, expected to flip. So that the people who heard the slur are now expected to demonstrate empathy before their own reaction is even treated as legitimate.
None of this requires denying the reality of Tourette's or pretending the outburst was intentional. A neurological condition can explain why something happened without erasing what it felt like to hear it. Both truths can sit together. A fair response has to acknowledge that even with a lack of intent, the reality of the harm is still there. Aggressively writing a 10 page thesis on Tourette's to shut down conversations doesn't do anyone any favours.
O 🌚🌝@chukwucha_
If your condition made you blurt out anti-Semitic slurs at a nationally televised awards event, Keir Starmer would be outside Downing Street issuing a public apology tomorrow morning. But when it’s racism against Black people, suddenly there’s nuance. We must take pity.
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The racial abuse of Delroy Lindo & Michael B Jordan is NOT about Tourette syndrome.
It’s about how normalised, accepted and even encouraged, anti-Black racism really is.
The BBC CHOOSING to broadcast the racial abuse of two world leading Black actors, to millions, IS the story.
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Yes, Tourette syndrome is real. We hold space for that. Coprolalia is real. We hold space for that. But so is history. So is the humiliation of having that word attached to your name in a viral clip that will live online forever
To Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, Here is the apology you are owed: We are sorry that during a historic awards season of the most nominated film in Oscar History that you have to endure this. We are sorry that the BAFTA and BBC allowed a racist remark to remain in program, while editing out “Free Palestine.” We are sorry to Ryan Coogler - that while celebrating your first Black achievement in cinema in 2026 - your film stars in that very same space can still be publicly hit with The N-Word.
We are sorry that the instinct was to protect the institution before protecting you, to demand your composure instead of their accountability.
The SINS of the forefathers apparently don’t die. They just find new stages to act on.
*Cut Scene* and *Fades to Black*
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Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were expected to be the face of understanding, because when racism happens, the spotlight rarely stays on the act. It shifts to the reaction.
The burden moves from the offense to the offended, and we then have to prioritize everyone else’s comfort over our own hurt. Black people know that look they gave. The controlled pause, the tightened jaw, the professional decision to swallow your pride. Because within moments, the focus drifted away from the men who had to absorb the slur and toward protecting the person who said it. Explaining it. Contextualizing it. Cushioning it.
But we will say it for them: HELL NO. The BAFTA’s and BBC failed Michael, Delory, The Tourettes/Disabled Community and The Viewers.
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Trigger Warning: This post references a 400 year racial slur that has been used to dehumanize Black people. It also discusses Tourette syndrome and Coprolalia. If a social media post can provide this clarity, a global broadcaster on a 2 hour programming delay certainly could have. CC:BAFTA and BBC.
To be Black is to know that Grace will be demanded of you before accountability ever is.
And that’s exactly what played out on the BAFTA stage.
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Call me whatever you got to, I PEEP GAME on the Europeans. I been in the south all my life and European racism is WORSE than anything I’ve ever experienced here in America. I PEEP them doing this to take away from Ryan Coogler’s moment and from the GENERATIONAL run Sinners is having with their cast and crew.
I PEEP THE BULLSHIT. FUCK EM.
Variety@Variety
The BBC has apologized for not editing out a racial slur from the BAFTA Film Awards and will remove it from the version of the broadcast on iPlayer. "Some viewers may have heard strong and offensive language during the BAFTA Film Awards. This arose from involuntary verbal tics associated with Tourette syndrome, and as explained during the ceremony it was not intentional. We apologize that this was not edited out prior to broadcast and it will now be removed from the version on BBC iPlayer." variety.com/2026/tv/news/b…
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