Pettynetty 20/20

Today is my birthday!! Spent my time celebrating at the Ritz Carlton, enjoying their weekend brunch and the beautiful views! Nothing beats California as this beautiful hotel is 40 minutes away from my backyard 🌊

@JamesTate121 @Democracy631

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story. When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement. It's the world's laziest status symbol. The starter kit is always the same: *A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago. *A gun they'll never actually need. *A Bible they've never actually read. *And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their.... Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard? FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody. He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior! And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man. You genuinely cannot make this stuff up. And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it..... I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

In memory of those who chose the sea.. —The "Igbo Landing" story — In an act of mass resistance against slavery, a group of slaves revolted, took control of the slave ship grounded it on an island & rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into water & drown. THREAD!

Those the best wangs. Those steroid wangs the size of your hand ain't got no flavor

Today is National Lemonade Day.

It is apples to apples. I've been talking about this on this account since 2023 & on my big account that got suspended since 2016. Nobody is stopping us from making PACS & Super Pacs. Niggas want excuses not solutions

A decade ago, a mother started a GoFundMe campaign to support her then-15-year-old daughter, Hailey Baptiste’s, burgeoning tennis career. Now, D.C. native Baptiste, 24, has toppled No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and is now ranked among the world’s top 25 players. wapo.st/4tO5xLS

While in Rome Italy , had to get that yard bird 🤣🤣🤣

@4_Ben_Media "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" -Plato

You know who ain't voting the couch? Immigrants. They aren't throwing a hissy fit because a political party isn't catering to them. They're seizing power. But some Blk ppl wanna complain Democrats are only pandering to Immigrants while they completely drop out of the process

A 13-year-old has officially accepted his admission to Morehouse College, making him younger than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was when he entered the prestigious HBCU at age 15. Joshua Suddith received over 20 college acceptance letters from across the country, but his heart was set on Atlanta. By 18 months old, Joshua was already a fluent reader.

I don’t know who needs to hear this. Actually I do know. Everybody needs to Hear this. FREAKUM DRESS BY BEYONCÉ IS STILL FUCKIN BAAAAAAANGIN!!!!

Former enslaved people Freed by Union Forces During U.S Civil War, 1862.

Everything I studied about Reconstruction in college really made me lose faith in America, as a project. Southern Black Republicans took the poor, landless Southern white peasantry and gave them agency, schools, etc., and they just repaid them with Jim Crow.

Wow. Wow. WOW!!!!! Hailey Baptiste saves SIX MATCH POINTS and defeats the world #1 Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(6) to reach the semifinals in Madrid. Biggest win of her life Biggest semifinal of her life Biggest upset of the year

Meet Afrika Owes, a single black mom from New York City who was previously incarcerated, yet went on to graduate from Fordham Law School and passed the New York Bar Exam on her very first attempt.

I love this down!!

Emeryville High’s Celestine “Tina” Levias started as a lounge singer at Harold “Slim” Jenkins’ famed club in West Oakland, when nightlife on 7th and Peralta was known as a Harlem of the West. She toured the globe as husband Charlie Hardy, a retired Raider, co-owned The Bird Kage.

This time tomorrow I’ll be staying within 10 minute walking distance from the Colosseum😆😆😆