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What is the point of this post? As an economist do you see anything wrong with the NDC policy? I suppose you lived in South Africa at some point. Do you recall citizens legally holding on to foreign deposits? Isn’t it the case, that their economy with controlled foreign currencies, is one of the reasons that their macroeconomic environment is more stable than Ghana’s?

Hear me clearly: starting next month, commercial banks may begin rejecting certain foreign exchange deposits. If you have dollars you intend to deposit, it may be wise to do so now. Otherwise, you could risk losing that opportunity later. This is not intended to cause panic, but reflects concerns about broader systemic risks linked to recent policy decisions by the NDC government.

I couldn’t agree more @JeffBezos! But that statement assumes that you are paying the proper postage rates to USPS, that you’re paying your employees decent wages to live middle-class life, no abnormal profits, or first-mover advantages. Your entrepreneurial acumen is well-respected so share the spoils accordingly!

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Wait a minute! We don’t have peeps! Everyone is our peep! We support only the right way. We don’t engage in name calling. But since you asked, progressives like Clinton and Obama have engaged in policies that created jobs for many people. Don’t forget that America boosts of founders, like Ford, Firestone, and the like, who rested real jobs that allowed their employees to live middle-class life. Don’t get it twisted with these paper billionaires who do not create durable jobs.

@theStrategist75 @SquawkCNBC @JeffBezos Shot at AOC not having those jobs in Queens. He asked for solutions and not pointing fingers, none of your peeps provide alternatives. It’s the HOWS that eludes progressives and the like. Mirror check JRiv.

"People sometimes say that I don't pay taxes. It's not true. I paid billions of dollars in taxes," says @JeffBezos. "That's not going to solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens."

Is this a joke? All he had to say is that we should have policies that increase the capital stock — human capital, building up and maintaining infrastructure, all the things that go to increase efficiency and lower per unit cost, instead of Asset Managers bidding up crypto and services, really of no value to society!

Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO of Citadel, on why a $2.50 Coke at McDonald's tells you everything about the U.S. economy: For Griffin, the price of a single fast-food drink captures the story of the past six years. "$2.50 for a Coke. And before the Biden administration, it was $0.99." That jump is a window into something much bigger: "The United States has endured prolonged and persistent inflation now for 6 years." Griffin explains that these everyday price shocks carry a psychological weight far heavier than the numbers themselves: "The rise of gasoline prices at the gas station, it's like a triggering event. It just brings back to all of us the fact that the purchasing power of the dollar has declined so precipitously for 6 years now." The Coke is just one example. Eggs are another. Griffin points to New York City prices in the range of "7, 8, 9 dollars for a dozen eggs", and notes that even though they've come down somewhat, they remain painfully elevated. Each of these small, daily encounters with higher prices adds up to something larger. A creeping anxiety about the future: "I think everybody in our country, when we see a price shock in any of our day-to-day commodities, gasoline for example, it's just deeply triggering. And I think that there's just a general apprehension of how much more purchasing power are we going to lose because of the economic policies that we're pursuing in Washington." His message to policymakers is direct: "It's very important that this administration and that the legislature continues to stay focused on how do we strengthen the purchasing power of the dollar? How do we make sure that Americans' paychecks go further?" The takeaway: a $2.50 Coke isn't really about a Coke. It's about what the dollar in your pocket can no longer buy at the drive-thru, the gas pump, and the grocery aisle. Until purchasing power is restored, that frustration will keep growing into something much harder to ignore.

@RBReich Is this behavior what South Africans call “STATE CAPTURE?” @elonmusk

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. cnbc.com/2026/05/18/tru…

If your premise is true, it presupposes that the dialogue is still asymmetric. Can we arrive at a place of one side just making their case, what they have to offer without engaging in name calling, bad mouthing, etc. of the other side? Too much precious energy is wasted on these nefarious activities!

For the last decade, the media said right-wing nationalists were fascists. They weren't. And now they're winning. The reason is that @elonmusk made X a free speech platform, thereby exposing globalists as totalitarian control-freaks on everything from migration to Covid to trans.

@elonmusk Maybe we need a study that would prevent that kind of behavior, that a good number or percentage of men would refrain from that, so that we can come away from the Original Sin!

Accurate 😂

All good! The issue is your peers should all understand this. How can they support meaningless innovations (say crypto) while not paying attention to the infrastructure or capital stock of the country? I dare say not everyone should be in congress. Like all professions, there needs to a minimum qualification.

If you had a magic wand and knew AI was coming and CEOs were predicting mass layoffs, what would you do?

@shellenberger @mirandadevine @spencerpratt I have got an idea. Let’s get these women to do another commercial after 4 years of Spencer Pratt. It never seems to amaze that when they are campaigning, they get us all excited. Let’s grade their work also, after the 4 years! Maybe that will make politicians are accountable.

“You are not alone.” Yoga moms, silent majority, and a preference cascade all in one. Whether or not Angelenos elect @spencerpratt as LA mayor, he and his team are revolutionizing politics.

@FundamentEdge All true, but we must work to incorporate the new level of productivity into the many use cases without rendering humanity redundant. That’s the challenge — making multitudes of humanity unemployed will not bode well in any verse!

A big pivot from Ken Griffin on AI: “Number one is, in the last few months, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolkit. It is profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago. And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader array of use cases for AI. And it has been really interesting to watch, to be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with masters and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days. These are not these are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high skilled jobs being, I'm going to pick a word, automated by agentic AI. And I gotta tell you, I went home one Friday actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society. When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow, like that's the first time I've seen real impact in our four walls.” This echoes my own experience with agents and the conversations I am having with students, friends & clients. The toolkit has dramatically transformed and it feels like in finance, for the first time, AI is real.

Looks like TRUST is an area where both sides must work on to avoid missteps. But the larger question is how effective can either side be to avoid Thucydides Trap when the forms of governance are diametrically opposed— governing by midterms and yo-yo leadership versus in situ governance, almost permanent with assured continuity?

Thucydides trapping. All the rising powers are doing it (the ancient Greek warning Xi Jinping just used on Trump, explained) 👇🏼 #usa #china #trump

What this says though is that the human mind can be trained to work properly. We fall short of logical thinking based on emotions, biases, etc. Even with the human biases introduced into algorithms, AI can still follow to logical conclusions. This reminds me of what Pope John Paul 2 wrote: philosophy if fully followed will point to God but it’s difficult for most people to engage in that level of intellectual rigor, so faith suffices. Maybe we should learn from AI and think accordingly.

Elon Musk just said AI will be smarter than every human on Earth combined within five years. Musk: “I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year.” Not a decade from now. Not five years. Months. Musk: “No later than next year.” He wasn’t finished. Musk: “Probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.” Every mind that has ever existed, fused into one, and still slower than what’s coming. The man just described the end of human intellectual supremacy and the only response in the room was “Wow.” This is how civilizations miss the moment. Not with resistance. With manners. Musk isn’t guessing from a stage. He runs the AI company. He sees the acceleration that hasn’t gone public yet. This isn’t prediction. It’s reporting. The human brain was built for straight lines. Growth that compounds doesn’t register until it’s already past you. You can see an exponential curve on a chart. You cannot feel it while you’re standing on it. And there’s a deeper problem no one talks about. We have no way to measure an intelligence greater than our own. We can know something is smarter. We cannot understand how it thinks. A mind built on pattern recognition cannot recognize patterns it was never designed to see. The moments that change everything never feel like it to the people living through them. This one won’t either.

This is why Elon needs to give back to South Africa. The place was good to him! There are very smart people in the US. But the noise and all the attendant distractions prevent many people from forming such habits; reading to understand and dream big. Environments matter. Most people are always looking for Cliff Notes…

Before Elon Musk built rockets, he read every textbook on rocket propulsion ever written. Not summaries. Not blog posts. Not YouTube videos. The actual textbooks. Cover to cover. Multiple times. Orbital mechanics. Propulsion physics. Materials science. Structural engineering. Aerospace manufacturing. He did this while running two other companies. When he walked into meetings with aerospace engineers in the early days of SpaceX, they expected a tech billionaire who would nod along and sign checks. Instead he asked questions so specific they assumed he had a PhD in the field. He didn't. He had a library card and an obsession. This is the part of the Musk story that nobody wants to hear because it's not glamorous. The rockets are glamorous. The Tesla reveal is glamorous. The Mars vision is glamorous. Sitting alone in a room reading a 600 page textbook on orbital mechanics at midnight is not glamorous. But it's the actual foundation of everything else. Most people who want to "be like Musk" study his habits. His schedule. His management style. His tweets. They skip the reading because reading is boring and doesn't look good on social media. Musk reads 5 to 10 hours a day. He has done this since childhood. His brother Kimbal said he would read two books a day as a kid. Not children's books. Encyclopedias. Science textbooks. Science fiction. History. By the time he was 20 he had read more books than most people read in a lifetime. By 30 he had absorbed the foundational knowledge of four or five separate industries. By 40 he could hold his own with the world's top experts in rockets, batteries, AI, tunneling, neuroscience, and manufacturing. This is not genius. This is volume. The reason most experts can't do what Musk does is not intelligence. It's that they read deeply in one field and broadly in none. They know everything about their domain and nothing about any other. Musk reads deeply across six domains which means he sees connections that single domain experts can never see. Battery chemistry from Tesla applied to energy storage. Manufacturing techniques from automotive applied to rocket production. Software architecture from PayPal applied to vehicle autonomy. AI research from xAI applied to robotics. Each domain feeds every other domain because one person holds all the knowledge simultaneously. This is the real superpower. Not IQ. Not work ethic. Not risk tolerance. Cross domain knowledge accumulated through thousands of hours of reading that nobody sees and nobody talks about because it's not exciting content. I started reading seriously two years ago. Not scrolling articles. Reading actual books and technical material for hours. The difference in pattern recognition after 6 months was noticeable. After 12 months it was dramatic. Ideas from one domain started solving problems in completely different domains. The secret to Musk isn't in his tweets or his rockets or his schedule. It's in the thousands of books nobody saw him read before any of it existed. Reading is the most underpriced asset in the world. Unlimited knowledge, zero cost, available to anyone. Almost nobody uses it.

Have we considered the fact that maybe the model is wrong? How do you educate the young during the day at schools with social problems and release them at the end of the school day into homes and environments with their malfunctioning circumstances. Have we considered changing the current schools into boarding schools?

"New York City spends roughly $37 billion/year to educate about 850,000 kids. That's over $42,000 per child per year. And the results are abysmal. Two-thirds of fourth graders can't do math properly and almost three-quarters can't read at grade level... ...What we can do, Mr. Mayor, is tell every mom in NYC that the $42,000 currently spent on that terrible education is going to be her money." Jeff Yass, one of the 2026 Alexander Hamilton Award honorees, on how we can solve NYC's education crisis through school choice.

What will help is that universities need to be run like listed companies: 1. They need a governance structure with real accountability. 2. A board of trustees with market savvy. 3. CFOs with business acumen compassing all the skills to restructure these institutions. 4. And this applies to other industries as well, specifically healthcare in particular—allow access to those paying for these inefficiencies to have a say in the matter. Parents who foot these bills do not have a say in the bloating costs. Nobody can challenge the university administration on costs. Education can be cheaper than this. Students are saddled with massive debt for these inefficiencies. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Q4 2025 report; student debt is the second-largest form of household debt totaling $1.66 trillion.

🚨BREAKING: Brown University student Alex Shieh previously EVISCERATED the school's administrators for having a $46 million deficit, despite surging costs for students. They pay $90K+ PER YEAR. Alex Shieh: "What about the kids who weren't born on third base?! [...] Brown is on track to run a $46 million DEFICIT this year. WHERE is all the money going?" "I'll tell you where it's going. It's going into an empire of administrative bloat and bureaucracy! Brown employs 3,805 full time non-instructional staff for just 7,229 undergrads. That's one administrator for every two students." "This isn't education. This is bloat paid for on the backs of students and families who are mortgaging their futures for a shot at a better life!" Do you firmly support Alex Shieh on this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

@realBigBrainAI Are there any proofs? Before we run with this, maybe running prototypes of these concepts may be in order.

Elon Musk on why companies with humans in the loop are about to be outrun by fully automated ones: He laid out a stark prediction about the future of corporations. He says it plainly: "Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop." To explain why, @elonmusk draws a historical parallel that reframes how we think about human labour: "Computer used to be a job that humans had. You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations. And they'd have entire skyscrapers full of humans, like 20, 30 floors of humans just doing calculations." Then came the shift: "That entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers." But Elon's most pointed insight is what happens when you mix the two. "What if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer." In other words, partial automation is actively worse than full automation because the humans become the bottleneck that slows everything else down. Elon's conclusion: "Really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop. And this will happen very quickly." The takeaway is uncomfortable but clear. Entirely AI-native companies will outrun hybrid ones at a pace those hybrid companies simply cannot match.

@mcuban Good idea. That should also go for other public institutions, like public universities…

The path of least resistance to reducing the cost of medical care is to require all Non Profit Hospitals and providere to be required to post on their website a Real Time and downloadable General Ledger with all entries The same for all supply chain transactions In detail There is no reason why taxpayers shouldn't see every penny they are subsidizing None There are no competitive reasons we don't subsizie you to maximize revenues or profits We let you be NP to maximize outcomes and we deserve to see every penny and where it comes from and where it goes, and why Problem solved

These comments are misplaced. When an entity changes its accounting method, it should restate only prior periods that are in the current reports. An OCI loss should not draw unnecessary focus as it may or may not be released. My suggestion to you guys in parliament should be to build or develop a better Ghana, not to waste time on what the old Economics adage says — accounting arguments are disagreements about NOTHING.

The Bank of Ghana’s GH¢34 billion loss for 2025 is not in dispute. BoG itself has confirmed this in subsequent public releases on its social media channels. It’s unclear why there are attempts to obscure this fact. If you want to compare BoG’s profit and loss over the years, you must restate prior years’ accounts. Previously all, losses and gains were recorded in Profit and Loss (P&L) statements rather than a separation into P&L and Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) statement. The current management changed this approach in 2024. I raised this issue last year, asking why the new management changed the accounting method. Under the previous practice, OCI items were included in the P&L. Either way, whether OCI is included in the P&L or not, an OCI loss is still a loss. It is reflected in the bank’s negative equity position. An OCI loss affects the bank’s financial position and cannot be ignored.

Far from it. When people try to engage the white community, they are called whiners. You go around saying it’s tiresome. What do you do to be tired. My sense is that you only complain. What have you done about integration, if any? You seem to think that blacks should fix their community. I don’t disagree. But do you remember what MLK said? Asking “bootless” people to raise themselves by their own boot straps!

@theStrategist75 @MichaelARothman Why should whites have to 'fix' your community? You should fix it yourselves. Whenever we try to hold someone among you accountable you're whining... in fact.. no matter what people try attracts whiners, like yourself. It's beyond tiresome. The fatigue is REAL.

𝐀 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀 𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐌, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐅 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓. A black American testifying at a school-board meeting against critical race theory just delivered 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 heard at any public meeting in 2026. He earned a standing ovation. “𝘔𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵-𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴. 𝘖𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘢. 𝘖𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮. 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭, 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵.” “𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴. 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 190-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.” “𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥, 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰.” 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐑𝐓 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞. You don’t fight 1860 racism by teaching 2026 children they are colored-in by their ancestors’ sins. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞. 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘒𝘊𝘗𝘢𝘺𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘐𝘵