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the funniest thing about soulja boy doing everything first is that there’s somehow always proof too

but i'm supposed to gaf about their "trauma"

Here is the link to the Google Drive of 200 novels from the Heinemann African writer series enjoy 💫 tinyurl.com/AfricanWriters…

Anyway, I have multiple free libraries on my page. Everybody deserves books. Everybody deserves access to literature. Everybody deserves the ability to increase their literacy. folks deserve to read regardless of money. Here’s a library enjoy 😉 tinyurl.com/4y8umvsp

These two did not once condemn Israel or the genocide, Harry repeatedly refers to his Afghanistan killing as “revenge” in his book. Their charity cut ties with a Palestinian run charity because the boss condemned Israel during the genocide. Despicable hypocrisy

ts so wild bro, what is in the air this black history month

Imagine 50 years from now, a world where robots grow all the food and bring it to your neighborhood for free. Do you want it owned by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos? Or do you want it to be publicly owned and pay for it with your taxes. That’s capitalism vs socialism.

Posting my performance without even notifying me @jeuxolympiques says a lot. The erasure of Black women artists rarely begins with loud statements.. just quiet “oversights” But i guess you’re not ready for that conversation. Anyway! 💋

You cannot be pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine at the same time 🇵🇸🇺🇦

In South Korea, some women report that servers explain menus or make recommendations to men first, even when the woman is paying. In the UK, a study in carvery restaurants found men were served larger portions of meat than women for the same order. And in professional kitchens, women are far less likely to become head chefs or win top culinary awards, even when they’re equally skilled. Women are more likely to eat last and least in their own households. In many cultures, social norms dictate that men and boys eat first, leaving women and girls smaller portions or lower-quality food. THERE IS MISOGYNY IN ALMOST EVERY FACET.

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.

Western media won’t air this bc they don’t want you to grow a brain & realize “wait, I can shut down the economy. All the wealth is built off my labor. I can own my labor, without my labor there are no billionaires”. That is capitalisms worse nightmare. Imagine a system that runs

Long video but worth the watch, you’ll get to understand what people like Kelis are doing in Kenya.

doing the Lorde’s work. the work that should be done instead of calling a representative and packing fascist city halls. put her in the white lady HOF next to the one who burnt down the Wendy’s in ATL after Rayshard Brooks’ murder

Sweetest Lullabye out now everywhere 🌙

UPDATE: Backlash to the Berlinale’s demand that filmmakers “stay out of politics” has begun. Arundhati Roy just announced in a statement that she’s withdrawing her film from the festival after she was left “ shocked and disgusted” by the “unconscionable statements” from the jury. “To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time – when artists, writers and film makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it.” “Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. It is supported and funded by the governments of the United States and Germany, as well as several other countries in Europe, which makes them complicit in the crime.” “If the greatest film makers and artists of our time cannot stand up and say so, they should know that history will judge them.” m.thewire.in/article/politi…

A war you won't read about anywhere else

i love being a poc. we’re all related through rice, plastic chairs and that royal dansk cookie tin our families use as a sewing kit 🫶🏽

@sovietwithsazon this framing doesn’t adequately account for how ww, in particular, have not simply been “complicit” but active participants in sexual exploitation of boys, girls, women, & men going back to the early america/british colonialism/racial slavey and continuing today via sex tourism