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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi

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Who Abolished Slavery? You think there is no correlation between how we Africans have been engineered to look down on ourselves and to genuflect before those who oppressed us?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Who abolished slavery? Ask any fourth grader in Togo, and the answer comes without hesitation: Victor Schoelcher. Wake me from a deep sleep with that question, and my subconscious will answer before my eyes are open: Victor Schoelcher. Twenty-five years after leaving primary school, the colonial curriculum still lives in me like a reflex. That is what was planted, and that is how thoroughly it took root. It is only the adult brain, the one lucky enough to stumble upon other literatures, other histories, other archives, that comes afterward to contest the first answer. But the first answer is always his name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ That is what colonial schools taught. That is what post-colonial schools taught. That is what is still being taught today, by people placed in power precisely to ensure that the curriculum of self-erasure continues undisturbed. Because in Francophone Africa, the abolition of slavery has one face, and it is this French man. And in twenty years of academic formation on this continent, from primary school through university, including my own years as a history major at the University of Lome, not once, not in a single classroom, not in a single textbook, was the Haitian Revolution mentioned. Not once were we told that enslaved Black people organized, fought, and defeated the French army, that Haïti became the first Black nation in colonial Americas and the first nation in modern history to defeat a European power that practiced slavery through the resistance of the very people it had enslaved. Twenty years of “schooling”: not one mention of that historical fact. And this is just one example, on just one subject. Because not once throughout my entire education in Togo was I introduced to a Black mathematician, a Black physicist, a Black inventor, a Black philosopher. Not once. But for those of us who were cursed with France, the French apparently discovered more than 70% of world knowledge and wrote more than 80% of the world’s books, because our curriculum was designed to make us believe that the smartest, most resourceful, most intellectually gifted humans to have ever walked the surface of this earth were French. When the data actually tells you that France contributes approximately 2% of the world’s scientific innovation. Two percent. And we were built, from childhood, to worship that two percent as the totality of human genius. I imagine the same arithmetic applied to British, or Portuguese colonies, just with a different flag. This just one subject. There are decades of damage underneath it, layered and compounding. Which is why it is genuinely exhausting to wake up every single day and be expected to debate, with patience and good faith, people who were produced by these laboratories of engineered ignorance and who are entirely convinced that what was done to their minds was an education.

Spain closes airspace to US aircraft involved in Iran war bbc.in/4lZX3OF

Arsenal 2013/14 - A season packed with stunning goals

He’s got me. Take us there captain ❤️

Martin Odegaard (Ødegaard)’s 25/26 season so far. By GunnerTV on YT

@AFCYop_ @Ignazio101 @ifwkanye_ Make please

@Ignazio101 @ifwkanye_ I can make one if you want

Martin Zubimendi v Atletico Madrid Orchestrator

@eastsportsman @delalibessa Interesting.

@delalibessa They have developed muscles

However, mosquitoes today from Ghana to Malawi are often able to survive insecticide concentrations 10 times the previously lethal dose. theconversation.com/mosquitoes-car…

Can we pause and talk about something important? Many of you followed the #StopGalamseyNow and #FreeTheCitizens protests closely. You watched as ordinary Ghanaians took to the streets to demand accountability, and you watched as the state responded by detaining them unlawfully. What you may not have seen was what happened behind the scenes; the lawyers who quietly stepped in, asked for nothing, and worked to get those people home. One of them is a young woman who gave her time and her legal expertise entirely pro bono. No fanfare, no press conference. She just showed up, did the work, and made sure those activists were not swallowed by a system that was betting they would be forgotten. Today, her family needs us. Her mother has been diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening blood disorder. She is in the ICU right now, receiving urgent treatment every single day. The costs are serious and they are growing. This family is carrying an enormous weight, and they should not have to carry it alone. I am asking you directly: please give what you can. Share this post further than my reach can take it. Someone in your network may be the person who makes the difference. MTN Mobile Money 0559009838 | Senam Abla Amekpleame | Reference: Maa Salo International Donations gofund.me/843c4846d

Regular reminder that clubs cannot pull players out of international duty. Injury withdrawals are entirely at the discretion of national teams themselves, nobody else. This close to the World Cup National Teams will protect their interests, they don’t want their best players injured, a 12 week injury and you’re out of the tournament.

Spain protecting their players 👍

Martin Zubimendi v Burnley Line - Breaker.

Tottenham have confirmed they have mutually agreed for head coach Igor Tudor to leave the club with immediate effect. The club currently sit 17th in the Premier League, one point above the relegation zone.

18 years ago today, Cesc Fàbregas scored a 90th minute winner, as 10 men Arsenal came back from 2-0 down to beat Bolton 3-2 to hang on in the title race. This is regarded by many as Arsenal’s best PL comeback of the Emirates Era.

Robin Van Persie - Goal Catalogue (Arsenal)

RUSSO AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN🔴🔴🔴

In January, Trump signed Executive Order 14380, placing harsh tariffs on any country caught "directly or indirectly" supplying oil to Cuba. In February, when a Greek flagged tanker tried to bring 80,000 barrels from Colombia to Cuba, the US Coast Guard intercepted it, forcing the ship to sail to the Dominican Republic. In March, when the US sought to stabilize oil prices after starting a war with Iran, OFAC issued waivers for Russian crude. As Russian tankers approached the island, the US placed Cuba on a tiny list of countries it said were *still* not allowed to buy Russian oil. Two ships which were en route changed course under pressure. If we had actual journalists, instead of the brainless morons seen smiling and nodding below, they would have pointed this out to Rubio.

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