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There is nothing to be gained by being an a$$🕳. There is no benefit physically, mentally, nor spiritually. So knock it off. Be kind. Get curious and heal yourself. Holla

How imma look when Jesus surprises me while I’m doing something I’m not supposed to

Instructor: "Welcome to salsa class! Who's ready to learn how to dance?" Me, hiding tortilla chips bag: "There's been a misunderstanding."

On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman. He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours. Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York: "I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil." Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again. In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own. Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.

You lost me at David. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Come on down, Bob. You gave it a helluva spin.

How are you crying for love? Holla Behavior youtu.be/klPtNm5O8sE via @YouTube

Read this. The only conclusion I can draw, the only one, is that White America doesn't care

White America, which is to say, America, doesn't care that a boy(not a “young man”) was unjustly detained by agents of the state. The scarring is inconsequential

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They tortured these men to terrorize a common and rest assured their colleagues were fine with it

Come get some! I’m blessed to be a a contributing writer on this and, if I say so myself, it’s fantastic

I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory Here's the top 10 problems I found: thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flo…

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Abuse survivors aren’t only healing from abuse they endured, but from the ways they were treated when they asked for help.

Oklahoma pastor, Fred Gammon, has been ordered to stand trial for sexually abusing & sending texts to a child in his church asking to smell her underwear.

White folks are really out here blaming Black people for their racist friends, relatives, and neighbors losing their jobs because videos of their racist attacks go viral. They want Black people to stop posting videos of their racism, not for their friends, relatives, and neighbors to stop being racist and harassing Black people. The caucacity.

I have agreed to portray the first person ever to talk about someone's mom while doing the dozens. 'YoMommaHeimer' will be in theaters in January.

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