The decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion. It also could give the symbols mainstream life after the West's decades-long efforts to eliminate them.
Hot take: The Civil Rights movement owes its success to being mostly peaceful, Ana was 100% right. Everyone pretending now that it was some crazy violent uprising that was "scaring" the white man into agreeing is an idiot who's read less MLK than anyone they're criticizing.
what a lot of people don’t understand is that most Black people don’t have any personal problems with white people. Like 90% of the white people I’ve met over the course of my life have been nice, generous, courteous, generally decent people. They’d never choke a man to death on
At New Mexico's biggest jail for children, kids from 12-17 are "routinely subjected to strip searches, held for weeks in cells without toilets, and left with only a thin plastic sheet to block out the glare of hallway lights that never turn off"
Jordan Neely was a New Yorker.
He was a person.
When he began to suffer from mental illness the city’s social safety net failed him, as it had failed countless others.
When he exhibited signs of his mental illness in public he was murdered on the F train.
Bruh just say you don’t know your history.
Malcolm X said it.
Kwame Ture said it.
DuBois said it.
George Jackson said it.
Every Black revolutionary that wanted self-determination said it
When white men were the predominant face of the Dem Party you never saw people asking Black people to leave the Dem Party.
But as soon a Black people and especially Black women started getting high positions, it’s time to leave.
Lol
Mane I’m at this event talking about Black people need to defend themselves and this neoliberal Black woman gonna come up behind me and say we got the military for that 🥴
Ok, all you geniuses: who’s a -smart- person’s idea of a smart person? Whose intellectual work and manner of presenting it has earned your respect? Or do we not commit ourselves that way on Twitter?
Rep. Maxwell Frost is the first member of Generation Z to serve in Congress.
He has released his first financial disclosure as a Congressman.
It showed that he owns no assets.
His largest source of income in the past year was $3,039 from working as an Uber driver.
‼️TOMORROW there is going to be a rally at 2pm in Union Square in solidarity with the protesters risking jail or worse in China over rapidly worsening conditions for working people and greater repression from the CCP. 🧵
These are the people who showed up outside of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio and caused it to be canceled. This is terrorism. Where is the DoJ? This is a clear violation of civil rights by neo-nazi orgs.
Dear Black People, we already tried the not voting thing (from 1619 - 1964) and we see the laws that were passed in our absence. America needs us to help her get her shit together. We are the moral compass. When we vote, everyone is better off. Don’t give up your power.
Like y’all let’s be honest. A lot of y’all don’t really wanna solve the intracommunal violence in the Black community. Y’all just wanna hear yourselves talk.
Lol this is your brain on identity politics cause materially there were 10x more air strikes during Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, Bush. He expanded the use of unmanned air-strikes outside the confines of war-zones in states who all face a humanitarian crisis now.
The "mass rape by Hamas militants" line is so insane because not even Israeli media is saying it. This is entirely made up by people claiming to sympathise with Palestinians
With friends like these, who needs Israel?
BREAKING: Target, $TGT, to close 9 stores in major cities across the US due to "violence and theft."
This includes one of Target's New York City locations and 3 stores in San Francisco.
Target said in a statement that the safety of their team and guests are at risk, forcing
The organizer of a Juneteenth event in South Carolina explains banner depicting white couple: “We did not want to make this exclusively Black. That is not in the spirit of unity."
This is difficult to watch. McConnell is garbage as a politician and person. But I still feel sadness and sympathy watching him struggle. The idea of him considering re-election is absurd, as is the idea of him staying in office until 2026. I hope he retires. For everyone’s sake.
It ain’t the niggas in durags and bonnets that are doing damage to our people. It’s the niggas in the suits or the bougie ass dresses. The niggas that preach respectability. Those are the misleaders. Y’all going after people who ain’t did shit too you.
Jill Biden Wants to Invite Caitlin Clark and Iowa to White House to Celebrate LSU Championship; This is Quite Possibly The Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Heard, and The First Lady Should Really Think At Why This Even Came Out of Her Mouth (Video)
I personally feel like reading Tommy Curry set me up to not be surprised by the fascist rhetoric on Houseless men I see on here.
Cause be Fr, y’all know who it’s truly aimed at.
Niggas always turning something into a gender war when it ain’t even about that.
If Black women are becoming the face of the Democrats then that’s a PROBLEM.
The Color Purple discourse & Black male whining is reminding me of how Audre Lorde cleared James Baldwin so thoroughly and completely in Revolutionary Hope.
A massive convergence of right wing militants in Columbus, some armed, just shut down a drag holiday event. Organizers expected police to show, unsurprisingly, they did not.
Or they did dressed in black/yellow.
Proud Boys and Patriot Front are emboldened after Club Q.
Got into her conspiracy theory bag and things got really weird (claimed there was an impending race war and that she was gonna join and take down the American government through guerrilla warfare)
I want black people to stop feeding into this discussion. BLM was/is a legit movement that got co-opted and turned into a state funded ngo. Literally the whole point was to have us looking at organizing funny.
HOLY SHIT: The University of CA Medical School experimented on 2,600 incarcerated men, injecting pesticides & herbicides into their veins & applying the chemicals to their skin. An apologize isn’t enough. Such conduct damages & discredits medical science.
Shit, a lot of these college educated mfs don't even be that "smart" fr. They be just as misinformed as anybody else, just more confident about it lol.
People tell Black men to express themselves which the hidden implication is “in a way that makes us comfortable”
When you go outside of that, you get reactions like that.
Atlanta will forever be legendary as a Black city, with a Black Mayor, Black DA and a Black Sheriff that did not let Donald Trump & his white privilege dodge the same accountability, that all other criminal defendants get.
Especially Black ones.
Why voting matters.
I wonder how many people upset about “Cop City” in Atlanta were also on here dogging out Stacey Abrams.
Governor Abrams could have checked Atlanta’s mayor and council.
The dems & republicans are apparently not the same and the 1994 crime bill is in the past so we should just forget about it cause thats not Joe Biden anymore.
The U.S. and China should not be spending billions in planning for a war against each other. Instead, they should cut their military budgets and unite to wage war against climate change, an existential threat to both countries and the world.
@NovaFrankly
He supported Palestine during his campaign and once elected became a Zionist.
As for the allegiance part, if you use them for you campaign then yes you should OR just say you have zero principles.
Bayard Rustin was a liberal who was strongly for assimilation. He was pro-Israel and pro-Vietnam, advocated against the Black Power Movement and its followers, and threw dirt on Malcolm’s name after his death. But he gets a pass cause he was gay 🤷🏾♂️