America can continue to lace injustice with fancy words & sympathetic speeches.
Black people have known America’s justice system to be a lair from inception.
We know injustice when we see it. We ain’t stupid.
Kentucky & this nation have denied #BreonnaTaylor justice.
You can dress it in Black skin, with a degree, & a suit. Or you can put a hood on & burn a cross. Black people know America all too well.
Any system that allowed the slavery of other humans to exist is corrupted from the start. The founders built a nation to protect them.
It must be our dedication as Black people to never relent in our pursuit of a more just America.
We didn’t pick America, they picked us.
Therefore we have a right to fight. For #BreonnaTaylor and the countless others unjustly killed by the government.
While some will lean to despair, and hopelessness. It is in our fight that we have always achieved our greatest success as a people.
Every time America finds a way to try and deny us, we dig a little deeper into who we are and plot a path toward justice & liberation.
Know who & what your enemy is, call it what it is, & then defeat it.
Our enemy is injustice, racism, sexism, inequity, & hatred.
We defeat it, with hope, determination, righteous indignation, strategy, intellect, and courage.
May the ancestors stand in us at this hour.
As it was with those who came before us, our cause is just. Our fight is a righteous one. We will not be turned back, and we will move our people forward.
The generations to come will reap a harvest from our labor of love for our people. #KeepPushing#LetsGoHigher
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Calcasieu 31k - 2,260
St. Landry 25k - 3,038
St. Tammany 22k - 24,09
Tangipahoa 21k - 1,541
That means for every 10 Black people you see this weekend, only 1 of them voted.
There are 942,000 registered Black voters in Louisiana. If you want change share this & let’s move them.
We rank #50 in the nation.
#48 in education
#46 in healthcare
#47 in opportunity
#50 in crime
While Mr. Call a Crackhead @SenJohnKennedy collects a government check while doing nothing to make Louisiana better.
We can force a runoff if Black voters show up in masses.
A year ago @lukemixonla called me to tell me he was running for the U.S. Senate. I asked him how would he get the Black vote. He stumbled around with his answer because he had no plan to get Black voters.
Today he dropped a ad with a fake New Orleans accent pandering to Black voters in New Orleans.
When people ask me why I ran, it’s because I’m tired of people like Luke Mixon taking my community for granted.
As it stands we have Mr. Call a Crackhead on the right showing only Black people in his ad. Now we have Luke using paid Black voices because he hasn’t actually worked to earn the Black vote.
As a Black man in America I’ve never feared my Muslim brothers and sisters.
It was young white men who hung my ancestors. It was young white men who became cops & got away w murdering us.
The biggest threat to Black liberty has always been white men.
Even the gun violence in the hood.
Who created the ghetto? Who redlined Black people into housing projects, paid us unfair wages, gave our tax dollars to their communities while starving ours?
White men did. Those are facts. If you don’t like those facts, change your ways!
Black people being killed in the grocery store for being Black, I don’t have time to be politically correct to save the feelings of white men when Black bodies are dropping in this nation everyday.
The cancer of America has always been racist white men & women. They exist.
He’s the best man I’ve ever known, William Johnson. He’s also my Daddy. God knew I needed more than one because I’d be a lot to handle.
When I was 2 months old, his wife came home with her brothers baby, me. They took me in the day my mother died, and raised me as their own.
William took me to school every morning. He taught me how to tie a tie. He gave me my first car. He helped me buy my second car. He taught me to be proud of my Blackness. He taught me how to like myself even when the world hated me.
He would always say, “I don’t care if you like me, I like me and that’s enough.” He taught me that I was enough.
Most of all, he taught me that love is a choice. You see, I wasn’t born his son, yet I got everything his sons got.