The blackest thing that ever happened is this Zoom call I’m on with my aunties, uncles and cousins.
First of all, everyone is hollering at the tip of their voices at the SAME TIME.
Except for one cousin, and my aunt is warning that “She ain’t loud like us... ion know what’s wrong with her”
And everyone wants to know what everyone else cooked, like we don’t eat together all the time.
I kinda wanna know, too.
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Now my uncle is praying but he don’t know how to work the phone.
Still praying.
He’s still praying.
15 squares on the Zoom
No TVs turned down.
Kids laughing
No one is on mute
He’s still praying. Our food is gonna be blessed AF
I’m bout to catch the Holy Ghost..
Or starve
Finally finished.
Now he wants to know why I didn’t come see him the last time I was in NC.
Bruh, NC IS A HUGE STATE
Somebody’s snitching and I know who it is.
One cousin put up a virtual background and now my aunts think she knows magic.
23 squares now.
My cousin who snitched on me is here.
My favorite aunt too.
My nepher and his wife are having a boy.
My aunt did not wait for them to tell us.
My other nephew is on active duty and was shipped away but his new wife logged on. Someone should have warned her. She wasn’t ready
My aunt wants to know how she keeps her skin so pretty.
Did you know that you need to use a mointurizer with... what they call that thang... SPF, if you’re in front of the computer a lot or your skin will dry out
My cousin created her own background but she was always smart with them computers.
Guess how tall my nephew Earvin is now? 5’7”!!!
He gon be a giant!
My oldest aunt’s birthday is in January. If we’re lucky, we’ll have a new president by then.
If not, my aunt Eva and my uncle rob have agreed to go up there and “bust a move.”
And you know he has a leather cowboy hat, so...
My aunt Marvell caught Covid AND had spinal surgery.
She’s apologizing for not sending me my yearly supply of homemade jelly.
She’s gonna send some as soon as she recovers.
I accept her apology
Breaking news, they went to my cousin Kat’s graduation and guess what she did?
She cut off ALL HER HAIR.
Luckily she has the right shaped head.
My uncle Rob got them cowboy hats , though.
Did you know the COVID vaccine gonna have a contract tracer in it?
my aunt said it
My uncle said he ain’t taking it til after a year.
My aunt told him not to worry—by the time they get to us, they won’t have none left.
You know who My aunt feels sorry for?
Dr. Faucci.
She praying for that man.
Confession time:
My cousin Cicely is too sweet. We let her make it but we add water before the prayer.
God doesn’t want us to catch diabetes.
My uncles are talking about wealth-building along with spiritual, mental and emotional health.
The “each one teach one” has come out.
My cousin Kat is eating on mute. Her head is shaped nice. She looks so disinterested. Her background is 🔥🔥
My aunts say not to mention “that man’s name” on this family Zoom. We gotta call him “45”
Also, my aunt says she should sell her oxtail seasoning but my uncle made these and they’re good.
But if he told you what he put in them, he’ll have to kill you.
My other aunt fell in love with ginger and started growing her own. Takes about 5 months.
She grows them on her deck. When she makes her smoothies, she puts ginger in it.
She liked Ginger ale ever since she was a kid.
Not that Canada Dry mess.
Also, my uncle Rob cooked a piece of salmon a foot and a half long.
My aunt say he lying. Ain’t no fish that big
He’s never been in a Whole Foods. He wants to see one
My aunt says it ain’t nothing but a Piggly Wiggly for white people.
They take your WHOLE PAYCHECK for a little bit of food
They’re arguing about whether Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world.
“Ask Mikey, he’ll know.”
“He is,” I answer.
I looked on the same machine they’re doing their Zoom calls from .
A lot of people don't know his name but he is evidence of how recent slavery was. It's SUCH a crazy, mindblowing story that's centered on a Black woman who I've argued might be the MOST important person in Civil Rights history
A thread.
To understand how crazy this story is, it starts with an enslaved man and ENDS in 2018... WITH A SLAVE SHIP.
Y'all, it's crazy.
It started when the War for White Supremacy broke out in SC. A lot of those racists believed that their human property were actually happy!
One of the enslaved men had gotten a job on a Confederate transport ship because knew more about SC ports than all those mediocre white men combined, so he started plotting.
He got other enslaved people to work on the ship and the dumb-ass white dudes actually let them!
To all the people who argue that the "left" should stop using phrases like "defund the police" and words like "socialism" or "reparations"
It's a STUPID STUPID STUPID argument.
History has proven it time and time again.
A thread:
When the U.S. told England to kick rocks in 1776, Thomas Jefferson said: "If I'm going to write a declaration of independence, I GOTTA mention that 'slavery' thing. Yeah, I have slaves but we all know it's wrong."
But he was told not to use the "s-word" so he told King George:
But the other dudes were like:
"Maybe we should take that whole part out if we want those dudes down South to support our plan. I'm sure they'll come around in like 5 or six years."
Trump: I take full responsibility for coronavirus but it’s not my fault, it’s China’s fault. But it’s my responsibility...What does responsibility mean, again?
Trump talks about closing the border to China like Al Bundy talks about his four-touchdown football game in high school
Trump talks like someone giving a book report but didn’t read the book because it was “massive.” He knows the book “very strongly.” In fact, he gets along very well with author, who’s probably a Democrat, but he’d blow away every book report if he wanted to. Especially Hillary’s