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6 Feb, 14 tweets, 1 min read
10 minutes in #MalcolmAndMarie and...nah.
None of this is believable and I can tell a white man wrote it.
I like Black and White films though, so I'm going to keep watching.
And they got Little Simz playing!
I like jazz music!
Who argues like this?
Did she just ask are you abusing me while eating mac n' cheese?

What?
There is an hour and thirty minutes left. That argument seemed more like a climax of a movie to me. What more drama can unfurl?
Sex scene and more jazz? I'm here for it.
But they still talking...
Another Angela Davis reference. Yup, if you didn't know, these are Black people!
William Bell! More good music!
They arguing again and I don't believe em.

And this where Malcolm tells the audience all of Marie's backstory during a long ranty monologue.

I mean I don't know how you can be this angry and not stutter, stammer. He was talking for a whole 2 minutes uninterrupted.
And why she ain't interrupt him?

I don't believe them! lol
Phone call. I'll continue this later. lol

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Update y'all:
- I've had two city inspectors who have gotten on my landlord's bumper! I believe one called him a "cocksucker" under his breath. Don't quote me.
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What's the difference between being cheap and being frugal?
I legitimately thought they were synonymous, but cheap has a more negative connotation.
Using as many coupons as you can?
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I had a great 11 am phone conversation with Keith Lamar (@FREEKeithLaMar). He sounds well and tells me that he is grateful for all the new support he has received. He's currently reading Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Are Watching God" with juvenile youth via zoom.
November 16, 2023 is Keith's execution date.
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Radical histories must be protected. You can't talk about the Panther's breakfast program as just mutual aid. They called it survival programs for survival pending revolution. The goal of all their programs was to be amongst the people and build towards the overthrow of the US.
If they were just feeding people for free, they'd be a food pantry.

All of their programs were intentionally designed to show Black people what socialism looked like. Huey P. even said Black people weren't a reading population, so you have to demonstrate what socialism is.
Read the Huey P. Newton Reader. Don't idolize the man.

Read the theory and self-critique of the organizational praxis. He states that he and other Panthers knew that every day could be their last day. They knew what their objective was and how their enemy (US) would respond.
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"A frequent rumor among non-Muslims was 'Malcolm X is making a pile of money.' All Muslims at least knew better than that. Me making money? The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in."
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