Oya's winds are going to rue the day! Gonna release the gates -- gonna let out Lula The Lion! #Lula2022
'What injustice consumes
Oya’s water quell.’
“Men were here in #Brazil 100, 000 years ago, and we think they came here from Africa — the current and the wind come from #Africa.”
— Dr. Niède Guidon, Brazilian archaeologist.
The Wakanda of Brazil:
"Salvador da Bahia is Brazil’s most African city and their culture is thriving".
Nazis plot bright and early; come with rocks wrapped in delusions...
But Oya's Children will bring bricks wrapped in reality
From the streets of Brazil, Africa, Europe, Japan, Asia, America --- Oya's wind will blow.
White Nationalist Delusions Have Real Life Consequences...
"#Oya had become so furious that she wanted to destroy the kingdom with her winds, but controlled herself because she respected her father Obatala ...
"So sad and lonely, she turned to #Yemaya "Iya mi (my mother) with your waters and my winds we could end this marriage".
Diversity: The (remedy) for the posion that is White Supremacy:
The answer to unforgivable #whiteness IS an unforgivable Blackness.
You are to love yourself harder than they hate you. And you must NEVER, EVER, apologize (or make excuses) for telling the truth or being what God made you to be.
The Case Against White Nationalism
by Professor Romila Thapar
“Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.”
Romila Thapar speaks on "The Nation and History: Then and Now"
The Case for Diversity
THAPARISM ON FIRE 🔥
"The state prefers to endorse a uniform, homogenized culture, as such a culture would be simple to identify and easy to control."
Romila Thapar, Nationalism
"The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt."
"Official histories of #DDay have long excluded the contributions made by African Americans. Literature professor Alice Mills waded into the past to uncover these forgotten World War II heroes.'"
As if Oya and Shango had a black American baby - delivered on a stormy Saturday -- at Harlem hospital.
Imagine being born on the day, the day Hannibal defeats the Roman Empire.
Standing there effortlessly dismantling the claims of The Monster. As if the ancestors were talking to him...
Weaponized by momma Africa 🌍 with the right tools, used at the right time -- delivered with force.
— James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley
-- The Entire Debate --
"What we are not facing is the result of what we've done. What one begs the American people to do, for all our fates, is simply to accept our history."
— James Baldwin, in debate with William F. Buckley" @Cambridge_Uni, 1965
#BlackWallStreet is a very serious reminder of the dissimilar history African American businesses had to endure, endured, things, that most of "The Newly Arrived" would've never survived. And, despite our history: Today, they ask "Why can't you just be like the good Asians".
You could have built to the moon 🌚 and watch it all disappear, all in one night, all in one night! The legal beneficiaries of our pain, being falsely compared to us. Centuries of working for free; due to slavery,
And, now, this. After all that — and we were supposedly "free".
2020 Update: Roland Fryer is wrong: There is racial bias in shootings by police
"The specific flaws of Roland Fryer's paper have now been characterized in two studies (by other scholars, not myself). Knox, Lowe, and Mummolo (2019) ...." nytimes.com/2016/07/12/ups…
What's fascinating to me about The Republican Party and #CriticalRaceTheory: The Republican Party was created to free people from a White Supremacist institution.
The Democrats used to mock it by calling it "The Black Party".
Using Diversity for White Supremacy: The Lily-White Movement
"To avoid criticism, one or two blacks were usually seated with lily-white delegations to the national gatherings. ...
'To avoid criticism, one or two blacks were usually seated with lily-white delegations to the national gatherings. The lily-whites gained new momentum with the adoption of the poll tax and the passage of the Terrell Election Law (see ELECTION LAWS).'