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27 Sep
Here’s the thing about what @DezBryant said. It’s not just that Des Bryant is wrong, it’s clear that he’s saying something that white people told him to say.

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Even the term “bring awareness” proves Dez doesn’t know what he’s talking about
because the narrative surrounding Kaepernick has been so twisted by media outlets that MOST people truly believe Kaepernick wanted to bring social Justice & politics to the biggest platform in sports
That’s not actually what happened.

On August 14, 2016, Kaepernick didn’t stand for the national anthem. It was a personal choice. He didn’t issue a statement or talk about it, for a very good reason:

No one noticed.

August 20, 2016, he did the same thing.

No one noticed.
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24 Sep
You can't really be angry about this picture without getting angry about the backstory.

The reason Haiti has refugees is because of the predicament it is in is BECAUSE of the U.S. policy of white supremacy.

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I have told the story of the Haitian revolution before, but all you need to know is that when enslaved people in Haiti became the first nation in the history of the world to take control of their country, white people were SHOOK.

You gotta remember, the distance from Haiti to the US is about the same distance from Charleston to NY - The 2 richest cities in the US

But they couldn't fuck with Haiti's wealth (Remember, before the Revolution, America was a colony. After the revolution, the US was broke AF)
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17 Sep
People really just say shit without actually knowing WTF they’re talking about.

Bill “I’m-not-a-white-supremacist-but-you-gotta-admit-that-white-people-are-supreme” Maher even said singing it was like “segregation”

Is it, though?

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We won’t start by talking about how the National Anthem was written by Francis Scott Key—a slave owner who started the American Colonization Society to get FREE black Americans achieve a goal white people often email me about -

Go back to Africa
We don’t even have to talk about the fact that the Star Spangled Banner is racist itself…

I’m assuming you can read

theroot.com/star-spangled-…
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16 Sep
The 16th Street Bombing was 58 years ago.

But just like MOST things, most of us really know the real story:

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The first thing a lot of people think is that this surprise attack "shook the city" and the world.

Not really.

While it was a despicable act, for people in Birmingham, it wasn't that much of a surprise. White supremacist terrorists did this ALL the time in Birmingham.
There's even a part of the city called Dynamite Hill because, during the Civil Rights Era,* more than 50 homes in the city were bombed by white supremacists.

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church isn't in Dynamite Hill.

*Also, when I talk about the Civil Rights Era...
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29 Aug
This is a good point.

When anti-vaxxers cite their freedoms, constitutional rights, and–the whitest thing of all–the Founding Fathers to rail against vaccine mandates, do they know what they're talking about?

What if I told you this happens EXACTLY every 100 years?

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In 1706, the members of a Boston church gave the pastor Cotton Mather a gift bag with a very special present--an enslaved Black man named Onesimus.

( That's how they collected tithes and offerings, but times were very different back then)

But Mather couldn't STAND Onesimus
Some of it was because Onesimus laughed his ass off when Mather tried to convince him that God was white. Mather said Onesimus was "wicked" because he was too smart. Plus, Onesimus tried to tell Mather something that was unbelievable.

In Africa, they had cured smallpox. Image
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21 Aug
When will we address the attacks on our most prominent Black families that the entertainment industry has allowed to happen for half a century?

It’s time to expose the truth.

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I know some people will call this a conspiracy theory but I’ve been tracking this for 40 years and the public needs to know about it. If nothing else, we need to protect ourselves.

It began with the murder of Elizabeth Sanford in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
Some people say that the killer was targeting Fred, but its clear it was a coordinated attack. I don’t know who did it, but I bet the police were involved. Why do you think Hoppy and Smitty were always snooping around? And everyone knows Rollo was an undercover agent
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