It was sad on the Spaces last night that one can't just judge or base their critiques on hooks solely on one thing whether it was the Central Park 5 or a book quote.
My question then is what is the standard and what are we doing? Peel this thread on responses to other deaths
More on Kobe
"He was a sports hero, he also was a rapist."
Here is a thread on the history of Africans and what becomes the Americas. I've been studying this for years and have conducted primary research including archival, genealogical, ethnographic and oral histories. I write about some of the details in my diss drive.google.com/file/d/1j2OYvU…
First, all of civilization started in what later on becomes Africa. In the beginning it wasn't called Africa but the first human beings that populated the Earth migrated out of "Africa" into other parts of the world education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/globa…
So the Indigenous people on this land that we now call the 2 continents of North America and South America were not originally called that. The US was actually referred to as "Turtle Island" by some Indigenous peoples
I'm tired of all the infighting, FBA/ADOS/Pan African or Divestor/SYSBM and on and on. We are all Black first. Black love first. I don't care what side you are on, check out this thread.
1st, I love ALL Black people
I was thinking about this dude & bam here goes the Tweet. Basically they want a place in this world & to be fully loved and whole as we all do BUT
let me show you the trick of the enemy.
This White way of seeing the world, patriarchy, causes division
Look at the ongoing conversation, it is literally predicated on some type of identity that points to differences between Black people. Look at Whytes tho, they don't do that. They find a way to come together, case in point Donald Trump. He exemplifies patriarchy.
Who voted for him? All types of Whytes, from college educated White women to queer folx. Here is the point, they put these gender and sexuality differences aside and unified around Whiteness.
Fam, let me clear up a huge misconception. BLACK MEN DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM EXPRESSING THEIR FEELINGS!!!
First, a lot of people just don't understand Black men. I ain't going to hold you, I had to go on a journey to better understand myself. Why? 🧵
Ever since I was a boy, all that was being pushed to me is that men need to do better and act better. That's all I got about men. The rest was about understanding everyone else. Understanding girls, understanding women, understanding authority & later understanding LGBTQIA folx
There was no sense of understanding Black boys and men
Because of this, whenever I acted like a boy or a man, I would be corrected
When I drove, police corrected me to make sure I drove right. I've been pulled over more than 30 times now, once I didn't stop right