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Malachi Jones. A 17-year-old wunderkind who is heading to Columbia University this fall, has been awarded a Gold Medal Portfolio, the highest honor of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

For those who won’t read past the headline, at least you’ll know his name
So Malachi Jones has reached out to me and is very grateful that WE amplified his story. This is why I love some us!

We are very proud of you Malachi!
Malachi Jones twitter is @immalachijones if you wish to say something to him directly! Congrats!
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Tariq Nasheed doesn’t want liberation, he wants the power to oppress like a white man

You can’t be pro-Black and attack Black women regularly

You can’t be pro-Black and patriarchal

You can’t be pro-Black & anti-queer

His hatred of some Black folks is a tool of white supremacy
Black women and Black queer people square up daily against anti-Blackness.

He feels that any checking of cishet Black men is anti-Black which is dangerous and part of that “protect the image” at all cost logic.

Naw. Especially when our lives are on the line.
We can fight white supremacy AND make it known that Black women are dying at the hands of Black men

That Black queer people aren’t being supported, acknowledged and affirmed enough by Black cishets

That’s how this works. If you ain’t worried about trans deaths, you ain’t for us
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Today’s #BlackHistoryMonth thread is dedicated to scientific racism.

Drapetomania: “Runaway Slave Syndrome”
American physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright observed black slaves who fled from captivity and saw an illness. He named the illness, “Drapetomania or the disease causing Negroes to flee” #BlackHistoryMonth
To cure Drapetomania, recommended “whipping the devil out of them” until slaves became submissive again. “Submissive” was the primary state to which he felt they belonged. Another remedy suggested by Cartwright was having the big toe from both feet severed. #BlackHistoryMonth
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Today’s Black History thread is dedicated to racism in swimming. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

It’s was reported that an entire swimming pool was drained because Dorothy Dandridge took a swim in it.
The New Frontier hotel in Vegas also drained an entire swimming pool because Sammy Davis Jr took a swim.
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
When pools were integrated, an incident occurred where a manager poured acid in the water while black kids were still swimming in it
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06/01/2019 - 78 years ago today, the longest-serving #UnitedStates #President, #Franklin D. #Roosevelt (#FDR) addressed the 77th #Congress with his "#Four #Freedoms" speech with the intent to shift #US #foreign #policy from that of #neutrality to #interventionist.
#FDR promoted the idea that the people of the world, in all nations, shared entitlement to four freedoms: that of the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear.
#FDR is arguably one of the most 'successful' #US Presidents. Some would argue that on the basis of his numerous social policies such as 'the New Deal'. Others, however, would argue that his role during the second world war was more prevalent to his success & everlasting legacy.
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It’s time for #SurvivingRKelly NOW on @lifetimetv. Retweet if you’re watching!
Shouts to @johnlegend @TaranaBurke @JamilahLemieux @Karnythia @thewayoftheid @nelsongeorge @Toure and, most importantly, all of the survivors for taking part in the #SurvivingRKelly docuseries. It’s on NOW on @lifetimetv!
What I appreciate about this @lifetimetv docuseries is that they’re not coming hard at R Kelly from jump. They’re really providing context, including that the Kelly brothers were abused as children. #SurvingRKelly
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White male student gets recorded saying he "loves white people" and Columbia University is holding an open space for reflection in response to that "incident."

NBC journalist @kfloresguzman is currently writing a hit piece on the boy that was recorded.
The student in question doesn't say anything remotely racist, but the university "unequivocally denounced" him. The University officials also lie, they claim that "painful language directed toward students of color" were spoken.

Here's the clip:
What's most interesting is that in the video, one of the people heckling him thinks it's okay to put her hands on his face. Another one shouts "degenerate" at him.

He doesn't insult them once.

This is what they're attacking him for.
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Gold: Mukesh Kumar, manager of research for @GOLDCOUNCIL in India, has spent the past few days talking to contacts across the Indian #gold market. The first thing I would observe is that the NCDEX polled premium is now positive (data to 20 August) 1/6
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According to #Jones Abiri, at DSS cells he met many suspected members of MASSOB, IPOB, Ombatse, Boko Haram etc 'who are yet to be charged for any offence.'

APC & human rights: it is troubling that a professor of Law & an SAN is part of this APC govt.

dailytrust.com.ng/i-was-detained…
Jones Abiri further says that at the DSS, he was 'blindfolded, beaten with metal object & was held in an underground facility where he slept on bare floor & later papers, with poor feeding & medical attention for 2 years'.

Are these people human beings?

dailytrust.com.ng/i-was-detained…
In addition, John Abiri said that 'he shared the cell room of about 12x12 with 26 other suspects'.

How can Yemi Osibanjo's humanity, christian conscience, law professorship & SAN status accommodate such huge human rights violation?

Egwu di!

dailytrust.com.ng/i-was-detained…
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Bought a lot of #gold today. Going home now because I think I might throw up.
Gold vs Commercial Short position with Daily Sentiment (DSI) indicated in red. I'm estimating real time commercial shorts are now less than 50k (green box) and maybe even lower.
1/ I have received so many DMs, emails and phone calls regarding the initial tweet about #Gold (above from Thursday) that I’m going to try and explain my thinking here. Hopefully it translates into a coherent answer.
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