"While capitalism is a good system, it requires capital to participate."

(*whispers* it also requires cheap labor 😬)

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Have y'all read this Contract With Black America Ice Cube stay talking about, cuz.... "Venture Capital and Private Equity funds that take money from police unions or other public entities must invest 13.4% of their total funds in Black owned businesses."

So...take the money, but give a tiny slice of it back to the communities these police unions brutalize?

So...Liam Neeson really decided to just blow up his career by admitting he once wanted (and actually walked around w/ a crowbar!) to murder a Black man, any Black man.

And he did it while promoting another one of his old white man gets revenge movies.

Amazing. “I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know?" theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/…

Out here at @theaafca's Special Achievement Awards luncheon. #aafcaawards10 The first award, the Horizon Award, goes to studio executive, @alanaoyam.

Who said she used to complain about being the only Black person in the room, until her friend asked her, "What are you gonna do about it?" That helped shape her career. #aafcaawards10

I saw Green Book back in August, so it's interesting to read everybody's takes now. It's also equally interesting to see Universal push it so heavy for awards season.

https://twitter.com/BritniDWrites/status/1025143146282283008

#GreenBookMovie's original sin is the title. There's literally NO reason for it to be called Green Book in the first place AND that sets it up for failure b/c audiences will expect a film about the The Negro Motorist Green Book. It's not.

Today a few of my #SGRho sorors were racially profiled in PA while cleaning up a highway their chapter adopted. It's a reminder that Black women in general (and SIGMA women esp) have ALWAYS been on the front lines fighting racial injustice. I'll explore some ways in this #thread

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First, some background: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc (@sgrhoupdates) was organized by 7 teachers in 1922 in the heart of Klan country in Indiana (I'm working on a project abt this). At the time, it was known as “Klandiana” b/c it had the largest number of Klan members, abt 250K

In honor of #CincodeMayo, here are some things you may not have known about Afro-Mexican history. While the bulk of enslaved Africans ended up in South America+Caribbean (more than 4 million sent to Brazil alone), around 200K enslaved Africans were imported into what is now Mexico between the 1520s and 1829 #CincoDeMayo