Today, The Movement Made Us is finally out in the world. I want you to read about my dad’s story and our relationship. But I want you to know and feel the people who made the Movement and who made us. A 🧵
Chadwick Boseman getting emotional about trading letters with kids with terminal cancer who passed before they got to see Black Panther...knowing he was himself battling cancer when he said this. Jesus.
People love saying “you’re gonna need the police when you get robbed” and like I don’t know a single person who had a police officer stop them from getting robbed. I know a lot of people who got robbed and told the police who then took notes and drove away and did nothing.
in 2-3 weeks the media is going to use growing COVID numbers to vilify the masked, outdoor, necessary, life-saving protests across the world. When they do that, show them these mask-less people indoors across the country fighting for nobody's rights whatsoever.
All Lives Matter didn't trend once in these months that saw 100,000 Americans die from a pandemic. But Black folks demand equality and it starts trending. I'm tired, man.
Dave Chappelle questioned why fellow comedian Katt Williams would call out his peers when “all of us are trying to be in a better situation.”
"Hurt people hurt people, but I am a hurt person that never hurt people, and he does it all the time."
Squid Game is the biggest show in Netflix history.
Can we finally admit that it was a Hollywood lie all these years that you needed a white lead to do well internationally.
I love a rapper who can find different pockets and flows to tap into that are dope.
Iggy Azalea can’t do any of that but I just wanted to let you all know I like a rapper who can.
This picture is from 65 years ago today. Emmett Till's killers acquitted after a jury deliberated for a little more than an hour. sixty-five years. Today.
Caitlin Clark waves off Raven Johnson while she was taking a shot last year in the playoffs. Johnson became a meme. Mocked all over social media. She came back and put Caitlin Clark in hell for the championship game. That’s a champion.
he says this knowing good and well next season gonna have an episode where a trafficking ring gets exposed during a rap battle between Duke and Kenyon Lavar
world really giving Tory Lanez SHOOTING Megan Thee Stallion 1/10th of the outrage they gave Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift at an awards show and it's pretty pathetic
white people will steal your shit and be so committed to the crime that they forget they stole it and think they're gifting you something they shouldn't have had in the first place
Regardless the outcome. Kyle Rittenhouse’s life is over. Forever known as a murderer. He will struggle the rest of his life. People will avoid him. Parents will not want him to date their daughters. His fake tears will hound him. His life ended when he squeezed that trigger.
Lebron = needs a super team
Steph = no finals MVP
KD = joined a super team
Giannis = “no skill”
We are so creative at discrediting greatness even as it’s happening. Such an era of irredeemably negative “fans”
I would like somebody *anybody* to explain to me how what Aaron Rodgers is doing is any less distracting or an embarrassment to the NFL shield than what Colin Kaepernick did.
the best Sidney Poitier story is the time he and Harry Belafonte flew down to the Delta to bring $70K to keep Freedom Summer going. They got in a high speed chase with police who tried to stop them from delivering the money and they made it there anyway.
The White House is owning folks with these PPP receipts but uh also revealing how easily they were willing to give money to millionaires and how easily they could just cancel all student loans if they wanted to
The most Chris Rock thing about all of this is him screaming that you don’t fight in front of white people but not even considering what it means to make jokes about a BW and her hair in front of white people
You know what I haven’t seen all month? People quoting the actual funny parts of the Chappelle special. I’m be seen a lot of people saying it’s funny. But no quotes, no clips of nailed punchlines, no memes. No gifs. Just people swearing they heard comedy. But…where?
I think it's hilarious that an entire superstar rapper named Megan Thee Stallion was actually shot and none of these rappers were clutching their pearls over violence.
Wonder why.
Joe Rogan apologizes for resurfaced podcast clips of him using the N-word.
Spotify has reportedly removed 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience that see the comedian using racist slurs.
If you aren’t going to call a guy who murders Black people using a gun with swastikas on it a white supremacist then you are no longer invested in telling the truth in any meaningful way
We've never heard his name because white people will sacrifice white people for the sake of maintaining white supremacist organizations like the police. Why didn't YOU march for him?
Tony Timpa was suffocated by police during an arrest. He screamed “you’re going to kill me.” And they did. As he lay dead, they cracked jokes. There were no riots. Little coverage. You’ve never heard his name because he’s white.
If you don't come out of this Uvalde tragedy with a concrete understanding of the actual function of policing in America then I don't know what will make you realize that saving lives isn't part of the job
This is a specific type of explaining that these brothers do when they want to sound smart by saying things they think rich white men want to hear. Like intellectual minstrelsy or something.
Kevin Hart says the hood is full of liquor stores and check cashing pay day loan places because people aren't "smart enough" to have bank accounts.
These celebs get a little $$ and think they can comment on planned systemic poverty + financial exploitation.
So I'm watching The Joker. And apparently they based his laughing thing on a real neurological condition AND THEY DIDN'T MAKE HIS ASS GO ON AN APOLOGY TOUR LIKE THEY DID LUPITA FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS GOOGLE SHOW ME INTERSECTIONALITY PLEASE
An auntie just hopped on the kids’ class zoom and said “if it starts lightning my baby not gonna be on zoom we turning our electronics off in here” and my heart
This scene from
#ADifferentWorld
encapsulates the hundreds of years struggles that
#Black
#America
has had to endure when faced with a Demon that haunts the entire continent called white supremacy. The Devil is busy. Don't let the Devil win.
We are watching a whole generation of rappers get snuffed out in real time. Especially in Atlanta. A whole movement of rappers are either dead or in jail at this very moment.
I've been writing about this for literally a dozen years: but you want to talk about why newsrooms are full of "both sides" trash and people who don't understand what we're going thru? It goes back to the era of unpaid internships.
Everybody being like “Tabitha Brown was so wholesome in that video to Wendy” clearly didn’t know when a certain type of southern woman has threatened their lives before
No amount of billions you give to the police is going to make a cop who supposedly doesn’t know the difference between a taser and a gun better at their job
I know far too many Black people who were 14 and 15 on the *other* side of those Jerry Jones pics who are still feeling the effects of that terrorism but by all means let’s feel sorry for the billionaire whose only consequence will be having to answer some questions about it
Black women have historically been the most marginalized group in America, but I’m going to give a gender neutral and racially indifferent take on Angel Reese:
“In sports, you can’t act like the big bad wolf, then cry like courage the cowardly dog.”
“He’s a Republican” is trending because Joe Manchin won’t vote to secure voting rights. “He’s a Republican” is trending because it makes people feel better to equate white supremacy to republicanism as opposed to the actual truth that white supremacy is bipartisan.
I just really want you to pay attention to just how silent pretty much every billionaire has been in helping people out right now. Remember this next time you think it's dope they donate .000000001% of their income to something next year
"Do it for your abuela, do it for your grandaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop pop." -- Surgeon General Jerome Adams's message to communities of color about avoiding drugs and alcohol
So in the last few weeks: WTA said Osaka can’t take care of her mental health, gymnastics punished Simone for being too good, Sha’Carri banned for racist marijuana laws, five BW banned for natural testosterone levels. It’s almost as if there’s a concerted anti-BW effort here.