“Black Billionaire Robert Smith Makes Historic Forty Million Dollar Pledge” and other tweeted links…

Black Billionaire Robert Smith Makes Historic Forty Million Dollar Pledge To Eliminate Morehouse Graduates Student Debt http://www.blackstarnews.com/education/education/black-billionaire-robert-smith-makes-historic-forty-million

UCLA medical center employees strike over outsourcing of jobs http://abc7.la/2W9asdB

Homeless teen becomes high school valedictorian, earns $3M in scholarships https://abc7.com/education/homeless-teen-awarded-$3m-in-scholarships-as-valedictorian-/5310814/

City of Inglewood Begins Quiet Evictions of Elderly Residents - https://2urbangirls.com/2019/05/21/city-of-inglewood-begins-quiet-evictions-of-elderly-residents/

102-year-old woman facing eviction in Ladera Heights gets offer of help from Schwarzenegger https://abc7.com/realestate/102-year-old-woman-facing-eviction-in-ladera-heights/5316659/

I can't do these homeless to 'success" stories anymore. Ppl shouldn't be fuckin homeless.

The U.S. Debt Ceiling Expired on March 1 and Nobody Cared – But They Will http://bit.ly/2JAKee8

This #MemorialDay let’s not forget that white supremacists in this country specifically targeted black veterans for violence and lynchings. https://eji.org/reports/targeting-black-veterans/ @eji_org #BlackHistoryEveryday #BlackHistory365

I've been saying this for the last 31+ years. #TheGoodBook was one of the first ways to manipulate a slaves mentality. Choose death or conformity? Do your own research. #SlaveBible #EddieGriffin #SundaySermon Go to The Source. https://twitter.com/EddieGriffinCom/status/1125110415757733889/video/1

In early 1965, #MalcolmX traveled to Nigeria: "When I was in Ibadan at the University of Ibadan, the students there gave me a new name ... 'Omowale,' which they say means in Yoruba ... 'The child has returned'.” It is Malcolm X's birthday today. https://africasacountry.com/2011/06/malcolm-x-in-africa1/ https://twitter.com/africasacountry/status/1130191547796840449/photo/1

Arguably the most powerful eulogy ever given was Ossie Davis speaking on the life of the world changing, Malcolm X. Happy birthday brother Malcolm. #MalcolmX https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1130104725381292033/video/1

Top 5 Rebellious African Tribes During Slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYFKhE26ab4&feature=share

I resigned today from the German "African Studies Association" #VAD . They hold a workshop for their 50th anniversary reflecting on their history-without a single African speaker. I find this unacceptable&asked them to reconsider. They didn't see the need for this. So I am out. https://twitter.com/juergenzimmerer/status/1131636962354503681

We are STUNNED by Mati Diop’s ATLANTIQUE, a beautifully crafted love story that manages to be a crime mystery, a magic realist tale, and a paean to the youth of Senegal all at once #Cannes2019 https://twitter.com/anothergaze/status/1129053053611589634/photo/1

Stan Lee's ex-business manager arrested in Arizona after being charged with elder abuse of Marvel legend | http://abc7.com/ https://abc7.com/stan-lees-ex-business-manager-arrested-after-being-charged-with-elder-abuse-of-marvel-legend/5317090/

My poetry prof told me not to get involved in activism. She told me if I want to write essays I should write about craft, not sex trafficking or my people’s fight against deportation. I laughed inside & didn’t engage. Preserve your energy. Write. Do the work they say you can’t.

Iconic Architect I. M. Pei passed away 5/16/2019 at 102 in Manhattan. #AsianAmerican https://twitter.com/dminchew/status/1129182675271593985

Glass Gem corn, an heirloom variety of flint corn bred by Cherokee farmer Carl “White Eagle” Barnes in Oklahoma who was committed to preserving the diversity of indigenous corn varieties. #soulfirefarm #foodjustice #foodsovereignty #indigenousseeds https://twitter.com/soulfirefarm/status/1130870565743583232/photo/1

Apple, Amazon, Google, and others sued for selling thousands of pirated recordings https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/20/18632258/harold-arlen-composer-music-piracy-sues-apple-amazon-google-microsoft-pandora?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter via @Verge

Giving Up the Funk: George Clinton says goodbye to the road https://ew.com/music/2019/05/22/george-clinton-final-p-funk-tour-interview/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing via @ew

Why High-Class People Get Away With Incompetence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html

Being an empath comes with a reputation of being in tune with the emotions and depths of others. There isn’t enough literature on the parallels between being an empath and conceptions of self worth. That would be a good study.

@selflovelife101 You may not welcome it as literature but my first candidate are the Blues lyrics of Son House where he has a conversation with his mother in "My Black Mama" —this is confrontation between a son and his mother, her disrespect for herself😇

1% of Africans or black ppl are REVOLUTIONARIES who fight 4 POWER to end The Whiteness

• 99% of Africans or black ppl in the west are either
• Reactionaries = love/hate The Whiteness
• Reformists = love The Whiteness
• Integrationists = obsessed with The Whiteness

Which 1 are U?

We refuse to let go of these political moralities that encode themselves w/in culture as thought. We are taught that thinking is not the act of doubt & discovery, but a performance of the already accepted & present theories of our time. In this way Black thought is decadent.

@DrTJC Ironically, the use of the word “Black ” is decadent when it is used primarily to identify the physical appearances of urbanite occidentals —which echoes the one-drop rule of white domination. Discipline around words should always be enforced by academics😇

@Ajairah1 “Jazz” school is about learning as much as you can (that's useful) from the white academy and then hacking it like Charlie Parker, using ancient, pre-European tools and cutting-edge “modernity” simultaneously. This is why being Black is truly exciting😇 —and it pays.

@Ajairah1 This statement is tragically true for too many self-described black people who often committed suicide 😢when they realized there was nothing they could do to be truly “accepted.” The rest of us come from the “Jazz” school of Black thought...😇

@Ajairah1 the “Jazz” school positions European schools as exoteric, materialistic basics in full awareness of a vast dark-matter space of esoteric exploration beyond —exactly how any “woke” student of physics knows that classical mechanics is full of basic simplifying assumptions😇

@Ajairah1 This is why the contemporary need for non-Black “ally”-ship can lead to being weighed down by too much assimilating mediocrity (which is another way to build a social network of job prospects through non-Black connections). These are desperate times.😇

@Ajairah1 whenever you hear a young white person of any skin color say the word “cool” as a form of punctuative exclamation they are using an artifact from the “Jazz” school

@Ajairah1 it is great that you thinking about this as a disciplined distinction must be made between mono-cultural, mono-lingual, tightly-knit, patriarchal empires with little or no natural resources (who practiced the organized murder of each other for centuries) and the wealth of Africa

@Ajairah1 Be strong and be doing😇 Let every eye in you see with correctness.

But that academic sleep deprivation is a mufukka😠😴

@Ajairah1 @lunchout2 You defile yourself with the smallest of your pearls. It renders clear that you shall not stop these interactions for, let’s say a decade😇 the boxing thing enchants you😂 All of these white social media platforms will have to run out of eurodollars before you stop🐣

young bruh, i made babies 🍼 with youthful optimism without regard to how this youth would age on the metaphysical tip and what ideologies and inner-discipline values this youth would abandon or never have🐣 my children have suffered because of this youthful ignorance☔

young bruh, given the statistically measurable obstacles against me —and the male hormones rushing through my veins— i would likely do the same thing again because i knew i had to try to make more Black people who are likely to end up as just “people of color”😇 #coloredpeople