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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 59m

This time around meditation has improved my eyesight.

I have always imagined that there is yet more in store.

Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

Blue Ruin released in 2013

Positive representation of Black People.

Great violence

www.imdb.com/title/tt2359...

#movie #blackactors #SidnéAnderson

Blue Ruin (2013) ⭐ 7.1 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

1h 30m | R

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

"The truth...
...is everyone is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

Bob Marley

#jamaica #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, “You know, I was a fool when I married you.” She replied, “Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn’t notice.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

She always told me do what you want to do."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

She's strong and, goodness gracious, without her I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you I'd be honest. Obviously, there are a lot of black women out there who are similar to my mother and I am just sort of very lucky... very lucky to have a mother like that.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 2h

Presenter: "You said on that night in your Oscar acceptance speech for best movie Oscar that your life has always been full of strong women. Tell me about your mother."

Steve McQueen: "Oh, she's great. I mean, she's... she's strong.
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#blackwomen #blackmovie #movie #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

one has to sort of go back in order to sort of you know and make that foundation and go on and be stronger and you know stand taller."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

ten years ago but I never spoke about it really. My father, in the 50's, was poisoned for teaching kids how to read.' The movie was a platform to allow people to have those conversations that have been buried vary deeply inside and in order for us to go forward,

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

half an hour from where Trayvon Martin was killed."

"This was the young boy who was shot."

"Yes, shot, and this woman stood up and said, 'I thank you for making this movie. I just want to share this with all everyone here: You know, my father... I discovered this

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

we are now, why you coming back to do this?"

Steve McQueen: "Well, it's not about this is not who we are now. It's about where we are now and for me slavery was something that no one wanted to talk about and I remember out first Q&A. We were promoting this film in Florida

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

history, want the world to see them differently. Have you ever when you've been in Belfast or the southern states of America making your movies had an antagonistic reception from the locals, from the people around you and saying this is not who we are now, this is not where

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

Presenter: "Quite often, communities that are tied to these places where traumatic and terrible things have happened... I'm thinking of Belfast. I'm thinking of America's Deep South. ...for very understandable reasons want to move on from the

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#blackmovie #movie #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

P: "When you hear that does it make you annoyed?

S: "Totally not. If it did, I wouldn't be talking to you now, I'd be in jail, locked up somewhere, where a lot of people are to be quite frank."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

said, I wonder what he'll be like?"

Steve McQueen: "I'm a Black Man. I'm used to that."

P: "Is that what it is?"

S: "Shall I say anything more, honestly? I'm a Black Man, what you think? Before I walk in the room people make a judgement, you know. I don't care."

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

Presenter: "I have to say that I have found you today to be entirely affable and giving and smiling a lot and great company; but a lot of people, when I said I was coming to talk to you today and record Desert Island Discs with you, were...

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#blackpeople #whitepeople #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

if there was any reason for a Black Man to remain in Frankfurt or Germany. Only if you have children, was the unanimous reply. Mike said that the Czech Republic is much better.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

and eventually the teacher apologised when the child's own class teacher became involved. The child comes top in every class.

Later cycled back over to Ottostrasse to meet another friend, Mike Romeo.

Asked Paul and he, who have both been here at least 15 years,

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

funny to say the n-word. The first child responded and the teacher went onto explain the word's connection with slavery, in which explanation she used the word 15 times. The child complained to the teacher and again in the break and again an hour later after the next class

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

I chilled with all members of the family individually and in groupings as the evening flowed :)

One child's english teacher played a game in class where they would go through the alphabet giving examples of words in english. When it got to N, a white child thought it was

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 3h

In 2014...

Paul invited me over for Sunday dinner in Gallus (a part of Frankfurt) with Nyree and the children, Ayesha and Jerome, who also had their younger cousin over who lives on the same street :) The food was superb and afterwards

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#travel #blackfamily #afrogerman #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 4h

The slow motion scene where the person walks away from an explosion is like me walking away from the self checkout without needing assistance.

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 4h

"here see
sumting yah fi nyam. Yuh know
seh a three day mi ova u yard
and nuh get nuthing fi nyam"

(4/4)

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 4h

"a statue. I saw the
neighbour had one and i wanted
one too. Well honey im going to
take a bath now." she kissed him
and went into the bathroom. The
husband went downstairs and
appeared back in the room with
a sandwich. He went over to the
man and whispered

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · 4h

and got dress.
She went downstair to greet her
husband and said "how come
you come home so early?" to
which he replied "they only
wanted me to stay three days."
he went upstair followed by his
wife and asked "what is that in
the corner?" the wife quickly
replied

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