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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · 8d

the system is designed to humiliate and humble Black folk…to cover the mediocrity of the system keepers

CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · 8d

the color is top tier

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · 9d

i mean…you ain’t lying

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 12d

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 16d

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

capitalbnews.org

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 26d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 21

the date is on my birth certificate
thanks mom 🎉

Clark Kent @lokodolo.bsky.social · Sep 21

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 19

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 19

“this isn’t the America i know”

Black people:

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · Sep 16

America owes Black people reparations. That’s why some White people are so committed to burying our history. They don’t want people to understand the connection between them and now.

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Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com · Sep 12

Yesterday I was sitting with the realization that many Black organizers I know are grieving.

Not grief over a person, but over a paradigm. A vision of what organizing could accomplish that’s cracking beneath their feet. 1/12

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 12

colonizers prayer

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox: “For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us. Somebody from another state, somebody that came from another country. Sadly that prayer wasn’t answered the way I hoped for.”

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 11

“they not like us”

MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · Sep 11

"He wrote Black ideology on the bullets"

What the fuck...what would that be? You mean I wrote classic lines from Living Single on the bullets?

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 11

what alternative universe am i living in ¿
where evil people are called good
did the world end ¿
am i in hell ¿

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 10

matthew 26:52
thank you for coming my ted talk

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

i ain’t gonna hold y’all but maybe we need to bring back the Black Panther Party for Self Defense ✊🏾

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 7

The Los Angeles Police Department ended its protection services for former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday after facing criticism from an elite unit of its officers and the police union, people familiar with the matter said.

L.A.P.D. Stops Security Services for Kamala Harris

The department had assigned officers to protect the former vice president after her Secret Service detail was terminated. Some criticized the use of the officers.

nyti.ms

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CheStyle @chestyle.bsky.social · Sep 6

numbers don’t lie

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.