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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
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Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff. I like to leave breadcrumbs
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The problem with the so-called "nonviolence" of the Civil Rights Era is that it is misnarrated. The retelling in the "American myth of progress" version of the Civil Rights movement was that it was completely nonviolent.

That is not true. Plus let's call it its full name "nonviolent direct action"
In my era, I would be watching BET Uncut right now....

if I weren't at the club

Which i was
February 15, 2026 at 7:06 AM
"Real eyes
Realize
Real lies."

yall remember that? people thought they were so poetic
February 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
In this last 30 mins of Negro History Week and Frederick Douglass's birthday.....
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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I just question why it's *currently* green like it shouldn't still be orange/rust colored. 🧍🏾
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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killer part is, we told the creator of it YEARS ago on twitter. but since he's a white "ally" who "means well" he just ignored us all and keeps sharing it, and people keep also sharing it, glaring errors and all.
I've never liked this meter.

It's too neat. too much "linear progression narrative."

I get it trying to make a point, but there's so much nuance to these colors.

And that green area is extremely misleading. But that's just me
February 15, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I've never liked this meter.

It's too neat. too much "linear progression narrative."

I get it trying to make a point, but there's so much nuance to these colors.

And that green area is extremely misleading. But that's just me
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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This is inherently why capitalism is unwilling to pull us out of the climate crisis, and the majority of our scientific success is not a result of free market economics, but rather from coordinated, industrial-scale planning, feeding on previous successes.
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Idc what anybody says

I still love 16 Carriages
February 15, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Walking around in Walmart and everyone looks so sad on this Valentine's day lol
February 15, 2026 at 1:06 AM
what the United States is doing to Cuba is not only criminal, it has to be a war crime

And Rubio should be in jail
February 14, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Oh snap!! my calendar finally came!!

I ordered it back in January and a month passed, I just assumed it wasn't coming and forgot about it.

But today, on Douglass Day, and end of Negro History Week, it finally came

Lemme find my thumbtacks
February 14, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Just enjoying some tea on my little reading break
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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You can make sense of the world through cars. O swear to god
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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GOSPEL
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This is Frederick Douglass. He was an enslaved person who did not know the day he was born in 1818 (or 1817). He was mere property, and that wasn't recorded.

He didn't live with his mother, Harriet, as she belonged to someone else. But Douglass records her coming to visit him while he was young.
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am absolutely insufferable during Black History Month, lol.

Well I am everyday, but im easily 10x worse in February 😂
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
These voices are still the most relevant voices we should be listening to for our collective liberation
This is part of a greater roundtable that more people should watch. In it you see all levels of the political scale and the excuses those who aspire to be the ruling class have as to why we can't do what Kwame Ture says.

It's a battle we still see today.

youtu.be/MojDoeloUTc?...
February 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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This is part of a greater roundtable that more people should watch. In it you see all levels of the political scale and the excuses those who aspire to be the ruling class have as to why we can't do what Kwame Ture says.

It's a battle we still see today.

youtu.be/MojDoeloUTc?...
February 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Is that a close to 70 degrees i see in my near future!!!????
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Listen to who his examples are 📚 🤓

Cuba 🤎
North Korea 🤎
China 🤎
Vietnam 🤎

This world would be so much different if Brown people were in charge instead of white people 👀
February 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
"Remember Soul City" and Nixon's failed Black Capitalism project
Yes! Preach! We must understand that capitalism is antiblack! We can’t love ourselves as Black people & buy into capitalism.
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Yes! Preach! We must understand that capitalism is antiblack! We can’t love ourselves as Black people & buy into capitalism.
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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What’s striking about this clip, not even mentioning the content and substance of the message, is that I can’t remember the last time I saw a contemporary tv political talk show allow a guest to speak uninterrupted for this long
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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When people say “but socialism’s doesn’t work” ask, how many of the socialist countries he names were invaded, sanctioned, etc by the US to make sure socialism didn’t work?
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Planned obsolescence getting called out even back then
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM