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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 13h

And before anyone tries to come for me for "attacking Christians!🤡" or waging a "war on Christmas!🤡"

No.

I am a Christian. I was a choir boy(until my voice broke🤷🏿‍♂️). And I took 6 years of Divinity and Religious Studies.

And many Decembers, I am the Black Santa! "Ho ho ho!" 🎅🏿🎁🦌

I attack racism.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15h

Bad Bunny is not American, in the same twisted way that Lucy Liu is not American. For this perverse and racist definition, they can never be American.
🤡

But Elon Musk, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Rupert Murdoch are American, in the same way that Kate Winslet is American.
🤡

This is just racism.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · May 5

Who gets to be American?

When surveyed people said that Kate Winslet is more American than Lucy Liu. Kate Winslet has never been American. Lucy Liu has never not been American.

Some Chinese American families have been here since 1815. How long is needed to prove their loyalty? Another 200 years?

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images 🇬🇧Kate Winslet is British. She has never been American. 🇺🇸 Lucy Liu is American. She has always been American. Now survey US people, and ask them who is more American. 🤡 https:/...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15h

So in reality, the most Christian people in the US voted against Trump the hardest.
🙂🙃

But if we pretend not to see the racism, we say silly things like "Christians support Trump!"🤡

No.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15h

So we have silly things like racist people saying that their "Christian values"made them vote for Trump... 🤡

While those same racist people reject Raphael Warnock, a real life reverend and Baptist pastor. And those same racist people hate Pope Leo, the head of the Catholic church.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15h

In the US, "Christian" is often just a euphemism for "white and racist."

Because again, the data shows that in the US, Hispanic folk attend church more frequently than white folk.
🤡

And Black folk attend church more often than Hispanic folk. Black folk attend church more than any other race.
🤡🤡

C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 19h

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced they'll be hosting their own Super Bowl half-time show with "fully Christian, American" performers. 🤣
Bad Bunny is both Catholic AND American. Just not "white enough".

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

No. They are not all being ignored. You are not being ignored if you vote for someone that promises to do the exact opposite of what you claim to want.

And they do not want the same things. Trump's most popular policy with GOP voters *by far* are his "immigration policies."

His voters want this.

msbhavin.bsky.social @msbhavin.bsky.social · 2d

Most Americans, across parties, want the same things: affordable healthcare, protection of their Medicare/SS, a livable wage to put food on the table and reasonable gun reform. And they are all being ignored. Our current government is only addressing the wishes of the few and screwing the many.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

It's cruel to show me cool international news, when my local news is like, "MMA tournament on Whitehouse lawn set to take place in jello filled pool" and "President declares tariff on Q-tips" And "3rd Marine Expeditionary Force successfully lands at Applebee's in Manhattan, stages push into Queens"

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research. A report by the climate thinktank Ember found that in the first six months of 2025, renewable energy outpaced the world’s growing appetite for electricity, leading to a small decline in coal and gas use. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Deplorable or misguided?

Misguided.

We say that because it's generally considered more polite than asking "evil or gullible?"

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Ha!

I'm a 4XL, but no worries!

Thank you though!

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Actually, I take it back! The best way to visualize that many of the people that folks visually identify as white Americans are Hispanic, is to know that the exemplar for all-American white womanhood, literally Wonder Woman... is the daughter of Juana Cordova, born in Chihuahua Mexico! 🇲🇽♥️

🦸🏻‍♀️🛹

Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) Skateboard & Car Chase 1080P BD

YouTube video by Wonder Woman TV HD

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

About 5 of the people that you *didn't* visually identify as white, will get mad at you, say that they are white, and shove their way over to join the 60 people that you did identify as white🤷🏿‍♂️

Race isn't real. It's all made up. But even still, Hispanic is not a race. You can be Hispanic and white.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

The best way for folks to visualize this:

Imagine that you're in a room in California, Texas, or Florida, with 100 people in it. You're asked to visually identify all the white people.

You will select about 60 people.

About 15 of those white people will have Spanish sounding last names.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

There are more Hispanic people than folks think. And Hispanic and white are not mutually exclusive.

40% of Texas is Hispanic. 25% of those Hispanic Texans identify as completely white. The massive drop in Hispanic support of Trump's policy is greater than the tiny swing in non-Hispanic white voters

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Nov 24

2.4 million farm workers in the USA.

78% of those farm workers are Hispanic.

Very few of those farm workers are "Hispanic white."

On the flip side, there are a lot of Hispanic folk in Hollywood, and cities like Downey. Many are Hispanic white. As a group, they vote how you think they'd vote.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Right about now is when some white dude is going to hop into my mentions and say, "I'm not sure that it's true that most white people support Trump's immigration policies? I think you're wrong!"

They will say this without even bothering to look up the support for his immigration policies by race.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

As I've said many times on this website, the only group that has had a significant change of heart on Trump's "immigration policies," are Hispanic folk.

Black folk have the same opinion as before the election. Most oppose.👍🏿

White folk have the same support as before the election. Most support.🤦🏿‍♂️

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

But this video isn't for me. What I think about it is completely unimportant.🤷🏿‍♂️

This video is for Latino MAGA. A non-zero percent of Latino MAGA that sees this video, will leave MAGA.

A much large number of them though will be fooled again, and will slide from Trump to Vance. Happens.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Interesting interview.

Deplorable or misguided? Misguided.

Unfortunately, I didn't hear any reflection on what he would have done differently, or will do differently, to stop himself from being misguided again next time.

Still wouldn't have voted for Harris. Still trusts the same news sources.🤷🏿‍♂️

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

This is an important interview. A couple stopped and profiled by border patrol comes to a realization: who they voted for lied to them. It takes courage to admit it, and more to go public.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

They Were MAGA Believers Until a Border Stop Changed Everything

George and Esmeralda Doilez made news, and a change in understanding.

open.substack.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Me, a fool:

🇺🇸🧔🏿‍♂️: Hey Canadian friends! He is serious about this 51st state thing! He wants to send troops to your cities!

Canadians, wise and learned scholars:

🇨🇦👩🏽:
Bro, isn't California closer to DC than British Columbia? We're not Poland in this reenactment. We're only Denmark. You're Poland!

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Not really.

His strong dislike of the film and refusal to promote it is public knowledge. He was absent from her red carpets.

But I don't know if the absence was because they were already separated and he was elsewhere? And I don't know how much disliking that movie contributed to him wanting out.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

You can call it an extreme like it's a rare thing if you like. But domestic violence is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US. It happens a lot, and usually happens during the separation period I'm talking about.

And you don't have to announce that you are leaving. You can just go

Homicide leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S. | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner ...

hsph.harvard.edu

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

How're you gonna marry the Eyes Wide Shut actress, then get upset when she makes an Eyes Wide Shut type movie? 🤷🏿‍♂️

But I don't know the full details, so I'm not judging either of them.

But it's OK for her to make the movies that she wants. It's OK for him to want out. They should not be together.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

No it's not.

A large part of domestic violence that results in femicide, is women that have left a marriage. They are not yet divorced on paper, but they are separated and estranged, living apart for a year or more.

The "husband," doesn't want to accept that she has a new man, and so uses a gun.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

2. The rumor about her having an "insatiable need for sexual attention" isn't about him not wanting to keep up with her sex drive, at least not directly. Honestly, that would make more sense.

He didn't like the movie Babygirl. He didn't want her to make it or promote it. But... he married Kidman?🤔

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

1. He didn't cheat, at least not with that guitarist. They were already separated and estranged. She wanted to get back together, and he didn't. He had already moved on. He started a new relationship. She filed for divorce, as she realized it was over.

There doesn't always have to be a bad person.

GBsMimi💙📎🦋 @gbsmimi.bsky.social · 2d

I thought it was his bottomless need to have sex with his 25 yr old guitarist that ended the marriage. If you aren’t happy, leave. Don’t cheat.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

Yup.

The BYD Dolphin got a higher safety rating than the BMW 5 series.🤯

But in fairness, Renault is only in year 1 or 2 of the "ultra-low cost, high quality" EV game. By year 5 they will improve, so I'm cheering for them.👍🏿

Some of the Chinese manufacturers are 8+ years deep into this market.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3d

Yeah, making a cheap car is not hard. Just remove stuff.🤷🏿‍♂️

Making a safe car is not hard. Making a convenient car that people want is not hard. Making a car with luxuries and amenities, is not hard.

Making a cheap, safe, convenient car that people want, with luxuries and amenities? Is super hard.

BYD DOLPHIN

Euro NCAP 2023 safety rating of the BYD DOLPHIN: detailed results, crash test pictures, videos and comments from experts

www.euroncap.com

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