#Enslaved

lunacity

INSOMNlUM

white people are not and have never been discriminated against for being WHITE. CW/TW /// MENTIONS OF MURDER, SLAVERY, PRISON CAMPS---please don’t read this thread if any of the things

Zach Putthoff

ZachPutthoff

Everyone likes a direct, bold, courageous preacher until that preacher disagrees with them directly, boldly, and courageously. Everyone likes convicting preaching, until the preacher turns to an issue about which

Asher Wilson-Goldman

AsherGoldman

Tonight is the first night of Pesach, aka Passover, aka most lefty Jews favourite Jewish festival.Under normal circumstances, tonight my entire extended family who are in NZ (~20 of us)

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Whenever we talk about reparations owed for the free labor of enslaved people, someone will inevitably argue how few white people owned slaves. But it's Labor Day, so let me

Bath & Bella Works 🚿🕯🛁

brownandbella

Because they don’t see America as our “roots” the same way they do for the other countries in the diaspora. They don’t see our culture here, that we built from

Great House

xspotsdamark

Someone asked me to put all my Twitter threads on African history in one thread. I'll try, but I can't even remember or find all the threads I ever did.

Sean Williams

swilliamsjourno

One thing I asked everybody I met in #Tigray was: how does this end? 80% Tigrayans expressed some expectation of an independence referendum. 20% of them, and everybody else, said

🍄Mycelium🍄

AfroMycelium

I wish more black people understood that negrophobia and negrophilia are two sides of the same coin and that negrophilia has done just as much damage to black people as

Katy Swallow - Tarot Alchemist

kswallowtarot

1) My ancestors intentionally owned people, to secure their wealth through intentional use of enslaved labor. Even if I asked them directly I doubt these ancestors would deny this. They

DNLee

DNLee5

Seriously, let's evaluate this kind of work-culture thinking.I call such work culture praxis "Plantation Politics" highered research, output & teams operate pretty much how antebellum Southern Plantations operated to produce

Melissa the Unicorn Blue

mel_thegreat

I've been trying my best to stay out of twitter kerfluffles. Who has the energy?Yet, I've been mulling something for days, and I think it's important we talk about romancing

Stephanie Drenka 🇰🇷 신경선

stephaniedrenka

John Dolford "Bob" Jones was the son of a White man named Leazer Alvis Jones and Elizabeth, a Black woman enslaved by Leazer. When he was a child, he helped

Bex Lam, PharmD

AryaKicksButt

This is the America we have always been.Time to actually make it the America you always thought it was. When black people were enslaved and First Nations people were removed

Ann Marie Lastrassi stan

naledimashishi

Afrikaans is an African language. It’s a creole language created by indigenous and enslaved people in the Western Cape and was only adopted by white people much, much later. Saying

𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒂 ❀ lost ebg

flwreunji

What is AAVE? And why should nonblack people avoid using it? A small thread. + if I have anything wrong please do correct me IF you are black+ AAVE stands

Patrick Whalen

PatWhalenNC

TIP THE KITCHEN - RULE 3 - DON'T F*@& WITH THE MONEYCo-Authored with @chefjamielynch Making this initiative work had to start with one flawed conceit; $$ is almost always traded