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• Post #4393883

  For uneducated Americans only (because almost everyone else in the world knows this already): "Inshallah" is not a Muslim phrase. Inshallah is an Arabic phrase. Christians that speak Arabic, say inshallah. "Allah" is how you say God in Arabic. "Inshallah" is how you say "God willing" in Arabic.

• Post #4241814

  RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117008714288239734 😬😬😬

• Post #4241684

  🤯El-Sayed has 28.2% of the Black vote already?! After they flew in Clyburn, and spent the better part of $50M on attack ads? 28%?! Stevens is cooked. https://emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-2026-poll-abdul-el-sayed-leads-haley-stevens-for-democratic-us-senate-nomination/

• Post #4141256

  Me, who writes typo-filled posts: "The Odyssey was fun! It failed the Bechdel test tho!🤡" Emily Wilson, heat bringer: "There are more female characters than in most Nolan movies, thanks to the source material. But none of them has much to say, in contrast to the characterisations in the poem."🔥🔥🔥 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

• Post #4068017

  Don't listen to me! Seriously! I'm just some dude on the internet. I just talk. They let anyone make an account here. No vetting! So when I talk about Angola prison farm being a slave plantation, you don't have to listen to me. I might just be making it all up! https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111666235105229571 It's not like I'm a Pulitzer prize winning journalist or anything. You should listen to Pulitzer prize winning journalists instead. One is good, two are better. L...

• Post #4053778

  For all the weirdos that think that I hate everyone in Argentina🤡, or that I think that the whole country is racist🤡 When the entire Argentina team tried to disrespect Spain by turning their backs like children playing Star Trek Klingons, Flaco Lopez stood alone and faced Spain, showing respect♥️👍🏿 https://m.youtube.com/shorts/e1qWoRlEcRE

• Post #4049436

  [CW: discussion of violence and SA] Andrew Tate is not being kept in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) because he is a dangerous prisoner, or to punish him. He's being put there because prison administration puts all accused child sex offenders there automatically, so that they don't get stabbed.

• Post #4027680

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116967209619847979 I like the good Argentinians. But I grow weary of these weird Argentinians that can't cope with the fact that Blanqueamiento happened, that it was intentional, that it was almost complete, and that the people that designed it wrote books and articles bragging about the worst parts of it as it was happening. I don't debate Holocaust deniers about Germany. And I'm not going to debate people that have internet access, and can g...

• Post #3941733

  I've never been more ashamed and proud at the same time? World Cup half-time show? We SuperBowl'd the World Cup! The World Bowl? The Super Cup? Anyway, I like how they couldn't choose a half-time performer, so they just went with "all of them!" 🤷🏿‍♂️

• Post #3938451

  While we're talking about all of the racist Roman profile pics not coping well with "All your Greek gods were actually African gods, your civilization is just copied homework of our civilization" Let me summarize the controversy around the Black Athena book using contemporary examples. 1/7

• Post #3918740

  OK I saw the Odyssey, and yeah, it's that good. Christopher Nolan's brain works differently. No spoilers, but it was phenomenal the restraint he showed in creating a terrifying world-ending villain. He captured the myth and sense of unstoppable destruction that was Agamemnon. I wouldn't have thought to cast Benny Safdie. But all the casting worked. Fails the Bechdel test, but then you already knew that.🤷🏿‍♂️

• Post #3915650

  Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates: The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling. What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids. Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception." In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better....

• Post #3912008

  They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/metro/trump-immigration-boston-university/

• Post #3871279

  "I hope that this shares with people that are incarcerated on Rikers, that they too are a part of this city. The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers. They are New Yorkers today." ♥️♥️♥️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YdUyUboESs

• Post #3856195

  Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history. Q: Not everything is racism! E.g. Black folk die young because of high BMI from their bad diets! That's on y'all! Don't hate on Lululemon leggings or khaki pants! Hate yourself! We're only trying to help you! How is this racism? A: Black people in the UK have higher BMI than white people, and live *longer* than white people.🙂🙃 BMI is racist, and used to justify rac...

• Post #3854461

  The Argentinian player that scored the 1st goal against England, is the same one that uploaded a social media video of himself singing racist and transphobic songs about Black French players. The transphobia was included to insult Kylian Mbappé, and to isolate trans people from public life.

• Post #3842436

  For Black folk that didn't grow up speaking Spanish *only*: Question: * Why don't the other South American fans like Argentina? * Why do so many of the good and kind players and fans from Argentina ♥️🕊️make such a big point of being vocally anti-racist? * Why did nazis choose Argentina? Why do most countries in South America have people that are Black, white, indigenous, and mixed, but Argentina (and Uruguay) seem super white? Answer: Blanquemiento. History tends to only talk about...

• Post #3806885

  Let's play a *fun little game called Do Lives Matter! I've shared that there are ~50 million Black people in the US and ~50 million immigrants. There are 22,000 ICE agents going out every day with an arrest quota to detain immigrants, whether they commit a crime or not. I've also shared that most of what US police departments do, by time, by numbers of officers, by budget, by arrest codes, is arrest non-violent and innocent Black people for minor offenses. Many police departments...

• Post #3800510

  RIP Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

• Post #3799461

  This is absolutely awful. No one should be shot in the street for no reason. ICE has shot at least 4 people to death in 2026. Two times 4 people, is 8 people. 2 X that is 16 people. 2 X again is 32. 2 X again is 64. 2 X again is 128. Cops have killed 153 Black people so far this year. There are about the same number of Black people as immigrants in the United States (both ~50 million people). So the difference of 20X in the number of police shootings is significant. https://www.presshe...

• Post #3772823

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@jblue/116908292371948193 This is from 2013, and hasn't been commercialized yet. ClearVue uses a different approach to accomplish a similar thing. They dope glass with nano particles that scatter IR and UV light towards the edge of the glass, but let most visible light pass through. Then they have traditional PV cells on the edge of the glass. Smart. ClearVue have their tech in some commercial installations already. https://www.clearvuepv.com/project/warwick-sh...

• Post #3770519

  Separate from "Should we ban Black users for not being sufficiently happy that their abuser can't hurt them anymore" is the discourse around "Should Dem politicians say nice things about their 'colleagues' when they pass?" This is complicated, and tied in to the nature of racism in the US.

• Post #3750129

  Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/surging-progressive-once-said-black-democratic-leaders-defang-the-white-left_n_6a51a01ae4b084b03f7f0f6d

• Post #3734428

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116899794075678460 If you understand this thread you'll understand a thing that US folk love to pretend is contradictory, but is perfectly consistent: *A large majority of Asian Americans support DEI (78%) *A large majority of Asian Americans do not think that race should be a factor in admissions (79%) 🙂🙃

• Post #3733246

  Stuyvesant admitted 534 Asian students and only 3 Black students. Cue all the wrong conversations about affirmative action and model minorities.🤷🏿‍♂️ Or, consider this: Being raided by ICE, is traumatic. An Asian student having a parent killed or falsely imprisoned, causes their grades suffer. https://gothamist.com/news/just-3-black-students-admitted-to-nycs-elite-stuyvesant-high-school-data-shows

• Post #3694365

  Red Bull tastes nasty. So you'd think that these people just don't know how to make soda.🤷🏿‍♂️ But every now and then they release their limited time flavors, and they're really good! Like Sudachi Lime! But then summer ends, and they go back to their two regular flavors: nasty and sugar-free nasty.

• Post #3691696

  RIP Bonnie Tyler. Before Adele was a young girl with one Welsh parent and an amazing voice, inspired by the Motown sound and Tina Turner, Bonnie Tyler was a young girl with two Welsh parents and an amazing voice, inspired by Motown and Tina Turner. She credited Motown and Tina Turner throughout her career. ♥️🕊️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

• Post #3675375

  Erling Haaland is just a grill guy foodie who is just a little too proud of his steak. I wouldn't know anything about that!😅 He did the grocery shopping, and said that the meat tastes better if the animals are treated better👍🏿 Next they'll say that there are no positive examples of masculinity. If your straight white male child is a far-right racist little gremlin? The problem is not that there aren't positive examples of white male masculinity for him to emulate. You have to ign...

• Post #3674821

  Racists think that it somehow upsets anti-racists that the best footballer in the world right now is super-white? No. Erling Haaland♥️ * Vocal supporter of men cooking and cleaning. * Self-aware of the historical context of the vikings ("Yes viking history is incredible. But a lot of things were not good... what they did. Let's be honest.") * Vocal anti-racist who used his platform to defend Black UK players from racist UK fans.

• Post #3637813

  Wasn't there like, a third Dem candidate in Maine whose platform was "I don't have nazi tattoos and I am not Janet Mills?" This is like when the first two quarterbacks get injured, so the person with the conspicuously clean jersey gets to line up.