Lorraine Black @lorealblack

The U.K. twice suspended a Black politician because she said there's a hierarchy of racism with antisemitism at the top and anti-Blackness at the bottom. Today, the U.K. made antisemitism a distinct form of racism and came out with a 27-point plan!

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

4 days ago

🚨 NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges 1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism 2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers

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95%* of Black children in the UK have heard or directly experienced racist abuse at school. It is interesting that there was no action taken after that report. *ymcaeurope.com/young-and-blac…

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“Please take a moment to rate your purchase” why should I? With no financial incentive? Not even a small gift card? Clear off ya lil cheapskates.

Cardi’s Tiny Desk is excellent!! 👏🏾👏🏾

Women who have babies often have higher expectations of their childfree friends than of their own husbands and fathers of their children. The village they demand never seems to include making demands of men.

𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖏𝖆♡𝕭𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 | Witchy Astrologer @brujabitchh

a week ago

If your friend has a baby and you don’t have kids, you have to be the one to put in more effort in maintaining the friendship. That’s part of being in mama’s tribe. Don’t take it personal if she isn’t hitting you up first. She’s raising a freaking human being lol

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People are giving weird excuses for why French style riots don't happen in the UK. Reality: we're a fatally conservative country that can't unite on any one thing and begrudges anyone that tries to aim high. Free meals for kids, fair pay for nurses, TFL strikes, all get pushback.

An Igbo man invested $200 million to build a resort in Lagos called Landmark Beach Resort and Landmark Beach in 2018. The resort covered approximately 30 hectares of land in Lagos, featuring a beach, hotels, restaurants, recreational facilities, and other businesses that attracted tourists and created jobs. 2023, five years after the multimillion dollar business opened The new Nigerian government decided to embark on one of Africa’s most ambitious infrastructure projects called The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. While Dubai builds futuristic cities, China expands its high-speed rail network, and Saudi Arabia builds gigantic tourism projects, The Nigerian government decided to build a coastal road from Lagos to Calabar 👏 The proposed 700-kilometre highway, designed to run along Nigeria’s coastline through several states, was estimated to cost about ₦15 trillion ($10 billion) And guess what? That road must pass through a $200 million resort. No warning that gave the investors enough time to prepare. No consideration for the investment. No regard for the people who had put their money into building something valuable. According to the founder of Landmark Beach, guests were still lodging in the hotel when the demolition began. They didn’t even have enough time to move many of the resort’s equipment and appliances before the destruction started. Now why should we care? The government decided right Now, almost two years later, the road has been diverted. The Minister of Works, said the road’s original route had to be redesigned to avoid destroying existing infrastructure. But somehow, the revised route affected a $200 million tourism investment And now, sections of the coastal highway are being diverted elsewhere. So, why couldn’t the route have been reconsidered before the destruction began? A man’s $200 million investment was destroyed, and the very road that supposedly made that destruction necessary has now been diverted. What happened to the investors’ money? What happened to the jobs? What happened to the businesses that depended on that resort? Perhaps if this man were politically connected to the ruling party, things might have played out differently. Perhaps if he had the right people in the right places, someone would have listened. Perhaps if he had come from a Favorable part of the country the destruction might not have have happened I don’t know. But what I know is that nobody should lose an investment of that magnitude without a serious public conversation about accountability and compensation. I believe that one day, the Federal Government will have to answer questions about this destruction and pay a compensation that is legally due. There are things happening in this country that we don’t talk about enough. We shout about politics, we fight over political parties, and we defend politicians as if they are our family members. Meanwhile, somebody can invest $200 million in this country, build something beautiful, create jobs, and watch years of hard work go down the drain. And we are expected to move on as if nothing happened. This is not how a country encourages investment. This is not how you build confidence in an economy. And this is certainly not how you treat people who are trying to build something in your country. This is a terrible way to treat an investor in a country where 150 million of its citizens are struggling with poverty.

The French will legit burn down Europe if they experienced Nigerian government for a week.

Sorry not 5ml, 1.5ml kmttttt

That Sephoria event was an absolute waste of time and money! There’s barely anything in the goodie bag and instead of them to do proper giveaways, they were giving away tote bags and 5ml samples, after making us queue for 20+ mins at each brand stand. So rubbish! #SEPHORA

I hope whoever stole my amazon package was also planning on being Nene for halloween

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“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

someone on threads said, “the female bird doesnt explain to the male bird what he needs to do to impress her, she just leaves when he fails.” i think about that a lot.

Your parents should watch your kids. You should help your parents in their old age. Check in on your brother. Go to your friend’s show. Watch your girlfriend’s cat. We’re “you don’t owe anyone anything”-ing ourselves into complete isolation.

what do they even mean by this

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Henrie @HenrieVIII

2 weeks ago

didn’t pass the check on the gov website, googled it & they said it might be because i’m black 😭

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I just saw a quote that said “The rise of women does not mean the fall of man unless men were standing on the backs of women to begin with”

The flag shaggers never seem to care about British companies being foreign owned but if a refugee gets a job as a street cleaner they want to take arms at dawn

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

3 weeks ago

Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family bbc.in/4y2md3r

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It’s my first day at ASOS as the new data protection officer. Hope it all goes well🥰

They could have hacked Student Finance or something important, instead they chose ASOS. They didn’t even credit all of our accounts, or wipe out return rate to 0% Unserious hackers

Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug. You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form. You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages. You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution. You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis. You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from. Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.

toniWoni🇯🇲 @heytoniwoni

3 weeks ago

How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳

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