To deal with the future we sometimes have to deal with the past. #ADOS “The American dream is at the expense of the American negro.” ~James Baldwin
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A gentleman’s handshake = Forget about the past = Welcome back into the fold. 🇺🇸
“When there is no accountability, there will also be no responsibility.”
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Nothing to see here... just some scammers and con artists ripping off the system, as usual.
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Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar Jones are British and have never had a hit movie outside of being in comic books movies or Star Wars and Gurira was born in the US but calls herself an African (she wrote a play about being African that was put on Broadway) and has criticized Black Americans previously. Now do you understand the casting of this movie?
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Tell em sis, sometimes you gotta go there to make them understand 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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She is not a black woman in Hollywood. She is a black British woman in Hollywood, which means that she is first on the list of actors to be cast as Black American icons.She was handed the prize of Whitney Houston when she admits to being a nobody over thousands of struggling Black American actresses - these people are in no way victims. I know I'm paranoid, but is this just because my book is finally coming out soon (that will expose the black British replacement) they're trying the "victim" tactic because this woman never said anything about being black before. 🤨🤷🏾♀️
In a recent conversation on Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show, BAFTA-winning actress Naomi Ackie spoke candidly about the realities of being a woman of colour in the entertainment industry
“We've been saying it for years, no one cares... and just in every industry, I think there is this weird thing that happens where the expectations of you as whatever your job role is, are much higher. Like you have to do a lot more to prove yourself.
Why is the phone not ringing as much? I did this, what I thought was a really cool thing. I won a BAFTA. Why is it not hitting in the same way? And it causes a lot of self-doubt.
You have to really motivate yourself, and what ends up happening, what I experienced, was like a lot of like, 'You're amazing, you're amazing,' but then never like a kind of return on that. And that makes you put a lot of pressure on yourself. If you're already a perfectionist, that just makes it so much worse.
And it also makes you really mad, and angry, and watchful, hypervigilant. Then when you do get a job, you are applying so much pressure to get it perfect, to try and reach that mountaintop. But the goalposts keep moving. Women of colour inhabit a space that is very unique, that they're both women, and they are people of colour. It's angering.
I've almost surrendered to it. It's frustrating and needs to be changed. But within the system we live in, I don't see that happening anytime soon. So instead now what I'm doing is doing my work really well, being myself, not putting pressure on myself, and doing what I want."
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Young engineer is going viral after creating a robot that automates hair braiding up to 5 times faster than human hands, with over 7,000 salons across the U.S. already lining up to get it. 🙌🏽🔥
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58 years ago today, Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" was released as a single.
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Cite your sources is a joke and it was formed to discredit the Black American Grassroots
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Black American Miracle Fields of Field's Produce Farm selling her greens for Thanksgiving in Fresno, California.
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