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I always look UP when I enter this room at the Downtown Boston Public Library.
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"Africa is not underdeveloped. Africa is precisely as developed as centuries of deliberate extraction were designed to leave it."
Most African leaders are carefully chosen to keep this machinery running smoothly with very minimal disturbance to its core operations. I must add.
The poverty of Africa is one of the most successful lies ever told.
Not because Africa has no poverty. It does. The poverty is real and it kills real people every day.
But the story of why, that is the lie.
The story says: underdevelopment. Corruption. Tribalism. Poor institutions. A continent that simply never found its footing.
The story does not say: 400 years of slave trade that forcibly removed somewhere between 12 and 20 million people, the young, the strong, the able, from the continent’s productive capacity.
The story does not say: colonialism that reorganized entire economies to produce raw materials for European industry and banned the development of local manufacturing.
The story does not say: the debt architecture of the post-independence era, which ensured that countries that escaped political colonialism immediately entered financial colonialism, with IMF conditions attached that dismantled the public institutions the colonizers had refused to build in the first place.
Africa is not underdeveloped.
Africa is precisely as developed as centuries of deliberate extraction were designed to leave it.
That is not misfortune.
That is a policy outcome.
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"They are managing the optics of what they are doing to it."
The "aid" conversation is the most revealing conversation in the room.
Every year, Western governments and institutions announce billions in aid to African nations.
Every year, researchers calculate how much money leaves Africa through debt repayment, profit repatriation, tax evasion by multinational corporations, and the rigged terms of trade that ensure raw materials are exported cheaply and manufactured goods imported expensively.
Every year, the money leaving Africa substantially exceeds the aid arriving.
By some estimates, for every dollar that enters Africa in aid, several dollars leave through these mechanisms.
Africa is not receiving charity.
Africa is providing subsidy.
The aid is the advertisement.
The extraction is the business model.
And the advertisement works because the poverty it purports to address is visible and the extraction that maintains the poverty is structural and therefore invisible to anyone not specifically looking for it.
They are not saving Africa.
They are managing the optics of what they are doing to it.
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Javits Frimpong
RIP 🙏
Earlier this morning, NYPD detectives arrested a 17-year-old male for the murder of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong on October 29, 2026 in the Bronx. He is being charged with murder.
The NYPD will be relentless in our efforts to get dangerous people out of our communities, especially when it involves the murder of a 15-year-old boy.
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This is so painful.
Javits Frimpong
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The mother of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong was overcome with emotion as she spoke out for the first time since her son was murdered, shortly after a 17-year-old was charged in his killing on Wednesday. More: abc7ny.com/post/javits-frimp…
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11-11-2026
I remember when I walked by a few mighty ones at the Downtown Boston Public Library.
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In my opinion, if the majority of "We The People" train their minds to think against the grain of a "dictatorial mindset" structured to control, change will be inevitable.
An established system cannot be altered without extreme sacrifices from those requiring changes to be made.
How do you build a population willing to accept, decade after decade, foreign policy that kills civilians, funds dictators, and destroys sovereign nations abroad?
You build it the same way you build a population willing to accept, decade after decade, domestic policy that produces preventable death, homelessness, and medical bankruptcy at home.
You convince them that the suffering of people unlike them is the result of individual failure rather than systemic choice.
You convince them that the system is essentially fair and the outcomes are essentially deserved.
You give them a story where the main character is never responsible for the plot devices.
The foreign policy and the domestic policy are not separate products.
They are the same product, manufactured in the same plant, by the same logic, and sold to the same population.
The cruelty abroad did not contaminate the kindness at home.
There was never a wall between them.
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Gaza
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🚨 CATASTROPHIC SCENES IN GAZA RIGHT NOW.
Heavy rainfall is flooding displaced Palestinians’ tents, leaving families exposed to the harsh winter with no alternative shelter.
This is their fourth winter since Israel destroyed their homes and continues to block essential materials from entering Gaza.
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It really is a good morning in the United States of America. A fresh wind is blowing.
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Muslim candidates made historic gains in the U.S. midterms, led by Abdul El-Sayed, who becomes the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate after winning Michigan’s open seat.
El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American physician, beat Republican Mike Rogers despite facing anti-Muslim attacks during the campaign.
Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-American surgeon and Army veteran who volunteered as a doctor in Gaza, becomes New Jersey’s first Muslim member of Congress.
Incumbents Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ilhan Omar in Minnesota were re-elected. Aisha Wahab, an Afghan-American, is projected to win a full term in California.
At the state level, Aber Kawas became the first Palestinian-American elected to the New York State Legislature, and Nabeela Syed flipped a Republican-held seat in Illinois’s state Senate.
Muslim community outlets count at least 36 Muslim candidates winning or leading in federal, state and local races, with seven or eight heading to Congress.
Many of these candidates ran on affordability, civil rights and opposition to unconditional U.S. military support for Israel.
Several faced heavy outside spending from pro-Israel groups.
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"The community is our village & in the village we take care of each other"
Javits Frimpong RIP 🙏
Community leaders, advocates, and residents gathered at East 171st Street and Crotona Place on Saturday morning for a press conference in support of the family of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, a teenager who was shot and killed in the Bronx.
The event was organized by the African Advisory Council (AAC) of the Bronx, an organization founded in 2010 to serve and advocate for the borough’s African communities.
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, the president of the Ghanaian community in the Bronx, and other community members joined the council to address the press in a show of solidarity with the grieving family.
Video Credit: Francis Boanoh /NYC
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Javits Frimpong
RIP
The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away.
Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately.
All of New York City is mourning this tragedy.
Javits Frimpong
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Javits Frimpong was 15 years old. He moved from Ghana to the Bronx a year ago to live with his father, and on Thursday morning he was shot in the stomach while walking to school. He ran a block before he collapsed and later died at the hospital. His father, Thomas, says Javits had been bullied at lunch and reported it, and just three days before the shooting, his school suspended two boys who fought with him. Police have not linked the bullying to his death, and three suspects are still out there. “He’s my everything,” his father said. “I’m here with him alone.”
balleralert.com/wjn4
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