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People will honestly work to destroy your reputation just so they can steal your work, because destroying Black celebrity worship is what Antonio & I have been doing for a decade.
FD Signifier explains that the point of his video is to cut down on celebrity worship, especially among Black people.
He points to Black celebrities people love without paying attention to their politics.
According to him , It hurts to see where Jasmine Crockett is right now. It hurts to see Jay-Z's views on capitalism. And it hurts to see what Kanye West has become.
His argument is that you can criticize them and still love their art.
Killer Mike, who dissed him in a freestyle, is his example.
He said , people are shocked to learn Mike is still one of his favorite rappers, and part of why he made the video was to reconnect with the music he loved so much.
He even admits he almost feels bad. In the last few months Mike has been doing interviews with prominent Democrats, which FD jokes is his "my bad" moment for Stacey Abrams.
He does credits that shift to people kicking Mike's back, and he gives Mike props for being willing to change.
According to him , Mike putting himself in a position to be criticized shows he isn't too far gone. Many of the Black leaders in that "misleadership" role refuse to be held accountable at all.
He respects Mike for that, and hopes the guy who once said "I'm going to burn this motherf***er down" is still in there.
Reggie From Boston retweeted
Look at what you Pretendian weirdos did. I try not to hate people, but I honestly hate y’all. I do.
Because reducing the discussion to “we weren’t all slaves” completely misses the point. The issue isn’t whether slavery was the entirety of our history. It’s whether the government has addressed the consequences of slavery, Jim Crow and generations of state-sanctioned discrimination. Do those statues reduce the racial wealth gap? Afford us civil rights protections? Give resources to our communities?
And where’s the “substance over symbolism” in these statues?
This man & his cohorts are fools who I hate being associated with. They embarrass me. Their self esteem is so low that most of them are sticking feathers 🪶 in their hair & anchoring themselves in a history that doesn’t belong to them.
I also blame the creator of Malanoid Nation & Dane Calloway for this nonsense. Clowns 🤡. There will be a harsh consequence for choosing to be led by charlatans & fools. It’s coming.
Status babble...
In 2021 IL Congressional Rep. Danny Davis didn't refer to today's Cherokee Freedmen as Descendants when he sponsored H.R. 4637. He just referred to them as Freedmen.
The House Select Committee on Emancipation & the Senate Committee on Slavery & Freedom began to use the term Freedmen in 1863. 3 years before the Treaty of 1866, btw.
The Committees wanted to stop using criminalizing & degrading terms such as contraband, slave, runaway, & fugitive. Freedmen became the term & political status for the former slaves.
The Freedmen term was used from the 1860s thru the 1960s. Google Madame Freedman of Savannah, the 1915 Michigan's Freedmen Progress Report, the Freedmen Hospital in DC, the Freeman Newspaper that was funded by Booker T Washington, etc.
Hell. Shelia Jackson-Lee knew who the Freedmen were.
Yet, @ADOSorg & @ADOSAFNEWYORK want to push for an ADOS Bureau & ADOS Office of Affairs.🤔
Wildly disrespectful to the lineage they claim to be advocating for. How are you pushing lineage-based policies yet deliberately leave the historical weight of the Freedmen status out?
Opp like behavior. Smh.
Good lord...
I wouldn't come outside after this kind of whoopin. 🤣
Reggie From Boston retweeted
Exactly this!
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Oh my! Quite the lesson/ether in New York government & legislation.
Take some time to read 🤓 this thread.
And like @ReggieFromBOS always says, choose your fighters wisely.
Reggie From Boston retweeted
And let’s address the spectacle:
Turning state commission hearings into shouting matches where attendees storm out telling folks to "sit down with the clowns" doesn't advance lineage reparations, it turns a serious economic demand into a circus for conservative cable news.