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Please share this flyer as widely as possible and support as you can. The funds will support some of our close comrades and their family.
Our goal is $3K, and while times are hard we would not ask if this was not a serious request.
Thank you for all your help.
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Flashback to a time when life moved slower and bonding was a way of life.
The tradition of combing and styling children’s hair on Sunday evening is a deeply rooted cultural institution, often referred to as part of the broader "Wash Day" ritual.
Far more than simple grooming, this weekly event serves as a foundational rite of passage, an expression of maternal love, and an essential practical step for the week ahead.
The physical act of styling hair—sitting between an elder's knees on a veranda, porch, or living room floor—is a direct continuation of West African communal hair tradition and is evident especially in the Caribbean but throughout the African diaspora.
This is culture! ❤️🖤💚
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In early 2024, IMF told the government to impose draconian taxation, and when Kenyans protest, they should crush the protest.
That's what happened in June 2024. The government killed protestors.
Since then, the Kenya government has been going round the world boasting about how Kenya is a "vibrant democracy" where people have the right to protest.
Same thing happens with mitumba. Government destroyed the textile industry. Kenyans sought to cope with mitumba. Now the same government is promising to crush the mitumba market for a textile manufacturing that doesn't exist.
Same thing with employment. The government suppresses employment with its looting practices. Kenyans start small businesses and stalls. One day, they wake up and find that government bulldozers came the night before and demolished their stalls, because some rich parasite got the tender to build a multi-storey market on the same spot.
The government crushes us, we invent coping mechanisms and protests, and it turns even our coping mechanisms and protests into capital. At some point, we need to stop thinking that this cruelty is funny. It's parasitic. We are not victims who have to hide from the government. We the host of a parasite that is the government, and parasites can be killed by treating the host, meaning We the People. #MaishaKazini #GentrificationKE
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Europeans used to recruit West African divers to salvage sunken treasure because West Africans were reputed to be the best swimmers in the world & could hold their breath underwater the longest.
I don’t know why this myth that Black people can’t swim persists
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Mother Rosa Parks joins Mother Khadijah Farrakhan and Dr. Betty Shabazz at the Million Man March, October 16, 1995.
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“We are trying to heal from past wounds while we are trying to heal from present wounds, so we don't heal. Significant life-threatening events alter genes. We need to be well for the generations to come.” - Dr. Joy Degruy #reparations #healing #trauma
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American civil right activist Nina Simone speaks about Africa and it's civilization...🌍
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I’m watching this Colombia game, & an Afro-Colombian player, Yerry Mina, subs in for another Afro-Colombian, Jhon Lucumi, & my mind is just blown.
Mina is what Portuguese called enslaved West Africans from the Gold Coast because many of them were shipped from the slave fort El Mina in Ghana. And Lucumi comes from the Yoruba phrase Olu Kumi, meaning “My friend”, which is what enslaved Yoruba called each other in the Americas. Fascinating🤯
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@BeeSaysPolitics The empowerment and repair of the Black community of Black America isn't going to come from wishful thinking. It isn't going to come from AmeriKKKa's government. It will only come Black unity, mind, knowledge, planning and organization.
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“I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.”
— John Coltrane
