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Educator📝 Martial Artist🥋Activist🎤 📚Author✏️ World Traveler 🌎 My book-"Black Supremacy” Youtube Channel-Dr.WillJamespodcast (DM for bookings) $drwillj

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Fact Check Confirms The GI Bill Failed Black Soldiers

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Someone better check on this Mr. Rippy character, it got pretty bad for him. This is ridiculous!! In 2015, a Florida Police Department Used Black Mug Shots (only) For Target Practice and he thinks they are just a**holes and this wouldn’t have any impact on their policing in the real world.
However, studies show this impacts learned association and stereotype reinforcement. This is why so many unarmed black people get shot at a significantly higher rate than others.

#systemicracism #discrimination #fyp #explore

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Three Black students reportedly arrested over alleged threats against President Donald Trump, and I have QUESTIONS! 😳

Let me be unequivocally clear: I do not condone threats of violence against ANYONE, including the president. But I also don’t condone selective enforcement of the law.

Because when does inflammatory political rhetoric become a criminal threat, and who gets to make that determination?

This is where constitutional literacy becomes indispensable.

In Watts v. United States (1969), the Supreme Court distinguished political hyperbole from a true threat. In Counterman v. Colorado (2023), the Court clarified that criminal punishment for threatening speech requires proof that the speaker was at least reckless regarding its threatening nature.

Disagreeable speech is not automatically criminal speech.

And while I appreciate Dr. William James bringing historical and constitutional context to this conversation, my concern extends beyond these arrests.

I’ve watched people across social media make similarly disturbing statements about political figures. So I want to understand whether the law is being applied consistently.

Because justice should never depend on the identity of the speaker or the political influence of the person being criticized.

The presidency deserves protection, absolutely. But constitutional protections and due process should not become negotiable simply because someone directs offensive rhetoric toward a powerful individual.

And elected officials should also be held accountable for their own inflammatory language.

We cannot normalize provocative political rhetoric from those in power while indiscriminately criminalizing it among the people they govern.

So I’ll ask you this… 🙋🏾‍♀️ Where should America draw the constitutional line between political hyperbole and a genuine threat, and are we enforcing that distinction equally?

Catch me live weekdays on @AfroTV.

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These diaspora wars are becoming increasingly IMBECILIC! 😭

Before you open your mouth, nobody knows whether you’re Haitian, Jamaican, Bahamian, Nigerian or Black American. The world sees your Blackness before it hears your nationality.

And as a Haitian woman, I find it deeply disturbing how often anti-Black American rhetoric circulates within our immigrant communities.

You cannot inherit the benefits of somebody else’s resistance and then disrespect their resilience.

But I also want to bring attention to a painful chapter of Haitian history that deserves remembrance.

October 2–8 marks the anniversary period of the 1937 Parsley Massacre, when thousands of Haitians and people of Haitian descent were slaughtered in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

People were targeted because of their Haitian ancestry, their language, their identity, and the anti-Haitian prejudice that had been institutionalized against them.

Imagine being murdered because somebody decided your ethnicity made you less deserving of humanity.

And THIS is why historical literacy matters!

Thank you to Dr. William James for joining us and explaining why telling Black Americans to simply “get over slavery” is such an intellectually bankrupt argument.

Slavery ended legally, but its consequences did not disappear with emancipation.

Jim Crow. Redlining. Disenfranchisement. Generational wealth disparities.

Historical oppression does not become irrelevant simply because the legislation that permitted it has changed.

As Haitians, we understand what it means to carry the consequences of historical injustice. So how can we demand that the world acknowledge our suffering while simultaneously dismissing the historical suffering of Black Americans?

Our histories are not identical, but our humanity is not negotiable.

We can honor our cultural distinctions without weaponizing them against one another.

So I’ll ask you this… 🙋🏾‍♀️ How can we demand historical recognition for our own people while telling other Black communities to forget what happened to theirs?

Catch me live weekdays on @AfroTV.

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The legacy of slavery and systemic racism is not something to simply ‘get over.’

It’s a continuous fight for justice and equality, a history that shaped present-day struggles and demands acknowledgment, not erasure.

#SystemicRacism #BlackHistory #Slavery #pointofview #afrotv

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Movies like “Boyz N the Hood” highlight the agenda to destroy the black community. Overloading the black community with weapons and drugs so it will self destruct. #fyp #explore #explorepage #boyznthahood #avoidthetrap

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The FBI and CIA were organized with their intention to destroy the black community. Raymond Washington being a plant in the crips and William O’Neal being a plant in the black panther party for the FBI. The main targets of COINTELPRO were black liberation groups and black civil rights leaders . #fyp #explore #cointelpro #blackcommunity

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Otis Blackwell wrote several records for Elvis Presley and Elvis imitated his style. Elvis was also highly influenced by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “The Godmother of Rock and Roll”. #fyp #explore #elvispresley #blackculture

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Thank you for your kind heart 😭❤️
We have 40 kids at Buwofu Children's Foundation, Kampala.
We need food & shelter most.
Even $10 feeds them.
Can I share how to support us?
May God bless you all.#canada #usa #homeless #uk #germany .

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Together we can make a difference.
Please dear brothers and sisters join us in our mission to help and support the needy children (people)
Help 40 children to get medication, food, shelter , clean water and other basic needs.
Every donation matters
Every meal and video shared matters
Every child 🙏 matters .
Tap our link on Bio to make a difference .
Please 😭 donate and share our videos.#canada #usa #homeless #uk #germany

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Master (de)bater.

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Nobody knows your journey better than you. Be mindful of the advice you listen to. Believe in yourself. 🔥full episode on YouTube , withstand the fire🔥#fyp #explore #believe #motivation @jayz

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