mekka okereke 
mastodon 4.7.3Building Digital Ecosystems at Google, but opinions my own. he/him. Black Lives Matter.
Not Dolly Parton!
Rest in peace.🕊️
She was with us!
And she used her Whitney Houston royalty money to invest in the Black community in Tennessee. ♥️
"Of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!"
- Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)
How a normal person would handle this passenger saying he can't get out:
👮🏻♂️: Please exit the vehicle.
🧔🏿♂️: I can't.
👮🏻♂️: Why not?
🧔🏿♂️: The inside door handle jammed when the driver crashed. Can you open it using the outside handle right in front of you? I'll happily exit the vehicle.
👮🏻♂️: If this door is jammed, then why don't you go out the other door then?
🧔🏿♂️: Um... you are holding my wrists?
👮🏻♂️: Ah! So if I let go of your wrists, you can use the other door?
🧔🏿♂️: Correct.
👮🏻♂️: Or if I open the door for you, you can get out?
🧔🏿♂️: Correct.
👮🏻♂️: Or if I let you open it from the outside for yourself?
🧔🏿♂️: Correct.
👮🏻♂️: Thank you for the explaining!
Natasha Cloud has been the coolest for a long time.
How can you not love her?
That would be much less bad than what really happened.
Many were forcibly drafted by the military, then sent to front lines to be canon fodder. The losses were staggering.
"In the United States…4 million are Black, and within 20 years will be 8 [million]… What is [to be] done with such Blacks, hated by the white race? Slavery is a parasite that the vegetation of English colonization has left attached to the leafy tree of freedom."
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, later president of Argentina.
He implemented the military drafts that sent Black soldiers to die in mass casualty events in wars like the War of the Triple Alliance. That alone was ~30,000 deaths, disproportionately Black. There were only about 70,000 total Black people in the country at the time, so only about 35,000 men and boys of all ages.
Sarmiento also implemented the intentional segregation and healthcare neglect that lead to Black mass casualty events from preventable diseases like yellow fever and cholera.
Before Sarmiento, 1 in 3 people in Buenos Aires was Black. 33%. To give you an idea of what that feels like, that's Atlanta Georgia. Today, it's 1% Black. That's Boulder, Colorado.
Liv Tyler tells Steve Tylerabout his drummer ancestor 🌳 #wdytya #livtyler #ancestry
"Girl, it's only you
Have it your way
And if you want, you can decide
And if you'll have me
I can provide everything that you desire
If you get a feeling
Feeling that I'm feeling
Won't you come closer to me, baby?There, you already got me right where you want me, baby
I,
I just want to be your man"

Ah, all these Argentinians mad that I read books written by the Afro-Latino Argentinians that tell racist Argentinians that they suck, vs read the books written by the fascist Argentinians that pretend that "We don't have racism, because we don't have any Black people."
You can get as mad as you want. I said what I said.
What you can't say, is that:
- Blanqueamiento was not an explicit government policy of Argentina. Because it was.
- Blanqueamiento did not decimate the Black community. Because it did.
Saying that there are still Black people in Argentina today does not minimize the genocide anymore than saying that there are still Jewish people in Germany, or saying that there are still native Americans in California.
