Mekka Okereke

🤣This might be the single greatest miscalculated hit piece in history. They may as well have titled the article, "If you like Obama (and you do) you'll love Mamdani!" Using police resources to play basketball? This is great! And it makes the "whistleblowers," sound like some petty, salty, haters.

🤯Whoa... Getting mad at Black and brown New Yorkers just for having fun and playing basketball? This police academy training is AMAZING! Graduate all these cadets early! This class is ready! Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the NYPD class of 2027!

[CW: SA, child abuse] 🤔1. Nicki Minaj is not even a US citizen. 2. She attacks trans people, but defends her brother. This is her brother:

Most Americans think Kate Winslet is more "assimilated 🤡" into American culture than Lucy Liu. This is just pure racism. Both Kate Winslet and Lucy Liu would disagree that Kate Winslet is more assimilated. Because...

No. Talarico is not like El-Sayed. Not at all. When El-Sayed hires a GOP policy advisor that wrote the policies attacking Black women? Then you can compare the two. But hey, 500 likes of mostly white people, agreeing with other white people, that Black Texas voters have nothing to complain about.🤷🏿‍♂️

Many white folk are convinced that Black voters are swayed by "The media" more than our lived experience.🤡 They're convinced that they know *more* about the policies that harm Black people than Black people do. The reality is that they know *less* about racist policies and are *more* media swayed.

That stat is startling! But this is what I mean when I say that Americans only notice horrific things that happen to Black people, when they start happening to non-Black people🤷🏿‍♂️ Ferguson, MO has 14K Black people. It issued ~20K racist citations a year against them🤯, leading to ~30K arrest warrants.

Again, there is no immigrant in America that has been stopped and harassed by ICE, more times than I have been stopped and harassed by cops. And I am not even in the top 10% of Black people harassed by cops.🤷🏿‍♂️ The massive scale up of ICE that we have seen for 2 years? Is every year for Black people.

That stat is startling! But this is what I mean when I say that Americans only notice horrific things that happen to Black people, when they start happening to non-Black people🤷🏿‍♂️ Ferguson, MO has 14K Black people. It issued ~20K racist citations a year against them🤯, leading to ~30K arrest warrants.

Some of the same people that tell me online that "woke 1 went too far🤡" also tell me that ICE is horrific and dystopian and doesn't target the criminals, but targets all immigrants, 98% of whom are non-violent. Again, there are the same number of immigrants as Black people in the US, ~50 million.

One of the things I dislike most about football, and why I hate quarterbacks, is this silly double standard where QBs like this are allowed to get angry and yell at teammates and coaches and it's acceptable leadership🤡 But if linebackers or defensive ends do it it's seen as disruptive behavior? 🙂🙃

The right criticized Obama and talked about him incredibly disrespectfully and that's completely OK. But Black folk point out Trump's obvious fails, and folk try to say that we are disrespecting the office of the president? 🤔Who makes up these silly rules? What happens if we don't follow them?

One of the things I dislike most about football, and why I hate quarterbacks, is this silly double standard where QBs like this are allowed to get angry and yell at teammates and coaches and it's acceptable leadership🤡 But if linebackers or defensive ends do it it's seen as disruptive behavior? 🙂🙃

Answering earnestly: That's not quite what they convinced these voters. They didn't convince them that they were just going after "the criminals.🤷🏿‍♂️" They convinced them that they were just going after *Black people*. Eg, they convinced racist Cubans that racist Haitians would get hurt.

This phenomenon is very difficult to understand if we don't examine anti-Blackness in immigrant communities. Talk to a Haitian American living in Miami for a PhD level dissertation on the topic. Or talk to a Black person that's been to Downey California for a Doctoral thesis on it.

Answering earnestly: That's not quite what they convinced these voters. They didn't convince them that they were just going after "the criminals.🤷🏿‍♂️" They convinced them that they were just going after *Black people*. Eg, they convinced racist Cubans that racist Haitians would get hurt.

[CW: Bend Oregon school shooter bystander testimony] Seriously, you don't have to watch this. But if you can, it's important. Normal human beings cannot take a human life without suffering extreme psychological trauma. Even if they believe that the life-taking was necessary. They cannot unsee.

And again, before ICE, BORTAC was scary not because they wore scary looking masks. And they weren't scary because they were highly trained. They were scary because they were composed of individuals that were both self-selected and government screened to *not* have a normal reaction to taking life.

[CW: Bend Oregon school shooter bystander testimony] Seriously, you don't have to watch this. But if you can, it's important. Normal human beings cannot take a human life without suffering extreme psychological trauma. Even if they believe that the life-taking was necessary. They cannot unsee.

Agree. One of the coolest things about being Black, is that all the silly rules of "Real men aren't allowed to do X or Y!🤡" don't bother us at all. We don't let weird dudes like Jesse Watters tell us how to live. There's a whole category of rap songs of gangsters rapping about their Goyard bags.🤷🏿‍♂️