Barack and Michelle Obama’s first-ever commissioned joint portrait was revealed today. RETWEET if you love the Obamas! ❤️

Beautiful and classy

They crack jokes about George Floyd and laugh in our faces, and we do nothing. They shoot our children in the back and then sentence them as adults for defending themselves and we do nothing. They call Michelle Obama, the first Black First Lady of the United States a Man, and a Monkey and we do nothing. They strip away voting rights in the same southern states where we send our best Black athletes to play college sports to make them BILLIONS, and we do nothing. They openly talk about bringing SLAVERY back, and we do nothing. We are desensitized to our own disrespect.

Two things can be true: As the great Toni Morrison once said “the very serious function of racism…is distraction.” Facts. Also - what we aren’t about to do is let the derogatory comments about Mrs. Obama slide. I can walk and chew gum at the same time!

The statement is absolutely essential.

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time ." — James Baldwin

The Karmelo Anthony verdict shows that the justice system has reverted back to the Jim Crow South era. It is no longer about evidence. It is no longer about right or wrong. It is about keeping racial score through the prosecution and imprisonment of Black people. It was no surprise that an all white jury would find a 19 year old kid, who was bullied and harassed by two 6’1” bullies, guilty of murder while he was minding his business. We have seen this story before. A young Black man is put on trial, and somehow the burden shifts from what happened to him, to why he should not have defended himself. The facts become secondary. The optics become everything. The outcome feels predetermined long before the verdict is read. People will tell you not to make it about race. But race has always been part of the story in America. The hard truth is that many Black people no longer believe they will receive the benefit of the doubt when their freedom is on the line. And verdicts like this are exactly why. At some point, we have to stop pretending that everyone is playing by the same set of rules. Because the people watching this case saw something very different than what that jury claimed to see.

I ran across these words Tamika Palmer shared about her daughter, Breonna Taylor, and they broke my heart, especially these words: “She did everything right.” That truth stays with me. Breonna should be celebrating her 33rd birthday today. Instead, her mother is carrying the weight of an unimaginable loss and the injustice of a life taken without accountability. We are still grieving a life stolen and confronting a system that remains broken. Breonna deserved to live. She deserved to grow older. She deserved justice. #BreonnaTaylor #TamikaPalmer

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

Minnie Musk spills the beans: "We're in SpaceX & we just quietly do whatever we want" "They'll never know!"

You know what…

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was. Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500 pardons and slush fund payoffs.

Worst coach of the year…#CAVS

Respectability politics has never worked for Black people — and it never will with people who don’t respect you to begin with. For years I’ve been told to change my approach. Today I challenge those in leadership to consider that the approach they’ve been using got our s*** stolen. The strategy now has to be to take something back from them — power. I’ve been doing this work for over a decade. Folks didn’t partner with me or support me when I ran because I was considered “radical” — as if demanding equity is radical. It’s time for a different approach. A different posture. One with some fight in it. I’m leaning in regardless — I’m just wondering how many of us are ready now. Share if you care 🦾

Again, it’s ALL about race.

Again, it’s ALL about race.

What is also being said is it’s ALL about RACE.

The is AWESOME‼️ Hopefully more states can make something like this happen. Please LIKE and RETWEET if you agree

Trump is going to get way, way worse. 👇🏼 John Thune will be held accountable for this. He could have walked into the White House with Schumer and a few others and said — knock it off. You can't send civilization-ending tweets. Get someone in charge or we're building a coalition to remove you. That would have worked because here's what people don't understand about Trump. He hates people who kiss his ass. I know this man. He respects people who stand up to him. Yet nobody will because they think it'll cost them their careers. So nothing happens and it gets worse. And when something truly catastrophic occurs — and it will — these same people will come running out saying the emperor has no clothes. Our adversaries are shaking their heads. Wondering how one man was allowed to wreak this kind of havoc on a country like this. It's embarrassing.

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.