Memorial event held today in West Palm Beach in honor of Cuban pitcher José Fernández, attended by his mother Maritza and MLB players Aroldis Chapman, Jorge Soler, and Aledmys Díaz. Numerous Cuban baseball players, both active and retired, were also present.

Which was already the case when Philando Castile was killed a decade ago.

So tiresome to have to keep reminding white liberals that Gestapo took inspiration from the USA's racism, and not the other way around.

“America is just like Israel.” “America is just like Nazi Germany.” No. America inspired both of those fascist regimes. America is what it has always been. You just don’t like that you no longer feel safe ignoring it.

Thanks for nothing, Shitmire

Tonight tens of thousands of Cubans fill the streets of Havana to protest in defiance of Trump’s threats to invade & blockade all fuel shipments. Cubans are willing to resist and defend their homeland at all costs.

Two Rice University freshmen created a website mapping ICE incidents, as The Rice Thresher chronicles here. This is great college journalism highlighting the best and brightest at Rice University . snwrks.co/1lbk7c9

When white death becomes the trigger for reform, the goal isn’t justice. It is restoring comfort and safety for white people.

Not a fan of police of any kind, fuck all police.

We never reached a million daily infections in 2020. Now we do it every couple of months like clockwork.

This isn’t Nazi Germany. This is the Jim Crow South. Welcome.

Puerto Rico’s Baseball Federation is threatening to pull out of the World Baseball Classic because most of their roster has been blocked from participating due to MLB’s insurance rules. Interesting enough, team USA hasn’t experienced this obstacle. Puerto Rico is hosting Pool A.

So it’s fine to disrupt church services as long as it’s a denomination the administration disagrees with.

it’s february 1st

The Haitian Revolution is arguably the most important event in the history of all of Latin America and it makes ppl so mad to admit lmao

I don’t wanna hear French takes until y’all pay Haiti back

“Accommodation and accountability don’t have to cancel each other out. We can hold compassion for disability and still acknowledge that Black people should not have to endure racial slurs — intentional or not — as part of someone else’s inclusion.”

I appreciate the conversation but at the end of the day I’m gonna land on Black people do not want to be called nigger by a white person no matter why it happens and I agree we shouldn’t just exclude folks from things I don’t think it should be on us to say “oh well he has

The BBC’s choice to censor “Free Palestine” out of the BAFTAs, but to leave the N-word in place, shows just how much its editorial choices are shaped by fear of lobby groups and the govt, rather than serving viewers and license fee payers. It’s meant to be our public broadcaster.

Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward” vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…