Happy Birthday Toni Morrison 📚 “If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down”

Happy birthday to Kamasi Washington, born on this day in 1981!

The blueprints of cosmic fusion. The turn of an era. Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi Sextet performing “Toys” — Studio de Joinville, Paris (1972). Ft. Eddie Henderson, Bennie Maupin, Julian Priester, Buster Williams, & Billy Hart.

Let me just say this is the best explanation of who Stephen A Smith is. I’d take further by adding he’s the collaborator James Baldwin warned about, and that is exactly why white supremacists like his friends Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly want him in the political arena.

Toni Morrison said the function of racism is distraction. Since the burning of Jamestown and the codification of systemic racism, poor white people still do not understand the ruling class uses racism to maintain power and distract them from the source of their economic struggle.

Hangin’ on a String (Contemplating) Loose Ends (1985)

Sixty-one years ago today, Brother Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz], was assassinated. Many lost a leader, but a wife, Betty Shabazz, lost her husband and young daughters lost their father. I am holding his dear daughters close in prayer today. #MalcolmX #BettyShabazz

Meanwhile this is white pride

A white nationalist (Tucker Carlson) is checking a white christian nationalist (Huckabee) on the insane belief that Jewish supremacy was created by God and that the apartheid state of Israel should rule the Levant. Just remarkable.

Did Talarico challenge Boebert about her racism or did all the white folks just sit around laughing with each other?

Dear, please-love-me-white-folks Stephen A Smith Trump is in fact a convicted criminal, and found liable for sexual assaulting a woman. Sit the fuck down, and give the tap dancing a break for a while.

Poor & working class white voters care far more about banning the 2 trans people playing sports, demonizing tax paying immigrants, and blaming Black and Brown people for their economic struggles. It’s the GOP playbook to keep these people voting against their interests

And then there are others who call white supremacists like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly “friends”.

Attn: WNBA

Racist outbursts against Black people are fine, but humanizing Palestinians is offensive to Israel and a bridge too far.

There have been studies to show white voters will vote against their own economic interests, if it means it harms Black people more. Trump cut SNAP to 40 million people, 16 million are children. Guess who this harms? What should break McKinney’s heart is Trump won WV by 41 pts.

As she said, the focus should be on the BBC’s voluntary decision to air his slurs, when they edited Akinola Davies’ humanizing Sudan, Congo, and Palestinians. Airing Davidson’s neurodivergent condition was a choice at the expense of Black folks. THAT is the issue.

The Roots and Tribe Called Quest freestyling on Lorna's Corner circa '95

Black filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a BAFTA judge:

Her name is Allyson Friedman, a professor at Hunter College. Otherwise known as racist bitch who still works at Hunter College.