L E F T, PhD ⚫️

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1Oct 2, '23Sam Walton…loan from father in law. Jeff Bezos…loan from his parents. Phil Knight…loan from his father. Elon Musk…loan from his father. Donald Trump…loan from his father. Mark Zuck160×9.1M24k4.1k4.1k
2Jan 26, '25Do you know how wild it is to publicly announce that you don’t want diversity, equality, and inclusion?80.6×4.6M188k23k3.8k
3Jun 5, '24Rhetorical Question: Why would you show the player who is injured, not playing, and not in season, full sweat, in his uniform and the player who is currently playing in their seaso72.8×4.1M96k9.2k1.8k
4Apr 3, '232 days ago ESPN produced a segment called ‘Caitlin Clark: Queen of Clap Backs 👑’. The focus; her clapping, “You’re down 15 points. Shut up,” and of course the “you can’t see me” h72.6×4.1M19k6.4k1.4k
5Oct 6, '24As he should. He is the son of Lebanese immigrants. He is Muslim. His people are being bombed. His people are dying.63×3.6M146k17k1.4k
6May 4, '24For Kendrick to say “You're movin just like a degenerate, every antic is feelin' distasteful I calculate you're not as calculated, I can even predict your angle Fabricatin' stories59.5×3.4M52k6.3k4k
7Mar 3, '24For context, the U.S. Government just air dropped 38,000 meals. Weekend, one person, a person who has not contributed to Palestinian people dying accounted for 4,000,000 meals, and50.6×2.9M66k16k2.1k
8May 4, '24What kinda “nigga” basically opens his song by saying “you dare me to say the N-word? Well here it goes….NIGGA!” What kinda “nigga” say “always rappin like you bout to get the slav42.4×2.4M36k4.4k3.6k
9Jan 8, '25Craig Hodges asked Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson to boycott Game 1 of the 1991 Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers as a way of calling out racism and economi41.5×2.4M29k3.8k2.3k
10Sep 21, '24As a Black person in the United States, how can this not remind you of lynching post cards and lynchings as social gatherings?38×2.2M94k23k4.3k
11May 15, '24Do you understand how wild and guilty this man sounds saying, “If I go down, y’all goin’ down with me”? He didn’t say “I’m innocent.” He didn’t say “I will be vindicated” or “I wil35.1×2M24k4.5k2.1k
12Dec 9, '24“Police-made crack…”34.7×2M74k9.8k2.4k
13Jan 12, '24Keith Lee said, “The people in the Bay are just focused on surviving…the amount of tents…and burnt up cars that we saw people living in was shocking to say the least,” and some of 32.1×1.8M36k5.3k1.4k
14Feb 24, '23This is the most carceral ass Safeway I’ve ever been in. Bars everywhere, multiple security guards, you have to scan your receipt for the gate to open in order to exit, and if you 31.6×1.8M5.9k851356
15May 7, '24J. Cole and Drake talked so much shit about Kendrick’s last album that it put ‘Mr.Morale & the Big Steppers’ back in people’s consciousness. Kendrick Lamar psychoanalytically disma30×1.7M6.7k863802
16May 1, '24Do you understand how meta it is that the pro-Israel counter-protesters are launching explosives at the pro-Palestinian/ceasefire protestors in tents, as they are protesting agains28.3×1.6M45k13k1.7k
17May 7, '24It is said that Martin Luther King Jr. loved shooting pool and watching Star Trek. Malcolm X loved taking pictures and listening to jazz. I’m saying this to say activists, revoluti26.5×1.5M14k3.6k1.6k
18Apr 29, '24He is screaming, “GO BACK TO YOUR MASTER,” while wearing Tremaine Emory’s Denim Tears ‘Cotton Wreath’ hoodie. A hoodie that, “is intended to symbolise the strife of Black people wi26.4×1.5M13k2.1k1.4k
19Aug 28, '24The “Neo-Soul” era of music was beloved by Black folks. It was focused on Black love, beauty, celebration, relationships (and dealing with them in a humane way) and countering anti19.7×1.1M29k7k4.4k
20Jan 13, '20Watching this video will help you understand what it means to live in the Bay Area.15.2×081k30k5.9k
21Nov 16, '24Jake Paul is making millions of dollars off of boxing non-boxers and elders. His “draw” is a combination of spectacle and great white hype. He’s not really boxing. He’s creating bo14.7×837k20k3.5k750
22Sep 24, '24Too often folks like Marcellus Williams turn into a political talking point. But I want people to remember, he has a family. He has people who love him. The person in this video is13.5×770k14k5.5k1k
23Feb 7, '25“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” –Muhammad Ali13.5×768k17k3.4k780
24Nov 20, '23Muhamad Ali said that,“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” This quote is how I want some of you to understand Andre 3000 in 213.3×759k11k2.1k502
25Oct 16, '24When John Brown, was asked if he killed slave-catchers, his response was, “I killed no innocent man.”12.7×724k45k3.4k1.4k
26Jul 21, '24Listen to the explanation, and then listen to the verse.11.7×667k9.7k2.4k3.3k
27Apr 10, '21Me and my 5-year-old were freestyling and he said, hexagon, pentagon, Ramadán, Chaka Khan...” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥11.5×0100k7.8k881
28Feb 11, '25This may be “controversial” to some, but stop buying children shoes and clothes and then being upset at them for playing in them like CHILDREN.11.5×654k29k4.4k238
29Oct 21, '18Kareem Abdul Jabber WAS NOT here for the bullsh*t. Homie elbowed him in the stomach, and Kareem calmly catches his breath, and then...💥10.5×062k21k538
30Jul 15, '20In 1992, then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, compared Sistah Souljah to KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Here is a snippet of her response.8.8×042k19k3.9k
31Apr 3, '19I don’t think folks understand... The fact that Russell Westbrook went out, in honor of Nipsey Hussle, and put up 20 points, 20 rebounds, and 20 assists, from a hood perspective, t8.2×053k15k329
32Oct 15, '24A reminder, Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and architect of the Party’s Survival Programs is still alive.6.7×383k19k3.8k966
33Oct 25, '23It is official, Richmond, California has become the first city in the U.S. to pass a resolution affirming solidarity with the Palestinian people, “who are currently facing a campai6.3×359k8k2.1k317
34Sep 21, '25A part of the trick is to devilishly get you to debate things that shouldn’t be debatable.5.8×328k11k2.6k702
35Oct 7, '17The media spent weeks demonizing Mike Brown for dying unarmed. Stephen Paddock murdered 58 people and he is almost out of the news cycle.5.6×027k15k2
36Sep 24, '24On the morning of his scheduled execution, Troy Davis asked Wende Gozan-Brown of Amnesty International to share a message with the world. Davis said that,”The struggle for justice 4.9×281k9.5k5.5k653
37Nov 9, '22Also Howard Stern in Blackface.4.9×031k9.2k486
38Apr 23, '25Toni Morrison responding, “You can’t understand how powerfully racist that question is can you…” to a white woman asking her if she would “in a significant way” center “white lives4.4×251k9.6k1.8k2.2k
39Oct 2, '16Do you see a problem here? How much more clear can the problem be?4.3×013k15k0
40Feb 25, '18This is Dave Chappelle, years ago, addressing the sickness going on in Hollywood:4.1×025k8.5k61
41Mar 11, '18Blackish has covered everything from, "Trump’s election, the N-word, postpartum depression, and police brutality," but when the show, DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH, tried to tackle at4.0×020k10k100
42Oct 28, '17The beautiful thing about Colin Kaepernick’s strategic silence is that the NFL owners keep opening their mouths and legitimizing his claim.3.8×023k8.1k0
43Jun 22, '25Iran was the first country to honor Malcolm X with a postage stamp. This occurred in 1984, during the "Universal Day of Struggle Against Racial Discrimination.”3.6×205k8.8k2.1k787
44Mar 11, '20As soon as Ray Charles took that deep breath... I knew that he was going to exhale the truth about Elvis Presley.3.5×019k6.1k1.8k
45Jun 6, '20Police get paid leave for killing people. Police get paid leave for raping teenage girls, and adult women. Police get paid for attacking peaceful protesters with batons, rubber bul3.4×015k9.9k181
46Feb 11, '22“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” –James Baldwin3.3×025k4.6k431
47Sep 26, '25When the United States marked her as a “terrorist” and set a $2 million dollar bounty on her head, it was Cuba, and Fidel Castro who stood before the world and called her what she 3.1×176k7.4k1.7k878
48Jul 11, '18White supremacy is often framed as an evil executed exclusively by white men, but what the recent wave of incidents caught on camera reminds us that white women are (and always hav3.1×014k8.4k234
49Dec 14, '19Being Black and speaking too much truth (even if coming from mouth of a fictional character) will get you fired. Mr. Nancy is based on Anansi. Anansi was a trickster (akin to Brer 2.9×014k6k1.2k
50Sep 12, '25Note: Memphis has the largest population of African Americans in the U.S., making it the largest majority-Black city in the United States.2.9×162k7.8k2.2k356
51Jul 22, '18This is what racialized systemic oppression looks like. A white woman weaponized the police. The police executed a Black man. And the jury awarded his family $1.00 for the cost of 2.7×011k8.4k167
52Feb 17, '21#AntoineWhittley is missing. He was last seen on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. He’s 5’9” and weighs 130 pounds. A friend said Antonio believed he was being followed while on the 2.7×06.3k11k101
53Aug 10, '18Kenny Stills... Still taking a knee against systemic oppression. Still standing with Colin Kaepernick. Still letting the NFL “Owners” know that he knows his rights, and that they o2.6×017k4.6k23
54Mar 10, '18Another way of framing this would be, “Weekend Box Office: For the first time in Hollywood history the top two movies in America were directed by a Black Man (#BlackPanther) and a 2.5×015k5.4k7
55Dec 10, '24“i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live.”–Nikki Giovanni Rest In Poetry2.2×128k6.4k1.4k377
56Jul 29, '16My son's reaction after tasting this peach 🍑... #PureJoy.2.2×011k5.5k0
57Nov 24, '19This greatest crossover caught on camera.2.2×015k2.9k263
58Jan 26, '19Know Your Rights2.1×012k4.2k329
59May 19, '16Being Black and intelligent is often times seen as a sign of being "arrogant" by those that stigmatize us as being feeble minded.2.1×09.3k5.3k77
60Apr 4, '18America decided to love Martin Luther King Jr. AFTER he was assassinated and no longer a threat to disrupting order and creating real change.2.0×011k4.6k17
61Aug 15, '19Jay-Z NEVER took a knee. The fact that he has the caudacity to to say that, “I think that we’ve moved past kneeling,” is ridiculous. He sacrificed NOTHING. In truth, he is actually1.9×011k3k115
62Feb 14, '22Eminem taking a knee, as presumably a show of solidarity with Kaepernick, while performing in the Super Bowl, for the league that Blackballed him, in a concert likely orchestrated 1.9×015k1.7k472
63Jul 1, '228 Akron, Ohio cops shot 90 shots at 1 Black man. His name was Jayland Walker. Over 60 of those shots entered his body, legs, and face. He was only 25-years-old. This will get swept1.9×011k4.2k203
64Jul 24, '18White Privilege is when you can brutality murder an 18-year old teen age Black girl, in such a fashion that the police said that it was one of the most gruesome crimes that he’s ev1.9×08k5.4k52
65Jul 21, '21“I grew up in a Nigerian home. Obviously, I was born in Greece and went to school in Greece. But at the end of the day when I go home, there is no Greek culture. It’s straight-up N1.7×013k2.2k230
66Sep 20, '19This is what the elders and ancestors would refer to as, “cuttin’ a rug.”1.7×09.7k2.8k420
67Dec 20, '17Folks are mad at LaVar Ball because he challenges the systemic stronghold that white (led/owned) companies, individuals, and institutions have on predominantly Black male athletic 1.7×08.6k4.2k0
68Oct 9, '19The NBA still owes Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf for what they did to him.1.7×011k2.8k147
69Jul 2, '21Michael Phelps:1.6×011k2.7k86
70May 13, '21The oppressor is always offended when the oppressed refuses to die quietly.1.6×09.9k3k125
71Jun 29, '20The media has stopped covering the people protesting the police, but make no mistake, the police are still out there putting a hurtin’ on the people.1.5×06.4k4.7k70
72Feb 10, '22They don’t lock up toothpaste, shampoo, baby diapers, and medicine at Whole Foods.1.5×013k1.2k104
73Jun 1, '20People are NOT just raising hell for George Floyd. People are raising hell because the police have terrorized Black folks ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. People are raising hell in other cou1.5×08.5k3.3k76
74May 31, '19More often than not, even while being terrorized, with OUR lives literally on the line, WE are more “civilized” than the barbaric “civil servants” that are paid to treat US like “s1.5×07k3.7k136
75Nov 10, '19“You are being detained for EATING. It’s a violation of California law.” #PoliceTerrorism1.5×05.7k3.1k247
76Jun 9, '20Kaepernick did more than take a knee, and it hasn’t escaped me that the media silences all of the work that he has done since 2016.1.5×010k2.4k27
77Aug 13, '19The NFL can’t be about “social justice” and Blackball Kaepernick. Period.1.4×09.5k2.5k13
78Jul 13, '18Dear White People, If you choose to be racist (because it is a learned behavior and a choice), and harass Black folks, understand that not everyone is going to simply tape you with1.4×07.6k3k113
79Jun 25, '18Ryan Coogler shouted out: • Richmond and Oakland • Black Twitter • Encouraged Black folks to make their way to Africa (while many Black celebrities celebrate Europe) • Paid his res1.4×07.3k3.4k245
80Oct 8, '17Trump/Pence are more offended by Black NFL players protesting police terrorizing our communities, than they are domestic White terrorism. 👍🏻1.4×07.7k3.2k0
81Jul 9, '16This picture of @SerenaWilliams...1.3×05.8k3.9k0
82Aug 16, '18Aretha Franklin was going to pay $200k to FREE ANGELA DAVIS, noting: “She’s a Black woman, and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people–they1.3×07.2k2.7k147
83May 31, '18Toxic whiteness will have you thinking vulgarity and racism are equal.1.3×08.4k2.2k24
84Sep 17, '20This is what propaganda looks like.1.3×07.6k2.7k24
85Mar 11, '18Follow me... Blackish is housed on ABC. ABC is owned by Disney. Disney also owns ESPN. ESPN and ABC are partners with the NFL. The NFL is Blackballing Kaepernick/actively silencing1.2×05.9k3.4k31
86Sep 28, '17"There's a lot of racism in this country disguised as patriotism."–Colin Kaepernick1.2×05.3k3.2k1
87Feb 21, '18“I know that you didn’t own a plantation or rape my grandmother, but I wasn’t bought at auction either and you still still treat me as if I had been.” –James Baldwin (1963)1.2×07.6k2.3k8
89Oct 31, '21This is actually scarier than costumes that are intended to be scary.1.1×07.4k1.9k56
90Oct 28, '20What. Is. Her. Name?1.1×05.6k1.8k369
91Oct 16, '22This is how you use your “platform” to say something:1.1×06k1.7k510
92Sep 17, '17Colin Kaepernick Just Donated $25,000 to Help Immigrant Youth Affected By Trump's Repeal of DACA:1.0×05.2k2.5k0
93Aug 11, '18A Police Union urges its cops to protest Miami games due to Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson taking a knee. This not only highlights the repeated pettiness of police unions, but it a1.0×05.2k2.4k12
94Jan 12, '18He’s not a celebrity, and no cameras were on him (except for mine), and he’s at a predominantly white school (Albany High School) taking a knee.1.0×06.9k1.4k0
95Nov 13, '19Eric Reid on the Kaepernick “situation.”0.9×05.6k1.6k127
96Aug 21, '19I really want folks to think about this. Kaepernick hasn’t said a disparaging word about anyone. And in his strategic-silence, he has exposed so many people’s unscrupulous agendas,0.8×05.5k1.5k44

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