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I was going through some old emails, and I found something that made me giggle. My oldest daughter Nia was applying for an internship with a filmmaker. She was 14 at the time, and we had to pitch her skillset.

I decided to include her martial arts training... five animal form kung fu, but she also had Hung Gar both 12, and 36 point, some praying mantis, 1st Tiger form, and I had been treaching her wing chun, chi na, and tai chi combat almost from birth. The unwritten subtext being ... Don't get out of line... She will F*CK you up!! Don't play with my daughter. 🤣🤣

Grand Rising, Family!
Sometimes it is the smallest things that make the greatest impact.
#grandrising #buildblackowned #faithhope

Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented.

I'm not phased by any soul that has to belittle others in order to look superior..

enjoy your thanksgiving though....

How Colombia erased its first and only president of African descent from history.

“Colombia must admit that there are racial problems in the country and throughout Latin America”, Barack Obama said at a business conference in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, in May 2017. Some years prior to the conference, Obama had been elected as the first African president of the U.S. While the U.S. celebrated this feat and its citizens showed how proud they were to have their first African leader, Colombians had kept their first African leader hidden for decades.

Colombia is one of the South American countries still struggling with racism. Before the passing of legislation in the country to represent its multi-cultural background, many African people were invisible under the law. Afro-Colombians, numbering about 3 million, can be stopped from enjoying basic amenities and denied access to opportunities as compared to other ethnicities in the country. And that is how it has been throughout history, making the story of the country’s first African president not surprising.

Juan José Nieto Gil, a Colombian politician, army general and writer, became Colombia’s first president of African descent in 1861. For about seven months, he was the leader of the country or what was then known as the Granadian Confederation, which included Panama. Nieto Gil’s legacy as the first Afro-Colombian to hold such an office had been virtually erased from Colombian history when historian Orlando Fals Borda discovered a portrait of him while digging in a palace loft in Cartagena more than 30 years ago.

https://mondoweiss.net/2015/11..../blackness-struggle-

The antiblackness in Israel

THE ART OF AFRICAN HAIR