Jackie Summers

Nepo-Babies of Freedom Welcome to the consequences of your own inactions.

The greatest lie Harm ever told was Harm would never harm you.

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The Physics of Joy, Vol. 58 Of course Black boy magic is real.

I'm not anti-aging. I'm negentropic.

The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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You are future Ancestors.
Act accordingly.

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The metaphor of taking a wrecking ball to the White House feels a bit on the nose.

When The Race War Ain't Your War Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.

And this too:

“This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."

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How To Beat White Supremacy And Save Democracy Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors

And this:

"Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."

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The Price Of Freedom If your freedom didn’t come with grief, it came from someone else’s.

Today feels like a good day to repost this:

"When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."

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This feels appropriate for today.

#NoKings

The Alchemy of Blackness Harry Potter and Hogwarts ain't got shit on Black and Indigenous peoples.

The best lie empire ever sold was convincing melanated people technology was real, while our traditions were superstition.

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In Honor of Alexander Bernstein July 7, 1955-July 22, 2025

Alexander Bernstein, the second child and only son of Leonard Bernstein, was a champion of education, a music enthusiast, and one helluva good man. He was the first investor in Jack From Brooklyn, and someone I came to trust as kin.

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Her: My name's not easy to say.
Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.

What Comes After the Espresso Martini? A Flavor-First Drinking Era Gen Z drinkers are reshaping the spirits world, favoring authentic flavor, sustainability, and story over high proof. Explore how modifiers like aperitifs and liqueurs — and upstarts such as Chinola —...

Big liquor brands sold the story of authenticity without investing in the product integrity to back it up. Education raised the bar. The product limboed under it. Today on @foodandwine.com How 25 Years of Education Accidentally Created the Ultimate Brand Agnostics
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The Blackbody Problem A Thermodynamic Field Equation of Emergent Coherence and Cultural Cool

"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode.

Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."

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When The Race War Ain't Your War Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.

I keep hearing about how this country is 'more divided than ever' yet the division was never among Black people. We already know we're human and we stopped needing to prove that to anyone long ago.

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The Blackbody Problem A Thermodynamic Field Equation of Emergent Coherence and Cultural Cool

"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode.

Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."

jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackb...

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Writing is seppuku.
A good editor is your kaishakunin.

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If I’ve known you since my 40s technically you’re a childhood friend.

If it’s going to matter in 150 years?

Make it matter now.

Every kiss leaves a scar 💋

When The Race War Ain't Your War Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.

I keep hearing about how this country is 'more divided than ever' yet the division was never among Black people. We already know we're human and we stopped needing to prove that to anyone long ago.

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Justice For Future Ancestors Funding is what justice looks like in public.

"Uncle Web worked in waste reclamation for NASA—he helped figure out how humans defecate and urinate in zero gravity, without soiling your instruments, or yourself.

No one is making a movie about my great Uncle Web, it was literally a shitty job."

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9/11's First Drink(s) Our collective day of grief is a GenZ native New Yorker and they have opinions.

9/11 is a GenZ native New Yorker. And they have opinions.
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The Latimer Equation If it will matter in 150 years, make it matter now.

Who we support today transforms the future. Don’t wait until Black founders and innovators walk among the ancestors to honor their names and contributions.

Fund them now. Protect them now. Platform them now.

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The Perversity of Hope Hope Is Not A Plan

Hope is not a plan.
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The missing adjective is: hot.
Otherwise I am staying in for the foreseeable future.

In case any of y’all still play WWF 🫠

Said it six years ago.
I would like to be wrong more often. Y’all predictable.

From the archives, for those of y'all who not causing a fuss at Thanksgiving was a move.

went for some drams in lieu of making plans to go to tales (unless someone wants to pay cause my job won't lol)
an old bottle of sorel @jackfrombkln.bsky.social but it tastes pretty good
#booze #cocktails #totc

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Enslaved Africans didn't gain freedom by sending stern letters to their enslavers.