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Black women have always put their bodies on the line for an ungrateful country.

🙌🏽

Black Americans die earliest because we live under the most racism.

White people literally invented whiteness to do anti-Black racism.

Since the 1600s, every other type of racism, every other ism in North America, has stemmed from anti-Black racism.

BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY MUSIC BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED COUNTRY 🇺🇸🇺🇸

To be clear, Black Americans invented literally ALL popular music genres, as well as myriad sub-genres. Black people are the composers of America’s soundtrack:
Jazz
Country
Blues
Funk
Soul
R&B
Neo Soul
Hip Hop/Rap
Disco
Rock and Roll
House
Swing
Bluegrass
Electronic
EDM
Doo Wop

...and much more. 🖤🖤

Black Americans quite literally invented Country music, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Hip-hop, and all other popular genres.

This place never deserved our greatness. Truly. 🇺🇸

Black people invented swag

I admitted to fan-boying lol!

I told him how much he meant to me.

All popular genres

😂🤣

The one arm pushups impressed me, ngl

TBH I feel Black people are the only ones who really get this shit.

Thank you

Janice Jackson, another team member who is also working on a Ph.D. in communication disorders, conducted an experiment using pictures of Sesame Street characters to test children's comprehension of the "habitual be" construction. She showed the kids a picture in which Cookie Monster is sick in bed with no cookies while Elmo stands nearby eating cookies. When she asked. "Who be eating cookies?" white kids tended to point to Elmo while black kids chose Cookie Monster. "But," Jackson relates, "when I asked, 'Who is eating cookies?' the black kids understood that it was Elmo and that it was not the same. That was an important piece of information." Because those children had grown up with a language whose verb forms differentiate habitual action from currently occuring action (Gaelic also features such a distinction, in addition to a number of West African languages), they were able even at the age of five or six to distinguish between the two.

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Damn right! If he gets out of line, we'll handle it back at the house! One band, one sound!

hold on i do wanna say, rock with this or not, it's the most black women have spoken since the election. so white people need to turn their ears on and act the fuck accordingly.

Listen to her & don’t mess this up. You don’t have to choose him for the 2028 primary you just have to support him supporting DEMOCRACY.

She’s right… and that Cali accent set off just right

Never discuss in public. There is a time and place. And in public ain’t it. Gonna have to learn these new Democrats.

It’s family business.

All jokes aside, this is what most Black people do. The ones I've been raised by. "If he gets out of line, we talk to him in the back." There is a reason for that. She explains here.

Heads up: this is the plan.

And I do NOT wanna hear the “but” stuff.

Listen to the lady. Act accordingly.

This is the plan to combat MAGA that the rest of the country should follow

HELLO!

If only White America would listen to Black Women (for once).

Black people invented all modern popular music and heavily influenced concert music from about 1900 on.
We wouldn't have Copeland or Gershwin w/o Black folk music and jazz.

Right? Slaves invented the banjo. There are African rhythms in early country music that come from Black church music. Yet white folks somehow think country music started with them, because as always, we are too often erased.😒

This is a very useful grammatical feature. I didn't realize it is also in West Africa, whence it probably derives.
What I find most mysterious about AAVE is in the usage, rather than the grammar. There's a kind of irony/sarcasm code that I, being both white and literal-minded, can't access.