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wazobiann

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wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 2h

Well now I want "potato" chips.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 4h

"Media Redlining,” How Today’s Media Inequality is Rooted in Harmful Historic FCC Practices

#FCC

theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/20/f...

FCC Drew the Map: Media Redlining Still Shapes Who Controls the Airwaves

The FCC’s long history of exclusion shaped today’s unequal media system, silencing Black ownership and fueling ongoing press inequality.

theblackwallsttimes.com

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 3h

Anytime I see this gif I know it's you shenaniganning.

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 8h

It’s impossible to have a conversation with anyone that focuses solely on classism and ignores racism.

It’s not one or the other. It’s both.

Rich people aren’t the reason we don’t have universal healthcare.

We don’t have it b/c white people don’t want Black folks to have it, so they elect bigots.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 6h

We learn this every time mercury goes into database.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 8h

This is a hell of a way to learn that Amazon runs everything

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

It's good practice to lead with what you are doing rather than with what others aren't. Share what you are doing and invite others to join you.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 6h

I liked it but is it a scam yep.

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 8h

Y'all really falling for "Dubai chocolate"?

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 19h

Wale is a Yoruba man. Their memories are old and they're petty.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 23h

Humans are really simple to organize. It's not easy work. But the whole idea of humanity is organizing tribes. Get to work.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 23h

You keep asking for solutions and strategies and plans and you're missing your opportunity to start where you are with what you've got. Stop asking the timelines and start building your power.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 23h

I really am tired of people telling people what they can't do to change things on social media. Y'all are addicted to the non-ability of things. Don't you know words are spells? Tell a different story already.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

I say there's no such thing as traditional african religions because religion is a necessary construct of the catholic church to create a hierarchy of humans. And also because tradition implies a sort of temporal stasis that is just not true of any culture.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

And whenever someone west of the Atlantic ocean references traditional african religions, they are more likely than not speaking about Ifa. It's highly unlikely t hey are referring to any of the millions of so-called traditional religious found through the Africas.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

In the past, this was fine because access to the Africas was occluded by empire. But we have since breached borders by way of the internet, and we can see each other much more clearly now.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

We can see there is not one Africa, there are many Africas. And that there are no such things as religions in the context of indigenous communities.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

So if there are no such things as religions in the Africas, except the ones enforced by the colonial incident, then Ifa and others are not religions, but something else, something way more potent than a religion that requires the force of an army to remain.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

Simply put, what people call traditional african religions are just a way of life. It's just the way we be. It's the way we eat, the way we name our children, the way we sing, dance, and mark the seasons. The way we know who we been, who we are, who we tryna be.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

This distinction is important because everyone's tryna decolonize something these days. Tryna decenter, debunk, deny, de-something. Making the negation of something your goal is not sustainable. All of that stuff is a side effect of the same potent thing that outlives religion.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

And what is it? It's power. Power, as I define it, is the ability to create change. And everything in this world relies on power to exist. Indigenous ways of knowing and being are just ancient and complex ways of capturing power, enstorifying them, and passing them on.

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ann @anndaramola.bsky.social · 1d

Power is what creates both colonized and decolonized conditions. Power is what creates Ifa and all other indigenous cultural technologies. And power is what we need to harness to do anything meaningful in this current phase of humanity.

Once you figure out your power, everything is possible.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 1d

More movies should tack on a five-minute scene after the story logically ends that is devoted entirely and exclusively to massacring Klansmen or assorted racists. I don’t really care what it is. Killers of the Flower Moon, 50 First Dates, Frozen 2, whatever

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like the spirit of this platform. It’s slightly off.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 1d

And don’t screenshot the bullshit either??? wtf is going on

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 1d

Don't quote the propaganda and think you're dunking on them. That's not how to do this. Block, and let people know to block. Shut them out completely.

wazobiann @wazobiann.bsky.social · 1d

You need to dance. Get loose. Move hard.