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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 2d

If y’all don’t want to hear, it’s because y’all shut y’all’s ears.

If you still have an ear to hear, HEAR!!!

#MARCMyWords 🙏🏾👂🏾😩😢⚫️

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

The Supreme Court's conservative justices appeared likely to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a decision that would have massive consequences for the future of Black political representation in the South

The Supreme Court Seems Ready To Hand Trump His Dream Of One-Party Rule

The conservative justices appear ready to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The only question is how.

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 2d

Wrestling within is a spiritual practice. #MARC 🙏🏾✨⚫️

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 17d

444 = embOdied Clarity; embOdied Practice; whOle; New Era

• I’m in my “Oh, well!” era 🤷🏾‍♂️✨👀🤲🏾

#MARC40 #MARCTurns40 #PrayingWithMyEyesOpen #embOdiedClarity 👑🙏🏾👁️🔵

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 21d

Embodying witnessing in practice.

Looking for resources of Black scholars who speak in clear tones. Any author/book/essay/prose recommendations? Please respond in the comment section.

#MARC40 #MARCTurns40 #Witness #MyOhWellEra 👑✨👁️🔵

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 21d

“So what can we really do for each other except--just love each other and be each other's witness? And haven't we got the right to hope--for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are?” ~ James Baldwin

Bare witness of me while I bare witness of you.

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 21d

Witnessing 40. 👀

…with my inner eye. What a miraculous milestone!?

Thanking God for the caring, comforting, clarifying, and connecting words from all my fellow witnesses. You!!! 🙏🏾

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 23d

40 = The Era of Embodied Clarity

#MARC40 #MARCTurns40 #Vision #MyOhWellEra 👑✨🙏🏾🔵

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 23d

I see me bathed in the geniuses of my ancestors! I see me as God sees me! I see. I can see. And as I journey, what an unfolding of what I shall see.

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Stylist: @siralgernon

#MARC40 #MARCTurns40 #PrayingWithMyEyesOpen #InMyOhWellEra ✨👑👁️🔵

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 23d

My 40th mOvement around the sun. Happy Birthday to ME! The greatest gift is the gift of discernment, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. I see ME! I see my genius! I see me as a gOd! (Psalms 82:6)

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · 23d

Witnessing 40. 👀

Praying with my eyes open. Embodying clarity. God and gOd (me) pronouncing upon me, “It is gOOd.”

Musing on the prose, “Genius Child” by Langston Hughes; Reading “Visions For Black Men” by Na’im Akbar

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Sep 6

Overcoming is a journey. #MARCMyWords ⚫

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Aug 29

Weary of the ways of the world. #MARCMysOul 🙏🏾🥲⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy Chairteenth‼️ #MARCRituals 🪑✨👊🏾🖤😂⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 23

God has been better than gOOd to me. #MARC 🙏🏾🙌🏾🟣

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 13

Your presence is ministry. #MARC ✨🔥🕊️💨 👑🟣

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 11

Care is a form of protest.

#MARC #Care #DontStopCaring #WellBeing 🙏🏾✨🤲🏾👑🟢

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 5

What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?

#MARC #FrederickDouglass #Freedom #Liberation #Jubilee ⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy 15 Days After Juneteenth‼️ #MARCRituals 💪🏾🙏🏾👑✨⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 4

Healing is a form of protest.

#MARC #HealWell #Heal #Healing 🙏🏾👑✨🟢

a group of men are standing in a line with the words we can heal this whole city on the bottom

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 4

Wellness is a form of protest.

#MARC #HealWell #BeWell #Wellness🙏🏾👑✨🟢

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jul 1

Dealing with the devil.

#BigUglyBill #PoliticansAreNotYourFriends #WatchAndPray #PutFeetToYourPrayers 🙏🏾😭⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Jun 19

It’s a gOOd day to be Black‼️‼️‼️

#MARCRituals #Juneteenth #BlackLife #InteriorLife ✊🏾👑🙏🏾🖤⚫️

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Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Mar 6

Pay attention to those that care more about maintaining decorum than actively seeking justice.

#MARC #WatchAndPray #YouBetterWatch #SpiritualActivism #TransformativeCare ⚫️

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Mar 5

High drama ✊🏾🖤✨⚫️

Marcus Jerry Kaz McNeely (MARC) @marcusjkmcneely.bsky.social · Mar 5

Al Green ✊🏾✨🖤⚫️