mekka okereke

Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?

Happy Juneteenth!

@jennifersmith

Yes! Lots! Black voters are surprisingly forgiving/ optimistic! Eg: Harris. AOC. Ossoff.

Ossoff is closer to the 2028 presidency than Buttigieg.

He speaks with similar clarity, but adds an understanding of racial issues in the US, and a genuine empathy for Black people that cannot be faked. He doesn't just show up to the closest Black church a few weeks before the election.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AsmVfa3BvvY&t=251s

The best that Dem presidential candidates with anti-Black track records can do, is win the Dem primary... and then lose in the general.

Then write silly and incorrect articles about how "Black men are moving towards Trump!🤡"

Dems complete this whole arc without ever having had one real conversation with any of the Black men voters that noped out.🤦🏿‍♂️

Becerra can probably win California without the Black vote. There aren't that many Black people in California. 🇫🇷Paris has more Black citizens per capita than California. Seriously! Look it up.🤷🏿‍♂️

Talarico might still win Texas even after what Dems did to Crockett. Hispanic self-preservation vote.🤷🏿‍♂️

But Buttigieg can't win the presidency. Neither can Rahm Emmanuel.

You can run as many polls or buy as much press as you want. Doesn't matter.

It's not going to happen.

All the fascists run to the GOP side of the see-saw. You need all the Black voters, specifically all the Black men, to counterbalance that.

And we're not going to do that for these dudes.🤷🏿‍♂️

Iowa and New Hampshire are irrelevant for predicting the next Dem president.

Caucastrophies or caucasualties or caucuses are also nonsense.🤡

Black men are holding an Africus, and in ours we went to the corner of the room that says that we're not electing any more people with anti-Black policies.🤷🏿‍♂️

In 2019, people were surprised that I predicted the exact date of Buttigieg's stunning collapse.
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There is no math that has a Dem win the presidential election without massive turnout from and support from, Black voters.

Buttigieg will not get that.

For the same reason that Biden's second attempt couldn't get that.

It's a self-defeating strategy to try to run people with this record.

@Xavier

It's a shorter list to tell you which candidates Black voters gravitate towards, and why.

I said what I said about Ossoff, and now more people are seeing it too. He can drive high Black voter turnout.
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https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116652157293018857

A lot of people genuinely expect 95%+ of Black voters to vote against their own self-interest for the greater good. They would not accept this for themselves, but they expect Black voters to vote for it for themselves. They are genuinely surprised, scared, angry, aggressive, when their expectation is not met.

No other free people in any democracy on Earth are expected to vote for their own mistreatment at the level that Black Americans are mistreated. The numbers are so high that they boggle the mind. People don't realize what millions of innocent people in jail really means. People can't process that the US shoots as many innocent people in a year, as Germany shoots in 50 years.

The first obvious question is: "If Dems run an anti-fascist candidate that is also anti-racism, will Black people vote for them?" The answer is of course yes.

The second obvious question is: "🤔Then... why Do Dems insist on running candidates with anti-Black platforms? Why don't they just run candidates that don't push anti-Black policies, so that they can win more elections?"

So many answers to that second question. But it almost doesn't matter. Just run less racist candidates.

Again:
1. Trump's most popular policy among his supporters *by far* are his "immigration policies"

2. His immigration policies are by definition, ethnic cleansing policies. They were devised by white nationalists who self-described their sole purpose as "turning the USA into a white ethnostate."

3. White American voters are the only group of US voters that support these ethnic cleansing policies at more than 50%. Black, Asian, non-white Hispanic, and Indigenous people all reject these ethnic cleansing policies.

4. Trump supporters are willing to give up every other policy to make sure that this one happens, as they view it as existential. They are willing to pay to do this.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/50802-harris-vs-trump-on-the-issues-whose-policies-do-voters-prefer

If you love Elon or SpaceX? I love that for you! Seriously! I let people enjoy things. I like rockets too!

And if you can't move your money away? Also OK! Not everyone has agency or ability to move all cash.

But if a few mouse clicks could align your money with your morals? I would consider that.

Your retirement account took *years of your life* to accumulate.

*Years*.

If you own the wrong fund, in a few weeks, someone is probably going to make a decision to sell some of the stocks that you are invested in via the fund, like Netflix or T-Mobile or GE Healthcare, to invest more on Elon.🤡

You already know what he's going to use your money to do.

I mean, you're on this website, so I know you know.

Your posting thumbs say, "Leave Twitter!" But your bank account says, "Nah! Stay on Twitter!🤡"

🤔Seeing insiders and professional investors sell Tesla stock, as retail investors flood into it, all while GameStop has to close stores and pivots to Bitcoin🤡, is just too much.

By the way, the answer to the question of "Who still owns Tesla stock?" is "You, probably🙂🙃" Index funds. Mutual funds.

How to prevent accidentally giving some of your hard earned life savings to Elon, so that he can use your own money to hurt you.

Ask yourself 4 questions:

1) Do I own index funds?

2) Are those index funds going to buy SpaceX?

3) Do I want them to?

4) Which index funds won't be buying SpaceX?

The people whose ideas the Constitution is based on, were almost all anti-slavery abolitionists.
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That's why these French abolitionists gave America a giant anti-slavery statue, called the Statue of Liberty, with broken chains on her feet, as a giant clue that we are starting to get it right.

I love my country. That means I love most of the people in it. Not everyone. I don't like everyone.

I protect the people in this country from those that would hurt them.

That means from the racists, sexists, transphobes, and false patriots that pretend to love America, but hate 70% of its people.

I don't care what the GOP thinks of masked protests.

And I don't care if the Dems say masks are allowed because free speech, or not allowed because masked protests are scary.

All I'm asking is that the answer not depend on the Blackness of the protesters.

Next they'll ask for Black voter turnout🤷🏿‍♂️

For decades, the KKK marched and protested wearing masks, and Dem lawmakers said, "It's free speech! We have to let them talk!"

Then for a few summers, some Black kids said, "We need a ceasefire in Palestine." And Dem lawmakers passed laws against masked protest.🤡

Now those Dems are quiet again.🤷🏿‍♂️

[Photo credit also in the Alt text:
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"]

Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete.

Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it.

We're still fixing that mistake.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109789295728917242

We are the first country to ratify those brilliant ideas into a Constitution, even beating France to their own inevitable democratic success.

But we were not the first Democracy to remove anti-Black racism from their constitution. And we still have not removed that racism and anti-Blackness.