Not the Only One

I guess today is as good a day as any to wake up to an email saying that I'm banned from #Airbnb without any explanation whatsoever? And right after I was scammed on their platform & they had to refund me money. I supposedly didn't follow their terms of service. How? Who knows? Another one to add to the #airbnbwhileblack diaries smh.

In the past, police officers and the general public have tended to view fatal encounters between black people and police very differently. In a 2016 survey of nearly 8,000 policemen and women from departments with at least 100 officers, two-thirds said most such encounters are isolated incidents and not signs of broader problems between police and the black community. In a companion survey of more than 4,500 U.S. adults, 60% of the public called such incidents signs of broader problems betwee...

Incidentally, if anyone is interested in publishing a paper that analyses a literary work, especially one from a marginalised voice, please consider Poetika. They desperately need authors from outside Indonesia, which is always a struggle for small journals here. If you want a fee waiver, you can probably even name-drop me to get it. 😊 https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/poetika/index @academicchatter

JSS1 stands for Junior Secondary School, Year 1. What US citizens would call 7th grade. The above video is help with Nigerian 7th grade math homework. This is why Nigerians laugh when racists in the US try to say that Black kids don't have the aptitude or inclination to do math or CS. The US is uniquely bad at teaching Black kids. No country in the world spends more per Black kid, for worse outcomes. We are really bad at this🤷🏿‍♂️ It's not the kids. It's not the parents. It's the systemic racism.

Prominent white nationalist Lauren Southern (a proponent of “the great replacement” theory subscribed to by the Christchurch shooter) has moved to Australia and now writes for The Spectator and will be on Sky News this morning. Australia really is a dumping ground for these folk. https://t.co/jbQbAdMNyW

And you had no warning, just see it in a press conference (or maybe you didn't because not everyone watches those things) and then cop car after cop car starts turning up at your home.

[Wuunamin-Miliwundi] is a combination of the Ngarinyin and Bunuba traditional names for those ranges. WA Government confirms King Leopold Ranges to be renamed the Wunaamin-Miliwundi Ranges. https://t.co/L3HrcNU884

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