mekka okereke

Yup.

https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops

The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:

1) Copaganda TV shows

2) Framing by newspapers and TV news

Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.🤷🏿‍♂️

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-R9kjh0X7R_6U6xPciOIKIw%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0 Yup. Like I've said: roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not. Anyone that tries to tell you that it is a real thing, is probably trying to justify violence by petulant man-babies. If you're thinking "But steroids can make you irritable!🤡" I don't care. All women get irritable. All women know how guns and knives work. But they don't shoot and stab and beat people every time they get irritable. Part of being an adult, is learning how to regulate your emotions. Keep your hands to yourself. Steroids don't make big men angry. Steroids make angry men big. What would've been a 150 lb twerp, is now a 200 lb twerp. Steroids give them the opportunity to try to live out their violence. When I worked as a bouncer in college, I often had to hulk-smash roided out dudes that don't understand that steroids won't help them against me, and that fighting is a skill, and that they didn't have that skill. I've never taken steroids. I'm an elite level natural powerlifter. Many powerlifters and bodybuilders aren't natural, which means that they do take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. They don't rage on people. I don't judge people who take steroids for sports. I certainly don't judge people who do gender affirming care. I am pro-gender affirming care. What I'm against, is violent people that try to blame steroids as their excuse for hurting people that they perceive as smaller than them. No. It's not the steroids. It's you.

The place I'm going to for brunch has street parking. So can someone put a few quarters in the parking meter for me? Thanks!😘

Whoa! Parking prices are up! Swipe your credit card for me?

And while you're at it, the place we are going to war with costs us $1 billion a day. Can you pay that too? Thx!

And that's $1 billion just in hard costs! That's not counting inflation from higher fuel prices due to Hormuz being closed.

I'm appealing to your "price of eggs" and "kitchen table issues," 🍳because appealing to not bombing children's schools, and not fighting wars for christofascism, isn't working.

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡

Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡

Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record.

Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

Add those 3 lost F-15s, to the F-18s that fell off of ships...🤦🏿‍♂️

And the helicopters that crash into civilian planes...😢

And you begin to understand why all this "warfighter" and "increasing lethality" talk is nonsense.

Competence matters. Communication matters.

I am not debating this with y'all.

🤔I'm not disagreeing. I'm just trying to follow the logic:

If Iran's nuclear capability was "completely obliterated" a few months ago, and needed to be obliterated again today, either:

1) It wasn't obliterated a few months ago

2) It was obliterated, but they rebuilt from scratch *in only months*.

Yup. Every word.

Jayme Lawson says what all these Black people have been telling you. Including Black people with disabilities. Including Black people with Tourette syndrome. Including Black people with coprolalia.

But people still don't want to hear it.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MNsG0KXtEYg

*sigh* Dem presidential candidates talking about "culturally normal." 🤦🏿‍♂️ I don't want or need a president that silences the conversations that we need to protect people that aren't considered "culturally normal.🤡" That's how fascists chip away at the base of good people. I do want and need a president that will prioritize protecting the most vulnerable. That's how you protect people. C'mon y'all. This is the oldest trick in the fascist book. You agree to their pressure to only include those who are "culturally normal🤡." But then the definition changes over time. One day you find that you yourself are not "culturally normal.🤡" It's 2026. How are we still falling for this?

This.

Again, if the topic of discussion is the intersection of racism and ableism, in particular, anti-Black racism and Tourette syndrome with coprolalia, listen to people who have expertise and lived experience with both.♥️👍🏿

And they will say the same things that I and other Black folk have said.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgaqKIxS4Hs

Shout out to everyone reading this paper, not understanding it, and drawing the wrong conclusions.🤷🏿‍♂️

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

Switching to Twitter's algorithmic feed from chronological, only shifts political attitudes to the right *for people susceptible to far-right nonsense.*

Because they start following far-right dudes🤡

Switching back to chronological doesn't undo the far-right shift...

Because the people affected don't unfollow the far-right dudes. And they don't start following more normal people🤡

Again, Black folk use Twitter the *most*. Black people get exposed to far-right dudes but are the *least* far-right

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 18: Asian Hate

Read the whole thread.

It's Feb 2026, and 49% of white people in the US approve of the way Trump is handling immigration.

In case you're thinking that means that a majority disapprove? Nope! 4% are "Not sure." Only 46% disapprove.🤡

Some of y'all really believed that the percent of white people that support ethnic cleansing would drop lower🤷🏿‍♂️.

In October it was 50%.

Who wants to bet if it will be closer to 51% or 47% in July?🔮🧙🏿‍♂️

That's +2% or -2% from 49%.

I made the claim that the FBI declared the Black Panthers dangerous, not because they were Black nationalists or supremacists. They weren't.

They were dangerous because they preached racial *solidarity*.

But don't take my word for it!

Listen to Fred Hampton's own words.

Turn on closed captions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tF7_2VckKNQ

While we're talking about neighborhood watch targeting every Black person, and this not being a Southern thing or a GOP thing, but an anti-Black thing...

I still remember when a bunch of Silicon Valley Venture Capital favorites saw a Black man working on his car in San Francisco in 2020.

Because they have no clue what normal people do in life, they thought that this car was being stripped for parts 🤦🏿‍♂️. They viewed it as a sign of lawlessness of San Francisco, and urged police to do more to keep people safe.

It didn't even occur to them that this Black man both owns the car, and lives in the neighborhood.

This would be funny. But these VCs that don't know anything, are funding and starting surveillance and enforcement companies that they think will reduce crime. This won't work because they know nothing about crime or how they reduce it. They only know this.

The ignorance + confidence combo, can be just as dangerous for Black people as the enemy action of the intentionally white nationalist VCs.

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 15: Neighborhood Watch

I'm not saying that the US is a racist country. But I am saying that the highest paid government employee in most states is a college sports coach🤡, and that college sports is a racist system that exploits poor Black kids in a way that would be wildly illegal in most countries.

🤔OK, I am saying that.

https://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228/

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 12: Shoplifting / Being bad customers

👩🏼Where are all the protest songs?!

👩🏿Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" covered everything happening now.

👩🏼No, I mean recent protest songs!

👩🏿Dave's most recent album is the most streamed rap album this century.

👩🏼No, I mean protesting the people doing ICE!

👩🏿Um... It's the same people.

👩🏼No!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLS2IzZSdg

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 11: Wrongful Convictions

Read the whole thread. The entire thing. Every word.

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 10: Traffic safety

Read the whole thread at this link.

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 9: Education

Q: Why do Black kids not do well in school, or in subjects like Math and Science?

A: This is only true in extremely racist countries. A racist person cannot teach a Black child effectively. It's not race. It's racism.

Read the whole thread.

🤔 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice/ar-AA1VwlfU

From the perspective of a Black US citizen:

* Black US citizens work to reduce racism and anti-immigrant sentiment 👍🏿

* Non-white immigrant comes to the US, and immediately starts trying to increase racism and anti-immigrant sentiment 🤷🏿‍♂️

* Non-white immigrant successfully gets themselves deported 🤡

This is a story that has been told many times, and has been translated into Cuban Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Iranian Farsi, and Indian English and Hindi. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Some folks expect Black folk to work just as hard to rescue people like this. For me, the answer is no.

Energy for empathy is not infinite. And there are Brazilian immigrants that didn't come here just to be racist, that are in just as much danger. My energy and resources go to them instead. ♥️🕊️

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.

6 years old.

She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 1.

We even have quote posts this year!

This Statue of Liberty thread is especially relevant this year, when everyone is trying to pretend that US fascism against immigrants is something new, by ignoring the ongoing US fascism against Black people. People love to erase or ignore Black suffering. But we're still here, and we stubbornly refuse to be erased or ignored.

Read the whole thread if you haven't read it before.

Cops in St. Peter. Minnesota, intervene in an ICE arrest. ♥️👍🏿 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident St. Peter Minnesota's police scorecard is better than most police departments in the US. There is no racial disparities in killings by St. Peter police, because... St. Peter police haven't killed anyone in the last 13 years.🤷🏿‍♂️ And St. Peter has a higher percent of Black residents than California. https://policescorecard.org/mn/police-department/st-peter Mayor Shannon Nowell talks about ICE activity and law enforcement from the perspective of protecting the community *from* ICE agents. Police chief Matt Grochaw lists 8 times that his officers have "had to make contact" with ICE agents, and speaks about the impact to community safety and well-being. https://www.southernminn.com/st_peter_herald/news/city-releases-report-on-ice-impact/article_4d1ca22d-575c-4c7f-b541-f7fae920c7dd.html My point: "Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first" is true. But it has corollaries: "A community that is more resistant to racism, is more resistant to fascism."

Minnesota Dems are trying to elect as governor, the County Attorney that refused to charge Derek Chauvin for his entire career of brutality against Black Minnesotans, and refused to charge almost every cop in the police department that is on the most racist 1% of police departments in North America? Then if Black Minnesotans don't turn out to vote for her in record numbers, a bunch of white people are going to jump on BlueSky and Twitter and Mastodon and Facebook to curse out Black people, and express their homicidal fantasies about how Black men and Somali immigrants now deserve whatever is about to happen to them.

🤔Is ICE bad because their agents are brutish and violent? Individual hate? Or is ICE bad because their mission is ethnic cleansing? Systemic hate? You can be more efficient with your systemic deportations, if you are *slightly* less brutish. If we replace Bovino for Homan, is that an improvement? ICE is crashing out these days because for all their increased budget, and fancy SS style trench coats, and raids on elementary schools, they still can't match the scaled efficiency of deportations that previous administrations could. Do... do you know who accomplished those scaled deportations?

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why is it OK for Black folk to like the Black Panthers, but white folk can't like the klan? Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy! Why the double standard?

A: Black folk know white US history, so they know that the Black Panthers were not Black supremacists.

(At this point, half of the Black folk reading this just involuntarily said "COINTELPRO!" out loud).

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#BlackMastodon

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not onto Black history. I'm still working through white US history.

Q: Why do Black folk get so upset when people ask them if they live in this neighborhood? I saw a Black stranger in my building and I just asked him if he lived here and can I see 3 forms of government ID, and now I'm the racist? How? I voted for Obama! Twice! Why are Black folk so sensitive about this?

A: Racism. This is a legacy of slavery and ethnic cleansing. Seriously.

1/N

#BlackMastodon

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history. Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!" A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth. Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town. 1/N #BlackMastodon

The best thing about this latest Mark Rober video is that if you know what to look for, you'll see that it matches up with everything I've tried to tell y'all about San Francisco crime:

* SF is the car break-in capital of the USA
* Most car break-ins are not done by Black people
* Most car break-ins are not done by homeless people
* Police are not designed to help you with these car break-ins. Police are designed to abuse Black people.

🤷🏿‍♂️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeu2dxHRDg

#BlackMastodon

In my (completely biased!) opinion, the most important free speech issue in a democracy, is the right to vote. In particular, Black folks' right to vote in the US is very important for all humans. It determines whether or not fascists take over the most powerful military the world has ever known, and whether or not the world will take meaningful action on climate change.

But we all act like it's normal that half of the US government openly suppresses Black voting rights.