Mekka Okereke

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Wow. This Ryan Garcia crash out is... something. Tank Davis really ended him. It's been all downhill since then.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Wow. This Ryan Garcia crash out is... something. Tank Davis really ended him. It's been all downhill since then. Up until that point, he had everyone fooled. Tank knocked that veneer right off. Any...

Dave Free: So Kendrick, where do you want to shoot the music video for "Not like Us?" Kendrick: LA. Dave: Makes sense. OK, now who do you want to be in the video? Kendrick: LA.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Dave Free: So Kendrick, where do you want to shoot the music video for "Not like Us?" Kendrick: LA. Dave: Makes sense. OK, now who do you want to be in the video? Kendrick: LA. Dave: Right. LA is ...

Happy 4th of July! More US history they won't tell you: The US national anthem only exists because British troops offered slaves a chance at freedom if they fought against their captors. Seriously.🤷🏿‍♂️

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Attached: 2 images Happy 4th of July! More US history they won't tell you: The US national anthem only exists because British troops offered slaves a chance at freedom if they fought against their ...

Bron getting $104M for 2yrs? I love this for LeBron! He's earned it! 🧔🏿‍♂️Hire my friend as the head coach, even though he has zero coaching experience! 👴🏻Yes, sir! 🧔🏿‍♂️Now draft my son! 👴🏻Of course sir! Is 2nd round OK? 🧔🏿‍♂️Now give me all the money 👴🏻Happily, sir! 🧔🏿‍♂️Now slap yourself! 👴🏻 *SLAP!!!* 🧔🏿‍♂️Harder!

CBS News reports that the "Global shift towards Green Energy is Accelerating!" Yay!😀 Isn't that a good thing? CBS cites the International Energy Agency report. But they don't say the word "China," much...

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Attached: 1 image CBS News reports that the "Global shift towards Green Energy is Accelerating!" Yay!😀 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKfaJheWbk Isn't that a good thing? CBS cites the Internationa...

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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

A quote from the Biden Trump debate. Which candidate said this, Trump or Biden? "I put more – we put more police on the street than any administration has. He wants to cut the cops."

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io A quote from the Biden Trump debate. Which candidate said this, Trump or Biden? "I put more – we put more police on the street than any administration has. He wants to cut the cops." As a reminder, ...

👵🏻OMG! Did you see the Supreme Court decision?! This is terrible! It's even more important than ever for us to come together to make sure that Trump doesn't win! 👨🏿Cool! So you're coming around on the "I refuse to reduce anti-Black racism" thing? 👵🏻Whoa! Relax Jamaal. I didn't say all that.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io 👵🏻OMG! Did you see the Supreme Court decision?! This is terrible! It's even more important than ever for us to come together to make sure that Trump doesn't win! We must all be willing to do whatever ...

Why is birria better now?

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io 🤔 Okay, I had birria tacos 5+ years ago, and they weren't that good. They weren't bad, they were just okay. I thought maybe I just don't like birria or something. But In the past year I've had birria...

Deeply unserious people.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Shot: 👴🏻Listen here you foolish Black people! The choices are Biden or Trump! That's it! It's where we are! You have no 3rd party choices! You have no Dem primaries! Trump or Biden! Choose! And you'd ...

This Diana Taurasi vs Caitlin Clark game tomorrow is going to be huge.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io This Diana Taurasi vs Caitlin Clark game tomorrow is going to be huge. It's like WNBA present vs WNBA future. In Caitlin's best 3 point game this season, she hit 7 threes, many from super deep. In Di...

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Michelle Obama is one of the figures Americans like to forget that they used to demonize and dehumanize when she was actually in the political spotlight.

My god the terrorist fist bump, for starters?

The cycle: 1. For ~2 years: Not doing anything to help Black folk. 2. For ~1 year: Denying Black folks' expertise and warnings. 3. For ~6 months: Blacksplaining to Black folks as we demand their votes, fealty, and silence. Saying "We'll fix it after the election!" 4. Despair! 🤡 We're at 4.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io The cycle: 1. For ~2 years: Not doing anything to help Black folk. Actively ignoring them. Pushing back hard on their most innocuous requests. 2. For ~1 year: Denying Black folks' expertise and warn...

To all the people that cursed Black people out and blocked them for criticizing Joe Biden about anything, claiming that any criticism of Biden "only helps Trump!" Please curse yourself out and block yourself, cause y'all are criticizing Joe Biden for flubbing that debate! 🙂🙃 What's right is right!

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io A message for all the people that cursed Black people out and blocked them for criticizing Joe Biden about anything, claiming that any criticism of Biden "only helps Trump!" Please curse yourself out...

This has come up a few times recently, so I should address it. People that don't know me view me as a pessimist. But folks that know me, view me as an optimist? What's up with that? 🙂🙃 The disconnect, is that I don't just complain about stuff and then do nothing. I don't just talk. I get active.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io This has come up a few times recently, so I should address it. People that don't know me view me as a pessimist. But folks that know me, view me as an optimist? What's up with that? 🙂🙃 The disconnect...

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As a white person this was quite a revelation I had back in 2014, after I met some coworkers at a new job. That it took so long is very embarrassing.

Still true: Biden's age, isn't about Biden's age. Biden's age, is about Kamala's skin. There are millions of folk that think that stopping Trump is the most important thing in the world... but also think, "Wait a minute! If Biden can't finish his term, that Black woman gets to be president!"

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Still true: Biden's age, isn't about Biden's age. Biden's age, is about Kamala's skin. There are millions of Americans that unironically think that stopping Trump is the most important thing in the w...

$25M? On a primary?! Which one? Oh.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io $25 million? On a primary?! Which one? Oh. Look y'all. If you want to spend $25M on a primary, that's fine. But I said what I said about why I'm a climate doomer, and why we will not make bold enou...

According to this busted logic, Reggie Miller is a bigger basketball star than Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen combined. 🤡 TL:DR; if you don't nationally televise Angel Reese games, you are leaving money on the table.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Attached: 1 image Hey, 90s NBA fans: If I put 36 Indiana Pacers games on national TV... But only put 6 Chicago Bulls games on National TV... And then said that the Pacers are the most watched team....

Some people genuinely believe that Black voters aren't allowed to be undecided. 🤷🏿‍♂️

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io More white women voted for Trump than Biden in 2016. More white women voted for Trump than Biden in 2020. In fact, Trump's margin of victory with white women, grew.🤷🏿‍♂️ More young white people (18 ...

😯I just discovered that I've been spelling Dwyane Wade's name incorrectly my entire life. I thought it was Dwayne Wade. My bad!

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Unfortunately I think that some of the white left has a (possibly subconscious) sense that Black people owe their loyalty and labor to the Dems, and that the mere fact of identifying with a party that's more helpful to POC is all the labor that could possibly be expected of them.

Polls that try to tell you that *young voters* are strongly supportive of Dems, are intentionally misleading you. They see the data. They know what I know. They just choose to frame it in a misleading way. You know why.

Evergreen: Every US poll that tries to tell you that *young people* are more likely to vote for the Dem candidate, is intentionally lying to you. That's just not true. *Black people* are more likely to vote Dem, and Black people are *much younger*. Which is why they don't show "race by age"

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Attached: 2 images I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in. Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Bal...

OK, this is just great basketball!♥️👍🏿 * Sold out crowd * Caitlin Clark draining her signature deep 3s * Clark with 13 assists (but 5 turnovers) * Angel Reese unstoppable down low and on the boards * Multiple lead changes * Boston and Cardoso played well * Game came down to the last shot Great game!

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io OK, this is just great basketball. ♥️👍🏿👍🏿 * Sold out crowd * Caitlin Clark draining her signature deep 3s * Clark with 13 assists (but 5 turnovers) * Angel Reese unstoppable down low and on the board...

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I’m so sick of fucking sharing how hard it is for people to “handle” the complex realities of the fact their friends are racist and have been so for a while It’s not you don’t want to lose the benefits and people like me aren’t worth it

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I periodically remind people that Texas is, indeed, a unique state: the only one to fight wars of secession with their parent country in order to enslave black people *twice*.

See? This is why I'm a so called "climate doomer." The US won't do the only 2 things that are necessary: 1) Reduce US anti-Black racism 2) Stop acting as the most powerful force for *intentionally* slowing global progress on climate 🤦🏿‍♂️ We won't do, but we also won't let you do?

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io See? This is why I'm a so called "climate doomer." 1) Because fixing the climate requires reducing anti-Black racism, and letting Black folk in the US vote, but the US just does not want to do that. ...

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The fact that he has a head coaching job and Sam Cassell does not is infuriating.

I like JJ Reddick! A lot! I think he's a great "basketball mind," connects with players well, and is a good human being. But... you already know what I'm going to say about him being hired as Lakers head coach. If you don't, here's what I had to say when Steve Nash was hired as the Nets head coach🤡

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io I like JJ Reddick! A lot! I think he's a great "basketball mind," connects with players well, and is a good human being. But... you already know what I'm going to say about him being hired as Lakers h...