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The things I envy people for are not even material things. It’s drive, motivation and consistency. I envy consistent people. I envy people who can declare a goal for themselves and obsessively pursue it.
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one reason i struggle to take some of this outrage seriously (not Blackson specifically) is the hypocrisy. the same black people mourning a murdered child today were tweeting #FreeYoungThug & #FreeDurk yesterday. we condemn violence when it makes headlines, then celebrate the people who glorify it.
15-year-olds do not just wake up with guns in their hands. the family system is increasingly fractured, fathers are absent from too many homes, & young boys have painfully few role models close enough to shape their values. so they turn to a culture where gangsters & killers are rewarded with wealth, influence & sold-out arenas. we make these men their heroes, then act shocked when they imitate them.
yes, systemic racism is real & black Americans have endured extraordinary injustices. but we also have a responsibility to examine what we normalize within our communities. we cannot keep glorifying violence, excusing criminality because it comes with fame, & neglecting the institutions meant to raise decent young men.
another black child will die, another mother will bury her son, the internet will perform its outrage, & the machinery that made his killer a cultural aspiration will keep running. we are raising children in the image of the people we celebrate. what a fucking tragedy.
Michael Blackson penned a message and reflected on his own bullying experience while speaking on the death of fellow Ghanaian Javits Frimpong. The comedian also expressed plans to make appearances at high schools to talk to foreign kids and help them deal with bullying. “May God help us all to help deal with this. Amen.” Our thoughts are with Javits’ family 🙏🏽 ✍🏾#TSRStaffAS 📷:(@gettyimages)
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the top donors are Ghanaians and Nigerians 🩷 the world is better when we stick together. more African need to develop that pan Africanist mindset. if one of us bleed, we all bleed. each of us in the diaspora can relate to what he endured whether we migrated or were born here.
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One thing I would like to see more of is women being vocal about their contributions to the family. Not in a condescending or disrespectful way, but simply making sure their contributions are acknowledged. When you contribute to building a family, you or your husband should make it known.
This culture of protecting a husband’s dignity by keeping a wife’s contributions quiet is part of why people come online and act as though women contribute absolutely nothing to their families.
While he was putting most of his income into building a house, you were paying the children’s school fees, sending money to his family or yours, and keeping the household running. While he was saving up to buy a car, you were making sure the house was stocked with food. You were both building that family, just in different ways.
But because people only see the husband’s visible investments, they conveniently ignore the wife’s sacrifices. And when something happens to him, suddenly, everything is described as the product of his sweat, as though his wife was merely a spectator in the life they built together.
This is how society reduces women’s value to childbearing while overlooking their financial and non-financial contributions. It is also why widows and widowers are often treated so differently.
Women need to stop allowing their contributions to become invisible in the name of protecting their husbands’ image. A family is built by a team, and both people’s sacrifices deserve to be acknowledged
Lmaoooooo Same storyline as your Asiwaju. Leadership by “Emilokan”, congratulations Nigeria, these are the leaders who you chose.
Most of you know this story, but none of you have heard it from me.
Back in September 2018, Femi Hamzat wanted to be Governor of Lagos State. He had thirteen years of public service under Asiwaju and BRF, with the record and backing to win. Then party leaders asked him to step aside for me.
It takes a rare man to put down what he wants without nursing a grudge. Femi shook my hand and five weeks later, agreed to run beside me. I have never forgotten that.
Anyone can read a CV but only the person in the room with a man when the cameras leave can tell you who he really is. For 2,711 days, I have been in that room with him.
When COVID-19 hit, when we faced our hardest weeks, when the Blue and Red Lines ran and when the Lekki Deep Sea Port opened, Femi was there. Long before any ribbon was cut, he was asking the tough questions an engineer asks.
In many states, deputies are kept in reserve. On day one, Femi promised to be the best deputy governor in Lagos history. He kept his word. In seven years, there has not been a single day I wondered whose side he was on. We have had one government, one direction, and one voice.
Lagos runs on a relay system. The baton is never passed to a runner standing still. You run at full speed inside the exchange zone, together, before the pass. That is how Lagos has been governed for 27 years, from Asiwaju to BRF, to Ambode, to me.
Femi is a deputy governor like no other. He built the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge under Fashola, digitized government under Asiwaju and holds a doctorate in engineering. His father served Lateef Jakande. This is in his blood.
Critics say Lagos keeps choosing from the same pool. I say Lagos trains its people. With major projects underway and a master plan stretching to 2052, this is not the time to experiment. What Femi presents today is not a campaign promise cooked up on a bus, it is the next leg of a race we have been running since 1999.
Lagos does not hand the baton to a man standing still. Today, you have seen the man who is already running. Let us move forward together with The Lagos PROMISE.
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One thing I’ve noticed about Africans is how quick they blame victims. A boy gets killed, and somehow his father is being blamed for living in that neighborhood. Did it ever occur to y’all that maybe that’s all he could afford working low wage jobs? The lack of empathy is insane.
This should teach us that not every city or neighbourhood is suitable for raising children. At some point, I question Javits Frimpong’s father’s decision to raise his son in the Bronx, where the crime rate is reportedly high and gang activities remain a concern in the neighbourhoods. As parents, we must be mindful of the environments in which we raise our children. Otherwise, they risk being exposed to violence, drugs and a life of crime. I hope the Government of Ghana intervenes and offers the family the necessary support during this difficult time. May we all learn from this tragedy, may his soul rest in peace. 💔 🕊️
One HVAC technician came to my house with his gun strapped to his waist. Or when I went to ATL to celebrate new years with my friend and the person who came to serve us fries at our table had a gun strapped to his waist 😖😖.
Please never change 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I do
Problem is even for the happily married ones I do not want to be the wife in that scenario
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The person who said that, once men are in an industry, they change job titles, didn't lie.
We’re building out a new program at @NotionHQ:
We call it field storytellers.
Where Internet filmmakers & creators meet local businesses. All around the world. They travel there to apprentice a business for a day/two, and come back with stories, documented and published.
Field storytelling is a bet that stories are best told and relationships are best built when it’s done out on the field.
If you’re great with a camera, love traveling to meet local businesses, and Internet savvy with an audience, reach out 🖤
Please is it okay for 2 sets of siblings to marry each other’s siblings? I don’t know if I’m expressing this correctly.
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