More from this terrific Overseas Trip:
This is why US Political media needs to be ignored particularly when it comes to VP Kamala Harris.
Their takes and the the reality are two different things. https://t.co/FH1nqqh0sa
— DFW Sports 4Life (@Kennymack1971) March 28, 2023
Thank you President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana for a wonderful night celebrating the longstanding ties that connect our people and nations. pic.twitter.com/DuBFU7aGuA
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 28, 2023
VP Kamala Harris during remarks after a tour of the Cape Coast Castle:
“The horror of what happened here must always be remembered. It must be taught. History must be learned. We must be guided by the history of those who survived in the Americas, in the Caribbean …" pic.twitter.com/9mmsw6tfHW
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) March 28, 2023
The way cable/TV news is failing to cover a historic moment between Africa and the United States, is a reminder the descendants of slavers and colonizers controls an unequal amount of power in this country. @CNN @MSNBC @ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews @NY1 pic.twitter.com/hDiIVS93P2
— DEI With Attitude (@OwningMySpace) March 28, 2023
I know we as BlkPpl have a hard time being serious BUT THIS is not a joke, nothing abt this is funny
This is spiritual trauma
This is devastating
This is historyShe’s the first of us, living this, out loud in FRONT OF THE WORLD
Show some respect or STFU#TDONR for too many pic.twitter.com/TYMtl7huE0— ✨Breonna Taylor Deserves Justice. Full. Stop✨ (@cbr_OLU) March 29, 2023
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After walking down a path where enslaved people once marched in chains to waiting ships, Vice President Kamala Harris entered a dungeon in Cape Coast, Ghana, where captive women had sung songs praying for death.https://t.co/6WDzFhDBj1— Susan Bordson (@susanbordson) March 28, 2023
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Vice President Kamala Harris, who is on a tour of three countries in Africa — Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia — has been focused on promoting investments in the continent and collaboration with the United States.https://t.co/6WDzFhDBj1— Susan Bordson (@susanbordson) March 28, 2023
Incredible shot by @misperapawu — Vice President Harris and her husband on a tour through the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle pic.twitter.com/w4MgemeG56
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) March 28, 2023
1/ Hi, it’s @ErrinHaines here! On Tuesday afternoon, I arrived in Accra, Ghana, where @VP Kamala Harris on Monday kicked off a three-day visit to the country. I’ll be keeping y’all updated on the trip, but first, here’s why it matters. ⬇️
📸: Misper Apawu/POOL/AFP/Getty Images pic.twitter.com/DkV79VUNOV
— 19thnews (@19thnews) March 28, 2023
3/ Harris — the most powerful Black woman in American politics — is using her visit to put a focus on economic mobility, shore up security and democracy, and repair relations between the United States and African nations.
— 19thnews (@19thnews) March 28, 2023
5/ The vice president has spent significant time addressing Ghanaian youth — the average age on the continent is 19 — as future leaders and innovators, visiting a community recording studio Monday.
📸: Nipah Dennis /AFP/Getty Images pic.twitter.com/q55HgiJ8FJ
— 19thnews (@19thnews) March 28, 2023
7/ She’s also focusing on the empowerment of women, and Harris is set to convene a women’s economic roundtable before leaving Ghana on Wednesday.
— 19thnews (@19thnews) March 28, 2023
History
Goosebumps seeing @BarackObama in 2009 speaking at Cape Coast Castle juxtaposed with @VP Kamala Harris speaking there today 14 years later. #MVPinAfrica #GHANA pic.twitter.com/KwK7pqD242
— Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris is THEE GOAT! (@flywithkamala) March 29, 2023
Barack Obama at Cape Coast Castle in 2009; Kamala Harris at Cape Coast Castle in 2023. #USinGhana 🇺🇸 🇬🇭 ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/NFbvPl77vB
— Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris is THEE GOAT! (@flywithkamala) March 28, 2023
President Biden pull the chess ♟️ move by tasking Vice President Kamala Harris, to travel across Africa to extended our relations foreign countries. ❤️ to see it pic.twitter.com/Ilc6WllSK9
— 2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) March 28, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and First Lady of Ghana Rebecca Akufo-Adodo historic photo. @VP pic.twitter.com/FeMPHRvPDE
— silverprincess💛 (@marsha_vivinate) March 28, 2023
National Urban League President & CEO, Marc Morial, and VP Kamala Harris at last night’s dinner at the presidential palace in Ghana. This US delegation is sooo powerful! ✊🏾 #MVPinAfrica pic.twitter.com/uPzJFSyX0s
— Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris is THEE GOAT! (@flywithkamala) March 28, 2023
For the first time in history, we have the VPOTUS who descends from the Atlantic slave trade, speaking on the horrors of our shared history.
Watch as @VP holds back a flood of emotion after walking through the dungeons where🩸stains the walls.
This should be on every channel! pic.twitter.com/ldE6Hg551v
— DEI With Attitude (@OwningMySpace) March 28, 2023
I can’t adequately describe how powerful this image is 🇺🇸 🇬🇭 #MVPinGhana pic.twitter.com/zzrnewBo65
— Qondi 🤠 (@QondiNtini) March 29, 2023
Here’s a pretty cool video of our @SecondGentleman receiving a traditional Kente cloth while @VP proudly looks on at the Emintsimadze Palace in Cape Coast. 🇬🇭🇺🇸😊 #MVPinAfrica #SGinAfrica pic.twitter.com/kRYJXYBwya
— Sky 💛 (@skylikeajedi) March 29, 2023
The ramp down to the Door of No Return at Cape Coast Castle pic.twitter.com/dbdR3Jknaf
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) March 28, 2023
The tour guide explained that the women imprisoned there would gaze up toward the sky through holes in the ceiling and sing songs hoping for death, “because death means freedom.”
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) March 28, 2023
Harris left the flowers there, then walked through the Door of No Return. She gazed out at a harbor that was filled with small fishing boats, but long ago had been the final point of departure for a cruel journey to the Americas.
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) March 28, 2023
Last night in Ghana leaving for @vp state dinner wearing. @PistisGh pic.twitter.com/O42e23Ni0M
— sheryl lee ralph (@thesherylralph) March 28, 2023
Vice President Harris and the Second Gentleman stand outside the “Door of No Return,” the exit at former slave-trading post at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana.
Harris was visibly emotional at times during the tour. pic.twitter.com/HxBex9jWyt
— Akayla Gardner (@gardnerakayla) March 28, 2023
I can’t help but cry watching this.
Vice President Kamala Harris, like me, is a descendent of the people who walked out of a door or no return. The emotions she’s feeling touches me on a deeply personal level. #VPinAfrica #MVPinAfrica #VPHarris https://t.co/y3t9ew8BkC
— DEI With Attitude (@OwningMySpace) March 28, 2023
CBS News aired a great segment discussing @VP Harris’ travel to Africa detailing policy and the administration’s priorities.
I want to highlight the last question on the symbolism of the first woman Vice President of the U.S. in this moment.
Full video in comments. #VPinAfrica pic.twitter.com/XKyvymZMWY
— DEI With Attitude (@OwningMySpace) March 28, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris at an artist's collective in Ghana. She brought @thesherylralph and @idriselba along with her.
During remarks, she talked about the importance of music as "universal language." pic.twitter.com/1LSuKNMo5C
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) March 27, 2023
😂😂😂😂
I’ve been covering Vice President Kamala Harris’s silk press chronicles since she 1st stepped foot in Africa & here’s a news update 🚨 pic.twitter.com/M23t91WvMT
— 2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) March 29, 2023
I love his videos😂😂😂😂
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRvwNKQV/
Same difference..
All artifice.. all the time..
https://twitter.com/GhanaVibes/status/1048030389015592961?s
https://twitter.com/ghparrotonline/status/1047514067928276997?s
https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1048001093597372418?s
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1047577884771201025?s
https://twitter.com/HistoryStation1/status/1444321757280686085?s
https://twitter.com/falconeye01/status/1581363443793174531?s
Refresher..
How quickly folk forget.. cheap hustlers all..
https://twitter.com/MARCMORIAL/status/834515213655408640?s
Refresher..
Same difference..
All artifice, all the time..
https://twitter.com/USEmbassyGhana/status/1047765079113027584?s
https://twitter.com/PulseGhana/status/1047568306838933505?s
https://twitter.com/Penitmultimedia/status/1047797977149059072?s
https://twitter.com/mansuur8/status/1047770337155448832?s
https://twitter.com/DailyGuideGH/status/1047528081689378818?s
LUNACY
LanaQuest aka RosaSparks (@LqLana) tweeted at 5:09 PM on Tue, Mar 28, 2023:
The Missouri proposal to ban toddlers, kindergarteners, elementary, middle, and high school kids from carrying guns without adult supervision in public failed by a 104-39 vote. You can’t make this stuff up, but you can vote Blue! #FreshWords
(https://twitter.com/LqLana/status/1640838462533255170?t=pRefaqAt0v6uc_oX_-90Jw&s=03)
CUT THEM THEIR CHECK!
The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) tweeted at 1:26 PM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
Fox’s internal counsel testified under oath that executives were required to prevent the airing of known lies.
Meanwhile, in internal communications, Fox’s CEO Suzanne Scott is repeatedly seen demanding staff stop *correcting lies*.
(https://twitter.com/TheRealHoarse/status/1641144838346113041?t=HNzF-JMsHxuyjmde09aTZQ&s=03)
Ro’s 🌹 (@RMShayo) tweeted at 9:11 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
Yesterday on TBC News @TBConlineTZ , I had the opportunity to interview the Ambassador of Tanzania to the United States of America and México, Dr. Elsie Sia Kanza, @eskanza, on the U.S. Vice President’s visit to Tanzania as she is expected to land later tonight. https://t.co/RgTGhkWMYa
(https://twitter.com/RMShayo/status/1641080715080273921?t=taKqf1cA2-4mjlScazYURA&s=03)
Where is the lie?
Maurice W (@iamMauriceW) tweeted at 0:47 PM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
Throughout American History, EVERY time Black Americans created an independent successful & thriving town or community, white mobs, (including police & politicians) violently drove out or massacred the residents, as well as burned or flooded the town or community. Few exceptions https://t.co/cFNgBmcc9a
(https://twitter.com/iamMauriceW/status/1641135061369077760?t=N50ZUIqlpkG8LFoTtM_HNA&s=03)
But, believe all women…right?
I think the phuck not.
Black diaspora Voice. (@BlackdiasporaV1) tweeted at 7:42 PM on Tue, Mar 28, 2023:
A white woman lied .Black man spent 16 years in New York City for a rape he did not do. And do not forget she wrote a book and made millions from that book best selling author they say you must always believe the white woman. and she was never prosecuted, and sent to prison . https://t.co/DGSZu9ydNG
(https://twitter.com/BlackdiasporaV1/status/1640877118405087234?t=cJNeVIfHBf0M8gsPEDUppQ&s=03)
Barbara Lee for US Senate (D-CA) (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 11:14 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
so we find ourselves at an impasse with the white populist left
they don’t want a brown-skinned, intersectional future president, but they have no answer when they are specifically told that a white DSA socialist has no chance of ever becoming president under any circumstances
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1641111593302781953?t=sX2cw_nFfHxO3FvbmO8AAw&s=03)
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) tweeted at 11:07 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
Republicans in the state of Arkansas have banned voting drop boxes and have revoked funding for election administrators.
I guess Sarah Hickabee thinks the system that elected her is corrupt.
(https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1641109749302190081?t=8QAtnOCs6iWN7-pRGXlpCQ&s=03)
Barbara Lee for US Senate (D-CA) (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 11:08 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
The legacy media stopped trying to manifest a 2024 Sanders presidency or a 2024 Warren vice presidency once it became clear that Biden was going to run again & have Harris as his running mate, so they are now coping & seething by refusing to speak about the administration at all.
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1641110037715099651?t=zeVJN5Hi2cufCT5tUvnpKw&s=03)
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) tweeted at 11:35 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
I just saw an “African” claim Black Americans don’t know their mother tongue. When told Black Americans would not know what their mother tongue was, this “African” said they should just pick an African language. But if they did, that still wouldn’t be their “mother tongue”…
(https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1641116848988073985?t=aU3Efm3Ckbc2i0StvJDmxg&s=03)
Lady Whistledown in the Hood (@colorfullstory) tweeted at 8:59 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
Genuine question if the descendants of enslaved Africans have no connection to their African traditional language of their enslaved ancestors who had it tortured out of them, how do Black Americans up and learn these languages when they have no clue where to start?
(https://twitter.com/colorfullstory/status/1641077563165474816?t=jsd9ASvx5oczkF0kT2_31w&s=03)
Replaced Doug Jones with this clown.
Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) tweeted at 5:51 PM on Tue, Mar 28, 2023:
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is blocking all DOD promotions and nominations,
Because he wants to restrict access to reproductive healthcare for our service members.
Democrats are fighting back. https://t.co/cK86W1JXhr
(https://twitter.com/SenateDems/status/1640849184092823553?t=XktwlFNkgfSn1IYqWDkadw&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
Barbara Lee for US Senate (D-CA) (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 7:37 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
The scary thing about the Bethany Mandel account is that when the anti-Black racism of her former white populist left stance did not change when she became a right-wing white supremacist~
~literally none of her white friends even bothered to notice.
Barbara Lee for US Senate (D-CA) (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 8:35 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
And it’s even worse than that; Mandel’s tweet history reveals that she’s been a violent white supremacist for the entire time she’s been on Twitter and undoubtedly presumably long before that, but no one on the white populist left, in her family or in NYC even bothered to notice.
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1641071555265323018?t=YXHtJpcX9dAEM_rmK2aaXQ&s=03)
This is Idaho.
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) tweeted at 11:48 AM on Wed, Mar 29, 2023:
“Recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state commits the crime of abortion trafficking,” the law says, making the act a felony punishable by two to five years in prison. https://t.co/R7yH14jKvi
(https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1641120252120514572?t=odhxMCpezsNwmQ2ErmKxyQ&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) tweeted at 3:15 PM on Tue, Mar 28, 2023:
This is dangerously ignorant. I was 6 years old when my parents sat my siblings and me down to talk about Central Park 5. I was taught to remain still when dealing with the police, always walk home together, and if we get into contact with the police let my eldest brother talk.
(https://twitter.com/WonderKing82/status/1640809782843002898?t=tgR8Ili62MpWJzrcLLHOEA&s=03)
I have serious doubts that this is a real Black person. Because, any Black person knows, even if they aren’t a parent, that it’s utter DELUSION to think that Black parents actually CAN PLAN when they will discuss racism with their children.
It’s the first rule taught by society to Black parents. That they are not in control of the moment that their children will find out that they are hated..
not for anything that they have DONE..
But, for their MERE EXISTENCE.
Black parents know that THAT moment is completely out of their control…
and, it hurts Black parents. It strikes them to their core, because they love their children just as much as anyone else loves their, and the protective instinct in them is just as strong.
https://twitter.com/NobleNegroe/status/1640423929415335936?t=CWQ9tNu3oOkNjGVV14s4LA&s=03
Clarence Thomas’ play nephew (@NobleNegroe) tweeted at 1:41 PM on Mon, Mar 27, 2023:
Listen, y’all are absolutely crazy if you think it’s okay to teach 6 year olds about racism and it’s concepts. I stand by that. A child’s (of all colors) innocence should be protected up until a certain age. 6 years old ain’t that age. Y’all can miss me with exposing kids to that… https://t.co/NFd0MrLWP7
(https://twitter.com/NobleNegroe/status/1640423929415335936?t=CWQ9tNu3oOkNjGVV14s4LA&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊