Bothered Boy

Thomas Peters started as a slave, liberated himself and fought in the American Revolutionary War, became a community leader in Canada, and would eventually die as one of the founding fathers of Freetown, Sierra Leone. #BlackHistoryMonth  

Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/thomas-peters

Marie-Joseph Angelique was a firebrand. She was also a slave at the heart of an ugly and harrowing piece of Montreal's history. #BlackHistoryMonth 

Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-joseph-angelique

Mathieu Da Costa was the first Black man to visit the shores of what would become Canada, and he did so as a free man while serving under famous French explorer Samuel De Champlain.  #BlackHistoryMonth

Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mathieu-da-costa

The contributions of Black Canadians to Canada, Canadian culture, and Canadian society have been happening for literal centuries. We may know a few, but many are not in the public consciousness which is a shame. Black people and their contributions continue to be underappreciated, and I want to change that for Black History Month.

A Twitter profile hit me hard yesterday, so let's talk about it.  

The Twitter profile in question (@besf0rt): https://twitter.com/besf0rt  

Proof, because no doubt some chud will ask for it and refuse to use google for a few seconds: https://marketrealist.com/p/how-much-does-jeff-bezos-make-a-second/

Google deleted over 100,000 negative reviews of the Robinhood app to artificially restore it to a 4-star rating, begging the question of the company (and search engine's) neutrality on the internet. The capitalists and the ruling class have gone mask off during these events, and over the course of the pandemic.  

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store

Wall Street just let everyone know that the "free market" isn't free.

The struggle is real for all of us, and I wish more people recognized that.

It's a grim milestone, and a hard number to wrap one's head around.

Voting for nationalists and/or authoritarians has pretty much never resulted in the country in question doing phenomenally better as promised. Stop allowing yourselves to be misled and manipulated by people who would happily use your blood to grease the palms of the wealthy and the ruling class.