something something I contain multitudes (currently reading various maruaders fanfic at the same time as assata shakurs auto biography)

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Z. Zidane gave Belgium 🇧🇪 76 minutes to apologise for scoring first, then introduced Olise, Cherki and Doue... And just like that, France 🇫🇷 delivered one of the biggest comebacks in Nations League history in less than 15 minutes.

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Ok I understand now. And I am with you when it comes to diaspora wars. They are never beneficial. I was trying to highlight a mindset that I consider a privilege and perhaps the best way to explain that was, growing up in Jamaica and NEVER questioning whether I could be whatever I wanted to be later

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At 13, I came to the US and did high school here. I remember being asked in 2008, what it felt like that we were might have the first black president. And in THAT moment, at 17 years old, I realized that it wasn’t some historic monumental moment for ME personally

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I resounded to my white teacher that: academically, I understand and appreciate the significance of that moment but it didn’t bring tears to my eyes the way it did my fellow black classmates. Because for THEM , that was the first time they could dream of being the leader of their country

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