mekka okereke :verified:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
<p>Building Digital Ecosystems at Google, but opinions my own. he/him. Black Lives Matter.</p>
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"We, on the other hand, what joy did we take in the victory of war? Once we returned, Zeus spun a painful death for me, at the hands of my own wife and cursed Aegisthus." - Agamemnon, King of Kings The best part of Halloween is hanging out with our kids and making costumes out of cardboard.🤗 It's almost done! We just need to attach the gold plated human spine and hair tassel to the back as soon as those parts are dry. I've been given strict instructions not to do that part...
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Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops. Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡 Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk. But it gets worse...
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👴🏻"But I'm rich and white! Nothing like this has ever happened to me before! I don't like how this feels! 🤡" That face-eating leopard's tummy is about to burst! He did this to his own wife. Or more accurately, he did this to someone else's wife, and they did this to his wife. Cruel. Careless. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-voter-fiancée-detained-ice_n_6a756236e4b0e33593d2ab99
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San Francisco is unlikely to have a Mamdani or an AOC, because the voting base is both too anti-Black, and doesn't have enough Black people in it. So I think if a Mamdani did show up, SF would reject them. The person would look like a Matt Haney + a Chesa Boudin. They would reduce crime, make a bunch of quality of life improvements, help small businesses... and then get recalled because they weren't mean enough to Black people or homeless people. 🤷🏿♂️ Mamdani and AOC are successful because...
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🤦🏿♂️ No. This is not true. Extreme wealth does not turn you into a fascist. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist White people that don't know anything, but that think that they do, and don't talk to or listen to enough Black people, believe this garbage. Thiel and Sacks wrote a book on their beliefs way back when they were at Stanford. Musk has always been like this. They've always been alt-rig...
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🤷🏿♂️Coulda had Crockett... Think about that as we see Talarico go on Fox News and throw the 10 trans kids in sports under the bus. The "We must protect women and girls!🤡" crowd supposedly means cis women and girls. But they go to WNBA games, specifically to harass Black cis women. Because Black cis women typically don't tolerate transphobia against children in their name. Watch the whole video. Jasmine Crockett on trans kids in sports: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=379rTps34ok
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Listen. There are few hard and fast rules in information security. The closest thing to an absolute rule is: "If a recovering crackhead, with a history of losing laptops with sensitive data on them, asks you to give them your database of personally identifiable customer information? Say no."🤷🏿♂️
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&quot;Girl, it&#39;s only you Have it your way And if you want, you can decide And if you&#39;ll have me I can provide everything that you desire If you get a feeling Feeling that I&#39;m feeling Won&#39;t you come closer to me, baby?There, you already got me right where you want me, baby I, I just want to be your man&quot; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6ZaVtyeHw&amp;t=55s
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Not Dolly Parton! Rest in peace.🕊️ She was with us! And she used her Whitney Houston royalty money to invest in the Black community in Tennessee. ♥️ &quot;Of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!&quot; - Dolly Parton https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2TgGy5gjY
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How a normal person would handle this passenger saying he can&#39;t get out: 👮🏻♂️: Please exit the vehicle. 🧔🏿♂️: I can&#39;t. 👮🏻♂️: Why not? 🧔🏿♂️: The inside door handle jammed when the driver crashed. Can you open it using the outside handle right in front of you? I&#39;ll happily exit the vehicle. 👮🏻♂️: If this door is jammed, then why don&#39;t you go out the other door then? 🧔🏿♂️: Um... you are holding my wrists? 👮🏻♂️: Ah! So if I let go of your wrists, you can use the other door? 🧔🏿♂️: Cor...
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Natasha Cloud has been the coolest for a long time. How can you not love her? https://m.youtube.com/shorts/R_9kPh0Y2_8
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For uneducated Americans only (because almost everyone else in the world knows this already): "Inshallah" is not a Muslim phrase. Inshallah is an Arabic phrase. Christians that speak Arabic, say inshallah. "Allah" is how you say God in Arabic. "Inshallah" is how you say "God willing" in Arabic.
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RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117008714288239734 😬😬😬
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🤯El-Sayed has 28.2% of the Black vote already?! After they flew in Clyburn, and spent the better part of $50M on attack ads? 28%?! Stevens is cooked. https://emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-2026-poll-abdul-el-sayed-leads-haley-stevens-for-democratic-us-senate-nomination/
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Me, who writes typo-filled posts: "The Odyssey was fun! It failed the Bechdel test tho!🤡" Emily Wilson, heat bringer: "There are more female characters than in most Nolan movies, thanks to the source material. But none of them has much to say, in contrast to the characterisations in the poem."🔥🔥🔥 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
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Don't listen to me! Seriously! I'm just some dude on the internet. I just talk. They let anyone make an account here. No vetting! So when I talk about Angola prison farm being a slave plantation, you don't have to listen to me. I might just be making it all up! https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111666235105229571 It's not like I'm a Pulitzer prize winning journalist or anything. You should listen to Pulitzer prize winning journalists instead. One is good, two are better. L...
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For all the weirdos that think that I hate everyone in Argentina🤡, or that I think that the whole country is racist🤡 When the entire Argentina team tried to disrespect Spain by turning their backs like children playing Star Trek Klingons, Flaco Lopez stood alone and faced Spain, showing respect♥️👍🏿 https://m.youtube.com/shorts/e1qWoRlEcRE
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[CW: discussion of violence and SA] Andrew Tate is not being kept in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) because he is a dangerous prisoner, or to punish him. He's being put there because prison administration puts all accused child sex offenders there automatically, so that they don't get stabbed.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116967209619847979 I like the good Argentinians. But I grow weary of these weird Argentinians that can't cope with the fact that Blanqueamiento happened, that it was intentional, that it was almost complete, and that the people that designed it wrote books and articles bragging about the worst parts of it as it was happening. I don't debate Holocaust deniers about Germany. And I'm not going to debate people that have internet access, and can g...
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I've never been more ashamed and proud at the same time? World Cup half-time show? We SuperBowl'd the World Cup! The World Bowl? The Super Cup? Anyway, I like how they couldn't choose a half-time performer, so they just went with "all of them!" 🤷🏿♂️
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While we're talking about all of the racist Roman profile pics not coping well with "All your Greek gods were actually African gods, your civilization is just copied homework of our civilization" Let me summarize the controversy around the Black Athena book using contemporary examples. 1/7
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OK I saw the Odyssey, and yeah, it's that good. Christopher Nolan's brain works differently. No spoilers, but it was phenomenal the restraint he showed in creating a terrifying world-ending villain. He captured the myth and sense of unstoppable destruction that was Agamemnon. I wouldn't have thought to cast Benny Safdie. But all the casting worked. Fails the Bechdel test, but then you already knew that.🤷🏿♂️
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates: The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling. What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids. Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception." In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better....
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They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/metro/trump-immigration-boston-university/
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"I hope that this shares with people that are incarcerated on Rikers, that they too are a part of this city. The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers. They are New Yorkers today." ♥️♥️♥️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YdUyUboESs
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history. Q: Not everything is racism! E.g. Black folk die young because of high BMI from their bad diets! That's on y'all! Don't hate on Lululemon leggings or khaki pants! Hate yourself! We're only trying to help you! How is this racism? A: Black people in the UK have higher BMI than white people, and live *longer* than white people.🙂🙃 BMI is racist, and used to justify rac...
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The Argentinian player that scored the 1st goal against England, is the same one that uploaded a social media video of himself singing racist and transphobic songs about Black French players. The transphobia was included to insult Kylian Mbappé, and to isolate trans people from public life.
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For Black folk that didn't grow up speaking Spanish *only*: Question: * Why don't the other South American fans like Argentina? * Why do so many of the good and kind players and fans from Argentina ♥️🕊️make such a big point of being vocally anti-racist? * Why did nazis choose Argentina? Why do most countries in South America have people that are Black, white, indigenous, and mixed, but Argentina (and Uruguay) seem super white? Answer: Blanquemiento. History tends to only talk about...
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Let's play a *fun little game called Do Lives Matter! I've shared that there are ~50 million Black people in the US and ~50 million immigrants. There are 22,000 ICE agents going out every day with an arrest quota to detain immigrants, whether they commit a crime or not. I've also shared that most of what US police departments do, by time, by numbers of officers, by budget, by arrest codes, is arrest non-violent and innocent Black people for minor offenses. Many police departments...
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RIP Joan Sebastian Guerrero.