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Rwanda Lawmakers Approve Swahili as the Official Language of the Country, Dropping French Completely


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Rwanda lawmakers approve swahili as the official Language of the country, dropping french completely and sidelining english

People said: "This is good,really good but such a move leavez the Belgian (the former coloniser) and French authorities furious. I will not be surprised if a few months from France imposes sanctions on Rwanda or increases its funding to opposition parties or releases a report on Kagame's government poor service delivery and human rights violations.

Rwanda is setting an example for the rest of the African countries. Its about time we drop the colonial legacy and go back to our roots. After all there is no European with an African name or African language as their official language.....Good job Rwanda, wake the rest of the sleeping countries up.

This is great development, if Rwanda still hold on that colonial tight with France, they would not have gone this far, France is evil blood suckered, they keep developing and building their country, But most Country they colonize are living in objective poverty, they dominated their entire existence. The African Union should rise and liberate the African from France and western imperialism.
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Lots of real historical tidbits get brought out, and narratives get dissected in this video. If you're not interested in certain truths, keep scrolling.

 
AIR J XIII said:
Lots of real historical tidbits get brought out, and narratives get dissected in this video. If you're not interested in certain truths, keep scrolling.

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really curious what certain truths you feel this vid reveals? much of it seems like conjecture and basically seeks to replace one myth with another...i feel like perhaps the biggest legacy of white supremacy, or 'group self preservation' by whites as termed by the vid, is the (albeit kinda warranted historically) paranoia of conspiracy it has induced in not only black folk but also so for called 'white' folk as well...to the extent things are positioned 'us' vs. 'them' (which isn't to say there can't be or isn't an 'us' or 'them'), zero sum thing humanity is likely to perpetually be in varying levels of conflict

#latepass on this, so many interesting exchanges in this conversation

 
tokes99 said:
really curious what certain truths you feel this vid reveals? much of it seems like conjecture and basically seeks to replace one myth with another...i feel like perhaps the biggest legacy of white supremacy, or 'group self preservation' by whites as termed by the vid, is the (albeit kinda warranted historically) paranoia of conspiracy it has induced in not only black folk but also so for called 'white' folk as well...to the extent things are positioned 'us' vs. 'them' (which isn't to say there can't be or isn't an 'us' or 'them'), zero sum thing humanity is likely to perpetually be in varying levels of conflict

#latepass on this, so many interesting exchanges in this conversation

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The main reason I stated that is because I KNOW many of our people are stuck in certain narratives in regards to history, and refuse to let go regardless of what information is produced. For instance, our people have been conditioned to worship MLK, and will become angry at you if tell them any truth about him that doesn't fit the narrative.
 
Georgia Authorities Nearing End Of Investigation In Case Of Woman Who Died While Attending Overnight Party
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Tamla Horsford was found dead on Nov. 4, 2018, while attending an overnight party, raising questions and accusations of foul play online.
BREANNA EDWARDS Feb, 19, 2019
Tamla Horsford was found dead in the backyard area of a home in north Forsyth, Georgia on Nov. 4, 2018, and since then her death has sparked questions online, leading to accusations of foul play.

The 40-year-old mother had been attending an overnight party at the home, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office confirmed, with her death being investigated by the Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes unit, 11 Alive reports.

The Sheriff’s Office has since received findings from autopsy and toxicology reports from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and is expected to release a final report later this week, “pending any new evidence being discovered,” the Forsyth County News notes.

“Death investigations cannot be closed until such time as the official results of the Forsyth County Coroner’s Office and the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office have been received and reviewed,” a press release from the Sheriff’s Office emphasized.

However, a death certificate obtained by the Forsyth County News notes that an autopsy ruled that the mother of six died from “multiple blunt force injuries” at around 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2018. Her death was reportedly ruled accidental with “acute ethanol intoxication” being listed as a “significant condition contributing” to her death.


Even so, online there have been murmurs of foul play, with many questioning the circumstances of her death. In one case, one witness, an officer within the Forsyth County court system, allegedly accessed the incident report from the death through his office, raising eyebrows.


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Have you guys heard about #TamlaHorsford? Right here in GA, she was murdered at a football moms sleepover. 10 people were there but nobody saw what happened. The bf of the house owner was fired shortly after for accessing the govt files. He was a PO. **** shady as ****...


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Nia Symone@shesthegoods
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READ THIS STORY, SAY HER NAME, SHARE HER STORY GUYS !!! Black football mom murdered at a sleep over with 7 white women. “No one knows what happened!” RT THIS , hashtag it , say her name ! #TamlaHorsford


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Black Brazilian Teen Dies After Being ‘Suffocated’ by Supermarket Guard, Sparking ‘BLM’ Protests
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Protests erupted across several major cities of Brazil after the death of a 19-year-old Black teen at the hands of a supermarket security guard last week. Activists say the unrest has since sparked the beginnings of Brazil’s own Black Lives Matter movement.

“We have to take a position against this to stay alive. It’s a basic issue,” student Lyz Ramos, 19, told The Guardian.


Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Extra supermarket in Brazil where a young Black man was restrained by a security officer and later died. (Photo by Dom Phillips/The Guardian)

Chaos unfolded outside the Extra supermarket in the upscale Barra da Tijuca community of Rio de Janeiro, where demonstrators gathered to protest the death of Pedro Gonzaga, who died of a heart attack on Thursday after being placed in a “sleep hold” by security guard Davi Amâncio. Local activists also took to the streets in Sao Paulo, Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte as other protests unfolded in Recife on Saturday.

The harrowing incident was captured on bystander video, showing Gonzaga, 19, lying motionless as he’s pinned under the full weight of Amâncio’s body. Onlookers plead for him to let the teen go, with one woman shouting, “he’s suffocating him!” Another witness yelled that young man had turned “purple.”

Fire emergency officials rushed Gonzaga to a nearby hospital, where he twice went into cardiac arrest before dying, Brazilan outlet Extra Online reported.

A spokesman for the supermarket chain claimed the security guard was in the process of thwarting an “attempted theft” when he placed Gonzaga in a “sleep hold.”

“After the individual was restrained by the security guards, the store called the police and the rescue immediately,” the supermarket said in a statement. “The company has already filed an incident report and is cooperating with the authorities to further investigations.”

News of Gonzaga’s death sparked national outcry, and it wasn’t long before the hashtag #VidasNegrasImportam (Black Lives Matter) began circulating on social media. Many Afro-Brazilians have compared the teen’s death to that of Staten Island man Eric Garner, who died after an NYPD officer placed him in a choke hold during his July 2014 arrest. His final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying for the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement.

Now, Brazilian organizers are hoping to launch a similar racial justice campaign in their nation.





“There has never been a Black Lives Matter [movement] in Brazil to compare to the United States, but this year I think it will happen more often because the black community is more and more united,” said Rene Silva, one of the organizers behind the Rio protest. “We want to talk about more about black lives matter, [and] for society to understand we can’t stand racism anymore.”

Black activists, rappers and other celebrities expressed frustration over Gonzaga’s death, one of them quoting a lyric from singer Elza Soares that goes, “the cheapest meat at the supermarket is black meat.” Augusto Trota, 19, who was a close friend of the teenager, told The Guardian that Gonzaga was an aspiring rapper, adding, “he was a good person.”

Local media outlets have painted a different story, however, saying Gonzaga was a drug user. According to newspaper O Globo, the teen was being taken by his mother, Dinalva Oliveira, to a rehab clinic when they stopped by the supermarket for lunch. That’s when Gonzaga apparently had a fit of some sort.

“Suddenly he got up and, according to a family friend, had an outbreak, a hallucination,”the newspaper reported. “In testimony to the Homicide Police of the Capital, the security officer (Amâncio) who applied the coup told him that Gonzaga tried to take the gun from him and, although there were other security guards, he said he acted in self-defense.”

Bystanders have denied this account, however, saying security footage of the young man approaching the security guard before falling to the ground, getting up and falling again proves he never tried grabbing for the security guard’s weapon. On the video, Gonzaga’s mother is heard shouting at Amâncio that her son is unarmed.

Black or mixed-race people account for just more than half of Brazil’s population, and data from the annual 2018 annual Violence Atlas shows they’re 71.5 percent of the 64,000 people who die from violence in the country each year. The South American nation is still reeling from the death of Black activist and city councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was murdered in a suspected act of political assassination last year.

“Every day we get more news of more youth dying,” said protester Vanderlea Aguiar. “A big movement is growing every day and we are making more people aware.”

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