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What do you think of the Christopher Dorner manhunt and his allegations of racism within the LAPD?

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @ZellieImani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from today. I’m still going in follow back and talk to me. Let me know what you think as well. Black Love.

The police firing on the pickup (two women shot) sounds like a shoot on sight order, which is illegal…

I recommend everyone to search for and read the entire Dorner Manifesto… It wasn’t the rant of a lunatic that you’d expect..

LAPD needs an outside review badly.

LAPD to review its own corruption. Now how legit is that?

Dorner manhunt: LAPD will give new truck to women shot by officershttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/lapd-will-provide-new-truck.html … via @lanow

The woman laying in ICU for being mistaken for Dorner will appreciate the LAPD’s offer to buy her a new truck i’m sure.

Have you seen the pic of the truck the Asian women were in? It’s bullet ridden from behind. They shot on sight.

Police Officers routinely get away with violating the laws they swore to uphold.

Racism and Racial profiling is a plague in police forces across the US.

We need to take a serious look at internal affairs of the police. Police brutality is a very serious matter that seems to be shrugged off.

The current LAPD is no better than the LAPD of the Rodney King days.

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! Black Love

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I’M GOING IN ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW ON TOPIC OF MALE PRIVILEGE

Sorry i didn’t give heads up, but maybe if you search or look through my tweets at @Zellieimani from the past hour you can see what i’ve been saying. I think its about time men start talking about issues affecting women and look inward on how some of our our actions may be harmful.

Black women not only have to deal with the prejudices of being black or being female, but also the unique prejudices of being a black woman.

Historically feminism critiqued how women were oppressed in society and not how women of color were being oppressed as women of color.

Historically, Black nationalism critiqued how Blacks were being oppressed but never critiqued how black women were being oppressed.

Black nationalism may have looked at how black women were oppressed by white patriarchy, but not how black men may have been oppressing them.

I think that the failings of past movements, have offered new ways on how we look at oppression and understand how it works.

Even “romantic” hip hop songs are misogynistic at times.

You can’t spend your life placing the blame on how you treat women on other people. Sooner or later you have to accept responsibility.

Historically, feminism challenged structural inequality to allow privileges for white women. It wasn’t an attack on oppressive structures.

That is why some white feminists were furious that black men were granted the right to vote before white women.

How do you tell if your attraction to another race is personal preference, fetishization or exoticism? #BlackInAmerica

The great tragedy of our society is our constant attempt to label and define the Other.

It’s pointless as black men to critique white privilege while ignoring and denying the existence of male privilege. #BlackInAmerica

Please follow me on @zellieimani , and lets discuss this important topic! The more black men involved the better.

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Black women not only have to deal with the prejudices of being black or being female, but also the unique prejudices of being a black woman.

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I finally had to speak about the infamous bus driver video that’s been circulating black social networks last few days. What’s your thoughts? In case you don’t follow me on twitter @Zellieimani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from today. Black Love.

The discussion over the bus video shows why there’s continuous black on black violence and domestic violence in our communities.

The bus driver didn’t hook off because he felt threatened or was being physically attacked, he did it cuz his male pride was.

The bus driver’s pride and manhood was being attacked and threatened. Thats why he laid her out like that.

As a black male, especially growing up poor in the hood, your dignity and manhood is all you have. You protect it at all costs.

If you dont understand that, you wont understand why thousands of black men are being stabbed or shot daily.

@Prettybrains08 its deeper than that. Im talking on a psychological level.

Black men will kill you and risk throwing away their lives for the sake of their manhood or dignity.

The bus video reflects our violent culture and the reactions reflect are numbness to that violence.

You’re losing your humanity.

You’re losing what is supposed to separate you from animals.

You’ll never fully understand why knives are pulled or guns are drawn until you understand the value of pride and manhood for black men.

Violence is normalized in the black community. Our cities have higher murder rates than most countries!!

I got enough experiences and stories to fill up an urban novel.

@OzzieNeutron of course violence isn’t a black thing. Im not saying it is.

@zellieimani

A topic tonight on twitter that needs to be addressed! @Zellieimani

Tweeting alot tonight about a topic that needs to be addressed within our community. Just got started, so please chime in with your opinions, stories and wisdom! @Zellieimani

Hip Hop glorifies the struggle so much so that a lot are ashamed or embarrassed for not experiencing it, and seek it for validation.

There is a percentage of youth who sell drugs, commit crimes or bang, for no other reason than the allure of it.

There’s alot of youth who downplay their intelligence and academic achievement in the classroom to not stand out. A destructive culture.

RT @IntroducingJCru @ZellieImani Bro Aseer said,”You think I’m going to jail, in order to validate my manhood. Thats Not apart of my paradigm! Nor why I’m here”

Black Love

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I’M GOING IN ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW ON TOPIC OF ZIMMERMAN AND FRANK OCEAN..

Sorry i didn’t give heads up, but maybe if you search or look through my tweets at @ZellieImani from the past hour you can see what i’ve been saying. The very fact that Zimmerman has reached bail for the second time and was able to raise $20k in one day, has me heated. I think we all should be!

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just a few of my recent tweets…

Black Twitter more concerned with Frank Ocean sexuality then the fact that Zimmerman has made bail twice since killing Trayvon!

Waking up to the news Zimmerman getting released on $1 million bail

Same people who applaud the movie The Help are probably the ones who donated to Zimmerman’s PayPal account

In cases with no blacks in the jury pool, blacks were convicted 81 percent of the time, and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time.

The same system that judged the men who took Emmett Till, Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo’s lives, will judge the man who took Travyon’s.

The US Justice System, was never about justice. Inherently racist, posed with the challenge of managing millions of freed unemployed slaves.

I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @Zellieimani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from past 2 days. I just don’t tweet about black culture, but a wide variety of topics and subjects.

Check out the responses to the tweet regarding black women and dating!

https://twitter.com/#!/ZellieImani

Black Love.

I was still in elementary school when my father put the book Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys for me to read. #edchat

#Sandusky being found guilty on 45 counts is a victory for victims of child abuse and sends a strong clear message to abusers worldwide.

The fact that McQueary saw Sandusky abusing a boy in the shower and didn’t stop it, shows that he put his job over a child’s safety.

It took courage from the victims to face their abuser in trial. Wish the Penn State staff had as much courage years ago and prevented this.

I have no sympathy for murderers, molesters and rapists.

@EsotericElle_ not all sex offenders are the same. there are different types of stimuli that trigger a sexual desire within an offender

Only 3% of all cases of child sexual abuse are reported to law enforcement.

You’re resting on the laurels of your ancestors who built civilization, but not building anything here and now.

@Bware_theSphynx the group decides the fate of the group , not an almighty leader. Because when the leader is gone so is the direction

@Bware_theSphynx read some biographies of Panthers, they tell how disastrous the structure was and how volatile Huey was

Stop hanging out with women and start dating them. Date a woman you like, hang out with your friends.

@TheBlackestLily if both just view each other as just friends then hang out. But if he wants to pursue something he needs to focus elsewhere

Women, if a man who you are interested in doesn’t ask you out, do you ask them out instead?

66% of women living in America with HIV are African American.

They’ve made black men and women health risk to each other.

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! And i like to think i’m pretty funny, too! Black Love @Zellieimani

I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @Zellieimani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from today so far. I just don’t tweet about blackculture, but a wide variety of topics and subjects. I tweeted ALOT today! Black Love.

Raising your hand at a woman is just as abusive as hitting her.

Being humble doesn’t mean you don’t know your self worth, it actually means the opposite.

In modern society, what is it that really determines whether someone has crossed from boyhood into manhood?

Alot of males wearing bodies of men, but retaining the mind and ways of young boys.

Traditionally, there are a few events in life that modern society has deemed as way points on the road to manhood.

These way points are graduating and getting a job, another is getting married, buying your first house and having a child.

@CC_Stokely is it just financial status or the new things your capable of doing because of finances. IE; providing

@Artemis_J but adulthood is not the same as this notion of manhood.

I think a lot of males still don’t feel like men because there was no celebration, no welcoming of them into manhood.

So they wait, hold off on certain thing(marriage,etc) until they feel like they are ready, feel like they are men and not still a teen.

The Mono indians used to stake their thirteen year old boys on ant mounds for initiation into manhood .

During this time the entire history of the tribe was recited to them.

This was so important to the tribe because there was no written record, the boy simply had to remember. If he didn’t give up, he was a man.

Men that are confident in their abilities need not tally their successes, thump their own chests, and make sure everybody hears about it.

I hate the term “Real men”.

Friends should hold friends accountable, but many of us fall short on that task.

Most friends don’t hold their friends accountable for cheating, preoccupied with asking for details.

Don’t put people first who are satisfied with putting you last.

If the Bible was made into a movie it would be rated R.

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! And i like to think i’m pretty funny, too! Black Love @Zellieimani

I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @ZellieImani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from past few days. Black Love.

What does Zimmerman mean by he thought Trayvon was his age? Murder is wrong no matter what age the victim.

White privilege won’t allow Zimmerman to grasp the wrong doing of his actions.

White privilege won’t allow white America to grasp the wrong doing of Zimmerman’s actions, so they’ll continue to donate to his fund.

White privilege won’t allow whites to fully grasp racism. Male privilege won’t allow males to fully grasp sexism.

Racism will never seem like a major issue to whites, like sexism will never seem like a major issue to men.

What’s worse than suffering racism or sexism? Probably racism and sexism. #blackwomen

Brighter note, I visited my old kindergarteners early this morning and they hugged me to death. Sentimental.

Yeah that’s somethin else never really discussed @Bware_theSphynx: @ZellieImani imagine being a black lesbian…talk about multiple jeopardy

@Loveismandatory .We do need more black male teachers. There’s only two at my school, me and the art teacher.

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! And i like to think i’m pretty funny, too! Black Love @ZellieImani

I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @ZellieImani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from past few days. Black Love.

Being ignorant of male privilege is part of male privilege.

I can tell you from personal experience that Pride will be the cause of your most painful regrets.

If someone wants to give someone other than their biological dad, a Fathers Day gift today, that’s their choice. I have no right to judge.

Happy Fathers Day to Cliff Huxtable.

Relationships should be about natural reciprocity, not tit-for-tat score keeping.

In healthy relationships, things should flow naturally, without the need of score keeping or the fear of being taken advantage of.

6,000 children scored below grade level on Paterson’s benchmark test for mathematics and reading. That’s a problem. #edchat

It was originally mandated that students who failed had to go to summer school, but logistics prevents 6000 kids going to summer school!

They had to reanalyze the data. Students who showed significant growth from January to June dont have to attend. This cut the # in half

There’s a multitude of things going wrong in public education, particular in urban areas, which causes these failing grades.

100% of my homeroom passed the math benchmark. 96% of my other math class passed the benchmark. All kids can achieve.

By focusing primarily on a man’s resume, appearance, and their perceived ability to provide and protect, women will never receive true love.

Consider looking beyond a “good” man’s surface to recognize that qualifications do not make a man qualified to be in a relationship

But that’s because we live in a society that places a great deal of emphasis on outwardly appearances, titles, status, and ethnicity.

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! And i like to think i’m pretty funny, too! Black Love

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I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

In case you don’t follow me on twitter @ZellieImani here’s a brief recap of my tweets from today. Black Love.

Everyone wants to organize and rally when another black male gets killed, but no one does the same when a black woman gets raped.

Enough is enough of sexual assault. The issue needs just as much attention as black on black violence. Heck, it is black is black violence.

One of my goals this summer is to do a rally to direct attention to the violence against women in Paterson. Even if its jus me out there.

Sexism is just as ugly as racism.

As long as rape and sexual assault is viewed as the fault of the victim, violence against women will continue.

Our politicians are liars, thieves, adulterers and molesters and why we wonder why our country is suffering moral decay.

Sexual violence isn’t bad only when it happens to your mom, sister, aunt or other loved one, its bad when it happens to any human being.

The way we treat black on black violence compared to violence against women, sends the message that a woman’s body and spirit is of no value

“Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice. I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots” #2pac

Make sure you follow, i also tweet alot of good news articles and retweet alot of great comments i come across in twitter land! Black Love

@ZellieImani

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Sexism is just as ugly as racism.

@ZellieImani

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…and everybody wants to feel and be loved. We wouldn’t need ribs if we didn’t have a heart.

@jeanclervil

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I’M ABOUT TO GO IN ON TWITTER AND ON TUMBLR…

Twitter: @Zellieimani

Too many minority men and women are dying, not just due to violent crimes but because we are not taking care of our health. African Americans have the highest mortality rate of any racial and ethnic group for all cancers combined and for most major cancers. Death rates for all major causes of death are higher for African Americans than for whites, contributing to a lower life expectancy for both African American men and African American women. We are least likely to go for routine checkups and more likely to reference negative attitudes and less likely to use mental health services. If our bodies are like temples, why do you we constantly defile them.

Let’s get into it! I’m on going in tonight!

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I’M GOING IN ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW ON TOPIC OF MALE PRIVILEGE

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A topic tonight on twitter that needs to be addressed! @Zellieimani

I’M GOING IN ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW ON TOPIC OF ZIMMERMAN AND FRANK OCEAN..

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I GO IN ON TWITTER! FOLLOW @ZELLIEIMANI

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