The British stole an estimated $45 trillion from India between 1765 and 1938.
Economist Utsa Patnaik explains how British colonizers drained India of its former wealth.
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so y'all are still out here thirsting over Hollywoods favorite physically abusive misogynist, Chris Brown & the same British monarchy that shipped over the most enslaved africans during the transatlantic slave trade? Ok
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As a billionaire takes £250 million of taxpayer money during a national crisis of poverty and hunger to throw himself a hat wearing party, remember the same ideology that claims some people are born kings and others subjects also says some are born masters and others slaves.
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Demonstration for Jordan Neely today at Washington Square Park! Please spread the word!
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White people truly believe that in the absence of “proper authorities” they’re in charge. Especially if Black people are involved. It shows in everything they do.
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The white man that murdered #JordanNeely in plain sight acted according to the fallacy that white people are the only people worthy of existence. This is also the basis for the US military. If Jordan Neely was white, he would still be here.
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Jordan Neely's murder was undoubtedly racist, but it was also ableist. I highly, highly suggest those of you who have been ignoring disabled people and refusing to learn about disability justice and implement it into your organizing begin to take it seriously.
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Jordan Neely, 30, was a Michael Jackson impersonator who performed for years in Times Square and on the subway. A neighbor later said his dancing helped him in his struggle with mental health
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Whatever you think inherently separates you from someone who is unhoused or having a mental health crisis, I promise you it doesn’t exist.
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it’s so disturbing that people are talking about the killer as if he doesn’t have some kind of serious issues when he literally murdered an innocent man in cold blood and seems to have no remorse and thinks of himself as a hero
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race & class will end us. colonial formula is nothing new. ytness suffers no repercussions for violence. often, it's actually rewarded. that train is a snap shot of all of us right now, a bunch of cowards. we don't deserve peace for compliance in a system actively killing us
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his name was jordan neely. please stop sharing the photos of him being murdered. there’s no need to quote those images when talking about it.
I don’t even know what to say, just what an evil act of violence.
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The whole damn country
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Everybody should be on a strike if we really being honest
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Honestly all underpaid workers might as well hop on board while it’s hot!!
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Everybody should be on a strike if we really being honest
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I don’t use this app anymore because it honestly is a bit much for me- but I just want to clarify this-
I am a writer. I’m in the wga. I’m also on strike! I have no real power here other than to join my union in demanding fair compensation for writers! #wgastrong
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@quintabrunson help them writers girl! We love them just as much as the cast who deliver them lines! 
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i feel like people are failing to grasp that there is no hollywood or jobs in hollywoods without writers. actors cannot act without a script, directors can’t direct without a script, producers can’t produce and so on and so on. writers are the backbone of hollywood.
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Not to be hyperbolic, but this WGA strike is the canary in the coal mine. If we don’t stop this industry from insane automation and devaluing wages that’s a wrap. That’s dystopia.
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Let’s fucking go
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The Board of Directors of the @WGAwest and the Council of the @WGAeast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.
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The Emmet Till story is a real Black American household horror story. That name is burned into the spines of our ancestors. We don’t need history revised, we don’t need nuance, or “well actually” I really think global Black folk who try to intervene in these stories are ill.
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Homeless people sleeping on your apartment complex because it’s safer and there is more shelter is not a crime wave, it’s a humanitarian crisis.
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Continuing to taunt your opponent even after the final buzzer…wow.
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We quickly witnessed a divide amongst Hollywood peers and their supposed second hand embarrassment as if a handful of them didn’t stay silent when Harvey r*ped their colleagues for years, Woody married his adopted daughter or any Hollywood predator/abuser atp
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This particular Black man who made yt folks feel safe for literal decades broke a sonic barrier of “respectability” and “tainted” an institution that only rewarded us through the a thin shell of white guilt for playing the help and the helpless.
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🧵- As someone who cheers on the unveiling of Hollywood and its harm, I really honor this moment for several reasons;
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Replying to @dijoniI don’t think he heard you the first time pic.twitter.com/78d6zD473A
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I messed up a lil bit but I know Coven like when I do these 🐊
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I don’t feel sorry for destructive (jealous/avoidant/abusive) mothers. Publicly humiliating your Black daughter as if the world isn’t already on standby to do the same??? Seems like the daughter got some sort of justice imo…
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That lady that cut her daughter’s braids off on live got charged with felony child abuse and CPS took her daughter away
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Thee Oscar nominated, “Atlanta” star, Brian Tyree Henry!
Photographed by me for Essence Magazine Digital Cover 🖤✨
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but if will slap him again he wrong
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Chris Rock revealed he watched "Emancipation" so he could see Will Smith being whipped.
In the film which is based on a true story, Smith plays a slave in Louisiana who decides to escape after being whipped almost to death.
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No cause like…..
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New Gucci Guilty Campaign with Elliot Page, Julia Garner and A$AP Rocky
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This album still gets me through it when I need it.
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I aim to have the emotional intelligence of Tracee Ellis Ross ✨
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