Rahiel Tesfamariam

@RahielT

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Jan 2018

    In 2017, I stopped everything I was doing in the US and started living abroad. Walking away from everything I knew/loved, I took the biggest risk of my life and it was life altering. 2017 confirmed that you sometimes have to surrender your world in order to resurrect your soul.

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  2. May 5

    “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. This is the first and greatest commandment. ⁣ ⁣ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

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  3. Apr 29

    John Singleton. We lost a legend today. He did so much for the culture, portraying the black experience in unprecedented ways and sparking socioeconomic conversations rarely held in mainstream America.⁣ Your absence will be felt immensely. Job well done. Rest in Peace & Power.

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    Apr 29

    John Singleton was offered $100,000 to walk on Boyz N The Hood (1991). They wanted an experienced director but responded, "I’m doing this movie. This is the movie I was born to make". The film made more money per screen than Terminator 2 and received a 20 minute ovation at Cannes

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  5. Apr 13

    Ermias didn’t just go back home to Eritrea. He carried home back with him. He held home inside of him. He made a political ideology and way of life out of home. He used those seeds planted within him to bear so much fruit for not only but the world. ⁣

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  6. Apr 9

    's imprint on Americans. Video by Jake Albrecht

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    Mar 22

    Honored to keynote the launch event for the 50th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at ! Thanks to the Yale Alumni Association for the invite. If you’re in , hope to see you there. Open to everyone. Tickets:

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  8. Apr 7

    How have we been masking our inner pain, despair & rage as cultural production? One in the same to an extent but many of us pimp ourselves out for the culture. We need to be working those demons out behind closed doors with therapists, loved ones, mentors & spiritual counselors.

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  9. Apr 7

    The Asghedom brothers intentionally employed ex-felons. Who otherwise would have been unemployed and at threat of re-incarceration. It’s unlawful for ex-felons to carry guns. So it’s for that reason that no employee at Marathon had guns on them to defend .

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    Apr 1

    We have done wrong...he was sharing his purest self, his vision, and traits from his heritage with all of us: empowerment and a sense of community, something that many of us don’t have. White supremacy at its finest couldn’t have done something this terrible💔

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  11. Apr 2

    “But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant.” - Luke 22:26

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  12. Apr 2

    Black people. Sons and daughters of Africa. We are so divided. Our struggles are begging for unity. How distant we are from the days when we were more Pan-African in our vision of liberation. ⁣

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  13. Apr 2

    father “Dawit Asghedom was politically active during the struggle for independence. He was one of the demonstrators in the memorable 1975 picture in NYC. He is the man in the far right holding up the sign that reads, "Down With Apartheid and Imperialism.”

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  14. Apr 2

    In an interview in Asmara in 2018, when asked if his grandmother and relatives are proud of him, he said he thinks they are most proud of his connection to his roots rather than his fame and fortune.

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  15. Apr 2

    Can only imagine the mourning in . When so many people are clueless about our country and it’s struggle for self-determination, gave so many back home and in the Diaspora hope that invisibility and silencing can be overpowered by hard work and determination

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  16. Apr 1

    Sometimes it is the feds. But a lot of times it is us. Toxic masculinity isn’t just a sexy phrase for the academy to toss around. It’s why men, , get killed. B/c someone didn’t know how to self-manage themselves after disrespect, embarrassment, rejection or defeat.

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  17. Apr 1

    was an ideological militant who posed a threat far greater than gang mentality. Like Tupac, his ideas and leadership never got a chance to fully evolve.⁣ Honoring him means honoring his radical ways of thinking about class unity & Pan-Africanism

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  18. Apr 1

    Eritrean American Ermias Asghedom, a.k.a. , had a revolutionary class and socioeconomic analysis. That’s nearly nonexistent in mainstream rap. As an internationalist and Pan-Africanist with an anti-colonist and anti-imperialist critique, he was ahead of the pack.

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  19. Mar 28

    Excited for my April visit to the US! First stop will be . It’s been 3 years since I’ve spoken at any university and I’ve never spoken at Syracuse before so I’m looking forward to it. Roll through if you’re in the area. ♥️✊🏽

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    Mar 27

    I’ll just leave this right here. But I want to remind people that the most dangerous politician to the establishment is the one that can unite working class and poor people

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  21. Mar 22

    Honored to keynote the launch event for the 50th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at ! Thanks to the Yale Alumni Association for the invite. If you’re in , hope to see you there. Open to everyone. Tickets:

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