“The last paragraph has all the gold in it :D”

Mansa Mahmud III must have really wished his forefather hadn’t “made it rain so much in da’ club, everyone else in the world look broke by comparison!”

Yes. It is very selfless of her to leverage this situation to promote her own body of work.

“We could, however, confirm that even after the death of Mansa Musa, for centuries the Mali kingdom made Western Europe look like a collection of shithole countries.”

“Why are your city mothers and fathers not hiring more teachers & administrators of color where you are, if, as you say, you’re in a majority black district?”

“Our entire country’s IQ would increase.”

It bothers you that he’s correct?

Well, this article didn’t age very well.

Hysterical.

“There are no fucking words after that, none. He’s finished, done.”

For you, perhaps. For others, not so much.

“white “progressives” are going to have to deal with their racism.”

“If this is not the lens through which our nation’s media views what is happening in Washington, they are missing the story.”

“But doesn’t that apply to everyone?”

“Act like a semi-functioning adult: Do a little work and find their stuff and read it. Stop demanding work from people when the work has been done. You just need to go get it.”

“And even more important – what is the course forward? What do white women plan to DO about that? What are the concrete steps they have planned in an effort to change what is at least now being acknowledged as a shamefully exclusive history??”

“I don’t want Clarence Thomas in any “greatest” list.”

This isn’t a ‘greatest’ list.

I am definitely not a troll, thank you.

You a pleasant pheasant.

“...whose work has been co-opted and whitewashed and erased?”

“Because equality and fairness are aspirational ideals until I get mine.”