@dawilli @TheViking @moliver @QasimRashid It's been weird forever for African Americans, ever since the days of "patty rollers" (slave patrollers). US policing was designed to catch white criminals and keep slaves in place, hunt and capture any who tried to self-liberate, return them to their slaveholders, or turn them over to agents to sell elsewhere. It was in the US Constitution and refined into law more than once https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts 1

@QasimRashid @Mari311 @cepaea I do that with accents, too, because I studied Linguistics. But I don't ask; I guess and delicately ask if I'm right. During World Cup, I ask who they are supporting in the Cup. But I get the same question from Americans when I am abroad, where they don't expect to see me. Always followed by some racist humiliation. I stay away from Americans and the sites they visit. If I hear loud American voices, I leave. Locals are nicer

@cepaea @Mari311 @QasimRashid Hey my ancestors arrived in this country in the early 1700s. Yet I am still asked that kind of question. The point is never the question or my answer. It's always a setup for some racist tirade or microaggression. "Where're you from?"
"California."
"What do you do for a living?"
"<Factual answer>"
"What brought you here?"
"<Factual answer>"
"You know who you look just like? Whoopi Goldberg/Taraji P Henson/my black friend"

@mizrobin @DeliaChristina He thought it said #Woke

@Afronola Allez les bleus! 🇫🇷⚽️⚽️ #WorldCup #Mbappé

@piccolbo @chipchirp @pixelpusher220 @Jakeout Why not both, like email?

@ScottBeaudin My favorite Luddite 🤓

@phillipjordan @BigAngBlack And a brilliant celebrity stylist to all my favorite style icons now: Zendaya, Kerry Washington, Bella Hadid, Celine Dion, Serena Williams. He's salty but he's right

@liberate Name of artist? Year?

@Maggie Not just smallpox. He helped win the Revolutionary War to create a United States of America. He introduced vaccination to America. In fact, one could say he saved millions