He/Him Genealogist, Curator, Founder of KinConnector. Specializing in Family Histories of the Enslaved . #ADHD
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A year ago I was homeless and thought only my death was worthy of a headline. Now my heroes are interviewing me
How far back can you trace your lineage? 🧬🌳
For young genealogist Alex Trapps-Chaballa, he's setting out to do this for African American families, that will lead to the road towards reparations. u.kqed.org/cs3G50CLrr8
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10 YEARS!!!!!! I’m trying to be intentional about celebrating every single moment because I’ve spent so much time prayinggg in the shower, having conversations with myself & pushing my idea of what’s possible for me. I’ve been working HARD AF so I’m sitting in this one today 🩷
I hardly use this site now, especially considering its own etc. Im on substack, and so far really like it. Maybe ill be writing over there soon. As for now, lets stay connected and follow me ova ther
substack.com/@kinconnector?r…
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To all of my "where's the African fantasy" & "we need better representation" folks, all my "no more raceswaps" people...
This is how you make change and get more of what you want. Don't let this be another project that gets million RTs just to crash in the ratings.
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Wym you quit your job to run a fake online college?! This the stuff I be talking about. My people, my people!
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Black politics is incredibly stunted & how people discuss the politics in art is often a mirror of that. Black mainstream musicians constantly flirt with the idea they’re revolutionaries but never challenge capitalism, imperialism and material exploitation yet people eat it up
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There’s a whole history lesson in how Vietnam vets who came back & allied with anti war protesters & the Black Panthers to become the first Street Medics were arrested & maligned by the govt but it RARELY gets taught.
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in all seriousness if anyone knows about who he is or his bail fund please share
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They’re hitting leftist orgs with RICO charges for bailing out members arrested at protests. There’s not a single ounce of decorum that will protect you from the state leftist or not but especially if you’re a leftist and that was true before trump.
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telling natives of a place who they are & what their history is with the AI-generated summary from page 1 of google..😕
the largest slave market in the country but giving all credited to colonizers who didn't lift a finger..😕😕😕
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so many only see new orleans as a place that doesn't know better, that needs to be educated, fixed, consumed, & saved from itself. in the 20th anniversary year of katrina, please go head & interrogate why y'all speak on & interact this place with so much unearned authority.
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It’s incredible to me that there are people…socialists…. Who don’t believe that training in arms and trauma medicine is necessary. Especially in a city like Philly where 9/10 people you talk to have been victims of some gun crime. It’s like mfs do not want to meet the masses
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the french didn't build them houses or create this architecture, enslaved people, Black blacksmiths did... there are adinkra symbols in the ironwork of new orleans. there's parts of haiti & cuba that look like the french quarter. what are you saying?
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first of all where you from? it's not being "called" anything by anybody but new orleans natives telling y'all what it is. & who said anything about carnival?? that's not the end all be all of our traditions. & i got sumn for that too. essence.com/culture/the-real…
