🌍 PROPHET to the Nations. ✨️ GOD's Anointed. 🗣⚡️ I speak WORD to EMPOWER & ENRICH people. This is my Divine Calling. Speeches - nations@djbglobal.org 👇
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Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
The need to show off material assets comes from a place of insecurity. When your brain believes your status is low in your social circle, it starts collecting material proof in a desperate attempt to change that. Don’t go looking for more things to make yourself look like someone with status; fix your deeper insecurities to become someone who doesn’t need any proof.
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
I am following with concern the grave humanitarian situation in Yemen, particularly in the city of Taiz, where the population is suffering from a lack of food, water and medical care. I make a heartfelt appeal for hostilities to cease and for the Yemeni people and all the peoples of the region to be guaranteed the right to live in peace.
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
THIS IS JIM CROW 2.0, IT'S SICK... I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING THIS. Thoughts 💭 ⁉️
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
Sometimes God will put things in your spirit that don’t make sense. Here’s the key: God doesn’t ask us to figure it out. He doesn’t ask us to come up with a plan, research it, see if it’s possible. He simply asks us to believe.
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
A wicked person may try to destroy what you have through jealousy and envy. But trust the Giver of your purpose. He will protect what He gave you. 🙏✨
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
- P.J. O'Rourke
This quote points to a familiar contradiction in human behavior: people are often drawn to large, heroic causes while overlooking the smaller responsibilities directly around them. Grand missions, such as saving the planet, can feel inspiring and meaningful because they are ambitious, visible, and widely praised.
Yet character and compassion are often revealed through the ordinary tasks of everyday life. Washing the dishes or helping someone at home may receive little recognition, but these simple actions require genuine effort and consideration. The quote humorously suggests that changing the world begins with taking responsibility for the small things and helping those closest to us.
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
Today, we honor Marcus Garvey—a Jamaican-born Pan-African leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association—who championed Black pride, economic independence, and collective power.
Born on this day in 1887, his call for self-determination remains as urgent today as it was in his time. The responsibility to build, protect, and strengthen our communities continues.
Rest in power, King.
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, got a Japanese dragon tattooed on his arm in Nagasaki.
Days later, a Japanese policeman tried to kill him with a sword.
In 1891, the 22-year-old heir to the Russian throne arrived in Japan on a grand world tour.
In Nagasaki, he spent seven hours under the needle of a local master, who inked a black dragon with yellow horns and a red belly onto his right forearm.
Then, while touring the lakeside town of Ōtsu near Kyoto, everything went wrong.
One of the Japanese police officers assigned to protect him suddenly turned, drew his sabre, and swung it at the prince's head — twice.
The officer, Tsuda Sanzō, was a former samurai acting entirely alone, no conspiracy, no orders.
He reportedly believed the Russian prince was scouting Japan for a future invasion, and was enraged that Nicholas toured the sights before paying respects to the emperor.
The blade cut a 9-centimeter gash into his skull, a scar Nicholas carried for the rest of his life.
Before the officer could land a killing blow, two rickshaw drivers tackled him — one knocked him down with the officer's own dropped sword — and both were rewarded with medals and lifetime pensions by Russia and Japan.
Japan's emperor personally rushed to apologize, terrified the attack would trigger a war with Russia.
The war came anyway, just thirteen years later, when Russia and Japan clashed over control of Korea and Manchuria.
Nicholas, now Tsar, expected an easy win over a country most Europeans dismissed.
Instead, Japan destroyed almost his entire navy at the Battle of Tsushima and forced Russia to surrender territory and influence — the first time in modern history an Asian power defeated a major European empire.
The humiliation sparked revolution at home in 1905, the beginning of the collapse that would end with Nicholas losing his throne — and his life — in 1918.
Through all of it, the dragon stayed on his arm until the day he died.
He wasn't alone, either: King George V of England got his own Japanese dragon tattoo in Yokohama a decade earlier.
Japan's tattoo masters once inked the royalty of Europe — the same art form banned from most onsen today.
#drthehistories
Darrell J. Bennett retweeted
A scrap metal dealer bought a $500,000 golden egg for $13,000 because he thought he could melt it down and profit off the gold.
> In 2011 an unnamed American scrap dealer picked up an ornate gold egg at a flea market in the Midwest, paying scrap price for the metal alone.
> He tried to resell it to jewelers and dealers for a profit and kept getting turned away, nobody would bite.
> He almost melted it down just to recover the gold value.
> Then he Googled the name engraved on a small clock inside the egg and found himself looking at a Fabergé imperial Easter egg.
> One of only 50 ever made for the Russian Tsars and one of 8 that had been missing for over a century.
> It turned out to be the Third Imperial Egg, made in 1887 for Tsar Alexander III.
> A London jeweler bought it from him for a reported $33 MILLION
He almost melted a $33 MILLION Romanov treasure down for scrap because nobody wanted to buy it.
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Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.
FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.
FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.
FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.
FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.
FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.
Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?
You already know the answer.
Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.
Stay Dangerous.
