Hello.

I haven't used this account for over a year, but I have recently returned to raise concerns about a phenomenon that has been going on at Facebook for a while.

Below innocuous and normal Reels of black babies uploaded by the parents, there are people posting racist comments about the child by comparing them to non-human primates like monkeys and gorillas through the use of photos, GIFs, or just plain written comments calling them said primates. Sometimes, they also post puking emojis to show that they are disgusted by those cute babies.

Those aren't troll or bot accounts. Those are real people, having their real names and faces posting such comments, and all of them are middle-aged adults and senior citizens. Mind you, not only are they from the United States; they are also from other places like Eastern Europe, Italy, Latin America, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Middle East, from what I have observed.

They are in almost every single profile owned by a black person, usually (not not always) from Nigeria. So, this harassment appears to be targeted because of the type of pattern they follow.

There has been some of those parents that have called out those people. A black woman from Texas who produces dark-skinned reborn dolls has talked about having to delete comments and block people that are comparing her dolls (and the kids used as reference for those dolls) to monkeys and other racial attacks.

Like, why are they doing this? What is the purpose of this? What are trying to get from it?

If you have an FB and you see comments like these, report them for hate speech immediately. If they have their workplaces listed on their profiles, make sure to contact their employers and provide evidence (you can also use a burner email if you wish to remain anonymous).

Thank you for reading this post.

EDIT 01/17/2026: I have written an article about it that is both on Medium and Substack that you can take a look at. While I was investigating and collecting evidence, I realised that I was incorrect about them circumventing the guidelines by avoiding the use of racial slurs.

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Moore said in his veto letter in May that it was a difficult decision to veto the bill, which was a priority of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. But he wrote there has been enough study of the legacy of slavery, and it was now time to “focus on the work itself” to address it.

But Democrats who control both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly decided the commission was needed to better examine how to do that.

“This topic isn’t easy, but, again, without formal study, reparations risk being dismissed as symbolic or unconstitutional, regardless of moral merit,” said Sen. Charles Sydnor, a Democrat.

Muscogee (Creek) Freedmen this week asked the tribal nation’s Supreme Court to enforce its ruling granting them citizenship after the nation’s executive orders have prevented the issuing of new citizenship cards.

“In issuing (the executive order), Chief (David) Hill has overstepped, encroaching on the Citizenship Board’s independence, violating his duty to uphold the law, and usurping the court’s authority,” the filing reads.

It comes nearly three months after a July 23 ruling granted full citizenship to the descendants of people who were enslaved by the tribe. The July ruling also overturned the nation’s “by-blood” requirement, which served as a basis to deny Freedmen citizenship applications.

OAKLAND, Miss. — Grocery store owner Marquitrice Mangham hurries out of the sweltering August heat of the Mississippi Delta and enters her newly opened Farmacy Marketplace.

She arrives about an hour before the doors open at 10 a.m.

It’s a quiet Friday morning in Oakland, Mississippi, except for the occasional screech of tires from semitrucks passing by on Highway 51. Oakland, fewer than 30 miles from her hometown of Webb, is home to about 400 residents, more than half of whom are Black.

Inside the store, Mangham greets and praises her assistant manager, Kini Bradford-Jefferson. She emphasizes that without her, the store couldn’t operate. They laugh, ask each other how they are doing and tidy up the 3,000-square-foot space.

Until April, Oakland had been without a grocery store.

In rural areas, particularly in the Delta, residents face some of the highest rates of food insecurity and unemployment in the state, resulting in poor health outcomes such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. These communities have high populations of Black people. They often struggle to attract grocery stores and are overwhelmed by a striking growth of dollar stores.

Around 14% of Americans — more than 47 million people — were food insecure at some point during 2023, according to an Associated Press analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Feeding America data.

​​Mississippi had a food insecurity rate of 18%, higher than the national rate.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud Computing has revolutionized how we live and work. But the dirty truth is that the warehouses full of computers that power AI threaten the progress we've made to protect people from pollutants. These data centers and the plants that power them typically burn fuels that emit hazardous chemicals that cause cancer and other health issues into the air the local community breathes.

Elon Musk and his company xAI are poisoning Black communities in TN and MS, just to make more money. While it's not new that data centers threaten to erode our climate progress, xAI's disregard for laws and regulations meant to keep people safe from pollution is unprecedented.

Tech companies and the billionaires who own them must be held accountable. As the country continues to progress in AI, we must ensure that frontline communities aren't the ones paying the price.

The newly established Native Playwrights PDX, co-organized by director Amber Kay Ball, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, is providing Native theater makers a platform to accurately and respectfully tell the stories of modern Indigenous people. Support from this community funded arts project will combat the lack of Indigenous representation in media while amplifying the work of up-and-coming playwrights and directors.

Native Playwrights PDX was co-organized by Ball in 2024. After hosting a staged reading for their self-written play “Finding Bigfoot” in collaboration with the Fertile Ground Festival at Barbie’s Village last year, Ball, who uses the pronouns she/they, felt that it was more impactful and accessible to showcase work in a community space rather than a major theater.

“It felt more significant than presenting it in a theater to me at the moment when I could just showcase it with community,” Ball recalled.

Since that first staged reading, the idea has only grown.