Wednesday

#BlackHistoryLesson RP @nmaahc Angela Davis, a prominent voice of the Black Power era and the Black Feminist Movement. She has a long history in the civil rights movement as an advocate for the oppressed. Google: Angela Davis

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Here's the thing, Desiree Adaway said it best, when we talk about who we are as a country we never mention the laws, norms, and systems which make it clear that this country is built for the comfort, ease and success of some of us.

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Racial purity was important to the founding fathers of this country as much as the men in Charleston, Virginia.

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The main way this system continues is the lack of understanding what racism actually is and the ways we have been socialized to make sure whiteness is always comfortable.

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So when you see me talking, teaching and working on dismantling oppression and creating systems that are fair and just what I am really saying is we need to create something this country has never seen, a reality it has never known.

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We have to rethink structures, systems, institutions, and constructs.

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Oppression is a machine and the systems I identified are the cogs that keep it running.

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Only together can we stop the machine.

Only together can we create a new vision for this country.

It is not enough to not feed the machine, we have to take the machine apart piece by piece.

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