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I am a black woman.
As stated by Desiree Adaway...
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Being a black woman can get me killed.
My identity can get me killed.
Can we just sit with that reality for a moment?
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My identity can get me killed.
But, I have known this my entire life.
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If you had any doubt about that I hope that has changed in light of what we saw happen in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month.
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Many Americans will tell you they know that racism exists, but they don’t know any racists personally.
I am here to tell you, that you do because racism is a system backed by violence.
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You know the systems:
-Housing
-Education
-Policing
-Health Care
-Criminal Justice System
-Economic System
This system is historic, normalized, taken for granted, deeply embedded, and works to the benefit of whites and to the disadvantage of people of color (Hilliard, 1992).
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These systems, just like white nationalists, are killing me and other black and brown folks every day.
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No permit to rally is needed.
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These systems kill us whether it is the face of a militia member carrying automatic weapons or politicians using pens as they draft legislation.
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Me and mine are in danger.
If I am in danger, then so are you.
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rp @blackhistory: On June 4, 1915, Modibo Keita, the first president of Mali was born in Bamako, Mali. Keita was trained as a teacher in Dakar and entered politics in his country.
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RP Askew Michael. Yall gotta learn how to NOT engage 👥with these racists and just block em! Why argue?!
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1. What about black on bla♀️... BLOCK!
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2. He shoplifted when he was eigh👼...BLOCK!
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3. I mean why didn't he just🏃♂️...BLOCK!
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4. All Lives Ma👫..BLOCK!
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5. Make America Gre🇺🇸... BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK!!! Some people want to be better people and some people simply want to distract you. .
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rp @wearepushblack: Bond was a civil rights leader who dedicated his life to activism and educating the public about the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the struggles of Black Americans.
He was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960 and helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 1971. He also served 11 years as Board Chairman of the NAACP, ten years in the Georgia House, and six terms in the Georgia Senate. ✊ Another moving, dedicated and motivating individual to see the light and know change still needs to be done.
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rp @blackstory1619: The black community of Coconut Grove gathered together in front of Commodore Ralph M. Munroe's boathouse in the 1890s.
The story of Miami’s birth begins long before Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler ever set foot on the mouth of the Miami River. Since the mid-1880s, pioneers, both black and white, had been settling into Coconut Grove.
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rp @blackwomenradicals: Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was a Black American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel “The Street” became the first novel by a Black American woman to sell more than a million copies.
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rp @blackhistory: On August 5, 1946 Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist and the first female and African-American president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was born in Washington, D.C. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate degree from MIT.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads The writing of this book is super simple and perfect for someone that doesn’t consider themself a “reader”. I’d suggest it for someone trying to get back into the habit of reading.
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Black girls must die exhausted is something that 33-year-old Tabitha Walker has heard her grandmother say before. Of course, her grandmother (who happens to be white) was referring to the 1950s and what she observed in the nascent times of civil rights. #UnitedStreetTours #blackhistory #Allyship - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @eliana.chinea: When it comes to privilege we need to fully understand what that means, because we all have it just some more than others. And if that privilege goes unchecked you will fall prey to doing this work centering the oppressor rather than uplifting the oppressed.
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One example can be seen as paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for social justice or anti racism courses run by white folks who earn a profit off your coins rather than volunteering their time for a BIPOC leader to be amplified instead.
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There’s a reason whiteness centers itself in this work, and literally everything else, and there’s a reason bias justifies you to pay them and not the BIPOC leaders who are more effective and have a lived experience guiding them.
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There’s also a reason why Latinx and Black women only have $100 in wealth on average as compared to the average white woman who has $40k in wealth. And there’s a reason the most truly diverse companies are the most innovative as well, but not the ones who tokenize diversity and just hire brown and black folks for lower level positions. It’s the companies who create equity for BIPOC and pay them equally for upper management roles, including them in decision making and amplifying their contributions.
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So, what do you say we stop playing games and we start dismantling oppressive systems by creating equity for the oppressed?! - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
#YourMorningTea Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life (but) by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. —Booker T. Washington
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rp @moemotivate: Right now, diet culture is so loud and pervasive that it feels impossible to escape it.
The messages are everywhere.
They’re in our inbox, text messages, social media, doctors office and so on.
The messages come with or without our permission and there’s no time to brace yourself.
All the message sum up to the overarching narrative that our value and access to every aspect of life is determined by how much we can measure up to the unrealistic and unattainable Eurocentric standard of beauty. The messages pressure us to believe that our our bodies are what define us and that our bodies need to controlled, manipulated and managed to get and stay as thin as possible.
Diet culture wants us to be obsessed with our weight and the size & shape of our bodies.
Not because it’s healthy, but because it’s oppressive.
The constant concern about managing our weight is not rooted in health but is instead rooted in diet culture which is rooted in white supremacy.
The pursuit of thinness is anti-blackness.
The more you unpack diet culture the more you’ll learn and discover its racist origins.
So if we want to dismantle diet culture we have to get at the roots of it and that’s white supremacy.
What if instead of trying to demonize and make carbs out to be the enemy to humanity, you actually worked to eliminate the real and violent threat to humanity...white supremacy.
What if you spent more time, money and energy on trying to eliminate racism and not carbs.
Carbs are great...racism is deadly.
How are you working today to dismantle white supremacy? - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Because Nashville walking tours made up of high school kids are so much funnier. #KIPP and #UnitedStreetTours.
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#YourMorningTea The time is always right to do what is right. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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White privilege is both due to a lack of awareness and an act of conscious choices.
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Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “white privilege” referred to legal and systemic advantages given to white people such as the right to vote and the right to buy a house in the neighborhood of choice.
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Today, legislative bodies, corporate leaders and educators are still disproportionately white and often make conscious choices (laws, hiring practices, discipline procedures) that keep this cycle on repeat.
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White privilege also persists because it is psychological—a subconscious prejudice perpetuated by white people’s lack of awareness that they hold this power.
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One of the first steps to dismantling white privilege is through education that increases awareness. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
I’ve got some questions for you…
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Have you ever wondered why you feel comfortable and even justified in asking for the free labor and access to women of color, especially black women?
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Have you considered that not only do we not owe anyone anything, but that a way to redistribute power is to ensure that women of color are paid and paid well?
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Have you ever asked yourself why you believe you’re the exception?
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rp @ckyourprivilege: Change is possible on this journey, but it begins with unlearning, and self kindness in the process. At some point we realize we cannot begin healing from white supremacy racism until we do our own collective work. It is beyond double tapping images on social media, or listening and learning, theres a constant release that needs to happen. Releasing ideas, behaviors, relationships that we must sit with unpack and revisit. Naming the experiences, the people we've harmed, been complicit with. We've got to do this individually and collectively. We're unlearning hundreds of years of white supremacy racism, the healing and transformation can't be rushed. .. Healing from this isn't linear. How's your journey been? #antiracism #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @brenebrown: Taking an amazing group of leaders through Dare to Lead right now. Today I was reminded of this finding from the research and how important it is to lead from a place of self-awareness.
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rp @blackstory1619: Kennedy greets residents of the all African American community of Brooklyn, a suburb in Illinois, Oct. 3, 1960. He had not scheduled a campaign stop there. When he noticed a crowd had turned out with a brass band, he stopped and greeted many of them.
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rp @blklivesmatter: Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. ... Under this system, the people of South Africa were divided by their race and the different races were forced to live separately from each other. Apartheid was brutal and fueled by white supremacy. Today we honor the work #NelsonMandela did to free his people. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Repost @absorbedinpages. What’s the definition of a ‘heavy’ read for you?
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For me, it means anything that can give me a visceral experience while reading whether it’s dealing with topics of slavery, abuse, or other topics. Also, it could be something that really challenges me when reading, or if the writing is dense⠀
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This will always be one of the things I love about reading — challenging myself and learning. Repost @absorbedinpages.
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Rp @lbooknerd. Clap 👏 When 👏 You 👏 Land 👏 by Elizabeth Acevedo is my favorite novel in verse this year.
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I'm calling it, and I still have about 30 pages to go. I wasn't planning to read it until next month, but I decided to take a peek last night and couldn't put it down. Even when I got a fever and my head started hurting, I was still trying to get in one more chapter. Elizabeth Acevedo: slaying her readers year after year after year. Grab this book when you see it. Update: ALL THE STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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"Tag" some you'd invite to a book club meeting.
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rp @nmaahc: For survival and progress, African Americans developed diverse religious institutions, from the first independent congregations established by free blacks in the early 1800s to contemporary black churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues. These institutions served as centers of moral and political leadership and provided services and support to urban and rural communities. Spiritual beliefs and faith practices offered hope and comfort, the will to resist oppression, and the values of self-determination and pride.
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#RP @theblackdetour To be a negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. -James Baldwin
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#YourMorningTea He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. —Muhammad Ali
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There is no form of protest against racism that is acceptable to racists. RP @berniceaking
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rp @blackstory1619: A young Panther poses for the camera in 1968. The beret was an important symbol of militancy and political consciousness. Berets were first adopted by the Black Panther Party in 1966.Photo credit, Bob Fitch.
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rp @blackstory1619: June 15, 1963, mourners march to the Jackson, Miss., funeral home following services for slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Several events were being held to remember Evers, the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was 37 when he was assassinated outside the familyís North Jackson home on June 12, 1963.
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rp @blackstory1619: American poet and writer Langston Hughes poses, his jacket over his shoulder, on the steps in front of his house in Harlem, New York, New York, June 1958.
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rp @wearepushblack: In 1983, Walker made history when her famed novel “The Color Purple” won both The National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first Black woman to receive either award.
Walker’s books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. What are some BIPOC authors who made you rethink, learn or question?
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rp @antiracismdaily: It’s been over 170 days since the death of Breonna Taylor and she still has not received justice. Want it for her and others? You have to work for it. It won't be easy. Be antiracism everyday. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @teachfortheculture: Read that again...
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and then think about the implications it has on your work with children and youth! — Systemic issues like these have to be disrupted and dismantled at every level, because it impacts more than the individuals who are directly affected... it trickles down. - So just imagine the impact on the students you are there to teach!!
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Also, if this is you, you may need to make some personal decisions, examine your space, or seek counsel, because you are not helping yourself or the youth you are there to serve. Realize where you are, who you are working with, what they are saying, how they are acting and treating you, the things you say and do around them-- are you being yourself? are you comfortable?
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rp @eliana.chinea: Yes we aspire for unity when exclusion has been the reality for hundreds of years, but don’t use it as an excuse to not unpack the realities of this time and place. While you have your bbqs and blast your fireworks there are children in cages and Puerto Rico is still colonized, all funded by your tax dollars. For 200+ years this country has celebrated liberation on the backs of brown and black bodies. Don’t like the truth? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Stop celebrating a false narrative. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Rp @lbooknerd. "Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children."_ Ta-Nehisi Coates #buyblack #WhiteAlly #reparations - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @privtoprog: When we tell our story and engage in honest, vulnerable conversations at corporations and organizations, we always remind everyone that we are just two regular people who spoke up in our everyday lives and sparked an international conversation about racism looks like today. We continue that conversation today and always—here with you in this community, and to groups all over the world who invite us to speak. Remember, you have the power to create change both inside of yourself and right where you are in the world, every single day. Share to amplify and ask your friends to join you. Show up. Show out. #antiracism #blm #johnlewis - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems