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rp @blackhistory: Officials survey the wreckage of Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, September 1957. Courtesy of Nashville Public Library.
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On September 9, 1957, as 19 black 6 year olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members, including one local minister, organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools.
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Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two black children walking to the school. Outside 3 different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud—a white minister—sought to dissuade white parents from permitting their children to be educated with black children, by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.
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The next day 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. The one black elementary student, Patricia Watson, who had sat in class that previous morning did not return. No black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing that occurred.
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Though Brown v. Board of Education determined that school segregation was unconstitutional in 1954, for 3 years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.
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Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs that declared that segregation was the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.
By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes.
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As opposition throughout the morning grew, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, at Glenn Elementary School, half of the white student body of 500 students had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their elementary school children education instead of permitting them to learn with black children.
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That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.”
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As the mob grew to at least 400 around Fehr Elementary, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a black family who had sent their daughter to Fehr Elementary and continued to burn crosses on the lawns of black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.
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rp @iamrachelricketts: Let this serve as a reminder to all my beautiful Black bbs that being our authentic selves, in this fucked up white supremacist system, is a radical act.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Black trans, women, femmes, men, gender non-conforming, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, two-spirit and folx of all gender identities - let this serve as a reminder to be your whole beautiful self.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Black queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, curious, questioning, asexual, aromantic and those of all sexual and romantic inclinations - let this serve as a reminder to be your beautiful unique self.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Black ablebodied, disabled, neurotypical, fat, thin, rich, poor, highly educated, undereducated, religious, atheist, immigrant, refugee, citizen, old, young, multiracial, light-skin, dark-skin - to EVERY damn one of us let me remind you that your truth, your love, your EXISTENCE is a radical act.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To all Black beings, living, loving and surviving in spaces and systems that were NOT built for us, that were built to DESTROY us, let me remind you that you have full permission to be YOUR Blackest, boldest and most beautiful self. Especially my fat, disabled, poor, old, queer and trans non-English speaking immigrant Black women, femmes and femme-passing loves living at the most oppressed intersections.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Our authenticity is part of our activism. What's your authenticity? Your activism? #blm #antiracism- #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @blackhistory. Air Corps School graduation portrait of Howard A. Wooten, December 1944.
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Tuskegee Airman Howard Adolphus Wooten was born on April 20, 1920 in Lovelady, Texas.
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In 1937, he entered Prairie View College on a football scholarship. His main interest, however, was in aviation and he attempted to enroll in flight training programs.
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Wooten dropped out of Prairie View College in 1940 and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private assigned to a Field Artillery unit. By January 1942, he became a Staff Sergeant in the 46th Field Artillery Brigade.
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Now 24, he applied to the Army Flight School at Tuskegee, Alabama in 1944 and graduated in December of that year.
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After graduation he was assigned to the 15th USAAF Brigade as a fighter pilot, in the 332nd Fighter Group.
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In January 1945 he was reassigned to the 477th Bombardment Group, where he was one of a select group of Tuskegee pilots who would train to fly North American B-25 Mitchell bombers; Yet Wooten and the other men training on bombers would never see combat, as the war ended before they were sent overseas.
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Wooten was mustered out of the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1946. He then decided to become an attorney and moved to Seattle, Washington, so as to get as far away as possible from “Jim Crow” Texas.
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Soon after he arrived, he was hired as a production worker at the Boeing Airplane Company and joined the Aeronautical Machinists Union.
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In 1948 the Machinists Union went on strike at Boeing. Since and his wife had an infant, Wooten joined the Painters Union and took work painting bridges around Seattle.
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He died on August 20, 1948, at the age of 28, after he fell 70 feet from a scaffold while painting the 12th Avenue Bridge at the base of Beacon Hill.
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Long after his death, Howard A. Wooten was memorialized by the U.S. Air Force when his World War II pilot’s photograph was chosen by an advertising agency to represent the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
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His photo was first seen on Air Force recruiting posters in the 1990s and was later adopted as the official image of the Tuskegee Airmen Foundation.#changingthenarrative #inclusion #love - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @blackgirlthatreads. I purchased this book back in 2017 and never got around to it, but something made me pick it up the other day and I haven’t been able to put it down since.
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It’s not often that we hear the stories of resistance of those who were once enslaved. And it’s even more uncommon for us the hear their love stories. This one is tearing me to pieces because of the endless way so many pursued their loves despite the situations they faced.
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You’ll come across a man from Virginia that spent 17 years searching for his wife. A Georgia couple that set sail for England with federal troops trailing behind. A young woman that is delivered to her fiancé in a wooden chest after several hours on a steamboat. And so many more.
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rp @leesareneehall: Labour Day WAS NOT created to celebrate the labour of those of African descent.
No one protected their labour.
Instead, their labour was exploited.
Extracted.
Stolen.
Plundered.
And the fruits of their exploited labour made others wealthy.
When enslaved Africans were freed from bondage at varying points throughout the Americas in the mid- to late-1800s, no one stood up for Black labourers as they sought employment.
Instead, their demands for any paying job were met with violence.
This was the case in Jamaica in 1865.
While enslaved Africans were emancipated in the United States in that same year, Afro-Jamaicans had been freed from slavery for 27-years by that point.
Many were without jobs.
So, a group of freedmen and freedwomen, with their children, marched to the governor’s residence in Morant Bay, demanding to hold audience with him to inquire about the jobs.
The governor’s response?
He ordered the British militia to quell the “rebellion” using any means, resulting in the deaths of over 400 men, women, and children. The Morant Bay Rebellion, as it's now known, is an example of Black labour NOT being celebrated.
It wasn’t until vvhite labour was exploited and extracted during the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s that laws were enacted and unions were created to protect their labour.
On this Labour Day, I ask, “When will Black labour be protected in a system that seeks to undermine it?” - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
De-centering 🌍Whiteness in Anti-Racism❌
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De-centering whiteness often causes discomfort😶. Why de-center? Because we are so inundated with white culture that it is easy to blind ourselves🙈 to the realities 🙊of inequality around us🙉.
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Let’s unpack this🎁: A few months ago I made a CTA 👄for my followers to support the black community ✊after the Nashville tornadoes because resources were being disproportionately 📊distributed to white areas.
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Here’s some of the feedback that I received: -The white community needs help too?😦
-How many black people died?
-Why do you people always have to make things about race?
-You’re racist!😡
-LIAR!😱
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You see ...White people own the top percent of the wealth in this country💰. Control the political system🏦, the judicial system, the educational system🏫, the health system🏩💒, and the legal system 🏢. Due to hard work and merit🤔? Nope, Sorry to burst your bubble 💡but it’s due to structural racism.
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So NOT being the center of attention and having everyone code-switch for white comfort can seem traumatic♀️. In my anti-racism community, we start by de-centering 🌍whiteness and re-centering around black stories🙅♀️. I kid you not, if you stick with it, you’ll make a huge impact on yourself👩⚖️, your family👨👩👦👦, and the world around you. Thank you to everyone who have signed up so far. Let’s get this work in!
If you know someone who is interested, have them reach out click the link in my bio and hit STEP 1. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackhistory: Baptism at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church. Chicago, Illinois. 1953.
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On September 23, 1667, the colony of Virginia passed an act declaring that enslaved people who had been baptized were not exempt from bondage and ensuring enslavers that baptism would not require them to end a black person's enslavement.
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rp @blairimani: If you’re unwilling to listen to Black women— are you even pretending to care?
And, it should go without saying but let me be crystal clear: When I say Black women I mean all the varieties of Black womanhood. I mean Black trans women, Black lesbian women, Black bisexual women, Black queer women, Black Jewish women, Black Muslim women, Black disabled women, fat Black women, poor Black women—ALL OF US. ALL BLACK WOMEN!
Look. On this journey you will likely mess up. It happens. It’s human. BUT! It is what you do after you mess up that really counts.
Are you going to let your own discomfort get in the way of growth? Are you going to get defensive or be receptive to learning more and doing better?
Learning is a privilege, so support and respect the Black women who have taken it upon themselves to teach. Who is your favorite Black woman educator? What are you doing to support them?
Note: Make sure you aren’t misgendering anyone that doesn’t identify as a Black woman. #blm #antiracism #blackwomen - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @iamrachelricketts: Enslavement never ended, it just evolved. Mass incarceration is its most prolific iteration:
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• “Anybody convicted of a crime after 1865 could be leased out by the state to private corporations who would extract their labor for little or no pay. In some ways that created worse conditions than under the days of slavery, as private corporations were under no obligation to care for their forced laborers – they provided no healthcare, nutritious food or clothing to the individuals they were exploiting." - @guardian
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• America has 5% of the global population but 25% of the world's prisoners, who are disproportionately Black.
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• Today, incarcerated Americans often earn b/w 86 cents + $3.45 per day for prison jobs (some earn nothing at all).
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Prison labor ain't the only form of modern enslavement. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Black womxn+ and gxrls+ comprise at least 40% of human trafficking victims.
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So long as predominantly Black folx are forced to work for menial or zero pay, enslavement continues.
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So long as Black womxn+ and femmes are disproportionately forced into sex work, enslavement continues. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Hell, so long as Black womxn+ and femmes are constantly expected to WORK FOR FREE (usually by white folx), enslavement continues.
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On this day I celebrate my ancestors. Who were enslaved + worked endlessly so white people could enjoy the wealth + privileges they still possess TO THIS DAY.
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I am laying my ass down to REST. I ain’t lifting a DAMN finger unless it’s in the name of Black liberation (and ONLY with remuneration)
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Reparations are OWED. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited with bringing gospel music to the mainstream in the 1930s and 40s.
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On December 23, 1938, Tharpe performed at Carnegie Hall in John Hammond's Spirituals to Swing concert. Her performance was revolutionary and shocking because it involved a woman playing a guitar.
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Merging the religious and secular worlds, she later went on to play regularly with Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club. Tharpe became a crossover artist: during WWII, she recorded a "V-Disc" for troops overseas.
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Hailed as "The Godmother of Rock and Roll," Tharpe's life was detailed in an episode of American Masters on PBS. During the 1940s-60s, Tharpe introduced the spiritual passion of her gospel music into the secular world of rock ’n’ roll, inspiring some of its greatest stars, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.
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Her flamboyance, skill, and showmanship on the electric guitar contributed to the conception of Rock & Roll as a genre of music.
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rp @blackvoices Chadwick Boseman, who played icons Jackie Robinson, James Brown and the beloved King T'Challa in "Black Panther," died Friday of cancer. He was just 43 years old.
Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago, his family said in a statement.
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much,” his family said. “From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more - all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.”
A heartbroken world grieved the loss Friday. The actor was remembered for his compelling talent — and huge heart. He continued to give to his craft and to others everything he could, even as he faced his own formidable health challenge.
"May you have a beautiful return, King. We will miss you so," wrote Ava DuVernay.
"Chadwick was someone who radiated power and peace. Who stood for so much more than himself," wrote his "Avengers: Endgame" co-star Brie Larson. "I'm honored to have the memories I have ... Rest in power and peace my friend."
"Chadwick Boseman shot legendary movie after legendary while fighting for his life. What a real life superhero," wrote Yamiche Alcindor.
In this excerpt from his 2018 Howard University commencement speech, Boseman urged grads to find their own purpose in the world, which he said was more important than sim- #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackvoices: "Another Black life is taken by the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve us," writes HuffPost reporter Taryn Finley. "The cops are fired, but not arrested despite video evidence that they’re responsible for someone’s death. Folks, mostly Black people, protest. Police bring out the riot squad and throw tear gas at the protesters. Tired of a system in which their lives are always at stake, Black protesters turn to civil unrest." Adds Finley, "There’s nothing novel about political analysts and folks on social media expressing more anger about destroyed property than a lost life. Protesters aren’t criminals; they’re tired of waiting for change in a system that continues to deny them justice. And this country’s leaders continue to fail them."
"President Donald Trump sent a tweet that used racist language and threatened those engaged in civil unrest... but what Trump gets blatantly wrong is that the “shooting” — or state-sanctioned killing in general — was going on long before the incidents at Target. Black people’s lives have long been threatened by white people with more privilege and power who still manage to see us as a threat..." - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @theconsciouskid's @nadra.w // “A “one size fits all” mentality toward diversity erases the specific needs of the most vulnerable communities. The reality is that not all “people of color” suffer equally from the effects of institutional racism.
Black women are least likely to be promoted and supported by their managers in the workplace. Police kill unarmed Black people at higher rates than other races, especially Black women. According to the Sentencing Project, Black women represent roughly 14% of the female population of the United States, but 30% of all females incarcerated. Black children are also almost 9 times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison while Latinx children are three times more likely. Research also suggests that Black women are more likely to be publicly objectified, harassed and dehumanized. None of this is to say that the interracial and ethnic solidarity implied by the earnest use of “people of color” isn’t important. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @ckyourprivilege: ust do it. Don't expect BIPoC to cheer for you, it's not a Olympic 500 meter race.
This is you consciously choosing to:
1. Live into the work
2. Lean into discomfort
3. Get it wrong
4. Keep going.
Step into this work for conscious awareness. Not to win conversations, or be the "woke" co-worker. There is nothing to prove.
This is your journey, your work, and willingness to change to conscious relationships with BIPoC.
You will not earn a merit badge for being anti-racist. We are not in a competition, we are not running the race, we are not trying to win. We are all un-learning and re-learning, becoming masters of our own relationship with power privilege and racism. A competitive spirit is participation in patriarchy which teaches us to be the best, to be number one, to be the first. At the end of the day it's about ending our complicity and doing our best to take this journey and becoming anti-racist.
Challenging you to go deeper find the author of this quote. Read his work because this is really a pedagogy around teaching, and community. This work is very rewarding to more than just you but the world around you and if you practice #antiracismeveryday you're doing great things. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Becoming a voice for Nashville’s black history
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My stomach rumbled.
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Within 5-minutes of arriving at my first group tour, the Impostor voice inside my head was screaming, “What have you gotten us into?”
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Leaving the education profession to start my own Nashville walking tour business seemed like my dumbest idea to date.
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As 3 of my tour guides surrounded me, I wiped my sweaty palms on my pants and waited with them for our group of 90 high school boys to arrive. Weird.
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Rain came out of the blue and they canceled the tour. Impostor reminded me that I could always go back home and start applying for education jobs. She didn’t win.
Over time, I learned to manage imposter syndrome by incorporating simple steps in my life. The first step is the 3-minute decision map. This helps me avoid spending days thinking about what Imposter thinks about the most horrific outcomes.
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The opportunity.
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When I got the call to be the voice for Nashville’s black history, Imposter whispered, “tuh, look at you trying to speak for all black people” and “you’re not even FROM Nashville.” Using my 3-step process, I defeated her and accepted the opportunity.
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The voice.
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I was invited to orally record the historical stories of my ancestors who experienced Nashville differently. I walked into the recording studio at Belmont University, and passionately honored the African American legacy in Nashville through storytelling.
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After the recording was over, I sat in my car filled with emotions. I felt their stories. I acknowledge their pain. I honor their legacy.
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Because I defeated Imposter, I get to tell their stories on tour every day. Although I don’t know EVERYTHING, what I do know, I’m happy to share.
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I am a voice for black history.
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rp @uncolonia_history: In 1940, after being denied admission to the segregated University of North Carolina Law School, Pauli Murray, who died 35 years ago today, and their girlfriend were arrested for refusing to sit at the back of a segregated bus. The following year, Murray started at Howard Law School, where they’d ultimately graduate top of the class.
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rp @blackvoices: Child actor Lonnie Chavis has detailed the racism he’s already experienced at 12 years old in a powerful new essay.
“My life matters, but does it?” Lonnie asked at the start of the letter published by People magazine this week. “America paints a very clear picture of how I should view myself. America shows me that my Blackness is a threat, and I am treated as such.”
Lonnie, who plays the young Randall on the NBC comedy-drama "This Is Us," noted he “actually didn’t learn about being Black and what that would mean for me” until he was 7. Long talks with his parents, and reading books and watching movies, left him “overwhelmed with confusion, fear and sadness,” he said.
“Being a young Black boy in Hollywood made it even more fearful,” Lonnie recalled, remembering being “treated very poorly by security or entrance checkers” at events “like I wasn’t supposed to be there, until I had a publicist to announce me.”
Lonnie also wrote about being routinely mistaken for other Black child actors and being racially profiled at a restaurant. He told about a police officer pulling over his mother when they were driving in a new BMW and feared another cop was about to kill his father. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
#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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Tag another antiracist learner below. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @rachel.cargle. Let’s demand some change.
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Having attended PWI’s (predominantly white institutions) during the years I did pursue higher education, I was no stranger to the frustrations of micro aggressions, tone policing and silencing that black women face on campuses in particularly distressing ways.
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But one thing that bothered me most about PWI classrooms were the ways that no matter how much a school pushed for diversity in their student body or faculty hires I never saw that reflect in the teaching materials.
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I continued to sit in classrooms where whiteness was centered, and white males seemed to be the only voices of authority or expertise as black voices continued to be valued mostly in spaces where they were “explaining race”.
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Many industry cannons are whitewashed and carry heavy loads of the racism and sexism that American academia was built on. It’s nauseating really.
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I have a challenge for you: #ScourTheSyllabus🔍
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I’m interested to know do/did your teachers offer insight from marginalized communities?
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rp @blackstory1619: Portrait of Miami police officer John Milledge.
Born on May 6, 1898, in Bamberg, South Carolina. In 1925, John, 27, married Edna Johnson, 17, of Denmark and the couple moved to Miami. He was involved in Civil Defense activities in the black community during World War II which led to his being named one of the five original black officers sworn into the Miami Police Department on September 1, 1944. On November 1, 1946, he became the first black officer in the history of Dade County to be killed when he was shot from a .22 caliber rifle. His killer, Leroy Strachan, was arrested 43 years later
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