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rp @laylafsaad: Anti-racism work is not clean, shiny and pristine. It is messy, painful and hard. When a person with white privilege gets called out/in for intentionally or unintentionally causing racist harm, this isn’t a deviation from the path of anti-racist practice. This is PART of anti-racist practice. The call out/in provides necessary information about you that have caused hurt, and presents an invitation to examine the unconscious racist thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that led to it in the first place. Yes it sucks to be called out/in. But being harmed by racism sucks more ♀️ And that’s putting it lightly. Racism kills.
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When you can release how you feel a call out “should” be done (which quite often is laden with white superiority standards of ‘correct tone’ and ‘respectability’ and racist stereotypes and anti-blackness against the Black, Indigenous, People of Colour calling you in/out), then you can answer the invitation that is being presented to you to Listen, Apologise, Make Amends, and then go Do Your Work (inner and outer) to ensure that you do better next time and don’t cause harm in the same way. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @rachel.cargle. The point of anti racism work isn’t to sift through and find all the ‘good white people’.
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The point of anti racism work isn’t a practice in white self improvement so that they can proclaim to be ‘one of the good ones’.
The point of anti racism work isn’t to simply gain allies.
The point of anti racism work is to upend the systems of grave injustice that have been braided into the “normalcy” of this country fabric, into it’s morals, into it’s institutions, into the air we are all breathing.
The point of anti racism work is to protect black existence. To keep alive the body and spirit of our babies, our mothers, our cousins, our uncles, our grandmothers, our neighbors. It’s black liberation, it’s black reparations, it’s black lives mattering.
The “sameness” mentioned in my response is the reality that no matter how ‘good’ of a white person you feel yourself to be, it doesn’t erase the realities that you are benefitting from the white supremacist structures that comprise this country — the same ones that are keeping black people marginalized, oppressed, silenced and killed.
It is not enough to be anti racist and Angela Davis reminds us.
I’ve no interest in existing “a little safer” in a ship that was never built for me to survive in. I want a brand new vessel.
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rp @blackhistoryforkids: Talk to your babies! Toddlers, tweens, teens and even adult children! If you don't say anything, there are still consequences. Let them learn in your comfort.
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rp @moemotivate: Collectively speaking, people of color don’t trust the police any more than we collectively trust white people to actually collectively care for our lives. Just look at people who are protesting and standing against the injustice of people of color. It’s disproportionately people of color. And look who condemns our efforts towards equality—it’s disproportionately white people.
Furthermore, the police were not here to serve and protect us then, but we’re there to enforce the racist laws of the land. And sadly, today not much has changed. Sure there are plenty of police officers who take their oath seriously and wear their badges with pride and honor. There are many who serve and protect all of us, but there are far too many who don’t. And they’re making the whole force look dangerous to people of color. Especially when they stand in silence against injustice or side with the injustice.
When we can see time and time again where police are able to murder unarmed black men, women and children and get away with it while white people can shoot up churches and be apprehended alive and taken to lunch or when a black man shoots and kills a white woman and he can be tried and found guilty we can see the brutal disparities.
If you are paying attention you will see the patterns of brutality and understand the outrage. But if your first response to these shootings is to find reason to side with the actions of the police, because you believe that the police are indeed here to serve and protect all people—to reason with this racism, then you’ll miss the patterns every time. If you want to find fault and blame in the victim and declare that they deserved to be murdered in the street then your complicity in this brutally oppressive system will blind you from the truth every time.
But if you want to see the truth then you will have to listen to us.
And even if you don’t understand—you’ll have to take our word for it.
And we’re saying, loud and clear, “stop killing us”. We need police reform. Our lives matter despite living in a society that treats us otherwise. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Repost @nmaahc. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball by stepping onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to play first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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More than 14,000 of the 26,000+ spectators gathered at Ebbets Field that day were black. The Dodgers called Robinson up to the major leagues before the start of the season. That day, he scored a run in the Dodgers 5-3 victory. ⠀
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Robinson almost immediately became the league's best player by virtue of his completeness. While some players were brilliant hitters or had blazing speed on the bases or were remarkable fielders, Robinson had it all.
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Exactly 50 years after he broke the color barrier, Robinson was honored as his uniform number, 42, was retired by from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by more than 50,000 at New York City’s Shea Stadium — making him the first player to have his number retired by every single team in the league.
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rp @iamrachelricketts: If we want to overthrow the status quo we have to be acutely aware of the ways in which toxic white supremacy and heteropatriachy infiltrate our hearts and minds and thus our work to advance racial justice.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We all have shadow work to do and I'm no exception. We need to be able to critique ourselves, our work and our community and hold ourselves to the same standard of integrity we demand of others. We need to rise above the temptations of whiteness - past the pull of fame and fortune. To humanity. And justice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Otherwise, we are hypocrites. If we aren't striving to unearth toxic white supremacist heteropatriarchy in ourselves first - I don't know what the fuck we're striving for at all. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackstory1619: 28 September 1985, two days of anti-police rioting erupted in Brixton, London after officers shot and paralysed Dorothy Groce, a Jamaican mother, in her bed. The police did not apologise for her wrongful shooting until 29 years later, three years after her death.
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rp @blackhistory: Black man kneeling by bodies of murdered black people. In background sign reads, "the White Liners were here." Drawing by Thomas Nast, 1876.
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On September 11, 1895, South Carolina officials met to rewrite the state constitution with the express purpose of disenfranchising the state’s African American voters and restoring white supremacy in all matters political. The convention’s most prominent figure was Benjamin Tillman, a senator and former governor affectionately nicknamed “Pitchfork Ben." An orator, Tillman spoke at great length during the convention.
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"[A]ll that is necessary to bring about chaos," he warned the convention delegates, "is for a sufficient number of white men, actuated by hate, or ambition, or from any unpatriotic motive, to climb up and cut it loose, mobilize and register the negroes, lead them and give them a free vote and fair count under manhood suffrage." He continued:
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The poor, ignorant cotton field hand, who never reaped any advantage, nor saw anything except a pistol, blindly followed like sheep wherever their Black and white leaders told them to go, voted unanimously every time for the Republican ticket during that dark period, and these results were achieved solely and wholly by reason of the ballot being in the hands of such cattle. Is the danger gone? No. How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence. How did we bring it about? Every white man sunk his personal feelings and ambitions. The white people of the State, illustrating our glorious motto, "Ready with their lives and fortunes." came together as one. By fraud and violence, if you please, we threw it off. In 1878 we had to resort to more fraud and violence, and so again in 1880. Then the Registration Law and eight-box system was evolved from the superior intelligence of the white man to check and control this surging, muddy stream of ignorance.
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The delegates followed Ben Tillman's guidance and enacted a constitution that effectively disenfranchised Black residents, with little federal interference, for nearly seventy years. Today, a statue of Tillman is in front of the South Carolina State House and his name adorns a building at Clemson University.
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Repost from @moemotivate. It is a privilege to avoid these direct conversations, meanwhile I’m reminding my children yet again what to do when interacting with the police. My children. I am reminding children whose only cares in the world should be which marker they’re gonna color with or what next game they will play. Children.
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We have to watch the fear build up in their bodies (feeling sad that we’re the ones delivering the sobering news) while also trying to manage our own fears because we know the harsh reality. And we know they can’t afford to be naive. There’s too much at stake.
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We have to comfort them when they express these fears, and reassure them in ways that we hope will bring them both a sense of peace and awareness. We have to do this with children. Children. Because we know that avoiding these conversations means we’re sending them out into the word unprepared. But we also know that having these conversations interrupts the freedom of their childhood, though white supremacy has already done so.
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There is no innocence for our Blackness in a world made to protect, uphold and benefit whiteness. There’s no innocence reserved for us...yet white families desire to preserve all the innocence for their white children by avoiding these conversations all together. So the question isn’t when to talk to your child about race, but instead it must be how.
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And you don’t leave it there. You actually find out and then apply what you’re learning, daily. Because there’s never a time when racism waits for the right time to destroy our lives—it just does. Thus, everyday you need to be working to change this reality. Repost from @moemotivate.
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Comment ‘Amen’ if you agree.
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rp @nmaahc: 1957, nine students in Little Rock, Arkansas attended their first full day of classes at Central High School. Escorted by the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division under the orders of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals entered the Central High School as its first African American students.
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RP @rachel.cargle.. Original tweet from @ll_mckinney
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White populations have been putting communities of color through dystopian circumstances for centuries.
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The novel Handmaids Tale is a good example. Before you clutch your pearls in horror, consider how true the storyline is for women of color.
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“The premise of The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopic in nature and, at its core, imagines a world where white women are stripped of all their modern rights—the chief among them being autonomy over their own bodies. But as you read more into what makes this universe specifically dystopic for white women, it starts to sound a bit familiar.
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As this wonderful piece by Ana Cottle of The Establishment elaborates, white women find themselves being raped; being herded around like cattle and property; being forced to breed; being barred from coming and going as they please without some special note from their master, and adopting the name of said master as a mark of ownership; and being beaten or killed if they do not comply.
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It is a nightmare, for sure, but it is a nightmare that black women have experienced firsthand in this country and still experience in some places abroad. And ironically enough, we are erased from Atwood’s fictional and narrative hellscape just so that our struggles can be cosplayed by white women.”
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And I’m going to use the sentiments of @ll_mckinney to address those who say “well Atwood was AWARE that she was making a novel of a white dystopia based on the realities of the dystopian situations white people have put POC through for generations.” Her acknowledging that she made a profit off of the story of the pain of communities of color while not actually addressing the realities of these structures....doesn’t absolve her of participating in the collective racist imagination that white America thrives off of.
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rp @blackstory1619: Black Panther Party member Bobby Hutton carries a loaded shotgun in front of the Oakland police station in this undated photo.
Robert James Hutton, also known as Bobby or Lil’ Bobby, was the first treasurer and recruit of the Black Panther Party(BPP) at just 16 years old. He was also the first member of the Party killed by the police.
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rp @blackhistoryforkids: Dr. Mae C. Jemison is an #astronaut and #physician who became the first African American woman to be admitted into @NASA’s astronaut training program and ultimately the first African American woman in space. Jemison is the epitome of the American dream. The youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a roofer and carpenter, and Dorothy, an elementary school teacher, she graduated at the top of her high school class and attended @Stanford on a National Achievement Scholarship. There, she was the head of the Black Student Union and received a BS in chemical engineering. Next, she entered @CornellUniversity Medical College and went on to teach medical research overseas as part of the @peacecorps. Upon returning, she changed courses and applied to NASA's astronaut training program and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads. River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can’t imagine leaving, but three women couldn’t wait to escape.
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When each must return–Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend’s only black daughters, now a mother of two who’d planned to raise her own children anywhere else–their paths collide under Beth’s father’s roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past.
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Filled with the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in a most unlikely place: home.
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rp @antiracismdaily: See if you can unpack how people position their non-white friends, colleagues and family members as a defense against criticism on racism. Look at the intracices of interracial relationships and the systems that foster — or hinder — or capacity to diversify our social networks within your life or someone you know. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @rachel.cargle: From white women calling the police on black people simply existing - using the police as their customer service line for the maintenance of white supremacy.....
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To the police officers who are trained for escalated situations yet can’t manage their “fear”of black bodies and insist shooting us is their best bet.
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To the white vigilantes who decide they have the right to kill based on how their feeling about any given black man, at any given time, in any given place....
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The feelings of white people MUST stop being held in higher regard than black lives.
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And they say we must protest peacefully? THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE. They come in snatching the breath from our babies, from our women, from our fathers, from our brothers, from our leaders. Then demand we ask a little nicer for our humanity. That WE are the ones without moral code. That WE show signs of being barbaric and uncontrollable. That we are asking for too much when we demand to have dignity and liberation.
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My work is not to make life easier for black people in a white supremacist world. It’s to upend and burn down and eradicate the world that tell me “just one more decade, just one more generation, just one more century — we just have to have TIME and to shoot a few more practice rounds before we ‘learn’ how to believe your lives matter. Don’t worry, your equality will come......one day”
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I don’t want equality with you. The way you live, exploit, degrade, overpower and oppress is of no interest to me. The revolution must be committed to making white people extremely uncomfortable. Black panthers armed and watching type of uncomfortable. The revolution will not be passive hopes of a reformed whiteness.
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Drop an emoji in the comments if you hear me. I NEED you to hear me.
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rp @workingclasshistory: 21 September 1908, William White, a Black man, was hospitalised by white patrons in Hanover, Pennsylvania, as part of a racist carnival game. White worked as a target in a popular game in the US called "hit the c**n", which was also known as "hit the n****r baby", "African dodger" and other names. It was played all over the country from New York to Florida to Indiana and elsewhere at least from the 1880s to the 1950s, at carnivals and public events like soldiers' reunions and Labor Day festivities. Pictured, for example, is a photograph from a 1942 YMCA brochure for a children's summer camp in Wisconsin.
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rp @magthehistorian: they tell you obey the law and you will be fine they say....
American Veteran, Eugene Bullard, the first African American fighter pilot was beaten by police and state troopers in Peekskill, New York in 1949. His crime you ask? He dared to attend a concert where activist Paul Robeson preformed. A mob of angry white protesters attacked attendees as they left the concert. Police joined in and were captured on film and in photos beating Bullard, who flew for France during WWI and fought in the French resistance during WWII.
Know your history and end police brutality. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @workingclasshistory: 23 July 1967, one of the biggest rebellions in US history occurred in Detroit, following a police raid on a bar in a poor, African-American majority area in the early hours of the morning. Black and white residents fought police in the streets and looted goods while snipers took potshots at officers from windows. Police, National Guard and US troops retaliated with outright brutality and intense violence. By the time it was over, more than 40 people were dead, 7,000 arrested and over 2,000 buildings destroyed.
After the violence subsided, a group of Black radicals decided that they had more potential power in their workplaces, and so soon set up the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
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