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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
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
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
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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#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 @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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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 @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
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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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 @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 @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 @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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Know all of our is and will pay off..
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rp @iamrachelricketts: The world is very much on fire, in many ways. Though I am hundreds of miles + a border away from the fires in California, Oregon and Washington, my city is filled with their smoke + currently has the worst air quality level of any major city in the world. I can barely go outside. Black men+ are STILL being brutally murdered by police, and any semblance of democracy in the US is eroded on the daily.
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If you have interest in teaching your children about black history and antiracism from an African American perspective, and if you have the ability, consider donating/contributing to my work tangibly by joining The Classroom. Click the first link in my bio to signup.
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RP @blackhistory. Reverend George Washington Lee, co-founder of the Belzoni, Mississippi NAACP and the first African-American to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot and killed in Belzoni on May 7, 1955.
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He is considered one of the early martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Belzoni was also home to a White Citizen's Council, a group of white residents actively working to suppress civil rights activism and maintain white supremacy through threats, economic intimidation, and violence.
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The Council learned of Rev. Lee's voter registration efforts and targeted him with threats and intimidation, but he was undeterred.
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While Rev. Lee was driving home on the night of May 7, gunshots were fired into the cab of his car, ripping off the lower half of his face. He later died at Humphreys County Medical Center.
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When NAACP field secretary for Mississippi Medgar Evers came to investigate the death, the county sheriff boldly denied that any homicide had taken place; instead, he claimed that Rev. Lee had died in a car accident and that the lead bullets found in his jaw were dental fillings.
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Investigation revealed evidence against two members of the local White Citizen's Council, but when the local prosecutor resisted moving forward, the case stalled.
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The NAACP memorial service held in Rev. Lee's honor was attended by more than 1,000 mourners.
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rp @blairimani: COLORISM: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER? Colorism is bias against darker skin color and in favor of lighter skin color within and between groups and cultures. It is a form of white supremacy that benefits people who are perceived as close or in proximity to whiteness. As a light skinned Black woman, I benefit from colorism. Just as white people benefit from white supremacy. Benefiting from a system of oppression does not require you to agree with it and by doing nothing about it, you’re complicit. People with privilege in a given system must take it upon themselves to learn about how forms of oppression lift them up at other people’s expense. You’ve likely seen colorism in action. In representation, lighter skinned actors are often hired to play darker skinned figures in history or even fiction. In opportunity, lighter skinned people are less likely to be tone policed in the same way as their darker skinned peers. Colorism also impacts life and death. There’s a reason that the majority of the people who have been victims of police violence have been darker skinned Black folks. Because white supremacy, racism, and colorism all socialize us to believe that lighter = safer and leaves darker skinned people to fight a wall of bias and too often it is in a life and death context. From a US historical standpoint: Lighter skinned Black people often “passed for white” escaping the conditions of racism that their family & community members could not navigate out of at all. So, when I hear some lighter skinned people complain about how hard they’ve had it, it can remind me of a poor white person saying that they didn’t experience white privilege because they grew up poor. While yes. Those experiences of bullying and poverty are still valid and deserve acknowledgment, it’s different than having an entire system constructed against you because of your skin color. As we engage in antiracism we have to look at ALL of the ways that white supremacy manifests. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @novareidofficial: This is Dion Diamond. He started doing these “sit ins” from just 15 years old because he got sick of “whites only” cafes and being relegated as a second class citizen because of the colour of his skin. It wasn’t without consequence though, he was put in jail many times & guards told white inmates if they gave him a hard time, they’d get time off their sentence. Imagine that . Swipe right, he’s 78 now. Some find it hard to imagine this level of segregation was in our lifetime and seem to think it was a long time ago.
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rp @teachfortheculture: Quick fixes and patches are not it. - Just picture the visual of someone using a straw to blow bubbles into a well and then saying that well is now a jacuzzi. —- It is similar to a teacher adding a new book to their classroom library, or a new lesson to the curriculum and saying the classroom is now “anti-racist”. 👀 - Is that well now a jacuzzi because you blew some bubbles into it? naw. - Is your classroom now “anti-racist” because you added a new lesson? naw. —- Lets keep building. - Ya can’t just blow bubbles in the old and then call it a different thing .. It’s STILL a well!!
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rp @wherechangestarted: Antiracism work is self work, y’all. Period. No matter how diverse your surroundings are. Internal YOU practicing antiracism is what makes you antiracist, my friend. Nothing more. And you know internal you better than anyone. Stop kidding yourself and let that person know that it’s time to stretch and grow.
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Stay honest. Get uncomfortable. Do the work. Be antiracist everyday! Comment if you feel this, learning this, know this. #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @nmaahc: in 1921, Constance Baker Motley who would grow up to be an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and future State Senator was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Motley attended Fisk University and transferred to New York University where she earned a degree in economics. From there, Motley became the first African American woman to be accepted into Columbia Law School in 1944. In 1946, she started working for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where she argued cases concerning school desegregation and civil rights protests. Between 1961 and 1963, Motley won nine out of ten cases and during this time she was the first African American woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Motley to the U.S. District Court becoming the first black woman to hold a federal judgeship. Her legacy contributed to monumental changes and impact of the Civil Rights Movement.
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RP @colorofchange. #TamirRice's life was cut short by police who refused to see him as the child he was. The lack of justice that followed has not been forgotten. As we honor and remember his life, we'll continue to fight for #WinningJustice to hold police accountable. #UntilJusticeIsReal #changingthenarrative #inclusion #love - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @rachel.cargle: As with many times over American history Black women are grappling with the pain & vulnerability of our existence while remaining the bedrock for homes, families, churches, neighborhoods, workplaces, and more.
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@theconsciouskid @dereckapurnell Black parents have to have “the talk” and prepare our kids from birth. White and non-Black parents: what steps are you taking to counter anti-Blackness in yourself and your kids?
We want to hear what you’re doing. If you’re having conversations, are you taking any actions? What areas we can provide content in to support this.
Tweet: @dereckapurnell [image: tweet by @dereckapurnell that reads: “its just... I am so sick and tired of the sensational question to Black parents: "What will you tell your black son to protect them from dying?" when nobody asks white parents: "What do you tell your white children to stop them from killing?"] #BlackLivesMatter #Parenting #GeorgeFloyd #AmyCooper #Antiracist - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Perfectionism is a blessing and curse.
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rp @moemotivate: White supremacy limits your growth & disconnects u from ur humanity & that of others.
This is why I say all the time that white supremacy harms white folks too, y’all just reap too many “benefits” from it to want to do anything about it.
But this pursuit of perfectionism doesn’t just harm the person internalizing it. Your internalized perfectionism is perpetuated on us.
Perfectionism is the oppressive pressure & dehumanizing expectations placed on Black folks, especially Black women to police & control Blackness to assimilate & measure up to Eurocentric standards.
We’re expected to be experts at the beginning & never is there any room or grace for us to learn & grow in our humanness.
Not everything is a mistake, sometimes it’s just our humanness being lived out in a world that dehumanizes us & expects perfection from us.
Black humanness comes w/death sentences.
While white folks have the benefit of the doubt bc of white supremacy we have no such thing.
In fact the opposite is true of us.
We are expected to do everything without fail & when we don’t, our humanness is used as further justification for the oppression & abuse we experience.
Perfectionism strips us of our humanity & bc you’ve internalized perfectionism too, it feels normal & socially acceptable to demand it from us.
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Photo cred @lbooknerd. If we can open up a little bit more to each other, and share our stories, our real stories, that’s what breaks down barriers.
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But in order to do that you have to believe that your story has value. Be vulnerable, dare to be vulnerable. We’re at a crossroads where we have to think about who we are as a nation? I remain hopeful that people want better. If not for themselves but for the next generation and that is my basic joy. - Michelle Obama
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Comment “Yes, I’m ready to listen” if you are open to hear the stories of POC.
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rp @djalibc: Black people, Brown people, Latinx people, Indigenous people, Immigrant communities: whether or not we have the tools to articulate it, we thoroughly understand and have been intimately acquainted with racism and the toxic -isms that still plague nations established on the bases of colonialism, enslavement, and exploitation. For generations, we’ve invested into our self preservation; our histories are ones of determination, resiliency, and strength.
In a word, we been doing the work. Everything that is happening today wouldn’t have been possible without the foundation laid down by our foremothers and forefathers: from the ancestors (un)known to the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, American Indian Movement (AIM), the Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the hundreds of thousands of grassroots movements we’ll never know the names of or faces behind.
Ergo, it is truly up to our white counterparts to continue doing the work. Continue engaging in anti-racist initiatives. Continue calling out your family members and friends. Continue sitting in discomfort. Continue un- & re-learning. Continue listening. Continue reading. Continue taking accountability. Continue asking questions without fear. Continue checking in on your BIPOC friends. Continue taking the step in the right direction.
Sustain your participation in the movement and don’t fall back into the comforts of complacency. Always remember: the most difficult conversations are the most important ones to have.
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rp @sincerily.lettie: ...They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” -Audre Lorde, 1984
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Timely words—from a fierce Black woman—to remind you of the depth of racial and social justice. The first time I came across #AudreLorde was in undergrad. Her words blew me away and started opening my eyes to what Black feminism and Black feminine identity really were. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @blackculturenews_. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali and his daughter. If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. -Muhammad Ali #feminism #antiracisteveryday #nashvillehistory - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @blackhistory: Thousands of Klansmen gather in 1921 for an initiation ceremony on a farm near Lake Zurich owned by Charles Weeghman, who had owned the Chicago Cubs.
The procession there began in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood.
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On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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rp @soyouwanttotalkabout: Right now, as we face nationwide civil unrest in response to never-ending police brutality against the black community, it is important to familiarize yourself with what it is to be antiracist. It's never too late to start, but sooner the better.
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rp @blacktory1619: Black exchange students from Lincoln University, Missouri at a Black Panther solidarity rally in the University of Frankfurt, Germany 1971.
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rp @rachel.cargle: In true allyship and activism there is no room to be intellectually lazy or shallow in your care about issues. You must be willing to hold yourself accountable for doing the work to undercover what you don’t see, understand what you don’t know, and take action when and how it is needed.
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Social media is a sensational place. Often the only things people are willing to care about at any moment about is whatever social justice hashtag is trending as opposed to the people and circumstances behind the trend.
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Lives cannot be summed up in memes or twitter threads and I want to see your action WAY more than your repost.
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I hope in the case of immigration, school tragedies, police brutality, terrorist attacks and all other instances that have now been known to come with a wave of hashtags and sound bites of outrage you truly take the time to read, learn, talk about, take action on the things that move you.
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Doing the work is reading, doing the work is researching, doing the work is voting, doing the work is opening conversations, doing the work is holding each other accountable.
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rp @blairimani: Marginalized people — LGBTQIA+ people, religious minorities, disabled people, Black people, Indigenous people, People of color, refugees, those living at the intersections of these identities — do not have the luxury of “losing interest” in liberation.
We don’t have the luxury of moving throughout life without being constantly reminded of our people’s present and historical oppression.
We don’t have the luxury of going “back to normal” because “normal” was a time when the most privileged people could continue carrying on as if they didn’t care. And hell—maybe they still don’t?
At least it looks bad if they don’t do the bare minimum of speaking up. At least we are having a conversation about police abolition and police defunding. At least there’s financial support coming in for important initiatives. At least we have more people that give a damn.
We will continue fighting regardless. #blm #antiracism - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
I’ve worked with companies big and small to implement antiracism practices but these are the types of emails that give me hope for a better future.
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Don’t wait until racial trauma or a race-related crisis happens before you bring in an antiracist educator to help you. Make antiracism a priority from the very beginning. The pandemic won’t last forever, reach out to Black women in the antiracism space to start the conversations now. As many greats have said, if you are not antiracist, you are racist.
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As @moemotivate has shared, the goal is not to be an “ally.” In fact, stop asking me how you can help and how you can be a better ally. Stop! Here are some questions (with some sub questions) to reflect on now.
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In what ways are you going beyond what is easy, comfortable and free to engage in anti-racism? This work is deeply rooted in the economical repair and growth in the Black community. You can’t believe that only freely consuming content on IG (and Facebook) is doing your part to redistribute and invest money and resources into the Black community. Free ain’t enough!
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And examine why it bothers you that we refuse to work for free. Why do you want us to engage in forced, exploited and free labor just as our enslaved ancestors were forced to do? Why does it anger you that you can not have free, total and unlimited access to our time, energy, work and labor? Why does it bother you that we charge for our services and our work? Why do you expect this to be free? (Why are antiracist educators rates to share our stories, experiences, trainings, and action steps to make your company better not in the budget?) Or are you hoping that simply resharing a post will do it? Hint...it won’t.
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These are questions for you to process on your own..not in my comments or DM.
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How are you actively searching for ways to invest in the work of Black women? What you can share in the comments is how are you investing in my work and the work of other Black women? - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Rp @equalitylabs This is a time where we are calling in South Asians to reassess how they have not done the work around prison or police abolition, caste abolition, gender and religion based oppression, and now shout #DefundThePolice. Yes, we must divest from the police and invest in Black communities —- but Savarna organizations and people can’t erase their history of complicity in anti-Blackness, their history of pushing for more brown police rather than against police, or for normalizing Hindu fascism. Now is the time to reflect. See you in our conversation next week. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems