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I walked up to my neighborhood 7-11 today. After I found the “essentials” I needed from the candy aisle and got in line a middle-aged white man abruptly shoved his head in through the swinging doors and yelled “some old women just fell out her parked car and can’t get up! Call 911.” The black woman in front of me that was finishing her transaction at the counter immediately ran out after the man leaving her purchases and wallet behind. I walked up toward the front of the store to see what was going on and watched as she bent down to lift up some poor white crone splayed on the asphalt and then, with the help of the middle-aged dude, got her and what looked like some shock pink temporary leg cast back in her car. When the black woman came back in I thanked her for being such a good sam and asked if I could take her picture. Tasha smiled and said sure. I hope all of you white folks out there who like to chime in these days about how your lives matter too will please just zip it and, dare I say it, take a breath. By today’s little anecdotal reckoning your lives still do matter and always have. In my book Tasha threw down some great and noble all american pepsi challenge today. Can I, will you, help lift up your black brothers and sisters off this grim tarmac of economic and racial injustice?
'Twas barely a week ago when I wrote these words: "I’m sure the mayor will enjoy this year’s parade. Why wouldn’t she? She’ll be among her people: cops, corporations, and COVID super-spreaders."
Now, with Pride️🌈 mere days away, the event on the left happened. As such, I took the test on the right.
Because that's what a responsible reaction to COVID looks like - something Breed knows nothing about.
Yes, I wore my Kaep jersey to go to the 📮 across the street from my house. Democracy in action. (Fuck Trump)
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
Bad enough I'm still trippin' from my first trip to Oakland in a year, now I gotta ride BART to see this white privilege (possibly MAGAsshole) super-spreader goin' all Outbreak on us? ☣
This ❄ acted as if we were the problem for not wanting to go to the 🏥 for his bullshit corruption of "freedom". FUCK. YOU.
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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You can't tell, but even the white folks turned away from me arealso had their masks down. Eventually, that whole shitty group was maskless!
Fuck 'em all!!
Why don't more places/orgs have these?
Yeah yeah, I know: 💵 But when has that ever stopped major institutions from showin' off?
The fuckin' Delta variant is killing people and assholes like this think the rules don't apply to them.
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