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Repost @absorbedinpages. #MeandWhiteSupremacy began as a viral Instagram challenge with turned into a self published workbook. It is written by @LaylaFSaad and it is the answer to some big questions she wrestled with after writing her viral blog article
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It is a book of self reflection and anti-racist works that requires many different strategies, approaches, and practices for a person who holds white privilege to do the work to create necessary change within themselves and in their communities⠀
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Thanks @BookSparks for sending me a gifted copy. Have you heard of this one? Repost @absorbedinpages.
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rp @blackvoices: "Another Black life is taken by the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve us," writes HuffPost reporter Taryn Finley. "The cops are fired, but not arrested despite video evidence that they’re responsible for someone’s death. Folks, mostly Black people, protest. Police bring out the riot squad and throw tear gas at the protesters. Tired of a system in which their lives are always at stake, Black protesters turn to civil unrest." Adds Finley, "There’s nothing novel about political analysts and folks on social media expressing more anger about destroyed property than a lost life. Protesters aren’t criminals; they’re tired of waiting for change in a system that continues to deny them justice. And this country’s leaders continue to fail them."
"President Donald Trump sent a tweet that used racist language and threatened those engaged in civil unrest... but what Trump gets blatantly wrong is that the “shooting” — or state-sanctioned killing in general — was going on long before the incidents at Target. Black people’s lives have long been threatened by white people with more privilege and power who still manage to see us as a threat..." - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @theconsciouskid's @nadra.w // “A “one size fits all” mentality toward diversity erases the specific needs of the most vulnerable communities. The reality is that not all “people of color” suffer equally from the effects of institutional racism.
Black women are least likely to be promoted and supported by their managers in the workplace. Police kill unarmed Black people at higher rates than other races, especially Black women. According to the Sentencing Project, Black women represent roughly 14% of the female population of the United States, but 30% of all females incarcerated. Black children are also almost 9 times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison while Latinx children are three times more likely. Research also suggests that Black women are more likely to be publicly objectified, harassed and dehumanized. None of this is to say that the interracial and ethnic solidarity implied by the earnest use of “people of color” isn’t important. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @ckyourprivilege: ust do it. Don't expect BIPoC to cheer for you, it's not a Olympic 500 meter race.
This is you consciously choosing to:
1. Live into the work
2. Lean into discomfort
3. Get it wrong
4. Keep going.
Step into this work for conscious awareness. Not to win conversations, or be the "woke" co-worker. There is nothing to prove.
This is your journey, your work, and willingness to change to conscious relationships with BIPoC.
You will not earn a merit badge for being anti-racist. We are not in a competition, we are not running the race, we are not trying to win. We are all un-learning and re-learning, becoming masters of our own relationship with power privilege and racism. A competitive spirit is participation in patriarchy which teaches us to be the best, to be number one, to be the first. At the end of the day it's about ending our complicity and doing our best to take this journey and becoming anti-racist.
Challenging you to go deeper find the author of this quote. Read his work because this is really a pedagogy around teaching, and community. This work is very rewarding to more than just you but the world around you and if you practice #antiracismeveryday you're doing great things. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Becoming a voice for Nashville’s black history
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My stomach rumbled.
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Within 5-minutes of arriving at my first group tour, the Impostor voice inside my head was screaming, “What have you gotten us into?”
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Leaving the education profession to start my own Nashville walking tour business seemed like my dumbest idea to date.
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As 3 of my tour guides surrounded me, I wiped my sweaty palms on my pants and waited with them for our group of 90 high school boys to arrive. Weird.
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Rain came out of the blue and they canceled the tour. Impostor reminded me that I could always go back home and start applying for education jobs. She didn’t win.
Over time, I learned to manage imposter syndrome by incorporating simple steps in my life. The first step is the 3-minute decision map. This helps me avoid spending days thinking about what Imposter thinks about the most horrific outcomes.
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The opportunity.
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When I got the call to be the voice for Nashville’s black history, Imposter whispered, “tuh, look at you trying to speak for all black people” and “you’re not even FROM Nashville.” Using my 3-step process, I defeated her and accepted the opportunity.
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The voice.
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I was invited to orally record the historical stories of my ancestors who experienced Nashville differently. I walked into the recording studio at Belmont University, and passionately honored the African American legacy in Nashville through storytelling.
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After the recording was over, I sat in my car filled with emotions. I felt their stories. I acknowledge their pain. I honor their legacy.
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Because I defeated Imposter, I get to tell their stories on tour every day. Although I don’t know EVERYTHING, what I do know, I’m happy to share.
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I am a voice for black history.
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rp @uncolonia_history: In 1940, after being denied admission to the segregated University of North Carolina Law School, Pauli Murray, who died 35 years ago today, and their girlfriend were arrested for refusing to sit at the back of a segregated bus. The following year, Murray started at Howard Law School, where they’d ultimately graduate top of the class.
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rp @blackvoices: Child actor Lonnie Chavis has detailed the racism he’s already experienced at 12 years old in a powerful new essay.
“My life matters, but does it?” Lonnie asked at the start of the letter published by People magazine this week. “America paints a very clear picture of how I should view myself. America shows me that my Blackness is a threat, and I am treated as such.”
Lonnie, who plays the young Randall on the NBC comedy-drama "This Is Us," noted he “actually didn’t learn about being Black and what that would mean for me” until he was 7. Long talks with his parents, and reading books and watching movies, left him “overwhelmed with confusion, fear and sadness,” he said.
“Being a young Black boy in Hollywood made it even more fearful,” Lonnie recalled, remembering being “treated very poorly by security or entrance checkers” at events “like I wasn’t supposed to be there, until I had a publicist to announce me.”
Lonnie also wrote about being routinely mistaken for other Black child actors and being racially profiled at a restaurant. He told about a police officer pulling over his mother when they were driving in a new BMW and feared another cop was about to kill his father. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
#BlackHistoryLesson RP @nmaahc Angela Davis, a prominent voice of the Black Power era and the Black Feminist Movement. She has a long history in the civil rights movement as an advocate for the oppressed. Google: Angela Davis
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Here's the thing, Desiree Adaway said it best, when we talk about who we are as a country we never mention the laws, norms, and systems which make it clear that this country is built for the comfort, ease and success of some of us.
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Racial purity was important to the founding fathers of this country as much as the men in Charleston, Virginia.
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The main way this system continues is the lack of understanding what racism actually is and the ways we have been socialized to make sure whiteness is always comfortable.
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So when you see me talking, teaching and working on dismantling oppression and creating systems that are fair and just what I am really saying is we need to create something this country has never seen, a reality it has never known.
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We have to rethink structures, systems, institutions, and constructs.
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Oppression is a machine and the systems I identified are the cogs that keep it running.
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Only together can we stop the machine.
Only together can we create a new vision for this country.
It is not enough to not feed the machine, we have to take the machine apart piece by piece.
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Tag another antiracist learner below. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
RP @rachel.cargle. Let’s demand some change.
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Having attended PWI’s (predominantly white institutions) during the years I did pursue higher education, I was no stranger to the frustrations of micro aggressions, tone policing and silencing that black women face on campuses in particularly distressing ways.
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But one thing that bothered me most about PWI classrooms were the ways that no matter how much a school pushed for diversity in their student body or faculty hires I never saw that reflect in the teaching materials.
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I continued to sit in classrooms where whiteness was centered, and white males seemed to be the only voices of authority or expertise as black voices continued to be valued mostly in spaces where they were “explaining race”.
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Many industry cannons are whitewashed and carry heavy loads of the racism and sexism that American academia was built on. It’s nauseating really.
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I have a challenge for you: #ScourTheSyllabus🔍
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I’m interested to know do/did your teachers offer insight from marginalized communities?
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rp @blackstory1619: Portrait of Miami police officer John Milledge.
Born on May 6, 1898, in Bamberg, South Carolina. In 1925, John, 27, married Edna Johnson, 17, of Denmark and the couple moved to Miami. He was involved in Civil Defense activities in the black community during World War II which led to his being named one of the five original black officers sworn into the Miami Police Department on September 1, 1944. On November 1, 1946, he became the first black officer in the history of Dade County to be killed when he was shot from a .22 caliber rifle. His killer, Leroy Strachan, was arrested 43 years later
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#Flashback I hesitantly reached out to the group we're touring today to call their attention to the weather in case they weren't aware that it’s going to rain. The group leader said, "we have rain ponchos for all the kids." I shouted.
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Last year, we had no idea who our target audience was so we simply tried to appeal to everyone. Big mistake! People would cancel at the last minute if there was a threat of rain, complain about prices being too high, and I even had people tell me “this should be free.”
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This tour season, we put in double the effort to figure out who are the folks who would value and appreciate the tours. One of the strategies we used to determine this was tripling the price to weed out people. This was by far the best decision we have made in this business to-date.
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Now, I get to work with people who are fired up about black history and racial justice. I’ve been able to form a community from customers who want nothing more than to pursue equity by any means for all people. I get to work with people who buy ponchos for a group of kids instead of canceling or rescheduling at the last minute.
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Today, 30+ people will be touring Fisk University and other HBCUs in Nashville with @UnitedStreetTours. From there we will patronize two black-owned businesses in the Jefferson Street Art Crawl community. We'll be stopping by Jefferson Street Sound and ending and eating at the black-owned restaurant, Kingdom Café & Grill.
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Every blue moon, a person who is not in our target, tours with us and that's okay too. Finding our target audience was not easy but it has helped us better serve the community and grow our small, woman-led, black-owned business. I just want to say thank you to all of our customers who are the backbone of United Street Tours. .
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I've had this personalized Zippo for a few years now. As a Black artist myself, the quote always resonated with me.
If you don't understand why the protesters are as angry as they (we) are, then you haven't been paying attention.
#BlackLivesMatter
RP @blackgirlthatreads. [Thanks for my #gifted copy, @abramsbooks]
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If you’ve ever wondered why your grandparents or parents started their road trips at night, or why they just had to have a cooler full of food before hitting the road, you may want to read Overground Railroad.
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Candacy Taylor explores how and why Victor Green founded the Green Book, a guide that was published from 1936 to 1967 and hailed as the Bible of Black travel.
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In a time when Jim Crow was the law of the land, travel across cities and states could be dangerous for Black people. They couldn’t eat, sleep, get gas, or even shop at most of the white-owned businesses along the road. So what were they do to?
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The Green Book came along to help make the road trips a little safer and a more dignified experience for Black people. Taylor took the time to travel through the neighborhoods where these businesses once thrived to document the indelible scars that redlining, urban renewal, gentrification, and mass incarceration have left on these communities.
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I can’t wait to hear her when she comes to Houston on 2/20 because I flew through this book and learned so many random bits of info, including why older Black people *may* have an interest in Cadillacs.
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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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