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I’m celebrating black history all year long. I hope you do too 🖤
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.“
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
— James Baldwin
"Two things can be true at once. Someone can suffer from a disorder that causes them to say things involuntarily, and grace must also be extended to Black people who are subjected to racist slurs."
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Learn black history. Read texts written by Black people. Watch documentaries filmed by Black people. Speak to Black elders. Ask questions about their experiences, and what they’ve seen and heard. Visit black history museums. Preserve black history.
The federal government has invested millions into disrupting the black power movement and none as restorative justice for slavery and Jim Crow
Rest in Power Jesse Jackson
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson
A message from the UNIA president of the New Orleans division, Muhammad Yungai—
People are offended by black history because they’ve been told so many lies that this information challenges their miseducation
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have”
— James Baldwin
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"There’s nothing race-neutral about a member of the Ku Klux Klan killing a Black man who made it his life’s work to advocate for the advancement of his people."
“The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their land. American wealth was built on the labor of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendants." --Robin DiAngelo
“We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will; we were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today” —Malcolm X
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"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes
Use this month to celebrate Black History, to learn, and share what you learn with others.
Happy Black History Month🖤
They call Black people angry like it’s a bad thing. We should be angry when the government is kidnapping people, separating families, arresting journalists, beating and killing citizens.
Arresting a journalist for covering a story is fascism. And it’s not a coincidence the administration has targeted a Black man, Don Lemon.
A former Illinois deputy, Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey, a Black woman in her home. Say Her Name.
ICE and the current admin, despite their many/overt parallels to Nazi Germany [Nazis had folks show papers as well], aren't importing their tactics. The Nazi's borrowed from the US in the first place. This isn't an exportation of "foreign" regimes. AmeriKKKa is simply coming home (if it ever left)
Those who claim, for instance, that “this is not the America I know,” are inadvertently admitting that they didn’t consider the injustices inflicted upon Black people and racial minorities as disqualifying
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”-- James Baldwin
