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New Orleans is being gentrified & Black Americans arenāt having it š«
Nationalist block their blessings, then take off skedaddling when they canāt handle the truth š 
White Immigrants in America are afraid of segregation. Black Americans created their own thriving economic communities during segregation. Nationalists used planes to bomb our communities, mobs burned our cities. #BlackWallStreet - Entire cities were flooded underwaterā¦ twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā¦
101 years ago, a White mob fueled by hate, looted and destroyed nearly 40 square blocks of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, known as the #BlackWallStreet.
We must never forget the hundreds of lives and livelihoods that were lost during the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre of 1921.
We must never forget the hundreds of lives and livelihoods that were lost during the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre of 1921.
Last year, @HouseJudiciary held a hearing to commemorate the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre and the Committee heard from some of the last remaining survivors.
Mother Viola Fletcher, now 108, described the terror she experienced on that night.
Mother Viola Fletcher, now 108, described the terror she experienced on that night.
Hughes Van Ellis, now 101, explained how the Tulsa Race Massacre isn't just a footnote in the history books, but something the survivors and their decedents live with every day.
For you two @SonnieJohnson @JaVonniBrustow ...
A History of the Lily-White Movement - Richmond, Virginia
"In 1920, state Republican leaders decided that in order to win, they needed to establish a ālily whiteā image. At their state conventions in 1920 and 1921, ...
A History of the Lily-White Movement - Richmond, Virginia
"In 1920, state Republican leaders decided that in order to win, they needed to establish a ālily whiteā image. At their state conventions in 1920 and 1921, ...
@SonnieJohnson @JaVonniBrustow ..., the Lily White Republicans barred black voters from attendance. Black delegates were not seated in 1921.
Racial justice did not make it onto the platform.
Racial justice did not make it onto the platform.
"In response, 600 Black delegates met in Richmond on September 5, 1921, and nominated their own Republican candidates for state officeāall Black."
Rare video š¹: Black Wall Street. #BlackWallStreet #BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackWallStreet is a very serious reminder of the dissimilar history African American businesses had to endure, endured, things, that most of "The Newly Arrived" would've never survived. And, despite our history: Today, they ask "Why can't you just be like the good Asians".
You could have built to the moon š and watch it all disappear, all in one night, all in one night! The legal beneficiaries of our pain, being falsely compared to us. Centuries of working for free; due to slavery,
And, now, this. After all that ā and we were supposedly "free".
And, now, this. After all that ā and we were supposedly "free".
A century after a racist White mob devastated #BlackWallStreet in Tulsa, I keep reflecting on the vicious cycle of anti-Black racism.
Mobs of racist policies silently roaming structures stopping Black people from rising and stopping the rise of their resistance. 1/4
Mobs of racist policies silently roaming structures stopping Black people from rising and stopping the rise of their resistance. 1/4
When racist policies failed to stop the rise, racist mobs violently knocked Black people down. When Black people were downed, racist ideas chalked up the plight of Black people to their inferior behaviors, and denied racist mobs ever knocked them down. 2/4
I canāt stop picturing this enduring historyāand the antiracist resistance that battled at every rotation. I canāt stop thinking about what this all means from us today. 3/4
3/ I met @riccowrites through @kurtisalee who spent quite a bit of time chronicling #Tulsa race massacre. Like āWatchmen?ā Read on: latimes.com/world-nation/sā¦
As folks learn about #BlackWallStreet, they should also learn that the final nail in the coffin was a far more banal form of racism and white supremacy... The highway.
After rebounding from such a racist massacre, the district would be cut in half by a noisy, polluting highway. Thousands of white commuters have benefitted from the pain this neighborhood suffered. In addition to reparations paid to descendants, OK should remove or deck the road.
As others, pointed out, it wasn't just the highway, "Urban Renewal" is to blame too. @cityoftulsagov leveled buildings for a new school. You can see just how densely settled the area was. @osutulsa sits where Booker T Washington was. #BlackWallStreet
Hey y'all, I'm back for my final session of this #CiteBlackWomen Twitter takeover. Let's start with more resources.
The Okla. Historical Society @okhistory has put together a fantastic collection of resources about African American history in the state. As they state plainly...
The Okla. Historical Society @okhistory has put together a fantastic collection of resources about African American history in the state. As they state plainly...
"Black History is Oklahoma History." Iām (@melissanstuckey) looking forward to working with them even more in the future. okhistory.org/blackhistory #Juneteenth #CiteBlackWomen
More for your summer reading list can be found at the end of my blog citeblackwomencollective.org/our-blog/junetā¦
Get yourself all the way together with scholarship by Brittney C. Cooper @professorcrunk, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Kellie Carter Jackson, Sarah Haley @sahaley, and Arica L. Coleman @ALCPHD.
Get yourself all the way together with scholarship by Brittney C. Cooper @professorcrunk, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Kellie Carter Jackson, Sarah Haley @sahaley, and Arica L. Coleman @ALCPHD.
Hey y'all, @melissanstuckey is back for another session!
#Juneteenth originated in Texas! But Emancipation meant Black people had the freedom to move and they did. In the 1890s and 1900s Black Texans moved to Oklahoma and brought Juneteenth with them.
#Juneteenth originated in Texas! But Emancipation meant Black people had the freedom to move and they did. In the 1890s and 1900s Black Texans moved to Oklahoma and brought Juneteenth with them.
Take a look at a piece near and dear to my heart. It's called "The Boley Rodeo: A Juneteenth Like No Other" I wrote it for @newterritorymag. Find it here: newterritorymag.com/in-this-place/
Read it and let's talk about it! T/Y @DrMChatelain for connecting me to @Gasconader! #CiteBlackWomen
Read it and let's talk about it! T/Y @DrMChatelain for connecting me to @Gasconader! #CiteBlackWomen
@DrMChatelain is a brilliant black historian and author of two books!
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
and
South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration.
Add these to your summer reading list. marciachatelain.com
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
and
South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration.
Add these to your summer reading list. marciachatelain.com
When @RealDonaldTrump announced he would be holding a campaign rally on June 19 in #Tulsa, #Oklahoma, there was immediate backlash. #Juneteenth nbcnews.com/politics/congrā¦
Not only had the president chosen #Juneteenth - a day celebrating freedom and recognizing the resilience of enslaved people - but he also chose the city where a mob of white supremacists terrorized and killed Black people, destroying #BlackWallStreet in the 1921 #TulsaMassacre.
As our nation grapples with recent police killings of Black people and calls to address systemic racism and white supremacy culture in our society, @RealDonaldTrump was criticized for co-opting historically significant spaces for Black people for himself.
Today's news: President Trump is threatening to veto the annual defense authorization bill if it includes a provision to rename bases that are currently named after Confederate generals.
#TulsaMassacre
#BlackWallStreet
#JUNETEENTH2020
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#TulsaMassacre
#BlackWallStreet
#JUNETEENTH2020
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Can you imagine being that dedicated to preserving the legacy of slavery, racism, and white supremacy that you'd risk throwing our armed forces into chaos in order to do it?
And this man has the audacity to hold a rally in Tulsa, the site of one of the most infamous race-based massacres in America, on the day black people commemorate emancipation.
If he were intentionally trying to fan the flames of racial animus, he couldn't be doing a better job.
If he were intentionally trying to fan the flames of racial animus, he couldn't be doing a better job.
It is vital to teach about history of #BlackWallStreet in Tulsa, Oklahoma and legacy of Black dispossesion. Below find an article and free lesson for grades 7+. #Terrorism #Reparations zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-ourā¦
One of the most violent episodes of dispossession in U.S. history, the Tulsa Massacre (May 31 - June 1, 1921), came just two years after Red Summer of 1919. zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-ourā¦
Tulsa Massacre, one of countless in U.S. history, most designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of press, religion, LGBTQ rights, and/or labor rights of people of color, Native Americans, & immigrants. zinnedproject.org/collection/masā¦
1. I see that #BlackWallStreet is trending. There's a reason that the massacre of black independent business people in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma isn't widely known. It's because history matters, and so does covering it up. The late 1910s/1920s were a decade of near-fascism.
2. Just six years earlier, the first movie blockbuster, Birth of a Nation, came out. Birth of a Nation portrayed Lost Cause history, a fake neo-confederate view of history invented by plutocrats to demonize multi-racial Reconstruction era governments.
3. Lost Cause history was invented in the 1870s and 1880s at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University, it was designed to ridicule the idea of black equality, and support the emergence of a "new South" designed around cheap labor organized by Northern monopoly capital.
My #BlacksForYang Series 21-28 October.
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Should @AndrewYang worry about reaching & SECURING the Black Vote? #YangGang
Sign up for Notifications each time I post...It will be like one of those Twitter Op Eds I did, helps put everything in one place.
Should @AndrewYang worry about reaching & SECURING the Black Vote? #YangGang
@AndrewYang Thread 1: Pandering Vs Meaningful Policy
In 2020..Politicians must spend more effort talking to us not at us..".that candidatesā efforts to engage black communities often focus more on symbolic gestures than MEANINGFUL interactions." #BlacksForYang
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In 2020..Politicians must spend more effort talking to us not at us..".that candidatesā efforts to engage black communities often focus more on symbolic gestures than MEANINGFUL interactions." #BlacksForYang
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@AndrewYang What I really want the #YangGangFamily to understand ...ANYONE specifically talking to us about our own issues different to yours is NOT PANDERING...It's pandering when it's all about style (sounding cool, playing hiphop, photo ops etc..) and ZERO SUBSTANCE..no fake interest.
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