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It can't happen with the Pan-Africanists' sclerotic inflexibility. LONG THREAD FORTHCOMING.
A number from among us have demanded it for generations. Dr. Claud Anderson (& others) argued for it 25 years ago. Norris Shelton formed a lineage-based org over 40 yrs ago. (1/x)
A number from among us have demanded it for generations. Dr. Claud Anderson (& others) argued for it 25 years ago. Norris Shelton formed a lineage-based org over 40 yrs ago. (1/x)
The aftermath of the disappointment & material loss of wealth of the masses of Black Americans combined w/the election of Donald Trump primed a new political environment that allowed Black Americans to more willingly hear the voices of new media creators... (cont'd 2/x)
...particularly the emerging YouTube platforms with Yvette Carnell & Irami Osei-Frimpong, & later the concentration & collaboration with Antonio Moore, arguing for a re-invention of Black American political thinking & action that had not been seen for at least 50 years. (3/x)
Since we are celebrating a new sculpture in Boston which some suggest means the city left its racist past behind in the '70s, let me tell you about when the whites of Boston came together to thwart the will of Roxbury in the '80s. #thread
As a young undergraduate going to my Nonno's alma mater, Suffolk University, I quickly identified the most deeply and broadly knowledgeable professor in the political science department: Mudavanha Patterson. We hit it off, and he let me hang out after classes, and we talked about
politics from the local to the global. He was a former Black Panther and a Pan-Africanist (and, I would argue, an Afro-pessimist). He got me involved in what would become known as the Mandela project. Put simply, Roxbury wanted out of Boston, and in Massachusetts, there was a way
For past 4 yrs volunteer community organizers of @cjecofficial @NAASDLA put in thousands of hours of work to produce what you now know as #AB3121 & #SB189. We consulted legal, legislative and policy experts. We gathered input from dozens of listening sessions throughout CA.✊🏾💪🏾
We worked closely w/ Dr. Weber, Dr. Darity and a multitude of state and local elected officials. We even brought @icecube into the process.
We amended #AB3121, got it passed into law and, defeated an attempt to change the eligibility intent of the statute. #LineageVote ✊🏾💪🏾
We amended #AB3121, got it passed into law and, defeated an attempt to change the eligibility intent of the statute. #LineageVote ✊🏾💪🏾
We conducted surveys and produced countless pieces of marketing content directed at raising awareness in the CA #Freedmen community about #Reparations efforts in the state.
Everything we have done was to inform our people and bring them/ their input into the process. ✊🏾💪🏾
Everything we have done was to inform our people and bring them/ their input into the process. ✊🏾💪🏾
🚨THREAD🚨 1) The term "tether" has been tossed around a lot in recent years. It refers to a Black person in the country that does not descend from persons enslaved in the US AND is actively against lineage-based #Reparations for American Freedmen. Let's go deeper.
2) Being Black in America is no cakewalk. However, some ppl came to the US, a historically racist nation, voluntarily after the changes around race & nationality were forced into immigration policy by the Civil Rights Movement in 1965. asianamericanedu.org/immigration-an…. 
3) Even with these changes, 99.2% of the Black people in the United States descended from persons enslaved in the US & the Survivors of Jim Crow- US #Freedmen. That did not change significantly until the 1980s, two decades after the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Black America is the target of a psychological operation ("psyOp") designed to divide it for the political purposes of voter surpression. It is evident and identifiable to those who understand the use of narrative to persuade and influence human behavior.
A 🧵 (with citations)
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What is a psyOp?
Psychological operations...are intended to “convey selected information and indicators to ... audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of...organizations, groups, and individuals. ...
Psychological operations...are intended to “convey selected information and indicators to ... audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of...organizations, groups, and individuals. ...
The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator’s objectives.”
fas.org/blogs/secrecy/…
fas.org/blogs/secrecy/…
🧵#FBA tweets are purposely written in terms of conflict & competition. The white replacement framing isn't accidental. Theyre fixated on points of Black 🇺🇲/ Black 🇺🇲immigrant tension? Each tweet searchs for a conflict storyline with the diaspora.
Never with white immigrants..
Never with white immigrants..
White conservative anti-immigrant groups intent on driving a wedge between the "diaspora.” are paying #FBA #FREEDMEN #ADOS influencers to manipulate the Black American social media users. Steve Bannon admits the goal has always been to split the vote & drive up Dem unfavorables.
Racists have always used Blacks when influencing African American public opinion. Twitter is the perfect aggregator and carnival mirror. Let's look at the dual purpose of Marcel Dixon for Congress served as a tether for White Supremacy, but also a litmus test to see if
In a district that has more black people than Latinos (WA-9,) Suspected #AntiBlackRacism candidate @ElectGallardo is running for Congress so that she can help immigrants. Not Americans. She doesn’t mention black people at all. #dragGallardo Get to work family!! #FBA #Freedmen
@R3dJ0k3r @Marcel4Congress @KWashingtonBX @nasescobar316 @tariqnasheed @AfrDiasporaNews @DillardVicki @TorraineWalker @PACCD_UP
You can also add Suspected #AntiBlackRacism candidate for CA-52 @Vazquez4CA52 to the list. He’s using that black and brown, underrepresented community word salad language.
#Reparations are owed & have been withheld. Generally, repair is a multigenerational plan that includes relaunch of national Freedmen’s Bureau AND state level Office of Freedmen Affairs for the purpose of … 1/23
•Directing Implementation
•Monitoring Impacts
•Process & Quality Improvements across levels of gov’t
•Coordinate SMEs
Concerning the exclusive economic set asides for Freedmen (descendants of slaves’) businesses, community investm’t & develop’t funds, reduction of…
2/23
•Monitoring Impacts
•Process & Quality Improvements across levels of gov’t
•Coordinate SMEs
Concerning the exclusive economic set asides for Freedmen (descendants of slaves’) businesses, community investm’t & develop’t funds, reduction of…
2/23
disparities in school impacts, Freedmen experience in health & human services, broad health disparities, reducing Freedmen fetal & maternal deaths, return of stolen lands/property, shrinking carceral devastation, closing the wealth gap, consulting about …
3/23
3/23
Okay, here we go. Thread!
I'm observing an emerging narrative. There's truth in it,
but not the whole story.
A narrative, that states, the movement and progress
that reparations have made come from the political
education of the founders, Yvette Carnell & Antonio
Moore. (1/x)
I'm observing an emerging narrative. There's truth in it,
but not the whole story.
A narrative, that states, the movement and progress
that reparations have made come from the political
education of the founders, Yvette Carnell & Antonio
Moore. (1/x)
This is a fact. Ms. Carnell & Mr. Moore have provided
invaluable political education that galvanized many
thousands of us into political action. (2/x)
invaluable political education that galvanized many
thousands of us into political action. (2/x)
The number of groups that represent the contemporary
reparations movement can look to the brilliant education
from the founders of ADOS as their starting point. (3/x)
reparations movement can look to the brilliant education
from the founders of ADOS as their starting point. (3/x)
#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah Rector
Did you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5 million dollars in today’s dollars.
Did you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5 million dollars in today’s dollars.
She made an income twice as high as President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. Her income and wealth got to be so high that the state of Oklahoma’s white-dominated legislature attempted to pass a law reclassifying Sarah Rector as white.
Further, following her acquisition of wealth, she received marriage proposals from white men in the United States and around the world, at a time when interracial marriage was illegal, and at a pre-pubescent age.
Where did her wealth come from?
Where did her wealth come from?
