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Hello and welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! It has been a HECTIC week with the shooting of #LatrellAllen, so we're going to be taking a step back and do some history on #BlackAugust and the Black radical tradition. Follow along!
#BlackAugust is now a 41-year-old tradition, started in 1979 by Black people incarcerated in California. These folks wanted to begin a movement that honored the radical history of prison protest #Fuck12Friday
Why August? George Jackson, Black Panther and co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family. Jackson was incarcerated at age 18 and radicalized in prison. On August 21, 1971, Guards murdered Jackson at age 29 in a prison escape #BlackAugust #Fuck12Friday
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Stop.
Make your point clear.
Help me hear you.
Don’t be mean.
and
Use.
Your.
Words.
That’s what I used to say to my sons when they were still early in their language development. I still recall the frustration that would wash over their young faces mid-tantrum.
Stop.
Make your point clear.
Help me hear you.
Don’t be mean.
and
Use.
Your.
Words.
That’s what I used to say to my sons when they were still early in their language development. I still recall the frustration that would wash over their young faces mid-tantrum.
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Now they’re older & frustration looks different. But those same words still hold true. And here lately? I’m also saying them to myself.
Yup.
Today, I’m reflecting on what it means to use our words.
Especially as it relates to how we #dothework of antiracism.
Now they’re older & frustration looks different. But those same words still hold true. And here lately? I’m also saying them to myself.
Yup.
Today, I’m reflecting on what it means to use our words.
Especially as it relates to how we #dothework of antiracism.
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Like many trying to #dothework, I read this book. I’ve found a lot of @DrIbram's ideas thought provoking. Like this:
“What if we measured the radicalism of speech by how radically it transforms open-minded people? By how the speech liberates the anti-racist power within?”
Like many trying to #dothework, I read this book. I’ve found a lot of @DrIbram's ideas thought provoking. Like this:
“What if we measured the radicalism of speech by how radically it transforms open-minded people? By how the speech liberates the anti-racist power within?”
