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Ida Bae Wells
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You have to say more than that. $3 billion in incentives in a city that can’t fund its MTA and where NYCHA residents were getting water from fire hydrants. These jobs promises almost never materialize & the politicians who make the deals are long gone after the lies revealed.
The historical track record on these deals is pretty clear. So, please elaborate.
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Taking a single,semester-long black studies course in hs changed my life. Learning the history & contributions of black people empowered me in a way that is difficult to put into words. I became obsessed w learning this history bc I realized it had been kept from me for a reason.
I majored in history and African-American studies in college and continue to read this history obsessively today. You cannot convince a person she is inferior if she knows her history. It’s why my daughter has been learning this history since she was in diapers.
This erasure has been part of the subjugation process for black people and other POC. I truly believe if our youth — including white children — learned our history, they would be transformed as I was.
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This is what I keep trying to tell folks. The projects back then were not like the projects now. They were segregated and sometimes middle-class housing.
That reference is technically correct and yet misleading.
This is why studying history and doing research is so critical to good reporting. If you don’t know the history of federal housing policy and housing projects, you don’t ask the right questions.
We’re allowing Schultz to claim projects credo like he grew up in the Marcys with Jay-Z. No.
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1) Only white people have the luxury of “not seeing”, AKA, pretending to ignore, color. 2) The only way you cannot see color is if you’re blind. 3) Racism is not about noticing difference, it’s about the systemic deprivation of equal resources and justice that comes with it.
That people think they have to pretend not to see that we are black means they think it is a flaw that they are kind enough to look over. What is necessary is leadership that sees it, that acknowledges what that color has meant in terms of lost opportunities...
Lost lives, lost wealth, lost freedom, and decide to take that head on. Not someone to conveniently pretend race — the construct that it is — doesn’t exist and that if one simply refuses to “see” it, that all its harms simply go away.
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