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How did the first burial ground for African Americans in Tampa become “lost”?: “It disappeared nearly a century ago when the land was parceled off for white developments.” tampabay.com/news/tampa/201…
I have maintained that America’s deeply entrenched & structural racism is all around us in the physical space. If you probe housing policies, deeds, funding, siting - you will find it. And this - this 20th & 21st century racism - must be part of the reparations discussion.
It is ripe for the kind of truth-telling, apology, and massive reparative investment that is calculable & necessary to address the contemporary manifestation of historic white supremacist practices & the ongoing racial wealth gap.
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So this is precisely the issue we raised in our SCOTUS amicus brief in #MasterpieceCakeshop & that we litigated & won in 1968 in Newman v Piggie Park. The owner of Piggie Park didn’t want to serve Black ppl he said, b/c he believed that “race mixing is against the will of God.”
You can read our brief here. naacpldf.org/files/about-us… Many ppl seemed to have forgotten that religious belief was the leading rationale offered by segregationists.
Here, for example, is the trial judge in Loving v Virginia, before the SCOTUS struck down Va’s anti-miscegenation law.
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As my annual summer reading intensive comes to an end, this brilliant book by ⁦@JeanneTheoharis⁩ is the one has most helped me make sense of the current moment, fully understand the forces arrayed against our work, & deepen my determination to persist no matter what.
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