Thread by @KosherSoul

We are about to start #UnitedShades #watchwithTwitty! New thread here.

https://twitter.com/KosherSoul/status/1295173809574682624

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades New Orleans was the largest market for enslaved Africans and African Americans from 1830-1865. Every few minutes for 30 years multiple Black people on average were sold.

#watchwithTwitty New Orleans was the tail end of the Domestic slave trade...the largest forced movement of humans in American history. #UnitedShades

#watchwithTwitty The most valuable "commodity" in Antebellum America wasn't cotton, it was the womb of the Black woman. #UnitedShades

Hey everybody....as a historic interpreter we too dress up not "as slaves" we dress in civilian clothes as educators. #UnitedShades #watchwithTwitty

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades remember 1619 was the arrival of enslaved Africans in BRITISH North America. SPANISH America =1513, 1526, etc.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades for the first 40 years of the Black presence the rules were not set. In other words we didn't have to be in this isht.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades the conversation with @nhannahjones and @wkamaubell is critical: "if you can inherit wealth, you can also inherit debt."

While we're on break....17th century Africans in America were not in the same boat as their descendants. They had freedoms in some cases that Black people would not enjoy until the late 20th century. #watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades Black New Orleans was gutted after Katrina for gentrification

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades "in New Orleans, Katrina was a man made disaster." Shifty Ray Nagin sold us out.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades funny how to build New Orleans they brought in floods of Black people to build it, but then the flood came and got rid if us.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades the character of #NewOrleans has changed. Can you imagine any other city with an intangible heritage being gutted? Jazz, Afri-Creole cuisine, dance, literature, drumming, Vodun in America, the Spiritualist Church, healing traditions--liquidated.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades if you are near #NewOrleans please visit @WhitPlantation for a majority Black led interpretation of an Antebellum plantation from the perspective of the enslaved and free people of color.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades #blackbooksmatter

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades taxes are used to shift Black people along forcing long time residents to move and give up a major piece of generational wealth. Constant uprooting is a legacy of enslavement.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades reparations isn't just about chains its about highways planned through neighborhoods, redlining etc.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades August Wilson said we have to value the community spaces we created because that's where our culture and community and economy were based. Irreplaceable wisdom and wealth.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades #VoterSuppression is a legacy of Reconstruction and Enslavement

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades the conversation on reparations is essential for remedying the consequences of enslavement especially because precedent has been established elsewhere.

Part of the reason I went hard on documenting my family history in #TheCookinggene was to clearly demonstrate my link to enslavement
Going back to the 17th century. #watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades I also wanted to show our foodways as an unpaid for contribution.

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades reparations has been paid to many groups to the tune of billions. Did not Germany pay reparations too? As a Jew I think that's necessary. How do I feel as an African American?

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades the number---
19 trillion....a very very very conservative number

Britain paid reparations to Caribbean slave holders #watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades yep the Jesuits had plantations too..in Maryland.....people from the Upper South were sold to make Deep South plantations wealthy. #geneticgenealogy is so important!!!

@wkamaubell traced back to West Africa #watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades "we will never be a completely successful until all of us are successful."

#watchwithTwitty #UnitedShades
We need to work on
Mass incarceration
Over policing and police overreach
Diverse representation
Reclining and other real estate based discrimination
Discrimination in farming
Better education
Intersectional issues of oppression

Beauty Standards
Making people culturally literate about enslavement and the journey of Civil Rights
We need to trace family lineages
We need to make sure people understand the face of slavery
We need to affirm the ways in which that 100 trillion? Cones from facts not fantasy