Thread by @chefcarney

Happy birthday to your beloved mother🎊I hope that she will be looking down on your efforts to liberate #ADOS who were economically unable to travel in mass in 1976. #ADOS still remain a #BottomCaste in America.

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1335998959114915841

On January 31, 1966, about 70 African American sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and seasonal workers occupied the empty barracks of the Greenville Air Force Base to protest their desperate economic plight in the MS Delta. They carried blankets, stoves, coal, mops, brooms, and water

“Their demands were simple: land, food, jobs, shelter, and the basic necessities of life. Their wages, averaging $3 for a 12-hour day, made their life unlivable. They lived in shacks, and many were in debt to plantation owners for those shacks.” This was #ADOSLife✊🏾in 1966.

“The winter that year was unusually cold. When a base officer ordered them to leave, they told him, “We are here because we are hungry and cold and we have no jobs or land. We don’t want charity. We are willing to work for ourselves if given a chance.” @GOP @DNC @MississippiAdos

The decision to occupy the abandoned air base emerged from a meeting held by SNCC’s Poor People’s Corporation, which took place two days before the demonstration in the Mount Beulah Center of the Delta Ministry of the National Council of Churches and the Mississippi Freedom @DNC

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@RevDrBarber your journey has to align with @MississippiAdos and the legacy of #FannieLouHamer or else it has no contribution to the lineage of your ancestors! You must divest from your thinking !
#ADOSPolitics✊🏾🙏🏾❤️

I am 43 years old. These atrocities occurred a mere decade before I was born and still persist in the form of housing discrimination today. Homelessness in Biloxi MS is a result of the Gaming Industry that displaced Industrial workers on the GulfCoast.
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