Thread by @misskstrong

MOVE is family to me. I haven’t been able to sleep since finding out over the wknd that Penn museum has allowed faculty/students FOR DECADES to manhandle the remains of Delisha and Tree Africa, two MOVE children killed in the 1985 bombing, in the name of research and teaching

If, somehow you missed this on your timeline yesterday, start with the @MxAbdulAliy article, calling for reparations inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Let’s be clear here: The MOVE Family believed their babies, killed so viciously by the city of Philadelphia for the world to see, were buried.

So, after decades of police terrorism, state murder, and 40+ years political imprisonment, surviving MOVE members (who were freed as recently as last year!) are now being made to endure continued re-traumatization and the abuse of their loved ones even IN DEATH.

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS is deplorable AND unethical from the way the remains were acquired, to how they sat negligently in a box on a shelf, to the callous indifference in their use for teaching, to the way they were shuttled to Princeton in haste to get ahead of this story.

And to make matters worse NO ONE seems to know where the remains of Delicia and Tree Africa are now.

NO ONE from these institutions has made any effort to contact the LIVING family members or return the remains of their loved ones.

We are being told to sympathize with the perpetrators rather than MOVE. This is Princeton's head of Anthro suggesting we consider the trauma of Alan Mann and Janet Monge, the anthros who've held these remains hostage. That we un-see this as the anti-Black violence it is.

Does this look like one who is traumatized? Does the description of her exploits as *Adventures* in Forensic Anthropology in an online course sound like the tone of one who regards the sacred remains of Black children as more than scientific matter at best, and trophies at worst?

JUST last week, Penn Museum promised to repatriate the remains of enslaved people and Black Philadelphians whose graves were robbed to build the Morton Collection. And THIS week it is passing the buck on returning the remains of Black children to their living family members.

MOVE demands to Penn and Princeton via @MikeAfricaJr1 are clear: (1) return the remains of Delisha and Tree Africa, (2) formally apologize, (3) commit to a full investigation, (4) fire Janet Monge, (5) commit to reparations for these unconscionable acts.

My heart, love, and rage are ever with The MOVE Family. #Onamove

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