“This is what underpins the far-right's endless whataboutery and tendency to equate slavery in different contexts across different millenia. The goal is to empty the history of the transatlantic slave trade of its unique racial element and thus remove its legacy as a determinant"
Studying the impact of racism; isn't the same as racism.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
"Individuals create systems and systems create context and context create variables that require more than [personal] responsibility." #tcot
"They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."
— Charisse C. Levchak
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"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in #Arkansas and #FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
@CNN Whenever the "lily-white, conservatives are told that they have to share this space that is ours; share it with an individual or with ideas, experiences, that challenges them; they quickly label that idea, individual, community, a threat, a relativist, a cultural Marxist.
If students can discuss The Holocaust, (other things) without much trouble, why can't they engage the (direct and INDIRECT) dissimilar impact of the largest forced oceanic migration in human history --- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Documenting the dissimilar impact (both indirect and direct)of racism, on black life; that's racism?
That's a country on its way towards Nazism.
“The answer to racism is not #colorblindness. The answer to racism is to embrace a worldview that says diversity is beautiful.”
“[Color-blindness] is an attempt to avoid racism by removing its source, color. Sadly, the implications of this attempt actually feed the very thing it is seeking to starve.” — Pastor Kyle J. Howard #tcot#maga#tlot#blackconservatives
"Official histories of #DDay have long excluded the contributions made by African Americans. Literature professor Alice Mills waded into the past to uncover these forgotten World War II heroes.'"
As if Oya and Shango had a black American baby - delivered on a stormy Saturday -- at Harlem hospital.
Imagine being born on the day, the day Hannibal defeats the Roman Empire.
Standing there effortlessly dismantling the claims of The Monster. As if the ancestors were talking to him...
Weaponized by momma Africa 🌍 with the right tools, used at the right time -- delivered with force.
— James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley
-- The Entire Debate --
"What we are not facing is the result of what we've done. What one begs the American people to do, for all our fates, is simply to accept our history."
— James Baldwin, in debate with William F. Buckley" @Cambridge_Uni, 1965