A History of the Lily-White Movement - Richmond, Virginia
"In 1920, state Republican leaders decided that in order to win, they needed to establish a “lily white” image. At their state conventions in 1920 and 1921, ...
@SonnieJohnson@JaVonniBrustow ..., the Lily White Republicans barred black voters from attendance. Black delegates were not seated in 1921.
Racial justice did not make it onto the platform.
"In response, 600 Black delegates met in Richmond on September 5, 1921, and nominated their own Republican candidates for state office—all Black."
The group rejects us,
so we reject the group.
It is a matter of dignity and self-respect.
We will not be silenced.
"What came to be called the Lily Black Republican Ticket included two Richmonders. John Mitchell, Jr. headed the ticket as the candidate for governor. #MaggieWalker—just a year after gaining the right to vote herself—ran for state superintendent of public instruction."
The Two Black Republicans Who Built #BlackWallStreet (No, Not That One)
A History of Black Excellence: The Mad King and Black Queen
But, you know, Black people, we have always been a forward-looking people -- not a complacent people.
OneUnited Bank, Largest Black Owned Bank, Swells To Over 100,000 Customers prn.to/3obt8Um
"In 2016 due to the spate of murders of Black men, rapper and activist Killer Mike urged Black America to move their money to a Black owned bank, spawning the #BankBlack movement."
"This milestone has not been achieved by a Black bank since Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman and first woman bank president in the United States, founded St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Va., in 1903."
The following information is intended for those sloppy and lazy conservatives (largely white) who by their satanic and racist actions have turned Conservatism (an honorable philosophy and disposition) into a weapon of evil.
Shame on you.
The rise and fall of black Wall Street
"Richmond was once the epicenter of black finance. What happened there explains the decline of black-owned banks across the country."
"In 1517, a guerrilla war between colonizers and forces was initiated by the Taino leader #Enriquillo. [He] killed Spaniards, devastated farms and took the Africans back with him."
"... and took the Africans back with him."
The Revolt of #Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America
Heather Andrea Williams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Enslaved people could not legally marry in any American colony or state. Colonial and state laws considered them property and commodities, not legal persons who
... .... could enter into contracts, and marriage was, and is, very much a legal contract."
"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
“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"