September 15, 1963--38 years before 9/11--the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killed four young Black girls who had just got out of Bible class.
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“I had it in my mind to go out and kill someone,” Nina Simone said about her reaction. “I didn’t yet know who, but someone I could identify as being in the way of my people.”
It took her an hour to write “Mississippi Goddam.” feministgiant.com/p/the-day-afte…
It took her an hour to write “Mississippi Goddam.” feministgiant.com/p/the-day-afte…
September 30, 2012--11 years after 9/11--my four niblings were in their local mosque in the Midwest for Sunday school just hours just hours before a man set the building on fire. They were nine, six and four years old.
From the arson attacks against mosques since 9/11 to the bombings of Black churches; from a database of Muslims and detentions without trial to the internment of Japanese Americans--the through line is white supremacy and bigoty. feministgiant.com/p/the-day-afte…
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