Thread by @michaelharriot

We must also realize that privileged groups never give up their privileges voluntarily. If we are victimized with the feeling that we can ...wait for the white man to voluntarily give us our justly deserved freedom, we will be the victims of a dangerous illusion"

MLK -1959

https://twitter.com/Mickeegee2020/status/1478546625689706498

"The thought of the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters & almost every book he studies... It is strange then, that the friends of truth have not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools & crushed it."

Carter G Woodson, 1933

Sometimes I sit back
with a buddha sack
Mind in another world thinkin':
'How can we exist, due to facts
written in school textbooks,
Bibles, etcetera
Fuck a school lecture,
the lies get me vexed.

Nasir Jones - 1994

"In their relations with Negroes, white people... observed a caste system and quickly were conditioned to believe that its social results, which THEY had created, actually reflected the Negro’s innate and true nature."

MLK- 1954

"when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out... I had never forgotten how when my class, me and all of those whites, had studied seventh-grade US history back in Mason, the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"

Malcolm X

"White people are so racist, that when you attack racism, they think you're attacking white people."

Somebody, probably.

"But if we keep teaching lies, what will happen when they learn the truth?"

Apparently, no one.