MLK actual “I have a dream” speech
taken today
on limited display
@ National Museum of African American History & Culture
taken today
on limited display
@ National Museum of African American History & Culture
2/ the unintended consequences of technology.
The cotton gin which turned a single worker cleaning seeds and processing 1lb per day to 50x more productive perversely creating demand to feed the machine and fueling demand for slaves…
The cotton gin which turned a single worker cleaning seeds and processing 1lb per day to 50x more productive perversely creating demand to feed the machine and fueling demand for slaves…
3/ this is video footage of KKK and white supremacists 100 years ago—1920 ago freely walking the Capitol and the Washington Monument whose base our family stood at this AM
4/ the Louisiana purchase may have been an economic coup ($15M to France who needed to refocus its forces in Haiti against the most successful slave rebellion) but massively expanded US cotton market domination and demand for slavery
US pop: 4M
Slaves: 700k
US pop: 4M
Slaves: 700k
5/ Shackles of slavery
vs Words toward freedom
(actual Emancipation Proclimation)
vs Words toward freedom
(actual Emancipation Proclimation)
6/ did not know til today that Jewish immigrant Henry Moskowitz was one of the founders of the NAACP
7/
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