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May 13

This paper covers online discourse around epigenetics and reparations for slavery and basically argues "individuals who are in favor of slavery reparations use science in
a narrow way" 🙄 🤔

A thread 🧵 breaking down and countering some of their arguments

One of her key arguments is very familiar or 'but slavery was so long ago'

She lowkey praises Kuzawa and Sweet (2009) for not using "a long term historical reaching back to the slavery era" and tries to focus their study on short term transmissions "such as during pregnancy"

Although Kuzawa and Sweet do not "reach back" to slavery they do reference how PTSD from the Holocaust affected women later in life during pregnancy

For some reason referencing the Holocaust isn't considered "reaching back" 🤔

Paper/thread below

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1488293817186988042?t=mCLTVAsTZjcjEO1MhiETkA&s=19

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May 13

🏥 Healthcare thread on epigenetics and accelerated aging

Ronald Simons discusses how economic hardships, neighborhood conditions and childhood adversity effects accelerated aging
"We're controlling for things like diet and exercise"

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1524526465387220996?t=y3Tun9g-oLmjCuoYgMsnAw&s=19

Ronald Simons discusses how incarceration effects accelerated aging

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1491929018089848852?t=ot_erC81iVhMT19c3-aQ1g&s=19

Generally speaking black immigrants are less likely to suffer as much economic hardships as Black Americans, have much lower incarceration rates, and are more likely to live in "higher quality" neighborhoods and be married

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May 9

In 1942, President Roosevelt sent the Army Corps of Engineers to build 1600 miles of highway through the most difficult terrain in North America; much of that work was done by Black Americans 🧵

Members of the 95th Engineer Regiment building Sikanni River Bridge in Alaska, 1942

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, securing Alaska became a major priority

The Alaska Highway was built in only eight months and half of its eight regiments were all Black; the 93rd, the 95th, the 97th, and the 388th

The completion of the Alaska Highway was an American military and engineering achievement

However, the contributions by thousands of Black American soldiers have deliberately been ignored and erased by mainstream media

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May 2

Pearl Fryar was born in 1939 to a sharecropper family. When he tried to purchase a home he was denied because white residents thought he would not maintain his property

He is now internationally recognized and celebrated for his topiary artistry and sculptures
#BlackArt 🧵

Pearl Fryer is a self taught artist

After working 12 hour days as an engineer at a Coca-Cola factory in Bishopville, South Carolina, Pearl would sometimes work through the night using salvaged "throwaway" plants from friends and local nurseries
#BlackArt

Pearl Fryar compliments his intricate plant designs with what he calls "junk art"

He uses recycled and scrapped materials to create striking sculptures and art pieces
#BlackArt

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Apr 26

From 1912 to 1951 Charlotta Bass was the editor and publisher for the California Eagle, the largest Black newspaper on the West Coast

She used her paper to fight against the KKK, restrictive housing covenants, racism in the motion picture industry and other areas of Black life

In 1914 she began a campaign against D.W. Griffith and tried to stop the production of his racist film The Birth of a Nation

Although she failed to stop him from making the movie, her protests did cause him to cut some offensive scenes

In 1925 Bass exposed the KKK by publishing a letter revealing their plan to involve Black leaders in a traffic accident and then plant alcohol on them

The KKK sued Bass for libel but offered to drop the case if she admitted the letter was a fraud

She refused and won the case

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Apr 16

Phyllis Stephens is a fifth generation Black American quilt maker and has been quilting professionally for over 30 years. She is considered a master of the Black American story quilt

A #BlackQuilt appreciation thread 🪡 🧵
Redeemed, 2021 #BlackArt

Phyllis Stephens
Lover’s Lane, 2016
#BlackArt

Phyllis Stephens
Double Dutch
#BlackArt

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