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Eddie Smith Profile picture
@eddsmitty
May 2 • 3 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵The Tuskeegee Airmen, contrary to popular belief, were not the first Black American fighter pilots.

That honor belongs to one man. Meet Eugene Bullard, America's first Black fighter pilot. He fought for France in WW1. (cont)

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Eugene Bullard was such a skilled pilot during World War I that the French called him "Black Swallow," but the U.S. Air Service denied him entry.

Even though Bullard was seen as a hero in France, he spent his final years in the U.S. working as (cont)

historynet.com/eugene-bullard…
an elevator operator.

Eugene Bullard passed away at the age of 66 on October 12, 1961. ⚘️🕊

I knew nothing about this man until a few days ago.

You can read more on the life of this unsung hero here.

#ResistanceRoots
#KeepItWoke

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Eddie Smith Profile picture
May 3
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵One of the things that has been ignored in history books is the role Jewish people played in the civil rights movement. There was always an alliance between Jews & Blacks going back to the early days of the NAACP. (cont)

forward.com/community/3475…
I believe it's past time to acknowledge the alliance between Jews & Blacks over the past 100 years as both groups were and still are targets of anti semitism & racism. Jews were active in the south; working with Dr. Martin Luther King and other (cont)

forward.com/culture/462250…
civil rights activists and leaders. Sadly, some have made the ultimate sacrifice.

In the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders of 1964, activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were both Jewish; along with James Chaney. They knew (con't)

history.com/this-day-in-hi…
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Apr 17
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 August 7, 1930- A White mob of thousands broke into a Marion, Indiana jail where three Black teenagers were being held.
Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith, & James Cameron were badly beaten. Shipp & Smith were hung from a tree. Smith's arms were broken when (con't) Image
he attempted to free himself. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching. James Cameron, the youngest of the three at 16 years old, managed to survive his attempted lynching. No one in the mob was held accountable.

#ResistanceRoots

blackpast.org/african-americ…
More on the Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_…
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Feb 5, 2022
The midterm election is forthcoming and will be here sooner than we think. As you know, the GOP has engaged in a voter suppression campaign across many states. This is why now is the time to recognize the tactics they employ so you can take action to make sure you are (con't)⬇️
The article above was just an overview of how things once were during the Jim Crow era.

Fast forward to today. Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0. Voter suppression tactics have never went away. They evolved. Please refer to the following article: reclaimdemocracy.org/voter-suppress…

Continued⬇️
Please read and share the above information with all of your friends and family. The voter suppression tactics may affect you & and many people you know. I was motivated to write this thread because I learned something disturbing from @GangstaMimi the other day. (con't)⬇️
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Jun 29, 2021
I want to say before we begin this discussion thread, anyone targeting ppl because of their ethnic background is unacceptable...first and foremost, ok? I acknoledge that we live in a society that hate for fellow human beings is something (next)

yahoo.com/news/massachus…
that we should have got over years ago. Apparently, we haven't, fam. What I want to say here is that we should be cognizant of these crimes where the victims were assaulted or murdered because of their ethnic background. What I'm also saying is that these hate crimes (next)
should not be weaponized to put the human race against on another; be it personally, politacally, or whatever. This has got to stop. While I have posted tweets as to misconduct of police officers, I do that for enlightenment; not to put people against one another (next)
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