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#AsianAmericans(Honorary White People) say they're American but feel like outsiders especially #Chinese yet still so profoundly ignorant to #UShistory-#Slavery-#JimCrow.#CivilRightsMovement lead to #HartCellerAct of 1965. #AntiBlackRacism,#AAPIHeritageMonth Image
How the civil rights movement opened the door to immigrants of color facingsouth.org/2017/02/how-ci… #AntiADOS,#AntiBlackRacism,#AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #civilrightsmovement
South Asian American activism must go beyond viral stories,advocates say.“We have been walking in the footsteps of the civil rights movement,but many of us don’t seem to recognize what it is that made us prosper in this country."nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame… @NBCNews #AAPIHeritageMonth
History of the Asian American #CivilRightsMovement.
"By watching Black people expose institutional racism and government hypocrisy,Asian Americans began to identify how they,too,had faced discrimination in the United States."
thoughtco.com/asian-american… #AAPIHeritageMonth #Asians
Immigration,the Civil Rights Movement, and my existence | The Art Institute of Chicago artic.edu/articles/853/i… #AntiADOS,#AntiBlackRacism #civilrightsmovement
How Black America has influenced social movements through time nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ho… via @NBCNews #AntiADOS,#AntiBlackRacism,#civilrightsmovement

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May 30
#JimCrow was #SlaveryByAnotherName.Black People were Enslaved Well into the 1960s.#USHistory-#Slavery should be mandatory to stop the spread of #AntiADOS,#AntiBlack ignorant rhetoric.#ADOS(American Descendants Of Slavery) is OWE a Federal Debt-#Reparations. ImageImageImageImage
Jim Crow laws created ‘slavery by another name’
After the Civil War, the U.S. passed laws to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people. Jim Crow was designed to flout them.
nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
amazon.com/Slavery-Anothe…
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Aug 26, 2022
“It is their [government’s] responsibility to make the determination on eligibility to vote and to send you a voter education card,” Meade said. “It is purely natural for a citizen to rely on the government to make those determinations and that they be accurate."#VotingRights
#Democrats-#Biden are at fault. It was setup to fail by design to put more black people back in jail/prison.
"Meade was one of the chief architects of Amendment 4,which voters approved in 2018 and setup a framework for most ex-felons to regain their voting rights."#VotingRights
"Alison Novoay,spokesperson for the Palm Beach County Supervisor of elections,said in an email that the state notifies their office when a prospective or registered voter is convicted of a felony or otherwise ineligible."
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Aug 26, 2022
This is why we push for #Reparations a 400+DEBT OWE exclusively to #ADOS(American Descendants Of Slavery) by GOV at the Federal Level.
#Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Doesn't Do Enough for Black Americans
msn.com/en-us/news/us/… #studentloanforgiveness
"I won’t benefit from Biden’s plan to cancel up to $10,000 of student loan debt (or up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients) for individuals making less than $125,000 a year."
"And though I don’t find the reasoning behind the income cap dispositive,I get the basic idea:those with higher incomes, like myself,can generally handle their loans more easily than those with lower incomes."
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Nov 10, 2021
A.Philip Randolph proved instrumental in urging #FDR to open up the #Marines—and other #military branches—to African American recruits.history.com/news/black-mar… #BlackMarines #ReparationsNow-#ADOS #DefundTheBBC #BidenIsAFailure #Bidenflation #USHistory,#TeachUSHistory,#History
It was just a month since the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. U.S. troops were arriving in Europe to join Allied forces in fighting Adolf Hitler’s invasions.The United States needed its people to help win World War II.
And yet,in January 1942,the highest-ranking officer in the Marines, General Thomas Holcomb, expressed contempt for an effort to recruit more marines—Black marines—to the force.
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Nov 10, 2021
Former sheriff #RobertChody,assistant county attorney face new charge in #JavierAmbler death.He was killed over so call failed to dim headlights.Tasered 4 times although he told them about his heart issues & couldn't breathe.news.yahoo.com/former-sheriff… @YahooNews #EndPoliceBrutality
#Chody and #Nassour face an additional charge of conspiracy to tamper with evidence, according to indictments obtained Tuesday.They already were charged with evidence tampering, which both have denied.#JavierAmbler
The indictment alleges that they entered into an access agreement with the production company for "Live PD" “to destroy raw unaired audio and video footage” and that they “performed an overt act” the night of Ambler’s death.
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Oct 13, 2020
#SlaveryBuiltAmerica yet #ADOS history within #AmericanHistory continue being eased.We current have 59 Holocaust Museums & Memorials in U.S. base off what happen to Jews in Germany.700 Confederate Monuments to traitors,racist,kkk,(#WhiteDomesticTerrorist).
washingtonpost.com/local/americas…
Building the First #Slavery Museum in America nytimes.com/2015/03/01/mag…
Notes: How Many #Museums Are Devoted to American #Slavery?, by @mimbsy theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/…
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