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George M Johnson @IamGMJohnson
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Today’s Black History thread is dedicated to racism in swimming. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

It’s was reported that an entire swimming pool was drained because Dorothy Dandridge took a swim in it.
The New Frontier hotel in Vegas also drained an entire swimming pool because Sammy Davis Jr took a swim.
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
When pools were integrated, an incident occurred where a manager poured acid in the water while black kids were still swimming in it
After integration of swimming pools, white folks did two things. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

1. They cemented over 2000 city pools across the country, preventing black kids from learning how to swim.

2. They built country clubs so their children could swim without blacks.
Black folks not knowing how to swim is by design. The amount of places we could learn to swim were taken away from us.

Black children continue to drown at almost 14 times the rate of white children.

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Recently black folk medaled in the Olympics in swimming. Simone Manuel and Cullen Jones carry that torch in ensuring our community learns how to swim. They serve as visibility and representation needed to fight the history of racism in swimming
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
I wrote Ebony magazines biggest story of 2016 (no They haven’t #ebonyowes) discussing the full history of it. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Tariq Nasheed doesn’t want liberation, he wants the power to oppress like a white man

You can’t be pro-Black and attack Black women regularly

You can’t be pro-Black and patriarchal

You can’t be pro-Black & anti-queer

His hatred of some Black folks is a tool of white supremacy
Black women and Black queer people square up daily against anti-Blackness.

He feels that any checking of cishet Black men is anti-Black which is dangerous and part of that “protect the image” at all cost logic.

Naw. Especially when our lives are on the line.
We can fight white supremacy AND make it known that Black women are dying at the hands of Black men

That Black queer people aren’t being supported, acknowledged and affirmed enough by Black cishets

That’s how this works. If you ain’t worried about trans deaths, you ain’t for us
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Malachi Jones. A 17-year-old wunderkind who is heading to Columbia University this fall, has been awarded a Gold Medal Portfolio, the highest honor of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

For those who won’t read past the headline, at least you’ll know his name
So Malachi Jones has reached out to me and is very grateful that WE amplified his story. This is why I love some us!

We are very proud of you Malachi!
Malachi Jones twitter is @immalachijones if you wish to say something to him directly! Congrats!
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Today’s #BlackHistoryMonth thread is dedicated to scientific racism.

Drapetomania: “Runaway Slave Syndrome”
American physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright observed black slaves who fled from captivity and saw an illness. He named the illness, “Drapetomania or the disease causing Negroes to flee” #BlackHistoryMonth
To cure Drapetomania, recommended “whipping the devil out of them” until slaves became submissive again. “Submissive” was the primary state to which he felt they belonged. Another remedy suggested by Cartwright was having the big toe from both feet severed. #BlackHistoryMonth
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As a Black female educator, I feel that we do not learn enough about the contributions that Black people have made to Education. Everyday during Black history month I will be highlighting the story of a Black Education #blackhistorymonth
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As a Black female educator, I feel that we do not learn enough about the contributions that Black people have made to Education. Everyday during Black history month I will be highlighting the story of a Black person in history. #blackhistorymonth
[4] Hypatia

Born c. 350–370; died 415 AD was a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy....
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1) 2016 #HISTORY from /pol PRE #Qanon

FBI ANON (ID: gj9PDD8W) 11/04/16(Fri)22:18:55 No.96157541
Emails are being Dumped in the morning by WikiLeaks be prepared for Chaos at all fronts.
2a) 2016 #HISTORY from /pol PRE #Qanon
FBI ANON (ID: gj9PDD8W) 11/04/16(Fri)22:59:03
We are doing our best, but you have to understand they have influenced all of the people who are above us (Except a select few)...
2b) 2016 #HISTORY from /pol PRE #Qanon
... the few we are depending on to do the right thing are weighing how this will effect their career moving forward.
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Let's have a chat brother Jamal.
Black historical interpreters are not slaves. They interpret the lives of our Ancestors. Without them our past lacks a critical voice bolstered by our contemporary experience.
When you say "play" it assumes that I'm cosplaying. NOPE. Dressing in period clothing is not easy or fun. I'm also not an actor or reenactor.
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What day of #BlackHistoryMonth is #ObamaDay? Can we agree on the 15th? Then we can coast into #BlackPanther on a Love high.
I mean we *could* do the 19th since it's already Presidents Day? But he needs his own day.

A whole day where we can just be happy and proud of him.
Plus. The trolls will go insane. It's already Black history month and then they have to go through two back-to-back days of black Excellency just excellently Blacking?
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Today's Black History Month fact: The @FBI appointed James Wormley Jones to be a special agent in 1919 --- almost three decades before President Truman integrated the Armed Forces & 45 years before Civil Rights Act ended segregation.

Let that sink in ... fbi.gov/news/stories/e…
I wrote about this unknown fact back last August in a Leadership piece for @TLDG_WestPoint, defining the FBI's "organizational values" and defending it against those that attacked it's "racism" and "resistance to diversity." thayerleaderdevelopment.com/blog/2017/alig…
*its*
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth. /1
There are Black Americans alive today whose grandparents were enslaved.

That's how real this horror is to 2018.
#BlackHistoryMonth /2
Today, teach your children about Ruby Bridges. She was the first black child to attend at all-white public elementary school in the South.

She's only 63. Only, 63.
#BlackHistoryMonth /3
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