Just finished They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.

This book literally deserves to be read in high school, college, & grad school because it lifts the veil off white women as damsel & distress when they were co-conspirators in slavery. 🧵 Dr. Jones-Rogers explains why white women supported slavery:

1. A positive good for the African savages, whom slavery has civilized.

2. Slavery was “God‘s own plan” for helping these inferior people and white women were following his divine instructions and furthering it.

30 Years Ago today, Michael Jackson performed at Super Bowl 27 at the Rose Bowl Stadium on January 31, 1993.

Here’s a Thread on how this halftime show came to be as well as the impact it left for the Super
Bowl.

#SuperBowlLVII From 1967 to 1992 most of the halftime shows were a snooze fest. In 1992 Fox premiered the In Living Color Super Halftime Party as a counter program. The special pulled more than 20 million viewers & they added a timer to when viewers should tune right back to the game:

Black Owned Business:

If you’re still using Aunt Jemima Pancake and Syrup you need to ditch them now.

Please switch to these Black owned Pancake and Waffle Mixes and Syrup Businesses.

I added some history on the racist past on the Aunt Jemima brand in the thread.

Thread: blackexcellence.com/aunt-jemima-ne…