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🧵So you're White and live in the suburbs. The racial make up of your neighborhood reflects your own. Did you grow up there; or, did you move there voluntarily? If the latter, why?(cont)

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untappedcities.com/2020/07/31/the… Before you answer that, let's be clear on one thing: America has a history of racial segregation that existed since it's birth. Post slavery, segregation was a way of life. The Black Codes and Jim Crow made sure of that. We no longer live under those conditions, but let's (cont)

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🧵Black Emancipation! They didn't see it coming! 😱White women who depended on slaves for domestic work had a choice:

Pay your former slaves, or do it yourself. But, there was (cont)
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slate.com/human-interest… always a "workaround". In the 1908 Act to Create of System of Parole codified the gendered logic of slavery into an incarceration framework designed to replace the convict leasing system. The state of Georgia forced paroled Black women to do (cont)

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🧵Puerto Rico has been a US commonwealth since 1898. I would be remiss not to mention that the island had a history of slavery that lasted longer than slavery in America. (cont)

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nypl.org/blog/2023/09/1… In 1493, on his second voyage for the Spanish Empire, Christopher Columbus invaded the Caribbean island. Puerto Rico fell to colonial rule following a war against the Taínos, the island’s indigenous population. Spain also participated in the slave trade, using enslaved (cont)

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🧵You thought you knew all there was to know about slavery, right? Once the layers of lies are peeled away, the truth is revealed.

Enslaved Black people were forced to breed like (cont)

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talkafricana.com/slave-breeding… animals. The practice of forced breeding in the antebellum south began around 1808, which was when the import of slaves from Africa and the West Indies came to an end. Young Black girls as young as 13 were often paired up with young boys or even (cont)

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🧵The name of the game was "Hit The N****r Baby" or the "African Dodger". This was a racist carnival game in which baseballs, eggs, and even rocks were thrown at the heads of Black(cont)

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talkafricana.com/hit-the-nigger… people. Mark my words, friends; there will be ignorant people who will jump on this thread and say: "Well, no one forced them. They volunteered." Those same people will overlook that fact that the Black people who participated in this dehuminizing game were destitute. (cont)

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🧵Yesterday, we discussed "Mandingo Fighting" or "Battle Royal(s)" where Black male slaves were forced to fight one another for their slave owners' entertainment and profit.

This included very young boys.(cont)
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#USDemocracy After slavery ended, "Negro Battle Royals" continued throughout the Jim Crow era.

The exploitation of young Black boys was humiliating & dehumanizing. White men would often target Black children going to carnivals with their friends, who'd be forced to fight against each (cont)

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Did you know that enslaved Black men were forced by their masters to fight each other for profit & entertainment? Yes, "Mandingo Fights" or "Battle Royale(s)" actually happened. (cont)

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face2faceafrica.com/article/how-en… In this cruel practice, slaves would beat one another nearly to death in bare-knuckled brawls. This was a very lucrative endeavor for slave owners; who put their slaves up against those from other plantations. This was depicted in the fictional (cont)

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🧵Nearly 26 years ago in October 1998, Matthew Shepard was abducted from a bar by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. They tied him to a fence, brutally beat him, and left him for dead in the (cont)

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biography.com/crime/matthew-… brutal cold. He was found by a biker 18 hours later, who at first thought he was a scarecrow. He was rushed to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado where he was comatose for four days. Matthew died from his injuries on October 12, 1998.(cont)

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🧵It was the "9/11" of the 19th Century, folks!

What if I told you that on that same date in 1851, Black residents of a small homestead in Pennsylvania led a bloody but successful resistance? (cont)

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Depending on whose side you were on, the incident was recorded as a riot or resistance. If you were pro-slavery, it was a riot. Free Black people and White abolitionists (historians) refer to the incident as the Christiana Resistance of 1851. (cont)

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🧵Sept. 25, 1961- Amite County, MS- Herbert Lee was murdered for his involvement in registering Black people to vote. His killer was his childhood friend, E.H. Hurst, a White member of the (cont)

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snccdigital.org/people/herbert… Mississippi state legislature. Prior to his death, Lee met SNCC field secretary Robert Moses, who he drove around Amite County to encourage Black people to register and vote. At the time, Amite County only had one Black person who was registered to (cont)

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🧵"GET OVER IT!" Three words that are often said by white people when the subject of slavery is brought up. What if I told you that those words are rooted in a fictitious distinction between (cont)

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slate.com/human-interest… white and black emotions that was constructed by White Americans when Black families were seperated? This is because white people compartmentalized slavery. In their view, Black emotions were not as deep as Whites. Think of it as when people adopt a pet from an animal (cont)

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🧵Columbus, GA- February 18, 1956, Dr. Thomas Brewer, a prominent Black-American physician and NAACP chapter founder, was fatally shot by Luico Flowers, a White department store owner. (cont)

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One week earlier, the two men witnessed a beating of a black man by police outside of the building that they shared. Dr. Brewer and Mr. Flowers argued about the incident: Dr. Brewer believed the police officer used excessive force and Mr. Flowers disagreed. It is unclear (cont)

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🧵Dawson, GA was a town known for brutalizing its Black residents. On April 20, 1958, Navy veteran James Brazier was beaten by two police on his front lawn right on front of his wife and children. He was imprisoned, fined, and (cont)

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beaten again by the police while locked up. Brazier's history with the Dawson police goes back to 1957.

The reason: they were jealous of his middle class status and that he always drove nice vehicles. Because of this, he was stopped in 1957 by (cont)

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🧵July 13, 1960- Albert Pitts, David Pitts, Marshall Johns, Ernest McPharland, and Willie Charlie Gibson, were shot by their white employer, Robert Fuller in Monroe, LA. Four of the men died. (cont)

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theadvertiser.com/story/news/inv… Willie Gibson, the only survivor, was jailed. The men showed up at Fuller's home that day at 7am, which was their usual meeting place each workday. Fuller claims he shot the men in self-defense. Of course, he did no jail time. It is unclear what (cont)

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🧵Criminals called her "Fahn Quai" or the "White Devil" of Chinatown. To the thousands of women and girls she saved, she was "Lo Mo", the "Beloved Mother". Meet Donaldina Cameron, a New Zealand (cont)

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smithsonianmag.com/history/women-… born missionary who rescued thousands of Chinese women & girls from slavery and forced prostitution. While slavery was outlawed in the US, the market opened for human trafficking, especially out west. Chinese immigrants were targeted, especially women. Cameron's work began (cont)

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🧵On July 17, 1944, an explosion at Port Chicago, California, wiped out 320 lives, mostly Black enlisted men. It was one of the biggest single losses of life experienced by the Black community (cont)

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military.com/history/port-c… during the entire war. An additional 390 people were injured. Unsafe conditions and lack of experience led to the disaster. Prior to the integration of the U.S. Military, Black servicemen were limited to non-combat roles; yet they were assigned to dangerous jobs such as (cont)

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🧵February 8, 1968- State police opened fire on 200 Black protesters in the Orangeburg Massacre. The incident took place on the campus of South Carolina State University which resulted in 27 (cont)

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thoughtco.com/orangeburg-mas… people wounded; most of them shot in the back while fleeing the scene. Three Black men, Samuel Hammond Jr., Henry Smith, and Delano Middleton, were killed. The precursor to all of this was students were protesting the desegregation of a bowling (cont)

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🧵Bullitt County, KY- Kate Browning was lynched on May 4, 1928. This was a rare event, because Mrs. Browning, a 70yr old widow, was white. She was murdered because she and her sister Lou reported (cont)
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newspapers.com/article/the-tr… a moonshine operation to the Feds. This was during the Prohibition period and it was illegal to produce, transfer and sell alcohol.

The mob set fire to her home and shot members of her family as they escaped. Some family members were wounded, but Mrs. Browning was (cont)

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William Lewis Moore was a white postal worker known for his one man protests against segregation. He was murdered by Floyd Simpson, a Ku Klux Klan member on April 23, 1963 during a lone racial (cont)

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zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/post… justice walk. His goal was to personally deliver a letter to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett to urge him to end segregation in the state.

The letter in part:

"Do not go down in infamy as one who fought the democracy for all which you have not the power to prevent. (cont)

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🧵A white woman's false accusation of rape and and the murder of a white man sparked the Springfield Race Riot of 1908(August 14-16) and led to the start of a civil rights movement. (cont)

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blackpast.org/african-americ… Two black men, George Richardson and Joe James, had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder. Richardson was accused of raping a white woman and James was accused of murdering a white man. A mob of thousands gathered (cont)

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🧵Did you know that Government boarding schools were implemented as a "legal" means to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families? This was genocide on a cultural level. The children(cont)
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history.com/news/governmen… were forced to cut their hair, not speak their native language or observe their cultural practices, and use Anglo-American names.

As a result, the children struggled to reconnect with their families upon returning home. This practice continued (cont)

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