Black America isn’t behind because we failed—it’s because we were targeted.
Remove COINTELPRO, redlining, mass incarceration, crack, assassinations, destruction of 60+ towns … and we’d be running our own trillion-dollar nation by now.
#saveyourself
No other group in America had to survive:
– Black Codes
– Convict leasing
– Jim Crow
– Redlining
– Sundown towns
– COINTELPRO
– Assassinations of leaders
– Crack epidemic (CIA linked)
– Mass incarceration
– School segregation
– Destruction of 60+ Black towns
– GI Bill exclusion
– FHA loan denial
– Police lynchings
– Media demonization
– Land theft from Black farmers
And you still ask why we’re not “equal”?
It is with a heavy heart that we are sharing that former Blake Soccer Coach, PE Teacher and Assistant Principal Rudy Tyrell has passed away after battling leukemia. Please keep his family and all those who were positively impacted by Mr. Tyrell in your thoughts.
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Happy birthday to activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton.
He was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.
William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.
A THREAD
Africans being refused entry into a train taking people from Ukraine to Poland.
Africans were forced to wait for Ukrainians to go first in several trains, and had to wait until all Ukrainians had boarded trains before they would be allowed to get into one