Black families were legally banned from the stock market, homeownership & business loans for most of American history.
White families had 80 years of compound growth on those assets.
That's not a wealth gap. That's a 80-year head start with interest.
Own something. Now.
Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor is Elijah McCoy. McCoy was born in Canada to Black American (#Freedmen) parents who moved back to America when he was a child. Elijah McCoy invented an automatic lubricating device for trains. Prior to his invention, trains had to be stopped, and the engines had to be lubricated manually. This was time-consuming and unreliable. His automatic lubrication device made it so trains no longer had to stop for lubrication. This made travel much faster and more efficient.
His invention eventually spread to ships, drilling, and mining as this was the Second Industrial Revolution where mass production was extremely important. It was adopted all around the world. Today, automated lubrication is a feature in all engines from planes to cars, and it all started with Elijah McCoy's invention that did it first. #BlackHistoryMonth
@BlackAndNative1 All those wigs and weaves. Not one strand of natural hair in the whole room. The Korean wig store owner is rubbing his hands like Birdman watching this shit
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.@RepMGS@SenFettermanPA@SenBobCasey, the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is helping millions of Americans connect to the internet. Congress must act quickly to keep this critical program funded so it doesn’t go away.
I’ll say it again. They claim we’re lazy, we want handouts, and we don’t want to work. But the moment they see us thriving and succeeding without them, they do everything they can to destroy it. We have to keep going and move in silence. There’s always a way!
#BlackWomen#WeWin
If a black woman wants to rise to the top of institutional ladders, America makes it extremely difficult for her to do that while being married to a black man.
Loyalty to the black man is seen as a liability, so shout out to the woman who love us no matter what.
In 2005, LaVena Lynn Johnson, an E3 Private First Class in the United States Army, was found dead in a tent.
The autopsy report and photographs revealed Johnson had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals, and a gunshot wound to the mouth that seemed inconsistent with suicide.
Several reporters have suspected that the chemical burns were the result of attempts to destroy DNA evidence of a sexual assault. Additionally, bloody footprints were discovered outside of her living quarters.
Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
I'm giving Johnathan Majors the same benefit of the doubt that celebrity media gave Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Ezra Miller, Josh Brolin and Dana White.
John Stewart set the record straight about American white supremacists, and slavery, red lining, Jim crow, the police state, the US apartheid. We are not making this up when we say the system of white supremacists and brutality exists. Just take a look .