A little over a month ago, I went to the ER with severe abdominal pain that I thought was appendicitis. It turned out to be a large tumor that was blocking my colon. While the emergency surgery was successful (and I’m about 90% recovered from that), the tumor was malignant.
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This video is fucking astounding. They're literally teaching white kids revisionist history to protect their feelings from an historical reality their parents still perpetuate.
Slavers used Christianity to try to “tame” the enslaved. To make them believe slavery was God’s will, rape and brutality were what the enslaved deserved.
European settlers called Indians "savage” because they didn't live the way Europeans did.
The indigenous culture was crushed. They were slaughtered and forced to relocate.
The United States committed atrocities against Africans, African Americans, and Native Americans in the name of Christianity.
There were lynching picnics. Souvenirs taken from mutilated Black bodies.
This is American history. Hiding it gives racists cover to recommit atrocities of the past. #FreshWords
We're really having a public debate about whether slavery was good for enslaved people.
That's how deep our political life has descended into overt white supremacy.
Lincoln spent the first two years of his presidency plotting to deport all Black people out of the U.S. Political support for "colonization" evaporated #OTD when the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment fought the Second Battle of Fort Wagner near Charleston. A 🧵 1/
🥹🥹🥹 my sister and my moms got my logo tatted today. I’m the luckiest person on earth to have the people I have in my corner. I love my family, my friends and my community 🖤🖤🖤.
Under DeSantis’s new laws, Floridians may never learn there was once a Black Superintendent of Schools in Florida who was so forceful in his advocacy for civil and educational rights, that he had to sleep armed in his attic to ward off attacks from the KKK. Meet Jonathan Gibbs.