🧸Mama Bear

Black American 🇺🇸🇨🇻 Cape Verdean U.S.A.F. Disabled Veteran ✈️ Approved Homeshool mom 📚👩🏽‍🏫 Volleyball Mom🏐

[Dee Holt 🍎🍟🍎❄️ ➏ @D_1andOnly_]

My boy hopped in that mfer so smooth & KILLED IT😂🔥🔥🔥💜💛

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A Philly family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers

It’s part of the congregation’s plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations https://t.co/GWJo9qRceh

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

@PrimeReparation A Cambridge commissioner tried a 1863–1870 “closed sequence” framework. 😡 If approved, it could’ve excluded descendants of people freed earlier. The City Solicitor rejected it and said use the ordinance as written.

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

✨ Important update from tonight’s Cambridge American Freedmen Commission meeting:
The City Solicitor’s Office said the Commission’s ordinance already defines American Freedmen by U.S. chattel-slavery lineage. 🇺🇸

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

@PrimeReparation ✊🏾

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

Enslaved here is not enough under the Solicitor’s interpretation. Freed here is the key. He gave Canada as an example: if ancestors were enslaved but were freed in Canada, they would not qualify for purposes of the ordinance because they were not freed within the United States.

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

💫 That matters.

The definition is not based on a broad racial category. It is rooted in the descendants of people who were enslaved and freed in the United States.

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

⚖️ The ordinance does not define American Freedmen simply as “Black,” “African,” or “African American.”

It is tied to a specific U.S. historical lineage connected to chattel slavery and emancipation.

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

🧬 Another important clarification: the lineage is not limited to the maternal side.

A qualifying ancestor can come from any branch of the family.

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

🌎 He also clarified that the definition does not extend to people whose ancestors were enslaved and freed outside the United States, including in:

Canada • South America • the Caribbean

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

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📜 The solicitor explained that American Freedmen are people who were freed from chattel slavery within the United States — and their descendants.

That lineage is the foundation of the Commission’s legal definition.

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

The ancestors want you to stand on your victories

[❤️‍🔥 G A W D ❤️‍🔥 @_benjvmins_]

i love black people too much to chastise them over something as trivial and unimportant as a bonnet. fuck yall man

[JAKE The General @Amerindians_]

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[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

@loadingdrb @lilyally98 Congratulations 🎊

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

@heymochalatte Congratulations 🎉

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

@BaltimoreBambii Ditto

[🧸Mama Bear @KgKimberlee]

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