If 3 Black people took a White man on a boat expedition and didn’t return with him the president would be making a speech right now.
Rest in power Nolan Wells
@downbadcomment She is the asshole. She doesn't care about his emotions or his grief. This in her own words was manipulative. She used this as opportunity to test to see what he would give up for her. She sounds toxic af.
They never cared about the law. They just make up the law and violate the law when they choose to.. but for Black people it’s all about the law and if we break the law, including jaywalking, it’s a justify death penalty.
His name was George Stinney Jr. Let us never forget his name nor his face, and let us remember that he was the victim of one of the most appalling injustices in history simply because of the color of his skin.
“I don't want you telling me to go back to Africa, unless you going back where you come from. I got a note one day telling me to go back to Africa and ever since that time-it's been three times a week I say it when I am in a white audience-I say, 'We'll make a deal. After you send all the Koreans back to Korea, the Chinese back to China, the Jewish people back to Jerusalem, and you give the Indians their land back and you get on the Mayflower from which you come'..We all here on borrowed land. We have to fiqure out how we're going to make things right for all the people of this country.”
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist, Baba Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael.
“We are saying that there is a system that allows for one or two Black people to get out and that's the rationale for keeping other Black people down.”
On this day in 1947, Activist & member of the Black Panther Party Mark Clark was born.
He was assassinated together with Fred Hampton by Chicago police & FBI, both at 21 years Old.
William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Panthers & set up them up for $300
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The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.
Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.
US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.
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A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.
Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.
Here is what it means in plain terms.
Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.
This memo tells states they can cut all of it.
And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.
A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.
Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.
So why?
Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.
The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.
This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.
A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.
We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.
Happy birthday to the late choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham.
For more than 30 years, she directed the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported black dance company in America at the time. She was often called the “Mother of Black Dance.”
King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into his personal slaughterhouse from 1885 to 1908.
This demonic Belgian monarch didn't "explore" or "civilize" – he industrialized genocide for profit.
Under the lie of the "Congo Free State," he claimed a territory 76 times bigger than Belgium as his PRIVATE property.
No parliament. No oversight.
Just pure vampire capitalism dripping with African blood.