BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY
On this day, Jun 09, 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer Arrested and Beaten in Winona, Mississippi
On June 9, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists were arrested in Winona, Mississippi, while returning from a voter education workshop in South Carolina. Mrs. Hamer and the other activists had been traveling in the "white" section of a Greyhound bus despite threats from the driver that he planned to notify local police at the next stop. When the bus arrived at the Winona bus depot, some of the activists attempted to eat at Staley's Cafe but were refused service.
Mrs. Hamer, who had stayed on the bus, soon saw police officers arresting some of the activists. She got off the bus and was seized by a white police officer who began kicking her and arrested her. In August 1964, while testifying at the Democratic National Convention to urge party bosses to seat a group of Black Mississippi voters as delegates, Mrs. Hamer recalled the abuse she endured that night at the county jail.
"It wasn't too long before three white men came to my cell," she said. "One of these men was a state highway patrolman and he asked me where I was from. I told him Ruleville and he said, 'We are going to check this.' They left my cell and it wasn't too long before they came back. He said, 'You are from Ruleville all right,' and he used a curse word. And he said, 'We are going to make you wish you was dead.'"
The white officers then forced two African American prisoners to brutally beat Mrs. Hamer with loaded blackjacks; she was nearly killed. As Mrs. Hamer regained consciousness, she overheard one of the white officers propose, "We could put them SOBs in [the] Big Black [River] and nobody would ever find them."
Mrs. Hamer suffered from life-long injuries following the attack, including permanent kidney damage. Mrs. Hamer died in 1977 at age 59. Lawyers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) filed suit against the Winona police who brutalized the activists, but an all-white jury acquitted them. Despite the trauma she experienced, Mrs. Hamer returned to Mississippi to continue organizing and remained active in civil rights causes until her death.
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🚨 HATE CRIME? Racist White man with AR-15 and body armor OPENS FIRE on Black family Reunion gathering after shouting slurs
In Leesburg, Lee County, Georgia, on Sunday, a family was having a gathering when Jeffrey Tyler Kinzer leaned out of a car and started hurling racial slurs at them.
Minutes later he returned on foot wearing body armor and carrying an AR-15-style rifle, then opened fire on the group.
The family says it was a clear racially motivated attack.
Kinzer was shot by a 62 year old Marine veteran who stated he wanted to protect roughly 20 children at the gathering.
Sheriff’s Office says it started as a verbal altercation, but witnesses confirm the racial slurs. More charges are expected.
Another white man geared up like he was going to war against a Black family.
ADOS was on SPLC’s Hatewatch blog & the Nation of ISLAM was on their list of extremist groups.
You are misunderstanding SPLC’s role in defaming groups & people @RepChipRoy
And they are a set to cut benefits as boomers pass on and leave Gen X and a Millennial Black new retirees with nothing after paying into this program for decades.
“Social Security insolvency now projected for 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut”
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The most sought out destination was once the most segregated and dangerous area anyone wanted to caught in after dark. But with the need for higher ground due to flooding...
As the Sea Rises and Rents Triple, Miami’s Black Neighborhoods Are Disappearing https://t.co/IX60GqM09P
The Buffalo shooter wrote “here’s your reparations” on his gun.
Honor those “10 souls” by expressing support for the #ADOSAF reparations framework.
That’s the only way to fight the “Lost Cause” Neo-Confederates.
Also I want to be clear that many of the very tiny few Blacks making that magical $200,000 are also living check to check. I have no idea how all this BIG money Black folk talk sh*t got normalized.
Income is not a measure of wealth. It is just income. So they are wealthless when you add up the student loans, credit cards, auto loans etc just like people making $30,000.
With many of them not set to receive a dollar of inheritance and handing money out to family 20 dollars at a time.
They just can’t count and don’t know they are poor people too.
It’s crazy that no one actually explains these basics. According to the @uscensusbureau data only about 27 percent of the 20
million black households (not people) in America 🇺🇸 make more than $100,000. Only about 8 percent make more than $200,000. Again these are likely largely multi-income homes.
It is likely the case if you looked closer the number of Black individuals making $200,000 a year is sample negligible. Or by data nearly nonexistent.
The truth is the middle Black household again often multi income makes $56,000 combined.
2) We dealt a death blow to do-for-selferism, showing thru Darity‘s work & others that #ADOS disadvantage is not the result of cultural deficits & thus, cant be fixed through individual agency or effort.
Not one member of the CBC, no mention of Black unemployment from the NAACP, the so-called Black Media, or any Civil Rights leaders have asked Mr. Trump about Black unemployment. But they all have told us to make sacrifices for them and to support millions of illegal immigrants. We must wake up to the fact that we have no representation; we are on our own.
Do y'all hear this lying ass member of Congress? Where can ADOS be deported to, Congresswoman Lee? Please share this. She needs to be humiliated for lying in our faces.
Btw Black America, this is why the CBC doesn't help us. How can a Caribbean-American fight in the best interest of Black Americans who are descendants of Chattel Slavery? We do not have the same interests and concerns. The Black people we elect are the ones who are undermining us and harming us. Please Share.
Please share this; hopefully, the CBC, DNC, and NAACP will read it and understand it.
The days of voting for a political candidate because they look Black are long gone.
We need to know your track record in serving Black American communities and we need to know what your plans are for Black American communities if you are re-elected.