Young brother calls out Netflix’s hypocrisy in putting out a documentary on allegations against Michael Jackson in attempts counter the success of the “Michael” biopic.
Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race.
A THREAD!
They Destroyed The Global South Then Screamed Invasion
They engineered collapse through empire and extraction, imported labour to mop up the wreckage for pennies, then blamed the people forced to migrate for the decay of a world they themselves hollowed out.
Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that the audio of Speaker Johnson ADMITTING that he's planning on cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security SHOULD BE A HUGE STORY.
Don't let him slide on this.
In 1898, the federally appointed postmaster for Lake City, South Carolina, Frazier Baker, was lynched, along with his baby daughter, Julia. This was a lynching by bullets, which also hit his wife, Lavinia and four of their children. The crime which incensed the white mob that descended on their house (also the town post office)? That of being a black postmaster - no more, no less. And no one was ever convicted.
White supremacists all over the South were infuriated at President McKinley's postings of Black federal employees; he had spoken out against lynching in order to secure the Black vote when he was running for president. This sentiment led directly to the massacre in Wilmington later that year, which destroyed the Black prosperity in that North Carolina port and turned the previously majority-Black town majority-White, practically overnight. It also dismantled the rising and theretofore successful Fusionist party, a coalition of working class Blacks and Whites.
This picture was taken after Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children escaped and relocated up to Boston; the faces say it all.
People love to talk about 'get over it' and 'slavery was so long ago' and 'Black people love to be victims' - when the issue is truly systemic and not dismantled in a day. We will be fighting the results of how our society was formed (and how that formation is protected by white supremacy to this day) for a long time. And let's not forget that the white poor (and that of every other race) also get left behind in this scheme which only benefits the few.
Indian businesses are always scamming, ESPECIALLY gas stations.
Whether it's card skimming, watering down the gas, or now, putting a screw on the pump’s nosel cradle to save a few dollars, it's always some kind of scam, and as usual, THEY ALL ARE IN ON IT!
Homophobia Is the Colonial Import: What the Mudoko Dako Teach Us About Pre-Colonial Africa. Before “Illegal” Was Stamped Onto Love: The Mudoko Dako and Uganda’s Erased Queer History…
Today we honor James Byrd Jr., who was brutally murdered on this day 28 years ago. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law by former President Barack Obama 17 years ago.