What in the entire fuck is wrong with this country?
This shit is exhausting.
A white woman and her child would have NEVER been treated like this.
#DemsUnited
If the Epstein files were full of Black men, the arrests would be done, the mugshots public, and the prison sentences handed down. Justice isn’t slow it’s f**king selective.
In 1944, a group of white men lynched Reverend Isaac Simmons, a minister and farmer who owned 270 acres of land in Mississippi because they believed the land had oil deposits. Goal- to steal his land and profit from it.
Oh, they weren’t finished after killing the Reverend. The men then brutally beat his son and ran him out of the county.
This is one story of many where racially motivated killings of Black people in the Jim Crow South resulted in farms and land being violently stolen to profit and benefit white farmers.
This is what they’re hiding while telling Black folks to pick themselves up by the “bootstraps.”#DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana
In 1958, David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a Florida segregated public pool. It resulted in officials closing the facility.
On June 8, 1958, a city manager in St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool after a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility.
In April 1957, St. Petersburg opened its segregated public swimming facilities to Black residents after the city ruled in favor of six Black community members who had filed a suit against the city government over its discriminatory practices.
Despite the ruling, St. Petersburg’s facilities remained segregated by practice for well over a year. Denied access to the public Spa Pool and Spa Beach downtown, Black residents were forced to travel to Tampa Bay where a much smaller, less well-maintained facility nicknamed the “South Mole” was open to them.
On June 8, Mr. Isom arrived at the all-white Spa Pool and purchased an entry ticket. There were roughly 50 white bathers in the pool when he arrived. He swam for less than a half hour and then continued with his day. “I just feel that it’s not a privilege to use the pool, but a right,” Mr. Isom stated.
After Mr. Isom’s departure, the pool manager promptly announced that the Spa Pool and the adjoining Spa Beach would both be closed immediately because of Mr. Isom’s swim, following orders from the city manager, Ross Windom. Both facilities remained closed until the following week, when the city council reopened them.
@ouweeethatsit@stonedbabydoll@reesupremacy Lowering our standards made us settle for mediocrity. A darn generational curse that mothers passed on down to their daughters
This is a horrific photo from 1964 of a Hotel owner pouring acid into swimming pool while black patrons were swimming, St. Augustine, Florida. When they tell us to forget, just know that the horrors that happened to us are never ending.