I’m getting quite tired of hearing and seeing white people debate whether or not we need #Reparations. Don’t cut me a check. Make a world where I don’t get scared that my 15 year old brother will be shot for wearing a hoodie and sweatpants
Giving reparations to people is NOT taboo. It’s happened before. Black people - we deserve better! Our water and air are polluted, infrastructure of our communities are crumbling, and our schools are underfunded. We deserve better. We deserve #Reparations#BlackLivesMatter
Black Americans need #Reparations in the form of CASH PAYMENTS.
All that “money to HBCUs” and “criminal reform” talk is NOT reparations.
Foundational Black Americans are owed cash payments. The federal government made MONEY from free Black labor. So we need THAT MONEY
"In 1860, 80 percent of the nation's gross national product was tied to slavery. Yet in return for nearly 250 years of toil, African Americans had received nothing but...forced subjugation."
- Carol Anderson, White Rage
#Reparations#Juneteenth
People try to play dumb and ask WHERE the money for reparations will come from. It will come from the same pool of money used to build prisons to mass incarcerate Black people. #Reparations
Happy #Juneteenth! If you don’t know how to celebrate or what it even is (we’re not judging) here’s a few things you should know about it https://t.co/AHo1WpPar3
Happy #Juneteenth! Today in 1865, 2yrs after Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Texas were notified by union soldiers they were indeed free
"The scatter" followed - When masses of former slaves left Texas to find family or move north
#Juneteenth is still not a federal holiday
#Juneteenth is one of many days our Ancestors in western hemisphere set aside to mark our victories. We were't given anything: We forced history's hand. Spain, England, France, America: All tried to end us. We take this day seriously. Our struggle continues. #Juneteenth2019
Thread in light of #Juneteenth 🖤
Post civil war/early 20th century black style is not something we see often.
Harriet Tubman's great-nieces Eva Katherine Stewart Northup + Alida Maud Stewart. Harriet helped to raise them. This was at Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913👇🏽
So I fucked two random guys at Rolling Loud and I didn’t know that each guy nutted in me. Now I’m currently pregnant and I stay in Alabama; what should I do? -aamu
Tonight - the stars of @WhenTheySeeUs and the exonerated Central Park 5 sit down with @Oprah. Tune in to When They See Us Now - airing after the season premiere of #QUEENSUGAR.