#Emancipation

Jubilee

crowddemocracy

My great great grandfather owned slavesWhen they were free’d he gave them their houses and offered them employmentHe was a “good” slave ownerThis is the story I grew up with

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zei_squirrel

this is how you respond to performatively "woke", "intersectional" defenders of the genocidal israeli apartheid state, who cynically wield and distort the rhetoric of emancipation to support the dispossession, marginaliz

SoxnaJaara.M

UmmulXadiim

Si le féminisme est bien ce que prône l’occident de nos jours (égalité des genres, émancipation de la femme, avortement,libertinage, etc)alors nous devons admettre qu’il ne correspond pas à l’Islam.

Kevin Spencer

kspence9

There’s some irony in the fact that the people decrying postcritique as an expression of neoliberalism are working within the assumptions of a paradigm that’s coeval with neoliberalism. The decline

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

sejr_historian

Setting protestors’ motivations for toppling him and Grant’s admirable work aside the he “briefly owned one slave” argument is problematic. Most slave owners owned

Moiya McTier

GoAstroMo

This Friday is #JUNETEENTH2020 (learn more here: https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm )Some people like to say that 246 years of slavery wasn’t that long, so last year I gave a talk that put the

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Want to know more about how white supremacy is baked in to the US Capitol Building? Let's think about the statue topping its dome. She symbolizes Freedom... and was made

Microsoft

Microsoft

Juneteenth. A thread. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, originated June 19, 1865, to recognize the day the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the US were made aware of

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

cvaldary

Nation of Islam’s ideology is powerful because it empowers a historically dispossessed minority, albeit in toxic ways. It is worth remembering that Elijah Muhammed, the founder of NOI, saw his

Boqor bin Dabarani

IbnMumeen

Thread -PostSlavery : Jareers(blacks) in the US. Abolishing slavery is by far the single biggest mistake America has ever made. Everyday I wake up cursing Abraham Lincoln for the emancipation

michael

Sisyphusa

On this day: In 1831, enslaved people in Jamaica rose up to emancipate themselves in what became known as the "Christmas Rebellion" or "Baptist War" (missionaries and free Black Baptists

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Slavery was abolished in the Cape on this day in 1834. Slavery had been in existence for 176 years. Slave owners were compensated for this "loss of labour" (the audacity)

सत्यं ब्रूयात्, प्रियं ब्रूयात्

satyam_bruyaat

Very nice thread. I could give answer to only half with memory. So I decide to create my own thread with memory - Threadhttps://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1258805070570811393 Which book gives the detail of

Civilization

civilization_tm

Think I've got it @DodgyIdealist. 1. Society Inc. (this could be left, right, & center) do not ask what the values of human beings are, but rather what the values

Monsieur le Baron

Mssr_le_Baron

There is a difference between sleaze and filth, and this is the difference between the crime wave coming now and the high crime times of the 1980s. Sleaze comes out

Lev Taylor

levvity

Underneath the personal attacks and vitriol that have dominated Twitter this week, there are important political differences between left and right approaches to combating antisemitism. The British Jewish community would

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