#Slavery

When the bees die, we die too.

brucewilson

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved (Lakota would say desecrated) Mt. Rushmore had previously begun, commissioned by the KKK, the Confederate shrine-monument to the failed rebellion to preserve human slavery

Tomiwa Oyebadejo

TomiwaOyebadejo

The unsuspecting public tends to believe everything we are told by official scientists, like the Hebrews before Moses descended from Sinai, we believe their every word. In reality, scientists are

Tait *Caffeinated Motivated* Washburn

kinda_writing

So to not bug the OP that this convo started from, I have a lot of feelings about Pirates of the Caribbean and how there is exactly 1 mention of

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

the "let's compare capitalism to existing socialism" line is mostly flawed from the outset because you're usually comparing global south countries to western imperialists who've built their wealth from robbing

B. Timmerman

BTGTimmerman

.@LewisForMN is right. We have a lot power in the suburbs. And that means we have to ask ourselves some pretty important questions:1/11https://twitter.com/LewisForMN/status/1323034926728564736 Do we believe in justice and equality?"You

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

Black and Native solidarity will be so difficult and so complex because although both groups have committed harm against one another, Native tribes committed harms (like slavery, discrimination, and violence)

(((Graham Pointer)))

grahampointer72

Part of the problem regarding the Duke of Sussex is that people want him to be frozen at one point in his life #PrinceHarry The young boy who walked behind

Uncle Preston

pressthemess

Spoke w/ a friend about the systemic oppression of African Americans. He had the opinion that it's no longer relevant. Had to delete the previous iteration to block out his

Joe

JM_1871

I don’t really agree with this take tbh. Sure, European excess population might have been ample enough for colonizing efforts, although I would debate that in some cases such as

Liam Hogan

Limerick1914

Not only does this moral relativism fail on its own erroneous terms, it implies that Black Lives Did Not Matter. The only thing “erased” by merely taking into account the

Ernest Owens

MrErnestOwens

THREAD: Now that it's a week since #Hamiltonfilm came out -- can I just say that after watching it three times and digging into it -- that it is

👀Krystal Marx👀

Bishop_Krystal

(1/ _) Seems like someone left the lid to garbage can open over at #SafeSeattle again. They don't even attempt to address the lack of representation in positions of power,

Brad Beauregard Jr 🇺🇸

BradBeauregardJ

This year, for #BlackHistoryMonth I'm going to learn each day about one historical black person from the past and one living black person who's made history.I'm going to start

Michael Livingston

medievalguy

Let me tell you about five numbers that haunt me: 35, 40, 30, 20, and 15 — the ages of five slaves recorded in the Slave Schedule of the 1850

Justin Thee Stallion

by_justin

A small thread of things you might not know are linked to racisms Yale University was named after a slave trader.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-formerly-known-as-yale-1470698364 While we're talking about these institutions:

quarto

quartosisters

This is not a good look for my local authority @CausewayCouncil. Now, they're not proposing to put up a statue, but if time had been taken to do a little

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