#TodayILearned Samuel L Jackson was heavily involved in the Black Power Movement back in the day. After Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, he and a few others held the Morehouse board of trustees hostage to put more Black people on the board. (Among those in the board of trustees was Martin Luther King, Sr.)
After that, he got expelled and was being watched real closely by the FBI, so he went to LA, then came back to Morehouse sometime later to become an actor.
And now we have Samuel L. Jackson, Actor and real life Bad Motherfucker
The 1920 massacre in Ocoee, Florida, involved whites lynching, castrating, and removing hundreds of blacks from their land in retaliation for them trying to exercise their right to vote.
Election Day 1920 gave us one of the most violent, horrific stories in the history of American democracy. And unfortunately, despite the lives lost and the unimaginable racism that precipitated the carnage, it’s a tale that has largely been left untold.
As many as 500 blacks were removed from their land. After the violent riot, the Klu Klux Klan set an embargo around the town to ensure that none of them could come back to their homes. In the meantime, the whites seized their property, sometimes with deeds requiring that the land “never be conveyed to Negroes” again.
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More than the massacre, what’s horrifying to me is the certainty that regular members of the community victim-blamed Perry (the voter) for causing it by disrupting the immoral, unjust norm. And lemme guess the people responsible for the death were never punished and their children and grandchildren love them. Oh white America…
Actually there were plenty of these occurrences. Here’s a list of some….Note that there were thousands of black lives lost at these riots.
Whites were not too happy about desegregation in their cities. With subliminal attempts to keep their city segregated, blacks people were not allowed in the “white” part of town. Black homes and communities were destroyed and burned down by angry white mobs and countless deaths occured.
Here are ONLY just a few examples of race riots that took place in our country:
1921: May 30- June 1. Tulsa, OK. Black Wall Street Massacre
1922. May 6, June 9 Kirven, Texas
1923: January 1. Rosewood, FL Rosewood Massacre
1930: October 12-15 Sainte Genevieve, MO
1931: March Scottsboro, AL
1935: March 19 Harlem, NY Harlem Riot of 1935
1943: May Mobile, AL
1943: June Los Angeles, CA Zoot Suit Riot
1943: June 15-16 Beaumont, TX Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
1943: June 20 Detroit, MI Detroit Race Riot
1943:August1 Harlem,NY Harlem Riot of 1943
1949: August-September Peekskill, NY
1951: July 11-12 Cicero County, IL Cicero Race Riot
1958: Maxton, NC Battle of Hayes Pond
1959: February Pearl River County, MS
1960: April Biloxi Beach, MS
1962: October Oxford, MS Uni of Mississippi
1963: September 30. Oxford, MS Ole Miss Riot
1963: July 11Cambridge, MD Cambridge riot of 1963
1963: May 13 Birmingham, AL Bombings
1964: July Brooklyn, NY
1964: July 18 Harlem, NY Harlem Riot of 1964
1964: July 24-26 Rochester, NY Rochester riot
1964: August Jersey City, NJ
1964: August Paterson, NJ
1964: August Elizabeth, NJ
1964: August Chicago, IL
1964: August 28 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia 1964 race riot
1965: March 7 Selma, AL Bloody Sunday
1965: July Springfield, MA
1965: August 11-17 Los Angeles, CA Watts Riot
Why am I learning this just now?! And on the Internet. fucked up
A new social science study has found that whites are more likely than blacks to oppose paying NCAA athletes—and that the more negative whites felt about blacks, the stronger their opposition.
As a political scientist, Tatishe Nteta studies how racial resentment affects attitudes toward public policy. But it took Colin Cowherd for him to realize that the same dynamic also might be influencing the ongoing debate over paying college athletes.
It was the spring of 2014, and Nteta, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was listening to sports talk radio while driving to work. Cowherd, then an ESPN host, was discussing a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by former University of California, Los Angeles basketball star Ed O'Bannon against the National Collegiate Athletic Association—a much-publicized case that sought to allow past and present campus athletes to be compensated for the use of their names, images, and likeness.
“I don’t think paying all college athletes is great, not every college is loaded and most 19-year-olds [are] gonna spend it—and let’s be honest, they’re gonna spend it on weed and kicks,” Cowherd said. “And spare me the ‘they’re being extorted’ thing.
“Listen, 90 percent of these college guys are gonna spend it on tats, weed, kicks, Xboxes, beer and swag. They are, get over it!”
Weed and kicks. Tats and swag. To Nteta’s ears, this sounded familiar, like the coded language sometimes used by politicians to indirectly talk about race. “To be fair to Cowherd, he didn’t explicitly racialize this,” Nteta says. “He simply said college athletes. But from the blowback he got from civil rights groups, it was clear that he was talking about young black men.”
This piqued Nteta’s curiosity. In politics, researchers know that negative racial attitudes can impact support for government initiatives like health care and welfare. For example, if you’re white, and you believe that African-Americans tend to be, say, lazy, and you also think a particular program is likely to benefit blacks, you’re far more likely to oppose that program.
“So the question was,” Nteta says, “does race play a role in opposition to or support for this overarching issue of paying college athletes?”
Two and a half years later, Nteta and his colleagues have done enough work to produce a tentative answer: Yes. When it comes to arguments over NCAA amateurism, race definitely seems to matter.
How so? In a study recently published in Political Research Quarterly, Nteta and fellow professors Kevin Wallsten, Melinda Tarsi, and Lauren McCarthy analyzed responses to public opinion survey questions from 2014 and additional follow-up polling, and concluded that:
* Whites were more likely than blacks to oppose college athlete pay-for-play.
* Harboring negative racial views about blacks was the single strongest predictor of white opposition to paying athletes—more important than age, education level, political affiliation, sports fandom, or even if respondents had played college sports themselves.
* The more negatively white respondents felt about blacks, the more they opposed pay-for-play.
* Racially resentful whites who were primed to think about African-American athletes before answering questions were more likely to oppose paying athletes than racially resentful whites who were primed to think about white athletes.
“It’s not race and only race,” Nteta says. “There are a number of reasons why people will support or oppose policy options here. But race can’t be divorced from the story. Race is one of the central reasons why whites are opposed to pay-for-play.”
Ive overheard some white people talk about not watching basketball and football because of some many “blacks” in the sport now and thats why they like watching baseball. It generally pisses them off that these young black guys are making 10x times what theyll ever make.
who else comin to terms with the possibility that they will never form a meaningful emotional connection with someone on a romantic level smash that like
I go through phases. Some days I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then some days I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.
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