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On this, the 5th day of Black History Month, I would like to take a moment to remember and celebrate Trayvon Benjamin Martin, who would have turned 23 years old today.
Trayvon Martin was not a celebrity, he wasn’t an inventor or an activist, he was simply a kid, spending his time learning about himself and life as a whole. Trayvon was young, athletic, and loved aviation. He was a quiet student at his high school in Florida, where he excelled at mathematics and took Honors English classes. Althogh he occasionally experienced turbulence in his life, he hoped to one day become a pilot.
On 26 February 2012, Trayvon was walking back to his father’s house, having gone to the convenience store for a tea and bag slittles. He was on the phone with his girlfriend when he noticed he was being followed by a strange man. Trayvon began to run, but less than 100 yards from the front door of the house, a struggle ensued and the teenager was shot and killed.
Trayvon’s murder and the subsequent miscarriage of justice which occurred when the gunman was acquitted, was undoubtedly the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew larger and larger as media finally began covering the unjust slaughter of people of colour in the United States. From marches and rallies to protests and riots, the voice of black Americans had found a megaphone and was boldly broadcasting through the streets in his name.
We will never know who Trayvon Martin would be today, but on his birthday and as we celebrate Black History Month, let us acknowledge the importance of his name and swear that the injustice he faced will continue to drive us towards a better country where young men like Trayvon are not not discriminated against or stalked like a criminal, but allowed to grow and follow their dreams.
Happy birthday Trayvon, Godspeed.
Never forget Trayvon
Being ‘hafu’ in Japan: Mixed-race people face ridicule, rejection
Hafu account for a small portion of Japan’s population. According to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, approximately 36,000 children with a non-Japanese parent are born every year in the country, accounting for about 3 percent of births.
People were calling her the japanese equivalent of the n word yet japan is obsessed with black culture and looking as black as possible…amazing
Non-black people want black culture without black people attached to it.
I’ve reblogged the video already but these two comments above me are really important– you cannot deny that anti-blackness is a global concept when everyone has a negative word/name for black people… But yeah go ahead and wear our clothes and sing our songs and do our dances, ye?
Floyd McKissick’s Soul City
1. The 1966 national convention bode ill for pluralism. Those attending heard Stokely Carmichael declare: “We don’t need White liberals…We have to make integration irrelevant.”
2. McKissick added that as long as Whites had “all the power and money” nothing would be accomplished.
3. In his opinion, nonviolence was “a dying philosophy” which had “outlived its usefulness.”
4. The only way to achieve meaningful change was to “take power.”
5. Despite warnings that an organization like CORE could not survive without White support, delegates eventually endorsed the Black Power slogan and discarded their longtime commitment to nonviolence.
6. Following these meetings, CORE became more explicitly separatist.
7. The word “multiracial” was dropped from the constitution in 1967 and, before long, the national director could be heard talking about Blacks living as a “nation within a nation.”
8. White members responded by fleeing to safer shores.
9. Floyd McKissick was not, however, a nihilist. He wasn’t even a very predictable “bourgeois” nationalist.
10. McKissick’s personal leanings were revealed in his innovative plans for Black independence through economic development.
11. Claiming neither to support not condemn capitalism, McKissick simply recognized the existing system as “a power fact of life.”
12. If Blacks were to share in the wealth of the nation, they had to become good entrepreneurs.
13. They had to establish Black-run enterprises “over every level of the capitalist structure” if they were to improve the trade imbalance which continued to plague the nation’s Black “colonies.”
14. With Black people controlling their own industries “from beginning to end,” Whites would be forced to invest in Black corporations if they were to reap any economic benefit from their relationship with Black America.
15. To these ends, McKissick sought to join Black economic development with social commitment to the Black community.
16. McKissick’s model for community development was “Soul City,” a completely new town to be created in Warren County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia border.
17. It was here, in the ninety-eight-poorest of the state’s 100 counties, that Soul City would rise.
18. With the support of the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Chase Manhattan Bank, McKissick hoped to build a prosperous “free standing community…”
19. Although employing an integrated staff, Soul City would be conceived and managed by Blacks.
20.Industry and affordable housing, not campus-like clusters of expensive homes would be the developer’s first priority.
21.The emphasis was on “social gains and building something for minorities in the Black Belt,” not on “siphoning people’s income to put them into big houses.”
22.Projected over 20 years and an eventual 5,000 acres, Soul City was to become a community of 50,000 with an economic base of 18,000 industrial jobs.
23. McKissick saw Soul City as a grand experiment to prove the efficacy of Black Power and the value of Black capitalist economics.
24. Land in places such as Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant could be transferred to community corporations whose trustees would be elected by local residents. 25. Within one generation…this process of ever-expanding economic and political control could result in the creation of “two or three states that are Black led, Black controlled, and predominately Black populated.”
26. Then, with Black Power fully realized in at least a few…locales, Black American people would be able to exert unprecedented influence within the federal system.
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January 7th 1923: Rosewood massacre ends
On this day in 1923, the Rosewood massacre ended in the Florida town after raging for a week. The violence began on January 1st, the day after a Ku Klux Klan rally was held in the area. It started when a white mob descended on the predominantly black town in response to a rumour that a black Rosewood man had sexually assaulted a white woman. The group of over 400 whites attacked African-Americans who they believed were involved, torturing people for information and targetting a family home. They then rampaged throughout the town burning buildings to the ground, including houses and churches. The black residents were forced to hide in the nearby swamps until they were evacuated to other towns, leaving Rosewood completely deserted in the wake of the violence. The carnage ended on January 7th when the mob burned the last structures and there were no black residents in Rosewood remaining. The final death toll was officially six blacks and two whites killed, but according to witnesses closer to thirty African-Americans died. A white jury decided there was insufficient evidence and none of those involved were ever charged for their role in what was erroneously portrayed as a ‘race riot’. In 1994, almost seventy years after the event, the Florida legislature passed a bill that gave each of the nine remaining survivors of the massacre $150,000 in compensation. While it is not enough to provide justice for the Rosewood victims and survivors, the 1994 law ended decades of refusal to come to terms with the horrors committed at Rosewood.
“It has been a struggle telling this story over the years, because a lot of people don’t want to hear about this kind of history … It’s a sad story, but it’s one I think everyone needs to hear” - Lizzie Jenkins, descendant of a Rosewood survivor
i feel like this is important for black travelers who are driving long distances:
but what are some sundown towns do y’all know of? like if someone were to do a cross-country trip, what are some towns they should absolutely not go through?
Small towns in south ga and noth fla
Ga: Jonesboro, tifton, Albany, valdosta, Macon
Fla: Gainesville, Perry, Madison, Marianna, Quincy, Jefferson county, hell I wouldn’t stop in Tallahassee either
Texas: Vidor, Orange, Deep Santa Fe
Texas: Jasper & Lumberton
Anywhere “rural” in this intire country! call me noid
Or Mabey it’s just trans generational trauma but,….🤷🏾♂️
Yep, this is important and a good idea… black
Lest we not forget The Green Book for Black travelers in early 20th Century…
Life or death for black travelers’: How fear led to ‘The Negro Motorist Green-Book’
In the 1930s, the freedom of the open road beckoned, but for African Americans traveling in the Jim Crow era, highways could be fraught with peril.
Stopping at the wrong roadside diner could lead to discrimination and “embarrassments.” Running out of gas on a highway could lead to an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. Making a bad turn into a “sundown town” — where African Americans were not permitted after dark — could lead to a lynching. Some of those towns constructed signs at their borders warning, “N—–, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On You.”
“It was life or death for black travelers,” said Candacy Taylor, a Harvard fellow and cultural documentarian working on a project about what was first known as “The Negro Motorist Green-Book.”
“Sundown towns were throughout the country; they were everywhere. Even on Route 66. When you have that reality, you need a guide. You need something to tell you where you could stay that was safe,” said Taylor, who began working on the “Green Book” project after visiting a Route 66 museum and seeing a Green Book tucked under a glass case in the corner… continue reading HERE
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Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.
Brilliant
Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.
100% agree Violence has many forms
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Happy Kwanzaa to all! Created in 1966 by activist and professor Dr. Maulana Katanga, Kwanzaa celebrates the impact of African heritage in African American culture through a week-long ceremony grounded in seven core principles: umoja (unity), kujichagulia (self-determination), ujima (collective work and responsibility), ujamaa (cooperative economics), nia (purpose), kuumba (creativity), and imani (faith).
Contemporaneous with Karanga’s efforts, Barbara Jones-Hogu’s Relate to Your Heritage (1971) also compels African Americans to connect to African culture, featuring profiles of Black individuals in African-inspired dress and adornment. Barbara Jones-Hogu was an artist, educator, and filmmaker, and a member of AfriCOBRA, a Chicago-based artist collective established in 1968 who worked in service of Black liberation movements and advocated for the incorporation of African aesthetics in their art. This Jones-Hogu work is currently traveling as part of We Wanted a Revolution, and a number of AfriCOBRA artists, including Jones-Hogu will be represented in the forthcoming Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
This post recognizes the memory of Barbara Jones-Hogu, who passed away this year at the age of 79.
Posted by Ashley James Barbara Jones-Hogu (American, born 1938). Relate to Your Heritage, 1971. Screenprint on paper Brooklyn Museum; Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.26.
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