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Racism: a word defined by many as cruel

Where blacks and whites are always caught in a duel

Accompanied by police brutality

We must all come together with unity

They make us feel like we don’t fit in

But the truth is that feeling comes from within

Change won’t just come to us

We won’t receive the freedom we want without a fuss

So stand up for what is right

Join us in the fight fight fight 

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Selma -  “Our lives are not fully lived if we’re not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.” 

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This picture is so powerful in capturing the unity that the African American community had with some of the whites in the fight against racism and the right to vote. The fact that they are joining arms further shows their unity. I believe this is one of the most important scenes in the movie because it shows that peaceful demonstrations can be successful, and you don’t need violence to solve your problems

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Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every Negro man and woman who stands by without joining this fight as their brothers and sisters are brutalized, humiliated, and ripped from this Earth.

Selma

This quote shows the emotional and physical sacrifice people are willing to go through to gain equal rights. MLK is trying to encourage people (blacks and whites) in this quote to stand up for those being discriminated. He instills in them that it is basically their American duty to help the African Americans who are being beaten and killed. 

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I believe that this picture adequately captures the unity the black community had through their struggles of racism. Selma was a strong representation of the work MLK had done during the civil rights movement and showed details to be the most accurate as they could be. Selma did not sugar coat the issues that blacks went through: the bombing of the church, the attacks by white police, refusal of help from the president. I like this picture because this scene in the movie shows that every single one of the blacks marching risked their lives, fully aware they could have died that day from the white brutality on the other side of the bridge. This picture shows the bravery these black folks had in this awful, racist time.

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Asked how many times Brown was shot, St. Louis County Police Chief John Belmar said, “It was more than just a couple but I don’t think it was many more than that.”

“Ferguson, MO and the Police Militarization,”

Last Week Tonight with John Olive

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“This is the new America We are the new America”

American Oxygen - Rihanna

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“The beautiful is that a group of men began to stand behind me like a fleet of bodyguards, she says, like newly found uncles and brothers.”

Rankine, from Citizen

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“I think it goes back to this idea of connection, community, and citizenship. You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you’re constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you’re a human being.”

Blackness as the Second Person

By: Meara Sharma

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“But i’ve been watching from the slaughterhouse. ever since you named me edible. tossed in a cookie at the end. lucky man.”

To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street

By: Franny Choi

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#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk-Richael Faithful

The levels of violence against a people whose ancestors were subjected to the largest forced migration inhuman history—in the belly of intercontinental slave ships—is shameful beyond word.  

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I think this quote is so powerful because it is trying to show society we are acting just as cruel and hateful as we were in the days of slavery. It shames us for targeting the same group of people who had been already been treated so brutally. This truly makes you think about how little progress we’ve actually made when it comes to racism; we are still treating blacks like they are lesser than whites.

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“Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.”

-Dear White People

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Our sense is that the criminal system cannot be relied upon to administer justice for Black folks, and was, in fact, historically designed to control Blacks within a racial caste system.

Richael Faithful “ #BLACKLIVESMATTER KITCHEN TALK” (via dgreer8)

I think this quote is so accurate in the way our criminal justice attempts to deal with Blacks and black history itself. We can still find racism in our criminal justice system through all of the recent ‘white-cop versus black man’ shootings. It is truly sad that a portion of our society still functions like this, but at least we have moved several steps forward since the MLK period.

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“In our kitchen-talk, porch-talk, stoop-talk, shop-talk, we say a lot of things that most white folks rarely hear because in these spaces we can be just a little more free or, at least, we face our own judgments of each other, shaped by our racist ecology, rather than carry the unique heaviness of “being Black.” 

Faithful: #BlacklivesmatterKitchenTalk

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“Your father probably took you fly-fishing, helped you with your geometry homework after coming home from work. You'll probably do the same. Look, I'm not exactly questioning your sexuality, but have you ever hit a woman? You'd probably just as soon date a black chick. Just as soon eat pussy. Sometimes I can't believe my eyes.”

Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue

By: Ross Gay

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“It seems we living the american dream But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings “

All Falls Down - Kanye West