HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR DAY, EVERYONE!!!!!! Our Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr MUST Be Entitled to Be Sanctified as Saint in Our Catholic Church and Worldwide! Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr Created MANY Miracles like the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicaid, and Foods Stamps here in the United States, and as a Christian, He Sacrificed His Life Like Jesus Christ Did for US All! 🌳🧘🏻♂️🌳🧘🏻♀️🌳🧘🏻🌳🧘🏽♂️🌳🧘🏼♀️🌳🧘♀️🌳🧘♂️🌳🧘🏿♂️🌳🧘🏾♀️🌳🌏🌎🌍🌤️🪐✨
Sir Sidney Poitier (20 February 1927 - 7 January 2022)
Mr Sidney Poitier, the man who paved the way for such well-respected actors as Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington changed the perception of "black Americans" both within the film industry and without with his commanding presence and daring film choices.
Defying conventional wisdom at the time concerning actors of color, Sidney Poitier became a leading man, a major box office draw, and even an Academy Award winner. All this done in a time when race relations were at their most volatile.
Careful to retain his dignity onscreen, Sidney made himself a virtual ambassador of the civil rights movement in the 60s, choosing roles in films that had something to say, all the while keeping a constant awareness of the responsibility he had as a role model for a generation.
He always understood the power he had as a star and used it carefully to inspire the change he wished to see in the world. And in many ways, he succeeded.
As the most prominent Black actor in Hollywood of his time, Poitier used his fame to fight for change.
He began being a voice for the Civil Rights Movement alongside Belafonte.
In the early 1960s, Belafonte convinced Poitier to drive to the South with $70,000 to give to the Freedom Summer volunteers. The experience changed Poitier’s life as the two actors were chased by Klansmen who fired guns at them.
The two also helped organize the landmark March on Washington in 1964, which featured Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech.
A year before Dr. King’s assassination, the civil rights icon said of Poitier: “He is a man of great depth, a man of great social concern, a man who is dedicated to human rights and freedom. Here is a man who, in the words we so often hear now, is a soul brother.”
Later in his life, Poitier turned to humanitarian efforts, specifically in the Bahamas, where he grew up before moving to Miami at 15.
He was the Bahamian ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2007 and from 2002 to 2007 was the ambassador of the Bahamas to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
President Barack Obama presented Poitier with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, the country’s highest civilian honor.
ViacomCBS - 'I Can't Breathe' Vingette in memory of George Floyd
At 5 p.m. Eastern and Pacific today, ViacomCBS’s entertainment and youth brands (MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, BET, Pop TV, CMT, VH1, Logo, and Smithsonian) and CBS Sports will cease programming for eight minutes and 46 seconds to protest the death of George Floyd.
The time is symbolic, of course, as it is the same length of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ground his knee into Floyd’s neck and prevented him from breathing despite his entreaties.
The networks will not merely be observing a moment of silence. They will air a devastatingly visceral visual and auditory representation of Floyd’s pain, with the sound of natural breath punctuating the words “I can’t breathe” responding in rhythm with the breath.
Floyd pled for his life by saying “I can’t breathe.”
You want to know why black people are black? Because they evolved to have more melanin in their skin to protect them from the sun. Because of them evolving and adapting people are scrutinizing them which is absolutely disgusting and overall stupid. Black people are people and they always have been and they always will be. They are not “the other.” They are exceptional human beings who deserve better than what we have given them. Please, try your best to make a difference and remember that black lives always matter, no matter what.
Throwback to last year’s New Years collab! I’m going to be using 2019 to scream from the rooftops for those who can’t. This was another rollercoaster of a year for most minority groups, just like we discussed last year in @ashernoahfilms ‘s short film. We have to do more, be louder. This will not become our new normal. You’re allowed to exist and declare your existence! Take up space 💪🌈 #20biteen
“We say “Black Lives Matter” but shit, the fact that matter is, we just Black matter to them, this shit keep happening.“
~ Birdz
Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.
“The relatively high rates of violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities are influenced by immediate factors such as alcohol and illicit drug use, mental health issues and childhood experience of violence. However, a number of researchers also suggest that deeper underlying causes include ‘inter-generational trauma’ resulting from the ongoing and cumulative effects of colonisation, loss of land, language and culture, the erosion of cultural and spiritual identity, forced removal of children, and racism and discrimination.”
Between 2014-2016, Indigenous children aged 0-4 were more than twice as likely to die than non-Indigenous children.
Non-Indigenous girls born in 2010-2012 in Australia can expect to live a decade longer than Indigenous girls born the same year (84.3 years and 73.7 years respectively).
The gap for men is even larger, with a 69.1 year life expectancy for Indigenous men and 79.9 years for non-Indigenous men.[3]
Indigenous women also experience approximately double the level of maternal mortality in 2016. [4]
Physical & Mental Health
There's a strong connection between low life expectancy for Indigenous Australians and poor health.
In 2016, Indigenous children experienced 1.7 times higher levels of malnutrition than non-Indigenous children. [5]
In 2014-15, hospitalisation rates for all chronic diseases (except cancer) were higher for Indigenous Australians than for non-Indigenous Australians (ranging from twice the rate for circulatory disease to 11 times the rate for kidney failure). [6]
Just under half (45%) of Indigenous people aged 15 years and over said they experienced disability in 2014–2015, compared to 18.5% of the whole Australian population in 2012. [7]
In 2015, the Indigenous suicide rate was double that of the general population.[8]Indigenous suicide increased from 5% of total Australian suicide in 1991, to 50% in 2010, despite Indigenous people making up only 3% of the total Australian population. The most drastic increase occurred among young people 10-24 years old, where Indigenous youth suicide rose from 10% in 1991 to 80% in 2010. [9]
33% of Indigenous adults reported high levels of psychological distress in 2014-15, and hospitalisations for self-harm increased by 56% between 2004-05 and 2014-15. [10]
Family & Community Wellbeing
Median weekly income for Indigenous Australians was $542 in 2014-15 compared with $852 for non-Indigenous Australians.[14]
Around 20% of Indigenous Australians lived in overcrowded households in 2014-15. In very remote areas the overcrowding was almost 40%.[15]
Rates of family and community violence in 2014-15 were around 22% for Indigenous people.[16]
Indigenous children were almost 10 times more likely to be placed in out of home care than non-Indigenous children in 2015-16.[17]
Incarceration
In September 2017, Indigenous prisoners represented 27% of the total full-time adult prisoner population, whilst accounting for approximately 2% of the total Australian population aged 18 years and over.The adult imprisonment rate increased 77% between 2000 and 2015.[18]
The detention rate for Indigenous children aged 10-17 years was 26 times the rate for non-Indigenous youth in 2016.[19]
In 2008, almost half of Indigenous males (48%) and 21% of females aged 15 years or over had been formally charged by police over their life time.[20]
