#Slavery

Adam Lane Smith

TheBrometheus

American identity politics have a weird and convoluted history. To understand it, you need to know how “white” and “black” were formed.Thread: America originally had a binary system: Those who

Meguey-shaped bundle of bits

NightSkyGames

Today on #LHSrescue, I'm searching for the Illman Brothers, a Philadelphia engraving company behind a fair number of the #LHSrescueFashionPrints I'm trying to sort out, but it sure is being

Winter Oak

WinterOakPress

Thread:One potential positive from the whole Covid-19 debacle is that we have learned an incredible amount about the society in which we live. This will be crucial IF we manage

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

Bit on how Andrew Jackson, years before his presidency or the Trail of Tears, forcibly seized massive swaths of Creek/Cherokee land for the U.S.: Turns out Andrew Jackson’s undeclared 1818

Rick Klau

rklau

1/ It's been hard to focus this week on anything but the aftermath of the Minneapolis police's murder of George Floyd.But a comment on a high school classmate's Facebook thread

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birthmarxist

the american state commands NO legitimacy as a “democracy.” it is a settler-colonial regime founded on the blood+labor of indigenous ppl & MY ppl, as well as women broadly speaking.

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vacidalia

what you can do to help in the uk - A THREAD this website has links to petitions you can sign + places to donate + other resourceshttps://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co educate yourself

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

For those who were shocked/concerned by the torture of Iraq civilians by UK soldiers in my posts/video last week, please also see what happened in:Kenya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising#British_war_crimesHooded Men, Northern I

Jasbir K Puar

jkpuar

Also tired of leftist calls to “abolish the family” w/ no acknowledgment that the construct of “gender” evolved in part to deny enslaved peoples the right to kinship (Spillers) +

Fabiana Cecin 🏴 🌹

fabianacecin

Individuals are, ultimately, the generators of all wealth. Yes, society has structures, systems, that drive us, but it is from the collective action of individual spirits, living beings, that every

Joshua Luna

Joshua_Luna

I've been quarantine-binging vampire shows & wondered why Asian guys are rarely vampires. Then I realized that since modern vampires are “heroes” meant to uphold whiteness, we don't fit that

Kid Viscous 🏴

alleycatkier

Nazi Germany didn’t just spring up randomly in a vacuum. It was a slow build from the end of WWI. The war reparations that they had to repay to the

Pieter Friedrich

FriedrichPieter

Remembering #JyotiraoPhule (1827-1890) on the anniversary of his birth.In Maharashtra, Jyotirao Phule worked in partnership with his wife, Savitribai, as they championed education. Together, they founded a school for girls,

Rasool Berry

rasoolberry

What do I mean by CRT? In the book CRT, Delgado & Stefancic write: "What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set

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sovereigneur

20 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Want You To Know(Thread) 1. Biweekly Pay SucksWhen you work for yourself, you can get paid multiple times A DAY. No waiting around two weeks

Retired Golden Girl ✨ (black parents but biracial)

Girlgoldened

That social construct sure knows how to identify BW when it’s time to typecast them for slavery movies, call them apes, mock their “nappy hair”, watch them die of medical