#Slavery

Jamie Tworkowski

jamietworkowski

If this moment feels confusing, try to zoom out to the bigger picture. Let’s start here:1. White people stole this land from Native Americans.2. White people are responsible for slavery.

Iron & Whine

BiscottiPippen1

A quote from #BlackIsKing I haven’t been able to stop thinking about:“No more white angels, only albinos.” I see so many parallels between #1619Project and #BlackIsKing . @nhannahjones re-writes

Dr. Juliette McClendon

DrJulietteM

The stain of racism is deep within the origins of Psychiatry and Psychology. History lesson thread...1/14 Early in its lifetime, psychiatry played a central role in justifying chattel slavery. The

Dancers Against Woke Ideology

UnwokeDancers

A couple clips from a recent Anti-Racist training for Blues, Lindy, and WCS dancers with a whopping 31k views. Dancers were taught that the US is not a democracy, it's

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

One day I am going to do a thread on how New Jersey engaged in slavery until 1865, operated de jure segregated schools until 1954, and how Princeton was considered

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

“Jane Austen’s teapot”orWhy the row about the @nationaltrust & “woke” is absurd.The Georgians were not only consumed with woke subjects - they pioneered boycotts, woke slogans & even woke merchandise.“Being

Saoirse, Matryoshka Lesbian (She/They)

lisaquestions

Okay so @/StopTweetingMia recently tweeted a criticism of Futurama's transphobia and transmisogyny, and people showed up to deploy the everlasting favorite "it was a different time" canard. This assumes some

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨

Ciaraioch

Thinking again about how British publications like Punch used to draw Irish people S'funny how there's people who react with "it's the past, get over it" any time various wrongs

Michael S. Graham

msgwrites

THREAD: On ReparationsThere seem to be two main aspects to the conversation on reparations IDEOLOGY and ADMINISTRATION:1. Is this idea just and/or Biblical?2a. If yes to #1, who should receive

Anne 🏠

AnneArdon

When Dutch people *even mention* colonialism and slavery in their work, it's "slave ships" magically appearing out of nowhere and sailing off. You can't make this shit up. Very important

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Lots of BS to unpack here, but I'll start with: IF you think that *the modern West* is the finest society ever created, AND you think *the modern West* is

Christopher Wilson

wolverinewilson

"No one should countenance John Brown's violence or his effort to start a war to end slavery...You can be on the right side of history but still be wrong." @hwbrands

Stephen Kent

Stephen_Kent89

Almost to the end of my chapter on "Free Will" and whether it exists, for my book #HowTheForceCanFixTheWorld. Been thinking a lot about it. Then my daughter randomly comes up

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SafiLula

Understand this. Yes our TTPS is made up of mostly black men and women who many of which also come from poor communities. However, the systems that were implemented and

🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸

mrddmia

The Democrat Party cannot win elections by running on their Marxism.So they cobble together coalitions of Americans who Democrats try to convince are victims.And Democrats get very angry when racial

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pigsareharaam

you know, i was locked up with literal African slaves in the UAE. Afghan, Pakistani and a whole lot of others, but the most were African men trying to get