Black lives matter : in their own words(really)

[b.c.]

The history they* don't want America to KNOW ABOUT:

Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Last year, the death of George Floyd, in the hands of Minneapolis police, came on Memorial Day. Ninety-nine years before, that same week, Black Americans suffered a massacre.

In the days after World War I, a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Greenwood was among the wealthiest Black communities. Oil made Greenwood rich, but jealousy made it suffer.

In 1921, a White mob, with incendiary rage, burned Greenwood to ash. Even memories were murdered when the dead were dropped into unmarked graves. In December of 2019, before the pandemic, we found Tulsa preparing to embrace a reckoning, with a plan to exhume the truth and raise the dead.​

ALSO:

No sign commemorates a place in Richmond where 20,000 Black people were buried. Lenora McQueen wants to change that. | Richmond Local News | richmond.com

The 1921 Tulsa Massacre Caused Survivors Decades of Harm - The Atlantic

They were told white men 'wouldn't relate to' the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then came 'Watchmen'


*those opposed to truth.

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IN OTHER NEWS, the incredible Ms. BILES:

Simone Biles Can Pull Off a Move That No Other Gymnast Can. So Why Is She Penalized For It?
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Once, there was a basketball player named Lew Alcindor. You might've heard of the guy: a literal head (sometimes two) above everyone else at seven feet tall. He played for UCLA in the '60s, and led his team to three national championships. Being that tall, and that damn good, he could take the ball and jam it directly into the hoop. Often. So often that the NCAA, essentially, banned dunking. The man who became the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was penalized for simply being better than all the small dudes who couldn't ram the ball through the net.

Well over 50 years since we saw what was unofficially dubbed the Lew Alcindor Rule, it looks like we've just seen another handicapping of an all-timer, this time in women's gymnastics. We might just be able to call it the Simone Biles Rule.

This past Saturday at the U.S. Classic, Biles—the most decorated gymnast in history—became the first woman to perform the ultra-dangerous Yurchenko double pike in competition. ...it's a marvel of a move so treacherous that most gymnasts won't even dare to practice it.

You'd think that Biles pulling off the move would be cause for celebration. Nope. The judges gave her a 6.6., which, by any measure of everyone watching who wasn't a judge that night, was far too low, considering the difficulty of the move.

“I feel like now we just have to get what we get because there’s no point in putting up a fight because they’re not going to reward it,” Biles told The New York Times. “So we just have to take it and be quiet.”

Simone Biles Is Getting Penalized For Being Too Athletic, She Is Frustrated
Simone Biles is so dominant that scoring rules are holding her back for the safety of others, but she thinks the reason is more nefarious
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[ActionBuddy]

The history they* don't want America to KNOW ABOUT:

Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Last year, the death of George Floyd, in the hands of Minneapolis police, came on Memorial Day. Ninety-nine years before, that same week, Black Americans suffered a massacre.

In the days after World War I, a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Greenwood was among the wealthiest Black communities. Oil made Greenwood rich, but jealousy made it suffer.

In 1921, a White mob, with incendiary rage, burned Greenwood to ash. Even memories were murdered when the dead were dropped into unmarked graves. In December of 2019, before the pandemic, we found Tulsa preparing to embrace a reckoning, with a plan to exhume the truth and raise the dead.​

ALSO:

No sign commemorates a place in Richmond where 20,000 Black people were buried. Lenora McQueen wants to change that. | Richmond Local News | richmond.com

The 1921 Tulsa Massacre Caused Survivors Decades of Harm - The Atlantic

They were told white men 'wouldn't relate to' the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then came 'Watchmen'
*those opposed to truth.

Amazing, eye-opening, posts here, @b.c.

Thank you for your work here!

A/B

 

[ActionBuddy]

I stumbled upon this inspiring photo from the 1960's Civil Rights Movement era, and thought it belongs here.

A/B

 

[ActionBuddy]

CapitolHillSeattle.com:
Seattle's St. Mark’s illuminated with names of people killed by police

Tuesday night, a message of remembrance appeared on the granite walls of Capitol Hill’s St. Mark’s Cathedral, visible from I-5 and across the city: GEORGE FLOYD SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE TODAY.

From May 25th, the one year anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd and of the start of the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that followed in Seattle and across the country, through June 8th, projections of the names of dozens of people killed by police will be projected onto the west façade of the North Capitol Hill house of worship in a project from St. Mark’s and the ACLU of Washington:

While the project began with George Floyd’s name on May 25, all other names will be those of people killed in Washington, including King, Pierce, Clark, and Snohomish Counties. The goal is to preserve the memory of local cases that may be in danger of being forgotten, and to serve as a reminder that these tragedies occur in Washington too, not just in other states. In Washington, about 40 to 50 people are killed by police officers each year. These victims are disproportionately Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American Pacific Islander Washingtonians. The individuals whose names will be projected onto the cathedral have been included with the consent and support of their families through the WCPA, an organization which centers the voices of impacted family members whose loved ones have been killed by police.

You can also visit projectingjustice.org to learn more about the lives of those named as well as the circumstances of their killings, the ACLU says.

The names will be projected beginning at sunset and continuing for at least two hours each night.

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Sometimes, I'm proud of my city's people.

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[b.c.]

Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America
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Tensions in Tulsa on 100th anniversary of 1921 race massacre

Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Recall Century-Old Horrors During Congressional Hearing | HuffPost

MEANWHILE:

Tulsa Race Massacre Events Could Be Attacked by White Supremacist: DHS
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[ActionBuddy]

NYC Black Wall Street gallery defaced on Tulsa massacre anniversary

White paint was smeared on the window of a Lower Manhattan art gallery named Black Wall Street on the 100th anniversary of the infamous Tulsa Race Massacre — and the NYPD is probing the vandalism as a possible hate crime.

A security guard at a Nike store across from the Black Wall Street Gallery on Mercer Street spotted the vandalism around 7 a.m. Monday — the date in 1921 when white residents of Tulsa, Okla., laid deadly waste to the city’s Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street for its budding black business clout.

The Manhattan art gallery decried its shop’s defacement as “deliberate and intentional” in an Instagram post.

“Some perpetrator(s) vandalized our space at 26 Mercer Street sometime last night between 11pm and 7am,” the post read, noting that the business determined the earlier end of the timeframe based on when Dr. Ricco Wright, the gallery’s Tulsa-born curator, left Sunday night.

The post includes a photo of the gallery’s front window thick with white paint over much of its name.

The gallery said in the caption that the NYPD initially declined to categorize the vandalism as hate speech, though a department rep told The Post that the incident has been referred to the Hate Crime Task Force for investigation.

“We are demanding that the police review their policies on what constitutes hate speech because this was indeed deliberate and intentional,” the gallery’s post read. “All one has to do is look at the facts. We are Black Wall Street Gallery and this incident occurred exactly 100 years after the massacre.

“As far as we’re concerned, smearing white paint on the word ‘black’ is deliberate and intentional and therefore constitutes hate speech.”

The gallery noted that no other businesses on the block were vandalized overnight and that it had not previously been targeted since opening its doors in October.

An estimated 300 people were killed, hundreds more wounded, and businesses, homes and churches burned to the ground in the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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[b.c.]

^ Thanks for the post, A.B. I guess SOME people just don't WANT Black lives to MATTER:

Republicans rush to ban 'critical race theory,' but they keep dropping hints about the real goal - LDS Returned Missionaries

Republican efforts to ban schools from teaching that racism is real and systemic continue to spread, from a recall effort against school board members in Loudoun County, Virginia, over teaching training on “systemic oppression and implicit bias” to a group of Washington state legislators describing history education acknowledging systemic racism as “activist indoctrination.”

But the very backers of this attack on teaching about a major theme in U.S. history are also telling us exactly what they’re doing here.

Christopher Rufo—whose Fox News appearance ranting about the issue may have drawn Donald Trump’s personal attention to the issue—explained the plan behind all these state-level efforts to ban the teaching of an academic theory that isn’t even being taught in schools.

“We have successfully frozen their brand—‘critical race theory’—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions.

We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category,” Rufo tweeted in March. “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”​

In other words, the Republican war on “critical race theory” is not about actual critical race theory. It’s about coming up with a term to use as a catch-all for “stuff we don’t like about race,” extending to the radical notion that racism is a real force in U.S. history and remains a force in the U.S. today.

In translation: There can be no challenge to an existing, white-centered, white-focused version of history and understanding of how power operates in today’s United States. Not even a little bit.

Opinion: Red states are trying to ignore bitter truths about our history - The San Diego Union-Tribune

 

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MEANWHILE:

The President of the United States is in Tulsa, Oklahoma today. Thank you, Joe.

Joe Biden Becomes First U.S. President To Commemorate Tulsa Race Massacre | HuffPost
Tulsa Race Massacre: Biden proclaims day of remembrance on 100th anniversary - CNNPolitics


THE HISTORY THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW ABOUT:

Two years before the Tulsa massacre, the ‘Red Summer’ saw white mobs murder hundreds of Black Americans

NY Times’ Mara Gay Tells Morning Joe: Americans, ‘Especially White Americans,’ Are ‘Very Good at Forgetting History’

This Black Journalist Made Sure the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Never Forgotten
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[3HandsfulofDick]

NYC Black Wall Street gallery defaced on Tulsa massacre anniversary

White paint was smeared on the window of a Lower Manhattan art gallery named Black Wall Street on the 100th anniversary of the infamous Tulsa Race Massacre — and the NYPD is probing the vandalism as a possible hate crime.

A security guard at a Nike store across from the Black Wall Street Gallery on Mercer Street spotted the vandalism around 7 a.m. Monday — the date in 1921 when white residents of Tulsa, Okla., laid deadly waste to the city’s Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street for its budding black business clout.

The Manhattan art gallery decried its shop’s defacement as “deliberate and intentional” in an Instagram post.

“Some perpetrator(s) vandalized our space at 26 Mercer Street sometime last night between 11pm and 7am,” the post read, noting that the business determined the earlier end of the timeframe based on when Dr. Ricco Wright, the gallery’s Tulsa-born curator, left Sunday night.

The post includes a photo of the gallery’s front window thick with white paint over much of its name.

The gallery said in the caption that the NYPD initially declined to categorize the vandalism as hate speech, though a department rep told The Post that the incident has been referred to the Hate Crime Task Force for investigation.

“We are demanding that the police review their policies on what constitutes hate speech because this was indeed deliberate and intentional,” the gallery’s post read. “All one has to do is look at the facts. We are Black Wall Street Gallery and this incident occurred exactly 100 years after the massacre.

“As far as we’re concerned, smearing white paint on the word ‘black’ is deliberate and intentional and therefore constitutes hate speech.”

The gallery noted that no other businesses on the block were vandalized overnight and that it had not previously been targeted since opening its doors in October.

An estimated 300 people were killed, hundreds more wounded, and businesses, homes and churches burned to the ground in the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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A/B

Thank you for posting this....Just imagine how many people wouldn’t know about this If it wasn’t being talked about... Just another example why it should be taught in the schools

 

[ActionBuddy]

Thank you for posting this... Just imagine how many people wouldn’t know about this If it wasn’t being talked about... Just another example why it should be taught in the schools.

Glad that you appreciated the post, @3HandsfulofDick. I found that news item shocking, when I found it. Such a very deliberate, planned, specifically timed attack on a peaceful business!

And, then that NYC "authorities" are only "considering that it might be a hate crime"... Duh!

Violent Racists and their apologists have no boundaries.

A/B

 

[ActionBuddy]

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Republicans rush to ban 'critical race theory,' but they keep dropping hints about the real goal - LDS Returned Missionaries

Republican efforts to ban schools from teaching that racism is real and systemic continue to spread, from a recall effort against school board members in Loudoun County, Virginia, over teaching training on “systemic oppression and implicit bias” to a group of Washington state legislators describing history education acknowledging systemic racism as “activist indoctrination.”

But the very backers of this attack on teaching about a major theme in U.S. history are also telling us exactly what they’re doing here.

Christopher Rufo—whose Fox News appearance ranting about the issue may have drawn Donald Trump’s personal attention to the issue—explained the plan behind all these state-level efforts to ban the teaching of an academic theory that isn’t even being taught in schools.

“We have successfully frozen their brand—‘critical race theory’—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions.

We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category,” Rufo tweeted in March. “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”​

In other words, the Republican war on “critical race theory” is not about actual critical race theory. It’s about coming up with a term to use as a catch-all for “stuff we don’t like about race,” extending to the radical notion that racism is a real force in U.S. history and remains a force in the U.S. today.

In translation: There can be no challenge to an existing, white-centered, white-focused version of history and understanding of how power operates in today’s United States. Not even a little bit.

Opinion: Red states are trying to ignore bitter truths about our history - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Another inspirational photo from the 1960's Civil Rights Movement, @b.c. But I'm skeptical about the intent of the article, coming from a branch of the traditionally racist Mormon "Church".

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[b.c.]

Another inspirational photo from the 1960's Civil Rights Movement, @b.c. But I'm skeptical about the intent of the article, coming from a branch of the traditionally racist Mormon "Church".

A/B

I did note the source but the story didn't appear to be negatively embellished that I could tell.

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[ActionBuddy]

Please take the time to watch this documentary:

MLK/FBI

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[b.c.]

ON BLACK LIVES IN AMERICA:

Column: Let’s not forget: Chicago had a ‘Black Wall Street’ too

Of the many lessons to be considered 100 years after a breathtakingly brutal race riot tore through Tulsa’s Greenwood district, one of the most painful is this: Tulsa wasn’t alone.

The two-day rampage came two years after the “Red Summer” of 1919 in which race riots and white supremacist terrorism tore through more than three dozen cities, including Chicago.

President Joe Biden and others paid tribute to the African American community of Greenwood, often called the “Black Wall Street” for its thriving prosperity in the then-segregated oil state.

That prosperity went up in smoke between May 31 and June 1, destroyed by angry white mobs killing, burning and looting through one of the worst eruptions of racist violence in this country’s history.​

Remembering the United States Colored Troops who helped win the Civil War

As the nation marked Memorial Day and paid tribute to those who died during military service, some remembered the Black soldiers who fought on the Union side during the Civil War. Undeterred by racism, thousands of Black soldiers answered President Abraham Lincoln's call to fight for the United States and their freedom.​

ALSO:

Hollywood Is Still Failing to Tell One of Black America’s Most Horrifying Stories
Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History.
Historian Carol Anderson Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment : NPR
Netflix's 'High on the Hog' is reclaiming the not so easy history of Black Americans
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[ActionBuddy]

ON BLACK LIVES IN AMERICA:

Column: Let’s not forget: Chicago had a ‘Black Wall Street’ too

Of the many lessons to be considered 100 years after a breathtakingly brutal race riot tore through Tulsa’s Greenwood district, one of the most painful is this: Tulsa wasn’t alone.

The two-day rampage came two years after the “Red Summer” of 1919 in which race riots and white supremacist terrorism tore through more than three dozen cities, including Chicago.

President Joe Biden and others paid tribute to the African American community of Greenwood, often called the “Black Wall Street” for its thriving prosperity in the then-segregated oil state.

That prosperity went up in smoke between May 31 and June 1, destroyed by angry white mobs killing, burning and looting through one of the worst eruptions of racist violence in this country’s history.​

Remembering the United States Colored Troops who helped win the Civil War

As the nation marked Memorial Day and paid tribute to those who died during military service, some remembered the Black soldiers who fought on the Union side during the Civil War. Undeterred by racism, thousands of Black soldiers answered President Abraham Lincoln's call to fight for the United States and their freedom.​

ALSO:

Hollywood Is Still Failing to Tell One of Black America’s Most Horrifying Stories
Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History.
Historian Carol Anderson Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment : NPR
Netflix's 'High on the Hog' is reclaiming the not so easy history of Black Americans
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Thank you for these "reminders", @b.c.

‘Ready to explode’: How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago

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Darnella Frazier (18), Who Filmed George Floyd's Murder, Wins Pulitzer Prize | HuffPost

Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose video of George Floyd’s murder went viral, fueling massive protests against police brutality around the world last year, has been awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize.

In an announcement Friday afternoon, the Pulitzer Prize board commended Frazier “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd,” highlighting “the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quests for truth and justice.”

In the words of George’s brother Philonise, the video “changed the world.”

“She was the one who recorded a motion cinema picture that set the world on fire,” he said just over a year later, after the video served as a key piece of evidence in Chauvin’s trial and conviction.

Congratulations to #DarnellaFrazier. #Pulitzer pic.twitter.com/MdXk1Sspqo — The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) June 11, 2021
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AND:

A Black Family’s Land Was Taken For A D.C. Park And School. Now The Park Will Bear Their Name

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meanwhile........

Judge suspends debt relief program for farmers of color after conservative law firm, white farmers sue Biden

And in other news"

Missouri governor does not pardon Kevin Strickland, whose innocence claim won support

A federal judge ruled three years ago that Crosley Green's murder conviction couldn't stand. Green still isn't free - CNN
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[chrisrobin]

The awards season is doing more damage to the Black Lives Matter movement (though I'd prefer it to be the Black Lives Matter Too) community.
It would seem from the number of awards that rewards are not being awarded for being the best at doing the job but more based on the colour of skin.
This PC movement is now moving throughout the media when its not the experience you have but the desire for the media to parade black faces regardless,
The media is doing more harm by suddenly populating advertisements, television show with a preponderance of black artistes in a knew jerk reaction.
So which matters to the media most, being best or......?

 

[Industrialsize]

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts tried to explain critical race theory … it didn’t go well

Gov. Ricketts says he is 'opposed to critical race theory'

 

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ON BLACK LIVES, PAST AND PRESENT:

U.S. Congress declares holiday for Juneteenth, marking end of slavery | Reuters

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed and sent to President Joe Biden a bill making June 19, or "Juneteenth," a federal holiday commemorating the end of legal enslavement of Black Americans.

The holiday marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.

During House floor debate, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, appeared beside a well-known black-and-white photograph showing a man's back scarred from whippings during slavery.

She said she had introduced legislation in the House to make Juneteenth a federal holiday "to commemorate the end of chattel slavery, America's original sin, and to bring about celebration."

The House approved the bill on a vote of 415-14. The Senate unanimously passed the bill on Tuesday.​

Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. What about Kansas and Missouri?
94-Year-Old Has ‘Off The Chain’ Response To New Juneteenth Holiday
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MEANWHILE:

A Black Family’s Land Was Taken For A D.C. Park And School. Now The Park Will Bear Their Name

HBCUs Are Fighting For the Billions Owed That States Have Failed To Pay

AND:

A reporter we're not talking about: ABC's Rachel Scott, who asked Putin to his face, 'What are you so afraid of?'
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