Melanated People

3 yrs

It's all about the color of your skin. Crack not even pure cocaine yet it had the harshest sentencing in Black communities. Opioids are government sanctioned drug selling with talks of cash settlements and treatmentcenters for victims aka wipipo. But remember, crack was an "Epidemic" while Opioids are a "Crisis". Smh

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3 yrs

On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools.

Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school.

Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

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3 yrs

I have a few slogans of my own 🤡

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3 yrs

"Cruelty is the strength of the wicked." ~ African Proverb

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3 yrs

“Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning.” ~ Ida B. Wells

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3 yrs

Top 10 most Pan-African nations in Africa.

1) Ghana 🇬🇭

2) Ethiopia 🇪🇹

3) Tanzania 🇹🇿

4) Zambia 🇿🇲

5) Kenya 🇰🇪

6)Nigeria 🇳🇬

7) Morocco 🇲🇦

8)Rwanda 🇷🇼

9) Senegal 🇸🇳

1 Uganda 🇺🇬

These countries embrace true Pan Africanism. They welcome Music, film, art from other African nations.They are not known to discriminate other African migrants in their country. They hug one another during competitions even if they lose,They defend Africans both at home and in the diaspora. They carry Africa along.