"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity." ― #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory

"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity." ― #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory

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The holidays were never just about celebration for Black people.
They were about survival, protection, and creating warmth in cold conditions.
Joy didn’t erase oppression, it interrupted it.
And that legacy lives on.
'For black plp 100-50 yrs ago, Christmas was complicated. Joy existed, but so did fear. In the U.S., the holiday season unfolded under Jim Crow, lynching, and segregation. In Africa and the Caribbean, it arrived under colonial rule. Celebration had boundaries.'
Post by Black History Buff

#BlackHistory #BlackJoy #HolidayHistory
#DiasporaStories #HiddenHistory
#BlackCulture #ChristmasThroughTime
#OurStory #ReclaimedJoy #christmas

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The holidays were never just about celebration for Black people.
They were about survival, protection, and creating warmth in cold conditions.
Joy didn’t erase oppression, it interrupted it.
And that legacy lives on.
'For black plp 100-50 yrs ago, Christmas was complicated. Joy existed, but so did fear. In the U.S., the holiday season unfolded under Jim Crow, lynching, and segregation. In Africa and the Caribbean, it arrived under colonial rule. Celebration had boundaries.'
Post by Black History Buff

#BlackHistory #BlackJoy #HolidayHistory
#DiasporaStories #HiddenHistory
#BlackCulture #ChristmasThroughTime
#OurStory #ReclaimedJoy #christmas

Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons... ― #ToniMorrison #BlackHistory

How France's diverse forces were 'whitewashed' during the liberation of Paris

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240824-liberation-of-paris-how-french-forces-were-whitewashed-the-summer-of-1944

#blackfrench #blackpeople #blackhistory #blackmastodon

"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude." ― #StokelyCarmichael #BlackHistory

"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude." ― #StokelyCarmichael #BlackHistory

How France's diverse forces were 'whitewashed' during the liberation of Paris

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240824-liberation-of-paris-how-french-forces-were-whitewashed-the-summer-of-1944

#blackfrench #blackpeople #blackhistory #blackmastodon

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen

Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen
Poem By #LangstonHughes - 1943 #BlackHistory

"You delight,
So it would seem,
At making mince-meat of my dream.

If you keep on,
Before you’re through,
I’ll make mince-meat
Out of you."

"When they say, 'Go back to Africa,' I say, 'When you send the Polish back to Poland, the Italians back to Italy, the Irish back to Ireland, and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came and give the Indians their land back.' It's our right to stay here and we stay, and fight for what belongs to us." – #FannieLouHamer #BlackHistory

Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass https://www.liberalcurrents.com/against-the-slave-power-the-fugitive-liberalism-of-frederick-douglass/ #BlackHistory

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen