#ENSLAVED

One way we white #genealogists can actively break through our old conceptions & #WhiteSupremacist notions of history is to publicize our enslaving ancestors. As we see how many we have,
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please read and understand this tw // mentions of sexual abuse , ( enslaved prostitution )
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a thread of questions i have for aaron (@aaron_aintbroke) (you have to quote) 1. do you remember how u only found most of ur black moots in this fandom bc
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Romani superheroes in comics. The Rom have been persecuted & enslaved for centuries, subjected to Romani Genocide, & made modern outcasts without a voice. Disappointing to see MCU erasing Maximoff
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As any Portuguese person have heard since primary school, Portugal became the first country to abolish slavery #OTD in 1761 thanks to the Marquis of Pombal (this guy).Except it didn’t.
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reading now and wow, harriet tubman died five years before my great-grandmother was born. my great grandmother lived until I was 21. that's how close we are to slavery resistance
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DEHUMANIZING WHITE SUPREMACYHuman zoos were popular across the U.S. and Europe in the 19th & 20th centuries. whites traveled to consume exploited Black and Indigenous populations of the world showcased
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My GM is from Dumbarton, Jamaica, near Browns Town. In the coming months and years you will hear ignorant people say Kamala Harris’s “family” owned slaves. Short thread on this.
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Today we commemorate the Abolishment of Slavery in Martinique. May 22, 1848. So recent!https://twitter.com/Tanlistwa/status/1263765300811649024 On March 25th, 1848, a boat arrives at the coastal town of St Pierre, cultural capital
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1/SPOILER ALERT: Has anyone done a thinkity think piece comparing the relationship between Killmonger and T'Challa from @theblackpanther and Adelaide and Red from @JordanPeele 's @UsMovie? If so, 2/Bc here
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The past few weeks have got me thinking about ways to expand public awareness of slavery. One way can be to highlight how the history of slavery touches a wide
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what if conceptualizing polarity as day and night instead of feminine and masculine doesn’t adequately disrupt the hierarchical dualism of gender—given that historically the day has been the purview of
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the appropriation of AAVE (a thread) AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.It is typically incorrectly perceived as “bad English”, “ghetto language”, and/ or as labeled as “blaccent”. yet, AAVE
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1. In the coming months on Twitter, we’ll be taking a look at how white supremacy impacts the way marginalized communities experience death and access death care. 2. Inspired by
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As black people in America, and as the minority, we are the oppressed. Also understand that racists, white nationalists, and white supremacists know more about our history than a lot
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Can we talk about one particular part from this exceptional piece of journalism by @kbeccaandrews? (Thread)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/ Our Chan
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