#Ancestors

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blissonmi

African Americans are indigenous to Africa. I don’t wanna hear none of that “African Americans are indigenous to America because y’all been here 400 years/since 1619,” when our direct lineages,

🇬🇩Harmony | BLM ✊🏾

nutmeg_princess

It’s the fact that it’s the FIRST hit on the search for me. It’s the fact that ALL my school history books are written by West Indians for me. It’s

Joel Baden

JoelBaden

#Genesis 23Abraham buys a burial site. Why does Abraham basically negotiate against himself for the entire chapter? The Hittites are giving him the land to bury Sarah, but he insists

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

Racist history always does stuff like this - A) it casts acknowledgement of non-White people's humanity as undignified. B) It casts the aggrieved white people as a part of the

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

_Rawilcox

The one time Christians actually have an opportunity to show up for suffering Blackfolks, they choose solidarity w/ Donald Trump. The one time we need their intercession on our behalf,

Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

We have advanced degrees, and I can get an artist visa in a few countries that will allow the husbeast and kid #2 to join me. Kid #1 is already

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now_dee

Those Ancestors that were in n physical bondage, what type of labor were they forced to do? Mine work? Lumber work? Cotton? Landscaping? Engineering? Cooking? Cleaning? Driving? Driver work (aka

Scorpio

high_define

This hypothetical question poses an issue that squarely divides critical race theory thinkers indeed, civil rights activists in general. One camp, which we may call “idealists” holds that racism &

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

they were slaves.https://twitter.com/tylerfaye_/status/1259299549119569920 they were literally property. they were not human. and it benefits none of us—and i wager that it deeply taunts our ancestors—to pretend that this is not

TSG👻

TweetsSeeGhosts

Aight man, Imma say it because I can do so without being labelled a racist. BLM is a fraud. Hear me out, you may think I’m wrong but this is

Dyamond Bolden

DyamondWithaY

THREAD This is learned behavior. All of them need to be suspended.“Black people say ‘n*gga’ all the time!”Not all of us use that derogatory term. It’s the Ebonics pronunciation of

Mamali Gatyeni

GatyeniM

#TheBlameGameThread; UkufaKusembizeni. Inyoka ecanda iziziba. Inkonjane emnyama umsinga wesalukazi. I have often been an advocate of great bonds and yet in the same breath a judge and a jury of

Katy Swallow - Tarot Alchemist

kswallowtarot

1) My ancestors intentionally owned people, to secure their wealth through intentional use of enslaved labor. Even if I asked them directly I doubt these ancestors would deny this. They

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iamthecreatress

Grab some dirt from your local police station and work it. Get the pictures and names of the cops and people involved in the murders of our people and work

Dr. Mamata R. Singh

mamatarsingh

Strange!#Duryodhan TempleBelieve it or not, there are villages in Uttarakhand where Duryodhana has been worshiped as a guardian deityDuryodhana temple in Jakhol village in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand was built

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

A misbegotten, warped freedom obsession is killing us. And before @FoxNews and its junkies come after me, let me preempt the response I know you're preparing.No, your ancestors didn't fight