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You're not paranoid, I'm (whichever group you hate). 👍 Anyone who disagrees must be. I'm not Black American but support their justice claim.

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Kennedy Lodan Sanders, 24, was one of 3 American soldiers killed in Jordan by Iran-backed militias. She comes from a family of Black American service members. #BlackAmerican #Patriot #USArmy #Soldiers


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A Black American family Dunham, Kentucky, 1945

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4th of July – St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939

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Black American Grandmothers.


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Ana Lucia Araujo on Brazil “The country that has the largest black population outside Nigeria” Academics and Pan-Africanist often make this claim, but when you look at the Brazilian Census and see how they actually self-identify (this is key), this claim is definitely not true

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The majority of Black Trump voters were of immigrant heritage. They were not Black Americans of US Slavery descent. x.com/RyonCobb/statu…

The 16% of Black voters for Trump watching him announce reparations for white people victimized by school diversity policies:

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Black Americans waiting to vote in 1966 Lowndes County, Alabama.


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Santa Barbara, California, 1926

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From the mouths of sharecroppers to your ears. Our ancestors absolutely wanted their lineage to enjoy the wealth of the country they built.

Whenever I hear people say that “our ancestors built this country” they always forget to say that they were forced to build it. That they “built this country” under protest. Our enslaved ancestors were not revolting for a slice of American pie. They were revolting to be liberated…



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One lesson that should be learned (but won't) is that Black Americans need to stop projecting our ideals/solidarity onto other groups based on theory Expecting white women (due to feminism) or Latinos (due to BIPOCism) interests to align with Black Americans is foolish


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Dr. Sandy Darity on the Significance of Delineation. Listen to The Full Interview on The Torraine Walker Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3Rv63I…


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An example of white Americans getting paid reparations by the US government in the 1910s for something that happened to them by France in the 1790s But I was always told only living people that were directly harmed could receive reparations and not their descendants 🤔

Estimating the Cost of Reparations with Thomas Craemer m.youtube.com/watch?v=aokPsd…



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Obviously reparations have been paid to descendants on several occasions including reparations paid to the Japanese, the people of Guam, and to the family of Iran hostages, another example of white Americans getting paid reparations to their heirs 👇🏾 x.com/NonHumanMedia1…

Iran hostage reparations "Their families and kids will get a lump sum payment of $600,000"



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The concept of reparations is not based on race! It is based on status. In his book ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ in the chapter ‘Racism and The White Backlash,’ my father, #MLK, stated, "A society that has done something special against the (descendants of…


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Black Americans at Northwestern University in the 1970s.


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Excerpts from “BLACK LIKE THEM” By Malcolm Gladwell: “They are from Jamaica, and they don't consider themselves black at all. ...To a West Indian, black is a literal description: you are black if your skin is black. Noel's father is black...” “In 1994, Philip Kasinitz, a…


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We have a right to tell our own story about our origins in the USA as a distinct ethnic group. We will continue to unapologetically center and prioritize ourselves Black Americans = Black descendants of USA chattel slavery Our history does not start in the Caribbean

It's just a perpetual thorn in my side as a historian who thinks it's crucial that we start Black American history with Ayiti-Kiskeya (Hispaniola) and Boriken (Puerto Rico) because that is where the first Black Americans were in the 1490s and 1510s. Our histories are shared.



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The intentional use of "Black American" 👀 How one genealogist helped thousands of Black Americans trace their family history 🙏RIP Genealogist Frazine Taylor of Montgomery, Alabama youtu.be/MBvQHjIlh6s?si…


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Black Americans in 1950s Los Angeles.


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Black Americans don't let anybody tell you what flag you can or can't wave in the country your ancestors built Don't let them define you or our historical relationship with this country


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Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down the case of the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors who had filed for reparations. This is what one of the survivors told me just before they made this final appeal.


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