How can you have Black friends, listen to Black artists, love Black culture, quote Black people, and enjoy everything we create then disappear when Black people are murdered and their deaths are dismissed as suicide?
Stop hiding behind “I have Black friends.” If you care, speak up when it matters.
The accused killer was Byron De La Beckwith, a white segregationist and member of the Ku Klux Klan. He was tried twice in 1964. Both trials ended with all-white juries unable to reach a conviction.
This photo was taken at Medgar Evers’s funeral. He served as the NAACP field secretary for Mississippi and was killed by a white man for registering Black voters.
If governments want Digital IDs to track citizens, then citizens should demand full transparency from politicians.
We should know who they meet, who funds them, who lobbies them, what they spend, and where every public shilling goes.
You work for us. Show us what you’re doing.
Someone explain this to me: how is there always money to compensate Holocaust survivors, but somehow there’s never money for reparations to Black Americans?
If governments can acknowledge one historic injustice, why is another treated like it never happened?
What were you gonna do with Africa’s land, labor, gold, oil, diamonds and millions of enslaved people? Oh right you figured it out. You took them anyway.
Black people were put on display as human attractions exhibited at fairs, shows, and even zoos to entertain white audiences.
They dehumanized us, made money from it, and called it civilization.
Whether it’s in Palestine. Sudan. Congo. Nigeria or Venezuela or Yemen. We are all confronted by the same enemy. No matter who you are or where you are, we are all victims of western imperialism.
Why is everyone expected to explain where they come from except white Americans?
I mean;
African American. Native American. Hispanic American.
But somehow no-one refers to whites as “European American”.
Why is whiteness treated as the default American identity?
How Western documentary crews often focus on poverty, slums, and dusty alleys while ignoring everyday life in Africa.
The cameraman walking past actual life to find the poorest corner in a 10-mile radius.
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted of Emmett Till’s 1955 murder by an all-white Mississippi jury after about an hour of deliberation; they later confessed in a paid Look magazine interview but could not be retried because of double jeopardy
But Julian wood was given a life imprisonment. Let that sink in.
Julian Wood should have been growing up, going to school, making friends and becoming a man. Instead, at 3, his life was taken because racism gave some people permission to see a White child as evil