Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
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Happy Black Friday!
I try to spend some time every Friday boosting posts of music videos by Black artists. I'm not Black myself, so I'm taking a chance today by posting my own. I hope it's okay to participate in the hashtag!
Summertime, by Lena Horne
https://youtu.be/EIHPHMUZoq0
Lena Horne was an amazing woman. Not just a singer, she was a very popular actress who wouldn't take roles she thought typecast her. She was a civil rights activist, and participated in protests and marches. She also sued clubs that wouldn't let her perform, and ended up blacklisted during the McCarthyism of the 1940s because of her leftist progressive views.
This song makes me wistful for relief from the ice currently blanketing my city. This video is from:
Black History Music Playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMGH4dosQ9fyz1ZUuPEW9qsRNgdlHMH0T
The playlist starts with 85 great videos in alphabetical order by first name, adds 9 more videos in no particular order, and ends on a 15-minute tech product review for reasons unclear to me.
More on Lena Horne: https://www.biography.com/musicians/lena-horne
#BlackFriday #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter #MusicVideos #blog
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The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth
@Jaden2@mstdn.social I’m starting to think that if you don’t feel like a radical, you’re not paying attention!
@cstross It's amazing to watch. I mean, we can't be sure yet, but I sure wouldn't bet against your first guess!
@Pat It takes a bigger brain than mine to understand that, despite Dr King and Malcom X being murdered with guns, guns were somehow essential to civil rights. Perhaps it's true, in the sense that King's murder with a gun led to LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1968, in part to stem the protests that erupted afterward.
Guns have been used against civil rights protestors over and over and over again, and used by civil rights protestors almost never. This practical history of what has actually happened seems more helpful than your counterfactual assertion that guns are equal to freedom. That is plainly not true.
In a country awash with guns, my daughter doesn't have the freedom to use a locker at school, and I don't have the freedom of feeling certain that she won't be shot at school. In this ridiculous hellscape of a country awash with guns, we've had 55 mass shootings in the 33 days of 2023.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
The history is clear, the results of the experiment are in: guns are killing us, and it needs to stop.
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We all admire Amsterdam for having the vision to replace car infrastructure with bike infrastructure. We see the positive uplift in small business activity, and livability. 🙂👍🏿
Now imagine doing that in reverse. Replace relatively safely walkable and bikeable infrastructure with car infrastructure. In fact, put in freeways. Demolish entire thriving wealthy neighborhoods with freeways that don't serve the neighborhood.🙃
That's what we did to Black folk. That's how we destroyed Black wealth.
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Incredible ‘Painted Lady’ Victorian home in the Queen Anne neighborhood of #Seattle.
In light of a deeply-disturbing ruling from the U.S. 5th Circuit court today, a reminder that even before the United States Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller in 2008, inventing an individual "right" to own guns separate from any considerations of militias, and long before they decided the Bruen case last year apparently made it impossible to apply any considerations that have surfaced since 1788, the second amendment itself is rooted in this country's original sin of enslavement.
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
https://truthout.org/articles/the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery/
Today we sacrifice our children's lives at the altar of the NRA, and it's all a bitter fruit of sacrificing the lives of those whom we consider "Black" during enslavement.
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth #blog #politics #guns #DomesticViolence
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Remember: A billionaire is just a billion dollars that has taken possession of a human body and is using it for purposes of murder.
It seems like a lot of departments have reasonable education requirements, and they don't seem to help. For example:
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols-wasnt-murdered-because
Ending qualified immunity, that would clearly help. It might also result in understaffed police departments as cops quit rather than take out insurance policies, but that just sounds like it would help in two ways!
At a guess, the rich white men writing the policy would barely notice am additional subscription fee among all of the other fees they're paying for their children to go to college.
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A #BlackHistoryMonth post by @mekkaokereke about black communities in the USA that were razed reminded me of a Canadian example: Africville.
Canadaland did a great podcast on it:
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/real-estate-2-the-last-man-in-africville/
Basically, Africville was founded by Black former slaves who fought as loyalists in the US revolution.
They were given the land near Halifax, then treated as a nuisance until it was ultimately razed.
We Canadians like to pretend these things didn't happen here, but they did.
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🧵 For #BlackHistoryMonth I want to recognize contributions made by Black people to some of the things I care about. I'm gonna kick things off by shining the spotlight on #MikePondsmith, best known as the creator of the #Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. Pondsmith enjoyed playing traditional games as a kid, went to school for graphic design and behavioral psychology, and ended up working in publishing. [continued]
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Hey #lawfedi folks, a friend that runs a low-bono #legal services firm is in need of funding.
They do incredible work for sexual assault, domestic violence, eviction and other at-risk populations in Indiana.
They are, frankly, right now at risk themselves. This is an incredible organization doing important #legal work for the people of #Indiana.
If you can give, please do. If you can't, please boost or share the link elsewhere. Let's help them out!
My life online during the month of February is mostly shutting up about the things I normally natter on about, and promoting and highlighting others on the subject of Black history in honor of Black History Month. Such as:
Unsung Black Heroes, from Quentin R. Jiles
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuX_udIp4IoHR1MtRLpumkvED8wqHPxtO
Quentin is the host of The Queue with Que. Two years ago he ran a series on "Unsung Black Heroes," talking about people like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Marilyn Nance and Dorothy Height. As a white person, I found myself nodding enthusiastically when I saw Coates or James Baldwin, and wondering "who?" at some of the other figures he covered. I hope you're better-educated about Black history than I am, but if not, or if you want a reminder, this series is for you.
There are 22 episodes, which are generally under ten minutes, although Fannie Lou Hamer just can't be contained in only ten minutes. 😀
Also, @mekkaokereke has been on fire talking about generational wealth today. I know I included him as someone to follow yesterday, but if a list of ten was too much for you, at least follow Mekka.
Then go back and follow the other nine, too. I'll have more suggestions tomorrow.
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Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0
Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0
Children killed annually by drag shows: 0
Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400
GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.
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It should become clear why Black folk can't seem to build generational wealth in the United States.
This failure is not something intrinsic in the makeup or behavior of Black people.
This failure is baked into how Black people in the US are treated. In other words, racism.
Black folk cannot just "bootstraps" or "education is the key" or "LLC Twitter" or "Hustle, grind, put in work," their way out of this reality. We need to address the racism head on. And we can't do it alone.
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*Creating* generational wealth is not hard for Black people. It's happened many times in US history. There have been thriving communities.
*Keeping* generational wealth has proved to be nearly impossible. Between racist pogroms, and eminent domain used to create parks, freeways, reservoirs, and shopping malls, Black folk in the US have consistently had their wealth stolen by white folks.
I still run into New Yorkers that go to Central Park every week, but have never heard of Seneca Village.
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Love conquers fear
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