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mekka okereke :verified:

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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mekka okereke :verified:

*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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mekka okereke :verified:

Why do white Americans learn about the dozens of wealthy Black towns that were destroyed by racism, from:
* Fictional TV shows made by HBO
* Black women comedians (Amber Ruffin)
* Random Black dudes the post on the internet 🙋🏿‍♂️

Instead of from their history text books?

Again folks will ask "Why was I not taught this in school?" And again, I will say, "You know why." Look at what DeSantis is doing. Look at what the Texas Board of Education has always done.

This is the Forbidden Knowledge(tm)! 🤫

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D. Elisabeth Glassco

Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Frederick Douglass understood that it would take much more than rhetoric and the Civil War to make white Americans grant black folks their humanity.

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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #BlackExcellence #BlackJoy #histodons #History

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mekka okereke :verified:

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history.

Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!"

A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth.

Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town.

#BlackMastodon

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Phillip Winn

We can thank Carter G. Woodson, often described as the "father of Black history," for Black History Month. He started a week-long event in February 1926 which later turned into the month-long event we have today.

This video about Carter G. Woodson by One Mic History is less than 19 minutes, and worth watching: youtu.be/yDsgf3u3rEo

In fact, this entire 81-video playlist is good.

Black History, by One Mic History
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA

I'll be watching these myself this month, and I've got many more video playlists queued up!

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Enigma 👑

It’s February 1st, #BlackHistoryMonth. That means your reparations are due. ✊🏽

All month you can Venmo/CashApp me, or buy my art.

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Gail Waldby

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory

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gar mcvey-russell

Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
Black history is American history!
#BlackHistoryMonth

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Gail Waldby

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters

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Rubin Observatory

February 1st marks the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US.

This month, we'll highlight some of the influential Black astronomers whose discoveries led to science questions that Rubin Observatory hopes to address!

#astrodon #BlackAstronomers #astronomy #BlackHistory

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Phillip Winn

February is Black History Month. Fellow white people, do you have any idea how much better-educated than you nearly every Black person you know is about American history? There are events and people you have not been taught about at all, or about which and whom you have been taught a "white-washed" version, reshaped to fit into the great American myth of white history.

As a white kid, I was taught poorly, too. We used to call the process of learning the real history "waking up," with the end result of becoming more woke, maybe even fully woke. Now that term is being widely used pejoratively, so I'll say instead: open your eyes!

Open your eyes, and see what has always been there. Become someone who sees.

I've got a few links tucked away for February, and I'll find more as the month goes on, but let's start by turning to the people who've been taught Black history from the time they were young.

10 accounts to follow:

@mekkaokereke Mekka Okereke

@black_intellect blk_intellect

@liberate The Way of Accountability

@DHS Darker Hue Studios

@onlymeindc Sherri G., PhD

@nadinestorying she who weaves stories

@popcornreel Omar Moore

@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo

@Jaden2@mstdn.social Jaden

@kingsley kingsley

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CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 1998, Lillian Fishburne becomes the first African-American woman to be a rear Admiral in the US Navy.

#WomenInHistory #MilitaryHistory

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mekka okereke :verified:

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

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Havi S.

Welcome to February

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mekka okereke :verified:

You don't have to be racist to participate in systemic racism. US policing produces racist outcomes even from "not-racist" people. I'm going to explain (again):

* why I've probably been pulled over way more times than most people you know, even though most of the times I'm pulled over, I get no ticket (because I did nothing wrong)
* how I stopped getting pulled over so much (because I understand the system)
* And why lots of cops say that the average voter is more racist than the average cop

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I don't mean it go off on a rant here, but, my fellow Americans, we live in a country in which a six-year-old boy deliberately shot his first grade teacher with his mother's gun twenty-five days ago, and the national reckoning, the deep soul-searching and re-evaluation of every law and every cultural norm that has followed is... nonexistent. God bless America.

The school system's superintendent was removed, and the principal was reassigned, while the assistant principal resigned. The kids at this elementary school now have to walk through metal detectors and use clear plastic backpacks under the watchful eye of two cops. Which did no good at all less than a year ago in Uvalde, Texas. God bless America.

And that's it! Nobody has even bothered making a serious plea to change anything at all, because we know nothing will change. Virginia won't change anything any more than Texas did after the Uvalde shooting. We just know that this is now a part of life: sometimes people go to school to get shot. Sometimes it's children being shot. Sometimes it's children doing the shooting. Sometimes it's both. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by the cops who murdered yet another Black man, a situation in which the Black cops were fired and charged with murder, while the white cops were put on administrative leave. But that murder didn't even happen until the next day, and didn't become public knowledge until three weeks after Virginia shooting. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by January 6 being the anniversary of an attempted insurrection, for which the prime suspect remains at large. God bless America.

But if that's true, what does it say about this country that a six-year-old shooting his teacher takes third place at most to still more murderous cops and a scofflaw ex-president getting away with inciting rebellion?

God bless America.

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Oh, consequences of my own inaction, why are you inevitably here at my doorstep, costing my $9.2 million each day?

I mean, not *my* inaction, but *someone's* inaction. And since it's not *my* inaction, it's fun to watch.

infosec.exchange/@SecurityWrit

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Dare Obasanjo

People who started using Facebook when it launched for colleges are 40 this year.

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Mayee, MD 🍉

I need to always keep this in mind while interacting with people.

#kindness

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