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Ajackson17
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7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Nope. It wasn't white people who pushed for the month of February brotha.
IceBergTaylor
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How come they never talk about the speech in which MLK admits to leading his ppl into a burning building? As opposed to the same ole "I Have A Dream" speech that makes him look like nothin more than a punk...
alliknowishate
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Why cant blacks get their forty acres and a mule
Ajackson17
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IceBergTaylor;8725853 said:How come they never talk about the speech in which MLK admits to leading his ppl into a burning building? As opposed to the same ole "I Have A Dream" speech that makes him look like nothin more than a punk...
Read the whole speech. He was condemning America in that speech, some of it was very idealistic, but the overall point of that speech is that we are coming for our due and we are going to get it today.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
MLK Jr never had that in a speech and he realized that he has sent us into a burning house, because America is so corrupt on all levels especially as the higher he got he saw how corrupt America truly was. So in essence he was fighting for us but he never realized until too late how it's corruption would have on us until it was too late and that's when he start talking that Marcus Garvey spill and the economic spill and got murdered for it.
But the USA government saw him as a HUGE THREAT to the establishment. Let's not pretend there.
There is a lesson to be learned from this and a huge one, we cannot integrate into our oppressor system and think we are going to come out as functional Africans.
Ajackson17
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alliknowishate;8725883 said:Why cant blacks get their forty acres and a mule
Paying the oppress people who ancestors work created the global wealth would be a disservice to those in power giving you any due, because if you come at them for the whole amount the system would fall.
alliknowishate
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Ajackson17;8725889 said:alliknowishate;8725883 said:Why cant blacks get their forty acres and a mule
Paying the oppress people who ancestors work created the global wealth would be a disservice to those in power giving you any due, because if you come at them for the whole amount the system would fall.
And that would be awesome sauce
atribecalledgabi
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Ajackson17;8725848 said:7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Nope. It wasn't white people who pushed for the month of February brotha.
Wasn't it because of frederick douglass?
7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Funny, since blacks created the calendar.
Ajackson17
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_Goldie_;8726008 said:7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Funny, since blacks created the calendar.
And what we call the month of February was dead last.
Ajackson17
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atribecalledgabi;8726001 said:Ajackson17;8725848 said:7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Nope. It wasn't white people who pushed for the month of February brotha.
Wasn't it because of frederick douglass?
You are the only one who gotten it right. Yes, because of Frederick Douglass birthday is in February and also Abraham Lincolns.
Frederick Douglass probably has a greater impact on American Black folk then anyone and probably even more so than Garvey concerning Black Americans. But so little is spoken of his impact.
Slowsteel3
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This is how are BHM starts in PGH:http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/k-9-officer-dies-after-being-stabbed-during-chase-/nqGbK/
Not a question... More of a I didn't know till recently comment.
I had no idea the infamous Harlem cotton club was ran by a british gangster (who bought it from jack Johnson) and had a “no blacks policy"...it was pretty much a place for white people to be entertained by blacks.
Kinda sucked the glitz out of it for me.
I had no idea the infamous Harlem cotton club was ran by a british gangster (who bought it from jack Johnson) and had a “no blacks policy"...it was pretty much a place for white people to be entertained by blacks.
Kinda sucked the glitz out of it for me.
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Ajackson17;8726024 said:atribecalledgabi;8726001 said:Ajackson17;8725848 said:7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Nope. It wasn't white people who pushed for the month of February brotha.
Wasn't it because of frederick douglass?
You are the only one who gotten it right. Yes, because of Frederick Douglass birthday is in February and also Abraham Lincolns.
Frederick Douglass probably has a greater impact on American Black folk then anyone and probably even more so than Garvey concerning Black Americans. But so little is spoken of his impact.
No maybe. Garvey did little for black people especially in comparison to Frederick Douglass.
What pisses me off is these oreos that have kidnapped Frederick Douglass' memory.
Ajackson17
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alliknowishate;8727582 said:Fredrick Douglas was a coon and sell out. Stop yall lies
Get out of here, telling he was a coon and a sell out. Abraham Lincoln wasn't gonna free you if wasn't for Frederick Douglass forcing the idea that us fighting in the Civil War because he feared we would have a stake in the nation at it's biggest crisis.
Ajackson17
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jono;8727222 said:Ajackson17;8726024 said:atribecalledgabi;8726001 said:Ajackson17;8725848 said:7figz;8725672 said:Why is February the month of black history month especially when it was known as Black history week?
Because it's the shortest damn month on the calendar.
Nope. It wasn't white people who pushed for the month of February brotha.
Wasn't it because of frederick douglass?
You are the only one who gotten it right. Yes, because of Frederick Douglass birthday is in February and also Abraham Lincolns.
Frederick Douglass probably has a greater impact on American Black folk then anyone and probably even more so than Garvey concerning Black Americans. But so little is spoken of his impact.
No maybe. Garvey did little for black people especially in comparison to Frederick Douglass.
What pisses me off is these oreos that have kidnapped Frederick Douglass' memory.
Garvey idealisms had a bigger impact on his work, most of his work was sabotage along the way and then he let folk in charge of things they had no business being in charge due to the lack of experience and ability to handle certain work that they didn't have the skills for.
If he did his businesses properly they would have excelled. The sabotage is what done him in. But Frederick Douglass was more successful.
atribecalledgabi
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Copper;8728362 said:Anybody know any good books on African mythology?
Any good books in pre colonial African history?
I'll settle for good websites
Idk if this'll suffice but i found this tumblr a couple months back.
http://fuckyeahafricanmythology.tumblr.com
Been using it to come up with some possible tattoo ideas
Breezy_Kilroy
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alliknowishate;8725883 said:Why cant blacks get their forty acres and a mule
We did for a short period. If you blink you missed it. Ulysses L. Houston led 1000 free blacks to Skidway Island, GA and settled the land in the summer of 1865. We were basically governing ourselves. Skidway Island, GA was just a start but we were also promised land in NC, SC, and FL along the coastline. By law, the land was completely owned by us and no whites whatsoever except for military personnel were to live there.
The Sherman Special Field Order No. 15 was actually negotiated and agreed upon by 20 black leaders of the community from Savannah, GA, Union general William T. Sherman, and secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, on January 12, 1865. Lincoln signed the Order four days later. It was the first time in history that the government had came to us and asked us what we wanted. It was us who came up with "40 acres and a mule".
Unfortunately racism was (and is) still alive and well. Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 and was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, who was also a southern sympathizer. He overturned the Order in the fall of 1865 and returned the land to its "original" owners. The same exact owners who declared war against the United States.
