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“I Have a Dream”
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Congressional representation of states where citizens are disfranchised.
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The agenda hasn’t much changed because, well, the plight of black folks hasn’t.
Let’s Get Uncomfortable
This is an uncomfortable conversation because it has to do with power and perspective.
“right”
“by-any-means-necessary”
I’m in no way saying violence is necessary to create progress—but I am saying it’s easy to condemn the latter, and we also have to look at who is doing the condemning and how it compares to the justifications for protest in the first place.
Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”
Talk It, Walk It
“I Just Wanna Live,”
What you can do right now is educate yourself on the history of civil unrest, not just in America but internationally.
(www.blacklivesmatter.com).
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
I Am Not Your Negro.
Let the Fire Burn,
The Weather Unde...
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory.
(https://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/body-worn-cameras-interactive-graphic.aspx)
change.org
It instead means redirecting money from police budgets to other government agencies funded by the city. Defunding the police could mean more money for underfunded schools, for mental health programs, or for drug recovery programs, all of which can help to reduce crime.
“So, my question is, on the daily, on the street, what is the best way for me to let someone know that I care? That I am an ally? That I feel their pain? I want to learn more and to help if I can. With sincerity, and compassion, and without coming across as a fake or with an ulterior motive?” —Michael
I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity. —REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS, OP-ED, THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 2020
Let’s Rewind
(www.racialequitytools.org):
The simple version is that an ally is a person from an empowered group who acts to help an oppressed group, even if it costs them the benefits of their power.
William Lloyd Garrison,
The Liberator.
Frederick Douglass,
John ...
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As I’ve said, after the Civil War, the South developed Black Codes, which became Jim Crow laws.
Juliette Hampton Morgan.
Peter Norman’s
Norman was not so lucky: despite being Australian’s number-one sprinter—his time of 20.06 seconds is still the Australian two-hundred-meter sprint record—his allyship got him ejected from the world of Australian track and field and branded a social pariah in his home country.
Chris Long.
They’ve got a lot more incentive to do so.
It’s a whole other statement when the white person is standing there raising their fist as well.
white savior
