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longliveblackness · 6 months

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Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.

More than 60% of the world's cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.

Western countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.

Multinational mining companies are enslaving people especially children to mine.

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La República Democrática del Congo vive un genocidio silencioso. Millones de personas están siendo asesinadas para que la parte occidental del mundo pueda beneficiarse de sus recursos naturales.

Más del 60% de las reservas mundiales de cobalto se encuentran en el Congo, y se utiliza en la producción de teléfonos inteligentes.

Los países occidentales están proporcionando asistencia financiera militar para invadir regiones llenas de reservas y en el proceso millones de personas mueren y millones se quedan sin hogar.

Las empresas mineras multinacionales están esclavizando a la gente, especialmente a los niños, para trabajar en las minas.

Street Art and Photo by Artist Eduardo Relero

(https://eduardorelero.com)

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kyllaaky · 1 year

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black panther party (bpp) newspaper , April 25, 1967

#black panther party #black panther #bpp #civil rights #civil rights activist #civil rights movement #malcolm x #angela davis #black history is world history #black history is everybody's history #black history #black history matters #civil rights act of 1964

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donbartinelli · 1 year

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The venn diagram of

people who say, “I didn’t know! How was I supposed to know that?” in response to being told something they said was racist or homophobic

and

people who actively believe that BIPOC and queer history should not be taught in schools because it is “anti patriotic” or “grooming”

is a circle.

They don’t care about being educated. They don’t care about learning what they should and shouldn’t say. They don’t care about history.

All they care about is that they get to keep using their ignorance as a “valid” excuse for their continued oppression or, at best, apathy.

#lgbtqia #queer #trans ftm #lgbt #trans #venn diagram #black history is everybody's history #black history matters #black history is american history #indigenous history is American history #queer history #education is important #trans lives are human lives #trans rights are human rights #black lives matter #black history month

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gentlyepigrams · 1 year

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Portrait of Mathilde Taylor. Photographed in the 1880s.

#vintage photography #historic fashion #black history is everybody's history

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queenie435 · 1 year

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cyarskaren52 · 11 months

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This happened.

This is American history.

It should be taught.

Thread.

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divinely-yourz · 1 year

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last day of the greatest month ever, and imma be honest.

this was probably the most uneventful Black History Month™ i've ever experienced. but that's really just for me, personally.

white people mocking and taunting us even more during the month, diaspora within our people at an all time high, superiority challenges between lightskin n darksin, whose food is better, who should be able to say the n-word.

give all of this and more, i just wanna say... WE ALL BLACK, FUCKIN ACT LIKE IT.

the lightkin fully grown man you keep makin fun of for being 'soft' is just as black as you, the darkskin girl you keep makin fun of for being 'too manly, loud and aggressive' is just as black as you.

we (very rightfully, don't get me wrong) come at yt people for discrimination against us (i am not defending them, trust) when we do it to an insane degree.

all that being said, if you have melanin in your skin and hair that you can't easily run your fingers through, and a beautiful wide nose— happy black history month.

#!! lia speaks !!#and only black people can call this cringe #black history is everybody's history #black history is american history #happy black history month #black history month #celebrate black creators #black girl magic #black boy magic

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queenvlion · 1 year

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#rock n roll hall of fame #herstory #our stories 365 #chaka kahn #missy elliott #black history is everybody's history #black herstory #black excellence

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ravenvix · 1 year

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possum ridge, mississippi delta - gone to chicago

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#shotgun house #abandoned house #mississippi delta #the great migration #american history #black history is everybody's history #blues music #hard rock #blackhistoryeveryday #Youtube

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maroonpaper · 1 year

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | MaroonPaper

Harper Lee‘s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a literary classic that has captivated readers for over six decades. This novel is set in the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama, a small town where racial tensions and prejudice were prevalent. Scout Finch is a young girl growing up during a turbulent period in history, and her father, Atticus, is a lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of a crime.

#harper lee #to kill a mockingbird #book reveiw #black history is everybody's history #maroonpaper #original novel #books to read

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le-regrems · 1 year

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Fact you didn't know you needed part 1

Samuel L. Jackson was member of the Black Panthers movement, but had to quit after FBI threatened to kill him. He is an icon, and has a great sense of style.

#samuel l jackson #black lives fucking matter #black panthers #the black panthers #Fbi sucks #black history is everybody's history #history #big facts #random facts #he is the moment

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longliveblackness · 8 months

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The Horrors of Lynching: Photographs and Postcards

Note to readers: This post contains graphic and disturbing images.

During the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of photographs and postcards of Black Americans killed by white mobs in racist terror lynchings were collected, traded and sent through the U.S. postal service.

The postcards and photographs, depicting gruesome images of the bodies of Black men, women and children who had been tied to trees, mutilated, tortured, shot and burned alive by white mobs, were often distributed as souvenirs and saved as mementos in family albums and stored away in attics for safekeeping.

The lynching photographs often captured the bodies of the murdered Black Americans and the hundreds of white people — including children — who gathered to witness the public spectacle of lynchings. According to historians, in more than half of these photos and postcards, white people were shown smiling and celebrating the spectacles.

WHITE PEOPLE MONETIZED THE MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE

Lynching photographs and postcards were shrewdly distributed — often for profit — across communities by hand and through the U.S. mail. They were often sold for as little as a quarter, which would be worth about $3.46 today.

Source: wordinblack.com

Translated by Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson

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Los horrores de los linchamientos: fotografías y postales

Nota para los lectores: Esta publicación contiene imágenes gráficas e inquietantes.

Descripción de primera imagen: [Cinco afroamericanos fueron colgados de un cornejo en el condado de Sabine, Texas, en 1908 como "una advertencia para todos los negros".]

Traducción de la postal:

Esta es sólo la rama de un árbol de Cornejo;

Un emblema de la SUPREMACIA BLANCA.

Una lección que una vez se enseñó en la escuela de los Pioneros:

que esta es una tierra de GOBIERNO DEL HOMBRE BLANCO.

Una vez, temprano en la mañana, los blancos le dijeron al Hombre Rojo que enmendara su camino.

El negro, ahora, por gracia eterna, debe aprender a permanecer en el lugar del negro.

En el Soleado Sur, la Tierra de los Libres, que la SUPREMACÍA BLANCA sea para siempre.

Que esto sea una advertencia para todos los negros, o sufrirán el destino del árbol de Cornejo.

A finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, se recopilaron, comercializaron y enviaron a través del servicio postal de Estados Unidos miles de fotografías y postales de estadounidenses negros asesinados por turbas blancas en linchamientos terroristas racistas.

Las postales y fotografías, que mostraban imágenes espantosas de los cuerpos de hombres, mujeres y niños negros que habían sido atados a árboles, mutilados, torturados, fusilados y quemados vivos por turbas blancas, a menudo se distribuían como souvenirs y se guardaban como recuerdos en álbumes familiares.

Las fotografías de los linchamientos a menudo capturaban los cuerpos de los estadounidenses negros asesinados y los cientos de personas blancas (incluyendo niños) que se reunían para presenciar el espectáculo público de los linchamientos. Según los historiadores, en más de la mitad de estas fotografías y postales, se mostraba a personas blancas sonriendo y celebrando los espectáculos.

LOS BLANCOS MONETIZARON EL ASESINATO DE LOS NEGROS

Se distribuyeron astutamente fotografías y postales de linchamientos (a menudo con fines de lucro) entre las comunidades, en mano y por correo postal. A menudo se vendían por tan solo veinticinco centavos, lo que hoy valdría unos 3.46 dólares.

Descripción de segunda imagen: [Una postal de un linchamiento en Duluth. 15 de Junio, 1920.]

Fuente: wordinblack.com

Traducido por Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson