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Daniel Kaluuya gives an outstanding performance as Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton in the film Judas and the Black Messiah, but can the film do justice to Hampton’s radical politics?
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Dark Skin Offends
In the midst of all the public outrage over the comments of an unidentified senior royal being concerned about how dark Archie (Prince Harry and Meghan aka the Sussex’s son) will be, let’s have an honest conversation about the way dark skin and anything that has close proximity to Blackness offends not just white people but Black people too.
Unfortunately, this toxic colonial mindset is why so many of us have an inferiority complex,
Why too many Black men “prefer” to procreate with non-Black women,
Why so many Black women bleach their skin.
Why fair skinned or Bi-racial babies are given more likes, follows and positive comments on social media.
Why often so many of us feel honoured to be invited to white establishments
(I could go on…feel free to add your thoughts in the comments)
Although, our colonisers taught us to hate our richly melanated skin, we’ve got to do better and change the narrative once and for all, by cherishing, respecting, and valuing our Beautiful Black Skin.
If we don’t, who will ?
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LAST WEEK OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Day 5 of 7 Black activists to celebrate
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON:
Born December 16, 1938, became part of the Civil Rights Movement as a young man.
Jimmie fought in the Vietnam War and when he returned home he became a church deacon (the youngest at his church) and had a daughter .
After being inspired by the Civil Rights Movement Jackson tried to vote for the first time in his life.
He made many attempts to register as a voter, but never made it past the hurdles set to keep African Americans away to not vote.
Feburary 16, 1965, Jackson took part in a peaceful night march. It was a protest for the arrest of James Orange.
That night it was dark and the streetlights were off during the peaceful protest. Police and state troopers attacked the protesters with clubs thus sending them away.
Jackson and other demonstrators went into a restaurant called Mack’s Cafe. There, Jackson was shot in the stomach by James Bonard Fowler, a state trooper.
Jackson was seeming to protect his mother and 82 year old grandfather from the troopers.
Jackson’s murder was condemned by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement such as Martin Luther King Jr., who had visited Jackson while he was in the hospital.
Jackson inspired a, supposed to be peaceful, march now named the ‘Bloody Sunday’ after police were waiting with tear gas and batons.
The world seeing this made many people come around to the Civil Rights Movement.
His leagacy will be forever remembered.
THANK YOU JIMMIE LEE JACKSON
LAST WEEK OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Day 4 of 7 Black activists to celebrate
RUBY BRIDGES:
Ruby Bridges, born September 8, 1954, became one of the first black children to intergrate New Orleans all-white public school system.
She was only 6 years old when she was first escorted to her class with her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.
During this time was the Civil Rights Movement, so Bridges brave act was a true milestone for African Americans.
Her time in this school was not easy for her or her family. *Please read all about it truly sad what they said to a 6 year trying to get an education.*
Through the years she had books written about her and in 1999 she released her own memoir, Through My Eyes, and that same year she established the Ruby Bridges Foundation.
To this day Ruby Bridges continues speaking on injustices and inequailty for Black people.
Her legacy lives on.
THANK YOU RUBY BRIDGES
