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Article: “Dark Skin Pain, Light Skin Privilege: Nine Solutions to Dismantling Colorism in the Black Community”
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“1. SELF. Do you show a preference? Do you assign high value to lighter skinned black people? Lower value to browner black people? Work on shaking up your own level of self-hate. Be mindful of your reactions.”
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“Study your history. Take pride in all the contributions made around the world by men and women that look like you. Have empathy for all the children around you who are placed in a value based hierarchy before they can even speak. Mourn how badly you may have been treated. Acknowledge your privilege.”
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What I love most about this platform is being able to share stuff that really matters! In Iowa you may be surprised but we have had this on the news over and over so I am excited to be apart of the Mayday! Campaign At ProjectBeautiful.org
Who they are:
To date, we’ve intercepted over 16,000 lives to prevent them from being trafficked. But still, RIGHT NOW, over 40 million people live in slavery around the world. So this month, we’re sending out a Mayday!
We’re asking you to help share this Mayday, this cry for help for 40 million enslaved… and grow our Project Beautiful community. Our goal is to save 1,000 more lives from trafficking this year. It costs us around $100 to intercept a potential victim while they’re in the process of being trafficked, but BEFORE they’ve been exploited. Head over to ProjectBeautiful.org to see how you can get involved. #moderndayslavery #humantrafficking #nonprofit #rescue #endhumantrafficking #endbondedlabor #humanrights #raisingawareness #rescue #hope #faith #freedom #fighthumantrafficking #stophumantrafficking #endslavery #slavery #justice #trafficking #freedomfighter #change #antitrafficking #lovejusticeinternational #slaveryisreal #MaydayForJustice #LoveJustice #EndIt #EndHumanTrafficking
Article: “Dark Skin Pain, Light Skin Privilege: Nine Solutions to Dismantling Colorism in the Black Community”
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“Research on colorism indicates that racism exists and delineates the benefits of light skin privilege, even to the point of equating it to the power of male patriarchy and white feminism. It can’t be denied that colorism gives some black people advantage. Colorism hangs over our heads divisively and impacts our lives. We end up pitted against each other and the pain seems to be never ending.”
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“Solutions to colorism have been focused on the victims of colorism and not to those who maintain it. We are accustomed to seeing dark skinned and light skin women process their emotional pain related to their “status” inside the black community.”
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Shared from @theconsciouskid - Freed Black Americans exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and worked for 2 weeks to give each soldier a proper burial. The bodies were placed in individual graves, a 100-yd. fence was built around them, and an archway was erected over the entrance bearing the words "Martyrs of the Race Course." Some 10,000 Black people staged a procession of mourning, led by thousands of schoolchildren carrying roses and singing the Union anthem “John Brown’s Body.” Hundreds of Black women followed with baskets of flowers, wreaths and crosses. Black men, including Union infantrymen, also marched. “The war was over, and Memorial Day had been founded by Black Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration,” Yale historian Dr. David W. Blight wrote. It took three more years for the holiday to be officially proclaimed by General John A. Logan. The African American origins of the holiday were later suppressed, Dr. Blight found, by white Southerners who reclaimed power after the end of Reconstruction & interpreted Memorial Day as a holiday of reconciliation, marking sacrifices — by white Americans — on both sides. Black Americans were largely marginalized in this narrative. "African Americans have fought in every war that the United States has ever been involved in. It is important that more of us know the role Black folks played in the struggle to commemorate & preserve our legacy to keep sacred the sacrifices to end slavery & protect the North.” [Sources: David W. Blight/NYTimes, Time, PBS]
To those who died for the liberties that many of us enjoy, and many others are still fighting for, we won't forget your sacrifices and we won't drop the torch.
#MemorialDay #BlackHistory #Slavery #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #KnowYourHistory #Military #Commemorate #Honor #BlackMen #BlackWomen #History
Did you know the greeting ‘ciao’ comes from the Italian/Latin word for slave, ‘schiavo’? Problems of every day language and every day subjugation are just some of the issues addressed in my art exhibit, Self-Evident, at the African American Museum in #Philadelphia. Making the final touches in marble dust in this piece made in conjunction with the #genius marble carver, Nick Benson.
Show opens Fri May 24, 6-8pm and runs through Sept 8. Come on by.
The brilliant @fahamupecou is also exhibiting his breathtaking, powerful work.
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#marble #bricks #hair #declarationofindependence #americanhistory #africanamerican #stonecarving #caligraphy #etymology #ciao #slavery #africanamericanhistory #history #art #sculpture @macarthurfellows
In the middle of nowhere, The Lenoir Plantation. You never know what you'll find just checking the back roads. This antebellum home built in 1847 was lived in by the same family until 1982 when it was sold to a doctor from Georgia. It was used for a duck camp and weekend retreat. It passed hands again to a quarter horse and thorough bred trainer. The house is said to be haunted by William Lenoir who was killed by the slave field hands after he kicked his pregnant slave house maid down the stairs after she confronted him killing her and the baby. #antebellum #lenoirplantation #curbappeal #archi_ologie #thedeepsouth #architecture #houseportrait #housestalker #workingplantation #quarterhorse #beef #slavery #oldhouse #preservation #restoration #curbappeal #beautifulhouseoldandnew #houses_ofthe_world #casacaserios #casacaserios2 #ilovemississippi #mymississippi #mississippihistory #ghosts #ghoststories #mississippihouses #historicbuildings #historicalhouse #sundayfunday
#thisisamerica #amerikkka #survivors #westafrica #growingupblack #otabenga #growingupafrican #blm #blackculture #mikebrown #thehelp #congo
#blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #blacklivesmatter✊ #emmitttill #frankembree #slavery #oppression #blm #jimcrow #socialjustice #justice
#kennekajenkins #sadariadavis
#justicefornia #justiceforchad #justiceformarkeis