Healthy Communities Matter
"If you go digging its going to make a lot of people unhappy..."
WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
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"This film should be required viewing for everyone. It's honest, informative, riveting and thought provoking. Jeffrey Robinson is brilliant. One of the best documentary films I have ever seen."
This is MUST SEE if you are interested in learning about the history of race in a country that is quaking from the impact of racism in the United States.
1 out of 4 black Americans are in shackles in the land of the free...
1 out of 4 black Americans are in shackles in the land of the free...
Political white class needed black bodies working without slavery- criminalization w/o voting rights!
In 1864- "America shifted from the problem of slavery to what to do with free blacks? It didn't take long for political winds to justify racial inequities." The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864; by the House on January 31, 1865; and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865—abolished slavery “within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *except as a punishment for crime* whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.
*except as a punishment for crime* a loophole that morphed from slavery to mass incarceration which continues to manifest itself to the present. The slave industry was replaced with a mass incarceration industry.
Birth of a Nation was controversial even before its release and has remained so ever since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States"[12]: 198 and "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history".[13] Lincoln is portrayed positively, a friend of the South, atypical of a narrative that promotes the Lost Cause ideology. The film has been denounced for its racist depiction of African Americans.[8] The film portrays them (many of whom are played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is portrayed as a heroic force, necessary to preserve American values, protect white women, and maintain white supremacy.[14][15]
Silence equals death.
The emotional cost of being a black woman in America by Monica Johnson
Podcast Radio Lab:
Mixed Tape
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/mixtape
Show: America Experience on PBS check out episode on Black diplomats during Cold War- American Experience Season 34
https://g.co/kgs/jRz5eo
Documentary: at movies now
“Who we are”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyixpa84DRo&feature=youtu.be
Documentary “Black Men in White Coats”
https://www.blackmeninwhitecoats.org/
Documentary “A Reckoning in Boston”
https://www.areckoninginboston.com/
Youtube video - Ta-Nehisi Coates “Words that don’t belong to everyone”
Show “What the constitution means to me” (on Amazon Prime)
https://www.amazon.com/What-Constitution-Means-Me/dp/B08KRB3FQ4
Show “Women of the movement” (ABC Thursdays at 8pm)
True story of Emmett Till’s mother
Documentary “Let the world see” (Plays right after women of the movement at 10pm)
Deeper dive into Emmett Till’s mothers quest for justice
Youtube (2 min) - MLK “It’s a cruel jest to tell a bootless man to lift himself up by his own bootstraps”
Show “Colin in Black and White” (Colin Kaepernick & Ava Duvernay streaming on Netflix)
Show “Dear White People” (Ava Duvernay streaming on Netflix)