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Island of Misfit Toys
Joined December 2013
Let's remember MLK Jr. had guns in his house 🙃
Replying to @Hood_Biologist
Excerpt from "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed"
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"...white backlash is merely a new name for an old phenomenon...The fact is that the state of California voted a fair housing bill out of existence before anybody shouted black power or before anybody rioted in Watts." - Dr. King
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So "fun" story. My "progressive" graduate school had in the archives that Dr. King had come to speak. During 1964! They hardly mentioned this, it took a PhD student who happen to come across this. Turns out, it was a whole series that the school hosted on "the race crisis"
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As you can see from the poster, it was a full line up. They allegedly also invited Malcolm X, but retracted his invite over "chickens come home to roost" comment on JFK's assassination.
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Dr. King's speech. I won't give commentary. Read for yourself. newschool.edu/pressroom/pres…
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So then the New School held a revival of this conference. Which generally was a good line up of topics and people. But I know one of the curators was a Black woman who they tried to not pay or give credit. So "progressive" 😒 events.newschool.edu/event/v…
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I just like sharing this story because it comes full circle on institutions STILL not doing basic things like pay Black people for their work after being hand held about racism by the most eloquent & patient of Black people coming to teach them again & again 50 years apart
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U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources tell CBC News. cbc.ca/amp/1.5877038
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