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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumslast night I watched documentaries on Thurgood Marshall and Emmit Till
as well as the NAACP attempt to stop theater release of Birth of a Nation.
God, we are a country built on racism and white entitlement. So glad Amazon highlighted a bunch of these movies on Prime for Juneteenth and within context of BLM protests.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)and the genocide of Native Americans whose land was stolen. An enormous amount of wealth was generated by plantation slaves picking cotton which was shipped to the textile mills in the northeast, and those plantations were situated on stolen land. The prosperous farms of the midwest and the plains were (and are) on stolen land. The richest country in the world is rich only because the labor and lands of others were taken from them.
We have to face up to that.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)it is just that through the fight and bravery of Thurgood Marshall, MLK, and many civil rights activists that the racism isn't so openly carried out by institutions.
Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and other outright racists are trying to Make America Racist Again--and this is just one area we need to focus on in defeating and obliterating this Orange Stain on America
moondust
(19,917 posts)was converted into legal tender, handed down through generations of heirs, and continues to make its owners wealthy buying and selling stocks in Walmart, Amazon, Apple, etc.?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)This country was built on the backs of our ancestors...400 years. It makes me so angry. Someone like Trump and his ilk who is only second generationS views themselves as real Americans..They get you enjoy the spoils of our labor and we suffer generation after generation
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)He was at the time the only minority funeral director that did Black, Chinese and Mexican funerals during this time before mortician schools opened up to other minorities.
Anyway, he was so well known and a founding member NAACP in SF that when he protested And proposed a boycott of them showing Birth of a nation in SF the movie owners backed down. In the 70s a book was published with that tidbit. I was able to get a copy which I still have.