also WHO, lesser known figures who get passed over to talk about the Rosa Parks’ MLKs’ and Washington Carvers’
Like Henrietta Lacks
About racism today and how slavery was not abolished in the US but moved to the Prison Industrial Complex
also just getting rid of whitewashed history would be a big W
The communist black labor organizers in the South in the 1900-1950 period.
Just doing W.E.B Dubois and sampling The Souls of Black Folk or Black Reconstruction would be a bfd.
Way the fuck back when I was in high school, we focused almost exclusively on Frederick Douglass when we weren’t teaching to the controversy or some stupid shit Texas likes to do.
Thanks for the suggestion!
and Oh great, the guy who was like lets all behave and do what whitey says to prove we’re cool, the only acceptable black historical figure in texas
that was him right?
:yea: Buttigieg naming his civil rights policy the “Douglas Plan” was a dogwhistle you could hear from space.
The first indications there was confusion about some of Buttigieg’s claims of support came in October, when the campaign issued a press release in South Carolina that identified Rehoboth Baptist pastor and state Rep. Ivory Thigpen, and Johnnie Cordero, chairman of the Democratic Black Caucus, as prominent backers of the candidate’s “Douglass Plan for Black America.”
Democrat Pete Buttigieg overstated pledges of support from black leaders, public figures
I mean even then they ignore the ‘controversial’ stuff Douglass wrote
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
the fact that MLK went to speak to striking workers despite death threats and was killed for it. Also the fact that the same liberals who had granted the civil rights reforms called him an uppitty n-word when he called for economic reform
