A Vote for Missy on the RRHoF Is Historic & Other Erasure-Blasting Celebrations: Saturday Night OT

 

(link to vote'll be posted in comments)

 

One cannot understand American history without understanding Black history.

If people are wondering about how concerned, or at least how aware, we need to be already – there are K-12 instructors in Florida who say they fear saying the word “1619” for fear they’ll be accused of teaching Nicole Hannah Jones’ book / documentary

 

There are teachers in Dallas who’ve told stories about being unable to use the word “SLAVERY” in the Dallas School System.

 Collectively I think we need to wrap our minds around the fact that historically in America “settler colonialists used the whip, the gun and the U.S. Constitution to ENFORCE inequality”  (h/t Paul Ortiz).

 To quote Mary Trump, the United States paraded around trumpeting their position as the foremost harbinger of democracy while meanwhile at home Jim Crow was literally a closed fascist state

 

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

 

“Once these conversations stop, fascism wins.”

-      Paul Ortiz, Professor of History at the University of Florida

Whitewashing Black Studies:  The Fight for African American Studies in the United States in the Era of Racial Backlash

Kimberlé Crenshaw - Professor of Law at Columbia/UCLA, Executive Director of AAPF

Roderick Ferguson - Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University

Daniel Martinez HoSang - Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies at Yale University

Paul Ortiz - Professor of History at the University of Florida

Randi Weingarten - President of the American Federation of Teachers

Farah Jasmine Griffin - Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University

The thing is, we do have the actual FACTS on our side.

“Be courageous in community” – Randi R Weingarten, former AP History teacher and longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers