“All the pain and frustration, all the mess black folks have to deal with. You have to struggle three times as hard as anybody just to make it through the day.” -Dick Gregory Tweet
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“It was in the New York Times that there are 1.5 million black men missing. They are not in jail. I couldn’t imagine where they were until I saw the movie Get Out.” -Dick Gregory Tweet
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“The schools we go to are a reflection of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free. Schools in Amerika are […]
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“In two years, for the first time in U.S. history, less than half the children in the nation will be white.” -From National Geographic, April 2018 Tweet
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“Distance from the top for blacks varies directly with the discomfort one occasions for those who run things.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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“Apartheid hadn’t been the creature only of racist white Boers but of kindred-spirit American investors, lenders, diplomats, and presidents as well.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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“Part of the fallacy of white supremacy is the setting of whiteness and the norm and everything else as ‘other.’ Have you ever thought about the fact that even though most of this country’s predominately white colleges had racial discrimination as part of their founding principles they are referred to simply as ‘colleges’ or ‘universities’; […]
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“Haiti was shoved into its two-hundred-year nightmare by the United States and Europe as punishment for its successful slave revolt against Napoleon Bonaparte.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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“The indefatigable amongst us never sally forth to policy war needing as sustenance victory or recognition. Neither outcome is ever likely. Those of us who do this work do it often to small reaction and are met more frequently with defeat than success. But we do it still, for no clearer reason than that we […]
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“Only from the study of America in its foreign relations can African-Americans hope to appreciate the full measure of America’s insult to them.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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