THE HISTORY OF VOTING

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VOTING RIGHTS

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP SERIES - JULY: WALTER FRANCIS WHITE, ACTIVIST

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WHEN IS ENOUGH... ENOUGH IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY?

THIS [SEE PICTURE] AND WORSE HAPPENED EVERY DAY IN THE SOUTH NOT THAT LONG AGO

 

BLACKS HAD NO LEGAL RECOURSE FOR WRONGDOING (TO THEM BY OTHERS) IN THE SOUTH AND ARE STILL DEALING WITH THAT IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH TODAY

 

BLACK MEN ARE STOPPED AND FRISKED AND SUBJECTED TO EXCESSIVE FORCE EVERY DAY NOW

 

THERE'S A TRAYVON MARTIN ALMOST EVERY DAY
 

 

THERE'S A TIMOTHY RUSSELL AND MALISSA WILLIAMS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS BY POLICE STILL

 

LAWS ARE IN PLACE AND STILL BEING CRAFTED TO DENY BLACKS VOTING RIGHTS.

 

BLACKS ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN HIRING EVERY DAY

 

WHITE SUPREMACY IS EMBEDDED IN MANY POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND ELSEWHERE IN GOVERNMENT (AT ALL LEVELS)

 

 

And yet they say NO REPARATIONS!
And yet they say NO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!

Any yet they say NO TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT!
And yet they say, that in a predominantly African American community there should be NO BLACKS IN THE FIRE DEPT OR ONLY 2 BLACKS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT even though these very same people are paid by the predominantly African American community

 

 

SHAME!!! SHAME!! SHAME!!!

 

NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

 

 

 

 

Related:

 

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

The Murder of Emmett Till and the Lynching of Blacks

 

The New Jim Crow

 

Most White People Still Think Blacks are Intellectually Inferior

 

Black Wall Street

 

Exclusion of Free Blacks

 

12 Years a Slave

 

Pleasantville cop suspended, accused of racist post, December 17, 2013

 

Metropolitan police still institutionally racist, say black and Asian officers, April 21, 2013

 

 

What is white supremacy? by Elizabeth 'Betita" Martinez

NEWSLETTER: MAKING CONTACT: THE GREAT MIGRATION

How opportunity and racism shaped our American cities. View this email in your browser The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration Should they go or should they stay? That was a question millions of African Americans living in the South asked themselves in the 20th Century.   For many the answer was simple. Life in the South was hard and dangerous, with lynching, Jim Crow laws, and lack of economic opportunities. From 1910 to the 1960s an estimated 6 million African Americans left the South and moved North, in what became known as “The Great Migration.”   On this edition, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” traces the legacy of the Great Migration on American society and culture.

EDUCATOR, COURAGEOUS AND INFLUENTIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY, JULIUS CHAMBERS, DEAD AT 76

On Saturday, August 3rd, esteemed civil rights attorney Julius Chambers, who had been in ill health, passed away. 

 

For his courageous and successful efforts in fighting discrimination in Charlotte, North Carolina, his car was firebombed, his home bombed, and his office torched and destroyed.   Yet, this never stopped Chambers from fighting employment discrimination, capital punishment, and other civil rights cases.

 

 

See his impressive bio at:

Huffington Post

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Wiki


Law partners remember civil rights pioneer Julius Chambers