[National Reparations Day]
Pro.Smalls: “Nobody is owed reparations more than African-Americans…If America owes any debt, it’s to the African-American people here in the United States. Reparations should be at the top of our agenda.”
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Ku Klux Klan
Armed Protests And The Dangers of Another U.S. Civil War
[NFAC\George Floyd]
Koehler: “Several hundred mostly Black, mostly armed men and women marched through the iconic Confederate “theme park” that features an enormous carving of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.”
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Book Excerpt #3: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”
[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Benjamin: These Slave Patrols, in time of relative calm, when there were no slave revolts and such, would often spend their time harassing and beating slaves. They were defenders of white supremacy.”
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Is America Finally Acknowledging Its Wretched Past to Change Future?
[George Floyd Aftermath]
Koehler: “What matters about the present moment is that change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power.”
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We Must Fight Militarized White Supremacy in American Policing and Military
[White Supremacy\ Military Industrial Complex]
Winslow: “We, and not just in the U.S. but also in other autocracies like Brazil or Hungary or Russia or China or Iran or Myanmar, are invited to rethink the age-old question of fundamental relationship between the state and the individual citizen.”
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AMERICAN POLICING THE KU KLUX KLAN AND “GHOST SKINS”
[Book Excerpt #7\”The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
A 2006 FBI intelligence assessment, noted that White supremacist groups had a “historical” goal in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.”
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IDA B. WELLS SPEECH: “LYNCHING OUR NATIONAL CRIME”
[Black History Month\Ida B. Wells]
Ida B. Wells: “Why is mob murder permitted by a Christian nation? What is the cause of this awful slaughter? This question is answered almost daily—always the same shameless falsehood that ‘Negroes are lynched to protect womanhood.”
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QUEENS COLLEGE COMMEMORATES DR. KING’S HOLIDAY AND REMEMBERS HIS 1965 QUEENS COLLEGE SPEECH
[MLK Holiday Commemoration\Queens College]
Dr. King at Queens College on May 13, 1965, speaking on the murder of Andrew Goodman: “I certainly stand here under the inspiration of the fact that it was Queens College that gave to America, and indeed to the world, Andrew Goodman…He, along with others, paid the supreme price for this struggle and I’m sure that we will see in many ways that his death was not in vain.”
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