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     Recently, a SITTING member of Congress (Marjorie Taylor-Greene) proposed that the Red states of the US "divorce" the Blue states.  😐😒 Former friends and [current] colleagues have stated that her idea is idiotic.  Experts have determined that within a time span of 2 years, her beloved red stated would be bankrupt.       This has left her infuriated with [former] friends and unphased by all others. 😏     In addition to her planned divorce 2.0 (let us NOT forget her split from her spouse in 2022), Ms. Taylor-Greene has decided that anyone "fleeing from a blue state to a red state" must endure a " cooling off period" .  Her train of thought behind this is her belief that those that move do so to enjoy the "benefits" of red states, but continue to vote as they historically have, and voting blue will NOT work for her precious GOP-riddled utopia. 😐       My question to her is: "Are you aware that the sout...

     Every February the Black diaspora is reminded that racists enjoy ignoring the NEED for Black History Month (BHM) while utilizing their lack of knowledge regarding vets (and their acknowledgment).  As much as they proclaim to be [staunch] patriots, they decline to KNOW that US Military Vets have the ENTIRE MONTH of May to be honored. 😏 Additionally, they declare that racism ceased with the election of Barack H. Obama, yet REFUSE to address why there is a NEED for BHM.       This year, the denial stew has an added ingredient...the war against Critical Race Theory (CRT).      One would think that there were CRT operatives infiltrating primary through high schools with the mission of eliminating the self-esteem of White children.  Those that believe that the teaching of critical thought combined with an unwhitewashed history of the United States is an attack on their kids' psyche have NO idea what CRT is.  They just know...

  The following is a continuation of Resources for Learning Black History : iCivics National Opera House Smithsonian  10 Resources for Incorporating Black History  Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen Black People Invented Everything - Dr. Sujan Kumar Dass The Black Holocaust - S.E. Anderson The Black Book Systemic Racism 101 - Adams Media Teaching Black History to White People - Leonard N. Moore Timeline of Black History The Black Experience  Lewis Latimer House  Black Culture  Yocumb African American History Association Factoids Tubmandouglassfilms.org  eBooks c/o Black History  Historic Black Settlements of Ohio - David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker  History Through the Black Experience - Simon Hudson They Came Before Columbus - Ivan Van Sertima Audible Books c/o Black History  ******SUPPORT Black-owned businesse s taz-isms.com 

      I will never understand the number of white supremacists that want to task [racially] marginalized individuals to fix what they created with their racial hierarchy.  When did this become the [proverbial] cross to bear for those that were deemed inferior? Why must we provide the (continual) labor for people that STILL cannot properly care for themselves?      Make up your mind...are we lazy or are we still property tasked with your labor?      In one breath racism is denied to still exist and in the next, we must look within our communities for a solution.  The vast majority of White people do not have a close relationship with a non-white person, yet they tout themselves as experts on the marginalized lived experience.  HOW MARTHA?! Tokenizing and fetishizing minorities does NOT give you our POV.  You do NOT gain a perspective as to what it means to be oppressed due to intercourse, financial standing, or enduring a c...

     I was asked to assemble a list of books/resources I use when studying Black history.  The following is the preliminary listing..... Four Hundred Souls  The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander The 1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones The Mis-Education of the Negroe - W.E.B. Dubois The Encyclopedia of African American History The Autobiography of Malcolm X Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington Medical Apartheid - Harriet A. Washington Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne, Tamara Payne The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein Mary McLeod Bethune - https://www.123helpme.com/topics/mary-mc-leod-bethune  I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi A Black Woman's History of the United States 5 Most Memorable Speeches of MLK - https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/article/2018/04/5-of-martin-luther-king-jrs-most-memorable-speeches  Af...

      As we kick off Black History Month (BHM) 2023, what is your learning plan?      Let this be the year that you take some time to learn more than the regurgitated factoids regarding Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, and Malcolm X.  Make the conscious effort to learn of the excellence that is within the realm of Black history.  Are you familiar with any of the following: The Red Summer The MOVE movement The (original) Rainbow Coalition The Prossers Indigo The Afro-Asiatic language The Black History of Turkey Claudette Colvin Gilbert Stuart Dewey Sanderson Alice H Parker Solomon Harper Biloxi wade-ins Birmingham Children's Crusade Biddy Mason Cage Urbane Frances Bass the Buffalo Soldiers The National Black Political Convention The Garveys Stono Rebellion The Gradual Abolition Law     If you have NOT heard of some or any of what has been listed above...take some time and educate yourself.  It is time to move past what has been deeme...