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For @miss-sweetpotato,

Black History Month for Beginners

Okay, so there a LOT more of black history and I don’t have time to cover all of it but here’s some basic facts on important Black figures in history and just the month in general! I’m gonna try to avoid obvious things like MLK or Rosa Parks because info on them is everywhere.

  • Black History Month is basically a celebration of black individuals and our achievements and heritage.
  • Black History Month initially started out as Black History Week back in 1926 by the group the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) now know as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which was founded by historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland in 1915
  • Black History Month has been recognized as on official month since 1976 by president Gerald Ford, although many college campus had been celebrating Black History Month for years prior to this
  • Black History Month usually has a theme to go along with the month: this years theme is “African Americans and the Vote” to celebrate the anniversary of the amendments that allow women to vote (19th in 1920) and black men to vote (15th in 1870)
  • Slavery first came to North America in 1619 and wasn’t abolished in the USA until 1865, however black Americans weren’t given equal rights until another 100 years later with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement
  • The case of Brown v. Board Of Education on May 17, 1954 made segregation of schools illegal in the United States.
  • Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy, was brutally beaten and shot and killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi by 2 white men after he allegedly made a flirtatious remark at a white women in a store which was against Jim Crow racial codes (Jim Crow laws were basically a bunch of racist codes that segregated black and white Americans). The men were acquitted of murder charges and even admitted what they did to Till in a Time magazine article. Tills death help sparked the civil rights movement in Alabama.
  • Barack Obama was not the first Black American who tried to run for president! That honor goes to New York representive Shirley Chrisholm in 1972!
  • Affirmative Active- no jobs, schools, etc can discriminate against a persons color, race, religion or sex, or nation background as only been around since 1976 in the USA!
  • The fight of police brutality against black Americans is not a recent issue and has been an ongoing battle for years. In 1992, there were riots in Los Angles, California over an incident involving police officers violently beating a man, Rodney King, for speeding and allegedly resisting arrest. When the riots ended, around “55 people were dead, more than 2,300 injured, and more than 1,000 buildings had been burned. Authorities later estimated the total damage at around $1 billion” (history.com)
  • Black Billionaire, Robert F. Smith, in 2019 agreed to pay off the entire graduating class (around 400 all-male African Americans) of Morehouse University’s student loan debt!!

I hope this helped with some insight on black history in the United States!

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It’s black history month so as a black girl, I’d like to leave a few reminders for non-black people:

•Recognize the fact that many black people are a part of the LGBT community and that it’s not just white people who can be gay, bi, etc.

•Acknowledge the black men and women that have been victims of hate crimes

•Include black women in your feminism

•If a black person calls you out over something racist that you’ve said, don’t say “Well actually...” or “My black friend says...” Just don’t. If you’re getting called out for something, it’s for a reason.

•Don’t speak over us.

•Don’t act like you know better than we do about our own history and/or culture

Non-black people can rb but don’t add anything.

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95.12.30 / #HAPPYVDAY

happy birthday to our dearest kim taehyung! thank you for being you and for being the embodiment of everything good in this world. we hope that you have the best day ever filled with laughter and love! we purple you ♡
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As a white person, and from what i’ve read about this situation; this apology does well i think I terms of her being sincere. But those are just words, for her to no longer be seen as a racist person she has to show through her actions that she means what she has said. And it’s going to be hard to earn back everybody’s trust too. But that’s what you have to do, your actions have consequences and she has to face them no matter how hard that will be. And we can’t let her just sweep it under the rug. If she means what she said she will have to learn to be different and to be better. Camilizers should not be so easy to defend either, read what you can and learn what you can. And stop saying that at 15, she didn’t know what she was doing she did. People can surprise you in good and bad ways. If she wants people to see her change, she’ll have to face the music(pun not intended). I love Camila Cabello and her music, but this coming out about her being racist is really disappointing. I hope that she tries to be a better and more accepting person and learns how to love others more too.

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BOYS LIKE HIM DON’T SHINE SO BRIGHT

Part 13

Callum can’t get through to Ben. And then he he does.

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!!! I’m so sorry I went off radar! I got all excited that I was going to post and then I got home and picked up a bunch of shifts and then I just didn’t 🙄😬 here’s the deal; three new parts a week - posted wed, sat and sun. IF I make more than that when I’m making them, surprise parts will come (message if u want to be on the tag list) FINALLY please come talk to me about what you think, where you think/want it to go or specific tropes you want to see! I love the input and talking to ee fans!

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bvtter

britt absolutely terrifies me.

for a moment, imagine you are sander. you’ve broken up with this person. multiple times. this person who excuses your interests as mania. you fall in love with someone else, someone who listens to you and takes an interest in your favourite music and you paint murals for. you try breaking up AGAIN. they won’t go away. they slap you in public for being with the person you truly love. they try to drag you away with them. then, when you are at your most vulnerable, they show up again when you are too weak to defend yourself. they come back, claiming they are still in a relationship with you. they tell everyone who will listen that you are still theirs, that you are a piece of work, that you have put them through hell. 

her behaviour is downright toxic and manipulative and the “she’s a teenage girl” excuse just isn’t doing it for me

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