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BigAngBlack , 1 day ago

Frederick Douglass
''What, to the Slave, is The Fourth of July''

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/

#BlackFriday July 5, 2024

If you haven't already, grab a sandwich and a drink, sit yo ass down and read the whole thing

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The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. Such people lived then, had lived before, and will, probably, ever have a place on this planet; and their course, in respect to any great change, (no matter how great the good to be attained, or the wrong to be redressed by it), may be calculated with as much precision as can be the course of the stars. They hate all changes, but silver, gold and copper change! Of this sort of change they are always strongly in favor. These people were called Tories in the days of your fathers; and the appellation, probably, conveyed the same idea that is meant by a more modern, though a somewhat less euphonious term, which we often find in our papers, applied to some of our old politicians.
But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct.
My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon,...

ucaccessnow , 1 day ago

Podcast transcripts for 3-part series on Racial Bias and Pulse Oximeters

Part 1: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines/podcast/transcript-racial-bias-and-pulse-oximeters-part-1-a-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight

Part 2: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines/podcast/transcript-racial-bias-and-pulse-oximeters-part-1-a-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight#

Part 3: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines/podcast/transcript-racial-bias-and-pulse-oximeters-part-1-a-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight#

#Racism #Medicine #COVID @blackmastodon

CultureDesk , 1 day ago

Prince's "Purple Rain" is 40. Here's a story from @ThisIsDig about the making of His Royal Badness's breakthrough album, film and tour. “There was no precedent for this,” Alan Leeds, Prince’s then tour manager, later recalled. “Rock’n’roll stars with a couple of hit albums did not make major movies. Let alone someone from the Black community having the gumption to do it in the mainstream.”

https://flip.it/HKOAdP

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For more stories like this, follow Dig's Music Features Magazine, @music-features-ThisIsDig.

ourhumanfam , 5 days ago

💛 “10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups”

By @Sherry_Kappel, OHF Weekly Managing Editor

So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?

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#Allyship #BlackMastodon #Inclusion #RacialEquity

https://www.ohfweekly.org/editorial/e-vol-5-no-33/

clayrivers , 5 days ago

💛 “10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups”

By @Sherry_Kappel, OHF Weekly Managing Editor

So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?

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#Allyship #BlackMastodon #Inclusion #RacialEquity

https://www.ohfweekly.org/editorial/e-vol-5-no-33/

clayrivers , 5 days ago

“10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups”
So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?
By @Sherry_Kappel
OHF Weekly Managing Editor

https://www.ohfweekly.org/editorial/e-vol-5-no-33/

#Allyship #BlackMastodon #Inclusion #RacialEquity

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https://www.ohfweekly.org/vol-6-no-6/

kshernandez , 6 days ago

Ok frens, can we close this out today? I'm stuck at73% funded. This is for my health and safety at home! The sooner the better! Housemates tainted my food and I have to buy my own fridge and other needs. @disability @writing @poetry @blackmastodon Australian, UK, NZ folks I'm hoping to get some help with a boost or donation. Thank you all.

https://chuffed.org/project/111090-help-ks-stay-safe-in-a-shared-home