Reset Race is about changing how we view race in the US. We support reparations for Black American Descendants of Chattel Slavery.
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2 CUBAN women "defend & agree" with BLACK AMERICANS for not coming out to protest & loot with Mexicans & (illegal immigrants)diff race
It's not their responsibility to fight and carry everyone's struggles on their backs. Black Americans have done too much already for centuries.
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“Lawmakers earmarked $500,000 for a plaque memorializing the apology at the state capitol, but that’s the only taxpayer-funded money that’s been allocated to the reparations effort so far in California.
A $12 million fund set aside for future reparations legislation signed into law has not yet been touched, according to the Department of Finance.”
Some five years after the police murder of George Floyd, shifting political winds at both the state and national level raise the question of whether California will ever enact reparations or if the effort is destined to stall out. cal.news/3ps1WqU
📸 Mike Blake, Reuters
ALT People hold placards as they attend a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, in Los Angeles, on June 8, 2020. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters Headline: What to know about California reparations: Is the state’s apology the beginning or the end?
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Applications are now open for reparations scholarships supporting descendants of enslaved Black Americans
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When Jet Magazine asked its Black readers in 1968, "What ethnic name do you prefer to be known by?"
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Here’s how CA Legislative Black Caucus leaders responded when I asked about how the group blocked their own reparations bills last year, after a CLBC member got a bill passed allowing a billionaire’s club to be the only one in California to serve alcohol until 4am.
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A group of Neo Nazis tried to have a march in Cincinnati, and the Foundational Black American community pulled up in droves and ran them off the block. The white supremacists had their flags taken and burned. And the community found their vehicles and smashed them up. #FBABusiness
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After promising Black Americans 40 & a mule after Emancipation, which they never delivered, the 🇺🇸 gov created a Freedmen’s Bank. After 70K Black depositors put the equivalence of $70M of their hard earned money in it, the bank’s white leadership stole the 💰.
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Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922-1999) invented the first home security system in 1966. A nurse by profession, she created a system using cameras, monitors, and a two-way microphone to help people feel safer in their homes. Her patent laid the groundwork for modern security systems used worldwide today. #BlackHistoryMonth #TimBlackShow
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He is 103, she is 101. 73 years together. A blessing!!! ✨
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False information. This is Chuck Berry who died at the age of 90 and his wife, Themetta Suggs who is still alive at age the of 98.
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Hey @Beyonce please don’t do anything to help boost the career of Cynthia Erivo. She is a Nigerian who has been openly hateful towards Black American Freedmen. She keeps getting hired to play Black American Freedmen roles altho she isn’t from our culture & she’s mildly talented.
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Hey @solangeknowles remind Beyoncé of how Cynthia Erivo was disrespecting her online. Also, remind Beyoncé of how Cynthia Erivo was disrespecting black Americans.
Hey @Beyonce please don’t do anything to help boost the career of Cynthia Erivo. She is a Nigerian who has been openly hateful towards Black American Freedmen. She keeps getting hired to play Black American Freedmen roles altho she isn’t from our culture & she’s mildly talented.
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#BlackHistoryMonth moment:
Melvin Van Peebles (1932 - 2021) was an actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1953 with a B.A. in literature he joined the Air Force, serving for three and a half years. His debut film was "The Story of a Three-Day Pass" in 1967 about a tryst between an off duty Black soldier and a European woman which influenced the French New Wave cinema movement.
He went on to direct the film "Watermelon Man" (1970) but "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song" (1971) is his most famous work, known for its avant-garde style and significant influence on grassroots independent filmmaking and helped usher in the "Blaxploitation" cinema era.
His DIY approach to filmmaking and his pioneering role in Black cinema have left a lasting impact. His son, Mario Van Peebles, followed in his footsteps as a filmmaker and actor, even portraying his father in the biographical film "Baadasssss!" in 2003.
Van Peebles was not only a significant figure in African American culture but also a broader cultural hero, a transformative figure in American cinema known for his groundbreaking work as a filmmaker, writer, and performer, who broke through racial barriers and left a lasting legacy in the arts.
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Never forget how hateful Nigerians are towards Black American Freedmen. This @luvvie who is Cynthia Erivo’s best friend. #CynthiaErivo defended Luvvie when she called us akata. Erivo called us ghetto. Both of them prosper from culturally appropriating Black American Freedmen.
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Oprah Winfrey in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1987 where no black person had lived in since 1912 (75 years).
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Uncle Johnn Jackson replacing his neighbor's fence for free in Baton Rogue, Louisana.
#BlackAmericans
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Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor is Marie Van Brittan Brown. Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert Brown, invented something now used in tens of millions of buildings today, the home security system.
Their invention had audio that allowed a person to speak with the person at their door, video so they could see who was at the door, a remote to unlock the door, and a button to call the police. It has been cited in 32 subsequent patents and is the basis for the many home security systems today from Ring to SimpliSafe and more. #BlackHistoryMonth.
