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Varo's Daily Life: Today a Friend of Mine →
Had a glass bottle thrown at him, and he was called a terrorist, and harassed by some men in a pick up truck, he is not seriously injured but it is the principle of the matter. My friend was not doing anything he was trying to get to work. Like most normal people do. But because of the color of…
this is disgusting.
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BLACK WALL STREET is not a record label started by The Game.
Black Wall Street was the most prosperous black community in America during the 1920’s located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was known as “Little Africa” or “Black Beverly Hills”, a prime example of racial nationalism. To put into perspective of how money flowed in Black Wall Street, a dollar took 365 DAYS to leave the community, now a dollar leaves an African American Community every 15 MINUTES. The community had hundreds of businesses all negro owned and their motto was “To educate every child”.
June 1, 1921 white supremacists bombed BLACK WALL STREET and killed over 3000 people and destroyed over 600 businesses. 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores, a hospital, bank, post office, and most schools were destroyed. The dead were buried in unmarked graves. It wasn’t till 1997 that Oklahoma decided to pass the “1921 Race Riot Reconciliation Act” which provided decedents of that area a free college education.
SMH AT AMERICAN HISTORY
READ THIS. They for sure aren’t teaching this in school. Tell your babies. Share with your students.
For all those “BOOTSTRAPS” bastards.
reblogging for history that i was never taught
As many people were killed that day as on 9/11 and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
Reblogging again for that last comment because I’m in the same boat. I had NEVER heard of this before, and the numbers are the same. I wonder why that is.
that’s a typo, the number is 300
which is still egregious](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9bzn4iYn1r5d69eo1_1280.jpg)
[tw: racism, bombs, explosions]
BLACK WALL STREET is not a record label started by The Game.
Black Wall Street was the most prosperous black community in America during the 1920’s located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was known as “Little Africa” or “Black Beverly Hills”, a prime example of racial nationalism. To put into perspective of how money flowed in Black Wall Street, a dollar took 365 DAYS to leave the community, now a dollar leaves an African American Community every 15 MINUTES. The community had hundreds of businesses all negro owned and their motto was “To educate every child”.
June 1, 1921 white supremacists bombed BLACK WALL STREET and killed over 3000 people and destroyed over 600 businesses. 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores, a hospital, bank, post office, and most schools were destroyed. The dead were buried in unmarked graves. It wasn’t till 1997 that Oklahoma decided to pass the “1921 Race Riot Reconciliation Act” which provided decedents of that area a free college education.
SMH AT AMERICAN HISTORY
READ THIS. They for sure aren’t teaching this in school. Tell your babies. Share with your students.
For all those “BOOTSTRAPS” bastards.
reblogging for history that i was never taught
As many people were killed that day as on 9/11 and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
Reblogging again for that last comment because I’m in the same boat. I had NEVER heard of this before, and the numbers are the same. I wonder why that is.
that’s a typo, the number is 300
which is still egregious
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African American doctors attempting to save the life of a Klu Klux Klan member. This photo left me speechless, this is what respect is.
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Police 'killed deaf cyclist with stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop' →
“A police officer killed an elderly, deaf and mentally disabled man riding his bicycle by shooting him with a Taser stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop.
Roger Anthony, 61, was killed as he made his way home in Scotland Neck, South Carolina, after officers responded to a 911 call about a man who had fallen off his bicycle in a car park.
The caller told dispatchers that the man appeared drunk and that it looked like he had hurt himself.
Officers said they repeatedly told Mr Anthony to get off his bike, but when he didn’t respond, they shocked him.
The state Office of the Medical Examiner hasn’t yet determined a cause of death.
Family members claim Mr Anthony had hearing problems and suffered from seizures. Now they’re considering whether to file a lawsuit against the town.
His brother Michael said: ‘What did they tase him for? It’s hurting me. It’s really hurting me.’”
I knew even before I clicked the link that Roger Anthony was a black man.
Fuck the police.
As soon as I saw that they’d been called to help him & wound up killing him I knew the deal.
Reblogging just because.
another fine example of police brutality.
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Earlier this week, Ms. Coulter set off a bit of a firestorm earlier this week when she claimed that claims of sexual harassment against Herman Cain were “high-tech lynching” and that “our [Conservative] Blacks are so much better than their [Liberal] blacks.” She then later defended her comments saying that “The only racism you hear in America is against conservative blacks.” Rush Limbaugh got in on the action later, saying that the real racists were liberals and decried the use of stereotypes used to attack Cain.What the fuck just happened here? Did I just really see news reports about Ann Coulter, the woman who defends the Council of Conservative Citizens (oh…the CCC…clever), an organization that was considered too racist to even be part of the Conservative PAC, call someone racist?
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Don’t Let Them Deport Ahmed Hossain(x)
Because of clerical errors, the U.S. is about to deport Ahmed Hossain—ripping his family apart and putting his health in danger, reports .
TANMOY HOSSAIN is the apple of his parents’ eye. The 7-year-old boy is in the Talented and Accelerated Program at his Queens elementary school. Bright as he is, Tanmoy keeps asking Ahmed and Salina Hossain the same question, because there is something he just can’t understand: Why is his father being punished for a lawyer’s mistake?
Ahmed Hossain arrived legally in the United States from his native Bangladesh 19 years ago. When he applied for asylum, his lawyer at the time mistakenly filed his case under the name “Akter Hossain.” For this reason, an immigration judge denied Ahmed’s bid for asylum on the grounds of fraud, even though it was Ahmed himself who revealed the mistake to the judge.
Later, in 2001, Ahmed won the lottery for a “diversity visa,” but his final interview was postponed due to the September 11 attacks. When he went for his rescheduled interview the following May, he was ruled to have come in too late due to a clerical error on the part of immigration officials.
This summer, President Obama announced that immigration officials would suspend deportations against people who “pose no threat to national security or public safety.” Obama’s decision was widely seen as an effort going into next year’s election to shore up the support of Latinos and other immigrant groups who have been bitterly disappointed thus far that Obama has actually doubled the rate of deportations from the Bush years.
If Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is serious about carrying out Obama’s new policy, then they have to explain why they plan to deport Ahmed to Bangladesh on November 8.
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AHMED HOSSAIN is a poster child for everything that’s wrong with America’s dysfunctional immigration politics. This man that ICE is determined to deport is a devoted father and husband, a taxpayer with no criminal record.
He has been an active member of the taxi drivers’ association, Shapla Welfare Associates, including serving a term as the general secretary. He has acted with and directed the Bangladesh Theater of America. Ahmed is such a pillar of his community that his deportation case has been widely covered by the Bangla press in New York and by television stations in Bangladesh.
The Hossain family is completely dependent on Ahmed’s income as a taxi driver. If he is deported, Salina, Tanmoy and 17-month-old Tamanna will quickly fall behind on their mortgage payments, and might end up on the street. As if all of this doesn’t make the case clear cut enough, Ahmed has had open-heart surgery and now takes daily medications that are not widely available in Bangladesh. If he is deported, his health is in danger.
The Bangladeshi-American Community Council is calling for supporters of the Hossain family to call their elected officials and rally outside Ahmed’s deportation hearing on the morning of November 8.
The rally will take place at the New York headquarters of ICE, about 10 blocks north of the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Liberty Park. If activists from the Occupy movement can come out and show ICE officials that support for Ahmed is growing across different communities in New York, it can make a real difference.
Last month, a similar campaign led by the New York State Youth Leadership Council successfully won a stay of deportation for Nazmin and Nadia Habib.
Immigrants are part of the 99 percent. Let’s all stand up for Ahmed Hossain.
- Call New York Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand at 212-909-0492 and Congressman Bob Turner at 718-520-9001 and ask them to stop Ahmed Hossain’s deportation by calling Christopher Shanahan, ICE Field Office Director, at 212-264-4213
- Sign a petition to stop Ahmed’s deportation and visit the Facebook page for information.
- Attend the rally outside of Ahmed’s deportation hearing on Tuesday, November 8 at 8 a.m. at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan.
NY1 Interview with Ahmed.
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9/11ish? CASEY— KILL YOURSELF. Shut it down. NOW.
Wow. Racist much?
I would like to point out that the professor is Armenian-American…
But this fool probably doesn’t even know what continent Armenia is on.
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Yes.
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