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This current focus of the country on this horrendous act of racist terrorism, massacre and mayhem and destruction imposed and inflicted on the Black people of Tulsa, May 31-June 1, does not come as an expression of required contrition after a century of concealment and denial. Rather, it comes as a result of the long difficult, dangerous, deadly and demanding struggle by Black people for freedom, justice and equity in this country.
Whenever the cops kill somebody, you can count on two things: 1) Fox News and other Trump supporters will smear the victim, and 2) the TV networks and newspapers will focus on “looting,” almost drowning out the murder of a human being by police.
Isn’t this what happened after 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright was shot to death for having an air freshener in his car? Media coverage splurged on people taking stuff from stores in Brooklyn Park, Minn., just outside Minneapolis.
Mr. President, looting made America great. The White House you live in was built on stolen land by enslaved Africans.
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In 1787, a deal was struck whereby enslaved Africans in America would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of a state’s population. Hence, the origin of the “three-fifths of a man adage.” Although this step was taken largely for the purpose of determining how much a state would contribute in taxes (as well as its representation in the U.S. House of Representatives), in 2021 the “three-fifths compromise” is still in effect when it comes to Black history education.
Recently, controversy has swirled in North Carolina because the history of the nation’s oppressed people isn’t being adequately taught in schools. Everyone, it seems, has weighed in, from Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to high school students.