#African_Americans

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California Voters Weigh In on Cash Reparations for Slavery Explore the recent proposal for cash reparations in California and the strong opposition it faces from voters. The Reparations Task Force Proposal Exploring Remedies for Historical Injustices Learn about the establishment of California's Reparations Task Force and its recommendation of a $5 million allocation for cash reparations. Strong Opposition from Voters Complex and Controversial Issue Discover why many California voters oppose cash reparations for slavery and prefer alternative approaches to address historical injustices. Concerns and Criticisms Logistics and Eligibility Explore the concerns raised by opponents, including challenges in determining eligibility and the potential misuse of funds. [caption id="attachment_54397" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] California Voters Express Opposition To Cash Reparations For Slavery, Following Task Force’s $5 Million Proposal[/caption] Proponents' Perspective Acknowledging Injustices and Providing Assistance Learn why proponents argue that cash reparations are necessary to acknowledge past injustices and provide direct financial support to those affected by historical discrimination. Ongoing Debate and Future Steps Addressing Concerns and Considering Alternatives Understand that the debate over cash reparations in California is ongoing, with the Reparations Task Force working to address voter concerns and explore alternative solutions. FAQs about California Voters Express Opposition To Cash Reparations For Slavery, Following Task Force’s $5 Million Proposal Q1: What is the Reparations Task Force, and what did it recommend? A1: The Reparations Task Force in California was established to explore remedies for historical injustices, and it recommended a $5 million allocation for cash reparations to descendants of slaves. Q2: Why do some voters oppose cash reparations for slavery? A2: Opposition stems from concerns about the complexity of the issue, the potential misuse of funds, and a preference for more comprehensive approaches to address historical injustices. Q3: Are there other states or cities that have implemented cash reparations programs? A3: Yes, proponents of cash reparations point to other jurisdictions that have initiated similar programs as potential models for California.  

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Tapestry with Miriam-Celebrating Black History Month with Jeanne Lehman ...

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Miami’s Minorities Makeup: The Communities That Call Miami Home

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Preserving African American History

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#It's_not_funny ... . Insulting other's religions or specifically, insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammed is not freedom of expression! Stop being racist and clean your hearts. you don't need to love everyone but YOU HAVE TO RESPECT EVERYONE 💯 You have to respect #europe #france #america #usa #african_american #africa #asia #south_america #north_american_rail_pictures #north_america #explore #united_arab_emirates #iraq #syria #egypt #palestine #united_states #world #racism #discrimination #religion #middle_east #malalayousafzai #abuse #bullying #islam #muslim #arabs #respect (at Glendale, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGshqFbAzyT/?igshid=13y7uobp128kx

[dasphinxone]

Judaism is about heritage. We've inherited the law and the tradition and we're commanded to follow them and pass them on, whether we believe in anything or not. Source of poignant and/or hilarious misunderstandings that I'm gonna write another post about at some point! 4/4

Soooo, while I am Black, I am also mixed due one parent being Mexican-American, American white and Native American. So one side of my family are definitely descended from African-American slaves while the other side is Mexican, American white and Native American. As a result, I was raised Roman Catholic by one Catholic parent with the other parent being Baptist by way of their African-American ancestors being in the south but who left it post WWII in the Great Migration, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)#:~:text=The%20Great%20Migration%2C%20sometimes%20known,occurred%20between%201916%20and%201970. 

All of us kids are fully Roman Catholic and didn’t participate in the Baptist parent’s religion at all, even though my parents are still together. They agreed to that since one parent wanted a fully Catholic wedding. We also did Catholic schools K-12. 

However, our Catholicism was VERY much about social justice and we fully ascribed to the reformed, post Vatican II “more liberal” Catholic church. Also and because one parent is Latinx, we ascribed to Liberation Theology, which the Holy See/Vatican disavows. Mostly because Liberation Theology sees Jesus as a radical who would be against the colonialism of Latin America and the repressive governments that a lot of Latin American countries had that the Catholic Church was utterly complicit in supporting (side-eying THE FUCK out of you, Pope Francis from Argentina). People like Archbishop Óscar Romero loudly protested against the complicity of the Catholic Church in Latin America’s repression of indigenous peoples as well.

At the same time, pretty much all of us have been lapsed Catholics since the early 2000s due to the Catholic child molestation scandal. So there is A LOT of anger there. 

Overall, Black Catholics, specifically African-American slave descendents, are a VERY SMALL group of people in the U.S. Most Black Catholics are such due to coming from Louisiana, which was colonized by the Spanish and then the French. 

As for Nile’s religion, I personally am very disconnected from religion when it comes to African-American slave descendants due to being raised in Roman Catholicism. As a result, I really can’t speak to how Nile processes her religion, which would likely be either AME, Baptist, or Pentecostal. The first waves of Black folks moving to Chicago during The Great Migration would have been AME and Baptist with the Pentecostals coming later. MLK actually made Chicago his base in the northeast for civil rights. Nile’s great-grandparents and grandparents could have easily participated in that, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1056.html

As for Nile’s sexuality, a lot of fanon is that she is not straight and could easily be bisexual. Sure, we support Book of Nile. Yet just because she’s (eventually after he gets his shit together) with Booker doesn’t mean she’s straight. It also doesn’t mean Booker is straight either, though canon does point to him being the most “traditional” among the immortals with his explicit mentions of his wife and kids...but again, that still doesn’t make him straight either.  

Nile’s queerness would definitely be in conflict with her Christianity, no matter what church she belongs too. And a lot of the cultural Black church is VERY conservative when it comes to not only sexuality but the role of women and how they should stick to being within the household with their husbands as head of the household. There’s also a lot of misogynoir in the Black church as well (and throughout society, frankly).  

At the same time, I’m not here for yet another Black female character suffering and having no allyship in the world. So I see Nile’s mother yes, quietly supporting her queerness and not going nuts about how she’s going to hell about it. I can see Nile’s brother fully supporting it as well. I can see Nile bringing around her girlfriends in high school where her family KNOWS that they’re girlfriends. But please, no making out in front of us. And that “no making out in front of us” wouldn’t be allowed of a straight teenage couple in that household either versus “no making out because I can’t stand to see the sight of girls kissing and loving up on each other.” 

I also feel like Nile probably got more religious at two points in her life. 1.) after her father died, and 2.) after she gets stationed in Afghanistan and sees the death and destruction happening around her. I can see her mother always having her included in the prayers at church for her safety as well. 

As for Booker and Nile exploring their religions together? I don’t know how to speak to that because again, I’m not involved in the historically Black church. Of course, Nile can’t have children, so there wouldn’t be concern for “Will the children be Jewish or not because their mother isn’t Jewish?” (I think that’s how Judaism works, please correct me if I’m wrong). But I think Nile and Booker can have some deep-ass conversations about how Nile’s religion is due to colonialism and her slave ancestors being stripped of their religions by the same powers that be that repressed the hell out of and were antiemetic towards Booker, for sure. 

[hellbabyfromhell]

what was it that your reading? about the black/Jewish thing. also it's weird out of anyone that I've know I usually relate to Jewish ppl the most and they to me but it's weird cause some times it turns into this suffer off where we talk about the suffering of our collective ppl (I'm black btw) to try and top the other and it gets stressful

i didnt really know it was a thing until my friend in high school told me she didnt like jewish people, and i asked why and she said just her whole family hated jewish people... and there’s this long history of back and forth between mutual respect and like solidarity and really angry opposition ...... i just read the wikipedia page about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American%E2%80%93Jewish_relationsjust interesting!

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African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans)[3] are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[4][5] The term typically refers to descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States.

(Pulled straight from the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans)

[ this is here just for reference by the way, in case some were wondering. I don’t say African American unless the person recommends me to use it for them ]

today this white girl asked me why my hair is so curly and i said im black and she told me to say african american

[wigmund]

From NASA Image of the Day; January 16, 2018:

Three of the 'Thirty-Five New Guys'

On January 16, 1978, NASA announces the first astronaut class in nine years. Dr. Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford and Fred Gregory were among those selected, the first African Americans in NASA's astronaut program. The Astronaut Class of 1978, otherwise known as the “Thirty-Five New Guys,” was NASA’s first new group of astronauts since 1969. This, the eighth astronaut group, was the first to include not only African Americans, but also women and Asian Americans.

Learn more about the Astronaut Class of 1978: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/1978-astronaut-class Image Credit: NASA

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Tapestry with Miriam-Celebrating Black History Month with Cassidy Little...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_%28Nation_of_Islam%29 “ a black scientist who lived "6,600 years ago" and began the creation of the white race/white people ... Under its current leader Louis Farrakhan, the NOI continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true,[1] claiming that modern science is consistent with it.[2]” In a 2012 blog post, Atlantic journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote: “[W]hat the pundits never got was that Farrakhan promised something more — improvement, minus the need to beg from white people,” ... “Farrakhan promised improvement through self-reliance — an old tradition stretching back to our very dawn.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/242702 There’s allegations of connections between the two men, and the black supremacism of his comics does make it seem reasonable. He claims it isn’t true. “And when it comes to antisemitism among black folks, I defer to Chris Rock's humorous analysis of why he could never follow Farrakhan: Farrakhan don't like the Jews, which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people.” https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/05/the-negro-sings-of-zionism/5201/ So the reason he disavows Farrakhan is not because he is nuts, but because he is antisemitic, and Coates hates all whites. So are Jews white? “ We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. “ It does look like that. And attacks by black people on Jews are pretty common in America - the Left sees Israel as an enemy nation.  33% of those arrested for antisemitic crimes in NYC were black, 60% white So is it Coates is just completely oblivious, or is he a liar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American%E2%80%93Jewish_relations#Black_power_movement Black Supremacists have been antisemitic since the 1960s at least. Interestingly, they class them as white. “ In 1966, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voted to exclude whites from its leadership, a decision that resulted in the expulsion of several Jewish leaders.[41][58] “ “ Black Hebrew Israelites ....  frequent hostility toward traditionally recognized Jews.[61] ... in 1993, black philosopher Cornel West wrote in Race Matters: "Jews will not comprehend what the symbolic predicament and literal plight of Palestinians in Israel means to blacks.... Blacks often perceive the Jewish defense of the state of Israel as a second instance of naked group interest, and, again, an abandonment of substantive moral deliberation."[76]  “ So either Coates writes down stuff because he likes the sound of it, then believes it, or he knows the truth, and deliberately hides it. Lies are useful to propagandists.  And that is exactly how I see him. He’s certainly not a writer of superhero stories.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a racist. He is also the guy who has been put in charge at DC comics, and is making the Superman movie. If he was white, he could be arrested for hatespeech in many countries for making equivalent statements, but instead feminists have promoted him into power. The most racist people on Earth are the so-called “antiracists”.

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Injustice…African_Americans who are #accused or #suspected are condemned to all sorts of #hardships. They are even shot to #death, and there is nothing wrong with this according to the Western culture! After such events, they #fabricate some story in court and release the real #sociopathic murderer: that poor victim’s #blood was spilt with no #justice.Imam khameneiMay 23, 2018

Injustice…

African_Americans who are #accused or #suspected are condemned to all sorts of #hardships. They are even shot to #death, and there is nothing wrong with this according to the Western culture! After such events, they #fabricate some story in court and release the real #sociopathic murderer: that poor victim’s #blood was spilt with no #justice.

Imam khamenei May 23, 2018

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