#BlackPatriots

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James Armistead Lafayette

James Armistead Lafayette (l. c. 1748-1832) was an African American Patriot who served the Continental Army as a spy during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). During the Siege of Yorktown, he infiltrated the British camp to bring crucial intelligence to the Americans. After the war, he was freed from slavery with the help of the Marquis de Lafayette, whose name he adopted.

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Albert Brooks, one of the greatest character actors ever, summed this up perfectly in the movie Malcolmx!

Malcolm X: Because they don't want to walk around with a nappy head, looking like…

Baines: Looking like what? Like me? Like a nigger? Why don't you wanna look like what you are? What makes you ashamed of being black?

I used to be mad at these people, but now I pity them. They traded a rich and diverse culture for one that sees them as things and accouterments! Trump clarified that when he spoke about Michael The Black Man at his rallies. “His” Afrikan American. There’s no hope for them. They’re too far gone, and they are my enemies. Ase! In POWER and LOVE!

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[dscola]

On this date in 1777, white desertions in the continental army were so heavy that Connecticut adopted a policy that allowed free and enslaved black men to serve. In fact, white slave masters could avoid service in the army by providing one of his slaves to fight for America's freedom. The policy to allow slaves to substitute for White masters spread throughout the colonies. So those cowards were too afraid to fight but had no issue sending their slaves to die. Now they want to question our patriotism. We fought for their freedom while being denied our own. #isupportkaepernick #notmyanthem #blackpatriotism #nonefiner #menofvalor #blackhistory #blackhidstory #revolutionarywar #blackpeoplearethemostpatriotic #blacksoldiers #makebeingblackinamericalegal #honorourown #blacksoldiers #blackheroes #thingstheydontteachyou #treasureourown #blackhistoryeveryday #neverforget https://www.instagram.com/p/B3PqOATH0Co/?igshid=pj5nj0tnllle

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I like blackpatriot as well, thank you @2honest4you 😊

Y’all what is the ship name for iron patriot/Rhodey and black widow/Natasha?

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Jivin’ for the Red, White, & Blue: Can you be a Black Patriot in America in 2017?

Definitions according to the dynamic duo Merriam-Webster:

1) tyranny (noun): 1. oppressive power, especially when exerted by government; 2. a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force; 3. an oppressive, harsh, or unjust act: a tyrannical act.

2) patriot (noun): one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests

3) patriotism (noun): love of or devotion to one’s country

Blind Patriotism and BBQs

Just a few days ago, Americans celebrated the signing/finishing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Some call it Independence Day. Some call it the Fourth of July, or “the 4th” for short. Others call it “a day off” and a steal on meat prices so “we might as well barbecue too!” 

However, Independence Day is a day of blind patriotism. People scream God Bless America, listen to country music (which was created by black people and stolen like errthang else we made), go to the beach, have barbecues, and pool parties. People find reasons to purchase fireworks, light em up all weekend long, and wear ridiculously patriotic outfits and look like Betsy Ross (or the black woman who actually made the U.S. flag) custom made their outfits. Why though? I think it’s a tradition that helps the capitalist machine: give people a day off and they will spend their money. Give special deals on everything and they will spend their money. Promote Independence Day like a day for barbecues and fireworks so they forget how messed up this country is/was/will be, and they will spend their money. And we all did.

I personally have an issue with “celebrating” the 4th because the delusional Founding Fathers (FFs) could have sex with slaves, produce human babies, didn’t see black/Africans as human, and continued to enslaving them while crying for their own freedom. An oxymoron of sorts. My ancestors were in physical chains on purpose, NOT BY ACCIDENT, while their oppressors/owners were hyped about signing a paper that declared their revolt against their political chains. I can’t wholeheartedly get with the celebrating.

Sidenote: I’ll slide through to the barbecue, eat up all the food, watch a lil fireworks or something, but I won’t like it.

Is it like Oil and Water? Being Black and Patriotic.

In a renown speech, Frederick Douglass asked white allies: “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” In this blog, I ask you: “What to Black/African American is the Fourth of July?” It seems like holidays of patriotism are the antithesis of the black experience and should not be celebrated. I question myself on my disdain for celebrated white lie holidays like the Fourth of July.

I believe in the African Diaspora, that through Middle Passage I am a descendant of West Africans stolen and sold into Western slavery. I do believe that somewhere on the continent of African I have a homeland, but I am also American and this is the only home that I’ve known. Yet, I don’t really mess with America or whiteness like that: So can I be a patriot?

The way I feel now is the same way that some enslaved Africans may have felt in the 1800s while the American Colonization Society (ACS) was raising money to free and return African Americans to Africa. The ACS (Abraham Lincoln was a member btw) was like: “We are somewhat abolitionists. Y’all aren’t equal to whites. You can be free, but you have to go back to Africa.” Some free and enslaved Africans saw it as an opportunity of true freedom and independence (ex. LIBERIA). Others were like: “No, my family is here. I don’t know nothing about no Africa. I’ll stay here with my family, fight in this coming Civil War for my freedom. I’ll earn my place at the table.”

In the early 1900s, Garveyism and the Back to Africa movement also received similar sentiments as the ones listed above. “If this country won’t treat us right, let’s return to our homeland - Africa - and truly be free” and people who had the funds to move actually expatriated to West Africa and other African nations. Some stayed where they were, but began appropriating African customs and traditions into their African American lifestyles. Others were like I don’t know nothing about no Africa. I’ll stay here with my family and make things better. For those that stayed, they tried to make their home the America their grandmothers and fathers dreamed of.

For most descendants of enslaved Africans in America, we are the descendants of the ones who could not leave and chose to survive AND those who chose to stay and chose to survive. Sometimes where you are is home. In this case, Black people who call America home will not be disrespected in their home and they tried to put respect on their name, families, and race. This still goes on today.

The Resistance Continues: Oppressed, But Never Complacent

Tyranny. We don’t call what the rebel colonists of 1776 fought against as tyranny anymore. Black people: our tyranny is institutionalized racism, systemic racism. 

We have been fighting against this type of tyranny for centuries. Playing dumb in the field. Sabotaging the overseers. The Underground Railroad. Slave Rebellions. The Freedman’s Bureau. Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Fighting in the white man’s wars for our Freedom: Seven Year’s War, War of 1812, American Revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War. Fighting for the black man’s right to vote. Fighting for black women’s right to vote. Nonviolent protests against segregation. The Civil Rights Movement. SNCC. SCLC. The Black Power Movement. The Black Panther Party. The Free Breakfast program. Black is Beautiful. Hip Hop culture. Black Lives Matter. 

We are the truest definition of patriots. People who love their country and want to see it become better because that’s the only home they know. People who choose to stay and fight the good fight because, if we leave it up to our oppressors, we would all still be in chains. We might not support the decisions made about how our black lives are policed and politicized, but we support the possibilities of the Constitution and policies set in place to protect us (even though they don’t). You’ve got to believe that one day shit is going to change and NOTHING that we have has come easy in this fight against tyranny.

White supremacists and those with that mindset might have bombed our churches, publicly lynched our leaders, turned water hoses on us, jailed us for fighting for what we believe in, advanced towards us with military tanks in our neighborhoods, boldly called us niggers as if they wouldn’t get slapped, told us we were too loud, aggressive, or scary, but we are never complacent.

If the majority of Americans can celebrate the colonist’s declaration against tyranny and call it patriotism, then they should respect our constant fight against institutionalized racism to make our home more just for our people patriotism as well. RESISTANCE IS PATRIOTISM.

Even after writing this, I still feel some type of way about The Fourth of July festivities. Even though I just proved that Black people are patriots for resisting the systems that oppress them at every turn, I don’t feel like I should be jiving for the traditional blind American patriotism that the textbooks and commercials teach us. One thing I can celebrate is this idea of Black Patriotism in America and how Black peoples are resilient and resist. And, yes, the resistance continues.

Thought of the Rootless: I have the ability to have a home, despite not feeling at home. I guess that resisting gives us that hope and change my President Barack Obama always talked about. But is resistance enough to bring you joy?

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#ONTHISDATE in 1970 #BLACKPATRIOT GENERAL BENJAMIN OLIVER DAVIS, the first #BLACK #ARMY GENERAL and father of #BenjaminOliverDavisJr #legendary #TuskegeeAirmen #leader and first Black #Airforce General died but his and his son's-- along with all of our #GREATBLACKPATRIOTS collective legacies WILL live #forever because #blackamerica won't allow them to die. LONG LIVE THE #BLACKPATRIOTS (forshadowing... #staytuned) ** thank you for reading and #fighting for our #freedom and #equality! (at Black America)

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1st Rhode Island Regiment

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment, also known as Varnum's Regiment or the Black Regiment, was a regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It was notable for being the first American military unit to consist mainly of non-white soldiers, many of whom were enslaved Black or Native American men serving to win their freedom.

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When it comes to @HISTORY’s #BlackPatriots, the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar executive produced #AmericanRevolution #BlackHistoryMonth special highlighting the almost forgotten lives of color that helped create this country, #AndradeSays, “Why just the one episode?“.

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#Repost @voiceoftheancestors ・・・ Make sure to get your copy of Voice of the Ancestors VI ❗️❗️ LINK IN BIO ❗️❗️ Don't ever let anybody tell you that we as African people are not patriotic. Despite the horrific cards that we have been dealt with here in America. The Harlem hellfighters are a testament of that.• • The Harlem Hellfighters were an African-American infantry unit in WWI who spent more time in combat than any other American unit. The 369th aka Harlem Hellfighters suffered approximately fifteen hundred casualties but received only nine hundred replacements. Unit histories claimed they were the first unit to cross the Rhine into Germany; they performed well at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, earning the epithet “Hell Fighters” from their enemies. Nevertheless, the poor replacement system coupled with no respite from the line took its toll, leaving the unit exhausted by the armistice in November. Although the 369th could boast of a fine combat record and a regimental Croix de Guerre, the unit was plagued by acute discipline problems resulting from disproportionate casualties among the unit’s longest-serving members and related failures to assimilate new soldiers. After considerable effort by the regiment, the 369th was welcomed home with a parade in February 1919 and reabsorbed into the National Guard• • Whereas African American valor usually went unrecognized, well over one hundred members of the regiment received American and/or French medals, including the first two Americans – Corporal Henry Johnson and Private Needham Roberts – to be awarded the coveted French Croix de Guerre.(Follow @voiceoftheancestors) #HarlemHellfighters #BlackPatriotism #VoiceOfTheAncestors https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xC801FJ67/?igshid=bpg5t2tnb0cc

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While Francis Scott Key was penning our National Anthem and calling for the death of blacks blacks fought in the land and water battles of the War of 1812. A large number of Black sailors fought with Matthew Perry and Isaac Chauncey in the battles on the upper lakes and were particularly effective at the Battle of Lake Erie. Two battalions of Black soldiers were with Andrew Jackson when he defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson issued his famous proclamation to Black troops at New Orleans on December 18, 1814: "TO THE MEN OF COLOR. Soldiers! From the shores of Mobile I collected you to arms; I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you, for I was not uniformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable to an invading foe. I knew that you could endure hanger and thirst and all the hardships of war. I knew that you loved the land of your nativity, and that like ourselves, you had to defend all that is most dear to you. But you surpass my hopes. I have found in you, united to these qualities, that noble enthusiasm which impels to great deeds." #isupportkaepernick #notmyanthem #blackpatriotism #nonefiner #menofvalor #blackhistory #blackhidstory #warof1812 #blackpeoplearethemostpatriotic #blacksoldiers #makebeingblackinamericalegal https://www.instagram.com/p/BZTbBBHA5Mo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l6ilagd93be8