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(DIR) Post #ASGy9kq5VvMUFcBqhU by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T13:06:40Z
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history.Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!"A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth.Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town.#BlackMastodon
(DIR) Post #ASGy9nYpOYL0gx8biK by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T13:11:22Z
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*Creating* generational wealth is not hard for Black people. It's happened many times in US history. There have been thriving communities.*Keeping* generational wealth has proved to be nearly impossible. Between racist pogroms, and eminent domain used to create parks, freeways, reservoirs, and shopping malls, Black folk in the US have consistently had their wealth stolen by white folks.I still run into New Yorkers that go to Central Park every week, but have never heard of Seneca Village.
(DIR) Post #ASGy9qQmiugdasOj5s by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T13:19:44Z
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We are truly in a golden age of TV shows, because now I don't sound like I'm making stuff up when I talk about Greenwood (thanks Watchmen!). But Black towns were destroyed with fire and water.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3D4hSQcWbkImagine in the 70s stealing all wealth from white Dallas residents(oil), and in the 80s from all Manhattan residents (finance), and 2000s all Atherton, SF, and Medina residents(tech)and then asking why white folk can't seem to build wealth, from your yacht on "Lake Menlo Park."
(DIR) Post #ASGy9t5cq2Xlq7WN1s by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T13:25:27Z
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Why do white Americans learn about the dozens of wealthy Black towns that were destroyed by racism, from:* Fictional TV shows made by HBO* Black women comedians (Amber Ruffin)* Random Black dudes the post on the internet 🙋🏿♂️Instead of from their history text books?Again folks will ask "Why was I not taught this in school?" And again, I will say, "You know why." Look at what DeSantis is doing. Look at what the Texas Board of Education has always done.This is the Forbidden Knowledge(tm)! 🤫
(DIR) Post #ASGy9vmapG6OBxdiHQ by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T13:38:17Z
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For my friends with MBAs, here are some case studies / interview prep questions. 1) Try and guess the 5 wealthiest white zip codes in the US. Now imagine all of the wealth in those neighborhoods is just stolen and given to Black people. What does that do to the race wealth gap? Hint: Medina Washington alone has about the same net worth as all Black Americans combined.🤡2) How much does Manhattan real estate *in central park* sell for per square foot? Estimate the value of just Seneca Village.
(DIR) Post #ASGy9yX6bIUoinPt3Y by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T14:00:45Z
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We all admire Amsterdam for having the vision to replace car infrastructure with bike infrastructure. We see the positive uplift in small business activity, and livability. 🙂👍🏿Now imagine doing that in reverse. Replace relatively safely walkable and bikeable infrastructure with car infrastructure. In fact, put in freeways. Demolish entire thriving wealthy neighborhoods with freeways that don't serve the neighborhood.🙃That's what we did to Black folk. That's how we destroyed Black wealth.
(DIR) Post #ASGyA1DMd9UH2RCfCa by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T14:06:51Z
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We would never even consider bulldozing the nicest homes and businesses in Beverly Hills to make it easier for Black folk who want to work in Long Beach live in the suburbs of Ventura.We would never consider knocking down skyscrapers in Manhattan to make it easier for Black folk from Brooklyn to work on Wall Street.But we do this to Black folk in the US *constantly*Then when we see people living under the freeways we yell "Bootstraps! Why can't you have a nice neighborhood? Asians did it!"
(DIR) Post #ASGyA3vkX6BDSfz8fA by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T14:11:42Z
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Once we accept the facts that:* Civil Asset Forfeiture exceeds all other forms of burglary in the US (Black folk are disproportionately targeted).* Eminent domain has stolen hundreds of billions of dollars of value. (Black neighborhoods are the most common targets).* Wage theft is one of the largest categories of theft (Black folk are disproportionately targeted for wage theft).* Prison labor is the only form of slavery allowed by the US constitution (Black folk are unfairly targeted).
(DIR) Post #ASGyA6beaGt5lDbdFw by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T14:14:29Z
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It should become clear why Black folk can't seem to build generational wealth in the United States.This failure is not something intrinsic in the makeup or behavior of Black people.This failure is baked into how Black people in the US are treated. In other words, racism.Black folk cannot just "bootstraps" or "education is the key" or "LLC Twitter" or "Hustle, grind, put in work," their way out of this reality. We need to address the racism head on. And we can't do it alone.
(DIR) Post #ASH1cOA3D17IB0sBn6 by maplemavin@masthead.social
2023-02-02T15:49:47Z
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@mekkaokereke I thought Seneca village was upstate, but I'm a native vermonter.
(DIR) Post #ASHCOt3OeXsNQjWcCm by ketmorco@fosstodon.org
2023-02-02T15:07:49Z
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@mekkaokereke not to mention that when Black PoC carve out communities in which they start building that wealth, my fellow Americans tend to just obliterate entire city blocks, like in Tulsa and Rosewood.I took several "American History" classes in public schools and universities where I learned about MLK's dream.It was outside that curriculum where I learned about Tulsa, and nearly a decade later I learned about Rosewood.
(DIR) Post #ASHCPOhWzNOpaBXbZA by KLB@glasgow.social
2023-02-02T15:31:26Z
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@ketmorco @mekkaokereke TIL about Rosewood. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/us/rosewood-massacre-florida-what-happened-reaj/index.html
(DIR) Post #ASHNWZlVLmOzQ71cX2 by Honksaw_Duggan@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-02T19:37:13.468698Z
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Da ebil whypeepo dun keep us down en sheeeit
(DIR) Post #ASHQ6LtqZx2ykb79pg by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-02T20:24:09.065088Z
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@mekkaokereke If there's one thing moon crickets are good at, it's avoiding taking responsibility for their failures. You see this in practice when black fathers refuse to take responsibility for their nigglets.
(DIR) Post #ASHgwEk42EJ6sNIibw by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T22:45:28Z
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Oh, I realize I was too subtle about one aspect of white folk intentionally stealing the wealth.Most of the time when US newspapers have talked about "Race riots," what they really meant was that there was a Black town next to a white town, and the Black town grew more prosperous than the white one. This made the white folks mad, so one day the white folk just... took a bunch of guns and walked over to the Black town and killed as many people as they could, and stole the Black folks' stuff.
(DIR) Post #ASHgwFJVuQfCeJt1rk by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T22:52:14Z
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Some US history books will talk about the "Great migration" when about 6 million Black folk fled the South and headed to the North and West of the US.It's often framed as "Black folk headed North and West looking for jobs." But if you talk to Black folk with relatives that left the South during this time, they'll tell you that their families were fleeing economic persecution in the South: having their money and stuff stolen through lynching, false imprisonment, straight up theft, etc.
(DIR) Post #ASHgwFrXrtsyLroCuW by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-02T23:01:56Z
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Owning a valuable piece of land should ensure generational wealth. But for many Black families, it spelled doom, as a white family would want that land, and they would get it, with the help of corrupt bankers and land assessors.https://eji.org/news/one-million-black-families-have-lost-their-farms/I like the term "lost their farms." It makes it sound like they put it down somewhere, and simply forgot where it is.
(DIR) Post #ASHgwGPvo3OK4VtfVY by Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz
2023-02-02T23:08:35Z
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@mekkaokereke Yeah, "lost their farms." Well spotted. Words matter, so much!Like "pedestrian accident" when we mean to say "run over by an automobile."["Mean to say" also not adequate by itself. Also can be "avoid surfacing culpability by saying," per OP. ]
(DIR) Post #ASHgwH1VYLRtx3Tg4u by GreenFire@climatejustice.social
2023-02-02T23:11:22Z
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@Doug_Bostrom @mekkaokereke The lawsuit from Republicans blocking Biden's attempt to help Black farmers recover somewhat after the long history of them being disadvantaged so badly is disgusting. https://www.eater.com/22813132/black-farmers-debt-relief-usda-lawsuits-miller-v-vilsack
(DIR) Post #ASHiYppig9kOs2unq4 by moffintosh@berserker.town
2023-02-02T23:50:59Z
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@GreenFire @Doug_Bostrom @mekkaokereke > helping the petit bourgeoisDems, as always
(DIR) Post #ASHj25oMLsVSp8EKZ6 by franktaber@mas.to
2023-02-02T23:56:13Z
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@moffintosh @GreenFire @Doug_Bostrom @mekkaokereke Bruce's Beach is one of the very few that after a century finally found its way back to the family who owned it.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-20/ceremony-marks-official-return-of-bruces-beach
(DIR) Post #ASJTzdoiLwZ8QRgmEy by MJmusicinears@mastodon.world
2023-02-03T20:17:11Z
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@mekkaokereke truth.. keep bringing it sista
(DIR) Post #ASJg7DHw4K3tumjZZY by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-03T22:32:41Z
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@MJmusicinears Brother, but thanks!
(DIR) Post #ASivzxAWBrXaExiKVU by Xenophon@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T02:58:43.172105Z
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go back to africa.
(DIR) Post #ASiwD8Iw6CimXew5YW by Honksaw_Duggan@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:01:08.591668Z
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(DIR) Post #ASiwVgeJ937uGxmOWm by Xenophon@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:04:29.129857Z
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Because your plight is fiction, and you aren't human. Your relatives in africa live in mud huts and eat human flesh. You are fucking disgusting.
(DIR) Post #ASiwaMnCOmYG8WAaeG by Xenophon@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:05:16.482229Z
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Nigger, literally everything you have, you stole from a White person. Any degree you may possess, you didn't earn, but were gifted. Your IQ is 2 digits. Please shut the fuck up.
(DIR) Post #ASiwi9mAg5ig5CP5bU by NotoriousDOG@eveningzoo.club
2023-02-16T03:06:44.775302Z
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All niggers know that this history is made up but it’s all they have to cling to. Niggers only destroy and never prosper. It’s in their dna. It’s simply a cope. Look at Haiti spoopy
(DIR) Post #ASiwu1QfXLq1fe0JGq by Xenophon@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:08:51.077070Z
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WE WUZ KANGZ! WE BUILT PEERMIDS! WE BUILT MURICA!You were such bad slave equipment, jewish slavers had to rape your women to make offspring smart enough to pick cotton. You're a fucking joke. The Romans thought you were wild animals over 2000 years ago, when they were building cities of marble and you were shitting on your mates face.
(DIR) Post #ASix227MrOhw7hnPge by NotoriousDOG@eveningzoo.club
2023-02-16T03:10:22.025349Z
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Still wild animals
(DIR) Post #ASix7bKPNP8Em3YCPY by Imp@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:11:17.251800Z
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> "Why don't blacks build any generational wealth?"Because most blacks are niggers, and that means they'd have to get off their asses and do honest work, instead of getting handouts. Niggers can't into that because they're too busy killing each other and innocent White people because "muh repuhrayshuns" :animu_okie:
(DIR) Post #ASixTlltEHWNXAyY0O by Kirby@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:14:44.146928Z
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"Jesus would let a Ugandan immigrant live next to him."He had a guarantee of protection that I don't, and he was quite open about that lol“Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready.” (John 7:6, KJV)Aka Have faith, but also... play it smart
(DIR) Post #ASixVi206di6VtR6mG by Xenophon@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:15:39.727489Z
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Also he wouldn't, because Jesus didn't think niggers were people 🤷 He called a canaanite woman a dog, and she at least came from Adam. Ugandans don't.
(DIR) Post #ASiyIOy9lbTLaDrAQa by The_Almighty_Kek@nicecrew.digital
2023-02-16T03:23:20.637148Z
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We destroyed your neighborhoods? LOL Well even if that were true, you niggers had more than made up for it for what you did to pretty much every major city in this country.
(DIR) Post #ASiyMp3GjcMrdQM7RA by penguin@eveningzoo.club
2023-02-16T03:25:19.763744Z
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