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This thread is just to post history, readings, things you've learned, or just tweets and stuff pertaining to the subject. Thought I would start the thread with a reading on a great inventor that was a feature of every black history month lesson in K-12 in Iowa - George Washington Carver. He was connected to the state through his master's degree in botany at Iowa State University, and public school lectures focused primarily on his hundreds of uses for the peanut and educational accomplishments at the Tuskegee Institute. It was only later in life that I had a chance to read more about his personal goals of being able to lift poor black (and white) southern farmers out of poverty through a self-reliant system of agriculture. Just about everything he did was focused towards that vision - he taught poor farmers how to rotate crops in order to keep the soil healthy, and then invented a variety of products to be made from these crops to meet household needs so farmers would not need to buy manufactured goods from the store. Along with these were a variety of recipes, and teaching people how to cook foods that had otherwise been considered unpalatable such as dandelions. Much of this was done to give people the tools they needed to break free of growing cotton on small farms, which was labor intensive and often left small farmers indebted to stores and landowners much of the year. Some further reading here https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/carvers-food-movement/
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Just thought I'd share a short bio of a badass anti-fascist: http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/oliver-law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Law  Oliver Law is considered to be the first African-American in history to lead an integrated military force. He commanded a machine gun company in the Spanish Civil War and was later promoted again to Captain of his battalion. He was a blue collar worker who became radicalized by the growing labor union and anti-fascist movements during the Great Depression. He was once arrested for leading an anti-fascist rally after Italy invaded Abyssinia. He died in Spain fighting the Nationalists and Fascists.
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Feb 2, 2018 18:09
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The first black president, Bill Clinton, invaded Somalia.
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Feb 3, 2018 15:26
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Once upon a time there were unfair laws. Then Martin Luther King used nonviolent resistance and protest to end all the unfair laws.
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Feb 3, 2018 15:36
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Some books I’ve read over the years that I recommend Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, by George Jackson Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans edited by Wallace Terry We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age by Sylvia Frey River of Dark Dreams by Walter Johnson
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Feb 5, 2018 03:33
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what the hell is all this poo poo? haven't you heard? the Black Panther movie is coming out and that's the only black role model that we need
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Feb 7, 2018 03:39
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If people want to talk about a movie or something here thats fine too, thread's dyin. I put a hold on the two books from your list they have available at my area library Galactic.
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Feb 7, 2018 12:54
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In honor of black history month, let's review all the black Star wars characters who didn't betray any people or governments.
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Feb 7, 2018 13:42
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Mace Windu died like an idiot
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Feb 7, 2018 16:30
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Did anybody see Mudbound? Trailer looked decent.
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Feb 7, 2018 17:13
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tower time posted:I put a hold on the two books from your list they have available at my area library Galactic.  nice, let me know how you respond to them
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Feb 7, 2018 17:15
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ikanreed posted:In honor of black history month, let's review all the black Star wars characters who didn't betray any people or governments. Grizz Frix.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_compromisequote:The agreement was that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law.[3][4] Blacks would not agitate for equality, integration, or justice, and Northern whites would fund black educational charities.[5][6]
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Feb 7, 2018 20:21
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ikanreed posted:In honor of black history month, let's review all the black Star wars characters who didn't betray any people or governments. Willrow Hood was loyal to his ice cream maker to the end
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Feb 7, 2018 20:29
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black people built america and everything good in it
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Feb 8, 2018 14:00
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 Say hello to the Tuskegee Airmen, whose legacy is to keep Canon, HP and Samsung in business as moronic equalities advisors/managers/head of equalitys & diversity... print the attached photograph off across the globe and stick it on noticeboards. Look, black people flying aeroplanes and we let them have guns! How clever am I? I weep for the future.
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Feb 13, 2018 22:17
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George W. Carver invented peanut butter, which enabled great breakthroughs in man-canine relations.
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Feb 13, 2018 22:30
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get that OUT of my face posted:what the hell is all this poo poo? haven't you heard? the Black Panther movie is coming out and that's the only black role model that we need 
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Feb 13, 2018 23:41
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I love the George Washington Carver sandwiches as Boston Market, and also the nut he invented
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Feb 13, 2018 23:47
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I'm going to do the most racist thing imaginable this month: seeing Black Panther without buying a ticket
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Feb 13, 2018 23:47
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Haha blast from the past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZxO-WZ5_E
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Feb 14, 2018 16:15
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Last day of bhm and this thread didn't get past one page. Smdh.... I blame the brothers of Bernie
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Feb 28, 2018 15:13
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General Dog posted:Haha blast from the past Holy gently caress Sisqo jumps out of the floor.
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Feb 28, 2018 19:00
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importing a little suck zone https://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/968904819292372993
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Feb 28, 2018 19:03
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Doing my part to reach page 2
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Feb 28, 2018 19:20
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last to hire first to fire shortest month shortest thread smh
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Feb 28, 2018 19:24
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Ida B. Wells is cool and should be taught more in history.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:17
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Glambags posted:Last day of bhm and this thread didn't get past one page. Smdh.... I blame the brothers of Bernie 
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Feb 28, 2018 23:22
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Everyone should read Malcolm X's autobiography (several times)
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Mar 1, 2018 02:00
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Harriet Tubman should be put on every currency that way southerners abandon money and embrace socialism.
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Mar 1, 2018 03:38
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Rand alPaul posted:Harriet Tubman should be put on every currency that way southerners abandon money and embrace socialism. William T. Sherman, John Brown, and Frederick Douglass would also look great on currency
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Mar 1, 2018 03:53
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Gringostar posted:William T. Sherman, John Brown, and Frederick Douglass would also look great on currency Very much for all of this. It is important to honor America's historical figures on our currency.
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Mar 1, 2018 03:57
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American Express has a black card
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Mar 1, 2018 04:01
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i read an essay from a NY state senator (in fact, my state senator) saying that it should be called African American History Month as a way to stress the African part. that was a good starting point but he kinda went nowhere with it
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Mar 1, 2018 04:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeQUrUSFszo
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Mar 1, 2018 04:12
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get that OUT of my face posted:i read an essay from a NY state senator (in fact, my state senator) saying that it should be called African American History Month as a way to stress the African part. that was a good starting point but he kinda went nowhere with it Can't wait to hear about Elon Musk.
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Mar 1, 2018 04:28
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Rand alPaul posted:Very much for all of this. It is important to honor America's historical figures on our currency. lee surrendering to grant at appomattox would be good on the back of a bill so would something dedicated to the victims of both the trial of tears and the japanese internment also a scene from the piss tape when its released, because it's real
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Mar 1, 2018 04:30
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i propose there should be a permanent black history thread in c-spam. if this one closes at the end of the month I’ll start a new one or we could just rebrand this one
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Mar 1, 2018 04:59
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(my preference would be rebranding this one)
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Killmonger was right
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