1/22
#The1619Project Book Club at 8pm EST, Thursday, May 9th
Our conversation will be based on Chapter 11, Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, other #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books and videos and related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak, text/chat or just listen -.
Our conversation will be based on Chapter 11, Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, other #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books and videos and related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak, text/chat or just listen -.
06:18 PM - May 03, 2024
3/22
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Speech (12mins 4 secs) to the United Nations in April 2022
"There can be no atonement, if there's no repair. It is time, it is long past time, for reparations"
Video courtesy africarenewal
https://cdnapisec.kaltura....
Speech (12mins 4 secs) to the United Nations in April 2022
"There can be no atonement, if there's no repair. It is time, it is long past time, for reparations"
Video courtesy africarenewal
https://cdnapisec.kaltura....
06:50 PM - May 03, 2024
4/22
#The1619Project
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 299
"Black people's financial success often seemed to provoke the harshest response, especially from white people who felt threatened"
Page 305
""Every time we take a step up," she said, "there's someone trying to crush it."'
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 299
"Black people's financial success often seemed to provoke the harshest response, especially from white people who felt threatened"
Page 305
""Every time we take a step up," she said, "there's someone trying to crush it."'
10:12 PM - May 03, 2024
5/22
#The1619Project
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 301
"Instead of wealth, millions of Black families have passed down something else from one generation to the next: the mental and emotional stress that results from the constant threat of white violence and financial insecurity."
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 301
"Instead of wealth, millions of Black families have passed down something else from one generation to the next: the mental and emotional stress that results from the constant threat of white violence and financial insecurity."
10:16 PM - May 03, 2024
6/22
#The1619Project
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 299:
"Black folks had to work extraordinarily hard and strike just enough luck to cobble together a living."
Chapter 11, INHERITANCE by Trymaine Lee
Page 299:
"Black folks had to work extraordinarily hard and strike just enough luck to cobble together a living."
10:18 PM - May 03, 2024
7/22
Remembering The Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 Years Later -
Trymaine Lee joins Ayman to report on the destruction of 'Black Wall Street' 100 years ago during the Tulsa massacre
https://youtu.be/xbkvNM7XN...
Trymaine Lee joins Ayman to report on the destruction of 'Black Wall Street' 100 years ago during the Tulsa massacre
https://youtu.be/xbkvNM7XN...
10:36 PM - May 03, 2024
8/22
Tracie McMillan
22:38 "if racism was the reason that we pulled back the help to people buying homes, getting education, etc., it's like we killed the American Dream ourselves, because black people were going to get it"
https://youtu.be/vRfcrB1rs...
22:38 "if racism was the reason that we pulled back the help to people buying homes, getting education, etc., it's like we killed the American Dream ourselves, because black people were going to get it"
https://youtu.be/vRfcrB1rs...
11:39 PM - May 03, 2024
9/22
Clyburn on MLK Jr Day and the 'White moderate' in 2022 -
House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail
https://youtu.be/jQ6odzvxD...
House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail
https://youtu.be/jQ6odzvxD...
01:14 PM - May 04, 2024
10/22
Reparations payments approved -
California’s reparations task force has approved payments of more than $1 million to eligible Black residents
https://youtu.be/C7p_nzpWD...
California’s reparations task force has approved payments of more than $1 million to eligible Black residents
https://youtu.be/C7p_nzpWD...
10:03 PM - May 04, 2024
11/22
Trymaine Lee
- 40 acres and a mule
- Jim Crow
- Jobs, Housing
- Reconstruction, Redemption
- Violent Dispossession
- Restitution, Reparations
- HR 40
- Economist Sandy Darity
https://youtu.be/EIryhdgRl...
- 40 acres and a mule
- Jim Crow
- Jobs, Housing
- Reconstruction, Redemption
- Violent Dispossession
- Restitution, Reparations
- HR 40
- Economist Sandy Darity
https://youtu.be/EIryhdgRl...
10:20 PM - May 04, 2024
12/22
#The1619Project Book Club, 8pm EST, Thurs, May 9
Our conversation will be based on Ch. 11, Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books & videos & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat
or just listen.
Our conversation will be based on Ch. 11, Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books & videos & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat
or just listen.
08:21 AM - May 06, 2024
13/22
Trymaine Lee goes on a journey to discover an untold story of freedom and reparations.
Reparations paid by USA:
- Gabriel Coakley born 1825/6
$ received through the DC Emancipation Act
- DC White enslavers
- 40 acres and a mule
- Colonization $100 each in DC
- Native Americans
- Japanese Americans
Reparations paid by USA:
- Gabriel Coakley born 1825/6
$ received through the DC Emancipation Act
- DC White enslavers
- 40 acres and a mule
- Colonization $100 each in DC
- Native Americans
- Japanese Americans
08:58 PM - May 06, 2024
14/22
Sabby Sabs & Yvette Carnell
- Wealth, Darity
- Holocaust, Japanese Americans
- Eat failure
- Deserving vs handout
- Use of tax $ for USA debts
- Lineage, 400 yrs of harm
- 1965 Immigration Act
- Haiti/France
- Winning team
- Escapism
- International
- $20 trillion
- HR40
- Harmony
- State+Federal
- Wealth, Darity
- Holocaust, Japanese Americans
- Eat failure
- Deserving vs handout
- Use of tax $ for USA debts
- Lineage, 400 yrs of harm
- 1965 Immigration Act
- Haiti/France
- Winning team
- Escapism
- International
- $20 trillion
- HR40
- Harmony
- State+Federal
09:06 PM - May 07, 2024
15/22
"[White Americans] Smashing communities and burying their histories erases stories of Black success and .... Following Tulsa...“It became acceptable to believe that African Americans couldn’t reach the same heights as our [white] counterparts could."
https://news.harvard.edu/g...
https://news.harvard.edu/g...
news.harvard.edu
Burying truth keeps Black Americans dispossessed, says panel — Harvard Gazette
“A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know” focused on the race issues dividing the United States — and the possibility that open discussion could move us forward.
11:51 AM - May 08, 2024
16/22
#The1619Project Book Club tomorrow evening at 8pm EST
Our conversation will be based on Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books/videos, & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat or just listen -.
Our conversation will be based on Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books/videos, & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat or just listen -.
11:58 AM - May 08, 2024
17/22
Tracie McMillan
"It’s this thing that we all know, but that we pretend that we don’t. White people actually do kind of know this, but the whole trick of American public discourse is that we never say that it’s happening."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/0...
"It’s this thing that we all know, but that we pretend that we don’t. White people actually do kind of know this, but the whole trick of American public discourse is that we never say that it’s happening."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/0...
cnn.com
03:26 PM - May 08, 2024
18/22
Tracie McMillan and host:
1:00:13 "American Dream" "owning a home" "having a retirement" "able to send me to college"
1:06:23 "what the American Dream is and what it should be like"
https://youtu.be/MBBo5Z0bA...
1:00:13 "American Dream" "owning a home" "having a retirement" "able to send me to college"
1:06:23 "what the American Dream is and what it should be like"
https://youtu.be/MBBo5Z0bA...
03:28 PM - May 08, 2024
19/22
"The U.S. Owes $350,000 To Every Black American -
The U.S. never fulfilled its promise of "40 acres and a mule" to formerly enslaved people. If America granted reparations today, what would they look like"
https://youtu.be/oTES5mX9-...
The U.S. never fulfilled its promise of "40 acres and a mule" to formerly enslaved people. If America granted reparations today, what would they look like"
https://youtu.be/oTES5mX9-...
09:39 PM - May 08, 2024
20/22
#The1619Project Book Club, this evening at 8pm EST
Our conversation will be based on Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books & videos & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat or just listen -.
Our conversation will be based on Inheritance by Trymaine Lee, #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books & videos & related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MAGA or MLK "moderate Whites"), chat or just listen -.
12:07 AM - May 09, 2024
21/22
Tracie McMillan
"I think there are enough White people now who understand that this isn’t really working in our favor, but we don’t have language for it."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/0...
"I think there are enough White people now who understand that this isn’t really working in our favor, but we don’t have language for it."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/0...
cnn.com
09:51 AM - May 09, 2024
22/22
#The1619Project Book Club
Thank you for a fascinating evening discussing Inheritance or the past and present lack of inter-generational wealth.
https://spoutible.com/pod/...
Thank you for a fascinating evening discussing Inheritance or the past and present lack of inter-generational wealth.
https://spoutible.com/pod/...
10:51 PM - May 09, 2024
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