Just so you know, I’m not Black anymore. I’m not African-American. I’ve gone back to being Colored. That’s what my mother was and I’ve decided that’s what I’ll be from now on. Used properly, I believe it has a universal elegance. It captures the world’s people spectrum. Used inappropriately, it still conveys Us vs. Them, Them vs. Us or any way round you want. Unfortunately, if you’re looking at it either way, there’s the problem.
Black History Month
History doesn’t matter to the man who has to feed his family tomorrow. What matters are the actions he must take today.
This banner was flown by the NAACP’s NYC office from 1920-1938 every time a black person was lynched I’m America. Even once was too much. Most importantly, we most stop the continued “lynchings”.
Tuskegee Revisited
A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most widely known spokesperson for black working-class interests in the United States, met with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration to demand he sign an executive order banning discrimination against black workers in the defense industry. Randolph threatened to bring tens of thousands of marchers to Washington, D.C. On June 25, 1941, days before the march was to occur, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which barred government agencies and federal contractors from refusing employment in industries engaged in defense production on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin. It was the first Presidential decree issued on race since Reconstruction. The order required the armed services, including the Marine Corps, to recruit and enlist African Americans.
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