Africa history made (Marejeo)
Africa history made (Marejeo)
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DID YOU KNOW[emoji780]
Sports legends 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 were stationed at 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗜.
In this photo [emoji991] the legendary number "42" and the "Brown Bomber" are pictured in 1942 during their time serving our country. Robinson was drafted and sent to Fort Riley for basic training. During Robinson's time at Fort Riley he passed all the requirements and applied for Officer Candidate School. Robinson along with several other African-American candidates' applications were dismissed due to their race. Louis used his popularity to campaign on behalf of Robinson and other prospective officers. As a result, the candidates were granted acceptance into the program due largely to Louis's efforts.
#JoeLouis #JackieRobinson
#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 [emoji1478]
Sports legends 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 were stationed at 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗜.
In this photo [emoji991] the legendary number "42" and the "Brown Bomber" are pictured in 1942 during their time serving our country. Robinson was drafted and sent to Fort Riley for basic training. During Robinson's time at Fort Riley he passed all the requirements and applied for Officer Candidate School. Robinson along with several other African-American candidates' applications were dismissed due to their race. Louis used his popularity to campaign on behalf of Robinson and other prospective officers. As a result, the candidates were granted acceptance into the program due largely to Louis's efforts.
#JoeLouis #JackieRobinson
#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 [emoji1478]
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The greatest white man in American history, John Brown, was born on this day in 1800.
He was a radical abolitionist who felt called by God to fight against slavery in every way possible - even if it meant killing enslavers wherever they were.
He was frustrated to his bones at how slow the anti-slavery movement was moving and decided to do what virtually no white people had done up until that moment - he would give his own life to confront the evil institution.
He raised his own children up to loathe slavery as much as he did and several of his sons also died fighting against slavery.
He was a radical abolitionist who felt called by God to fight against slavery in every way possible - even if it meant killing enslavers wherever they were.
He was frustrated to his bones at how slow the anti-slavery movement was moving and decided to do what virtually no white people had done up until that moment - he would give his own life to confront the evil institution.
He raised his own children up to loathe slavery as much as he did and several of his sons also died fighting against slavery.
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Certain people advocate peace, but only in words. In our view it is the implementation rather than the words that is important. This is something on which big and small powers alike must join forces.
Emperor Haile Selassie I
(Interview with the NY times 19.01.1971)
Emperor Haile Selassie I
(Interview with the NY times 19.01.1971)
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Fidel Castro signed the First Law of Agrarian Reform on May 17, 1959. Written by Che Guevara, it prohibited foreign ownership of sugar planatations, broke up large estates, and redistributed land to landless peasant farmers as small parcels and large communes. #OTD #Cuba
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Met one of my heroes, a living legend, in Buffalo.
A generation ago, @cariolh was a Buffalo Police Officer and saw a white cop choking the life out of a Black man who was handcuffed.
Cariol literally jumped on the cop to pull him off.
And they fired her.
And took her pension.
And tried to ruin her life.
But for 15 years she fought them.
And last year, after the cop she stopped for being brutal was finally found guilty for other cases of brutality, 2 things happened.
1. A judge found that Cariol was right all along. And said that her lost pension and future pension should be restored. However, Cariol just told me they continue to make her fight for it.
2. Buffalo passed Cariol’s Law - which now REQUIRES cops to intervene when they see misconduct.
Even now she’s on the front lines making sure victims of the terrorist attack are given the respect and dignity they deserve.
A generation ago, @cariolh was a Buffalo Police Officer and saw a white cop choking the life out of a Black man who was handcuffed.
Cariol literally jumped on the cop to pull him off.
And they fired her.
And took her pension.
And tried to ruin her life.
But for 15 years she fought them.
And last year, after the cop she stopped for being brutal was finally found guilty for other cases of brutality, 2 things happened.
1. A judge found that Cariol was right all along. And said that her lost pension and future pension should be restored. However, Cariol just told me they continue to make her fight for it.
2. Buffalo passed Cariol’s Law - which now REQUIRES cops to intervene when they see misconduct.
Even now she’s on the front lines making sure victims of the terrorist attack are given the respect and dignity they deserve.
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“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...
Fought in World Wars as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...
and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?
How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”[emoji3590][emoji1665][emoji172]
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...
Fought in World Wars as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...
and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?
How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”[emoji3590][emoji1665][emoji172]
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67 years ago this week, Fidel Castro and 25 other members of the 26 July movement were freed from the Model Prison on Cuba's Isle of Youth. They were released following a prisoner amnesty and after serving 19 months for their part in the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks against the dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista. Shortly after their release they fled to Mexico and it was here that Raul Castro met Che Guevara and introduced him to Fidel. Two year's later they would return to Cuba and launch the armed struggle from the Sierra Maestra.
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The Motor Scout was designed and built by British inventor F.R. Simms in 1898. It was the first armed petrol engine-powered vehicle ever built.
The vehicle was a De Dion-Bouton quadricycle with a mounted Maxim machine gun on the front bar. An iron shield in front of the car protected the driver.
The vehicle was a De Dion-Bouton quadricycle with a mounted Maxim machine gun on the front bar. An iron shield in front of the car protected the driver.
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On the left is the statue of a Black individual from the Etruscan civilization in Italy, the originators of the Roman civilization. On the right, it is a statue of The Buddha. Both have the same type of spirals on top of their head. These spirals are not snails, but they represent tightly coiled hair, kinky or African hair.
We have not been able to find any source talking about snails saving the Buddha. Only some recent websites are talking about it. Meaning that it is a theory created to hide the truth.
Numerous books talk about the presence of Black people in Asia and even in India. Indians have numerous features and many of them have very dark skinned and features that are similar to Africans. We know that numerous Black groups still live in India and in Asia today. That's the only reason why these ancient statues depict this figure with some Black features.
Ancient Asia was part of what many European scholars called "Greater Ethiopia". Greater Ethiopia started in sub-Saharan Africa and extended into Asia, reaching India and even further. Ancient Europeans called it like that because they noticed that the populations of these areas were similar in features and cultures. They were Black.
Don't forget to get your copies of My African Icons, I Love Africa, The Black Samurai and Mr. Imhotep's ABC to teach the youth about the greatness of African Civilizations.
Get them here: mrimhotep.org/books
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We have not been able to find any source talking about snails saving the Buddha. Only some recent websites are talking about it. Meaning that it is a theory created to hide the truth.
Numerous books talk about the presence of Black people in Asia and even in India. Indians have numerous features and many of them have very dark skinned and features that are similar to Africans. We know that numerous Black groups still live in India and in Asia today. That's the only reason why these ancient statues depict this figure with some Black features.
Ancient Asia was part of what many European scholars called "Greater Ethiopia". Greater Ethiopia started in sub-Saharan Africa and extended into Asia, reaching India and even further. Ancient Europeans called it like that because they noticed that the populations of these areas were similar in features and cultures. They were Black.
Don't forget to get your copies of My African Icons, I Love Africa, The Black Samurai and Mr. Imhotep's ABC to teach the youth about the greatness of African Civilizations.
Get them here: mrimhotep.org/books
#imhotepfacts