US History (forgotten)
Oil on canvas with mixed media.
48x48 inches
WEBSITES:
Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators
Oakland Public Library
Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History & Culture
Talking about Race
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
BOOKS:
The Colors of Us, 2002, Karen Katz
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults), 2018, Bryan Stevenson
The Skin I'm In, 2003, Pat Thomas
Teaching for Black Lives, 2018, Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
JaneAddams Children's Book Award
Jane Addams Peace Association
By Declan Smith, age 9, Model of a slave ship that traveled from West Africa to the colonies.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Formation: January 19, 1920
Black Lives Matter
Founded: 2013
Black Visions Collective
Founded: 2017
Black Voters Matter Fund
Founded: 2016
https://www.blackvotersmatterfund.org
Color of Change
Founded: 2005
Equal Justice Initiative
Founded: 1989, Montgomery, Alabama
The National Association of Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Founded: 1909, New York, New York
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Established: December 19, 2003, Washington, D.C.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
National Police Accountabililty Project
Founded: 1937
Reclaim the Block
Founded: 2018, Minneapolis, Minn.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Founded: 1971, Montgomery, Alabama
Teaching Tolorence
A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Whiteness Project
Established: 2014, Buffalo, NY
US History (forgotten)
Oil on canvas and mixed media.
48x48 inches
edogamy - restricting marriage to people within the same caste. (Outlawing marriage between whites to Blacks, Asians or Native Americans.)
genocide - the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group. [Merriam-Webster]
Japanese internment camps - In February 1942, after the Pearl Harbor attack, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the army the power, without warrants or indictments or hearings, to arrest all 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Men, women and children were taken from their homes, forced into relocation and incarcerated, under armed guards, for over three years. Their homes, businesses and property were seized and never returned.
Jim Crow - Immediately following the Civil War, a system and set of state and local laws were created to legalize racial segregation and to systematically stack the deck against the newly emancipated slaves, indigenous people, Asian immigrants and people of color. Jim Crow lasted about 100 years. Rights denied include the right to vote, hold office, employment, education, home ownership, and more. The consequence of defying Jim Crow laws was often lynching, arrest, fines or incarceration.
massacre (versus a battle) - A massacre usually involves innocent and/or unarmed civilians, whereas a battle is fought between two armies.
Reconstruction - Reconstruction marks the post-Civil War era when slaves were emancipated. It was a pivotal point, a test. Sadly lost was the golden opportunity to finally start living by the Declaration of Independence's claim that "all men are created equal", and biblical the plea to "love thy neighbor". Instead, sore losers in the war channeled their anger and fear on creating Jim Crow laws to stacked the deck against freed slaves, indigenous people, Asian immigrants and people of color.
White privilege - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a white person to recognize their own white privilege. [Example: In response to viewing police brutality video.: "That's not the (Minnesota / Texas / New York / California / Washington DC / other) that I know!" "Of course it isn't. We are shielded by our white privilege from the horrors Black Americans face daily."]
White supremacy - Simply put, if a white person believes that a person of color is below their equal, they are guilty of white supremacy.
US History (forgotten)
Oil on canvas and mixed media.
48x48 inches
Racism is the perception that one race is superior to another, that the color of their skin determines their place in the human hierarchy. Pernicious and pervasive, it is supported by a matrix of power and history. For racism to be real, there has to be power. It has to be a hard and incontestable power. It is this that gives racism its vicious quality.
- Ben Okri
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -Desmond Tutu
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. - Albert Einstein
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth. -William Faulkner
There comes a time when silence is betrayal. -Martin Luther Kind, Jr.
First they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience. But where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. _Martin Luther King, Jr.
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