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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Jun 9

The problem with the so-called "nonviolence" of the Civil Rights Era is that it is misnarrated. The retelling in the "American myth of progress" version of the Civil Rights movement was that it was completely nonviolent.

That is not true. Plus let's call it its full name "nonviolent direct action"

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Jun 9

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1h

they gon try to push somebody else in our faces today, but I dont have the time lol

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1h

lol, maybe....

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Nov 24

Fun Fact:

It was racism that created the popularity of butter pecan ice cream. The South was so segregated they would only serve Black people vanilla ice cream on 4th of July (even Maya Angelou wrote about this). Vanilla was "pure" and "white."

Black people as always created an alternative.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4h

Today is George Floyd's birthday. I dont know who the hell else birthday it is.

Oh....Usher i think.

Oh, and William Boyd Allison Davis too! He's very important.

That's all I got 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 12h

Today I learned:

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Feb 21

1. You wanna know what's interesting about Pepsi making this decision? Pepsi literally made its fortune off the backs of Black people. (short 🧵)

Both Pepsi & Coke were created in the late 19th century. But while Coca-Cola was going on to become America's drink, Pepsi was bankrupt in the 1920s.

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · Feb 21

Universities need to be put on this list, too.😶

www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12h

omg, you have no idea.

closets!!! 😂😂

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12h

😂😂😂

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13h

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13h

thank you for accepting them 🙏🏾

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger BBs!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Indigenous People's Day

nighttime reading:

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 15h

Take the Pepsi challenge!!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 15h

I actually made a post about it when they got rid of their DEI thing lol

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Feb 21

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · Feb 21

Universities need to be put on this list, too.😶

www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 15h

Pepsi is the Black drink 🤌🏾

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

Peace in the middle east, thanks to our peace president!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

thank you 🙏🏾

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

😊

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

🙏🏾 no problem at all

When I say the pleasure's is all mine, this literally brings me pleasure lol

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18h

If my bestfriend were still alive, he'd be 42 today.

I stopped celebrating his birthday 10 years in, but I just realized this year makes 20.

How time flies

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Q @qlavolpe.bsky.social · 18h

Read the thread 🧵. Read it!

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

"In Fourteen Hundred Ninety Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue..."

or whatever.

First off, the only Christopher i acknowledge is Wallace.

However, Columbus Day has a much darker origin story you may not know.

Let's talk Columbus Day 🧵

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18h

15. But the fact of the matter is, Columbus Day was born out of white racism.

Which led to the lynching of 11 potentially innocent Italian-Americans who would spend the next several decades assimilating into whiteness

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18h

14. Today, Columbus Day has fallen out of favor with a large part of the community with most places opting to acknowledge Indigenous People's Day. This offends many people like President Trump, who want to make "Columbus Day Great Again!"

Because it makes us "less patriotic."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

13. There was even a Columbus statue installed in Central Park that later became known as Columbus Circle.

As Italians became more politically powerful over the years, they lobbied to have Columbus Day become an official American holiday, which it did in 1934

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

12. On October 12, 1892, the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, America would acknowledge a one time holiday for the Italian who "discovered America."

At this same celebration, the Pledge of Allegiance first appeared as well, which was coincidentally used as a "whitening tool" for the future

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

11. Italy was so upset with the United States that they recalled their ambassador, and rumors of war between the two countries started to spread.

Wanting to turn down the heat, President Benjamin Harrison made a deal with Italy.

To make it right, he proposed a holiday in 1892

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

10. Okay, if you've made it this far, you're probably thinking, "cool story, but what does this have to do with Columbus Day?"

Again, it was 1891. The next year, 1892, marked the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America.

When Italy found out what happened, they were PISSED!

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