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Fannie Lou Hamer "Kept President Johnson Up at Night” — @queenie4rmnola link.medium.com/Cvt2CdeInsb
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"President Lyndon B. Johnson was terrified of her, terrified of her appeal she would make in 1964 before the Democratic National Committee’s credentials panel on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Brown, 2020)."
"White moderates will often proclaim that they support Black people and respect them, but that change is too risky, inappropriate, and unconventional. As a credit to her generation, Mrs. Hamer refused to buckle under the weight of oppression or others’ apathy — she persisted."
We have to usher our elders into the next frontier of Civil Rights activism. Many came from a Pan African ideology that lumps us all together as Black Activists without understanding the con that was played on MLK, Malcolm, Stokley, and others during the 60’s. #ADOS✊🏾 is specific
#ADOSActivists✊🏾 have spent the last 4 years crafting a #BlackAgenda that is inclusive of #ADOS✊🏾 and all of America,yet we have been detested by the #LiberalEstablishment. We have no friends. Only allies at this point. Meanwhile, @ReverendWarnock @ossoff
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,@JoeBiden, @SenKamalaHarris, and others on the @DNC ballots were ushered in on the backs of #ADOS✊🏾 voters who have been a captured electorate since #FannieLouHamer’s all Black delegation from MS was denied a seat at the @DNC Convention in 1964.
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Happy birthday to your beloved mother🎊I hope that she will be looking down on your efforts to liberate #ADOS who were economically unable to travel in mass in 1976. #ADOS still remain a #BottomCaste in America.
On January 31, 1966, about 70 African American sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and seasonal workers occupied the empty barracks of the Greenville Air Force Base to protest their desperate economic plight in the MS Delta. They carried blankets, stoves, coal, mops, brooms, and water
“Their demands were simple: land, food, jobs, shelter, and the basic necessities of life. Their wages, averaging $3 for a 12-hour day, made their life unlivable. They lived in shacks, and many were in debt to plantation owners for those shacks.” This was #ADOSLife✊🏾in 1966.
In 1961, Fannie Lou Hamer received a hysterectomy by a white doctor without her consent. Two years later, after successfully registering to vote, she and other Black women were arrested for sitting in a “whites-only” bus station restaurant in Charleston, S.C.
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At the jail, she and several of the women were brutally beaten, leaving Hamer with lilfelong injuries, including kidney damage, leg damage and a blood clot in her eye.
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In 1964, Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the local Democratic Party’s efforts to block Black participation. Hamer & MFDP members went to the Democratic National Convention, arguing to be recognized as the official delegation.
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Black America is in an abusive relationship with this country. We were violently forced into this non-consensual relationship. We’ve taken the beatings, killings, rape and psychological & emotional torture & have survived. #thread
We’ve been lied to & cheated, but we continue to clench our teeth, hold our rage & find opportunities to be happy, if only for brief moments.
All the while, begging (and demanding) this country to love us back, when we know deep down inside it’ll never love us the way we deserve to be loved.
Every cycle, I see well-intentioned white people decry the Democratic delegate selection process as unfair to their candidate. What they don’t realize is that it is a civil rights vehicle built out of the work of #FannieLouHamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Prior to 1964, party bosses picked the nominee. White delegates were often selected by party leaders despite black voters being a majority in various Democratic contests. Hamer and other black party members showed up in Atlantic City and insisted on being seated.
Their activism threatened the status quo to the point that President Johnson staged an impromptu press conference in the middle of Hamer’s testimony. When his stunt was made known, it backfired, and news outlets ran her testimony again and again.
To all the people, designated White by colonizing nations, who are becoming disillusion by your evangelical or Christian faith: When you walk away from Jesus you are not #woke. You are operating out of the white supremacy you say you abhor. 1/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
When you walk away from Jesus and Christian faith to be “woke” you are walking away from a faith that sprang from brown, indigenous, colonized people. You’re walking away from faith born on the underside of empire in the context of oppressed peoples. 2/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
You’re walking away from the faith of enslaved people who found such profound liberation in Jesus that they broke laws to gather together and worship in #trees! 3/
