#white_history_month

#whitehistorymonth : Britain’s Racist Election
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Last night, Twitter in the UK was all over a Channel 4 documentary, “Britain’s Racist Election.” It tells the story of the election of racist Conservative politician #Peter_Griffiths (pictured above).....

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #David_Cameron #Ed_Miliband #George_Newey #Ku_Klux_Klan #Lynton_Crosby #Malcolm_X #Michael_Howard #Musa_Okwonga #NHS #Niall_Ferguson #Nigel_Farage #Smethwick_1964 #W.E.B._Du_Bois #White_History_Month

#WHITEHISTORYMONTH : When the #NYPD beat up #Miles_Davis
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Miles Davis spent March and April of 1959 recording the astounding Kind of Blue. A few months later he was left with blood streaming from his head after being attacked.....

#Dorothy_Kilgallen #HISTORY #White_History_Month

#White_History_Month 2015 is coming and we want your submissions
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Last March was the inaugural White History Month here on #AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY, and without tooting too loudly on our own vuvuzela, it was kind of brilliant. So we’re going.....

##WHITEHISTORYMONTH ##whitehistorymonth #Cape_Town #Gary_Younge #Kathleen_Bomani

#WhiteHistoryMonth : When Salazar met one of Lumumba’s murderers
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António Oliveira Salazar founded #Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some historians like to argue over whether it was fascist or not. And these days, some Portuguese remember him fondly. He presided over the late colonial administrations in Portugal’s African colonies.

#BOOKS #HISTORY #Angola #Antonio_Salazar #Guinea-Bissau #Moise_Tshombe #Mozambique #Patrice_Lumumba #White_History_Month

#WhiteHistoryMonth : #Aimé_Césaire on #Europe
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I’ve been reading Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on #colonialism. He puts it all plainly. In the flurry of theory, tangles of citational prose, and the demands for refereed this, that, and the other that ping throughout an academic’s daily grind, such clarity is bracing. And welcome. I’ll be assigning the whole text to my undergraduates next year.

#Adolph_Hitler #racism #White_History_Month

#WhiteHistoryMonth : What #Britain did in #Kenya
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The following is the full text of a letter written by #David_Larder to the Guardian newspaper last year, following the court settlement which saw the UK government pay out £2,670 to each of the 5,228 elderly Kenyans judged eligible for compensation for atrocities committed in the 1950s. The UK government still refuses to apologise for what it did in Kenya. That’s one reason David Larder’s letter is worth reading.

#General #Mau_Mau #White_History_Month

#WhiteHistoryMonth : #Audre_Lorde’s #Harlem childhood
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An excerpt from the early part of Audre Lorde’s biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982): In 1936-1938, #125th_Street between Lenox and Eighth Avenues, later to become the shopping mecca of Black Harlem, was still a racially mixed area, with control and patronage largely in the hands of white shopkeepers. There were stores […]

#BOOKS #General #White_History_Month

#White_History_Month
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Every February here schools, McDonald’s, television, corporations, the advertising industry, celebrate Black History Month. The whole thing is a charade. That black people don’t get a break from police brutality, red lining, profiling or plain neglect, doesn’t matter. In 20o7, Gary Younge (he is an ally) suggested that what we needed was a White History Month. So, dear readers—in the service of good sense, this year March is the inaugural White History Month on Africa is a Country. Yes, we’re a few days late, we know, but good things take time sometime. Stay tuned.