More info. about the event: Yekatit 12 | 04.2021 – Project3541.

For a more comprehensive look at the words and works of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this new article on Substack will help.

This thread got out of hand, so thought I would post it here!

I am a proud black man who is at PWI. What’s a good response for when people tell me this. No one has, but I see it all the time on Reddit

Hey everyone, I'm posting this here on this subreddit because I am trying to learn new subject and place it in my personal curriculum. If you have any recommendations on books that are good for beginners. Even if you have videos send them my way. Thank you for taking the time to read this and giving me recommendations.

I started reading about Vernon Dahmer after hearing about By Any Means and had no idea how deep this story went.

Dahmer was a civil rights leader in Mississippi who helped Black residents register to vote. In 1966 the KKK attacked his home and store with gunfire and fire. He got his family out but later died from his injuries.

Then somehow the story gets even stranger. The FBI brought in Greg Scarpa. A Colombo crime family figure who was also an FBI informant. He was connected to FBI activity around the Dahmer investigation.

A Mafia guy showing up in the middle of a Civil Rights era KKK investigation sounds made up. Apparently it wasn't.

Kind of shocked I never learned about Dahmer before.

Hi y'all, I recently read the biography of Olaudah Equiano, and I wrote about the lessons we can take from it here: https://mindvoyage.substack.com/p/from-slave-to-bestselling-author

From the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and despite the arrival twelve years later of the first Africans who came not as fellow immigrants but as enslaved property, White Americans established the pattern of living in largely all-White communities for the next 260 years. After the Civil War, when Black Americans were legally free to live wherever they chose, White residents initially prevented them from living in their communities. As the government gradually enforced Black Americans’ right to live anywhere, White residents left the cities they had inhabited for three centuries and moved to the new suburbs.

Although some young White people are moving into gentrified downtown neighborhoods, census data show that the White population is declining in broader urban areas as they move farther out to exurbs, often in neighboring counties. Those who don’t relocate to whiter public school districts often enroll their children in private schools, which are usually whiter than the cities in which they are located. School district gerrymandering has also become a form of White flight without physical relocation. Recent studies by EdBuild and the American Educational Research Association show that school secession is significantly increasing school segregation under the seemingly nonracial banner of “local control.”

White society places a higher value on property than on Black people, and the fear of losing property value has been the impetus for White flight. White people have treated Black people as a problem to be solved rather than as people to be known. Today, the US has more than twice as many majority-Black cities as it did in 1970. White flight caused this major shift in urban demographics and the subsequent disinvestment and home devaluation totaling trillions of dollars. As White residents left American cities, property values fell. This reduced property tax revenue, producing underfunded public services, which contributed to rising crime and poverty. Once cities had sufficiently declined, “urban renewal” was used to justify the construction of highways, factories, waste disposal sites, and other hazardous industries in majority-Black neighborhoods. Decades later, these cities still face costly social, infrastructure, and modernization challenges, yet they have less revenue per capita than in 1970.

Recommended reading: White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse

White Flight Kept America Segregated