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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

The title of this thread is called "Angry Black Women".

On January 20, 2017 this picture was my Facebook avatar. It is Michelle Obama at the inauguration of the 45th president. About a month later, a white female person I know texted me "Can you change your avatar photo, now." Which I did. The following is a selection of the Angry Black Women avatars I used since. These Angry Black Women changed out lives for the better.

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Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.

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“I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favourite colour, but you’re gonna need me to complete your picture.”
-Lauryn Hill

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Rt. Hon. Dr. Louise Bennett Coverly, aka "Miss Lou" to many Jamaican children. The list of her accomplishments are too numerous to list. But the most important is she formalized Jamaican patois into a formal written language. She formalized our voice, on our own terms. youtube.com/watch?v=W58MtDzanq

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Alikufogo

"Make a million dollars,
make a million mo'...
Tax time come around,
still a nigga po'!"
--Erykah Badu

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Alikufogo

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."-- Maya Angelou

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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
--Shirley Chisholm.

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Alikufogo

I could hear this crowd, this mob that had gathered outside....And so this woman collects us and takes us all to the office...
And one guy says, 'Maybe what we're going to have to do is let them hang one kid while we get the other eight out. At least we'll save eight.'
And then another white gentleman - I believe to be assistant chief of police of North Little Rock, stood up and said, 'No, look, I'm a parent, I'm not doing this. I'm getting them all out. We're going. We're going to do it.'

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Courtney Heard 🇨🇦

@Alikufogo a humanist and a hero #humanist

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SwiftOnSecurity

It is totally possible to be privy to sensitive information, and also be friends with journalists.

Discretion is a question of professionalism, not acquaintance.

Of course, not all may see it that way

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Amy Reyer, Ph.D.

I keep coming back to Elizabeth Warren’s taxation plan for the ultra ultra ultra wealthy. It barely makes a dent in their net worth and could fund so many social and environmental programs that most Americans support. The fact that we give the wealthiest Americans a hall pass on paying even the tiniest bit of their fair-share shows how much power they have over legislation and lawmakers.
elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultr
#elizabethwarren #ultra-millionaire-tax #Top1%

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Sheril Kirshenbaum

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose charlierose.com/videos/9094

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Maria Dong

Just a reminder that if you're American and thankful for even the meager workplace protections we enjoy as a result of labor organization, the Harper Collins union is currently striking and accepting donations for it's strike fund. 😙

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Antifa International

Did you know the Speaker of the Senate of Italy collects Mussolini fan-art and that Italy as of a meeting with France yesterday dictates the rules for EU's humanity?

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Lord James Alvarez

Boomers: People are too sensitive and need to toughen up

Millennials: People need to care more and help each other out

Gen X: Die Hard is a Christmas movie

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Velocity22 🏴‍☠️

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

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Jason Hickel

Musk didn't buy Twitter to make money from it. He bought Twitter to control public narratives and push political discourse further to the right, which he knows is crucial to defending his class interests. theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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RoAnna Sylver :verified:

... The next person to argue that Ebooks And Audio Aren't Real Books gets to explain to the whole class why they think blind and other disabled people are fake readers/not experiencing a book the Right Way. 🙃

And I get to hand out tomatoes. 😇

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

#followfriday
@marcelias —> voting rights and litigation
@charlotteclymer —> trans rights and LGBTQ+ community
@ifilljustice —> civil rights and justice
@QasimRashid —> immigrants and minority rights

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witchlectical runeterialist

reminder that the salvation army sucks and is absurdly, ridiculously, and unambiguously anti-lgbtq and to never give them money or anything

#holidays #christmas #charity #lgbt #SalvationArmy

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