Black Lives Matter by Moesha Stanley https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h History and Current Reality en-us 2020-07-18 16:51:56 UTC 2024-11-08 11:00:22 UTC hello@padlet.com moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657477960 African Americans, black people, has been facing injustice and brutality from white people since in the 1600’s leading up to 2020. 
Let’s expound a bit on the history of slavery from within the Caribbean, expanding to America. 
The earliest indigenous people of the Caribbean were the Paleo-Indians, 5,000 B.C., Meso-Indians, 500 B.B., and then the Neo-Indians. To date, the Neo Indians live on islands in the Eastern & Southern Caribbean. On arrival of the Spaniards, they found the Neo Indians settlements. The Neo-Indians were exterminated from 1493-1540. The Spaniards believed the neo-indians were savages, and hunted them with dogs as well as torturing and killing them for sport. “Our ancestor stood up against early European conquerors and because they stood up…were labelled savages and cannibals up to today.” Basil Reid (2005b).

]]> 2020-07-18 16:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657477960 Harriet Tubman moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478050 Photo: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

]]> 2020-07-18 16:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478050 Harriet Tubman moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478638 Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery and escaped to become an American abolitionist and political activist. Tubman was one of the many slaves who were repeatedly beaten. After her successful escape she led the Underground Railroad. Between 1850 and 1860, Tubman made 19 trips from the South to the North following the network known as the Underground Railroad, and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
—Harriet Tubman
]]> 2020-07-18 16:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478638 moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478878 2020-07-18 16:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657478878 Slave Brutality moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657479306 2020-07-18 16:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657479306 Peter moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657479671 In March 1963 a runaway slave, Peter escaped the plantation and made his way to a Union encampment in Baton Rouge. He was a survivor and living proof of the brutal whipping that took place on the plantations. As he exposed his scars, they extended from his shoulders to his buttocks. An image of Peter’s back, photographed by Mcherson and Oliver, that circulated and shared acrossed thousands of white people, helped in the abolition during the Civil War. This also portrayed the importance of mass media. Peter’s experience was shared by many enslaved persons, but was unfamiliar to the Northerners who was never able to witness the brutality caused by slavery. ]]> 2020-07-18 16:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657479671 An escaped slave named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480126 2020-07-18 17:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480126 moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480492 As historian Michael Dickman notes, whipping was a common punishment on Southern plantations, though there was a debate about whether to use it sparingly to keep slaves from revolting. “Masters desired to maintain order in a society in which they were in unquestionable positions of authority,” he writes. “They used the whip as a tool to enforce this vision of society. Slaves, on the other hand, through their victimization and punishment, viewed the whip as the physical manifestation of their oppression under slavery.”
It took years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 for enslaved people to be freed nationwide. Juneteenth celebrates June 19th, 1865, the day when the Union Army issued an order proclaiming the emancipation of the enslaved people in Galveston, TX — a full two and a half years after President Lincoln took action. The name Juneteenth comes from a blending of the date.

]]> 2020-07-18 17:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480492 Sandra Bland moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480654 Sandra Bland, a vocal civil rights advocate was pulled over on July 10, 2015, after a state trooper said she failed to signal a lane change. The trooper stated that she seemed “very irritated.” She said she was, because she was being written up simply for moving out of the trooper’s way. She was threaten to be pulled out of her vehicle while the officer pointed his stun gun at her. The officer Brian Encinia, claimed his ‘safety was in jeopardy’.  As the confrontation got heated it also escalated quickly with Ms Bland being in handcuffs and was booked and placed in Waller County jail.  On July 13th, she was found with a plastic trash-can liner roped around her neck and affixed to a U-shaped metal hook overhead and was pronounced dead. The authorities ruled her death a suicide. Mr Encinia was indicted in 2016 for falsely claiming he sought safety when Ms. Land was removed from her car. In 2017, the charge was dismissed.]]> 2020-07-18 17:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480654 Freddie Gray moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480747 25 year old Freddie Gray, an African American from Baltimore, was arrested on April 12th 2015 for possession of a switchblade. In transport to the police station, Gary was found unconscious, not breathing and had injuries to his spinal cord. Freddie Gray died on April 19th from being in a coma for seven days. State attorney Marilyn Mosby indicated that “the knife was not a switchblade and is lawful under Maryland Law.” Investigators announced that was in fact a legal knife. All witness accounts for Grays’ arrest was dismissed, however, a witness named Jacqueline Jackson saw the van’s second stop, just one block from the arrest. Jackson alleged that she saw Miller, Nero, and Lieutenant Brian Rice’s first attempt to put Gray back into the van after shackling his legs. She alleged that they threw him face down, head first and hard into the metal van compartment. Jackson said she was never interviewed by detectives, despite giving her account to both print and television outlets. The police and investigators did not properly investigate any leads pertaining to Freddie Gray’s case.

]]> 2020-07-18 17:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657480747 Eric Garner moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481077 2020-07-18 17:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481077 Tamir Rice moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481231 2020-07-18 17:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481231 Retrain used on George Floyd apnews.com moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481504 2020-07-18 17:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481504 George Floyd moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481775 2020-07-18 17:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657481775 Breonna Taylor moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657482175 2020-07-18 17:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657482175 All these facts are via FiveThirtyEight moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484330 2020-07-18 17:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484330 moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484626 BLM’s #WhatMatters2020 focuses on issues concerning racial injustice, police brutality, criminal justice reform, Black immigration, economic injustice, LGBTQIA+ and human rights, environmental injustice, access to healthcare, access to quality education, and voting rights and suppression. ]]> 2020-07-18 17:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484626 Raised fist for black lives matter movement. rawpixel.com moeshastanley727 https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484734 2020-07-18 17:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/moeshastanley727/8rqg2soz4c68pr2h/wish/657484734