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📢 To non-melanated folks surprised by Friday’s verdict and seem to need a stream of wake-up calls:

Let me go ahead and catch you up.

KKKyle’s akkkquittal came as no surprise to Bl@ck #people. Even before the *heads-up* pre-announcement, we knew. We knew. Injustice has been served up to us regularly for as long as we’ve been here. Not our first rodeo.

Here’s what you need to know though about the significance of a yt person *getting off* for shooting and killing other yt people *caught* being on the *wrong side*—

🎯🎯🎯 Yt allies and supporters of Bl@ck people can be harmed or worse when yt suprem@cy deems them to be *N-lovers* or *r@ce traitors* or *sympathizers.*

The historical significance of Friday hearkens back to 1964. Bl@ck people have kept this memory alive in our collective consciousness even without the movie “Mississippi Burning.” The fate of the 3 young men you see pictured in this June 1964 FBI poster is part of that self-same #history that yt suprem@cy wants so desperately to suppress.

August 4, 1964– eleven days before my parents’ wedding—their dead bodies were found. I provide you with this detail so you know that r@cial terror is NOT part of a distant past. For Baby Boomers, it is a vivid yesterday.

“The bodies of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Henry Schwerner were discovered by FBI agents near Philadelphia, Miss., on Aug. 4, 1964. The three men, civil rights workers who came south to register African Americans to vote, were shot to death sometime on June 21. Their Ford station wagon was torched and their bodies were bulldozed 17 feet under an earthen dam.”

❗️Let it sink in that yt suprem@cists deemed them worthy of death. They didn’t just kill the Bl@ck man and release the other two with a *stern warning.* No. They killed all. three. of. them.

James Chaney’s brother “[Ben] Chaney laid ultimate blame for the murders at the feet of an arm of the state #government in power at the time.”

“Agents of the commission spied on civil rights workers, harassed voter registration workers and developed watch lists of those thought to support civil rights.”

(quoted material from source article below)

❓ How does this tie in to the #workplace?

Yt people operating *off-code* by supporting Bl@ck rights, #equity, #inclusion, etc. are being *punished* at work. There have been several yt people just within the past month alone who’ve shared with me their stories of termination and other forms of *getting them in line* for standing up in support of unfair treatment of Bl@ck or Brown #employees.

Their stories are not mine to share, so I leave you with this FACT which is just as applicable to #life at #work as it is to life outside of work—

🎯🎯🎯”The biggest domestic terror threat comes from wh(i)te suprem@cists.” (see source link below)

Pay attention to what’s happening.

It’s way past time to use discernment.

#strategy #culture #diversity #wellbeing #law #leadership #racism #whitesupremacy #ally #kylerittenhouse

Source article: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7209834

Source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terror-white-supremacists.html

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