Dr. Allison Wiltz
@allyfromnola.bsky.social
Black womanist scholar with a PhD from New Orleans, LA. Bylines in Momentum, Oprah Daily, ZORA, Cultured #WEOC Founder. allisonthedailywriter.com
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” — Colin Kaepernick
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.” — Kwame Ture
Racism is why you read Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, but not Harriet Jacobs ' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves... We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander.” — Mary McLeod Bethune
“What we are dealing with really is that for Black people in this country there is no legal code at all. We’re still governed, if that is the word I want, by the slave code.” — James Baldwin
Black unity is key. When we support one another, the impossible becomes possible
"I learned very early in life that our race problem is not really of black against white, and white against black. It's a problem of people who are not very knowledgeable, or who have small minds, or small spirits." — Langston Hughes
“One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.” —Langston Hughes
“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” —Langston Hughes
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” —Malcolm X
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them". — Fredrick Douglass
During the Hamburg Massacre on July 8, 1876, a mob of at least 100 White men in South Carolina carried out a violent attack on Black residents. They killed seven men, including the town’s marshal. Their killing spree continued until the U.S. Army stepped in.
Ten years ago, a police officer shot and killed Philando Castile, a 37-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop, as he reached for his license and registration 💔
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On July 4, 1799 New York passed a Gradual Abolition Act On July 4, 1804 New Jersey passed a Gradual Abolition Act The liberation of enslaved people is the only thing worth celebrating today
More Black people fought on the British side during the American Revolution because Dunmore’s Proclamation offered freedom to those willing to fight. America’s victory meant chattel slavery would persist from 1776 to 1865, 89 more years.
“It’s a painful symbol. It’s a reminder of what we could be and how it’s failed to live up to that for Black people, for Indigenous people and people of color.” — apnews.com/article/poll...
"Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts." — Bobby Seale
“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms.” —Ella Baker
