#BlackSky #BlackLabor #BlackBuilt

Black apprentices enter the trades, but advancement tells a different story.

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#TradeJobs #BlackLabor #BlackWorkers #BlackVoices #BlackExcellence #BlackPeople

The System Is Already Turning Inward What begins as immigration enforcement is becoming a domestic infrastructure for silencing dissent, criminalizing solidarity, and managing political crisis through exclusion.

In that sense, repression is not just a tactic.
It’s a strategy for ruling under conditions of permanent crisis.
There’s a precedent for all of this.

The Palmer Raids of 1919, #Japanese #internment during #WorldWarII, and the use of vagrancy laws to criminalize #Blacklabor after Reconstruction..

Garrett Morgan: 20th Century Inventor Who Called Himself the “Black Edison” Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for Black inventors and helped save countless lives with his pioneering early gas mask and improved traffic light.

Garrett Morgan: 20th Century Inventor Who Called Himself the “Black Edison” #BlackLabor

Invention of Traffic Lights: a Haiku
8/28

So, Garrett Morgan
Apparently understood
That consent saves lives.

#blackinventors #blackhistorymonth #haiku #haikuwritingmonth #poc #blacklabor #africanamericanlabor #poetry #poem

National Soup Day: a haiku Soul food struggle meal Labor of Auntie Mamas Lack to abundance

4/28
National Soup Day: a haiku

Soul food struggle meal
Labor of Auntie Mamas
Lack to abundance

#blackhistorymonth #poc #soulfood #blacklabor #blackwomen #auntiemama #strugglemeal #africanamericanlabor

DEI Hires Black achievement is The promotion going to The inept white guy

DEI Hires: a haiku

Black achievement is
The promotion going to
The inept white guy

#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blacklabor #africanamericanlabor #dei #diversityequityinclusion #poc