They were not only about warfare, but community welfare, as they ran soup kitchens, community education programs, and more all for free to build up our communities. Their efforts show us that liberation is not just dismantling the system.... 17/🧵
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Much similar to the ABB, the Panthers took an explicitly revolutionary socialist approach to Black liberation, organizing and training to prepare for Guerilla War against the US and White Supremacy. 16/🧵
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Malcolm's influence was carried forward by the next generation of Black revolutionaries, which included the next icon on the flag: Dr. Huey Percy Newton, the cofounder and Minister of Defense to the Black Panther Party for Self Defense!
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Malcolm X speaks : Malcolm X : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I also recommend reading Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements found here: archive.org/details/malc...
I cannot mention X without mentioning his most famous speech: The Ballot or The Bullet!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymP...
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For a deeper insight into Malcolm's life and the development of his views, I cannot recommend enough reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it is an absolute MUST READ!
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Now, for who is likely the most recognizable face on the flag: brotha Malcolm X! X's uncompromising pro-blackness and condemnations of white supremacy during the Civil Rights era has been foundational in Black revolutionary spaces even now! 12/🧵
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Here's a even a bit from The Crusader about the Tulsa Riot:
www.marxists.org/archive/brig...
For more on Briggs's life an biography, look here:
www.marxists.org/archive/brig...
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...that socialist revolution to establish a communal mode of production was the only way to liberate our people. For more on Briggs and the ABB, their constitution can be found here: www.marxists.org/archive/brig...
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He founded The Crusader, a pan-african monthly magazine in 1918, and the African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) in 1919. The ABB explicitly believed that Black liberation was impossible under capitalism and..... 9/🧵
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Now, onto the next figure: Cyril Briggs was a Nevisian, Caribbean American revolutionary who was inspired by socialist, working-class organization and pan-african philosophy. 8/🧵
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William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. The black man : his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements, by William Wells Brown, 1814?-1885

For a nearly contemporary Black view of the Revolt, I suggest the Nat Turner chapter of The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863) by William Wells Brown found here: docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brownww/...
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This account can be found here: digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcont...
(keep in mind that while this is Turner's account, it is relayed via a white person, so it's commentary contains the lawyer's bias.)
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When captured, a white lawyer (Thomas Gray) visited Turner in jail to receive his account of the events. This account became published as The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia (1831) 5/🧵
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was so well organized, that it became the most effective and deadliest revolt (for whites) in US history, killing 55 white people in total. 4/🧵
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Starting from the figure on the far left, Nat Turner was an enslaved preacher and carpenter that led the eponymous slave revolt for four days starting on August 21, 1831. 3/🧵
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I selected these five above figures to demonstrate that we have been building our own political revolutionary tradition from the very moment we landed here. The chains on our wrists and feet could never shackle our minds! 2/🧵
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A 3000 x 1000 pixel image of five notable black revolutionaries, ranging from the era of slavery to the modern day! The background is a panafrican flag, colored black, red, and green from top to bottom. From left to right, the figures are Nat Turner (1800-1831), Cyril Briggs (1888-1966), Malcolm X (1925-1965), Dr. Huey Percy Newton (1942-1989), and Angela Davis (1944 - Present Day!)

BLACK HISTORY MONTH BOOK REC THREAD:
Happy BHM, everyone! I'd like to take this time to remind everyone not only of Black culture, Black artistry, and Black intellectualism, but also of the extensive and radical BLACK REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION! 1/🧵
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Because nothing scares power more than the idea it can be touched

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We MUST unite and overthrow our corrupt systems!!!

THERE IS MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM!!

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Holy shit!! That bitch at the White House is way worse than I ever thought. These are evil maniacal people!

#AuthoritarianRegime #AbolishICE #StrongerTogether #WeAreTheRevolution #IAmAntifa

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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones) All of this.

The system made sure we didn’t know the whole story. Us white folks need to get out there & learn the WHOLE story behind all these movements!

#StrongerTogether #WeAreTheRevolution

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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46) George Carlin was telling the truth back then and his words could have been written yesterday afternoon because: NOTHING HAS CHANGED Greed is now on steroids under an administration of unqualified ...

You & I are not in the club. #Blackout #StrongerTogether #WeAreTheRevolution #Boycott #Don’tGiveUpTheShip

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#NotOnOurWatch
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Jenn Budd (@jennbudd) I’m not sure why states are not arresting ICE/Border Patrol for illegal stops. Immigration agents do NOT have the legal authority or training to enforce traffic violations. They cannot stop people bas...

When do the arrests start? Why are the city so afraid to go by the laws that would have been written? I cannot believe after 11 months we haven’t found a way to hold these guys accountable!

#StrongerTogether #WeAreTheRevolution #IAmAntifa #DueProcess

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A reminder, there are people out there, trying their damnedest, to help save our democracy. They’re trying to get her to remove a video that has incriminating evidence, that we all see with our own eyes, of a person buying a pardon.

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MAGA age graph. Cause you know it’s different for them than the rest of the world.

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These states have explicit laws removing the duty to retreat in any place a person is legally allowed to be:
AL, AK, AZ, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IS, KS, KY, LA, MI, MS, MO, MT, NV, NH, NC, OH, OK, PN, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, VA, & WY.

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US appeals court to weigh reviving cases over Tylenol and autism A U.S. appeals court is expected to hear arguments on Monday from families seeking to revive their lawsuits over Tylenol, after the Trump administration publicly promoted their claims that the popular...

Oh, how much more of this garbage do we have to put up with? Another distraction from the #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles & #AbolishICE & #StopTheWarAgainstVenezuela & #StopTerrorizingOurCitizens

#StrongerTogether #WeAreTheRevolution.

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