The last two episodes are also very good. Episode 3 covers a bit of #sugar's history and connection to #slavery, including the past and current #ForProfitPrison system, which is literal slavery.

Episode 4 is a(nother) look* at how #FederalGovernment policies were created and are currently maintained specifically to benefit #whites and disadvantage #Blacks, this time in #farming.

#HungryForAnswers #HBOMax #DiscoveryPlus

*#The1619Project #Justice Episode 6

#The1619Project is vital reading and viewing for anyone with any uncertainty as to the fundamental truths and realities of race in the #UnitedStates and how #whiteSupremacy and #racism, including #Indigenous #genocide, truly defines every aspect of who we are as a nation still far away from the stated ideals of the knowingly hypocritical #founders.

Everything's about #race because the #white majority population made and keep it so.

#Reparations, in part, means addressing #FederalGovernment policies that gave financial assistance, guarantees, and advantages via the #NewDeal and post-war #VA benefits explicitly to white people, creating the #American #MiddleClass and its legacy of #GenerationalWealth, while denying the same, then and now, to #Black people.

#Redlining, created by the Federal government as a #segregationist tool, still underlies all financing, including credit scores and home loans.

#Justice #The1619Project

#The1619Project E4 on capitalism is fantastic. In the case of the Bessemer, AL Amazon Warehouse, @nhannahjones
draws the arc from stealing native lands through cotton plantations through leased convict labor in mines to US Steel selling to Jeff Bezos who sabotaged unionization

And union organizers like Derrick Palmer & Jennifer Bates & Chris Smalls are superheroes

https://t.co/fH0fWOMpip

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/tech/amazon-jennifer-bates-risk-takers/index.html

@mekkaokereke For those who need more information on this, Episode 5 of #The1619Project on #Hulu covers this, and it's ongoing legacy, in a way that's easy to understand.

Fear.

white fear of Black people achieving full equality in all areas and in all ways as white people have always had here since colonization in what is now the #UnitedStates.

That's what all of #police violence is about.

That's what every attack on being "#woke" and #CriticalRaceTheory is all about.

That's why white people don't want to #DefundThePolice so we can fully fund social services and education, and do other collective good.

#Fear of Black people.

Episode 5 of #The1619Project.

@shannonsays

Following Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, where an alliance of white and Black indentured servants and enslaved Africans rose up against Virginia's white elite, the colony passed slave codes to permanently enshrine legal and social distinctions between Black and white residents that ensured that all white people, no matter their status, permanently existed in a status above all Black people.

– signed First Edition of #The1619Project Copyright ©️ 2021, by Nikole Hannah-Jones

#The1619Project episode 4 explodes the myth of #capitalism in the #US.

Founded here and in #Europe on #slavery (from where do you think most of the wealth in your precious period pieces derived?), capitalism in the U.S. retains much of the same characteristics as 200 years ago.

The author of #SlaveryByAnotherName (book and #PBS show) helps explain in the context of #Amazon in #Bessemer #Alabama.

The #corporate fight against #unions is used to highlight the ills of our brutal society.

Just finished #The1619Project on #Hulu. The final episode makes a well reasoned case for reparations, told in a way that makes sense of history.

TV TONIGHT (February 9)

#You #ExOnTheBeach #ImpracticalJokers #Velma #HellsKitchen #The1619Project #CriminalMinds #TheGame #MyDadTheBountyHunter #StolenYouth #HarleyQuinn #AskingForAFriend #NFLHonors #YoungSheldon #GrowingUpHipHop #TakingTheStand

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/02/tv-tonight-february-9.html

TV TONIGHT (February 9)

#You #ExOnTheBeach #ImpracticalJokers #Velma #HellsKitchen #The1619Project #CriminalMinds #TheGame #MyDadTheBountyHunter #StolenYouth #HarleyQuinn #AskingForAFriend #NFLHonors #YoungSheldon #GrowingUpHipHop #TakingTheStand

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/02/tv-tonight-february-9.html

Episode 3 of #The1619Project, #Music, shows how #American culture is #Black culture.

I'm loving how each episode ends where the next begins, a way of subtly interconnecting each piece into the whole, reflecting how Black lives are woven deeply into the fabric of this nation that still denies our place at its core.

Without us, the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica literally has no #Soul.

Episode 3 of #The1619Project, #Music, shows how #American culture is #Black culture.

I'm loving how each episode ends where the next begins, a way of subtly interconnecting each piece into the whole, reflecting how Black lives are woven deeply into the fabric of this nation that still denies our place at its core.

Without us, the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica literally has no #Soul.

@Shells I literally just finished watching the Music episode of the truly profound #The1619Project which features Otis Williams, the last surviving original member of #TheTemptations

#BlackHistoryMonth

#The1619Project details the determination & drive of Black Americans to repeatedly overcome adversity with each new barrier

"I found myself drawn only to the strength, resilience and resolve of the people who overcame them."

https://wapo.st/3jsUj0x

Episode 2 of #The1619Project on #Hulu clearly explains what "race" is and why everything in the #US is literally about #race and #racism.

It also makes clear how and why #BlackWomen have been placed at the bottom of our society even though they literally created much of the wealth of this nation by giving birth, and the heinous price they have and continue to pay with their bodies.

And that doctor needs to mask and protect.

I got nauseous, though I knew much of this.

Saddened and enraged.

Reading #The1619Project enlightened, saddened, moved, and enraged me to a point where I had to stop after chapter 7, a point that took me a year to reach.

I hesitated to watch the #Hulu series, The #1619 Project, a 6 part series that premiered the end of January, because I was afraid of how it would make me feel.

Having just watched episode 1, that concern was valid because it provoked all the same visceral responses in me as the book.

"Just move" white people say.

Fuck you, I say. Fuck you.

Watching more episodes of #The1619Project. Definitely worth watching.

I’m always wanting to see a full season all at once with #TV, but after watching the first two episodes of #the1619Project on Hulu, I’m glad to have time between episodes to ponder. There’s so much there that needs reflection.

TV TONIGHT (January 26)

#WolfPack #TeenWolfMovie #PokerFace #GossipGirl #The1619Project #NikkiBellaSaysIDo #DanielSpellbound #TheClimb #RecordOfRagnarok #LawAndOrder #CelebrityJeopardy #Walker #WelcomeToFlatch #RestaurantImpossible #MarriedToRealEstate

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/01/tv-tonight-january-26.html