Due to trump removing black history month and MLK day, how can I celebrate these holidays even harder (as a white person).

Hi friends!

I'm whiter than a Randy Newman song, but I put together this clip of Sammy Davis Jr talking about the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcom X. It's a rare clip (The original is super distorted and lacking any sort of context) so I added some b-roll, music, and subtitles to make it a little more easy to digest and engagable.

I think this is a rare side of Sammy Davis Jr, who as a trailblazer, always seemed like he was holding his tongue regarding his blackness as to not upset the proverbial apple cart. But man, he uncorks an epic rant here.

Sammy Davis Jr Reacts to MLK Jr's and Malcom X's Assassinations.

Hello all who read this. I (27YO Male) am trying to teach my stepson (11YO) about African and African American culture and history. My stepson is in the 4th grade and for most of his life has done online schooling. I don’t think they are capable of helping him understand our past if they even have it in their curriculum to do so. Due to my and my girlfriend’s work schedules he spends weekdays with her aunt and uncle (both white). While talking with my SS late last year he didn’t believe that he was black. His mother is half black half white with a pale complexion and he is brown paper bag colored. After hearing this I knew I had to do some serious work to help him to not only know that he is black but what exactly that means. I need help finding videos books or audiobooks to I can use to help educate him in a way that will be easily digestible for him. Any recommendations would help me immensely. I’d like to start with African history and once I get to the point history where we get to the transatlantic slave trade switch over to African-American history. Thank you all in advance for those who read this and decide to help me. God bless and I hope you all have a great day.

https://youtu.be/pvDN0-sjdgU?si=WwSXAfwtyebh-Ytt

I was celebrating MLK birthday with a crowd of strangers and a young lady leaned across the table to me and asked me who he was. Well, I said he was a civil rights leader and organizer and we celebrate his birthday basically because the powers that be wanted a black holiday but they didn't want to give it to X due to his "by any means" reputation.

But it occurred to me later that MLK was really an influential guy. I mean, I read recently -- I don't know if it's true -- that one of James Baldwin's key insights, namely that if black people only acquire equality with white people they haven't really made a very significant advance, was one he got from MLK Jr. (I think he meant that the authoritative brutality so common, in the 60s indicated that white people weren't really very far advanced as a civilization. As humans. And that blacks could be, and should be, expected to do much better than that.

And who knows what else he said, that someone may have found influential, that I never heard of before. I mean, we've all heard the I have a Dream speech; but what else is there, what other ideas did he contribute, that you think made a difference or should have made a difference?

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