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What is Black August and how is it different than Black History Month?
CNN ^ | August 4, 2020 | Harmeet Kaur

Posted on 08/04/2020 4:14:51 AM PDT by C19fan

Activists and social justice organizations are celebrating the history of Black resistance this month in what's known as Black August.

This year's commemoration follows months of ongoing nationwide protests over systemic racism and the killings of Black people at the hands of police.

And no, it's not a second Black History Month.

"Welcome to Black August — a month dedicated to learning about Black revolutionaries and honoring their struggle against white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism," the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 150 leaders and groups, tweeted on Saturday. "Today, we follow in the footsteps of Black radicals in the fight for liberation."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: blm; racism; revolution
Good gawd..They need to think up something for July so every month of the summer is ruined.
1 posted on 08/04/2020 4:14:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

All this Black BS has done is make me hate most Black people.
How does 13% F up everything?...


2 posted on 08/04/2020 4:18:45 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: C19fan

Again, this is all to cover up Biden’s racism from back in May -
“Y all ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.”

That’s when the Democrats pulled the trigger on this insurrection.


3 posted on 08/04/2020 4:20:38 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: C19fan

Pretty soon every month will have a black theme.


4 posted on 08/04/2020 4:23:32 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

Well, you got Black History Month — which starts on MLK’s birthday in mid-January and peters out sometime in mid-March.
You got Juneteenth, which is probably our most sacred national holiday.
And now you have Black August.

I feel like I’m living in Africa. The country is a good deal blacker than I thought it was.


5 posted on 08/04/2020 4:35:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

This is just meant to gin up more rage in the black community, and more guilt in the white community. “Remember this? Huh? Huh? Remember? Remember?”


6 posted on 08/04/2020 4:36:52 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: EEGator

Me too. They’re 13% of the population, but they want 100% of the power and attention.


7 posted on 08/04/2020 4:37:40 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: C19fan

two restaurant/bars had up the BLM banner for a couple of months noticed last week they are both gone.


8 posted on 08/04/2020 4:48:07 AM PDT by Jolla
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What history????????Africa never even invented the wheel............


9 posted on 08/04/2020 4:48:45 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Skywise

Nah. BLM is pulled out every four years for presidential elections and Memorial Day weekend is the prime time for it as the unofficial start of summer.

But this time around it is clearly part of a coordinated insurgency intended to at the very least build on the pandemic hoax to thwart Trump’s reelection, assure high levels of compliance for the tech/vaccine lockdown and knockdown of our population, and if possible bring down the US outright.


10 posted on 08/04/2020 4:53:28 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Y’all just wait until the muslim population get up to about 10%. The muslim holds absolutely no loyalty to the USA and does not feel as constrained as the non-muslim population regarding murder and mayhem. To the koranimals a win is a win no matter how achieved. And a loss to a superior opponent is considered a win also.

The muslim plays the long game. Right now they are breeding like field rats, doing all they can to increase their population.


11 posted on 08/04/2020 4:54:59 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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12 posted on 08/04/2020 5:08:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: chopperk

Well, they did invent necklacing...


13 posted on 08/04/2020 5:08:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: C19fan

Just curious, why do you and a few others post articles from a garbage site that hates you and I. No, I didn’t click on the link. If I see anything from cnn, it’s for one purpose only. BS designed to hurt Trump, you and every pro American out there.


14 posted on 08/04/2020 5:21:29 AM PDT by TheRake (If they can force you to wear a mask, they can force you to do other things. Just the beginning.)
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“ Welcome to Black August — a month dedicated to learning about Black revolutionaries and honoring their struggle against white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism,”

They’d do much better dedicating the month to learn about blacks who honored capitalism and were successful because of that.


15 posted on 08/04/2020 5:32:54 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: C19fan

https://africanvault.com/dictators-in-africa/


16 posted on 08/04/2020 6:01:58 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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Chicago and all the other blue shore cities celebrate that every weekend and some weekdays too....


17 posted on 08/04/2020 7:00:40 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: EEGator

....I was never any kind of “ist” - racist, communist, socialist, pacifist, or whatever, but I am almost where
you are now....I’m sick and tired of being identified as some sort of racist simply because I am white....if this is the way the black (NOT with a capitalized ‘b’) population wants to see us, fine....but the overwhelming majority of the white American population is NOT racist....!!


18 posted on 08/04/2020 7:37:00 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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I looked at every page on my calendar and I can’t find a White history month what gives?.


19 posted on 08/04/2020 8:57:06 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: goldbux
Title: "different from" not different than . . .
20 posted on 08/04/2020 3:41:23 PM PDT by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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