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The persistence of the attacks is particularly significant because the memorial itself has now become part of the story of how America remembers—and sometimes resists remembering—racial violence.

The memorial itself has become a symbol.

There's an interesting feedback loop: once the sign became famous for being vandalized, damaging it could itself become a form of provocation or publicity. Historian Dave Tell has argued that the vandalism has become part of the site's history rather than something that can simply be erased. Source

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has planned additional security around the barn where Till was murdered, including cameras and lighting, partly because of the history of vandalism. Source

The replacement marker was shot more than 100 times over several years. Source

I once saw a white guy on tv say black people being stopped by a cops for any reason is not the time to act a fool. That blacks should comply, be nice and do not argue with the officers. 

But to me, that would be the first time you're stopped by the cops. But what about the second? Third? Or fourth?

Stanford Open Policing Project found that Black drivers are about 20 percent more likely to be stopped than white drivers compared to their share of the local population.

Why don't they comply? Whites say. Why didn't they call the police? Whites say. Because...

Black females in prominent positions can change the perceptions of their natural hair for young black girls.

Sitting in a friend's bedroom playing PS3, A black female adult told a young black girl who was no older than 7 that "Her hair looks horrible." There were at least 6 or 7 people in the room. Not only did the child have a perm, but there was no reason to embarrass her in front of all of us.

I turned to the girl and said, "Your hair is beautiful sweetheart. Black girls have the best hair." The room went quiet.

Then the woman who told her that said to her, "Say thank you anyway." The said something under her breath.

I looked at the woman side-eyed then returned to my game. I didn't know if she was her mother or her sister. There's no telling these days.

Pull your pants up!

Was the mantra of white people in the 90s. 

They were screaming at young black males for how we wore our pants and they were genuinely mad.

People invented the myth that sagging your pants came from prison culture and represented that an inmate was ready to be "penetrated".

But in reality, sagging came form the group Kris Kross.

Black females are the right hand of white supremacy against black men

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FBAs came from Africa.

The black slaves of the 1526 rebellion were enslaved Africans first taken to the Caribbean then brought to north America by the Portuguese. 

About 100 enslaved African Caribbean came with the Portuguese expedition. 

They were part of the failed Spanish colony of San Miguel de Gualdape (located in present-day Georgia or South Carolina). 

After the revolt the black (now ex-slaves) found refuge in the Native American lands of the 'Guale' people then vanished permanently from European colonial records.