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Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
It was illegal for Black people to even move to Oregon until 1927.
And in what I’m sure is completely unrelated news, Black people comprise only two percent of the state’s population (as compared to 13.2 percent nationally)
More on Oregon’s Exclusionary Black Laws » here
(via odinsblog)
This state is where I make my home, and I love it here, but we still have a long, long way to go.
(via ruckawriter)
Society becomes silent when reminded that many generations ago, African Americans were barred from buying private homes and private property, even when they had enough saved up. You can’t force a people into poverty and then make fun of and blame them for being In those predicaments.
They were also banned from renting apartments and houses.
That’s the only reason why black people lived there. It wasn’t like they wanted to