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July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people led by Isaiah Montgomery. Montgomery led the town through the 1920s. The population according to the 2000 census is 2,100 and 98.4% African American, one of the largest African American majority populations in the country. (Source: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History) I share this in hopes of reaching the #OWS stream… Change in the face of what seems impossible, is possible. Revolution isn’t always about destruction… sometimes you have to bravely go out there and create something NEW, as you imagine. This is a decade before Plessy Vs. Ferguson (legalizing segregation, making way for Jim Crow laws).I’m sure it wasn’t perfect, most likely dealt with some unsavory’s… but the place still exists today.

July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people led by Isaiah Montgomery. Montgomery led the town through the 1920s. The population according to the 2000 census is 2,100 and 98.4% African American, one of the largest African American majority populations in the country. (Source: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History)

I share this in hopes of reaching the #OWS stream… 

Change in the face of what seems impossible, is possible. Revolution isn’t always about destruction… sometimes you have to bravely go out there and create something NEW, as you imagine. This is a decade before Plessy Vs. Ferguson (legalizing segregation, making way for Jim Crow laws).

I’m sure it wasn’t perfect, most likely dealt with some unsavory’s… but the place still exists today.

WW OWS DO?

Angela Davis OWS Wash Sq Photo damien crispLife is a messy, complex, and chaotic process.  We don’t know what we got, ‘til we get it. That said, correcting a path that began hundreds of years ago—a path that has disenchanted people for as long as its been going… this will take time.  For all we know, OWS is just the beginning of some kind of larger awakening at the level of culture.  The fact that OWS went viral in our country, and then went global, is nothing to blink an eye at.  How beautiful it was to see the diversity of individuals—a congregation that obliterated the meaning of coming together based on majority and minority, ethnicity, sex or orientation.  Onward…

photo credit: damien crisp

The Most Powerful #OccupyWallStreet Clip You Will See This Month

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Blessed are those who struggle.  Oppression is worse than the grave.  Better to die a noble cause, than to live and die a slave.

The Last Poets “Blessed are Those Who Struggle”

Not that anyone should think about dying over Wall Street, or violent protest. This is a song about emancipation, about waking up to This.  It is about taking a stand, and honoring those who took a stand before us, and said No to the status quo.