Brittany Packnett Instagram – IT’S BEEN 103 YEARS, AND STILL NO JUSTICE. IF THERE IS GOING TO BE AN AMERICAN REQUIIEM OR RECKONING, WE NEED ALL EYES ON BLACK WALL STREET NOW.
This could be the LAST court hearing regarding the Tulsa Race Massacre.
This could be the LAST opportunity for our elders to get but a taste of what they are owed.
This could be the LAST chance for Mother Randle & her loved ones to get the reparations they have long deserved.
This could be the LAST time we get the chance to do right by them—and by the ideals we say we hold dear.
WILL WE STAND FOR SOMETHING???
Join the #1921TulsaWatchParty hosted by @justiceforGreenwood On April 2nd at 1pmCST— we need everyone’s attention on Oklahoma to ensure justice is served for survivors
and descendants.
#BlackWallStreet #Tulsa #COWBOYCARTER | Posted on 02/Apr/2024 22:06:59
![Brittany Packnett Instagram – I listened to COWBOY CARTER at midnight. This morning when I rose, I thanked God for making me a Black girl.
This album made me feel the way I felt the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s ‘Ego Trippin.’
The way I felt when I met Della Reese, who hugged a young me and said, “just a pretty chocolate thing, aren’t you?”
The way I felt when I’d watch Diahann Carroll galavant and Tina Turner be…Tina Turner.
The way I felt that day I flipped the page and met my great-great-great-great grandmother Joanna, who kept our family together through enslavement. Who raised two brave sons who, in their capture and death, gifted Civil War pensions that secured our lineage.
All of it convicts me to stand ten toes down in the inheritance of Black womanhood. Of the ways we reject fear, break boundaries, carry the lineage and redefine power.
Ours is an inheritance that redefines power to set everyone free—but compels us to free ourselves first. To see ourselves as full and complete. To accept and affirm first everything beautiful we bring. To give our progeny the permission our ancestors gave us: to LIVE, and live freely.
This album is stunning. Beautiful and adventurous. Deceptively simple but truly layered.
@Beyonce understands: Black women’s thriving rests in a simultaneous knowing that we must love us radically and always be “part of something way bigger.”
For me, that’s the true beauty of this album. Yes— it disrupts racist establishments and makes white folks itch but this ain’t about them—it’s about US. Reverence for US. For Linda, Rhiannon, Tanner, Brittney & Willie. For me & you.
I didn’t grow up spending that much time thinking about white people because I was “lifted so I could be raised” with deep esteem for Black. The people. The land. The gifts.
Some revolutions are waged because the opposition is hated. Some revolutions are waged because the people are loved.
I want to be a part of the latter. Those revolutions don’t simply destroy—they build.
This is not to say Beyoncé is a revolutionary.
This is always to say that Black women are a revolution.
Our inheritance is to accept the task. What a gift.
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