Still Standing 2014…

African enslavement, 3/5 clause, Dred Scott decision,13th,14th and 15th Amendments, state property, KKK, lynch-mob justice, dis-enfranchisement, segregation, violent racial extremism, great depression, Tulsa, Scottsboro, J.E. Hoover, redlining, Mississippi, Emmett Till, King assassinated, cointelpro, war on poverty, Free Angela Davis, Assata takes flight, white backlash, Reagonomics, drug war, mass incarceration, housing collapse, too big to fail, Obama, great recession, organ harvesting, extra-judicial murder of Black men, NYPD chokehold returns, lynching cover-up… Funny thing is, We are still standing. Join #EricGarner in saying, “It Stops Today!” www.holleratascholar.com #ItStopsToday

Kerry James Marshall creates images of Black ideal selves.

Black artists projecting images of Black ideal selves is no more racist than Asian artists projecting images of the Asian ideal selves.  Certainly, no one ever sees racism when Euro-Americans project images of the Euro-American ideal selves.