Loving Day, 2021

06/12/21 • 7 min

a LATTO thought

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In Our Blood: One Equal Citizenship

This Memorial Day will mark the 100th anniversary of one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history. But when we think back about the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, what are we missing? The inspiring and heartbreaking story of the fabled Black Main Street is indeed unique, but not because of the devastation that Black folks survived and rebuilt from its ashes. The second chapter of "In Our Blood" reveals that what set Greenwood apart from the rest of the nation—along with over fifty Black towns established in Oklahoma from 1865 to 1920—was the collision of the one drop rule and blood quantum. // Music provided by Kristina Sharpe, Dawn Avery, Makaya McCraven, and APM Music. Supported by TechRewire.

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In Our Blood: A People, Divided

The conclusion of a LATTO thought's first miniseries traces how Indigenous kinship has been damaged by centuries of racist and colonial American policies. Marilyn Vann (Cherokee Nation) and LeEtta Osborne-Sampson (Seminole Nation) share the painful fight that the descendents of Indigenous Freedmen have waged for civil rights within their own nations. Genocide in slow motion and the lack of one equal citizenship created a zero sum game that, left a people—a family—divided. But... that may not be the case for much longer.

Donate to the Seminole Freedmen legal fund:
Checks made out to Attorney John Parris mailed to:
Caesar Bruner Band
PO Box 300175
Oklahoma City, 73140
African Indians Foundation
PO Box 42452
Oklahoma City, 73123
(make a note it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)
Paypal: Marilyn Vann's Freedmen Association, [email protected] (make a note that it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)
Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen Twitter and Instagram accounts
Music provided by Dawn Avery, Makaya McCraven, and APM Music. Supported by TechRewire.

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