SNT weighs in on what’s behind the recent bomb threats at several Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs): anti-blackness, terrorism, systemic slavery and teaching American history. She’s not having it and explains why you shouldn’t either. Hello?!

LINKS

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (September 15, 1963)

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/baptist-street-church-bombing

https://www.nps.gov/articles/16thstreetbaptist.htm

En Vogue – Free Your Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE

Maya Angelou Quote

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/26244-hate-it-has-caused-a-lot-of-problems-in-the

“HBCU bomb threats: ‘I shouldn’t have to live in fear when I’m going to get an education’” - Mike Jordan, TheGuardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/hbcu-bomb-threats-fear-education-hate-crimes

“School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred a week after a series of bomb threats” – NPR.org

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079294424/hbcu-bomb-threats-black-colleges

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/

“Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Hymn - Love Lifted Me

https://hymnary.org/hymn/OLOF2018/494

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote

https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/

“But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet, four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off .“

United Negro College Fund

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