Retired YN
@thehistoryplug.bsky.social
📚 The History Plug 🔌
History ain’t boring when you got the right plug 🗣️🔥
🗺️ Breaking down the past so we can understand the present
📍 Teaching, learning & keeping it real
💬 DM for topics you wanna hear about!
History ain’t boring when you got the right plug 🗣️🔥
🗺️ Breaking down the past so we can understand the present
📍 Teaching, learning & keeping it real
💬 DM for topics you wanna hear about!
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They say, “Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it,” but let’s be real—even when we do know history, we STILL repeat it.
From wars 🔥 to economic crashes 📉 to social movements ✊🏾—it’s like a glitch in the system. But why does it happen?
#HistoryPlug #ImJustDoingMyPart
From wars 🔥 to economic crashes 📉 to social movements ✊🏾—it’s like a glitch in the system. But why does it happen?
#HistoryPlug #ImJustDoingMyPart
26/31
BlueSky needs to add an edit button lol
BlueSky needs to add an edit button lol
25/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
August 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
26/31
BlueSky needs to add an edit button lol
BlueSky needs to add an edit button lol
29/31
Today: the U.S. faces an affordable housing crisis. Section 8 vouchers can’t keep up, landlords refuse them, and corporations buy up homes. What started as a lifeline for whites became abandonment for everyone.
August 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Systemic Truths 31/31 #RacismRebranded
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
August 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
30/31
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#OtD 30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9670...
August 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#OtD 30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9670...
Systemic Truths 31/31 #RacismRebranded
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
August 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Systemic Truths 31/31 #RacismRebranded
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
Why is American healthcare tied to your job? Most WWII allies built universal healthcare systems. The U.S. went the opposite way — a choice rooted in race, Cold War fear, & corporate profit.
Today: the U.S. faces an affordable housing crisis. Section 8 vouchers can’t keep up, landlords refuse them, and corporations buy up homes. What started as a lifeline for whites became abandonment for everyone.
August 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Today: the U.S. faces an affordable housing crisis. Section 8 vouchers can’t keep up, landlords refuse them, and corporations buy up homes. What started as a lifeline for whites became abandonment for everyone.
28/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Why ban abortions if we punish kids for being born poor? No free lunch, no supplies, no therapy, no fair access to schools. If the system refuses to raise children, why create laws that guarantee they’ll be punished instead?
Why ban abortions if we punish kids for being born poor? No free lunch, no supplies, no therapy, no fair access to schools. If the system refuses to raise children, why create laws that guarantee they’ll be punished instead?
August 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
28/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Why ban abortions if we punish kids for being born poor? No free lunch, no supplies, no therapy, no fair access to schools. If the system refuses to raise children, why create laws that guarantee they’ll be punished instead?
Why ban abortions if we punish kids for being born poor? No free lunch, no supplies, no therapy, no fair access to schools. If the system refuses to raise children, why create laws that guarantee they’ll be punished instead?
Systemic Truths 27/31 #RacismRebranded
Mass Incarceration & the 13th Loophole
The War on Drugs was not the end, it was the next stage. Once jobs were gone & leaders were dead, the system turned to prisons. The 13th Amendment made it legal: slavery “except as punishment for crime.”
Mass Incarceration & the 13th Loophole
The War on Drugs was not the end, it was the next stage. Once jobs were gone & leaders were dead, the system turned to prisons. The 13th Amendment made it legal: slavery “except as punishment for crime.”
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Systemic Truths 27/31 #RacismRebranded
Mass Incarceration & the 13th Loophole
The War on Drugs was not the end, it was the next stage. Once jobs were gone & leaders were dead, the system turned to prisons. The 13th Amendment made it legal: slavery “except as punishment for crime.”
Mass Incarceration & the 13th Loophole
The War on Drugs was not the end, it was the next stage. Once jobs were gone & leaders were dead, the system turned to prisons. The 13th Amendment made it legal: slavery “except as punishment for crime.”
25/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
August 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
25/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
The War on Drugs wasn’t about saving America from drugs. It was about targeting Black communities after their leaders were dismantled. Let’s break down the history and how it still shapes policy today.
25/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The “War on Drugs” wasn’t born to save people from drugs — it was born to control. Let’s trace how it started as racial suppression and became a class-wide chokehold.
The “War on Drugs” wasn’t born to save people from drugs — it was born to control. Let’s trace how it started as racial suppression and became a class-wide chokehold.
August 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
25/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The “War on Drugs” wasn’t born to save people from drugs — it was born to control. Let’s trace how it started as racial suppression and became a class-wide chokehold.
The “War on Drugs” wasn’t born to save people from drugs — it was born to control. Let’s trace how it started as racial suppression and became a class-wide chokehold.
24/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The Death of Collective Hope
Why didn’t Black communities “just build their own”? They did. Again and again. But the leaders who carried that hope were systematically eliminated. Let’s walk the history.
The Death of Collective Hope
Why didn’t Black communities “just build their own”? They did. Again and again. But the leaders who carried that hope were systematically eliminated. Let’s walk the history.
August 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
24/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The Death of Collective Hope
Why didn’t Black communities “just build their own”? They did. Again and again. But the leaders who carried that hope were systematically eliminated. Let’s walk the history.
The Death of Collective Hope
Why didn’t Black communities “just build their own”? They did. Again and again. But the leaders who carried that hope were systematically eliminated. Let’s walk the history.
Reposted by Retired YN
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In 1912, the thriving Black town Oscarville, GA was erased by racial terror. Over 1000 residents were forced out, and decades later, the land was flooded to create Lake Lanier. This episode of AAHIAH honors their memory and confronts a buried (but not forgotten) history.
In 1912, the thriving Black town Oscarville, GA was erased by racial terror. Over 1000 residents were forced out, and decades later, the land was flooded to create Lake Lanier. This episode of AAHIAH honors their memory and confronts a buried (but not forgotten) history.
AAHIAH episode #47 "THE TRUTH ABOUT LAKE LANIER"
YouTube video by African American History Is AMERICAN History
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August 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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In 1912, the thriving Black town Oscarville, GA was erased by racial terror. Over 1000 residents were forced out, and decades later, the land was flooded to create Lake Lanier. This episode of AAHIAH honors their memory and confronts a buried (but not forgotten) history.
In 1912, the thriving Black town Oscarville, GA was erased by racial terror. Over 1000 residents were forced out, and decades later, the land was flooded to create Lake Lanier. This episode of AAHIAH honors their memory and confronts a buried (but not forgotten) history.
22/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Why were thriving Black communities constantly attacked? From riots to flooding to “urban renewal,” every decade brought a new tool to tear them down. Let’s trace the pattern step by step.
Why were thriving Black communities constantly attacked? From riots to flooding to “urban renewal,” every decade brought a new tool to tear them down. Let’s trace the pattern step by step.
August 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
22/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Why were thriving Black communities constantly attacked? From riots to flooding to “urban renewal,” every decade brought a new tool to tear them down. Let’s trace the pattern step by step.
Why were thriving Black communities constantly attacked? From riots to flooding to “urban renewal,” every decade brought a new tool to tear them down. Let’s trace the pattern step by step.
21/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The GI Bill is remembered as the policy that built America’s middle class. But the truth is: it built a white middle class, while Black veterans were systematically excluded. Let’s break down how this happened.
The GI Bill is remembered as the policy that built America’s middle class. But the truth is: it built a white middle class, while Black veterans were systematically excluded. Let’s break down how this happened.
August 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
21/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
The GI Bill is remembered as the policy that built America’s middle class. But the truth is: it built a white middle class, while Black veterans were systematically excluded. Let’s break down how this happened.
The GI Bill is remembered as the policy that built America’s middle class. But the truth is: it built a white middle class, while Black veterans were systematically excluded. Let’s break down how this happened.
20/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Credit scores weren’t designed to be fair. They came out of a long history of financial exclusion, where laws and policies first blocked Black families from wealth, then baked those denials into a formula in 1989. Here’s the history.
Credit scores weren’t designed to be fair. They came out of a long history of financial exclusion, where laws and policies first blocked Black families from wealth, then baked those denials into a formula in 1989. Here’s the history.
August 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
20/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Credit scores weren’t designed to be fair. They came out of a long history of financial exclusion, where laws and policies first blocked Black families from wealth, then baked those denials into a formula in 1989. Here’s the history.
Credit scores weren’t designed to be fair. They came out of a long history of financial exclusion, where laws and policies first blocked Black families from wealth, then baked those denials into a formula in 1989. Here’s the history.
19/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Imagine: your grandparents, parents, you, and your kids all paid taxes funding decades of medical research. MRI machines, cancer treatments, surgeries. But when it’s your turn to need them? You can’t afford it. The system you funded now bills you out of reach.
Imagine: your grandparents, parents, you, and your kids all paid taxes funding decades of medical research. MRI machines, cancer treatments, surgeries. But when it’s your turn to need them? You can’t afford it. The system you funded now bills you out of reach.
August 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
19/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Imagine: your grandparents, parents, you, and your kids all paid taxes funding decades of medical research. MRI machines, cancer treatments, surgeries. But when it’s your turn to need them? You can’t afford it. The system you funded now bills you out of reach.
Imagine: your grandparents, parents, you, and your kids all paid taxes funding decades of medical research. MRI machines, cancer treatments, surgeries. But when it’s your turn to need them? You can’t afford it. The system you funded now bills you out of reach.
18/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Junk fees. Service charges, application fees, “risk” deposits, cleaning fees, baggage fees — you name it. What looks like a universal nuisance today actually started as a targeted way to extract wealth from Black communities. Let’s walk through the history.
Junk fees. Service charges, application fees, “risk” deposits, cleaning fees, baggage fees — you name it. What looks like a universal nuisance today actually started as a targeted way to extract wealth from Black communities. Let’s walk through the history.
August 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
18/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Junk fees. Service charges, application fees, “risk” deposits, cleaning fees, baggage fees — you name it. What looks like a universal nuisance today actually started as a targeted way to extract wealth from Black communities. Let’s walk through the history.
Junk fees. Service charges, application fees, “risk” deposits, cleaning fees, baggage fees — you name it. What looks like a universal nuisance today actually started as a targeted way to extract wealth from Black communities. Let’s walk through the history.
17/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Today’s topic: Food Deserts & Junk Food Saturation.
Food deserts didn’t just “happen.” They were built through decades of policy, disinvestment, and monopoly power — starting with systemic racism, now expanded into classism that hurts everyone.
Today’s topic: Food Deserts & Junk Food Saturation.
Food deserts didn’t just “happen.” They were built through decades of policy, disinvestment, and monopoly power — starting with systemic racism, now expanded into classism that hurts everyone.
August 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
17/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Today’s topic: Food Deserts & Junk Food Saturation.
Food deserts didn’t just “happen.” They were built through decades of policy, disinvestment, and monopoly power — starting with systemic racism, now expanded into classism that hurts everyone.
Today’s topic: Food Deserts & Junk Food Saturation.
Food deserts didn’t just “happen.” They were built through decades of policy, disinvestment, and monopoly power — starting with systemic racism, now expanded into classism that hurts everyone.
16/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Shrinkflation.
That box of cereal getting smaller while the price goes up? That’s not new — it’s part of a long pattern rooted in systemic racism before becoming the class-wide squeeze we all feel today. Let’s walk the history.
Shrinkflation.
That box of cereal getting smaller while the price goes up? That’s not new — it’s part of a long pattern rooted in systemic racism before becoming the class-wide squeeze we all feel today. Let’s walk the history.
August 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
16/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Shrinkflation.
That box of cereal getting smaller while the price goes up? That’s not new — it’s part of a long pattern rooted in systemic racism before becoming the class-wide squeeze we all feel today. Let’s walk the history.
Shrinkflation.
That box of cereal getting smaller while the price goes up? That’s not new — it’s part of a long pattern rooted in systemic racism before becoming the class-wide squeeze we all feel today. Let’s walk the history.
15/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Today: Traffic Ticket Traps. On the surface, they look like “public safety.” In reality, they’ve long been a revenue machine built on overpolicing Black communities — and now, they trap poor folks of all races in endless cycles of debt.
Today: Traffic Ticket Traps. On the surface, they look like “public safety.” In reality, they’ve long been a revenue machine built on overpolicing Black communities — and now, they trap poor folks of all races in endless cycles of debt.
August 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
15/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Today: Traffic Ticket Traps. On the surface, they look like “public safety.” In reality, they’ve long been a revenue machine built on overpolicing Black communities — and now, they trap poor folks of all races in endless cycles of debt.
Today: Traffic Ticket Traps. On the surface, they look like “public safety.” In reality, they’ve long been a revenue machine built on overpolicing Black communities — and now, they trap poor folks of all races in endless cycles of debt.
Forgot about yall over here! So doubling up
August 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Forgot about yall over here! So doubling up
14/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Housing discrimination didn’t vanish with segregation—it evolved. From redlining to biased appraisals, the system still blocks Black wealth. Let’s trace the history. 🧵
Housing discrimination didn’t vanish with segregation—it evolved. From redlining to biased appraisals, the system still blocks Black wealth. Let’s trace the history. 🧵
August 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
14/31 Systemic Truths #RacismRebranded
Housing discrimination didn’t vanish with segregation—it evolved. From redlining to biased appraisals, the system still blocks Black wealth. Let’s trace the history. 🧵
Housing discrimination didn’t vanish with segregation—it evolved. From redlining to biased appraisals, the system still blocks Black wealth. Let’s trace the history. 🧵
Systemic Truths 13/31 #RacismRebranded
Vagrancy laws weren’t always about “public safety.” After slavery, they became a weapon to control freed Black Americans, fueling convict leasing & mass incarceration. Over time, they changed names — but the purpose stayed the same.
Vagrancy laws weren’t always about “public safety.” After slavery, they became a weapon to control freed Black Americans, fueling convict leasing & mass incarceration. Over time, they changed names — but the purpose stayed the same.
August 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Systemic Truths 13/31 #RacismRebranded
Vagrancy laws weren’t always about “public safety.” After slavery, they became a weapon to control freed Black Americans, fueling convict leasing & mass incarceration. Over time, they changed names — but the purpose stayed the same.
Vagrancy laws weren’t always about “public safety.” After slavery, they became a weapon to control freed Black Americans, fueling convict leasing & mass incarceration. Over time, they changed names — but the purpose stayed the same.
Systemic Truths Day 12/31 #RacismRebranded
I’ve been through roadblocks where it felt like they weren’t stopping crime — they were hunting for it. And the “hunt” was always in the same neighborhoods. This isn’t random. It’s a system with deep roots.
I’ve been through roadblocks where it felt like they weren’t stopping crime — they were hunting for it. And the “hunt” was always in the same neighborhoods. This isn’t random. It’s a system with deep roots.
August 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Systemic Truths Day 12/31 #RacismRebranded
I’ve been through roadblocks where it felt like they weren’t stopping crime — they were hunting for it. And the “hunt” was always in the same neighborhoods. This isn’t random. It’s a system with deep roots.
I’ve been through roadblocks where it felt like they weren’t stopping crime — they were hunting for it. And the “hunt” was always in the same neighborhoods. This isn’t random. It’s a system with deep roots.
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They're ancestors fought so hard to make the system harder ours.
If we keep raising the standard for the average American to succeed, the gap will keep growing. What was average yesterday is considered poor today — and the climb only gets steeper.
If we keep raising the standard for the average American to succeed, the gap will keep growing. What was average yesterday is considered poor today — and the climb only gets steeper.
Systemic Truths 11/31 #RacismRebranded
Higher ed was once a heavily funded public good. But after integration, states shifted costs onto students. What began as a quiet barrier for Black access grew into a debt trap for the entire working class.
Higher ed was once a heavily funded public good. But after integration, states shifted costs onto students. What began as a quiet barrier for Black access grew into a debt trap for the entire working class.
August 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
They're ancestors fought so hard to make the system harder ours.
If we keep raising the standard for the average American to succeed, the gap will keep growing. What was average yesterday is considered poor today — and the climb only gets steeper.
If we keep raising the standard for the average American to succeed, the gap will keep growing. What was average yesterday is considered poor today — and the climb only gets steeper.