Empathy for Ernie “The Underdog” Lombardi

Image: Screenshot of a classroom session from “Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers.“

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“If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.”

~ Alicia Keys (azquotes.com)

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Video | Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers [4m 32s]

This video is based on an excerpt from “Dismantling America,” by Thomas Sowell | Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers [4m 32s]

Related:

• Ernie Lombardi, Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Lombardi

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Video | 10 Black History Facts That Are Least Known [16m 52s]

Screenshot: Robert S. Abbott, African American lawyer, newspaper editor and publisher who founded the Chicago Defender.

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Ten Black History facts that are not widely known. #10. Interracial marriage in the United States was banned in 1664 and not overturned until 1967 | https://youtu.be/3Z6WS2aeFAc

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The Rundown

Screenshot: Claudette Colvin, 15, Activist

1. Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin
2. Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most iconic part of his “I Have a Dream…” speech
3. Inoculation was introduced to America by Onesimus, an enslaved African
4. The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by the Quakers in 1688
5. Of the 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, fewer than 388,000 arrived in the United States
6. The diverse history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
7. One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies
8. Esther Jones was the real Betty Boop
9. The first licensed African American female pilot was named Bessie Coleman
10. Interracial marriage in the United States was banned in 1664 and not overturned until 1967

Related:

• Top 5 Overlooked Black History Facts [5m 35m] | YouTube
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqM5qsiH_g
• Robert S. Abbott (pictured at the top of the post) | Britannica
  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Sengstacke-Abbott

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Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity

Image: “Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power” by Ian Rowe (Templeton Press). Source: Screen capture from “True Diversity: Ian Rowe’s Story.”

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On a Sunday evening in September 1977, 12-year-old Ian Rowe did something “unthinkable”: he challenged his parents.

His Queens, New York junior high school had become an epicenter for racial unrest because more Black families like Rowe’s were moving into his neighborhood, which was predominantly white at the time. The school board’s solution was to open a second school in a neighborhood with more white families.

All the white students were going to transfer to that new school, leaving Rowe’s junior high a virtually all-Black, segregated school. Rowe’s parents, on the presumption that the school with white students would be better, were going to transfer him too.

“Something about this just didn’t seem right…”

Read full article: “Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity”(philanthropyroundtable.org)

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