Moving Forward - Ep 27 - Thoughts on Talks

Thoughts on Talks - Rev. Mike & Malayna

In this bonus episode, Rev. Mike and Malayna continue the talk with Salaam Thompson and Rev. Nancy Woods about the New Paradigm we all envision and how to get Moving Forward with a world in which #Black Lives Matter. We cover a good amount of history, and you'll find informational links below for those.
Here's some studying you can do!
Part 1 with Salaam Thompson
Salaam shares tales from growing up in Chicago's south side
Gangster Disciples - Larry Hoover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster_Disciples
Black Disciples - David Barksdale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Disciples
Emmett Till - 14-year old lynched in 1955 for allegedly offending a white woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
Fred Hampton - Black Panther leader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
"Karens" - entitled white women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)
Salaaam's metaphor of trying to cash an old check as if the bank hadn't changed.
Reconstruction & Civil Rights Amendments
https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/
Amy Cooper weaponizes whiteness against Christian Cooper
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/central-park-video-dog-video-african-american-trnd/index.html
Confederate Statues removed
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-16/confederate-statues-removed
Chokehold Law
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877527974/how-decades-of-bans-on-police-chokeholds-have-fallen-short
Paul Butler, author of the book Chokehold
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/11/chokehold-book-paul-butler-us-police-african-americans
The Ezra Klein Show on Paul Butler
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-former-prosecutors-case-for-prison-abolition/id1081584611?i=1000477131355
Mulford Act - CA Gov. Ronald Reagan v Black Panthers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Only Met Once
https://www.biography.com/news/martin-luther-king-jr-malcolm-x-meeting
Fruit of Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_Islam
Rev. Nancy Woods joined for Part 2
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
by Resmaa Menakhem
Book:
https://smile.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22ASBLU7YLWH6&dchild=1&keywords=my+grandmother%27s+hands&qid=1592455245&sprefix=My+grand%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1
Resmaa Menakhem Video interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8NKF5to-0
NFL and NBA internal strife
https://sports.yahoo.com/the-nf-ls-black-lives-matter-statement-was-years-in-the-making-013616877.html
https://okcthunderwire.usatoday.com/2020/06/17/nba-players-union-issues-statement-vowing-to-support-social-justice/
Michael Beckwith on Victim Consciousness
https://www.legends.report/video-michael-beckwith-oprah-winfrey-dont-be-a-victim/
Creating a World that Works for All by Sharif Abdullah
https://commonway.org/product/creating-a-world-that-works-for-all/
Neighborhood Councils
https://empowerla.org/
Folding a Ceremonial Flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yMakv5Dwg
James Baldwin
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/06/03/reading-james-baldwin-can-help-heal-wounds-racial-division
"Hood Classics" Film List from Salaam
Menace 2 Society
Juice
New Jack City
Above the Rim
Belly
Find more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hood_films
#BlackLivesMatter heart art by Jenny Hahn of JennyHahnArt.com