LCSW. INTP. Raconteur. Afro-Culturologist. Confectioner. Minister of Diaspora Affairs. ❤️🖤💚. I am Black first, and 🇻🇮 🇵🇷 immediately after.
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The APA’s apology must be followed by accountability. For generations, psychology has harmed Black people through racist theories, biased practices, and systems that pathologized our experiences while dismissing the trauma inflicted upon us. Rather than helping facilitate generational healing, the discipline has too often reinforced the very wounds Black communities have been struggling to heal from.
An apology without restitution is incomplete. If the APA is sincere about acknowledging its role in systemic racism, it must support meaningful reparatory compensation for the descendants and communities harmed by these systems. That means more than words—it means investing in repair, restoring what was taken, and helping address the generational consequences of historical injustice.
Accountability is not just admitting the harm. It’s helping repair it. Black communities deserve more than an apology. They deserve action.
apa.org/news/press/releases/…
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The Caribbean was not peripheral to American slavery. It was central to the development of the Atlantic plantation economy.
Caribbean plantation systems, particularly those of Barbados and Jamaica, influenced plantation practices, slave codes, commercial networks and slaveholding interests in mainland British North America.
For that reason, the Haitian Revolution fundamentally challenged the entire Atlantic slaveholding world leading to emancipation in all slave holding regions in America.
There werent hierarchies of enslaved. Where your ancestors were enslaved doesn't make you better than the descendants of slaves anywhere else.
@ Ashleythee
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The Cake Lady retweeted
Turning people against people just to make yourself big is never the answer it is very petty
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I took these pics in Bonaire (slave huts) and Barbados (plaque on walk to beach).
These statues are RIGHT in the cruise port exit of Sint. Martin. They have it VERY in your face in the Caribbean. I felt so sheltered. The US buries a LOT of information.
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Nina, I say this with sincerity especially since you're waving the flag of genocide:
GO SUCK YA MUMMA TIL DRY OUT AND KEEP YUH DUTTY STINKIN MOUTH OUTTA WI BUSINESS YUH KRUFF FACE FASSYHOLE.
Please and thanks. 🙏🏿
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If you are basing reparations based on US chattle slavery. Those reparations would have international implications. Also, the vast majority of African Americans are not in possession of documented lineage.
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All of this 💪🏿💪🏿
The Caribbean was not peripheral to American slavery. It was central to the development of the Atlantic plantation economy.
Caribbean plantation systems, particularly those of Barbados and Jamaica, influenced plantation practices, slave codes, commercial networks and slaveholding interests in mainland British North America.
For that reason, the Haitian Revolution fundamentally challenged the entire Atlantic slaveholding world leading to emancipation in all slave holding regions in America.
There werent hierarchies of enslaved. Where your ancestors were enslaved doesn't make you better than the descendants of slaves anywhere else.
@ Ashleythee
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Cuba has the 3rd largest black population outside of Africa!!!! A lot of ppl don’t know that.
