Black Scroll Network History & Tours

11/21/2024

TOMORROW EVENING!!

Don’t Miss It!!

11/21/2024

11/21/2024

In a National Poll, the most popular Thanksgiving side dishes (NOT DESSERTS) in the US are:

1.) Stuffing (Dressing for Black people)
2.) Mashed Potatoes (Black people don’t eat this at Thanksgiving)
3.) Sweet Potatoes (Black people call it yams, and prefer them “candied”)
4.) Green Bean Casserole (Black people don’t eat this on any holiday, or any day period)
5.) Macaroni & Cheese (This is #1 on Black people’s list)

Now, Black people, can y’all post in the comments the Top 5 side dishes in y’all house on Thanksgiving??

11/20/2024

GOOD MORNING!

DETROIT HISTORY!

The Birwood Wall was constructed in 1940-41 to separate Birwood and Mendota streets on the northwest side of the city of Detroit.

In 1934, the federal government passed its first National Housing Act. This New Deal Program was meant to help working class people be able to afford homes. The Act provided low-interest mortgages to homebuyers.

In 1937, the Federal Government passed another housing act. The two housing acts paid construction workers to build new homes, and subsidized the mortgages so that working class people could get low-interest rate home loans.

However, nearly all African Americans were blocked from participating in these programs.

Also, the federal government would not guarantee home loans in areas where African Americans lived.

In the 8-Mile/Wyoming Street area, there had been a significant Black presence since the late 1920s. African Americans coming to Detroit from the south during the Great Migration were largely being forced to live in the Lower East Side - Black Bottom neighborhood. However, since the far northwest side was largely unsettled, Black people moved there and built their own simple homes - lean to structures, shacks and shotgun-style homes.

Since a white developer - James McMillan - was building homes being financed by the federal government, he was threatened with losing funding after the federal government discovered there were African Americans in the area.

In 1940, McMillan proposed to build a 6 ft. wall, approximately a half-mile in length, from 8 Mile to Chippewa Street, dividing Mendota (the white side) from Birwood (the Black side). This allowed him to continue being funded by the Federal government to build the homes, as well as allow the sales of the homes to have subsidized low interest rates backed by the Federal Housing Administration.

In 1941, the wall was completed.

11/15/2024

If you ever wanted to know what America would be like if the Confederacy won, then you’re about to get pretty close come January 20th.

11/14/2024

Smh

11/14/2024

These are the ORIGINAL Temptations. 2 members of the Primes merged with 3 members of the Distants, and became the Elgins.

They were the Elgins until Berry Gordy Jr. told them to come up with a new name.

Notice there’s no David Ruffin. He joined the group 4 years later. From 1960-1963, this was the Original Temptations - Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, and Al Bryant.

Al Bryant (top left) was kicked out and David Ruffin replaced him in 1964.

11/13/2024

Detroit at a Crossroads: Duggan's Legacy, a Decade of Change, and the Next Leader's Challenge

11/13/2024

Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit has announced he will not be seeking a 4th Term. What do y’all think about that?

11/12/2024

Born in Alabama in 1903, Raymond Parks taught himself how to read in the Jim Crow South, because there was no “Colored School” near his home.

Around the age of 14, Parks’ mother died, and he was an orphan.

Parks became a barber, as well as a voting rights, civil rights and labor activist.

In 1931, nine Black boys - between the ages of 12-19, were arrested in Alabama for allegedly ra**ng 2 white women.

The young men became known as the Scottsboro Boys, and 8 of them were tried and found guilty, and sentenced to death, by all-white juries.

With threats of lynching ever-present, attorneys with the NAACP and the Communist Party appealed the cases of the boys.

Raymond Parks, a charter member of the Montgomery Branch of the NAACP, was one of the leaders of the national fundraising campaign for the Scottsboro Boys’ appeals.

In 1932, he met Rosa McCauley, who was then a domestic worker. After 2 dates, they became engaged, and were married.

Rosa McCauley became Rosa Parks.

After Rosa Parks’ arrest in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Raymond Parks was fired from his barber position at Maxwell Air Force Base.

The couple would move to Detroit after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Raymond Parks would become a well-known and respected barber in the Wildemere Park neighborhood on Detroit’s westside.

In 1977, Raymond Parks passed away from throat cancer, and died in their home at 3201 Virginia Park.

A decade later, Rosa Parks founded the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development.

11/12/2024

People say, “If there had been a Democratic primary, Trump would’ve lost.”

They say, “If Kamala had been more progressive, Trump would’ve lost.”

Some even say, “If the Democrats had been LESS leftist (less pro-LGBT, less pro-immigrant, less pro-choice)”, they would’ve won.

Bernie Sanders says, that the Democrats lost the working class, and that’s why they lost.

Let me tell you what they’re really saying.

They’re saying that America is not as racist, not as sexist, not as anti-working class, not as criminal, not as inhumane to elect a twice-impeached, 34 felony convicted 90+ times indicted sexual assaulter, wanna-be authoritarian.

They’re saying that America is NOT THAT BAD.
It had to be something else to cause this.

America is not that racist.
America is not that misogynist.
America is not that xenophobic.
America is not that sinister.

And I’m saying…

Wanna bet?

11/09/2024

When I Say Big Top, you say…

11/09/2024

Y’all know what time it is!

11/07/2024

Stop wringing your hands about what Vice President Kamala Harris and/or the Democratic Party could’ve done differently.

They gonna say it was Biden’s fault, or Kamala’s fault, or Obama’s fault.

She was too leftist.
She was too moderate.

Yada Yada Yada...

They gonna say it was the 3rd Parties - Jill Stein and Cornel West.
It wasn’t.

They might say, it was because of Gaza.
Or, inflation.
Or, the economy.

Yeah...naw.

They are gonna Blame Black men.

DON’T FALL FOR THE OKEY DOKE.

Don’t listen to the thinkpieces, and the political commentators who are all gonna find some way to blame either Harris and the Democrats or BLAME YOU and your people for this election’s results.

A twice-impeached, 34 felony convicted, 90 times indicted, sexual assault found guilty candidate who ran the most racist, sexist, xenophobic, unhinged presidential campaign in the last 60 years WON.

Whatever you think about Biden, or Kamala, or Obama, or the Democratic Party, or the economy, or Black men, NONE OF THAT EQUATES to what won this election.

If Kamala had done HALF of the things that other candidate did, she would’ve lost her strongest supporters, AND the people who are criticizing her, STILL wouldn’t have voted for her.

Plus, the people who voted for the other guy, would’ve clowned her for doing the same thing that THE CANDIDATE THEY VOTED FOR DID.

Kamala Harris lost because the majority of American voters WANTED someone that FIT their idea of what American means:

A white supremacist, patriarchal, money-worshipping, anti-intellectual male who gives them permission to be like that too.

And there ain’t nothing that Kamala Harris OR YOU could’ve done in this 2024 campaign to change that.

So stop feeling guilty or discouraged.

And get ready.

11/07/2024

Sexism doesn’t matter.
Homophobia doesn’t matter.
Anti-immigrant doesn’t matter.

Trump is going to win the electoral college vote, and clinch the presidency.

But he’s also going to win the popular vote, being the 1st Republican to do it since George W. Bush in 2004, who only did that because of the high level of support Bush got after 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan and the War in Iraq.

With 34 convictions and over 90 indictments, and two impeachments, America chose Trump.

The voters weren’t unaware.
The voters weren’t tricked.
The voters know who and what Trump is.

And they chose him.

He will initiate Project 2025, even if he calls it something else.

He said he wants people who are loyal to him.

So no one should be surprised when he only appoints people who swear allegiance to him, not loyalty to America or the Constitution.

No one should be surprised when he removes career civil service workers and replace them with sycophants.

He promised to get rid of the Department of Education, which is responsible for supplying billions of dollars for school lunches and special education services.

No one should be surprised when they have to say Goodbye to free lunch at schools.

He promised he would give immunity to abusive police officers.

So prepare for some long, hot summers.

He promised to pardon all of the Jan. 6th rioters.
So Stand By and Stand Back Proud Boys.

He promised he’d go after his political enemies and critics.

So don’t be surprised when the Justice Dept. is investigating all of the prosecutors, judges, FBI, and police detectives, who’ve charged, prosecuted, and convicted him.

Don’t be surprised when they come for Kamala.

11/07/2024

“If you don’t understand Racism/White supremacy, what it is and how it works, everything else you think you understand will only confuse you.”
- Neely Fuller Jr.