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I just want to reiterate. It's great that y'all are following Palestinians and indigenous people and reblogging from us and boosting our voices. But the goal isn't just to be spoonfed information. Educating yourself means you need to pick up a book from the many many reading lists put together for you by Palestinians and read articles from diverse sources. You need to be doing that. Please tell me you are doing that, too, not just reblogging from us and calling it a day.

let it be known that on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.