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Thank you Pastor Willis.

this is awesome to listen to everyone share

yess HBCU alum!

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Black Lives Matter, with a capital B. Thank you to the panel!

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Truth

peace in honor of Black Lives Matter” we need the NAAM staff/board members to stop calling police on Baba Omari Tahir founder of African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center At Colman School and currently occupying and holding space there in protest. We need the village to make sure nothing happens to him and things get on track towards our community getting the world class cultural center we need and deserve.

will speak to this on behalf of NAAM in a moment. Thank you for your comment

The Studies regarding Black childhood & “adultification”:

“The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children” (2014), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-a0035663.pdf

“Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood” (2017), Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality | https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-inequality-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/08/girlhood-interrupted.pdf

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Our history is so critical at this time, and the toll of being black and constantly fighting is real. I agree that far too many people do not know or understand the history of what it took during the many years that Omari and so many others went without heat, electricity etc. and stood their ground year after year occupying the school that is now known as the Northwest African American Museum.

They said no “wellness check” that too often leads to escalation and confllict

yes DEMANDS ✊❤

They only want to talk to Moni Tep, Jamala or Briaan because they are from the community.

What is a wellness check exactly?

I remember the years that he stood in protest at that building.

Charleena Lyles called police for help “wellness” and got murdered

exactly

Was Dr. Danielson finished with his comments?

thank you for explaining that..I’m from LA originally

I am from the Community! Born and raised. Central District. Garfield High!

NAAM scam Urban League Pillage is one of the biggest trauma/pain points in our community/village.

Jason Turner go Bulldogs good meeting you today.

thanks for touching on the history, not everyone attending was aware

Likewise!

What is SVI?

Seattle Vocational Institute

20th & Jackson

Thank you

Dawn Mason was right when she said Tiny House = Slave Shack Shanti House = Jim Crow Apartheid. We need to own our community!

awesome here

yes we have unify in the field. quit being house niggas. we know when the 1705 slave codes were created, they also created the bourgeoisie class of negores. yall are perpetuating that history by not playing your role in our struggle. if the shoe fits, wear it!

Thank you! It is critical that our Black revolutionary history is neither forgotten nor erased. The spirit of SANKOFA demands that of us as African descedant people. There is no Black unitity without revolutionary truth and radical healing. Much love and respect to our elder Bro. Omari and so many others who continue to be the griots and carriers of our sacred, revolutionary Black history in this region & beyond.

Let’s move from Jim Crow Apartheid In “Martin Luther King Jr. King Jr. County” to a new normal rooted in equity.

kingcountyequitynow.com

In the spirit of not erasing our hisotry: we must acknowledge the groundbreaking work on "adultification" of Black children was done by the Black woman sociologist Dr. Joyce Ladner in the 1970s -- when it was not popular: https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrows-Tomorrow-Black-Joyce-Ladner/dp/0803279566

they are only talking about people called african americans fyi...not all Black people.

AMEN!

it’s embarrassing that we have a “history” institution that doesn’t even tell the true history of the institution, the struggle and people that produced it. A 74 year old founder has to reoccupy 35 years after the original occupation to force the conversation to bring out the real into the light to make it right.

peace everyone, as someone who is holding space with brother omari, officials at the museum have communicated to me that omari is diseased, that his ideas are delusional. that is why the wellness check was conduc. we cannot let ableism and ageism plague our communities or movements. thank you for your time and attention.

yes how are the children? They are dying in the streets, hurting and killing themselves because there are no institutions dedicate to instilling love of Black people, positive self identity, culture and developing their genius.

powerful thank you Dr

That’s what 6 Black men put their lives on the line on Nov. 23, 1985 to create. For context this was not long after the MOVE Bombing in Philadelphia.

exactly. we have been at war since the inception of this country. i dont think y'all understand what culture is and what culture you actively practice.

What does MOVE have to do with Seattle

Can we tell the true story of African American Museum at Colman School?

YES AND AS LOUDLY AS WE POSSIBLY CAN!

I second that request Antonesha!

Trying to learn the true story

EXACTLY

Omari has been a champion of our culture, yet he is not respected as the living legend he is. instead the neo colonial culture of the black community known as the urban league and NAACP have destroyed many times over our chance to determine our culture in this country. that directly effected the entire Afrikan Diaspora and further put our global kinfolk under the influence of white supremecy and European imperialism

Yes!

yes!

how can people help with that?

YES ABOUT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUTH & RECONCILIATION

We will be opening up for questions from the audience soon? Please put your questions here in the chat.

YES NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US FOUNDERS OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM

The Legacy Museum is a start to that. It looks like a very powerful space https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/

YES ADMIT COMPLICITY OF THE NAAM SCAM URBAN PILLAGE WITH WEED & SEED GENTRIFICATION OF THE CD AND DESTRUCTION OF BLACK COMMUNITY

EVERYTHING YOU ARE SAYING KIRK NEEDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE VERY ORGANIZATION THAT IS HOSTING THIS EVENT

Truth healing reconciliation repair. It's time.

WE NEED OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN ACADEMY BACK!

y'all have to stop living in illusions. let's look at the reality of 100 year old orgs that started the Museum.

We need the churches to be empowerment centers focused on education & economic development every day! Don’t sell the land build on it so the community can stay here.

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It’s a different time now. It’s a new day!

Thank you for organizing this incredible program, Moni!

Be the Bridge?

The community is going to curate.

The UW Consulting and Business Development Center has been doing great work to support small business development https://foster.uw.edu/centers/consulting-and-business-development-center/

have any of you heard of Be the Bridge groups Latasha Morrison..or Dr Brenda Salter McNeil at SPU- reconciliation work?

Need to flush the board and organization hit reset rooted in community!

Now is time for reset and disrupt the old normal!

Brilliant moderation, Sharon!

So appreciate the conversation of our panelists and in the chat. Thank you for the masterful facilitation by Sharon Nyree Williams and the space curated by Moni. I need to hop on another meeting. As a member of the community and as a person in a position of elected office, I am committed to work with any and all to support Black ownership of land and the arts community. rebecca.saldana@leg.wa.gov

Absolutely

Then why not collaborate?

dont ask that. just come reach out to those doing the work!

Work with the museum to bring it up and work together?

the museum needs to work with the originators not the other way around

these facilitates only cause us to assimilate to amerikan genocide! while a small group of us become mindless zombies

Absolutely! I think the door is open for working together

Hate to see us divided

no police have been called on Omari at all

hate to see it too. calling the police and calling him diseased isn't working together

that is not true

I SEE NO LIES

gangs and black cops killing our people is product of WHITE systematic violence

its on video

no police have been called

it was medic one

the police were here last week If u want the link

@tony drop the link

You are deflecting Wyking

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158517433726703&id=512386702&ref=bookmarks

the answer is simple

dont let them break us apart! we are one. dont deflect from our number 1 priority! our struggles are United! we are African people living under white genocidal culture.

thank you Moni!

Thank you, Moni

Right

BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER

Come through Moni!

From watching Moni as a 17-year-old to where she's at right now... so proud!

WORD!!!

I always talk about gangs and lgbtq black folks always! and I'm straight love y'all. power!

come on moni!

US VP!

period! thank you moni!

Thank you!

I have to jump off the call. For those who would like to collaborate with, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy, an anti-racist collaborative community school reclaiming the education of our Global Majorty, predominantly Black school. please visit myrvla.org

thank you so much, everyone!

Many many thanks to NAAM for excellent panel and facilitation. So important. ALL Black Lives Matter!

Thank you for the opportunity!

huge thank you!!!

Thank you NAAM, CD Forum, Langston and panelists!

Thanks for organizing this!

Thank you and please consider to hold more of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sending love from the Project Pilgrimage community!

We need them

yes but you can’t be calling police

to address these issues

God bless you all

Community reclaiming.

Thank you so much. Appreciate excellent panel, facilitation and curation!

Start with the board.

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Thank you to all for this forum!

Will the recording be available to the public?

All the time

Don't apologize!

Don’t be sorry!

Don't you apologize Sharon. Speak your truth

Amen Sharon, don't be sorry. This is the truth.

Appreciate your honesty!!

thank you, we are in this ..raising up by lifting others up!!!

I don't see anything wrong with what just happened

this is honest work..

We don’t have to apologize for having different viewpoints.

So much power in your words. thank you Sharon!

Who else was providing this moment! Please know you are doing what no one else has really done.

There are hidden hands behind the scenes pulling the strings

AMEN!!!

Thats who made the museum like this

Mimi Gates is on the board

They are in our business

Amen!

We need to unify

Yes Yes Yes

Remind them of those fact about how to support EVER time.

No Black community said they want our museum to be minimized and marginalized

White folks called the shots and used the Urban League

thats the truth

Love you! Make it happen!

talk to em!!

Thanks Sharon!

Thank you! Let's all keep pushing.

thank you Sharon and Moni and everyone for being there for us. love you

Thank you, Sharon!

Let’s link and get black solidarity zoom on the cal then

Appreciate all of you!

everyone needs to work within their own lanes with the progression of black people and black families as the overarching goal

Thank you to everyone...

LOVE YOU SHARON!!!!

Thanks everyone!

Thank you all

Love to you all

Thanks Dr. Danielson!

thank you!

mtep@naamnw.org

Thank you for organizing this!

Y’all want some history there is all dat teach in at museum going on with the founder

@naamnw

You can get all kind of Black seattle history

langstonseattle.org/donate

cdforum.org

Thank you so much, I appreciate everything said here.

There is a moment of healing and covering needed over what just transpired.

Every time an elder dies you lose a library

Kirk Mead, Director Stakeholder Engagement | kpmead@seattleschools.org

God bless you, yes Sharon...you ROCK

White folks know whats going on because they are orchestrating this stuff

Community is complicated. Love is complicated. progress is complicated. Peace is complication.

So appreciate the conversation.

And those that don’t need to know

the truth so the ones who want real change can help make it happen

Hijacking the conversation is disappointing.

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