Meet the Real Ann Atwater from "The Best of Enemies" 

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@James Jamari Yea, been using kaldroStream for since december myself :)

@buster rymes Jackass,I am from Durham,N.C...THIS REALLY HAPPENED,nobody made this up.

Thank you James. My parents are from NC. When I visited relatives they used tk about her. She was a strong Black woman.

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...AND WE WON'T BECAUSE - THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS OUTDATED - UPDATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM - !!!! - AND ' THEY'D HAVE TO HONOR US - TAKE DOWN THOSE OLD #MONUMENTS/STATUSES - OF C.COLUMBUS - AND - HONOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR TIME - TAKE DOWN THOSE - CONFEDERATE FLAGS - OR GIVE THEM - NEW MEANING - PRESERVE OLD - NEGRO BURIAL GROUNDS... - LIKE THE ONE (1) FREDERICK DOUGLASS IS BURIED IN - (AMONGST OTHER FAMOUS BLACKS...) - HISTORIC PLACES - WHERE CERTAIN EVENTS TOOK PLACE - AND - HAVE THEM MARKED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CITY LEGISLATURE AS SUCH...- THIS MEANS #RECONIZING - BLACKS - AS BEING - #NATIVE - TO THIS LAND - AND - GIVING US - OUR PLACE IN HISTORY... - IN SHORT - THEY'D HAVE TO REWRITE - #HISTORY - I REMEMBER GROWING UP - A WHITE FAMILY MOVED IN NEXT DOOR TO US - AND - THEIR CHILDREN ATTENDED - P.S. 309 - IN THE BEDFORD STUYVESANT SECTION OF BROOKLYN NY - THE YOUNG WHITE BOY ALWAYS WENT TO SLEEP IN CLASS - OUR TEACHER ASKED HIM WHY - HIS REPLY WAS - "I LEARNED THIS ALREADY AT MY OLD SCHOOL..." - EVERY TEST SHE GAVE - HE SCORED 100... - SO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS ARE WAY BEHIND THE SYSTEM OF THOSE SCHOOLS IN THE WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS...THIS IS NO SECRET - AND - HAS BEEN THIS WAY FOR YEARS... - I BELIEVE THE FOOD IS DIFFERENT TOO - I WAS IN (SUNNYSIDE) QUEENS, NY - AND - DECIDED TO GO FOOD SHOPPING - (BECAUSE I WAS TIRED/TO SAVE MYSELF SOME STEPS...) - THE FOOD WAS HIGHER IN PRICE...THIER CAN GOODS WERE FIVE TO TEN CENTS MORE - AND - I THOUGHT TO MYSELF - JUST GO TO THE DELI COUNTER - AND - BUY SOME COLD CUTS TO MAKE A SANDWICH - TO EAT UNTIL YOU GET HOME.. - THE BOARS HEAD HAM COSTS - $9.99 LB - AT HOME IN ASSOCIATED (WHICH IS NOW FOODTOWN...) - THE COST WAS - $7.99 LB - BEING HUNGRY - I BOUGHT 1/4 OF SAME - SOME CHEESE - AND A ROLL... THE HAM WASN'T AS SALTY... - THEN I THOUGHT - (YOU'RE CRAZY...) - AFTER I GOT HOME - TOOK A PIECE OF BOARS HEAD HAM OUT OF THE FRIDGE - ATE IT - AND - YES - IT WAS - #SALTIER... - SO BE CAREFUL PEOPLE - WHY DO WE AS A #CULTURE - SUFFER FROM - #HYPERTENSION - AND - #DIABETIES - MORE THAN THEY DO - ALLEGEDLY

The Ann Atwater Freedom Library has resources you can use in your local schools & churches to make sure the next generation knows and understands this story. www.schoolforconversion.org/ann-atwater-freedom-library

You are a lucky to have met her. I wish I could have met her too

Racist white people

I visit a nursing home and chat with our treasures, ❤ makes the world goes around.

For real these teachers😳😒😔😞😣

Because it would mean they would have to face the truth about themselves...

Foh. We do , uall never pay attention . Plenty of blacks overcoming ad realities such as this but is a general history book you want more personalized info on a particular people group then joing the Black American history class.

This history is not taught in schools, because they want to continue to dehumanize people of color!

This is what they want you to know about Brown/Black people: The New Jim Crow Museum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yf7jAF2Tk40.html via @RU-vid

She passed

Ms.Ann Atwater passed in 2016 her spirit and leadership lives on.

she past I..... didn’t know rest with the angels we will remember you

Wow! This is one woman I would have loved to meet. I truly believe she is a child of God💖

@@charchartime1701 Amen and Amen.

iNorris Woods Amen. This is the first I’ve heard of this wonderful lady. Thank the lord she’s getting this recognition finally

xKaylaaxD yes Lord!! Finally

I know what you mean.i think I heard bout her in passing.but think about this; the media as a rule doesn't mention people like this cause they want to sell their brand of news -The Kardasians, Wall Street, billion dollar mergers, etc.imagine if they talk about Ann Atwater like Stormy Daniels? So don't feel bad,u are mad about the injustice of things.God bless you.

@ you're rite.i just get tired of seeing magazines in the supermarket about Orphan, the crazed Kardasians, etc.let someone who done some REAL good dominate the headlines for a change.

@@xKaylaaxD yes I told people who would listen, the media in general dosent feed us positive things to encourage us.Hollywood scandals, political dirt, & general crime make headlines.i personally had my own anti-AvengersEndgame boycott because I felt the Best of Enimies IS the real blockbuster!

You are SO RIGHT! May all the Big Mamas RIP!

Nashea Everhart Amen!!

Amen now women like her and my Grandmothers' Hagar and Isabel and my mother AnnieLee are outstanding. God Bless them and their legacy.🙏💯💕🙏💯♨️

@Nashea Everhart: "They don't make em like this anymore." YOU tell the TRUTH! Too many of the young black women of today want to be like the women on those housewives shows: "glamorous divas", but I guess the times are just different. Who knows, but I really miss STRONG, BRAVE, RESOLUTE, Christian black ladies like Miss Ann who weren't afraid of anyone or anything. OR if they were, they put on a brave face and kept how scared they actually were to themselves.

Nashea Everhart I tell you, you're right. It's JESUS that makes the difference!

UL R WoW short & sweet yet so profound 😢

How did she passed

Ameen

One & Only J. Korbyn You said it best.

Probably skinheads and kkk members

The TRUTH hurts thats why they gave a thumbs down, spiritually bankrupt souls.

She's a hero for sure.

Kamilla Harris yes my mom is the same way she won’t let them even enter her house 🤦🏽‍♀️but I understand her feelings at times

Kamilla Harris a GOOD amount of our elders have always felt that way and no one can ever tell them any different

@Jim Kirk i don't pay them any attention. I NEVER respond to their bullshit. Everyone loves to shit on black people hurt and harm us then tell us how to feel about it.. Foh

@@darkcocoakiss So true!!! They can't help it and we can't blame them. My former manager use to tell her kids never date a white person and if they call you the "N" word, don't come back carry lol

Kamilla Harris I am of mixed blood. I have beef discriminated by all race. At one time I hate white because I was raised in an all Mexican community till middle school. Then my parents left the Mexican community and moved to and all white one the segregation came and the black treated me the worse. Beat me up cause I was mixed. Then we moved again all white so my could be closer to his job(he is Mexican). The I went back to the Mexican community and felt racism there. It broke my heart. Through all of this I learned racism and ignorance in every race. After I overcame the bitterness I started to use kindness and patience. Endured several beating. Than God for my big Mexican family. My parents were the best. Now my family is a big rainbow.

Me too!

I want to see this movie, but I would rather see someone play her other than Taraji P. Henson.

@@chichileo2963 why is that?

@ Shatavia Lipscomb Taraji sounds like she is from South Central in everything she plays. If she is play a woman from Zimbabwe, she sounds like a woman from South Central in Zimbabwe. I just never got on the Taraji Bandwagon. I don't understand why they use the same handful of actors for every major movie role anyway.

Yes! Next week Lord's will I'm taking my mom!!!

She's Amazing and so Beautiful..R.I.P Anna Atwater.

We all have a common ground, at one point in life

Daniel Johnson + I am too. It’s a great piece of history that needs to be told. But it’s still kinda sad that Hollywood chooses the same Black actresses and actors for every role, even if they don’t resemble the person they’re depicting. Gabriel from Empire would’ve been a much closer resemblance to Mrs. Atwater. Or Monique could’ve delivered her fiery personality And with a stronger physical resemblance! Even Queen Latifa would’ve been a great match. Although Oprah is controversial now, casting her in this role could’ve worked too. That Boob hanging body suit and goofy wig on Taraji is distracting from an otherwise amazing story. SMH

@@laurice8056 I'm glad they are doing her justice by having a great actress play her and will draw many people.

Grace Grit and Glory + Yes, Taraji IS a great actress, but I just don’t think she’s physically right for this role. Octavia Spenser is an Oscar winning actress that would’ve been a better physical match for this role.

Queen Kimberly Heir Of YAHWEHS' Almight Throne amen.

Queen K. H. Of Y., Beautiful 💕

Exactly !

Yaaasss!!! I would've been a better actress with this one don't get me wrong I love me some Taraji

They do marvelous things with make up. She is a great actress and will do a fantastic job.

Love Octavia but this happend when she was younger, so Taraji is perfect in my opinion with respect to yours.

@@Jubileeluna Octavia Spencer is younger than Taraji P Henson

@@lurkzie she may be younger but can look older in film

Heeeeell no! MONIQUE??! Monique killed her career when she did that God awful movie Precious. I wldve been waiting for her to throw a shoe at somebody and call them a lil bitch.. That movie is why I don't care for Lee Daniels right now. She wld have been a distraction.

Probably.......maybe............Her voice cannot BOOM like Ms. Atwater's.

did it make him angry and resentful? I would understand if it did.

@@xisotopex Honestly, no. I think he is angry now with how the city is currently not listening to Black residents, constantly displacing him, and forcing them to live in public housing because of unlivable wages. He feels we aren't as far as we could be as city even with an almost-all Black city council. They are basically ineffective and doesn't do anything to help the people who made this city as desirable as it is

@@KaiyaTaylor I dont feel like we are as far as we should be in this COUNTRY. and I am white. we got to do a better job of lifting people up, especially those who have been hurt for so long...

Ann Atwater trained up a couple generations of moral fusion organizers in today's Poor People's Campaign. We're grateful that many more people have a chance to learn about her and from her thru "The Best of Enemies." You can access our archive and find resources to help share her vision for building beloved community at the Ann Atwater Freedom Library. www.schoolforconversion.org/ann-atwater-freedom-library/

Learn more at the Ann Atwater Freedom Library & join the Poor People's Campaign in your state, where you can meet many like Grandma Ann. www.schoolforconversion.org/ann-atwater-freedom-library/