Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Savant's Words in Late July 2015

What part of West Africa are you visiting? Or perhaps you're already there. Freddy can say what he pleases, but the Struggle will continue. Copwatch patrols have already spread nationwide. And this weekend in Cleveland there was a BlackLivesMatters conference which tried to address not only fascistic police terror, but a whole range of social wrongs and injustices of which police brutality is one part. The awakening can be seen on the campuses in the hood. I don't think it's going away.

-Savant

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Yes, there is still much happening in Baltimore. Even after the mass demonstrations which the media paid sporadic attention to, and the uprising which they focused on like a haw--the corporate media must have its sensationalism--th ere is much still happening even with media attention now gone. Some folk from Ferguson and other places are here, and some millennial sisters and brothers are working on forging strong links with each other across the country. And yes, people are seeing more the intersectional connections between varied expressions of oppression. Sisters at these meetings (progressive young brothers too) address issues of sexism as well as racism. (And it hasn't escaped our attention that police terror against SISTERS receive far less attention than that same terror against us; or that the media pays less attention to sisters who are leaders than to men. Hence our "Same HER name marches." And I'm sure by now you know about what happened to sister Bland in Texas). What's especially important to me is that in town meeting in the hood, in churches, projects and the few community centers we have left, it is the POOR who are raising their voices; insisting that police terrorism is only part of the picture; that crime is also just part of the picture. And that it is a whole system of deprivation, immiseration that they face. They may not allude to Fanon or Gramsci, and their subject and verb agreement may be missing. But they KNOW the evils of which they suffer. And yes, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has put herself in the doghouse with much of the Black community here. And I find it easier to talk to people about the evils of both RACE and CLASS in ways not always possible in the past. I think we have to face the fact that the Black bourgeoisie no longer needs the masses. The elite couldn't challenge Jim Crow in the 1960s, could not face the power structure without mass support. And you'd rarely hear them publicly denounce the poor as thugs and criminals during the much bigger uprisings of that time. But today our elite feel they have arrived, or soon will; the masses are in the way. But I think it is the ELITE that is in the way. They must be swept aside if need be. They don't even create businesses in the Black community any more. And while I despise capitalism, you'd expect the elite to at least be able to do that. No more "Black Wall Street." They're a clique of elite hustlers and opportunist political pimps. What Fanon once said of the native African elite applies to our Black elite: "It must simply be stoutly opposed because, literally, it is good for NOTHING." We must move forward without, or AGAINST them if need be.

-Savant

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I consider both Democrats and Republicans to be subservient to corporate money and interests, the Republicans only a little more so than the Democrats most times. The Republicans are like the wife, and the Democrats like the mistress, but they're both on the knees to the 1%. Moreover, Bernie Sander is a SOCIALIST, you goof ball. He must run as a Democrat (though he's usually "independent ") because in ass backward America that's the best he can do in order to even be in the race. And I don't recall you reactionaries object to the age of right wing political dinosaurs like Ronald Reagan or John McCain. Has there ever been a right wing white ass you didn't like to lick? Or are YOU the right wing white a__ as Barros and Attai both suggested?

-Savant


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C'est une Revolution pour la liberation humain! What MIGHT happen is that a wave of Black insurgency, like the Black Lives Matter movement--like the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s--succeeds in inspiring movement EVERYWHERE. So even if the insurgency begins most vigorously in Black communities it eventuates in a multiracial movement of the dispossessed and allies of the dispossessed. Before the outbreak of things in Bmore, I heard, I heard interviews on the Marc Steiner show with Ferguson activists (and people from Bmore who had been to Ferguson) that not only had the Black community become insurgent, but it was drawing in whites, Asians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists, etc. Our movement there had JEWS and ARABS marching together, recognizing that atrocities inflicted on us today will be inflicted on them tomorrow. Then Baltimore happened. Again, we had in April and May the largest demonstrations in this city since the Civil Rights Movement. Rallies held in Black GHETTOES and churches drew middle class whites, Latinos (whose experience with the police resemble our own), Asians, Jews, Arabs (Palestinians included), Native Americans (also severely afflicted with police terrorism but lacking the numbers we have to make their protests more felt), feminists, socialists, liberals, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus (some from India). Naturally, white racists and reactionaries (aside from the police themselves) don't show at these gathering. And groups like NOI or the Black Hebrews are essentially sidelined, denouncing us for allowing "white devils" into our community and into our protests. But they are being IGNORED. And openly GAY people show up in the culturally conservative Black ghettoes, and find that they too are welcome regardless of how people personally feel about homosexuality. (An elder in the projects in Sandtown said "Man, we gotta got control of these cops. And whoever wants to help us is ok with me.").

-Savant

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Last summer in the ATLANTIC magazine there was an article on the issue of black reparations by Ta Nehisi Coates, son of former Bmore Black Panther leader Paul Coates. Ta Nehisi now has a new book our, apparently inspired by James Baldwin, called LETTER TO MY SON.

-Savant

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What's up? I just happened to be in my office to pick up some things when I noticed this thread. The title made me wonder whether some white supremacist has started an anti-Barros thread. LOL! I was wondering about that because you'd made it clear that you would not identify complex ethnicity in Topix--partly because you didn't want it to be an issue when issues of race or ethnicity were discussed. Of course, you had conveyed some of this to me privately. And I never reveal info giv3en in confidence by you, your adversary Attai, Kip, Harrisson, NotsoDivine or anyone else with whom I've contact outside of this place. Some I am surprised that YOU have started this thread. OK. Now it's out. Folk can deal with it anyway they please.

-Savant

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With regard to the article in the link you posted, it is part of a book by Ta Nehisi Coates also entitled A LETTER TO MY SON. Ta Nehisi Coates is son of Paul Coates, former leader of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. Like his dad he's becoming something of a hometown hero in Bmore--but mainly for his LITERARY accomplishments. Ta Nehisi also wrote a now famous article in the ATLANTIC magazine on (if I recall it correctly) "The Case for Black Reparations." That appeared last summer. His book is selling well and he's gotten good interviews, including one within the past week with the Marc Steiner show (WEAA, FM 88.9). I've only perused the book, so far, but I intend to read it fully. Toni Morrison sees A LETTER TO MY SON as reminiscent of similar works by James Baldwin. I recall that it reminded me of Baldwin's letter to his nephew (also named James) in THE FIRE NEXT TIME. By the way, Ta Nehisi Coates grew up in Freddie Gray's neighborhood, and right across Mondawmin where the April 27 uprising erupted. And he has his own stories about experiences with Bmore's cops. He knows. His Panther dad REALLY knows. Hell, I know. Fascist pig cops nearly killed me in East Baltimore when I was 17. At any rate, we're very proud of brother Ta Nehisi Coates.  (

-Savant

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Friday, July 24, 2015

Sister mmmdot's Extra Words



mmmdot • 16 hours ago
White freedom and privilege is based on the oppression of other races. There was no 'white race' before the “invention” of the 'Black race' by whites. Historically 'white' identity is a negative identity – it has ONLY meant NOT being a person of color. Race and gender are not really separable in terms of how identity is constructed in this patriarchal white supremacist society. To justify the systematic rapes of enslaved African women and girls, white sl*ve masters constructed the notions of Black womanhood and white womanhood. The understanding of what it means to be a white woman in the U.S. is ENTIRELY dependent upon the existence and negation of Black womanhood.

It consistently takes the complete dehumanization and defeminization of 'Black womanhood' for the supposedly 'natural'(i.e. biological) wholesome, pure, beautiful, delicate, and innocent ideal of 'white womanhood' to even exist. White womanhood's pedestal exists at the DIRECT expense of Black women's basic safety. It's CENTRAL our oppression as Black women. We really can't reference "women" without specifying WHICH group of women we're talking about. White women are not a 'universal' or 'average' representation of 'women', they are a relatively protected class of women. Pretending like there is only ONE "ideal", "normal”, “universal standard” of beauty, womanhood, and HUMANITY, is what is OPPRESSING us in the first place.

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mmmdot
Everyone: White women are some of the worst perpetrators of racist violence, aggression, physical assault, and bullying in this society - ESPECIALLY against Black women and Black girls. There is a LONG history of white female bullying of Black women and children. We don’t say enough about how racist white women go out of their way to SPECIFICALLY harm Black women and children JUST to prop up their OWN unstable white female identities and egos.

I can't STAND sociopathic white women and their sociopathic CROCODILE white tears™. White women CONSTANTLY arrange the whole damn universe to always center around themselves and their fee fee's. Even worse, their white tears™ are like a clarion call for EVERYONE to comfort or defend white women after they've been oppressive and violent. There is no reality to the concept that white women are LESS RACIST than white men . 'White womanhood' exists at the cost of Black women's basic safety and these sociopathic white trash females LIKE it that way.

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mmmdot • a day ago
Poor baby. R.I.P. Sandra. Her mother is SO reminiscent of Mamie Till. A Black woman's child goes down south from Chicago and winds up dead because whites STILL think their whiteness gives them the aut
hority of life and death over innocent Black people - especially innocent Black people who refuse to adhere to their overblown expectations of automatic deference and respect that they don't deserve and aren't entitled to. It's just disgusting this woman has to bury her child for NO REASON at all due to the actions of southern white trash who happens to be in a cheap blue nylon uniform. 60 years later. Same white terrorism, different century. Smh.


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mmmdot
Well, because of 500 years of white supremacy and the "cult of domesticity" Black women are constructed as a subspecies of human and less than "women." We are considered the antithesis of "woman", literally the "anti-woman." Because of the racial hierarchy, Black people are literally considered the "OPPOSITE race", literally in OPPOSITION to white people. The Black race is considered the "perpetual enemy" of the white race, against whom ALL WHITES must unite. Among everyday whites, the idea of "enemy races" is seen in complaints of "unqualified" Black people "taking white people's jobs" and Latinos "invading" U.S. borders.

Since the institution of sl^very depended on Black women to supply future sl^ves, white sl^ve masters used every method imaginable - especially rape - to force enslaved African women to reproduce. To justify the systematic rapes of African females, they constructed the notions of white womanhood vs. Black womanhood. White women: "basically good", pure, noble, protected vs Black women: lecherous, sensual, animalistic "breeders." It even applies to LITTLE GIRLS: white girls were deemed ABNORMAL if they were s@xually active whereas African American girls were seen as "NATURALLY" immoral.

When Black women are considered to be the literal OPPOSITES of the paragons of "womanhood" and "femininity" what do you think happens to them? There is no way to be "respectable" enough to be respected or protected. They are not even considered socially worthy enough to "protect." Black women are more likely to be raped, beaten, and murdered than any other group of women in America and THIS anti-black misogynistic f__kery is why.

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mmmdot
America has a sickening past, one which has not been reconciled, and instead of a sheepish and apologetic white populous, we have instead arrogance, aggressiveness and continued racism; the shamelessness should be likened to Neo-Nazis in Germany. This country is hundreds of years of Nazi Germany, South African Apartheid, and Iraq Occupation rolled into one. It's a terrorist state in and of itself.

No matter who we put in office, the white supremacy system is still the same. Putting different figureheads on the same ROTTEN system does nothing. The entire system needs to be reconstructed. One of my friends referred to the U.S. as a "failed state" that should fall apart so we could build something real. Lately, I've been agreeing with that notion.

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mmmdot
"Anytime black people make up real arguments about the conditions in the world, we're slandered as "race-baiters" and "extremists."

That's b/c once it became clear that humans came from Africa, not Europe or North Eurasia, white scientists, academics, and laypeople didn't trade their white supremacy for Black supremacy. Instead it was: “Race does not matter!” Despite what whites PUBLICLY claim they're not ACTUALLY colorblind – they still use the SAME 200 year old, imbecilic white supremacist stereotypes they've ALWAYS used to explain everything under the sun. Not only do they regularly use race to explain people’s behavior, they use race to rationalize and protect their their unearned power and resources.

As Professor Derrick Bell said: “Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary ‘peaks of progress,’ short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it, not as a sign of submission, but as an ultimate act of defiance."

Most whites will NEVER *voluntarily* give up white supremacy. It has to be TAKEN from them.

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mmmdot • a month ago
This ain't the first time one of them has been caught pretending to be a Black sock-puppet. This b.s shows how lazy and pathological whites are. Instead of creating their OWN culture that's not based on countless fragile, phony, fraudulent white delusions and lies they presume they can just STEAL ONE from racially subjugated people. Not only do whites feel they can WEAR the skin, cultures, clothing, and beauty traditions of racially oppressed non-white people like COSTUMES, they feel they can turn non-white people's old and sacred traditions into meaningless and cheap "TRENDY" GARBAGE; act like the ULTIMATE "SCHOLARLY EXPERTS" on other people's art, music, and food; and actually "DO" non-white people's cultures "BETTER" than those non-white people.

It's typical of deluded, self-centered white sociopaths to feel frustrated when they're told there's an area of life they can't hope to know and speak for: the experiences of non-white people in this white supremacist culture. It's TYPICAL for whites who have no experience, education, and ability to
discern certain facts to assert that those facts don't exist simply b/c THEY aren't equipped to see them. Instead of simply LISTENING to Black people about racism, they have to take it the SAME PATHOLOGICAL place they ALWAYS do: trying to BE "Black" themselves. Disrespecting other people's humanity is "natural" for most of them. Disgusting.

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http://www.gradientlair.com/post/121743519188/rachel-dolezal-colonial-violence-erasure-misogynoir?route=%2Fpost%2F%3Aid%2F%3Asummary


mmmdot • a month ago
And unfortunately, I also saw Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood making "transracial" excuses on 'The Talk' 2 days in a row - although Sheryl Underwood did do better the second day by pointing out that this white woman made false claims of racist discrimination against Howard University and that NOBODY but Black people experience anti-blackness. But Sara Gilbert - the way she DEMANDED that she should have the right to determine what Blackness was literally disgusted the hell out of me and made me want to choke her through the screen.

I can't even describe my disgust at whites [along with Black males] unilaterally deciding that this is just "transracialism" and a socially acceptable way to behave. Eradicating racism doesn't come from white women putting on Blackface and trying to see how they're treated as "Black women." It needs to come from whites being honest about their immature and intellectually lazy and white supremacist attitudes, perceptions and behaviors that LITERALLY come out of the 1700's. They have tried and failed to understand on EVERY level what experiencing racism "feels like." What they NEED to do to discuss what BEING a bunch of racists "feels like." They need to just DEAL with their racism and compensate for the CENTURIES of economic and social harm inflicted by white individual and governmental racial oppression so we can ALL move on with our lives.

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Trudy Mod
Yep; because so many "respected" (aka light skint Black people with money, platform and status) are co-signing Rachel Dolezal's bullshit, I am noticing more and more Black women trying to rationalize it away too. I already knew Whites and Black men would. Blah. That's predictable. I do think beyond some Black women not having accurate information about race, gender and intersectionality and accurate knowledge on the history of White colonial violence, some of us have not examined how we believe the lies of colourism (that light skint is "better" and that maybe one day we can "transcend" race too) and really done that personal work on why we would cosign White colonial violence from White women. But most Black women I've seen and know are not on that bullshit. But even ONE Black woman being on that bullshit is painful for me. I've felt awful watching a few Black women who are public figures condone what a large chunk of Black men and Whites already have.

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mmmdot  Paul • a year ago
I swear to God this country has gotten even worse in terms of racial relations since Obama was elected. White people even saying n**ger SPECIFICALLY as a racial slur are not racist. Paula Dean isn't racist for calling blk people n**ger!, That white guy calling KK and KW n**ger-lover and n**ger isn't a racist! It's like a crazy world People HANGING effigies of President Obama, a black man, are not racist. I swear if the KKK, Neo-Nazis, or one of the MANY other of the white supremacist terrorist organizations (which INCREASED their membership since President Obama became was elected) could murder an entire neighborhood of black men, women, and children, while calling them racial epithets, carving swastikas into their bodies, and burning them alive--and many "average" white people wouldn't consider it to be racist. The MOST they would do is mitigate and justify the white racism by blaming black people for being attacked. They would dehumanize black people like racist POS did and say that blacks are "Trayvons" who deserve to be killed for existing.

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mmmdot
From Encylopedia Britannica: Racism, also called racialism, any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races," that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral features, and that some races are innately superior to others.

In North America and apartheid South Africa, racism dictated that different “races” should be segregated from one another, that they should have their own distinct communities and develop their own institutions such as churches, schools, and hospitals, and that it was unnatural for members of two “separate races” to intermarry.

Those who practice racism also hold that only low-status jobs should go to low-status races (African Americans and Indians in North America, blacks and Coloureds in South Africa) and that members of the economically and culturally dominant race alone should have access to privileges, political power, economic resources, high-status jobs, and unrestricted civil rights. The lived experience of racism for members of low-status races can include daily insults and frequent acts and verbal expressions of contempt and disrespect, all of which have profound effects on social relationships.

http://www.britannica (dot) com/EBchecked/topic/488187/racism

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mmmdot
From Encylopedia Britannica: The difference between racism and ethnocentrism

Although they are easily and often confused, race and racism must be distinguished from ethnicity and ethnocentrism. While extreme ethnocentrism may take the same offensive form and may have the same dire consequences as extreme racism, there are significant differences between the two concepts. Ethnicity, which relates to culturally contingent features, characterizes all human groups. It refers to a sense of identity and membership in a group that shares common language, cultural traits (values, beliefs, religion, food habits, customs, etc.), and a sense of a common history. All humans are members of some cultural (ethnic) group, sometimes more than one. Most such groups feel—to varying degrees of intensity—that their way of life, their foods, dress, habits, beliefs, values, and so forth, are superior to those of other groups.

The most significant quality of ethnicity is the fact that it is unrelated to biology and can be flexible and transformable. People everywhere can change or enhance their ethnicity by learning about or assimilating into another culture.

http://www.britannica (dot) com/EBchecked/topic/488030/race/234663/The-difference-between-racism-and-ethnocentrism

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mmmdot • 3 months ago
You DO realize you're writing for a Black women's website, right? WHITE women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a white man makes, but that figure is much lower for Black women. African American women are only paid 64 cents for every dollar made by a white man. Please discuss the wage gap as it ACTUALLY applies to us. Thank you. ::Eyeroll::


mmmdot  NOPe • 3 months ago
I really don't care what the excuses are for paying Black women 64 cents for every dollar made by a white man, while paying white women 77 cents for every dollar made by a white man. Pay disparities like this should be illegal.
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mmmdot • 2 months ago
When the cops are no different than a Neo-Nazi street gang, it says something about how white supremacy is built into the very fabric of this country. And most Black cops assimilate into the racist police culture and go along to get along, even though their white co-workers habitually threaten THEIR lives too. Crime rates have gone DOWN to RECORD LOWS. So not ONLY do there need to be less police officers in Black neighborhoods - there need to be less police around the whole damn country.

The reliance of LAZY WHITES on "policing" to GENERATE REVENUE for themselves is sociopathic. They SHOULD be increasing funding to schools, after school programs, jobs, and Black owned businesses, instead of more "policing." But they WON'T because this is JUST the latest instance of a LONG history of lazy, shiftless, entitled whites scheming to disrespect the humanity of people in order to make money. It's a regressive and dangerous policy, leaned on by greedy and racist white politicians too cowardly to raise revenue through NORMAL and JUST means: TAXATION of white elites. Policing for "safety" is the biggest lie we've ever been fed. White supremacy and privatization are the biggest problems facing this society, not "street crime."

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mmmdot • a year ago
"if you don’t know how to be considerate and respectful then you shouldn’t dating any woman, black or otherwise." This to the 10th power.

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mmmdot
These “respectables” aren’t helping a DAMN thing but themselves, nor are they “shedding light” on ANYBODY’S problem. They ARE the problem.
The white power structure has always SELECTIVELY placed these deluded Black “respectables” into visible positions of influence. Then they give them pseudo status as “the voice of reason” for the Black community, while downplaying intelligent Black individuals like Jesse Williams who ACTUALLY *do their research* and address solutions. This is what the white media holds up as a “successful black person”. You only become “successful” to whites when you disavow your own community, use the same hollow “colorblind” rhetoric as phony whites, and issue blanket exoneration of white privilege and systemic white supremacy. These Black “respectables” criticize Black people with outrageous lies that make all people of African descent on Earth seem like a monolithic, pathological “savage” black horde JUST to generate revenue for themselves. But the reactions of the systematically oppressed who are enraged ARE completely rational. People rarely undergo domination without a response, even if it is merely – at first – the response of hatred for the enslaver. She and all the other shysters of the Black misleadership class are nothing but a Black face on a white neo-conservative agenda.


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 mmmdot
1. The people MOST at fault are those acting as a group to oppress others on a societal level. There should be no ‘injustice’ of the PARTICULAR kind we’ve all been dealing with in the first place. I socially and politically orchestrated and constructed to benefit certain groups at the DIRECT expense of the BASIC human rights and basic human dignity others.
2. YES, all Black people should speak out and never ever stop resisting. “Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde
3. “So while you’re being mute b/c you wanna be brand-friendly, the brands who have racist reps aren’t the ones bringing you campaigns ANYWAY….” Very true.

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Monday, July 20, 2015

Savant on Politics

JUNE 25.That's the edition of the BALTIMORE SUN where Kevin Moore's case is mentioned. Actually the title of the column is "Tensions rise with law enforcement as citizen surveillance of police spreads across the nation." That's right. Now we the people are putting the police under surveillance! Our movement is spreading!

-Savant

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

angilas04 's Great Words

angilas04  
Bank reform is definitely needed. Their role in the 2008 housing bubble burst should not be ignored. And predatory lending to minorities continues to exist. There was a story in the new York times in 2012 about a study done by professors in from the Universities of Illinois and Arizona saying blacks are given loans charging more than 3x what they charge other borrowers. "The survey found that bankruptcy lawyers were more likely to steer African American debtors towards the more costly Chapter 13 protection than whites in similar situations." Citigroup was the worst offender, followed by chase and jp Morgan. Unfortunately almost half this country seems to feel no regulation is necessary, at least no more than is present in a 3rd world country and they are over represented in congress thanks to rampant gerrymandering. Gerrymandering which is again ok'd by the conservatives on the Supreme Court. Anyone voting republican in 2016 needs to realize the president appoints the next Supreme Court Justices if and when any current Justice steps down.
Whether you like his charisma or not, a vote for Jeb Bush is a vote for the same anti-poor and minority Supreme Court policies that have been in effect since the early 90's when Thurgood Marshall died and was replaced by Clarence Thomas, effectively taking power from the progressive reformers who helped implement integration and civil rights and giving it to the neocons...



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angilas04
The biggest predictor of wedlock births is poverty. The biggest predictor of violence is poverty and joblessness. And violence has been going down for years. You've obviously missed the whole #crimingwhilewhite hashtag. Or the fact that black preschoolers are 4x as likely as their peers to get sent to detention. This is symptomatic of discriminatory practices across the system. The black wedlock rate is about 5% higher than native Americans. Is your explanation for Mexican violence wedlock births? El Salvador? Honduras? Most people in this country are arrested for non violent crime and there's plenty of meth heads and dealers in the majority getting away with it still...

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angilas04
I have an excuse for everything? I type on a cell phone in a hurry often. I don't need to excuse that. Do you think you're writing a column in the New York Times here?
Where is your excuse for the fact that black preschoolers are sent to detention at a rate 4x that of their white peers? That white women make up a substantially larger chunk of homicide victims in white communities than in black or hispanic communities? That white seem to get away with the same crimes at much higher rates? That there is a popular hashtag "#crimingwhilewhite" that is loaded with examples of whites describing the multitude of times police have let them go for crime? That anti-black hate crimes in this country made up approximately 65% of all racial hate crimes in this country last year? That a white male with a criminal record is as likely as a black male with no criminal record and the same credentials to get hired for the same job, whereas whites with no criminal record are 4x more likely to get hired than both? That in 35 years nearly 500,000 whites have been murdered by whites in this country? Does it make you feel better that a group of minorities living amidst poverty and rampant discrimination is outpacing you in proportion to their percentage of the population? You're so sure it's not poverty, overcrowding, and discrimination breeding criminal activity, but instead you implicitly suggest rap culture...what is your explanation for the violence in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador etc? Are they listening to some violent Boleros? Do black Canadians not listen to rap?
You've inflated that wedlock birthrate which in reality is bad but still only 5% higher than that among native Americans. Wedlock means birth where parents aren't married. Blacks tend to get married approximately 5 years later than whites on average according to the CDC (30 instead of 25). And people have been getting married later overall as the value of the dollar has shrunk in relation to income rates. Weddings, families etc. cost. Do you think people aren't going to be biologically active simply because they can't afford to get married? The fact that blacks are routinely sentenced for next to nothing plays a role too. This country's heinous prison policies have resulted in us placing nearly 1 in 20 innocents on death row. And if less than half of whites get indicted let alone sentenced, of course their statistics will look better than blacks. That's more of an excuse than me explaining to you the conditions that create violent communities. Another trigger is police not caring, and instead going after low hanging fruit like bottom tier non violent drug dealers as opposed to violent offenders and middle men. Stop sentencing blacks for petty crimes and target only those violent offenders. Stop stigmatizing blacks as dangerous criminals to be feared when you have a much higher chance of being killed by another white person. And stop acting as if you don't have white privilege when things like "#crimingwhilewhite" exist.


angilas04  
Who in their right mind would think the transformation was instantaneous and overnight. Hence why i stated from the Great Depression to the Reagan administration the parties were transitioning on social issues from the democrats moving from conservative to progressive and vice versa. You want to tell me the republicans were always the Conservative party yet the founder of the progressive party was teddy Roosevelt. Since you insist on personal attacks for the record, you are a fool, especially if you think the KKK of today is pro democrat. Go to storefront or any other pro confederate nazi sympathizer klan website and tell me how many fans you see of the Democratic Party. These guys are all republicans now, and the only ones denying it are those of you neocons attempting to rewrite history. The same ones claiming some 50 years later FDR prolonged the Great Depression with prime pumping and the new deal that kept our infrastructure going. It doesn't fit your argument so you change history rather than your deluded argument. Get a life.
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angilas04
It's not what you explicitly stated. It's what you were implying. And as I've shown there are definitely white organizations without a single minority. I don't know of any white business that's specifically forced to hire blacks unless they're actively discriminating against them.
You may be forced to have some minority business in government contracting etc but that does not mean black. If all these businesses are forced to hire blacks who are underqualified then why is the black jobless rateso high? why is it so hard for so many blacks to find work when they only make up 13% of the population?
I'm done here please use logic and reasoning and I understand what you're implying in your future posts. Your only examples of minority owned businesses that you implied don't have white workers are La Raza, The NAACP, and NOW, like you think discrimination against hiring whites is some kind of rampant problem. How many whites are applying to these organizations to begin with?
Your implied argument/complaint is easily defeated on its face by the existence of supposedly comparable (though instead of fighting for equality, fighting for bigotry and racial superiority) organizations like the NAAWP, The white aryan resistance (war), and the council of conservative citizens (cocc) which obviously have not been forced to hire a single minority. I can assure you companies like BET a subsidiary of Viacom, and harpo hire white people.
Regardless of your outdated information on quotas, if whites being discriminated against in hiring based on race were an actual and significant problem your argument would make logical sense. Instead you don't have a leg to stand on.
As bigoted as you've shown yourself to be, interested only in ensuring lack of equal opportunity, you can still find solace in knowing that minorities are still rampantly discriminated against when it comes to promotions and fair pay (hence why Obamas first signed act, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act wasn't entirely superfluous in 2009). Statistically speaking it would seem there is also still significant discrimination in the hiring of minorities as well, regardless of the existence of any affirmative action program. What's a program without teeth, or once the conservative Supreme Court of the past twenty plus years has defanged it?
Meanwhile the criminal justice system in southern states like Florida sentences blacks to 20+ years for shooting a gun in the air as it lets killers like lukace kendle walk for killing unarmed black and brown people. That's not white privilege?


angilas04  
Jews didn't start the war in Iraq. Most were against it. Afghanistan would have been far less burdensome were our resources not split in mucking up bagdad. Finally who is allowing the rich to become richer by eradicating our graduated income tax laws which asked far more of the wealthy under FDR, then Eisenhower then Nixon, until reagan pretty much capped it at 30%? Who is pro deregulation and allowing companies to ship jobs overseas? It's not the dems. Sure NAFTA happened under Clinton, but it was his most moderate policy and the cons were all behind it, similar to obama with the TPP.

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angilas04  
Gangsta Rap became much more popular in the mid 90s to present. illegal drug sales were doing well enough in the 80s without rap lyrics discussing their presence. And hard drugs like meth are plenty popular in white communities. Are singers in Mexico responsible for their huge drug war? Stop buying radical right propaganda.


Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Brother Savant's Words to Me

Greetings brother Timothy.

I've been away from topix madness for awhile. I'm deeply inspired by the courageous actions of you millennial brothers and sisters her in Baltimore, in Ferguson and throughout the country. Whle ankle biting white racist and butt kissing Uncle toms like freddy the fool can scoff, you are making history and we are with you and have your back. My students have been very impressive. Ole Barros, who belongs to the generation of the 60s who schooled, indicates that not since he was student has he seen this much activism.


We are forming copwatch patrols in Baltimore. Yep, now we're patrolling them!!! We're going in groups so that police cannot intimidate as they do a lone individual. We're having educational events to inform Bmore's inner city poor as well as activists on their rights.(Many people don't know that they don't have to disperse, or stop recording, or hand over their camera just because the police orders them to. However, since the cops have the guns and don't necessarily care about your rights, we travel in groups--several armed with cameras a the same time. The ACLU are affording technologies which permanently file what you record even if the police seize your camera to destroy evidence).
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, and some young sisters and brothers from Bob Moses' ALGEBRA PROJECT are involved. Even Dr. King's SCLC is active in this fight. And there are groups like PEOPLE POWER ASSEMBLY, and the UJIMA PEOPLE PROGRESS PARTY on the scene. Community organizations and student groups are on the scene. Some churches---mainly Black, but also white, Latin--are working with us.

Moreover, we hear the voices of the BLACK POOR, our superexploited inner city proletariat, making their voices heard. And THEY--not some marginal leftist group--are saying that they're not only sick and tired of police brutality, but of the endless cycle of poverty, slumlord oppression, unemployment, etc. Many of these sisters and brothers from the hood--including a good number of my own relatives--are saying "The police ain't the only problem." And they're right. The fascist pig cops are mainly the armed ENFORCERS of racist capitalist power structure. And our Negro politicians like Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, are mainly the collaborators with the system oppression.(I can't begin to describe the anger at her and her ilk in our community. It comes out in nearly every community or town hall meeting).

We can win this fight, young brother. We can end the nightmare of structural racism, poverty, economic oppression and police terrorism. Let us stay the course till victory. A Luta Continua!
FREEDOM RISING!

-Savant


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 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2010/03/19/7479/immigration-reform-is-a-progressive-issue/


http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700043538/Fact-or-fiction-The-myths-and-realities-of-illegal-immigration.html?pg=all


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/01/5-outlandish-claims-about-immigrants-and-health/196712

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/basics-immigration-resource-page

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/24/2060541/undocumented-immigrants-taxpayer-funded-health-care/

http://blackagendareport.com/liberalism_left_flank_of_oppression_post-obama

http://www.internationalist.org/dominicanrepublicstopexpulsionhaitians1506.html

https://www.tremr.com/djess-h-jacques/assessing-the-origins-of-racism-in-dr





Misoygnoir must end (Great Words from Sister mmmdot)





mmmdot • 19 hours ago
60% of Black girls are sexually assaulted before their 18th birthday - mostly by black men. Black women are murdered at 2.5 times the rate of white women. Compared to a Black male, a Black female is far more likely to be killed by her spouse, an intimate acquaintance, or a family member than by a stranger. Where the relationship could be determined, 94 percent of Black females killed by males in single victim/single offender incidents knew the men who murdered them. Ninety-three percent of the homicides of Black females were intra-racial. Black women are only 8% of the population but represent 29% of ALL WOMEN who are victims of intimate partner homicide. Black women are facing DISPROPORTIONATE levels fatal, life threatening, and severe gender based violence and domestic abuse. This shxt needs to be addressed and eradicated. Period.

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mmmdot • 18 hours ago
Anti-blackness + misogyny = misogynoir. ANYONE is capable of engaging in misogynoir against black women - INCLUDING black men. I'm disgusted, but not surprised by some of the DESPICABLE misogynistic comments from the typical black "male" trolls making light of these crimes and calling Black female rape victims derogatory names. THIS kind of shxt is WHY so many Black women are fed up with Black men - especially the low caliber of bitter, hateful troglodytes that habitually troll Black WOMEN'S websites harassing women. Many black men have truly demonstrated the Zora Neale Hurston quote "All my skinfolk, ain't my kinfolk."

I don't plan on ever siding with white supremacy, but I've given up on trying with Black men as a COLLECTIVE. Most just want a fan club, not any sort of partnership with Black women. No, thank you. The constant dialogue hasn't been working. Most only come out of the woodwork when they see Black women having discussions about black male privilege and misogyny in the Black community - never when there are HATEFUL misogynistic black "male" losers calling Black women and girls who've been murdered and raped out of their names. Where is the RAGE and the PROTEST for the BLACK WOMEN and GIRLS who were drugged and raped by this predatory, perverted creep? Exactly.

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 mmmdot • 6 months ago
Some of these hateful, misogynistic black males disgust the hell out of me to the point that I truly don't care whether they live or die. Almost 80 years ago, Zora Neale Hurston said "Black women are the mules of the world," and it's STILL true today. Way too many black men are STILL trying to pin the "divide" in the community on black women creating the Black feminist movement, completely ignoring the terrible systematic misogyny WITHIN the black community that necessitated it. I was talking to another black woman about this and we both agreed that we never knew how much some black men literally HATED black women and ONLY black women, until we came online. On IG, Twitter, blogs, and websites, they are constantly trolling, harassing, insulting, and denigrating black women. And instead of defending us from the COUNTLESS misogynistic black males who PUBLICLY degrade us like Tommy Sotomayor and Tariq Nasheed, the so-called "good" brothers ONLY seem to come out of the woodwork to derail and diminish black women who confront this misogyny. PLEASE.

Anti-blackness + misogyny = misogynoir. ANYONE in society is capable of engaging in misogynoir against black women - this INCLUDES black men. Misogynoir is the reason why instead of HELPING us or DEFENDING us, these misogynistic black men just pile on with everybody else in society. Even when black men are in the wrong, black women defend their reputations and their humanity. Example? Black FEMINISTS on Twitter were the ones who talked about the fact that MIKE BROWN was being subjected to character assassination after his death and organized a huge series of marches in his honor.

Until these fucking selfish, insensitive, callous, misogynistic black males get the f__ off our backs and stop blaming US for s__that is CLEARLY the result of white supremacy being inflicted on them by WHITE MEN and WHITE WOMEN, I can't coalesce with black men as a collective. If black men collectively can't or won't get it, than I'm moving on and I refuse to: A) prop them up anymore B) worry about protecting "black masculinity/ manhood" anymore C) worry about protecting the public image of black men anymore and D) go hard in the paint to defend the reputations and lives of random black men the way I used to anymore. Why? Because black men DO NOT RECIPROCATE. That is it and that is all. It's my f_________ human right to devote my time, energy, money, and sympathy to whatever I want. Period.


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mmmdot
America has a sickening past, one which has not been reconciled, and instead of a sheepish and apologetic white populous, we have instead arrogance, aggressiveness and continued racism; the shamelessness should be likened to Neo-Nazis in Germany. This country is hundreds of years of Nazi Germany, South African Apartheid, and Iraq Occupation rolled into one. It's a terrorist state in and of itself.

No matter who we put in office, the white supremacy system is still the same. Putting different figureheads on the same ROTTEN system does nothing. The entire system needs to be reconstructed. One of my friends referred to the U.S. as a "failed state" that should fall apart so we could build something real. Lately, I've been agreeing with that notion.

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mmmdot
"Anytime black people make up real arguments about the conditions in the world, we're slandered as "race-baiters" and "extremists."

That's b/c once it became clear that humans came from Africa, not Europe or North Eurasia, white scientists, academics, and laypeople didn't trade their white supremacy for Black supremacy. Instead it was: “Race does not matter!” Despite what whites PUBLICLY claim they're not ACTUALLY colorblind – they still use the SAME 200 year old, imbecilic white supremacist stereotypes they've ALWAYS used to explain everything under the sun. Not only do they regularly use race to explain people’s behavior, they use race to rationalize and protect their their unearned power and resources.

As Professor Derrick Bell said: “Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary ‘peaks of progress,’ short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it, not as a sign of submission, but as an ultimate act of defiance."

Most whites will NEVER *voluntarily* give up white supremacy. It has to be TAKEN from them.


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mmmdot • a month ago
And when "law abiding cops" start turning in the bad cops that they are indeed aware of then and ONLY then will I believe there is such a thing as a "good cop." Just because you know a police officer who isn't nasty and won’t beat people up doesn't mean they're necessarily “GOOD” by default. Why? Because real "good cops" ARREST bad cops. Period.

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mmmdot • a month ago
When the cops are no different than a Neo-Nazi street gang, it says something about how white supremacy is built into the very fabric of this country. And most Black cops assimilate into the racist police culture and go along to get along, even though their white co-workers habitually threaten THEIR lives too. Crime rates have gone DOWN to RECORD LOWS. So not ONLY do there need to be less police officers in Black neighborhoods - there need to be less police around the whole damn country.

The reliance of LAZY WHITES on "policing" to GENERATE REVENUE for themselves is sociopathic. They SHOULD be increasing funding to schools, after school programs, jobs, and Black owned businesses, instead of more "policing." But they WON'T because this is JUST the latest instance of a LONG history of lazy, shiftless, entitled whites scheming to disrespect the humanity of people in order to make money. It's a regressive and dangerous policy, leaned on by greedy and racist white politicians too cowardly to raise revenue through NORMAL and JUST means: TAXATION of white elites. Policing for "safety" is the biggest lie we've ever been fed. White supremacy and privatization are the biggest problems facing this society, not "street crime."


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mmmdot • 2 months ago
America has a sickening past, one which has not been reconciled, and instead of a sheepish and apologetic white populous, we have instead arrogance, aggressiveness and continued racism; the shamelessness should be likened to Neo-Nazis in Germany. White and Black "relations" are simple...they need to TRULY feel some regret and pay compensation for creating and legalizing a race-based caste society. They made dark brown skin and African heritage itself a stigmatized mark of chattel slave status. "Slave code" evolved into a "Black code" and now it's a foundation for institutional racism or "whiteness." Black people are STILL relegated to non-human status, but now instead of being deemed to ONLY be fit to be "slaves", we're deemed to ONLY be "criminals" fit for inexcusably inhumane prisons or death. Many Black people know that they are suffering from racial discrimination but they truly don't understand racial *OPPRESSION. It's not EVER just going to be isolated incidents of unfairness, it's perpetual and habitual racial oppression.

Whites RARELY feel any kind of real shame about chattel enslavement and the racism it created. *Whites don't take "pride" in Nazi work camps but they take "pride" in Southern plantations.* They feel shame about the Jewish Holocaust which was a decade, but they NEVER feel shame about a 500 year Holocaust. Please. This country is hundreds of years of Nazi Germany, South African Apartheid, and Iraq Occupation rolled up into one for Black people. America is a terrorist state in and of itself. THAT'S the truth. We don't need to "converse" about it anymore, we need to hold the people who perpetuate it accountable and they need to fix THEIR white supremacy problem.


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mmmdot • 2 months ago
Horrifying. Ugh. Seeing many average, everyday Black "males" find a way to blame Janay for being knocked unconscious by her fiance reinforced the fact that men of ALL races subject Black women to misogynoir. People do not address the fact that in a patriarchy women need protection, because men already have it. This protection is shelled out based on the social "value" of the women who need it. A big part of the survival of women is dependent on the protection allotted to them in patriarchy.

Black women are stereotyped as being "strong", incapable of feeling human pain, and sexually deviant. These inane stereotypes increase our exposure to gender-based violence. Black women are more likely to be raped, murdered, and beaten by strangers OR loved ones than any other group of women in America. Eradicating the misogynoir that oppresses and harms Black women and girls calls for people to delicately balance Black women’s need to be protected from violence and misogyny with a desire to eradicate patriarchy and paternalism. You're not a Black woman. Please don't come on a website FOR Black women attempting to diminish the LEGITIMATE feelings of Black women who ARE in fact LEGITIMATELY bothered and offended by this for LEGITIMATE reasons. We constantly have to fight for people to see us as humans AND as WOMEN. You don't know what that's like, now do you? I WISH ppl understood the three pillars of white supremacy so they could understand anti-blacknesss, racial hierarchy, and that while racial stereotypes about non-white people are RELATED they are DISTINCT. Even WITHIN the Black race, the racial stereotypes about Black women are RELATED but DISTINCT from Black men, which is why WE end up having to deal with things that YOU are most likely not aware of or blithely diminish as "not being serious." It's really not any Black man's place to tell a Black woman what should be important to her and what she should and should not get upset about. It's pretty much no different from a white man telling a Black man what should be important to him and what he should not get upset about. Does a white man experience the world as a Black man? No, right? So then YOU don't experience the world as a Black woman, and you it's really NOT your place to come onto a Black women's space and attempt to diminish or dictate this or anything else. Ever.


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mmmdot
I'll say this: There are OBVIOUS disparities in PHYSICAL SIZE and STRENGTH between men and women. Women are men's psychological,
emotional, and intellectual equals, but generally speaking, the average man is relatively physically bigger and stronger than the average woman. The biggest punks are the ones who go all macho and beat up on women or others less physically strong than themselves as opposed to someone who is more EQUAL in physical size and strength.

I respect men who know the *APPROPRIATE* times to use their physical size, strength, aggression, and dominance. Being ready and willing to use your physical size and strength to protect your family from dangerous, intrusive, and rapey men = cool, totally understandable, and very sexy. Using your physical size and strength to control, intimidate, frighten, silence, and abuse women and others who are smaller than you = you're a misogynistic bxtch azz “male” and I have absolutely no respect for you as a man. Like I said: Eradicating the misogynoir that oppresses and harms Black women and girls calls for people to delicately balance Black women’s need to be protected from violence and misogyny with a desire to eradicate patriarchy and paternalism. Black people aren't allowed to just be HUMAN like other groups of people.There ARE homophobic black people, but black people are not exponentially MORE homophobic then any other racial group. Even though it's been shown numerous times that religiosity is a better indication of homophobia then skin color, black people are repeatedly depicted as being more "naturally" regressive and homophobic without any nuance at all. ::EYEROLL:: I just can't.
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mmmdot • 3 months ago
Though I understand why people get the false idea that race-mixing will FIX racism, the problem is that we still live in a white supremacist society that irrationally stigmatizes and dehumanizes people with dark skin. Even if we're all mixed together, genetics will STILL make people darker or lighter. No one will be "the same”.

For every society that has had extensive racial mixing in the past 500 years:

– the phenotypes would not disappear – they are only recombined into new combinations of phenotypes.

– A new colorist vocabulary is invented to replace what may have formerly been “racial” designations, eg, hair type, eye colour, skin tone

– money and wealth have some impact on one’s “racial” classification for social purposes.

– marrying “up” or “down” is related to both wealth and to phenotypical characteristics (eg, skin tone)

The white supremacy hierarchy will continue to operate as colorism rather than strict racial categories. The REAL solution is eradicating white supremacy.


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mmmdot  Nonya Bizz • 3 months ago
"Black people will always be nothing in America because we can't even get along with each other."

Speak for yourself and only yourself, because you sure don’t speak for me and mine with this made up fuckery. You don’t get to generalize any manifestations of your self loathing and internalized white supremacy to all Black people as though they are “Black” traits. Speak for yourself. Mmmkay?

How many of those Black kids you're complaining about are going to block you from accessing adequate healthcare, food, shelter, and money over a lifetime? How many of those Black kids are going to block you from accessing employment, education, and voting over a lifetime? How many of them are going to dump toxic waste in your Black neighborhood? How many of those Black kids are hindering you from succeeding as an adult in ANY way? The only time I have ever had a black person personally hold me back is when they were trying to appease a white superior.

Racism is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue. Stop diminishing it because your childhood resentment is affecting your ability to THINK RATIONALLY and grasp that fact. People really need to let go of childhood hurts, because HOLDING ON to the crap kids said and did to you and making it about your HURT FEELINGS when we're sitting up here talking about HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS only makes YOU seem childish and petty. Grow up and read a book. Kay? Don't diminish the seriousness of racism because of YOUR personal pettiness.

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mmmdot  Nonya Bizz • 3 months ago
Professor Margaret Hunter, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mills College:

"It is tempting to characterize the problem of colorism as equally difficult for both light-skinned people and dark. Dark-skinned people lack the social and economic capital that light skin provides, and are therefore disadvantaged in education, employment, and housing. Additionally, dark skin is generally not regarded as beautiful, so dark-skinned women often lose out in the dating and marriage markets. On the other side, light-skinned men and women are typically not regarded as legitimate members of their ethnic communities. They may be excluded from, or made to feel unwelcome in, community events and organizations."

"At first glance, it may SEEM that there are equal advantages and disadvantages to both sides of the color line. Upon closer examination, this proves to be UNTRUE. [Emphasis mine] Although exclusion from some community organizations may be uncomfortable psychologically or emotionally for light-skinned people of color, it rarely has significant material effects. More specifically, emotional turmoil about ethnic identity does not have significant economic consequences. However, the systematic discrimination against dark-skinned people of color in the labor market, educational institutions, and marriage market create marked economic disadvantages. Without minimizing the psychological trauma of exclusion from ethnic communities, it is important to clarify that the disadvantages of dark skin still far outweigh the disadvantages of light."

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mmmdot • 3 months ago
Colorism is a GLOBAL issue and is part and parcel of globalized white supremacy. Colorism is a facet of racism and racism can be INTERNALIZED.

"How does colorism operate? Systems of racial discrimination operate on at least two levels: race and color. The first system of discrimination is the level of racial category, (i.e. black, Asian, Latino, etc.). Regardless of physical appearance, African Americans of all skin tones are subject to certain kinds of discrimination, denigration, and second-class citizenship, simply because they are African American. Racism in this form is systemic and has both ideological and material consequences."

"The second system of discrimination, what I am calling colorism, is at the level of skin tone: darker skin or lighter skin. Although all blacks experience discrimination as blacks, the intensity of that discrimination, the frequency, and the outcomes of that discrimination will differ dramatically by skin tone. Darker-skinned African Americans may earn less money that lighter-skinned African Americans, although both earn less than whites. These two systems of discrimination (race and color) work in concert. The two systems are distinct, but inextricably connected. Although many people believe that colorism is strictly a ‘black or Latino problem’, colorism is actually practiced by whites and people of color alike." - Professor Margaret Hunter, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mills College

(http://www.mills .edu/academics/faculty/soc/mhunter/The%20Persistent
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mmmdot • a month ago As Anna Julia Cooper said: "Only the Black woman can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.” and The Combahee River Collective Statement: "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression." __________________________

mmmdot Felicia • 9 months ago Have you ever heard of "white Hispanics"? Well, there are white people who are Hispanic / Latino. Hispanic / Latino is an ethnicity, not a race. Second, they had race-based enslavement in Latin America, the same way they had race-based enslavement in North America, so the entire Western Hemisphere created "racial" hierarchies that placed all black people on the bottom so that they could keep these systems of race-based enslavement going. The racial hierarchy is most rigid and severe in the United States, but there IS globalized racism where all people of recognizable phenotypical African descent are placed at the bottom. And yes, some white Hispanics have "black blood" in them the way some white Americans have "black blood" in them, but Not ALL of them have "black blood" in them. Some white Hispanics have European ancestors who immigrated to South America within the last century. Many because of WWII. A lot of N@zis like Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, and other fascists fled to South America in the 1940's and a lot of European Jews fled to South America and the Carribean to get away from the fascists. There are quite a few white people in South America and the Caribbean. Some Latinos/ Hispanics aren't people of color.

http://www.pbs (dot) org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-05.htm

http://www.britannica (dot) com/EBchecked/topic/488187/racism 

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mmmdot Felicia • 9 months ago You should also check out this book by a professor of anthropology named Audrey Smedley. It's called "Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview". She REALLY breaks down the history of race and racism, the differences between the different racial systems that exist in the world, and why racism in North America and apartheid South Africa were and are PARTICULARLY distinct from the other forms of racism and anti-blackness that we see across the globe.
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 mmmdot

 ALL non-Black people are promised that if they don't challenge anti-blackness and comply with the racial hierarchy, then THEY won't be the ones relegated to bottom of it. It's why we not only end up having wage a psychological battle with racist whites for the right for Black people to define and organize themselves as they see fit, we often end up having to deal with non-Black people of color who are try to push us down further into the muck JUST to help themselves up. Whites and many other non-Blacks basically feel entitled to anything Black people have or create. White supremacy has taught ALL non-Black people that anything and everything Black people have is up for grabs to them and is theirs for the taking. This is just a continuation of the slavery modality where African people were treated as property who didn't have any kind of human rights to their own children and names, let alone their own possessions. All could be taken from them to be used for SOMEONE ELSE'S benefit at the drop of hat. This mentality is ingrained in this white supremacist society to the point that many non-Black people don’t even think it's wrong to steal or appropriate from Black people. Hence, white people's asinine and sociopathic complaints about something that clearly isn't them and can't be easily appropriated by them. Dealing with the egos and insecurities of whites is an entire 2nd job. mmmdot • 8 months ago There seems to be the tendency among *certain* people to disassociate whites from the broader issues of violence, bigotry, and homophobia by treating each instance of THEIR hateful behavior against the LGBT community as an isolated incident. But let a black person act ignorant about LBGTs, they run their mouths like ALL black people are homophobic. I'm tired of this bul___. _ mmmdot Chris is a REMORSELESS misogynist and abuser. He is childish and I fear for the safety of women and children in his vicinity – INCLUDING his daughter.

Every time you think this dude has grown up, he reveals the REAL malevolent abuser that lives just underneath. He hasn’t really changed at all – he’s taken all the things he learned in therapy and used them to improve his phony public facade. Instead of changing his abusive nature, he’s learned to hide it better. This is typical for batterers. He doesn’t need REGULAR therapy, he needs to go to program specifically formulated for batterers. They help batterers learn to check their entitlement and misogyny. _ mmmdot • 2 months ago She's a SOCIOLOGY professor and she was speaking the truth about chattel slavery and racism. Her comments are pretty mild compared to what we ALL SHOULD be saying about whites and their psychopathic racism. The ONLY mistake she made was making those comments on an account that could easily be traced back to her.It's not possible to be be "racist" to a racially privileged people. Racism is military, economic, and social power. Not DISCUSSING racism or MAKING OBSERVATIONS about racism. Whites have NEVER been oppressed on the basis of their white skin. She didn't say a DAMN thing that was wrong. What REALLY bothers me is this is YET ANOTHER instance of whites using their money to silence a Black woman [white alumni threatening to pull funding] and that the university president said this in his bogus statement "Boston University does not condone racism or bigotry in any form". Um, there's only ONE form of racism and it's inflicted by whites upon POC.

Is this COLLEGE PRESIDENT seriously giving credence to that white supremacist lie "reverse racism"? You would think someone who works at an institution of higher learning would know the difference between racism and prejudice? I wish EVERYBODY - especially these dumb white morons who complained about this - had real, comprehensive K through 12 education on the history of race and racism. We ALL need to read REAL anthropologically and sociologically sound history books on the subject of race and racism. Whites will never learn to stop being racist as long they can't grasp that racism and white supremacy are the same damn thing and that racism is a system of oppression that WHITES created and perpetuate to this day. Instead of fixating on what black people RESPOND to racism, WHITES need to go straight to the source and stop themselves and the system from BEING RACIST. Because white people's willfully ignorant "colorblindness" mindset is KILLING US black people. Literally. It isn’t necessarily a rational hope so much as an immature refusal to fully acknowledge and deal with the true gravity of the situation.

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mmmdot • 2 months ago
Horrifying. Ugh. Seeing many average, everyday Black "males" find a way to blame Janay for being knocked unconscious by her fiance reinforced the fact that men of ALL races subject Black women to misogynoir. People do not address the fact that in a patriarchy women need protection, because men already have it. This protection is shelled out based on the social "value" of the women who need it. A big part of the survival of women is dependent on the protection allotted to them in patriarchy.

Black women are stereotyped as being "strong", incapable of feeling human pain, and sexually deviant. These inane stereotypes increase our exposure to gender-based violence. Black women are more likely to be raped, murdered, and beaten by strangers OR loved ones than any other group of women in America. Eradicating the misogynoir that oppresses and harms Black women and girls calls for people to delicately balance Black women’s need to be protected from violence and misogyny with a desire to eradicate patriarchy and paternalism.

Disgusting but typical. It's why I can't STAND white corporate middle-class feminism and embrace womanism, a kind of feminism that is ALWAYS for and about black women, 100% of the time. Period. I'm no one's damn afterthought. Even in the margins, white people STILL have white privilege. Think about who is "THE FACE" of each marginalized group outside of those who are oppressed on the basis of race? White women, white LGBTs, white disabled people, poor whites, white atheists, white Jews, etc. STILL have white privilege. Hell, the entire WORLD is set up to allow whites to dominate and be privileged whatever the axis may be. THIS is why I can't really get down with a lot of white LGBTs and I'm more willing to ally with the Black LGBT community than the white "mainstream" LGBT community. There is a REASON Black Pride, Black gay parties, and Black gay activist groups exist: these racist whites that JUST so happen to be gay HABITUALLY pull racist shit. It's not a question of IF they'll do it, it's a question of WHEN they'll do it. Systemic racism means inadequate healthcare, shelter, and money over a lifetime. This shit isn't a game: it's a BASIC human rights issue. Even in the margins, whites STILL have white privilege. *Liberal or Conservadumb, racism isn't a partisan issue, it's WHITE people issue.*

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mmmdot
I'll say this: There are OBVIOUS disparities in PHYSICAL SIZE and STRENGTH between men and women. Women are men's psychological,
emotional, and intellectual equals, but generally speaking, the average man is relatively physically bigger and stronger than the average woman. The biggest punks are the ones who go all macho and beat up on women or others less physically strong than themselves as opposed to someone who is more EQUAL in physical size and strength.

I respect men who know the *APPROPRIATE* times to use their physical size, strength, aggression, and dominance. Being ready and willing to use your physical size and strength to protect your family from dangerous, intrusive, and rapey men = cool, totally understandable, and very sexy. Using your physical size and strength to control, intimidate, frighten, silence, and abuse women and others who are smaller than you = you're a misogynistic bxtch a___  “male” and I have absolutely no respect for you as a man. Like I said: Eradicating the misogynoir that oppresses and harms Black women and girls calls for people to delicately balance Black women’s need to be protected from violence and misogyny with a desire to eradicate patriarchy and paternalism.
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"that comparison doesn't have the same real-life outcome which is pry why ppl are arguing with you" Exactly. People make these FALSE EQUIVALENCIES all the fucking time b/c THEY don't read, yet they try to call someone ELSE out on THEIR "lack" of education. Fuck outta here. It all comes back to the fact that ALL non-Black people are promised that if they comply with the inhumane racial hierarchy and don't challenge anti-blackness, then THEY won't be the ones relegated to bottom of the racial hierarchy. I have no problem at all coalescing with other people of color, but most of them need to address their anti-blackness. They need to take IMMEDIATE concrete and transparent steps to address it within themselves AND the communities they come from. Period. They ALSO need to understand the racial hierarchy - which is really a hierarchy of human worth and basic human dignity - that places white people on top, black people on the bottom as the "opposite race", and themselves somewhere in the middle. Understandably, once a non-black person of color exhibits anti-blackness, I really don't want them anywhere near me until they are fully accountable for it and take real steps to begin to address it. Anti-blackness is toxic, and I really refuse to blithely be subjected to it from ANYONE, including other people of color. It's the worst when it comes from whites because they have the social, political, and economic privilege and power to implement their racist anti-blackness as a racist governing structure. But anti-blackness can also cause major psychological and emotional distress when it comes from non-black people of color, because the people you feel SHOULD be your natural allies aren't. Many non-black people of color seem to recognize the racism that THEIR groups face but don't understand the specific anti-black racism Black people face. Nor do many non-black people of color understand how they can be complicit with white supremacy by engaging in anti-blackness and colorism.



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These are really harmful FALSE EQUIVALENCIES, especially when you consider Asian men like Satoshi Kanazawa and Daniel Holtzclaw who have LITERALLY HARMED Black women because of the SPECIFIC anti-black misogynist stereotypes about us. It all comes back to the fact that ALL non-Black people are promised that if they comply with the inhumane racial hierarchy and don't challenge anti-blackness, then THEY won't be the ones relegated to bottom of the racial hierarchy. I have no problem at all coalescing with other people of color, but most of them need to take IMMEDIATE concrete and transparent steps to address anti-blackness within themselves AND the communities they come from. Period. They also need to understand the racial hierarchy that places white people on top, Black people on the bottom as the "opposite race", and themselves somewhere in the middle. Understandably, once a non-black Poc exhibits anti-blackness, I really don't want them anywhere near me until they are fully accountable for it and take real steps to begin to address it. Which is why I COMPLETELY understand BDG refusing to talk to that anti-black misogynist Asian trashbag in private. Anti-blackness is toxic, and I really refuse to blithely be subjected to it from ANYONE, including other people of color. It's the worst when it comes from whites because they have the social, political, and economic privilege and power to implement their racist anti-blackness as a racist governing structure. But anti-blackness can also cause major psychological and emotional distress when it comes from non-black people of color, because the people you feel SHOULD be your natural allies aren't. Many non-black people of color seem to recognize the racism that THEIR groups face but don't understand the specific anti-black racism Black people face. Nor do many non-black people of color understand how they can be complicit with white supremacy by engaging in anti-blackness and colorism.

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mmmdot • 12 hours ago
Thank god for that. I wish EVERYONE would work on decolonizing their minds of white supremacy and patriarchy. As Neely Fuller said: “If you do not understand white supremacy (racism) - what it is and how it works - EVERYTHING ELSE YOU KNOW will only CONFUSE you”

In a white supremacy system, it is "LOGICAL" for the darkest people to be at the bottom and to pile on brown, yellow, near white, and white on top of them so they can’t get up. Race has always been a primary factor in every patriarchal economic system of exploitation - capitalism is the ULTIMATE example of this. I wish everyone would read 'Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing' by Andrea Smith and 'Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples' by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. They're a good start to help people destroy the internalized white supremacist gender system within them.

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Her Words on the Chicago Exhibit showing the image of the body of Michael Brown.


mmmdot • 7 hours ago
Whites HABITUALLY pull this racist shit. It's not a question of IF they'll do it, it's a question of WHEN they'll do it. They may SEEM nice on the surface, but you ALWAYS wonder WHEN it's coming with them- like when they're going to open their mouths and something racist is going to fall out. Or when they're going to do something racist to you. This is why I can't get close to whites unless they're on some John Brown shit.

Why do I mention John Brown? B/c he CHOOSE not to follow the sociopathic white supremacist "instincts" that white 'culture' indoctrinates white people with. He realized the truly horrific nature of racial slavery and white supremacy and he completely rejected it to the point that he was willing to KILL other whites to get it to end. We don’t teach as much about John Brown as we do Frederick Douglass. He is constantly written off as a crazy religious nut and a fanatic. Yet writers we're taught to admire in English class, like Emerson and Thoreau, admired HIM. Not that any teachers in school are going to tell you that.

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 mmmdot • 8 hours ago
Just look at the pictures of bloodthirsty audiences of white savages - white men, women and children - that GLEEFULLY gathered JUST to view (and participate in) barbaric acts of white terrorism like lynchings. There has ALWAYS been a robust market for WHITE CONSUMPTION of BLACK PAIN. Whites LOVED burning black people alive at the stake in lynchings and cutting off their bodies parts for SOUVENIRS while they were STILL CONSCIOUS. This included women who they gleefully GANG RAPED first. Pregnant women? Still tortured, raped, and murdered by HAPPY white savages.

Hanging someone from a tree really doesn't describe the soullessness of the white DEGENERATES who participated in and condoned lynchings - and that was the MAJORITY of white Americans in EVERY part of the country. What kind of PERSON keeps a mudered human being's KNUCKLES as a 'keepsake' and THEN passes it down from GENERATION to GENERATION within their trashy white 'family'? We are dealing with sociopathic, thuggish white GHOULS - that INCLUDES the women.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29433-heeding-the-call-black-women-fighting-for-black-lives-that-matter

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26688-not-all-of-the-black-freedom-fighters-are-men-an-interview-with-black-women-on-the-front-line-in-ferguson

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30981-advocates-say-black-women-left-out-of-freddie-gray-conversation

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26663-for-black-women-domestic-violence-and-state-violence-go-hand-in-hand

http://www.msafropolitan.com/2013/07/a-brief-history-of-african-feminism.html

http://www.gradientlair.com/

http://www.gradientlair.com/post/46690799918/derailment-criticism-hip-hop-rap

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Just look at the pictures and POSTCARDS whites actually had the nerve to send through the mail of OTHER bloodthirsty white savages - white men, women and children - GLEEFULLY gathered to view barbaric lynchings where whites burned Black people at the stake, gang raped Black women and girls, and cut off their victim's body parts for 'souvenirs'.

Only SERIAL KILLERS keep their victim's body parts for 'souvenirs'. There has ALWAYS been a robust market for WHITE CONSUMPTION of BLACK PAIN. We are dealing with sociopathic white GHOULS - that INCLUDES the women.

Let a Black person make a Halloween 'costume', a shooting target, or an 'art exhibit' out of Nicole Brown Simpson's (stabbed up/ shot up/ whatever it is) dead as fuck bloody white female body prone on the floor. I KNOW they would've thought twice about it then.