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Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 17, 2026, 04:42:00 pm
I disagree with presenting folkism as the correct option on the grounds that Arctic Alliance is less reliable than folkism. We should argue that folkism is the correct option even if the opposite were true, on purely moral considerations. Even if "whites" were sincerely willing to accept you, why would you want to be accepted by them?
I propose a simplifying thought experiment. If you are currently not yet born, and have to be born as a human but can choose to be born to either "white" parents or "non-white" parents, with the condition that after birth you will not remember being offered this choice, which would you choose? This removes the issue of non-guaranteed acceptance. Nevertheless, can you in good conscience allow the "white" side to have one more member, and the "non-white" side one fewer member, given awareness of world history?
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The world is healing in Truth and revealing the wicked
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How they side with white people, THEIR oppressors, and after white people colonised and destroyed their countries, is beyond me
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 28, 2025, 07:55:53 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 17, 2025, 07:29:53 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 13, 2025, 08:18:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5eDAzRh1Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsAhScoWwQc
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They don't understand that majority of ICE individuals are affiliated with white nationalist s.
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Maybe the one good thing about these times is, that more people wake up to the reality, the US and also Europe has been all the time....racist. Nothing is new what is happening. In fact it is still the same thing, that has been goung on for hundreds of years.
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The US government has always been discriminatory to non whites.
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Look at the history, all whites came from Europe to America .
The original people in America were the American Indian 🇺🇸
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Give it back to Native American
Now .
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Asians DEFINITELY are not white; one only has to look at the Asian Hate during covid
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if it wasnt for black people none of you would be hear
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 12, 2025, 12:57:47 am
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Finally someone said what needs to be said to the yt people. The original illegal immigrants who are still feeling entitled and will debate as if what they did and are still doing is right.
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Has the white man ever, throughout history, ever kept his word? Why would you think he would ever keep himself accountable today. It’s our job to remind of his atrocities. Never let him forget what he has done to humanity.
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This is what they do. She does little shake of the head, like she is trying to shake the facts you just said about them, out, then carry on by deliberately ignoring that the problem she is trying to describe is actually their history.
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These people are the definition of wicked it should show you european in the dictionary when you look it up
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and the cause of most of the world's problems
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This Man knows what he's talking about UNITE MEXICANS,LATINOS AND BLACKS JUST NOT IN TEXAS BUT EVERYWHERE!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 11, 2025, 01:01:54 am
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/01/10/the-indian-immigration-kerfuffle-part-one/
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I mean, it’s not like they’re French or anything, with a long history of creating a many-faceted culture the entire world has envied—and attempted to copy—for centuries. It’s India—hot, stinking, over-populated, feces-strewn India.
The real question is: why should America copy French culture rather than Indian culture? France was a colonial occupier of America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_the_Americas
whereas India never was, but was itself also colonized by France:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_India
therefore Americans should feel far closer to Indians than to French.
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It’s also worth reminding ourselves at this point of what Milo Yiannopoulos and Allum Bokhari had to say in their now famous essay on the alt-right, published in 2019. They wrote,
For natural conservatives, culture, not economic efficiency, is the paramount value. More specifically, they value the greatest cultural expressions of their tribe. Their perfect society does not necessarily produce a soaring GDP, but it does produce symphonies, basilicas and Old Masters. The natural conservative tendency within the alt-right points to these apotheoses of western European culture and declares them valuable and worth preserving and protecting.
Why should America have symphonies, basilicas and Old Masters? Our enemies themselves admit they are "of western European culture", so why should America, a victim of colonization by that very culture, "declare them valuable and worth preserving and protecting"? For those who are unaware of the definition of the latter term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Master
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In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")[1][2] refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist.
As for basilicas, here is a basilica in the US:
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and here is a basilica in India:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Puducherry_Sacred_Heart_Cathedral_2.JPG/768px-Puducherry_Sacred_Heart_Cathedral_2.JPG)
The basilica in the US is as un-American as the basilica in India is un-Indian.
Previous Yiannopoulos coverage:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg13866/?topicseen#msg13866
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Americans instinctually know this, and are rising to the defense of these uniquely Western attributes, lest in time we find them buried under piles of putrid refuse.
Then these are not Americans, but Western occupiers.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 06, 2025, 08:01:47 pm
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Lesson: “Never let your oppressors define who your friends & enemies are for you.”
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I'm Asian who came here during the late 80s and 90s in the East coast. I delt with many racism from whites and black but there is a huge difference between the racism between blacks and whites on how they treated me. Basically White kids had more evil intentions while black kids were more of the funny way of being racial.
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The powers that be dont want black people and other minorities to stand together because then we could make some actual change.
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I just wish Asian, Black and Hispanic Americans had some solidarity. Bruh we could get SO MUCH **** done if we could all just Back each other up when we fall down. We've all been Curb stomped by the same People.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 06, 2025, 07:19:36 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7kxKt4uNE
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He pretty much trying to use black American citizens and Hispanic citizens to fight Indian immigrants. Divide and conquer that is a strategy.
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There will be some coconuts that fall for this BS.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 05, 2025, 01:52:19 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qXIypv7h4
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 30, 2024, 04:49:10 pm
Post by: rp on December 30, 2024, 03:53:58 pm
Post by: rp on December 27, 2024, 07:43:42 pm
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This isn't about Americans vs Immigrants.
This is about WHITE MEN vs America.
Take note of this when they try to tell you it's about "Americans" and they consider you "American."
You're only "American" to them when it benefits WHITE MEN.
Post by: rp on November 18, 2024, 06:21:23 pm
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Thank you Reverend! This is the kind of folkism we need. Contrast with psychologically colonized useful idiot Vivek who tries to make common cause with WNs and blames "blacks".
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 10, 2024, 01:05:13 am
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Minorities teaming up and helping each other is so powerful. Imagine...
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it wasn’t hard to imagine that, at a time when both peoples were heavily discriminated against, there was a lot of solidarity between them.
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solidarity is the basis of liberation! our oppressions are interconnected
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Had it never been for the efforts of MLK and Cesar Chavez, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the subsequent removal of immigration quotas, many Asian Americans never would have had the privileges afforded to us.
I am forever grateful to those who came before us and made this world a better place for us all.
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This is America 🇺🇸
Meanwile, our enemies once again remind us of their hostility to America:
https://www.amren.com/features/2024/01/roots-reconnecting-with-the-mother-continent/
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many of us have grown up in the “New World” and are many generations removed from our ancestral homelands. Some of us are European racial mixes, with roots is disparate parts of the Mother Continent.
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European politics are our politics. Europe is our homeland; we are its people, and what happens to it must be our concern. In history there are no clean breaks; each person remains much the same as the ancestors whose blood circulates in his veins. Each European identity is linked to a culture that, while sharing attributes with American society, is different. Many Germans, Britons, and Spaniards alive today fondly remember life before “multiculturalism.”
It is not too late to experience Europe, and any self-conscious white man should do so.
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Make a point of visiting the land of your ancestors. There is something indescribable about walking the streets they did centuries ago. Ask older relatives what they remember, and look through publicly available immigration paperwork. You may find a group of extended family members who stayed behind and would be happy to welcome you. Such relationships have an intriguing strength and draw you closer to your roots.
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Americans are deracinated. Discover the beauty and bounty of white heritage, participate to the extent you find fulfilling, and consider options to stay involved through personal connections. Consider engaging in cross-border politics and activism. Maybe even date and marry a European.
Post by: rp on August 24, 2024, 10:50:06 pm
I used to be a bit more favorable toward Indians than "Blacks", mainly because I believed the latter were more sexually dimorphic and aggressive, but now I realize Indians also have flaws, such as low cunning.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 22, 2024, 05:06:28 pm
Behaving like an American (as an Indian immigrant) means feeling closer to non-Indian "non-whites" in the US than to Indians not living in the US.
Post by: rp on August 22, 2024, 06:57:34 am
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The Chinese who built Chinatowns everywhere did not get the "be reverential to your host" memo, neither did the British who built Cantonment towns, nor did the E Asians who live segregated in India & have their own karaoke bars, eateries and even grocery shops, mostly run by Indian franchisees. Its only peculiar to low esteem IT migrants. "We eat beef saar don't beat me. I am faithful brown appu of model community. I mean no trouble saar."
Have you ever seen an Indian restaurant or Saravana bhavan run by a white franchisee ? No, they DON'T CARE if you exist or not. Then you wonder why the US Govt pretends you are an invisible community, compared to say Puerto Ricans.QuoteSimple, when you're in Rome, be roman. So when in USA behave like an American and don't behave like Indian in certain aspects. Live by their culture.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 07, 2024, 11:49:50 pm
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This is why, I've always said that minorities should stick together, because we'd be better off.
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Bruce Lee's 1st Student was a Black Man.
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That's the America I love!
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Blessed and that's what the world should be like
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If Chinese people had this type of energy, we could beat WS, but the majority of them wanna fight with us over policies that will help them thrive rather than fight with their true enemies: whites.
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Stop believing and acting on the false narrative of Asian hate by Black people. That narrative is being fed to us in order to divide all non-white people and create animosity between the various races of color. Therefore, whites maintain THEIR position of power. If all the various people of different races began to unite, help and respect each other AND recognize who the TRUE betrayers are, the entire world will heal from so much EVIL and DEVASTATION thats being heaped upon us. Think about it.
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Fun! Fact: Chinese people , in parts of the South, and especially in the west during the Gold Rush, with some of the only people who would actually do business with negroes. Tae became so wealthy because they did not practice exclusion, many of their communities and businesses were destroyed by white people.
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White's in LA lynched a Chinese doctor based on false allegations. Back when LA was just a small outpost. Which led to them being run out of LA and The Coastal West.
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One thing is certain. The so-called white man's wicked and racist rule is coming to an end. And he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity
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for what they did to Black people during slavery. Their days are numbered, and that's why they are so frantic.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 12, 2024, 08:47:06 pm
https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/1bbooob/my_16_year_old_son_has_politically_radicalized/
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My son and a small group of Asian American students have opposed the Asian American speaker that the school has chosen because the speaker is a member of the Japanese American Citizens League, who my son and his friends believe are race traitors who should have advocated for violent resistance against internment, instead of encouraging Japanese Americans to be patriotic Americans and to go along with it.
Yes, they should have resisted internment. To be a patriotic American is to oppose the Western occupiers who stole the land in the first place.
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My son and his small protest group have gotten bigger since February by convincing members of the Black Student Union and the Muslim Students' Association to join their protest against the Asian American speaker in exchange for support in a different protest against the Jewish community activist that was invited to speak at our school, because of the activist's refusal to call Israel's recent actions in Gaza a "genocide"
Folkism among fellow victims of Western colonialism is always good. See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/
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basically believe that Asian American activism is too dominated by progressive women and conservative male business leaders and pastors who are insufficiently radical and are only interested in making Asian Americans more palatable to their favored group of white people.
They are spot-on in their assessment. All Arctic Alliance supporters are our enemies. See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/arctic-alliance/
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Last year our family hosted a party and my Korean-American friend brought her new partner to the party, my son refused to shake my friend's partner's hand when he saw that the new man was white.
Good for him!
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a half-Asian actor, my son refused to call him an Asian person and instead called him a "white man's son".
This is an accurate description.
Post by: rp on January 09, 2024, 03:49:22 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 24, 2023, 06:52:13 pm
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Minnesota professor calls to 'decolonize' and 'dismantle' the US: 'Go as hard as possible'
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Earlier this month, University of Minnesota liberal arts professor Melanie Yazzie took the stage with several other speakers as part of the anti-capitalist Native American advocacy group the Red Nation's "teach-in" on the Israel-Hamas war.
During the pro-Palestinian event, Yazzie made several controversial comments, including early on when she said she wanted a takeaway from the event to be that "we're all indigenous people who come from nations who are under occupation by the United States government."
"And, of course, the U.S. bankrolls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land," Yazzie continued. "They're one and the same, really."
"So it's our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place, because that will reverberate all across the world," Yazzie said.
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"Palestine is the alternative path for native nations."
"It is a righteous struggle and it is so powerful that it has literally, in 60 days, changed the entire world," Yazzie said. "The entire world has changed. I knew it the moment that it happened that nothing, and I mean nothing for colonizers or for any of the good, humble people of the Earth, would ever be the same ever again."
"And we need to lean into that. Lean into the fact that colonizers are scared," she said, laughing. "Lean into scaring them and making them feel uncomfortable!"
Yazzie, who said she was the co-host of the Red Nation podcast "Red Power Hour," decried "liberalism" as "bulls---" and "trash" that "was founded upon imperialism and colonialism."
Finally leftists are openly dissociating from liberalism!
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"Enough! Enough with investing our time with liberalism!" she cried. "That is not resistance.
"Resistance is the only thing… the only kind of death blows to colonialism, imperialism that have happened historically because indigenous people have resisted in the various places where this violence has touched down."
Yazzie also delivered a message to their "Palestinian relatives," where she called the U.S. a "violent settler project" and she and her comrades have the "moral authority" to do so "as the original people" of America.
This is the folkist messaging we need!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 19, 2023, 07:25:18 pm
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President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the country.
In a White House official statement released Sunday, Biden said the legislation, enacted in 1882, was a measure that “weaponized our immigration system to discriminate against an entire ethnic group.”
It was the first major law restricting immigration into the United States; it was repealed in 1943.
“For generations, people of Chinese heritage have enriched our country — from Chinese laborers who did backbreaking work to build the transcontinental railroad in the 1800s to the Chinese Americans who serve in our military, to the authors, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars of today,” Biden said in the statement. “We honor them, and all immigrants, who continue to make extraordinary contributions to our nation.”
Those who do not are not Americans. For example:
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The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law by then-president Chester A. Arthur, put a 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. It additionally prevented Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens.
This is a Western occupier.
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By the late 19th century, anger and vitriol began to rise toward the Chinese community, as white laborers deemed Chinese migrants a threat to their jobs and livelihoods, as documented by the New York Historical Society. “The Chinese Must Go” became a popular rallying cry at the time.
These are Western occupiers. (See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/msg5063/#msg5063 )
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“The Act, along with racism and xenophobia in other parts of American life, was part of the anti-Chinese “Driving Out” era which included the Rock Springs and Hells Canyon massacres,” Biden wrote in the statement, referencing two massacres that targeted Chinese immigrant miners.
This was what Western occupiers used to do to Americans.
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“The repeal of this act was a decision almost wholly grounded in the exigencies of World War II, as Japanese propaganda made repeated reference to Chinese exclusion from the United States in order to weaken the ties between the United States and its ally, the Republic of China,” according to the State Department’s Office of the Historian.
Even Japan understood that the Western-occupied US was being un-American.
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While Asian exclusion formally ended with the 1952 Immigration Act, racial, rather than national quotas were assigned to all Asian immigrants, according to the Office of the Historian. These quotas remained in place for over a decade, until the Immigration Act of 1965.
Only with the arrival of the Counterculture era did the US finally make more effort to be American.
Related:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/
Post by: rp on November 10, 2023, 10:43:48 am
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Stella Escobedo
@StellaEscoTV
🚨LOOK🚨 Taliban flag (white one) spotted many times at yesterdays DC march. Take note, no American flags at these protests.
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Being American and pro-Taliban is not a contradiction!:
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 29, 2023, 05:02:35 pm
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Opinion: Immigrant communities are indebted to the civil rights movement. But when will they grapple with their own anti-Blackness?
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immigrants have the civil rights movement to thank for the legal and cultural infrastructures that would be adopted to enfold Latino and Asian Americans in the multicultural democracy Black Americans fought for. The wave of the “minority rights revolution” of the 1970s and 1980s that included Latino rights and Asian rights activism was built on the backs of the Black Americans who fought for collective freedom. These immigrant movements would compare themselves to Black Americans as a strategy, claiming they were “like Black” to make demands that would resonate with the public, to garner the political power necessary to win recognition and political, material and social resources.
These movements, however, rarely acknowledged that the Black freedom struggle never ended, and that, in their pursuit of upward mobility, their own communities had excluded and even harmed Black communities.
Two decades ago, when labor organizers in Los Angeles began working to raise political consciousness around the exploitation of immigrant workers, they devised an Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride inspired by the civil rights movement's Freedom Rides of 1961. The strategy would draw public attention to immigrant workers rights as civil rights deserving of political protection. Having received the support of Black civil rights leaders, 900 riders boarded 18 buses departing from 10 cities with 100 planned stops, including major sites of civil rights struggles.
The ride had a transformative outcome. In learning about and visiting the living histories of the civil rights movement, immigrant activists were better able to see their own experiences of exploitation, discrimination and “invisibilization” through a new lens. Their lives and collective struggles were interconnected with Black Americans'.
Similarly, in June 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim American civil rights organization known as CAIR, embarked on a civil rights tour in Alabama. The monthlong campaign followed 30 Muslim American civil rights leaders and activists from around the country on a tour of symbolic sites significant to the civil rights movement.
Through their reflections on social media, Muslim leaders made powerful connections between the present-day violence, surveillance and day-to-day discrimination experienced by Muslim American immigrants and the persistent violence and bravery of Black civil rights activists in the 1960s. They were overcome with emotion when they learned the roots of Muslim history in the United States, one rooted in the experiences of Black enslaved people.
And many became more aware of their immigrant communities’ strategic distance from Black Americans and their buy-in to the “model minority” identity. Muslim immigrant activists confronted the realities that their communities have also been anti-Black.
Through an honest, emergent understanding of their place and complicity in the racial order, Muslim organizers understood that reckoning with the past provided them a bridge for coalition-building with Black Americans.
Historical reckonings are messy work. They require a commitment to collective reflection and discomfort. Groups have to recognize when defensive postures emerge and examine the roots of their resistance. They must allow for the admission of harm they have caused and a dedication to doing better. Reckonings come with the recognition that change does not come quickly or easily, but with faith and persistence, in the spirit of the ongoing Black freedom struggle.
There’s no better place for these reckonings than California, where immigrant histories are diverse and deep, where the work to eradicate anti-Blackness would yield immeasurable gains in forging a wide solidarity politics across race and class among communities. As King wrote in his letter from the Birmingham jail just months before the March on Washington: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2023, 11:52:16 pm
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A march that brought together Black, Asian and Blasian (Black and Asian) communities was held in Sacramento, California, on Saturday.
What it is: The event, dubbed the “Blasian March,” sought to promote solidarity and improve communication between the communities of color. Its first iteration took place in New York City in 2020 and has since expanded with local chapters across the nation.
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Who’s behind it: The initiative was created by dancer, writer and public speaker Rohan Zhou-Lee, who has also led similar marches for Pride, climate change and Afghan refugees. The latest Blasian March was organized in partnership with the Sacramento chapter of the Asian American Liberation Network (AALN), Brown Blossom Rising, Lavender Lotus and Sacramento Filipinx LGBTQIA.
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 29, 2023, 08:56:52 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-americans-affirmative-action-ruling-215248837.html
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Many Asian American groups and leaders are speaking out against the Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action Thursday.
Some experts and activists argued that the decision is an example of Asian Americans’ being used as a “wedge” to erode civil rights.
They point out that while the two cases, led by the conservative activist Ed Blum — who is white — argued that Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina’s policies discriminated against Asian Americans, no Asian American students came forward to testify to having experienced discrimination.
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“Throwing the idea that Asian Americans are somehow being harmed by efforts to address inequity, by efforts to address segregation, is a really concerning cover for what the proponents of this case have been trying to do.”
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Representatives of Asian Americans Advancing Justice said that the decision is anti-Black and that it perpetuates a systemic racism that has always been present in higher education.
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“We are outraged that the Supreme Court has chosen to ignore long-standing legal precedent in favor of supporting racial inequity that harms all people of color, including Asian Americans,” John C. Yang, Advancing Justice’s president and executive director, said in the statement.
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“Despite attempts by those seeking to divide us to maintain white supremacy and existing power structures, communities of color are stronger than ever.”
Also, I like how it is being explicitly stated that Jews are "white". See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10964/#msg10964
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/the-one-headline-i-have-been-waiting-for-all-these-years/
Post by: rp on June 11, 2023, 12:02:16 am
Note the Western clothing of the Eurocentrist who keeps defending "Whites".
Post by: rp on May 04, 2023, 10:51:55 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 06, 2023, 01:56:57 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/uniting-americans/msg16017/#msg16017
Now, as I predicted, the New World blood memory gratitude to Andalus is surfacing:
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/more-hispanics-converting-to-islam/
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"Based on data Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group embracing Islam in America," Fletcher said. "People just show up and they say hey we're coming here to embrace Islam."
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"It just really started to pull at my heart," Serrano said
"I feel like I just I found my answer," Sanchez said.
They say the religion gave them peace.
"It was kind of like a coincidence you know like I'm thirsty and then some guy with a water bottle was just like, 'hey you want some water?'" Sanchez expressed.
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"We actually can keep our culture intact and be a better version of what it means to be a Latino," Fletcher said.
Anyone living in the US who does not support:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
is not American but a Western occupier.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 21, 2023, 06:54:38 pm
https://nypost.com/2023/03/18/dei-director-harassed-by-school-for-questioning-policies/
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Black DEI director: I was called white supremacist for questioning woke policies
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she’s out of a job after colleagues retaliated against her for questioning certain diversity, equity, and inclusion policies at the Cupertino, California, school.
But her vision of diversity and inclusion, it seems, was the wrong one.
“I’m trying to create safe spaces for everyone,” Lee said.
Including for oppressors?
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after Jewish students and faculty members alike told her they’d experienced anti-Semitism on campus, Lee asked for help organizing a summit to address the issue.
Instead, she said, coworkers told her the event wasn’t important and that Jewish people are white oppressors.
The coworkers are correct!
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
True Leftism has been mainstreamed!
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Regardless, as of June 15th, she’ll be out of a job.
“I had to be eliminated by any means necessary,” Lee said.
For a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional who truly believes in the importance of her craft, the experience has been disillusioning: “Bringing people together to explore and talk about different ideologies was deemed unacceptable and not welcome.”
Her mission, Lee said, is “surfacing different perspectives that we have … because once we’re clear and understand each other, then we can identify points of commonality. The whole point is multiple perspectives.
No, the whole point is extermination of oppressors. Besides, any Jew who uses the term "anti-Semitism" instead of "anti-Jewishness" is already trying to mislead us:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/stop-calling-anti-jewishness-anti-semitism/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 04, 2023, 03:30:16 am
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/02/an-american-hugo-chavez-is-coming/
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America may soon face one of two kinds of left-wing authoritarianism. One is the soft despotism of liberal technocracy. This authoritarianism wouldn’t overthrow the present structures of our society or upend the economy. In fact, it would have the support of the regime’s major institutions. It would seriously curb civil liberties, such as free speech and gun rights, and feel much less democratic. More people would be arrested over memes, but much would remain the same. Political life in America would look more like contemporary Western Europe.
This is False Leftism. We oppose this also.
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The other is a radical populism in the mold of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan socialist who turned his resource-rich South American nation into a hellhole. This authoritarianism would threaten America’s institutions and overthrow the economic order. It would not be supported by the powers that be and would crush civil liberties to enact massive wealth redistribution programs.
Unlike liberal technocracy, where the guiding principle is that “experts” should be in charge, this radical populism would be motivated largely by race resentment. The desire for revenge against “white supremacy” would inspire a movement to destroy the old America.
Today, an American Chavist movement looks more likely than Red Caesarism. Americans are primed to support its message thanks to popular media and real-world conditions. Plus, Chavism has a natural economic base that consists of gig workers, people stuck in the service sectors, low-skilled immigrants (both legal and illegal), the “lumpenbourgeoisie” (failsons who can’t achieve the lifestyle of their parents), and others who feel left out of American abundance. These growing demographics are turning to left-wing champions as seen in “the squad,” whose constituency will only grow with time.
This is the multiracial working class. Chavism would unite them in a coalition of have-nots. It is one charismatic leader away from becoming a dominant political force.
American Chavism may have similar policies to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign platform, but it would have a very different style. It would be aggressive and hostile to the Democratic Party establishment, where Sanders was civil and easily capitulated. Sanders also refused to lean into minority identity politics. His 2020 campaign lukewarmly attempted to incorporate that tendency into his agenda, but it wasn’t his chief focus. By contrast, minority identity politics would be as central to Chavism as wealth redistribution. The economic policies would be both socialist and anti-white.
This radical ideology would tamp down some of the excesses of wokeness. It would be pro-trans, feminist, and accept all the latest fads, but it would treat these as side issues. American Chavists would not let these issues distract from their core message of wealth redistribution. Excessive wokeness hinders successful far-left movements. You can’t get anything done if you’re obsessed with gender pronouns, and you can’t attract a mass following if you look like a freak show. Chavists would stick to what’s popular: anti-white socialism.
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focusing on black America, reparations somewhat awkwardly exclude other nonwhites from white wealth. American Chavism would rectify that. Here, the rest of the BIPOC coalition would get their respective “reparations” for whatever injustice they claim. Hispanics deserve reparations for immigration enforcement, Indians for European settlement, Asians for colonialism, etc. Left-wing populism would simply expand this concept to make it more “inclusive,” yet equally anti-white.
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Venezuelan Chavism was originally anti-white. Chavez vowed to end the dominance of Venezuela’s white castizo elite and distributed their wealth to the nation’s indios, blacks, and mestizos. Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro made good on that promise, turning Venezuela into a tyrannical dump. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales followed this example, promising to empower the nation’s downtrodden indios at white expense. Moderate forms of this racial socialism can also be found in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. Left-wing populists throughout Latin America know that racial resentment is a potent political weapon.
An American version of this movement won’t be exclusively nonwhite. It will have plenty of white “allies.” Some will join due to their own nihilistic hatred for whites, parents, or surroundings. Others will join for the promises of more welfare and entitlements. Left-wing whites are not scared off by anti-white hatred; they often agree with it and amplify it.
Our most important task is to ensure Jews are counted as "white" in American Chavism.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 16, 2023, 09:08:24 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/iktr-driver-exposes-officer-record-140000966.html
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A TikToker has done the Lord’s work, exposing a cop for prejudice and reading him for absolute filth. In a video of a traffic stop, Charlotte Carter called out a Chesterfield, Va. officer for ticketing mostly Black people while on duty, a trend reported across all of the state’s police departments, per the Daily Mail.
Carter, 36, recorded herself during a traffic stop informing an officer she’s hip to how often he pulls over Black people. Specifically, she claims out of all the drivers he’d stopped in the last few months, the majority of them were Black.
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“-only 20 percent of the population of Chesterfield [County] is Black. I don’t know how you managed to ticket 80 percent minorities,” she said, addressing the cop as Mr. Scott. Reports have not clarified the officer’s full name.
Carter claimed from the data she compiled that 250 county residents had gone to court to fight tickets within six months. She chuckled to herself telling the officer these numbers while filling out the ticket he handed her. She must have known the moment was coming ever since she began gunning for the county cops on TikTok.
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Carter, who is Iranian American, claimed police in Virginia first turned their attention to her in the spring of 2022 after she started questioning an alleged child abuse case that involved her son’s biracial friend. She said she noticed the child was bruised and severely underweight so, as a nurse, she was obligated to report the situation. But she believes the local police were slow to act and didn’t take the child’s welfare seriously because his father was Black, so she kept following up on the case.
While police eventually arrested someone in the matter, Carter said she felt they didn’t take it seriously until she posted a TikTok about the alleged abuse in March. The video has received nearly 5 million views.
After that, Carter said the Chesterfield police suddenly began popping up everywhere in her life.
“I ended up trying to file for emergency custody, but the police began falsely arresting me,” she said.
In April, police arrested her for trespassing on her own property.
Carter told The Daily Beast the dirt she found on the Chesterfield police and ticketing sprees was found right on the district court website. Given only 25 percent of the county population is Black, the fact they make up most of the drivers pulled over is quite alarming.
Though, for the cops to pull over the person making the most noise about their ticketing habits - that’s just an unbelievable coincidence.
Jews are counted among the Western occupiers, of course:
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Carter must have struck a nerve considering Police Chief Jeffrey Katz previously called her “attention-seeking” and accused her of trying to discredit the work of his department “sitting behind a keyboard.”
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Well, certainly that keyboard has had an impact on the millions of people who follow it. Acknowledging Carter and her work in general proves she’s lit a fire under their behind.
Keep it up, Charlotte!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 23, 2022, 05:57:42 pm
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More than 70 Asian American groups urge Biden to create Black reparations commission
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“Just as the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) studied the impacts of forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in US concentration camps, we call upon you to courageously establish a commission that will bring forward the stories needed to fully understand our nation’s failure to address the devastating and continuing impacts of enslavement as the foundation for ongoing disparities faced by Black Americans, especially in the areas of health, education, employment, housing, and environmental outcomes,” the NNRC wrote to Biden.
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“The travesty of slavery and its aftermath must be addressed if we are to truly become the great nation that we profess to be,” JACL National President Larry Oda said in a statement. “The 400 years of racism and denied opportunity have taken their toll on the community. The establishment of a Presidential Commission to study the legacy of enslavement would educate and inform the public and Congress of the harm that is perpetuated on the community.”
“Time is of the essence, there is an urgency of instituting such a study before another year passes. This legislation was first introduced over 30 years ago and its time has come,” Oda said.
I always like to see different "non-white" categories speaking up on behalf of one another. On the other hand, I still maintain that reparations are the wrong demand and one which degrades the victims by portraying colonial-era racism as something which can be compensated by mere money. The correct demand should be for state control over reproduction aimed at eliminating colonialist bloodlines.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 20, 2022, 08:35:08 pm
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Supporters arrived in the morning chill, some singing hymns, to dedicate a park entry to the men once known as the Central Park Five but now remembered as the Exonerated Five.
The entryway, located on the northern perimeter of the park between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, will be known as the “Gate of the Exonerated." It commemorates the miscarriage of justice that not only befell the five men, organizers say, but unknown others who might have been wrongly imprisoned.
“This is a moment. This is legacy time,” said one of the men, Yusef Salaam.
“We are here because we persevere,” he said to a cheering crowd.
Monday was the first time Raymond Santana, another of the men, now in his 40s, has returned to Central Park since that fateful day 33 years ago.
Santana was 14 and Salaam was 16 when they and three others — Kevin Richardson, then 14; Korey Wise, 16; and Antron McCray, 15 — were wrongly tried for the **** of a 28-year-old woman whose brutal attack left her with permanent injuries and no memory of the assault. The high-profile incident prompted police to round up Black and Latino men and boys in connection with the attack.
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The convictions of the Central Park Five were thrown out in 2002 after the youths, by then young men, had served six to 13 years in prison.
“It needs to be known what we went through. We went to hell and back,” said Richardson. “We have these scars that nobody sees.”
Santana, Salaam and Richardson — Wise and McCray could not attend Monday's ceremony — spoke about how the criminal justice system is stacked against people of color.
The gate, they said, would stand as reminder of the injustice of the past but also of those still being committed today.
“This is an important time right here. The Gate of the Exonerated, this is for everybody,” Richardson said. “Everybody that’s been wronged by cops.”
And by extension, everyone who has been wronged by Western civilization. Which excludes certain people.
See also:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/anti-zionist-harvest-netflix-edition/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 05, 2022, 06:23:43 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxN2BMTg8N0
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 08, 2022, 09:00:52 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/uniting-americans/msg14563/#msg14563
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Quotethe future of the West may depend on whether Hispanic immigrants see themselves as the heirs of the conquistadors or those they conquered.
We are here to ensure the latter.
Our enemies are of course attempting the opposite, as they now declare explicitly:
https://www.amren.com/features/2022/10/are-hispanics-natural-conservatives-after-all/
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We want Hispanics to identify with the conquistadors, not the conquered
They will be trying every trick to break us apart:
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Whiteness is the baseline of American life. If Hispanics — or Asians — accept that and don’t “reckon with class divides and inequality,” there can be no Left that is built on victim morality, aside from blacks — who would be increasingly isolated and despised.
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The 1619 Project and historical orthodoxy rewrote American history. Instead of whites building a great nation, racist whites exploited Indians and blacks for centuries. Hispanics don’t fit into this story, which leads to confused claims like the one from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that Hispanics are really American Indians, and thus shouldn’t be subject to immigration laws.
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The confusion about who is Hispanic or whether they were “oppressed” makes it harder for Hispanics to be included in the Coalition of the Oppressed that progressives have built against whites.
The correct way to include Hispanics:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/diplomatic-decolonization/msg134/#msg134
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And don't forget, if only Spain had remained Andalus, none of the stuff on the map would ever have happened. And if the Spanish/Portugese Empires had not started things off, the other colonial empires might not have followed either. Looking at it this way, Andalus was in effect the portal guardian singlehandedly protecting the whole planet from the horrors of the colonial era. As such, we should not only be demanding apologies from the former colonial powers, but should also be expressing gratitude to Andalus. Ultimately we should be trying to restore Andalus, not only back to what it was, but all the way to what it should have been.
All of us ended up colonized because Andalus lost. So (contrary to what AOC was saying), it is not about Amerindian ancestry. Even a Hispanic with no Amerindian ancestry can still be a leftist so long as they side with Andalus back in the Granada War. Our shared hatred towards Ferdinand and Isabella is what unifies the Coalition of the Oppressed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_War
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The surrender of Granada was seen as a great blow to Islam and a triumph of Christianity. Other Christian states offered their sincere congratulations to Ferdinand and Isabella, while Islamic writers reacted with despair. In Castile and Aragon, celebrations and bullfights were held.
Whereas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting
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During the Arab rule of Iberia, the ruling class tried to ban bullfighting, considering it a pagan celebration and heresy.[72]
(It goes without saying that there is nothing "Christian" about bullfighting. Jesus would have condemned it for sure. That Ferdinand and Isabella would associate bullfighting with "Christianity" is a reason to hate them even more.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 01, 2022, 06:13:05 pm
https://www.amren.com/blog/2022/10/an-adolescents-path-to-race-realism/
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My high school was almost half American Indian. Since no teachers wanted to live on the reservation, Indians from hours away bussed to what would’ve otherwise been a substantially white public high school. It was impossible not to notice the differences in character, culture, and ability between us and them. However, I believed the only alternative to liberalism and diversity was literal Nazism. All the same, it didn’t sit well with me that regardless of how these Indians behaved, and how poor their English was, they were considered more American than me.
English was not spoken in America prior to Western colonization. You might be more English than your classmates, not more American. As for "Nazism", Hitler also promised to give back to the American Indians the lands stolen from them by "whites" if he won WWII:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7vjzh0/in_a_bizarre_plot_twist_adolf_hitler_apparently/
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The mainstream mantra boils down to this, “Certain ethnic groups have not succeeded because of past traumatic historical events that now inhibit their ability to succeed.” My first dissenting thought was, “How come Jews do much better ( in terms of assimilation, economic prosperity, etc.) in Germany than blacks do in the United States? Jews were much more oppressed in Germany than blacks in America. Is the mainstream thesis only applicable to non-whites? And if so, why?
But at least our enemies academically agree with us that Jews are "whites".
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After graduation, I took a gap year in Spain. Even though I couldn’t speak much Spanish, I fell in love with the nation’s culture and its people. In some ways, I felt more at home there than I did back in my diverse high school.
Further confirmation that our enemies are not American.
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Then I visited Spain’s capital, Madrid. I did not feel at home there. It was diverse, alien, and so unlike the white corner of Spain I’d been living in.
Our enemies are not Andalusian either.....
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That was the final push I needed to become a race realist and white advocate. European culture and European nations are superior, and that’s not some accident or coincidence.
See?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 12, 2022, 09:04:45 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/re-uniting-americans/msg15461/#msg15461
where we noted:
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The American Civil War was a war against Confederates who felt closer to the Western colonialists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States#CultureQuoteThe basis for much of Southern culture derives from these states being among the original Thirteen Colonies, and from much of the population of the colonial South having ancestral links to colonists who emigrated west. Southern manners and customs reflect the relationship with England that was held by the early population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Southern_United_StatesQuoteFolklorists in the 1920s and later argued that because of the region's isolation, Appalachian language patterns more closely mirrored Elizabethan English than other accents in the United States.[38]
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There are several other unique linguistic enclaves in the American South. Among them is that of Tangier Island, Virginia, as well as the Outer Banks North Carolina, which some scholars claim preserves a unique English dialect from the colonial period.
our enemies have just posted an article where they explicitly confirm this, and hence that they are not American:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/09/12/in-defense-of-british-men/
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We recently saw the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who may not have shared our beliefs entirely (we don’t know for sure) but who I thought spent her entire life maintaining the proper decorum and class of British tradition and conducted herself like a lady the whole time. Her tragic but expected passing has caused me to spend a few moments thinking of these special islands in the North Atlantic where my ancestors came from. I also shed a few tears thinking about them. I don’t think I love any other ethnic group more than the British when recognizing them historically and not just in the modern sense. I love them even more than I do being a Southerner.
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It causes me to ponder and shed some tears thinking about how no other group in the world is currently more underappreciated than British men are on the global scale.
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If you ask them if they will watch the Queen’s funeral, they will say “we got rid of our King centuries ago.” Or “who cares?” As a Southerner I have never related to this ignorance and have actually had a great fondness for the British since I was a girl and have felt a closer connection to them than I do to most Americans.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 30, 2022, 06:28:45 pm
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/black-asian-disinformation-17385854.php
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District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks at a forum on attacks against older Asian Americans.
A first-of-its-kind study this month examines how disinformation is being used, often online, to sow discord between the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and other ethnic or racial groups.
Led by a coalition of AAPI organizations and academic researchers operating as the Asian American Disinformation Table, the study includes five case studies covering an array of topics affecting a diverse set of ethnic communities. One of those case studies concerns an issue a lot of us in the Bay Area are struggling to discuss with sensitivity and poise.
It concerns violence against people of Asian descent and how cynical social media actors have shaped a legitimate concern into a destructive narrative pitting Asian and Black communities against each other. Or have tried to, anyway.
Several of the social media accounts the report describes as “bad actors” operate under anonymity and claim to be based in San Francisco.
They are featured in a section of the study that focuses on how a loose network of anonymously run social media accounts, vloggers and alternative news sites are disseminating “powerful shock effect imagery” in the form of CCTV footage, graphic “photographs of bloodied Asian bodies” and recontextualized news stories (including old stories presented as new) to fearmonger the Asian American community and drive a wedge between it and other communities of color, primarily the Black community.
“Don’t fall for it,” said Jonathan Ong, an associate professor of global digital media in the department of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who worked on the study.
Ong said he and his two assistant researchers first noticed how several accounts frequently posted about Black-on-Asian crime during last year’s recall of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Ong said the goal of these accounts is to perpetuate a misleading narrative: that Black violence is the foundation of anti-Asian hate in San Francisco.
Here’s one example the report cites: a July 22 post on the anonymously run SF Streets 415 Instagram account, which has 27,000 followers. The post includes gruesome close-up photos of a scalp wound; text purporting to be from someone describing an anti-Asian attack that happened in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood; and a lengthy caption from SF Streets 415 that reads:
“Black juveniles are targeting and violently attacking Asians especially Asian women these days. It’s happening all over the city and the Bay Area and the targets are members of the Asian community. SFSTREETS415 and our twitter page Asian Crime Report are the only ones reporting daily about these anti Asian hate crimes. The media outlets, local and national, refuse to and have zero desire to.”
That line about the media not paying attention is an old tactic, one that the Asian American Disinformation Table’s report says advances “conspiratorial narratives that insinuate there is a ‘woke’ liberal conspiracy where Democrat politicians, leftist journalists, and platforms themselves have suppressed the real truth about the roots of Asian hate.”
If you’re wondering why they would do that, consider that San Francisco data from the FBI show white people are largely behind local hate crimes, and a national report by Janelle Wong, a professor of American and Asian American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, shows white people are largely behind the reported hate crimes throughout the U.S.
This data underlies a cynical ploy by these social media influencers to move Asian Americans to the political right — by repackaging genuine concerns about the far-right hate against them — and thus diluting the AAPI community’s political power and agency, according to the Asian American Disinformation Table’s report.
By the way, next time our enemies try this talking point:
https://vdare.com/articles/why-are-woke-leftists-so-ugly
please post pictures of Jenkins to shut them up.
https://twitter.com/brookejenkinssf
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 14, 2022, 05:36:00 pm
https://www.amren.com/blog/2022/08/i-feel-no-guilt/
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They complained that blacks in the Navy used to get all the crappy jobs. Even though that had since changed, they continued trashing the whites in the class. We broke up into subgroups and had to talk about how we were supposed to “feel.” Then, each one of us had to give a little presentation to the whole class about racism. When it was my turn, I said, “I grew up in a minority neighborhood as my family was poor. Since I never caused any of these problems I feel no guilt.”
The instructors were furious and started chastising me. There were about 15 Filipinos in the class, so I addressed them, “You people do all these crappy jobs the blacks used to do, so why don’t you have any representation up here?” They went ballistic and started yelling at the “teachers” on stage: “Why aren’t we [Filipinos] being represented? We are doing the crappy jobs!”
When things finally calmed down, the instructors yelled at me and kicked me out of their class for my supposed “racism.” Then they issued me an Article 15 of insubordination. I laughed all the way back to my ship. The Article 15 was later dropped.
The problem was never "blacks" doing the crappy jobs, because there are no such things as "blacks" (except in Western racial theory). The problem was always non-"whites" (ie. the outgroup) doing the crappy jobs. But by initially accepting the Western premise that it was "blacks" doing the crappy jobs, an opportunity was set up for the racist author to herd one part of the outgroup against another part of the outgroup, thereby effortlessly sabotaging the entire discussion using just one sentence, of course to the ultimate benefit of the ingroup (as usual).
Related:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/military-subverters/
The only way to win:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/msg9048/#msg9048
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 07, 2022, 08:41:38 pm
https://vdare.com/articles/the-wind-from-the-south-latin-american-leftism-may-trigger-massive-migrant-invasion
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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Leftist wave with racial overtones in Latin America. Steve Sailer highlighted the same thing happening in 2005. The difference now is that this is occurring at a time when the United States itself is questioning its own legitimacy.
It’s one thing when Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous President, says European settlement of the Americas was a bad thing, but quite another when Americans themselves are saying this.
What’s clear is that the European veneer of civilization imposed on Latin America is being washed away by the flood of changing demographics and anti-white racial nationalism.
Finally our enemies are using the term "nationalism" correctly (ie. to describe our side instead of theirs)! Authentic nationalism is always anti-"white"! Our enemies were never nationalists, but rather identitarians:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/identitarian-movement/
We are the nationalists!
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“The new Latin American indigenist movement rejects all things Western in the name of preserving the native essences and identities allegedly destroyed by colonization in the first instance and subsequently by the Creole Republics,” wrote Emilio Lamo de Espinosa in “Is Latin America part of the West?” back on December 4 2017 [Real Instituto].
Now, the question is whether America is part of the West.
It is not. This can be seen from aesthetics alone:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/msg10255/#msg10255
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/msg10112/#msg10112
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If America is to survive in any meaningful or recognizable form, it must be defined and defended explicitly as an outgrowth of European civilization in the New World.
The exact opposite is true. America must be defined as a product of the (anti-Western) Counterculture in the New World:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/msg10049/#msg10049
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the future of the West may depend on whether Hispanic immigrants see themselves as the heirs of the conquistadors or those they conquered.
We are here to ensure the latter.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 01, 2022, 07:53:39 pm
https://vdare.com/posts/va-gov-youngkin-pulls-clever-stunt-move-tuition-for-illegals-to-black-americans
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and the state’s GOP-controlled General Assembly will take $10 million in college money away from illegal aliens and give it to blacks who attend historically black colleges and universities. The money was intended for illegals with DACA status; i.e., Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Obama set up for illegal-alien kids [Virginia budget to move funding from DACA students to state’s HBCUs, by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, June 21, 2022].
Firstly, Youngkin also looks like what we would expect:
(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/57910/VDARE-youngkin-hbcu.jpg)
Youngkin has been previously covered:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg10632/#msg10632
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/msg9658/#msg9658
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-anti-trumpists/msg9702/#msg9702
Anyway, we must expose their ploy:
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Virginia Democrats and civil rights groups heavily criticized the move, stating that Gov. Glenn Youngkin is using the funding to pit two marginalized communities against each other.
“Shame on the governor for weaponizing state financial aid as a cheap political ploy to divide communities of color,” said Sookyung Oh told the Post’s Douglas-Gabriel “If education was important to this governor, as he claimed throughout his campaign, he could have easily allocated funding to ensure every young Virginian who wants to pursue higher education in the Commonwealth has the resources to do so.”
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Sookung Oh is headmistress of the Hamkae Center, which “organizes Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice in Virginia.” The group is especially fixated on illegals and DACA.
Why Douglas-Gabriel sought the opinion of an Asian outfit, given that 99 percent of the illegals are Hispanic, we are not given to know.
Because it is not about ethnic background (something which our enemies are incapable of ever understanding). It is about Americans uniting against Western occupiers!
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“I understand and agree that we need to do something for HBCUs. This is not the way to do it. This is messy,” Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Henrico), head of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, told the House before a vote on the amendment Friday. “We have more than enough resources to help.”
Exactly. I would recommend HCBUs accept the money and then themselves give the full amount to DACA students as a gesture of solidarity. DACA students can then decide whether or not to share it with HCBUs. This is folkism, and only folkism can defeat tribalism:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 20, 2022, 10:11:53 pm
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Post by: guest78 on June 19, 2022, 08:27:34 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 19, 2022, 07:59:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIHkvfE0TeA
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale
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A tamale is a traditional Mesoamerican dish, made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf.[1]
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Tamales originated in Mesoamerica as early as 8000 to 5000 BC.[1]
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 26, 2022, 08:30:24 pm
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Black, Asian and Latino communities all faced mass shootings in 2 weeks. How they're showing support.
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Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are showing their solidarity with the Latino population in Uvalde at a time when calls to protect America’s most disadvantaged populations are becoming increasingly urgent. Latino and Hispanic residents make up 72.7 percent of Uvalde County’s population, according to census data.
“I hope that we can use this moment to lean on one another,” said Chas Moore, the founder of the Austin Justice Coalition, a Black-led social justice organization. “The Black community just went through the terrible hate crime that happened in Buffalo. Now the Latino community is going through this. Our communities are mourning.”
Civil rights leaders across communities have been texting and emailing with one another since the Dallas and Buffalo shootings this month, said John C. Yang, the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
“Even after the Buffalo, Laguna Woods and Dallas shootings, all of our communities had been talking to each other by text, cellphone and email,” he said.
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Bobby Blount, a spokesperson for the San Antonio Area African American Community Fund, said the organization is willing to do all it can to support the Latino community in Uvalde.
“We have to continue the mission to make the world better for our demographics, the Latinx demographics, for Asians and others,” Blount said. “It’s important that we not only support each other on this but on other matters that we’re facing across the board.”
And as gun violence affects three distinct communities, solidarity among them doesn’t take just a single form, said Manju Kulkarni, a co-founder of the civil rights organization Stop AAPI Hate.
“It involves at a minimum acknowledging what is happening to other communities, seeing that the hate against African Americans is both similar to but also different from what our AAPI communities are experiencing,” she said.
Policy solutions can’t be one-sided, she said, and leaders need to put forward legislation that would benefit all communities of color.
Only folkism can defeat tribalism. See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 22, 2022, 08:44:34 pm
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 28, 2022, 01:23:24 am
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The Black-Korean conflict was an enduring storyline during the violence that erupted in 1992 after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. It was a palatable narrative of racial conflict in which white racism was not directly implicated.
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The Black-Korean conflict described a very real nationwide dynamic between Korean shopkeepers and their largely Black customer base that was marked by violence, boycotts and protest.
Korean shopkeepers, terrified by violence and crime, did not treat their Black customers with the respect they deserved. Black communities — frustrated by not just their treatment but by economic racism and disinvestment — organized boycotts of Korean-owned stores that would not hire Black people.
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"Why does mainstream media make a frame like that? What is the agenda?" Park asked me.
It was a genuine question, and one that I had trouble answering.
Were the news media dominated by white perspectives and readers eager for stories about racial conflict in which white racism was not the villain? Were Korean Americans used as a convenient political tool for those who wanted to reject Black demands for racial justice?
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History always reflects the worldview and aspirations of those who are writing it. Over the years, I have collected the stories of the buildings that remained standing after the riots ended because Asians, Blacks and Latinos were able to find common cause: a Chinese eatery on Virgil, a Cambodian jewelry shop in Long Beach, a Thai restaurant in Koreatown.
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Today, Korean Americans still own swap meets and beauty supply stores that primarily serve impoverished Black and Latino communities.
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The problem, though, is that stories of harmony receive far less coverage than tales of conflict — today and in 1992.
John H. Lee's most memorable interview from the riots' aftermath was with a Korean shopkeeper who decided to stop keeping guns at his shop and cease selling hard liquor in an attempt to bond with his Black customer base.
Lee had left the L.A. Times and was stringing for the New York Times. The anecdote ended up somewhere in the back end of the story.
Edward Taehan Chang, a UC Riverside professor and member of the Black Korean Alliance that began in 1986, said he remembers getting media coverage twice: when the group began and when it broke up the year after the riots.
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"They weren’t interested in covering our efforts, except when we were dissolving."
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"My goal has been to somehow dispel that notion that there is an intrinsic conflict between Black and Korean people."
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 20, 2022, 08:31:25 pm
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The director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Holt Public Schools recently circulated an internal memo mentioning his desire to set up private spaces within a school for minority students, with white people not allowed. This, Matt Morales said, was “equity work in creating a more inclusive learning community.”
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His memo included a link to an article written by Kelsey Blackwell and posted on a website called the Arrow Journal. It carried the title “Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People.”
The article states: “We need spaces where we can be our authentic selves without white people’s judgment and insecurity muzzling that expression. We need spaces where we can simply be—where we can get off the treadmill of making white people comfortable and finally realize just how tired we are... The values of whiteness are the water in which we all swim. No one is immune. Those values dictate who speaks, how loud, when, the words we use, what we don’t say, what is ignored, who is validated and who is not.”
In short, we need American spaces.
The full article:
https://arrow-journal.org/why-people-of-color-need-spaces-without-white-people/
Jews are not POC, of course, and should have their tongues cut out if they say they are.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 06, 2022, 04:26:22 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-church-apos-fasting-whiteness-015204922.html
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Chicago church 'fasting from whiteness' during Lent by ditching hymns written by White people
A church in suburban Chicago has told parishioners it will abstain from performing any music that is associated with White people during the season of Lent.
"In our worship services throughout Lent, we will not be using any music or liturgy written or composed by white people," the website for the First United Church of Oak Park reads. "Our music will be drawn from the African American spirituals tradition, from South African freedom songs, from Native American traditions, and many, many more."
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According to a report from Turning Point USA, the church also erected a sign promoting the racially-charged Lenten fast saying that it would be hosting worship services "around the voices of Black people, indigenous people, and people of color."
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The church is also reportedly promoting reflections that it calls "evotionals" which have supported the idea of "fasting from whiteness."
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The church which is reportedly "fasting from whiteness" also describes itself as an "open and inclusive Christian Community."
There is no contradiction here. It is "whiteness" that is non-inclusive. Duh!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 26, 2022, 10:07:09 pm
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I am a Filipina Kentuckian, we must foster connections among communities of color: Opinion
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I am a one-and-half generation, self-proclaimed Filipina Kentuckian. I call Kentucky home, but in a state with a small AAPI population, I often find myself feeling isolated from people with similar experiences and emotions relating to race-based violence and trauma. However, I was recently reminded that violence against Black, Indigenous and people of color is not new and takes many forms. The legacy of slavery and colonialism created societal and cultural barriers for BIPOC individuals to connect. Much of the violence and discrimination is used as a tool of white supremacy to divide BIPOC Americans and hinder our ability to build collective power
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Colorism and anti-Black racism exist within the AAPI community, and a parallel type of discrimination happens when anti-Asian biases and rhetoric across racial lines. Despite this, we must remember that as people of color in America, we have more in common than we have differences.
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We, as BIPOC people, have all experienced generational and individualized harms from a system made to reinforce white supremacy. Out of survival, we – as an AAPI community and as a BIPOC community as a whole – must remove barriers, biases and prejudices against each other so we can stand together in solidarity. They cannot ignore us when we are many.
Thank you for accurately not including Jews in the BIPOC list.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 25, 2022, 09:51:03 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nicole-lee-her-way-becoming-192626451.html
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has nominated Nicole Lee to replace Patrick Daley Thompson as the 11th Ward Alderman, potentially making her the first Asian American woman to serve in the City Council.
Speaking at a media conference at Bridgeport’s Zhou B Art Centeron Thursday, Lightfoot announced Lee, who has deep roots in Chicago’s Chinese American community, as the final candidate to replace Thompson.
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“It is exciting and historic that the Mayor has appointed the first Alderman from the Chinese American community,” said State Rep. Theresa Mah, a Democrat who represents Chinatown and the first Asian American elected to the Illinois General Assembly. “I know Nicole, and I am confident that she has the right skill set to represent all 11th Ward residents well in City Council.”
Once again it disproves rightist claims that "non-whites" in positions of power will promote only their own ethnic group.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg5074/#msg5074
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg5081/#msg5081
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 22, 2022, 09:02:59 pm
https://www.amren.com/features/2022/03/should-whites-put-america-first/
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Several publications have published longer explanations of why the country is beyond hope. This Unz Review article is called “America Must Die – So That The People Can Live”:
A recent study stated that the US now has an astonishing 44 million people who were foreign-born, of which about 75% are legal and 25% are illegal. Nearly half of these millions were born in just five countries: Mexico, China, India, Philippines, and El Salvador. Surely not more than a percent or two of these 44 million are White. The grand edifice that is America is collapsing as we speak.
Therefore, it is time to accept reality and give up America for lost. Put away your flags, your pins, and all your red-white-and-blue paraphernalia. Toss out your MAGA hats; America will never be “great again.” Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar or a fool. The country is rotting from above and below.
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In his book Homo Americanus, Croatian writer Tomislav Sunic lists many artists, writers and philosophers — both European and American — who could accurately be called “anti-American:” Martin Heidegger, Ezra Pound, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, and T.S. Eliot. Some, such as Francis Parker Yockey, would have preferred Soviet control of all of Europe after the Second World War. Those parts the Soviets did control are now much whiter than those that were dominated by the United States. Some Western Europeans are moving to Eastern Europe to escape the American-style racial diversity that is now a feature of many formerly white nations. If American thinking spreads into Eastern Europe, those countries, too, will gradually be obliterated.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 22, 2022, 02:31:12 am
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MAGAts: "I'd Rather Be A Russian Than A Democrat"
The Rest of Us: "I'd Rather Be An American Than A Republican"
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 15, 2022, 08:18:54 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/race-may-played-factor-college-130024410.html
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My race may have played a factor in my college rejections, but I support affirmative action
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Serving as an admissions reader and my overall time in college helped cement my beliefs about affirmative actions: I support it.
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The reality is that without affirmative action, colleges will still play favorites
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For those unfamiliar, legacy admissions is the practice of giving people preference in the college admissions process because they share a familial relationship with an alumnus. It sounds a little more racist if you think of it as some people getting into a college because they share DNA with someone who graduated from there.
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we see that 43% of white students at Harvard are legacy, athletes or related to donors or staff. The numbers do not hold the same for minorities, including Asian Americans.
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What really hurts is seeing Asian Americans being used by white people like Edward Blum to attack a system that benefits ourselves and other minorities. The playbook is so old, there are numerous ways to describe what is going on: Asian Americans are being used as a racial mascot, used as a racial wedge and are being racially triangulated against other minorities by white people in their fight against affirmative action. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Blum was covered here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10964/#msg10964
Post by: Polinc_Socjus on February 02, 2022, 08:23:13 pm
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I suggest American lion dancers, as a longer-term objective, try to develop a unique American lion design, just as other countries each have their own lion:
I read lion dance and immediately thought of a certain subculture that they could draw inspiration from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8l0CnOYSA
Not a lion but the performance is kind of similar.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 02, 2022, 01:31:12 am
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'America belongs to all of us': How the Chinese Lion Dance bridges Indianapolis cultures
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The brothers, ages 8 and 6, were getting ready to perform a traditional lion dance and ring in the Year of the Tiger. In the minutes leading up to the dance Saturday afternoon, their father Noe Amos went to check on them, once again.
“I think he feels more nervous than they do,” their mother, Zahyra Arenas, joked.
They are Mexican American, and they don’t typically celebrate Lunar New Year, Arenas notes, but this year is special. After months of watching YouTube videos and practicing at home, the boys had the opportunity to express their newfound passion for lion dance in front of a real audience.
“I'm happy and proud that they're willing to learn a different culture that is not ours,” Arenas said. “It helps them I guess feel more secure, more knowledge(able) of other people … And right now in the world we live that just keeps you inside of a bubble, coming out here … we still need this.”
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On Saturday, the crowd was surprised with a lion dance performance that included kids of Chinese and Hispanic backgrounds, including a dance group called Sones de Mexico.
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“That's what it is about,” he said. "America is not defined by one single ethnicity ... it belongs to all of us."
I suggest American lion dancers, as a longer-term objective, try to develop a unique American lion design, just as other countries each have their own lion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_dance#Regional_types
Post by: guest55 on January 29, 2022, 12:02:41 am
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I was walking to the store and saw this guy playing by himself. The beat was good so I started recording. By the end of the song 2 other random guys joined. None of them knew each other. Its effing awesome.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr478w--dpE
Jaime Maldonado - videographer
Jesse Rya - guitarist + vocals
Ron Lashley - Rapper
Howard Mullins - vocalist
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 13, 2022, 09:15:44 pm
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At a virtual town hall meeting in August, generations of Japanese American community organizers spoke alongside leaders from the Black reparations movement.
Called “Reparations Then, Reparations Now!” the meeting coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings, which marked a turning point in the Japanese American redress movement.
“Just as Black Americans supported our community’s struggle for redress, we will strive to support and show solidarity with Black people as they fight for reparations today,” said Michael Nishimura, a 29-year-old doctoral student and organizer.
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Solidarity between Japanese Americans and Black Americans around federal reparations is decades old. The civil rights movement “was deeply embedded in our early formation and early thinking,” Masaoka said of the Japanese American redress movement. Representatives of the JACL attended the March on Washington in 1963.
Opposition to the Vietnam War and the push for ethnic studies classes in California colleges were other uniting forces for African American, Asian American, Native American and Chicano students.
Black politicians — including the late Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif.; the late Rep. Mervyn Dymally, D-Calif.; and the Congressional Black Caucus — were also integral to the redress movement, said traci kato-kiriyama, an artist and organizer with the group Nikkei Progressives. In his historic testimony on the House floor in 1987, Dellums recalled watching his childhood friend, who was Japanese American, being taken away from his home.
“This Black American cries out as loudly as my Asian American brothers and sisters on this issue,” Dellums said, urging Congress not to strip key provisions from the Civil Liberties Act.
Post by: guest55 on January 13, 2022, 07:30:32 pm
NOT ME! Many of us here on this forum are not American citizens. If you truly are interested in American True Leftism then your best bet is to contact an American True Leftist if you wish to speak about this topic more with someone.
Also, I am not interested in personnel relationships with anyone. My next friend will most likely be of the canine species. Thank you for your understanding!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 30, 2021, 10:25:13 pm
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So much of her is hyphenated, not just her name: Felicia Rangel-Samponaro. With caramel skin and curly brown hair that’s often tied back, she can pass as Latina.
But she identifies as Black.
On the Texas-Mexico border, she’s emerged as a vigorous defender of immigrants, and that work often forces her to reckon with how race and ethnicity — real and perceived — shape lives on the border, including her own.
"There's a lot of oppression, discrimination and racism that goes on, on both sides of the border," she said.
Rangel-Samponaro's background has allowed the 45-year-old American to win over skeptics who find they can relate to her, sometimes as Black, sometimes as Latino.
But being a Black border activist is still challenging.
Sometimes, it means getting detained by U.S. Customs, then subjected to a cavity search. Other times, it means confronting Central American migrants cracking racist jokes or correcting people on both sides of the border who assume her white male employee is her boss.
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Now she’s one of the few American volunteers willing to cross to Reynosa, a dangerous border town where thousands of migrants have camped. Although volunteers from Black churches and Haitian activists appeared in the fall to help a caravan of Haitian migrants, they soon vanished. Rangel-Samponaro remained, championing immigrants, particularly Black migrants beset by discrimination she knew all too well.
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“I've never been called the N-word so much until I moved here,” she said. “Which was actually pretty surprising coming from other minorities, which I would also tell them as well, ‘From one minority to the other: You should be ashamed of yourself.’”
She told Latinos who hurled such slurs that they might become targets of bigotry themselves.
“I always let them know: Once you leave your little bubble of the Valley, and if you ever went to Houston or another major city here in the U.S., you will be looked upon the same way you are looking at me.”
As her son grew, he noticed how some locals treated her.
“He asked me yesterday when we were leaving Walmart, why was I stopped over everyone else, and I was honest, ‘It's because I'm Black. That's why they stopped me. They think I steal.’ And he says, ‘Will they do that to me?’ and I said, ‘No, they won't. You look white. They'll let you pass,’” she said. “My mom didn't have those conversations with me and my sisters. And I wish she had. So I'm very honest with my son.”
Her worst fear: That her son will pass as white, betraying their Black ancestors. It’s one thing if people assume he’s white, as they did with her mother. It’s quite another if he takes advantage by presenting himself that way.
“You never pass,” she said of the way she and her sisters were raised. “If we see a Black person passing, then there is immediate disgust.”
Passing as white would make it easier to work in Mexico, she said. White migrant advocates seem to automatically command respect from locals in Reynosa.
These locals should be prohibited from reproducing.
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But instead of passing, Rangel-Samponaro has tried to leverage being biracial.
When she tells Mexican officials about her father, they smile and give her high fives. When she tells them she’s Black, they’re surprised.
“In their minds, Black people don’t cross into Mexico to help others,” she said.
Black migrants usually assume she’s Latina. So she makes a point of saying that she identifies as Black and that, “We are going through the same struggles.”
Among Latino migrants, she’s learned to recognize when they use Spanish racial slurs and stops them, patiently explaining that it’s offensive because she’s Black. For her, it’s a teachable moment.
“To a lot of them, being Black is like the lowest thing you can be,” she said. “…I'm their first contact with a Black person, and this Black person is paying your rent, feeding you and your family, providing education to your child. So I hope over the years I've changed the opinion of some.”
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Rangel-Samponaro stopped at the back of the camp where Haitians lived, at a makeshift kitchen where they cook. A woman was preparing soup, chopping yams and green beans supplied by Rangel-Samponaro.
Many local stores won’t sell to Black migrants, she said. Employers won’t hire them, taxis won’t drive them and landlords refuse to rent to them. So Rangel-Samponaro does it for them, and locals assume she’s Latina. It’s the one instance where she passes for the sake of her work.
“I never say I’m Mexican even though I am,” she said. “It would be the same as if I was trying to pass as white. Passing is passing.”
She's rented apartments for about 20 Haitian migrants elsewhere in Reynosa, but even when she’s passing as Latina, her power to help Black migrants in Mexico is limited.
When she picked up several Haitian families walking outside Reynosa in the fall, planning to drive them into the city, she was stopped by Mexican soldiers. They took the families into custody, threatened to detain her and sent the migrants to the southern state of Veracruz, where she wired them money for food and lodging.
She blamed deteriorating conditions at the camp on the Mexican government and Biden administration, which extended a Trump pandemic policy that bars many migrants from seeking asylum.
“They need Title 42 to keep Black asylum seekers out,” she said recently as she waited on the border bridge to return to the U.S., referring to the public health law invoked by the Trump administration.
She was nervous as she approached U.S. Customs. It had been months since officers stopped her while she was crossing with fellow volunteer Cavazos, but she was still shaken.
She had never been stopped on the bridge before, never had her car searched and X-rayed — twice. Then she was escorted inside the customs office and cavity searched by two Latina officers as a Latino supervisor watched.
Rangel-Samponaro could tell the officers suspected she had drugs in her Honda SUV. It felt like racial profiling. On video she recorded with her phone until officers confiscated it, she shouts, “You only searched me because we’re minorities!”
“I told them, ‘You’re doing it to your own people,’” she said.
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As for the future, last week, Rangel-Samponaro started building her own migrant shelter in Reynosa. Mexican officials initially said she would be able to accept only Central American families, but she insisted on housing Black migrants too.
“People are uncomfortable when I call out the racism, but imagine how I feel?” she said. “I’m uncomfortable all of the time. So no, I have no sympathy for people who are feeling uncomfortable because I am calling it what it is. You should be uncomfortable, and maybe then you’ll stop or tell your friend to stop.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 15, 2021, 11:12:01 pm
https://ricochet.media/en/2538/black-people-in-canada-are-not-settlers
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In a recent Vice article, writer Ashleigh-Rae Thomas engaged two Indigenous and two Black thought leaders to reflect on whether Black people in Canada can or should be seen as settlers.
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Thomas and each of her interviewees independently note that descendants of enslaved Africans cannot be properly considered settlers of Canada because their migration to the lands now claimed by the Canadian state was not a product of their freely and fully consented choice but rather the product of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a primary engine of global capitalism from the 1600s to the mid-1800s.
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So, what’s a more historically accurate way of describing Black people whose ancestors were dehumanized, forcibly removed from Africa, trafficked and transplanted to and through the Western world and re-routed and re-rooted in lands now claimed as Canadian soil?
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A term that more effectively captures the routes/roots of the Black presence in Canada is “forcibly displanted Africans.” The shorthands I use for this term are “displanted Africans,” “the forcibly displanted,” “displanted people,” or, simply, “the displanted.”
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Central to this offering of a new descriptor is the word “displanted,” a portmanteau of the words “displaced” and “replanted.” To the fundamentally unjust benefit of European powers and people, through the calamitous ravages of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonization, African people were displaced from their ancestral lands and replanted, primarily in soils across the Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, and of course Canada.
This displacement was forcible because it was violently imposed and executed through a European-headquartered global network of inhumanely coercive institutions and practices that, on catastrophic scales, facilitated widespread and systematic mass kidnapping, trafficking, terror and murder of African people for the purposes of extracting their labour to build Europe’s “New World.” The United Nations conservatively estimates that 15 million Africans lost their lives and liberty to slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Embedded in the concept of displantedness is the recognition that African people were involuntarily uprooted, enslaved, and scattered by Europeans, then reinserted into land not their own, into the soil of Turtle Island’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Aina-Nia Ayo’dele, founder and managing director of Sacred Women International, is known to say that there’s a space for co-existence, understanding and healing between Indigenous and Black people in Canada through the correlative fact that “Indigenous people have had their land stolen, and African people have been stolen from their land.”
At the root of this unique and interconnected fact, we find a solid grounding for reconciliation between Black and Indigenous people in Canada, while also honouring that there are thousands in this country that are of both Indigenous and African heritage.
Global capitalism’s centuries-old symbiotic sins of colonization of Indigenous lands and the enslavement of Africans is not just a point of intersecting sufferings of Indigenous and Black people. It is also a potentially powerful point of departure for healing, understanding and mutually reinforcing resistance against the afterlives of colonization and slavery.
The added value of the term “forcibly displaced Africans” is that it doesn’t cover only enslaved Africans in Canada and their direct descendants but all people of indigenous African heritage who, through generations of (post-)colonially forced displacement and migration, now find themselves in Canada as first, second- or third- generation Canadians.
Within Canada’s populations of African and/or Caribbean heritage, it is common to hear elders and newcomers alike openly express that they would have preferred to stay in the lands of their birth, but they left and came to Canada because their home countries couldn’t provide adequate access to quality health, education, housing and employment opportunities for them and their future families. The lack of such supports is a product and process of the colonization and neo-colonization of African and the Caribbean, which Canada is deeply implicated in and has benefited from.
The violently forced processes of colonization and post-colonial structural adjustment programs that handcuff the development and independence of Caribbean and African countries have effectively eroded these countries’ abilities to provide such services sustainably. In other words, Western colonization of the Caribbean and Africa acts as the displacing push/pull factor that accounts for much, if not most, of the Black presence in Canada historically and still today.
This is why current Black populations in Canada are also to be considered forcibly displanted Africans.
My only criticism is with the overemphasis on "Africans". Western colonialism happened all over the world, and its consequences drive migration trends of formerly colonized peoples regardless of region. Therefore there is no need to distinguish between former victims of Western colonialism according to location of ancestral origin (let alone one based on Western geographical concepts!). Unification should be between all victims of Western colonialism against our common enemies:
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 12, 2021, 11:56:58 pm
https://vdare.com/articles/if-republicans-were-smart-they-d-brand-democrats-as-the-black-party-gaining-hispanic-and-asian-votes
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if Republicans branded the Democrat Party as the “Black Party,” they might just push enough Asians and Hispanics to vote GOP that it secures solid majorities
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I think the GOP can make inroads with Asians and other non-whites such as Hispanics, who are not huge fans of Black Lives Matter or blacks in general.
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While non-whites pummel each other, whites can watch … and wait … and rebuild. Then when the time is right, and just enough nonwhites abandon the Black Party, whites can retake their institutions.
Whether or not their strategy works will depend on whether we succeed in:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/
fast enough.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 23, 2021, 09:40:47 pm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-problem-with-the-term-asian-american-according-to-jay-caspian-kang/ar-AAPwmco
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Asian American, the term used to describe Kang and millions of others whose ancestry can be traced back to the continent of Asia, has never truly fit.
In his book, Kang takes aim at the idea of a cohesive, Asian American identity and calls for a reimagination of it instead.
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Growing up in Boston and North Carolina as the child of Korean immigrants, how did you think about yourself in terms of race?
At the beginning, I didn't think about it very much. I think that there was some form of suppression because my parents are so aggressively assimilative. Part of me wonders why they were like that. But at the same time, I also think that they saw that as the only method of survival. They thought, perhaps correctly, that if they [worked to assimilate] then their kids would have an easier path to moving up in America.
By the time I started noticing that I was different -- sometime around second, third or fourth grade -- I found myself identifying more with the Black students at our school than the White students.
Yes! This is the first step along the path to Americanness (which your Eurocentrist parents never discovered)!
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Isn't there value in drawing parallels between the discrimination faced by early Asian immigrants and the challenges that Asian Americans face today?
I think it's okay to say we as a people might [be discriminated against] as other people have had it happen before us. That's a little different than saying we are those other people.
To think about these things clearly, we need to think about the distinct mass of people who came post-1965 as perhaps even its own identity. I've felt more in common with [a former coworker whose family came from Nigeria post-1965] than I did a whole host of other Asian people, especially those who had long histories in the United States.
Well done! This is what we need!
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Do you see any value in a broad, umbrella term like Asian Americans?
I would just ask why "immigrant" wouldn't work better.
There's something about the post-1965 immigration experience that would lend itself to a great deal of solidarity that would be broader than just the Asian American category. It would bring in these sort of natural alliances that already exist.
If you go to a Korean restaurant in Los Angeles and you go into the kitchen, you're going to see Mexican dudes and El Salvadoran dudes talking to Korean dudes in some mix of Korean and Spanish. Those types of examples are everywhere. If we can create a capacious idea of identity that includes those types of moments, that's a much stronger form of identity and will make people feel more politically active than this term that we seem to argue about what it actually means.
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If we change the politics and make it about the concerns of poor immigrants, then suddenly there are absolutely open pathways to all sorts of solidarity with different people. I think that's in the end what we want.
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It requires a type of treason against one's class and one's race. That's what's necessary at this point. I do think it's difficult. I do think that most people won't do it. But I do think if a small group of very influential people do it, that it will be massively influential.
The solidarity we really want is between all victims of Western colonialism, but what is proposed above is already much better than dividing people by ethnic background.
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The book itself is a question of why we accept the political identities that are given to us. Is there a way we can think about our lives to try and create better political possibilities that we might not have thought of before? If the book does anything, I hope that it empowers people to think through their own lives and maybe come up with something better than I can of how we should navigate the next 20 to 30 years.
We should spend the next 20-30 years (or however long it takes) killing every aspect of Western civilization everywhere it can be found in the world. America is destined to take a leading role in this, but first the US has to recognize itself as American instead of Western.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 14, 2021, 09:34:43 pm
https://twitter.com/NickCho/status/1446661176310435844
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Dear white people: Keep ANY talk about Asians out of your damn mouths if you think you’re gonna try to use us as ANY KIND of wedge against our Black and brown friends and neighbors. This **** will not be tolerated and you will be shut the **** down.
Friendly reminder: you will need firearms to shut them down properly.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2021, 11:32:59 pm
https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/10/six-years-of-constitutional-crisis.html
and Dare to Dream for America generally.
Post by: guest55 on October 10, 2021, 12:49:12 pm
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And we have more in common with our racial kinsmen in England, Germany, the Netherlands,
You have absolutely nothing in common with me and I'm a blonde haired blue-eyed German. I'd rather commit suicide than live in a country run by your barbarian types! I'm looking forward to witnessing your complete destruction!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 09, 2021, 10:55:46 pm
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/10/an-american-son/
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I always felt cheated.
It wasn’t because I lacked for anything. I had an idyllic childhood. My childhood was so normal that in the new America, I’m a freak. Two parents (of differing sexes, a necessary clarification these days), a nice house in the suburbs, a stay-at-home mom, a hard-working father with a stable, nonpolitical job. A yard, a friendly dog, home-cooked meals, and a kitchen always bursting with food. A family that would get me through anything — if there were anything to get through.
There’s no trauma in my past. No abuse. No bullying at school. No diseases. No racial slurs around the dinner table. No terrible secrets or horrible injuries to overcome. Sensible center-left political views. No guns. No violence. Up until the time I stepped into a boxing ring well into adulthood, I had never been in a real fight in my life.
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I am a White Nationalist. I’m writing this to convince you that you should be a White Nationalist — if you aren’t already. And more than that, I’m writing to tell you that there is almost nothing of this country that can be saved — or should be.
The great imperative of our time is for the white European population within the United States to secure its existence by creating a homeland independent of the present American system. All other platforms, programs, and issues are distractions or deceptions. All other political movements, creeds, and beliefs matter only insofar as they lead people towards or away our position.
Our great imperative is to stop you from succeeding. Do we really want another Israel in the New World?
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At a certain point, the story of America — and the story of humanity — stopped being about the warriors, the pioneers, and the creators. Instead, it became a story about the victims
In other words, the story stopped being about Westerners and became a story about those who lived on the receiving end of Western colonialism - including Americans.
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America at its core can only be defined as one of two ways — as an extension of Europe on the continent of North America, or as a deliberate separation from the Old World.
We claimed the latter definition, and you are increasingly agreeing with us:
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at its core the American ideal is that “we have it in our power to begin the world anew.” And so we did — and destroyed ourselves.
No, we destroyed Western civilization. Or at least we have started to. My concern is that we finish what we have started.
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“America” did not accomplish anything. Whites did. EuropeanAmericansdid. “American” accomplishments overwhelmingly belong to them — and them alone. But the white historicAmericannation and “America” are two different things.
But if America can destroy Western civilization (not just in the US but all over the world), that will be one of the most important accomplishments by any country in all of history.
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Looking around the contemporary United States, who can doubt that America is evolving into simply the logical conclusion of its founding ideals?
I agree that America is evolving into what it is destined to be: Western civilization's greatest adversary. Its evolution is still far from complete, however. We are here to guide it through the remainder.
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And we have more in common with our racial kinsmen in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the other nations of the Occident than we do our nonwhite “fellow Americans.”
I am sure you do. That is why you are not American. Americans have more in common with not only other Americans regardless of ethnic background, but with all fellow victims of Western colonialism all over the world regardless of ethnic background.
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America today is simply enforced mediocrity.
I do not exactly consider it mediocre to become Western civilization's greatest adversary. Which is not to say that we care about avoiding mediocrity in itself - only Homo Hubris Westerners care about that. But it is the simple truth that the final destruction of Western civilization will be totally epic if we manage to pull it off.
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Another world is possible — but there is something standing in the way. That something is America.
For which we are thankful to America.
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We are not “Americans,” for how can one be a citizen of an abstraction? We are Europeans, whites who have conquered the North American wilderness and are prepared to claim our birthright of a nation where we are free to be ourselves. We know that this farce you call a country is a nightmare that just rolls on and on, and we want no part of it.
We will treat you no differently than how we treat Israelis.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 08, 2021, 04:05:52 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-senators-racist-compliment-teachable-124222648.html
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President Joe Biden's nomination of the Honorable Lucy H. Koh to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a historic choice. Koh would be the first female Korean American federal circuit judge in the country's history. But to be fair, Koh has been breaking barriers in our judicial system throughout her career.
A brilliant jurist with an unimpeachable record, Koh was welcomed into the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation proceeding Wednesday with this greeting from the committee's ranking member, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Quoting his daughter, Grassley said the "Korean people" can make a lot out of nothing." "So I congratulate you and your people," he added.
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We've seen this play before.
In 2018, an intelligence analyst was badgered by then-President Donald Trump, who was obsessed with finding out where her "people" were "from." Sound familiar? He also labeled her the "pretty Korean lady" who should have been a part of negotiations with North Korea.
Those who advance these kinds of stereotypes are deliberately creating a false and damaging binary. On one side are the "good" and acceptable minority communities, and on the other are communities deemed inferior. These categories are also created to highlight and praise nonwhite Americans who have sufficiently assimilated intoAmerican— read: white — society. This is terrible for minority groups, who find themselves pitted against one another, and it creates a wildly counterproductive cultural dynamic.
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it is enabled by language and rhetoric that separates Americans into groups: not the collective we, but my people and your people.
More about Grassley (and his people):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley#Israel_Anti-Boycott_Act
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In April 2017, Grassley co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[117][118] In 2019, Grassley was one of 14 Republican senators to sign a letter from Marco Rubio that involved condemning the BDS movement.[119]
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 26, 2021, 10:14:12 pm
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In recent research, I found that a greater sense of solidarity among people of color leads many African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos to support policies that would be useful for one of those subgroups, even if it is not relevant to their own. For instance, when thinking of themselves as “people of color,” they are more likely to support #BlackLivesMatter (a Black issue); a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants (a Latino issue); and more H1-B visas for high-skilled immigrants (an Asian American issue).
This sense of solidarity with people of color can be sparked by reminding non-Whites about what they hold in common.
Yes! This is why I prefer the term "non-white" over "POC", as the former emphasizes the oppressor we have in common, whereas the latter is a relic of the False Left "diversity" nonsense.
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In spring 2021, my research team and I undertook two online experiments, one with 641 Asian American adults and another with 624 Latino adults, recruited through Dynata’s online platform, with each sample matching the distributions of gender, education and age in each population.
We divided each group into two. Asian Americans and Latinos in the control group read an article about the gradual extinction of giant tortoises. The rest read about a group being treated as foreign and un-American, much as happens to members of their own community. Asian Americans read about Latinos, and vice versa. We then asked all participants whether the problems that African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos face are too different for them to be allies; whether they supported a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants; and whether they supported more H1-B visas for highly skilled immigrants.
Among those who read about tortoises, Asian Americans were nearly 9 percent less likely than Latinos to support a pathway to citizenship. But when we reminded them of their shared experience of being treated as foreigners, not only did that gap disappear, but both groups become substantially more likely to support such policies.
Similarly, when Latinos read about tortoises, they were about 6 percent less likely than Asian Americans to support more generous policies toward highly skilled immigrants (e.g., increasing number of H1-B visas). But after reading about another group marginalized as foreign, the gap again disappeared, and both Asians and Latinos become more likely to support such policies.
In ongoing work, my lab has found this dynamic among other non-White groups that are less high-profile, including Middle Eastern and North African individuals.
Firstly, Western civilization is currently forcing tortoises to reproduce:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/msg6759/#msg6759
which is another reason why we need to kill Western civilization ASAP.
Secondly, the above study shows that folkism is indeed realistic provided we put in the work to make it happen.
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People of color are not automatic allies of one another’s civic goals. But when reminded of how their experiences are alike, they can become steadfast allies.
Thirdly, back when I was working with JAM, he initially believed that by producing propaganda emphasizing our common oppression of all non-Jews by Jews, non-Jewish "whites" would abandon "whiteness" en masse and join the folk. We all saw how that turned out.....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 10, 2021, 11:55:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtjcA5ihk_o
Note especially 4:00-4:15. Carlson likes Hungarian architecture! We covered a bit of it here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg6679/#msg6679
but this prompts me to do a new post on Hungarian architecture:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg8013/#msg8013
This is presumably what Carlson would like to build in the US. Can you get more anti-American than this?
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 06, 2021, 10:17:27 pm
https://www.amren.com/videos/2021/08/whats-ahead-for-whites/
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The bitter truth is, we can’t save the whole country. We built it and we made it great, but it’s not ours anymore.
Our goal should be local autonomy and eventual independence, so encourage all secession movements. Liberals are vicious, but if we are determined to leave, I don’t think they will kill us just to keep our corpses in the Union. Our rulers hate our history and despise us. They should be happy to see us go.
So, it’s up to us to make this happen, and up to us alone. The decision is ours. If we want a place of our own on this continent, where we can be an outpost of Europe – without apologies and for ever – we have to make it happen.
Fortunately, we are not liberals. True Leftists care not about where enemy corpses end up, but about ensuring enemy bloodlines cease to be perpetuated anywhere.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 14, 2021, 10:35:10 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/salutatorian-faces-racist-bullying-applauding-215725325.html
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Salutatorian Faces Racist Bullying After Applauding 'Middle Eastern Peers' in Speech
A young Asian American woman in Davie, Fla., has become the target of racist cyberbullying after she applauded “Middle Eastern peers” for making it through high school in her graduation speech.
What she said: Rachel Cheng, this year’s salutatorian of Western High School, used her time on stage on June 8 to address the struggles faced by Asian Americans and other minorities to get to graduation.
Cheng began her five-minute speech sharing the racism she has faced as an East Asian woman amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 graduate pointed out that “21” was also the number of times she was called a “ch*nk” in the week before classes went online due to the coronavirus.
Cheng said she was also chased out of a Walgreens by someone who did not want “China virus people” in the store. She recalled it as “the first of countless racially profiled interactions” that she has experienced in the past year-and-a-half.
Aside from Asian Americans, the salutatorian dedicated the rest of her speech to applaud other minority graduates. These include her African American, Native American and Indigenous, Middle Eastern, Hispanic and Latino peers, and anyone else who is part of a marginalized community or “has faced discrimination of any kind.”
Jews not included!
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Boos erupted from the audience when the graduate addressed her Middle Eastern peers, whom she described to be “in constant fear of their families and friends being struck down by a militant government who’ve had their land stolen and abused.” Cheng said the booing came from a few students and parents.
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The backlash: After Cheng’s speech went viral, social media users flocked on her Instagram page, where she had to clarify aspects of it in response to critics.
Cheng told NextShark she wanted people to understand that she was not referring to any specific country when she addressed her “Middle Eastern peers” — and that she never once said Israel. Still, a group of students from her school, whom she described to be Jewish, felt it was “a personal attack” to them and “began to send racially charged comments, hate and spread lies about me.”
Why would they feel this way unless they know Israel in fact stole its currently occupied territory?
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Cheng’s attackers — who also called her “ch*nk” — allegedly accused her of being anti-Semitic, despite the fact that she addressed anti-Semitism toward the end of her speech. They also allegedly spread rumors that she was homophobic when she herself identifies as “a queer woman.”
A flaw here (we should never use the term "anti-Semitism" in a serious way), but she has time to improve. In particular, now that she sees that Jews are openly racist (to the extent of using ethnic slurs) and will accuse her of "anti-Semitism" no matter what she does, she may figure out that she might as well stop caring about not offending them altogether.
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One student allegedly contacted a man named Joe Zevuloni, a Miami-based businessman who has appeared in Israeli media in support of former President Donald Trump. Zevuloni then “sent his 70,000 adult followers after me,” Cheng said.
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In his posts, Zevuloni accused Cheng of giving a “hypocritical hate speech” and called her an “anti-Semitic Chinese student.” He also claimed that she said, “I stand with the Palestinians who stole their lands [sic] Israel is an apartheid state.”
Excellent! Present Trump supporters and Israel supporters as the same group! This is what we want!
And yes, keep using the term "apartheid"!
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The outrage led to Instagram permanently closing her account, Cheng said. Since then, she has also received countless racist comments from “zionists and white supremacists” — both students and adults — who are now allegedly threatening to get her college decision revoked.
Being attacked by Zionists and white supremacists is a badge of honour that in a sane world would improve her college application.
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An online petition has been created, calling on Instagram to restore her account, with over 1,600 signatures as of this writing.
Support Cheng!
https://www.change.org/p/instagram-revive-rachel-cheng-s-instagram-account?source_location=topic_page
Here is what Zionists and white supremacists say about her:
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In reality, her face shape is better than most:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E-552wDS5S0/maxresdefault.jpg)
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"A lot of my classmates are defending me, but as POCs, we have little to no power compared to the group of white supremacist and zionists that are attacking me,” Cheng told NextShark.
Well done for self-identifying as POC rather than as a particular ethnicity! The question that should preoccupy her post-school life is: how do we gain power over white supremacists and Zionists? The first thing she should do is buy herself a well-deserved graduation present:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
and encourage all POC high school graduates to buy themselves this same graduation present.
Post by: guest5 on June 06, 2021, 04:11:20 pm
Post by: SirGalahad on June 05, 2021, 01:06:41 pm
Post by: guest5 on June 04, 2021, 09:57:46 pm
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 03, 2021, 10:11:25 pm
https://www.mediaite.com/news/man-waves-confederate-flag-sings-dixie-at-black-official-talking-about-the-removal-of-confederate-generals-remains/
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Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer, who was a key figure in getting the statue removed, was on hand Tuesday to watch and speak to the media. A man who later identified himself as George Johnson, paced behind Sawyer waving a Confederate flag while calling her “a communist.”
https://twitter.com/cluther_wmc5/status/1399799829249892359 (video)
https://twitter.com/cluther_wmc5/status/1399801815487614979 (video)
Uniting Americans means uniting those who side with Sawyer against those who side with Johnson.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 29, 2021, 10:31:10 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-ok-younger-generations-confront-100021465.html
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Across the U.S., the racial reckoning following Floyd's death has led to uncomfortable and at times heated conversations in immigrant families, where younger generations are pushing parents over stereotypes, assumptions and even outright racism against Black Americans.
Portal-Andreu, born and raised in Miami, said her Catholic high school exposed her to different cultures and made her dreadfully aware of pervasive racism toward Black people. By contrast, her Colombian-born mother and Cuban-born father were less knowledgeable about the buildup to the protests that gripped the country.
After much discussion, she and her parents concluded that though violence is not an answer, "we came to an agreement that protests are necessary."
Actually, almost all of history was written using violence. The only difference is whether it is initiated violence or retaliatory violence.
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Because of the nation's racial reckoning and the broad appeal of the HBO series "Watchmen," many young people in particular have taken the initiative to do research about the Tulsa massacre and educate themselves.
“That knowledge, among the younger generations, isn't knowledge that's coming from schools or formal forces of information," Braddock said.
Across the country in Los Angeles, younger Latinos are challenging older family members in a city known for its diversity — as well as racial tensions.
"There are times where my mom has gotten mad at me — she said something that was racist toward Asian folks and I said it was not OK, and she will sit down and talk about it later," Esthefanie Solano, 27, of Long Beach, told NBC News.
"I won’t apologize for having conversations about race. I let her have her feelings but we sit down," Solano said. "I try to share what is happening around us and connect how other communities are impacted, like how Chinese families are scapegoated with Covid and how they are blamed, and I give her examples of how we are scapegoated as immigrants. I create comparisons."
Saul Ríos, 64, admitted his two daughters have had many conversations with him where they tell him, “No, pa, things aren’t like that; they are like this.”
Ríos, who emigrated from Mexico in the 1980s, said his daughters, ages 27 and 38, reprimand him when he makes “inappropriate jokes” that make fun of another group or race.
"I think jokes are a way we deal with things, in Mexican culture," Ríos said. "My daughters tell me that even with jokes, we make things that are not good seem like they are OK, because it is like we make them less serious."
Ríos said his daughters have taught him about the need to support the Black community.
"While we Latinos face discrimination, to be a person of color in this country, specifically to be Black, is something that comes with a lot," Ríos said, "that at times we have a hard time recognizing because we are so wrapped up in our own experience."
This is what we need. No violence between fellow victims of Western colonialism. Totally ruthless violence against the colonizers until all their bloodlines have been eliminated.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 14, 2021, 02:58:04 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/buckingham-palace-reportedly-asked-trump-200021683.html
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Buckingham Palace asked a Trump supporter to remove a doctored image of Queen Elizabeth from his campaign bus, a report says
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Whether Buckingham Palace endorses this use of the picture is beside the point, which is that Trump supporters like the idea of an endorsement from Windsor, who is the head of state of the same Western colonial power against which America fought the Revolutionary War to drive out!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 13, 2021, 10:08:47 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-75-asian-lgbtq-groups-235531610.html
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Over 75 Asian, LGBTQ groups announce opposition to anti-Asian hate crimes bill
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Why it matters: The groups say the bill will bolster law enforcement and further harm marginalized people.
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What they're saying: In Wednesday's statement, published on writer Jenn Fang's blog, "Reappropriate," activists called the bill a contradiction of "Asian solidarity with Black, Brown, undocumented, trans, low-income, sex worker, and other marginalized communities whose liberation is bound together."
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Bolstering law enforcement "ignores that police violence is also anti-Asian violence, which has disproportionately targeted Black and Brown Asians," they write.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 11, 2021, 03:52:10 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-hate-im-reclaiming-080015541.html
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After a year of chafing and muttering about it to myself, I am ready to say this out loud. I am refusing the acronym BIPOC. I am taking it out of my mouth. I’m laying it down. I am recommitting to the much maligned term "people of color." I’m not doing this because I’m old-fashioned or politically retrograde. As a Black woman who loves Black people, I am acutely aware of the unique and specific ways that racism harms Black people. I’m refusing BIPOC to reclaim a strength: the political power of solidarity.
BIPOC – an acronym for Black, Indigenous and other people of color – was part of how we talked about race during the COVID-19 spring of 2020. The term was useful to bring focus to the deadly experiences of oppression faced by Black and Indigenous people. Although some people didn’t like it or didn’t understand it, the term BIPOC filled the streets with multiracial rage about the murder of George Floyd and anti-Black policing. BIPOC reminded us to open our Zoom with acknowledgements that wherever we are, we are on Indigenous land.
COVID, Trump sparked anti-Asian hate
But another racial pattern was also emerging that spring. World leaders, including then-President Donald Trump, used the pandemic to revive racist stereotypes of Chinese people as sources of disease. Economic boycotts of Asian-owned business soon followed. Then newspapers began to report physical attacks on individuals of Asian and Pacific Island heritage as hate crimes.
In the middle of a national uprising against racism, it took another year and the mass killing of six Asian women before we paid serious attention to racism expressed as anti-Asian hate.
Certainly, many grassroots organizers mentioned individual attacks as examples of white supremacy. But there was no consistent frame that integrated individual hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders into the larger picture of structural racism and anti-colonialism that our nation was revolting against.
In moments like these, words matter. They shape what we can imagine. The phrase “people of color” was created by Black, Latina, Asian and Indigenous women who had to invent new language to describe their political coalition in the face of white feminism.
Words can invent, words can destroy. There are real-world consequences to the words we choose. In a moment of intense white backlash, our cutting-edge discourse about ending white supremacy used a word that marginalized Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders into the racialized stereotype of “other,” even among people of color. “BIPOC” inadvertently replaced the power of solidarity with a comfortable, familiar racial hierarchy.
Move past BIPOC to show solidarity
Legendary scholar/artist/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon wrote: “If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.” People of color is not a racial identity but a political one. It describes a tenuous, deeply uncomfortable state of coalition held together by the knowledge that it will take all of us standing together to wear down and tear down the structures of white supremacy.
Refusing BIPOC means when I write about the shared experience of the multiethnic, multinational group of people of African descent, I will talk about Black people. When pointing to the ongoing harms of settler colonialism, I will specify Indigenous people and Indigenous land. But when I want to describe an alliance that includes people from every group that is racialized and subjugated to keep white supremacy alive – people of African, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and Arab heritage – I will talk about people of color.
Thank you for correctly excluding Jews.
Now just put "" around "African" and "Asian" if you must use them at all. As you say, words matter. Stop using colonialist vocabulary!
Post by: rp on May 04, 2021, 07:05:46 pm
Our enemies again agree with us about what Americanism is, and that they are anti-American:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/03/how-will-wokeism-die/Quotemy predictions are that the death of Wokeism will include some of the following elements:
In Europe and elsewhere it will take on a form of anti-Americanism. Those using “woke” jargon will be denounced as lapdogs of the American Empire and its sick culture, and accused of resorting to “American words” when they make their usual power plays. They will be associated with America’s Globohomo Imperium. This is not as unlikely as it may sound to some Americans because it is undeniable that Wokeism is all part and parcel of US attempts at globally projecting its “anti-cultural” power.
For the record, I support establishing an American Empire:
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 04, 2021, 02:42:28 am
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/03/how-will-wokeism-die/
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my predictions are that the death of Wokeism will include some of the following elements:
In Europe and elsewhere it will take on a form of anti-Americanism. Those using “woke” jargon will be denounced as lapdogs of the American Empire and its sick culture, and accused of resorting to “American words” when they make their usual power plays. They will be associated with America’s Globohomo Imperium. This is not as unlikely as it may sound to some Americans because it is undeniable that Wokeism is all part and parcel of US attempts at globally projecting its “anti-cultural” power.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2021, 02:12:46 am
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‘We need one another’: Communities of color unite against injustice
Emma Tang, a Taiwanese American student at New York University, was sitting outside a Chinese restaurant last October, eating with her friends, when a white man approached her from behind and hit her over the head with a dirty bed sheet.
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In the wake of the recent mass shootings in Atlanta, in which eight people were killed, including six women of Asian descent, communities of color are mobilizing together because of their shared struggles and common goal of battling racism. “The fact that so many Blacks and Hispanics marched in solidarity with Asian groups … is a positive indication that minorities see injustice against one group as injustice against all,” says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a radio show host, political analyst, and author of “Why Black Lives Do Matter.” “This could be a huge political game changer in the future,” he adds.
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For Ms. Tang, the fight is intersectional, but she acknowledges that there is anti-Black racism in the Asian American community, which can lead to distrust between the two groups. In fact, however, the notion that there are high levels of Black-on-Asian crime is false. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that, in 2020, 90% of perpetrators in reported anti-Asian incidents were white, and only 5% of perpetrators were Black.
While some may try to weaponize Black-Asian conflict, hate-inspired tragedies like the 2019 mass shooting targeting Mexicans at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas; police killings of Blacks and Latinos; and the Atlanta shootings are actually fueling unity. “What you have seen as a result of these highly visible and highly tragic events is the intensifying of a reckoning with how racism and discrimination have infected many of our systems and people at the same time,” says Clarissa Martínez-de-Castro, deputy vice president for policy and advocacy at UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy group. “And they need to stand up and not only call it out, but do the work to address the disparate treatment and fight for equity.”
Some people of color, like Ms. Tang and Ms. Williams, are fighting for the collective – “to do right by all communities of color,” as Ms. Williams puts it.
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Ms. Williams benefited from that unity when she attended her first protest after George Floyd’s murder. She was overwhelmed, she says, to see the multiracial makeup of the Black Lives Matter marches last summer. “For a long time, I thought Black people were alone.”
In fact, nonwhites across races share concerns on a variety of issues, including immigration reform and U.S. policy at the Mexico border. “I think Asians can understand some aspects of the Latinx situation as fellow immigrants. And, of course, there’s a lot of undocumented Asian people in the United States,” says Professor Chin from UC Davis. “Asian-Americans have an experience of being hassled by the police in the same way as Latinx people at the border.”
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“We need one another”
Yet some young activists believe this moment is the beginning of their revolution. Ms. Tang calls it “the birth of a fresh, new, powerful coalition of BIPOC communities aligning together in the grassroots sphere” (referring to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color).
To continue developing strong, sustainable coalitions, Mr. Hutchinson says, protesters need “planning, proper issues-framing, consistency, and most importantly, aware, politically engaged, proactive leadership.”
Ms. Williams, for one, says she is dedicated to supporting other communities of color because she sees their struggles against oppression intertwined with hers. “It’s about being mentally strong, never backing down,” she explains.
Ms. Tang concurs. At a recent solidarity march, she witnessed a diverse crowd of Black transgender women, Indigenous people, and Latinos fighting for women of Asian descent. “It feels very validating, and it makes me feel safe knowing that there are people looking out for us. And we don’t have to fight this on our own,” she says.
Ms. Tang, who hides a taser up her sleeve whenever she leaves her apartment, says she’s less fearful now whenever someone yells a racial slur or harasses her in the streets. “Stop Asian Hate would not be around today without Black Lives Matter,” she says. “Our movements have always bounced off of each other and been inspired by each other. Historically we need one another to advance our liberation.”
Exactly. On the other hand, none of us need the ADL:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/droptheadl/
because:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 27, 2021, 10:12:23 pm
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More than 2,500 residents of New York City have come together to sign an open letter calling for the inclusion of Asian American history in public schools on Monday.
The letter, addressed to Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter, argues that the surge in anti-Asian incidents has highlighted the “woefully inadequate” education of Asian American history in the school curriculum — and that instruction must start in the earliest grades.
"The future of our city and our nation depends on what our children learn in school today," reads the letter, which was mostly signed by parents. “Asian American children must know their history in this country so they can be proud of their heritage and stand up to discrimination and hate."
It adds that students not of Asian descent must learn the history as well, in order to "better understand and respect the racial and ethnic background and identity of their Asian American peers."
“The stories of how Asian Americans have stood up against racism and discrimination and fought to realize their dreams must be told. Asian American history is American history.”
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“We believe that by learning about the history of each member of our community— how we arrived at this land and how we helped to build this nation and city together— we will be more united, empathetic and respectful to each other; we will be better able to fight racism, discrimination and inequality,” it states.
Also, the first thing that should be taught is that the almost all countries now classified as "Asian" never thought of themselves as such prior to being classified as such by Western civilization.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 20, 2021, 10:29:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--Es5DU7bY
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-ilhan-omar-chauvin-trial-193203583.html
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“The community is still on edge and feels that we are a community that has experienced injustice over and over again. This might actually be the turning point.”
All who agree with this verdict must unite as Americans.
All who disagree with this verdict are anti-American and must be recognized as such by Americans, and have their bloodlines eliminated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uo587ng9w4
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 08, 2021, 11:46:22 pm
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White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US
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The point I’ve made through all of those experiences is that anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.
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White supremacy is an ideology, a pattern of values and beliefs that are ingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S. It is a belief that to be white is to be human and invested with inalienable universal rights and that to be not-white means you are less than human – a disposable object for others to abuse and misuse.
The dehumanization of Asian people by U.S. society is driven by white supremacy and not by any Black person who may or may not hate Asians.
During the pandemic, “yellow peril” rhetoric that blamed China for COVID-19 led to a 150% rise in anti-Asian harassment incidents reported to police in 2020. In particular, East Asian Americans or anyone who appeared to be of East Asian heritage or descent became targets for the misplaced anger of people blaming Chinese people or those they thought looked Chinese, even if they were of other ethnic backgrounds, like Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, Burmese, Thai or Filipino.
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This same rhetoric of blaming anyone perceived to be Chinese for COVID-19 and attacking them has been found in countless reports of harassment, including one by a Vietnamese American woman who was spat at by a white man as she tried to enter a grocery store in March 2021. Four days later, video footage showed a 76-year-old Chinese woman who was punched in the face by a 39-year-old white man, on the same day that a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta.This same rhetoric of blaming anyone perceived to be Chinese for COVID-19 and attacking them has been found in countless reports of harassment, including one by a Vietnamese American woman who was spat at by a white man as she tried to enter a grocery store in March 2021. Four days later, video footage showed a 76-year-old Chinese woman who was punched in the face by a 39-year-old white man, on the same day that a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta.
Stories of individual harassment and violence perpetrated against Asian Americans by white assailants don’t always get the same attention as the viral videos of Black aggression toward Asians.
But underlying all these incidents is white supremacy, just as white supremacy is responsible for Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes: White supremacy made Floyd into a Black male threat rather than a human being.
Understanding the depth and reach of this ideology of racism can be challenging, but doing so brings each person, and the nation as a whole, closer to addressing systemic inequity. It’s not Black people whom Asian Americans need to fear. It’s white supremacy.
https://us.yahoo.com/news/sery-kim-lesson-those-think-173212501.html
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Sery Kim is a Lesson for Those Who Think Pandering to Whiteness Will Save Them from Anti-Asian Hate
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During a Republican forum last Wednesday, Texas congressional candidate and former Trump official Sery Kim made racist remarks about Chinese immigrants. “I don’t want them here at all,” she said. “They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.”
These comments are straight out of Trump’s playbook. They’re false, xenophobic, and used for cheap political points. They’re also grotesquely irresponsible at a time when targeted violence against the Asian American community is at a terrifying high, in large part due to rhetoric like this.
Kim justified that rhetoric by adding, “Quite frankly, I can say that because I’m Korean.”
That last part. As a Korean American and lifelong Texan, hearing Kim justify her absurd statements with her Koreanness filled me with rage. When it comes to anti-Asian racism, it doesn’t matter whether you’re Korean or Chinese. To our attackers, we all have the same foreign faces. How could she say something so thoughtless and dangerous, so divisive? But Kim appeared to be laboring under the delusion that pandering to conservative voters would give her power that her white GOP counterparts enjoy.
It gives me no joy to say that she was proved wrong in the most vitriolic way. Her speech went viral, and she has since been met with violent, racist messages online. Nobody deserves to be subjected to such treatment, but I cannot say that I’m surprised. Throwing her fellow Asian Americans under the bus did not save her from racism or endear her to white America. In addition to becoming the target of hateful trolls, Kim has been thoroughly criticized by the Korean American community and lost the endorsement of two Republican congresswomen of Korean descent.
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our fates are tied together by the fact that here, we are racialized in the same way. We are treated as perpetual foreigners, and whatever acceptance we gain from our white neighbors is conditional and can be revoked at the drop of a hat. Proximity to whiteness will not save us. The only thing that will save us is our solidarity with one another.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 05, 2021, 12:02:03 am
Every time you see supposed leftists use these terms without "", tell them that these terms are part of the Western worldview and hence using them in a serious manner reinforces Eurocentrism.
Post by: guest5 on April 04, 2021, 07:19:07 pm
YOU ARE EITHER AN AMERICAN, OR YOU ARE A GUEST OF AMERICAN'S, PICK ONE!!!
This is what true Nationalism looks like, versus the tribalism that is currently practiced in America.
Post by: rp on April 04, 2021, 06:33:00 pm
Post by: Starling on April 04, 2021, 05:15:22 pm
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https://www.businessinsider.com/map-amtrak-could-build-expanded-rail-network-biden-infrastructure-plan-2021-4
https://news.yahoo.com/amtrak-releases-map-expanded-us-102634534.html
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- Amtrak has released a map of a proposed expanded US rail network.
- It says it could be built with $80 billion from President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
- The company said the new network could expand or improve service for about 20 million people.
Amtrak has released a map of an expanded US rail network that it says it can build with $80 billion from President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
The light-blue lines represent what would be new services, while the orange lines show services that would be extended.
Amtrak said it could create more than 30 new routes and connect 160 new communities, and expand or improve rail service for some 20 million people. Materials prepped for the announcement said the plan would bolster transportation options for diverse populations throughout the country.
The new routes include cities that haven't before been connected to the national rail service, including western outposts like Las Vegas and Phoenix, Amtrak said.
It would also break ground on routes throughout the southern US, including ones to Nashville, Tennessee; Montgomery, Alabama; and Macon, Georgia.
Biden unveiled his $2 trillion plan on Wednesday, as the first part of a likely $4 trillion plan.
The first part is called the American Jobs Plan, and plans federal spending on infrastructure like roads, bridges, and ports, and on cutting US carbon emissions.
Biden called it a "once-in-a-generation investment in America."
Amtrak said that its proposal would be more energy efficient than people driving or flying, and that it would bring economic benefits to regions.
It also said it would serve the US's growing population and fill in "gaps" left by falling numbers of bus and plane routes.
Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said in a statement shared with Insider: "President Biden's infrastructure plan is what this nation has been waiting for. Amtrak must rebuild and improve the Northeast Corridor, our National Network and expand our service to more of America."
"With this federal investment, Amtrak will create jobs and improve equity across cities, regions, and the entire country — and we are ready to deliver," he added. "America needs a rail network that offers frequent, reliable, sustainable and equitable train service. Now is our time, let's make rail the solution."
As a US senator, Biden traveled from Delaware to Washington, DC, every day, earning him the nickname "Amtrak Joe."
Republicans say they will probably vote against any tax increases that would finance the project.
Post by: guest5 on April 03, 2021, 09:58:12 pm
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Meet the Muslim hip-hop duo making waves on social media, sending positive and inspirational messages to their hundreds of thousands of followers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcoj7R53hSE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 31, 2021, 11:30:53 pm
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Black and Asian communities, especially women, not only have a shared history of oppression in America but also a long and storied tradition of solidarity.
Black and Asian women know what it means to be “othered.” We have each had harmful stereotypes cast upon us that date back centuries and continue to affect our lives today.
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Both Black and Asian women report being discriminated against, pigeonholed in the workplace or simply held back in their careers due to assumptions made by their bosses or peers.
Black and Asian women are also woefully underpaid, with Asian women making as low as 52 cents and Black women earning just 63 cents for every dollar earned by white men.
We’ve both felt the sting of being called a racial slur or told that we are “articulate” because someone is surprised at how well we speak English. But these painful experiences are not the only things that bind us.
The famed Third World Women’s Alliance was born out of the Black feminist movement and the efforts of Black women leaders to create space for other women of color, including Asian women, who were interested in civic engagement, combatting racism and sexism, and ensuring liberation of all forms.
Asian American activists like Grace Lee Boggs and Yuri Kochiyama fought alongside Black women activists and lent their voices to the movement for civil rights. We’ve built alliances and worked together to not only identify the problems that plague both communities and hold women back, but also to exchange ideas on how to create a society that works for everyone.
Many Asians and Asian Americans attended last summer’s Black Lives Matter rallies across the country and joined Black Americans in the call for an end to police brutality.
And now, as Asians and Asian Americans increasingly suffer attacks, Black activists have shown up and marched with them. When our communities stand together, we are more powerful than we know.
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We’ve also seen the many ways that Black and Asian women in elected office have supported each other and the causes that matter to their communities. At Emerge and Run AAPI, we want to continue to empower Black and Asian women to run for office so that they can keep speaking truth to power, build even stronger alliances and make it possible to combat white supremacy through policy and political reform.
Time and time again, generations of Black and Asian women have come together during the darkest times in our nation’s history to create incredible progress and move our democracy forward. As white supremacy continues to be as big a threat as ever before, our solidarity will be essential to defeat it.
Third World Women's Alliance:
https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j25mrp
(It goes without saying that Jewish women have (accurately) never been considered to be Third World women.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 27, 2021, 12:08:19 am
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OPINION: The truth is that white supremacy has long pitted Asian Americans and Black Americans against each other
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This is a moment to be honest about a nation that refuses to even acknowledge peak white supremacy or reckon with a history of racial, sexual, and economic marginalization. This was also a flashpoint for how the politics of resentment causes outgroups to despise each other rather than recognize the real enemy is a dog-eat-dog system that exploits us all: service workers, racial outgroups, the nonconforming and the economically dispossessed.
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Following the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery last year, there was significant public and private discourse about race in America. There was also significant coverage on what non-Black people could do to be better allies. Black activists are ready to be those same good allies for others.
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The truth is that white supremacy has long pitted Asian Americans against Black people. Referring to Asian Americans as the “model minority” was a way of privileging one marginalized group and enticing it to stay as far away as possible from Black people.
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All communities of color have benefited from the Black liberation struggle against American racism. They have benefited without ever having to question their allegiance to or tacit support of white supremacy.
If anything, this moment should challenge all people of color to shed the “probationary white person” status and fight for the liberation of one’s community as well as all marginalized people.
(Which does not include Jews.)
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2021, 10:30:15 pm
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A vigil and rally Tran organized in Alhambra last weekend drew primarily Asian American support, but she was heartened by the sight of a lone Black face in the crowd.
"It feels so important to be together against the issue of white supremacy," she said.
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“We don’t have to agree on everything,” insists Tran, whose family came here as refugees from Vietnam. “It doesn’t have to be either/or,” she said. “That’s where we get stuck.”
Racism “is experienced by us differently,” she said. “But the source is the same.
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As a Black woman, I can't help but feel that these deaths have drawn Asian Americans into our fold. The stories of the victims’ lives spotlight the common ground our groups share as targets of mass violence fueled by racism and inhumanity.
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I grieve now for these Atlanta women — just as I grieved the nine Black worshipers murdered at a Charleston, S.C., church. And the 23 people killed by a gunman targeting Latinos at an El Paso shopping center. And the 49 people massacred at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
So far so good.....
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And the 11 Jewish worshipers shot to death during a Shabbat service at their Pittsburgh synagogue.
WRONG!!!
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Now the question is: Can we join together and move forward, with white supremacy — not each other — as the enemy?
Not unless Jews are recognized as part of white supremacy:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
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Post by: guest5 on March 18, 2021, 09:51:40 pm
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Locals rallied around this Asian-owned restaurant after it was vandalized with racist graffiti.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1KVMFFe_3A
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 13, 2021, 10:45:31 pm
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“The racism overall against Asian Americans is another form of white supremacy. As Asian Americans dismantle the racism directed toward us as outsiders, we’re partnering with African Americans in dismantling how they’re racialized and oppressed,” Jeung said. “In a lot of Asian American issues, we become the wedge group to divide and conquer people of color rather than focusing on our unity and trying to dismantle the overall system. We need to dismantle white supremacy together.”
This is not lost on organizers and activists who have worked to combat this narrative for decades. With that, here are a few ways for Black people to practice solidarity and allyship with Asian American communities.
Education Is Key
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“Try to learn history and learn about Asian American histories and cultures, the migration patterns of immigrants and refugees, and why we have an Asian population in the U.S. to begin with,” Wong said. “From there, look at the history of Asian and Black solidarity and joint struggle … the civil rights era and even the early joint labor movements. I think people could do their due diligence to seeking it out and learning it up.”
Mutual Aid
Mutual aid is a centuries-old radical political practice that emphasizes solidarity and interdependence to meet people’s basic needs. Mutual aid happens when everyday people come together to meet one another’s needs, like providing food and domestic violence resources, without relying on government power structures.
“Mutual aid is really beautiful in that it really recognizes that if I have something I can give, someone who needs it can benefit and we can all be in community together,” Wong said. “Last year, through the pandemic was a really big showing of how mutual aid is so effective, especially when our government isn’t taking care of us or investing in us and the resources that we need.”
Several mutual aid efforts have popped up across the country in response to anti-Asian sentiment and Covid-19’s devastating impact on Asian American communities. In Oakland, California, hundreds of people have volunteered to escort fearful elders on walks and errands around Chinatown. Asian and Black creatives have raised more than $150,000 for Asian American advocacy groups in California that serve several Asian American communities through everything from food delivery to legal help. In New York, a coalition of activists have filled refrigerators with food in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
“Mutual aid, at its core, is really a form of political participation. It necessitates everybody taking responsibility to care for one another. So you see a reciprocal exchange of resources and services,” said Senti Sojwal, of New York’s Asian American Feminist Collective, which has launched its Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities project. “Mutual aid is such a beautiful concept because it’s so huge.”
Get Active in Organizations
Organizing has always been key to liberation efforts for several oppressed groups, whether it be through planning solidarity marches, mutual aid efforts, or even approaching government leaders. There are several groups doing this work in Asian-American communities including the AAFC, Stop AAPI Hate, the APEN, the Chinese Progressive Association, Womankind, Filipino Cultural Center, the Southeast Asian Community Alliance, and others. Lai Wa Wu of the Chinese Progressive Association said that participating in such groups is a great way to be an active ally to Asian American communities.
“Join, support and donate to organizations that are working on the ground to build cross-racial healing and racial justice work,” Wu said, as well as “restorative practices, and for long-term economic and racial justice that lifts up all communities, especially working class communities of color, even after media attention has died down.”
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Know That Police Aren’t Always the Answer
Experts have noted that the recent violence against Asian Americans has led to calls for increased policing. But organizers note that more state control isn’t always the answer, because further empowering police in these moments could do more harm than good.
“At these moments a lot of people’s natural reaction is to revert back to the institutions and systems they think they know and can rely on because, in many ways, they are socialized to believe it is the only way,” Wu said. “We need to redefine accountability and safety that’s rooted in empathy for ourselves and for others.”
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Be a Good Bystander
“Bystander support and intervention is so important because it helps us shift our responsibility for each other towards the collective community,” Wu said. “We need people to call in strangers, community and family members on racism, slurs and stereotypes. When something happens, check in on each other as you would your own loved one. Help guide them through what they need, be there to show you care and that you are with them.”
Finally, remember Jews are "white".
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 09, 2021, 10:00:47 pm
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/03/when-integration-means-annihilation/
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Weddings are usually cause for celebration, and royal weddings are cause for national rejoicing. Even we colonials are fascinated by the British royal family. In 2014, when King Felipe VI succeeded his father Juan Carlos I of Spain, the crowds were puny compared to the commoners who rejoiced to see Prince William marry Kate Middleton. So many of us are children of the British Empire that when we say “the Crown,” we mean the British crown.
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The way forward is not modernization but Restoration. The Crown could become the unifying symbol of the Anglosphere by defending the Church of England, British culture, and the accomplishments of Anglo-Saxons everywhere.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 04, 2021, 10:49:45 pm
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Sen. Tom Cotton promised to “take a very hard look” as to why we are giving visas to Chinese students. I haven’t heard Cotton plan to “take a very hard look” at what compelled a man to almost stab to death a father and his two young boys a year ago in a grocery store in Midland, Texas after he falsely accused them of being from China. The man, who is now visibly scarred, is from Myanmar.
You might be wondering why I, a Muslim son of Pakistani immigrants, am using my column to discuss hate against another ethnic community. It’s because I’ve been through it. In 2021, my Muslim and South Asian communities are still told to “go back to our country.” We just endured a Trump administration that ran on and enacted a “Muslim Ban.” Twenty years after 9/11, our acceptance is still conditional and under permanent surveillance. To some, we are perpetual suspects and villains, “invaders” on a caravan along with undocumented immigrants, who will “replace” and cancel real American culture, which apparently includes racist children’s books. Hate doesn’t require logic, it feeds on fear, misinformation, and anger.
When I read about the elderly Thai man recently killed in San Francisco, I remembered Balbir Singh Sodhi, the first victim of a post-9/11 hate crime. He was a bearded Sikh man who wore a turban and ran a gas station in Arizona, whose murderer boasted that he was “going to go out and shoot some towel-heads.” Bigots and white supremacists are not nuanced in their hate, and all of us who will never achieve whiteness will always be in their target sights.
“After 9/11, Muslims in America knew what it felt like to wear an Away jersey in their Home country. Now in the aftermath of COVID-19, we are seeing racial discrimination, targeting, bullying, and a rise in hate crimes towards our Asian American brothers and sisters,” comedian and actor Hasan Minhaj told me. He believes Muslim communities have a responsibility to look out for and protect Asian Americans who currently “feel terrified, scared, and vulnerable to go out in public.”
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Actor Kumail Nanjiani, originally an immigrant, empathizes with what’s happening to Asian American communities. He said Trump’s hateful “rhetoric does not happen in a vacuum. It affects the lives of actual people,” mentioning his Pakistani family members are viewed as suspects by neighbors who’ve known them for 20 years. He’s also critical of Hollywood's representation of Asians and South Asians in general that has mainstreamed these villainous stereotypes. Historically, he told me, “we are either sexless/non-threatening nerds or murderous terrorists with nothing in between. We either play the model minority or the worst of humanity.” In If I Ran the Zoo, one of the six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be published, an illustration depicts a white boy holding a large gun while standing on the head of three Asian Men. Subtle.
The model minority myth that Nanjiani mentioned has been one of the enduring and harmful tools used by white supremacy as a wedge to divide communities of color. It flattens the ethnic diversity and economic challenges faced by Asian and South Americans, in particular, and instead elevates us as the ideal immigrant and American minority that should be emulated by all others. We allegedly work hard, don't complain, succeed through grit, pursue academic and economic excellence, and never complain, all while being politically neutered and smiling through the pain. We are used to systemic racism and discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. America asks, “why can’t they be ‘models’ like us?”
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not having any of the divide and conquer tactics, and instead urges communities of color to stand in solidarity with Asian Americans. Omar is a Black Muslim woman who wears a hijab and is a former refugee, and as such has emerged as the ideal bogeyman for the right-wing and a frequent target of their hate. She was also told by President Trump to go back to where she came from. “There is a concerted effort by white nationalists to target and divide minority communities by pitting us against each other,” she told me. “We must remember that our destinies are tied. An attack on one community is an attack on all.”
The only bad part of this article:
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It should come as no surprise that the corrupted Department of Justice under Bill Barr used Asian American candidates to attack affirmative action in their case against Yale University, which has since been dropped by the Biden DOJ.
Megan Black, who heads the Common Good program at the Western States Center, told me it’s “heartbreaking but unsurprising” to see that some of the assailants of Asian Americans have been Black and people of color. She told me the recent spike in anti-Asian violence tracks a similar rise in anti-Semitic violence. “Blame the Jew,” she said, becomes a “disturbingly effective decoy tactic that has a track record of successfully distracting and dismantling racial solidarity efforts, leaving the actual perpetrators of white supremacist power untouched while putting Jews and Jewish communities at risk.” She says “Blame China” rhetoric, which has become so prominent in our political discourse over the past few years, is simply following the same playbook with the same results.
The irony? Barr is a Jew! Jews are among the perpetrators of white supremacist power, and the author just explicitly proved it but without realizing it! STOP INCLUDING JEWS IN OUR COALITION OF AMERICANS FFS!
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 28, 2021, 09:30:34 pm
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/02/28/a-time-for-white-leadership/https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/02/28/a-time-for-white-leadership/
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To me one of the most extraordinary developments which I have not seen remarked upon elsewhere is the emergence of the Trump 2020 flag. At the rallies, on cars, and hoisted up residential flagpoles, Trump partisans have a flag for their cause. As far as I can recall in my lifetime, this is a first in American politics. Supporters of American political campaigns have bumper stickers, yard signs, and campaign pins. They wave signs at campaign rallies. They don’t have flags. Nations have flags. The populist Right in America is already at least sub-consciously aware of itself as a separate nation.
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Naturally, weening them off of Americanness is a prerequisite to their embracing Whiteness as their nation. In the long run, this should not be too difficult. The America of their dreams is utterly implausible. The reality of America moves further away from their vision of America everyday. The very existence of talk radio is implicitly based on this fact of American life. The other side’s numbers grow every year, your side has won the popular vote for president once in the last eight cycles; do the math. Virginia and Colorado are deep-blue states. Even if you can cobble together a majority, do you really want to live in a country where a substantial share of the population bases its politics around hating you and everything you stand for? Your country should feel like home; you shouldn’t need to live on knife’s-edge every election cycle.
Meanwhile, this negative message is twined with our positive message for the ethnostate. You and yours were White long before they were American. The White race has been our peoples’ nation since before we had even conceived what a nation was. As an individual, race is your foundational group identity. Your ancestral membership in this group goes further back than any other group identity that separates you as distinct from others. It is your true nation not because its members share common values or tastes with you, but because it simply is you, you at scale.
They also can't even spell "wean" correctly.....
Post by: guest5 on February 28, 2021, 02:26:46 pm
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"Black men being killed by police is somewhat normal in this country," James Austen, a 27-year-old filmmaker, based in Los Angeles, U.S., recalls what he thought when he first heard about George Floyd's story. As a Black American, Austen has seen too many cases of inequality growing up, so he was not surprised by the news. But what surprised him was how people reacted to the killing, going out to the streets and protesting in a way they never had.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3x5URmcmZE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 18, 2021, 10:37:57 pm
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The Model Minority Myth running deep in the American psyche is the problematic portrayal of Asians as a monolithic group of quiet, hard-working, politically silent, and therefore “well-behaved” immigrants, which was created in the 60s to position Asians in opposition to the Black community, whose social justice activism was seen as a national threat to the status quo of white supremacy. Over the years, this politically motivated and fundamentally anti-Black myth has successfully achieved its purpose of driving a wedge between Asians and other people of color groups in America, while simultaneously erasing, making invisible, and even delegitimizing Asian communities’ real-life struggles by using the economic success of the few to defend the centuries-old unjust systems rooted in white supremacy, anti-Blackness, capitalism, and colonialism.
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Today, white supremacy is in action again, pitting our communities against each other and banking on our collective amnesia about the conditions that have birthed the violence — the government’s utter failure to create any semblance of financial safety for the most marginalized in the midst of a pandemic; systemic racism permeating every nook and cranny of our medical system that bar access to adequate care for the most vulnerable frontline workers, most of whom are Black and brown (don’t forget, brown includes some AAPI folks, too); and the institutional robbery committed against the public while corporate billionaires became multi-billionaires off a game only they are allowed to play.
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White supremacy wants us to remember the unhealed wounds we inflicted on each other, historical and ongoing anti-Blackness in the Asian community and anti-Asian incidents perpetrated by Black individuals, but not the stories of solidarity that have existed in equal measure, but are somehow left out of our history books and media coverage. In the aftermath of the LA uprising, volunteers from all racial groups showed up to rebuild Koreatown: “One by one,” said Lee, “neighbors came out to help. They were Black, Korean, and Latino. 30 people. They gave me hope. They are my community. And it’s time again to stay bound together these next four years.” Despite our “mutual ignorance,” as activist Helen Zia once described, we have been showing up for each other. And I’m not talking about the performative gestures of posting black squares and BLM hashtags; I’m talking about the work of our ancestors like Yuri Kochiyama, Grace Lee Boggs, and Larry Itliong who worked alongside the Black Panthers in the 60s, to the Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of Black, Latinx, and Asian student organizations that sustained one of the longest student strikes in the U.S. that resulted in the creation of Ethnic Studies, to the present-day coalitionary organizing to mobilize voters in Georgia, push for prison reform and abolishment, and defund and demilitarize the police… the work has been ongoing, with or without the mainstream consciousness or participation, and it is our duty to remember and uplift these stories to seed healing and change.
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When you see Asians being called “chinks” “dog eaters” “disease spreaders” “dirty” or otherwise blamed for the violence we are experiencing — please shut it down. And when non-Black folks, even if they are Asians who are hurting right now, engage in anti-Blackness by saying “Black people are criminals,” “Black people are dangerous” — please call that out, too. We must be principled in our anger and channel it to dismantling the real enemy: white supremacy culture that creates the either/or binary and scarcity mindset that has left us fighting each other for the scraps.
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When Black people say “Asians never show up for us,” or when Asian people say, “Black people don’t care about us,” talk about how throughout history, our solidarity work has been erased deliberately and intentionally by our education system and the media to worsen the divide. We need to amplify these examples of solidarity to heal and build trust together.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 17, 2021, 10:38:00 pm
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Asian American, Black, Latinx Activists to Hold Emergency Rally Against Racism on Saturday
Activists from the Black, Latinx and Asian American community will hold an emergency rally in New York City on Saturday in response to the string of violent racist attacks against Asians.
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“We have to imagine a new world of justice rooted in compassion, not a system built on the slavery of Africans, the genocide of the Indigenous, the exploited labor of Asians, and the lynching of all the above.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSAnlQr3oK/?utm_source=ig_embed
Glad to see no one including Jews. It seems Americans are starting to understand our message that:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Post by: Robertyoung7382 on February 14, 2021, 04:35:03 am
Wise advice which our enemies dislike:
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It could be further improved if he put Western terms such as "Asian", "Black", "Brown", etc. in "". After all, how these terms work to divide us is by getting people to believe they are real. The first step of countering them is to show we know they are not.
I have met plenty of "Asian-Americans" (even one with the last name 'Nguyen') that have desperately tried to be 'white' by obnoxiously saying the n word whenever they could to look 'cool' without getting themsleves into immediate trouble. They deserve to be subjected to physical retaliation; and so do the living 'white' people that they loved to imitate.
Nguyen's words should not be extended to any racist, even ones that many deem as 'non-white'.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 13, 2021, 11:49:30 pm
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It could be further improved if he put Western terms such as "Asian", "Black", "Brown", etc. in "". After all, how these terms work to divide us is by getting people to believe they are real. The first step of countering them is to show we know they are not.
Post by: guest5 on February 12, 2021, 11:17:15 pm
Our enemies are distancing themselves from the term "America":
https://www.amren.com/features/2021/02/whose-democracy/QuoteAre we part of a larger “American” country that is now at war with its own white past, or are we something different?
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Claiming we are the “true” America makes it hard to forge a separate identity. What’s more, our struggle is worldwide. White Americans face the same opponents and the same challenges as white Canadians, French, Germans, British, Irish, and other members of the European brotherhood. I have far more in common with them than I do with someone like Rashida Tlaib. I don’t care what’s on our passports.
I don’t have the final answer or the ultimate path forward. Something will emerge depending on circumstances and the new challenges that will emerge. However, I do know we need at least to ask the right question before we get the right answer. “How do we save America?” is no longer the right question. “America” itself has become an almost meaningless word. “How do we save our people?” is where we need to start. A Western civilization-state is where we need to end.
As I was the first to say, you cannot be both a Westerner and an American. Our enemies have chosen to be Westerners.
But no, America is absolutely not a meaningless word. We fully intend to show just how meaningful it can be.
I sometimes have a hard time believing that everything we, and especially you, have been warning about for over a decade is actually happening exactly as we said it would. To see it all unfold precisely as we imagined it would is surreal in some way....
No one, as far as I have seen has been, or is, as accurate as we are.
"True Americans" also need to realize that they have a foreign "white" horde in their country, and they can take that straight from the horse's mouth!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 12, 2021, 11:03:57 pm
https://www.amren.com/features/2021/02/whose-democracy/
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Are we part of a larger “American” country that is now at war with its own white past, or are we something different?
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Claiming we are the “true” America makes it hard to forge a separate identity. What’s more, our struggle is worldwide. White Americans face the same opponents and the same challenges as white Canadians, French, Germans, British, Irish, and other members of the European brotherhood. I have far more in common with them than I do with someone like Rashida Tlaib. I don’t care what’s on our passports.
I don’t have the final answer or the ultimate path forward. Something will emerge depending on circumstances and the new challenges that will emerge. However, I do know we need at least to ask the right question before we get the right answer. “How do we save America?” is no longer the right question. “America” itself has become an almost meaningless word. “How do we save our people?” is where we need to start. A Western civilization-state is where we need to end.
As I was the first to say, you cannot be both a Westerner and an American. Our enemies have chosen to be Westerners.
But no, America is absolutely not a meaningless word. We fully intend to show just how meaningful it can be.
Post by: guest5 on February 12, 2021, 10:04:18 pm
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'I just can't sit back and not do anything' — This dad started a neighborhood foot patrol in the Bay Area after a series of violent attacks on older Asian residents.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em_nAj2-Ock
Post by: rp on February 11, 2021, 06:22:31 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 10, 2021, 11:59:38 pm
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/southern-poverty-law-center-stops-monitoring-black-daniel-greenfield/
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In the name of equity, the SPLC announced that it’s shutting down its black nationalist hate groups category like the Nation of Islam.
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The SPLC’s move dismantles the last remaining shred of credibility of the organization, but it also comes after Democrat politicians and activists, including Senator Cory Booker and Kamala Harris pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups
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And that’s what the SPLC falsely claims, “in our endeavor for racial justice and equity, it is imperative that we adopt an understanding of racism grounded in nuance and the realities of racial power dynamics. Racism in America is historical, systemic and structural.”
Spot the nuance and racial power dynamics in black nationalist Stokely Carmichael declaring that, “I’ve never admired a white man, but the greatest of them, to my mind, was Hitler.”
Or Farrakhan calling Hitler ''a very great man.''
Hitler was not "white". But thank you anyway.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by a Klansman’s lawyer, which has falsely accused many conservative organizations, including the David Horowitz Freedom Center, of racism has finally made its peace with racism in the name of antiracism.
Hitler would not have liked the David Horowitz Freedom Center either.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 26, 2021, 12:22:46 am
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/01/biden-is-already-making-your-life-worse/
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Based on my 0.1 percent Hispanic heritage, I’m going to say I’m a castizo on all government and medical documents. I speak enough Spanish to get by. I identify with the heroes of the Reconquista, the conquistadors who brought European civilization to the Americas
Post by: guest5 on January 26, 2021, 12:09:52 am
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 25, 2021, 11:44:08 pm
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/01/25/saving-the-white-race-the-problem-and-solutions-part-1-of-3/
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This is what has happened since the 1960s in all the countries of Northwest Europe and the New Europes founded and primarily settled by Northwest Europeans. Australia changed its laws to promote non-White immigration and multiracialism in 1973, Sweden in 1975, Canada in 1976. By the 1996 census, twenty years later, Canada had gone from less than 1% “visible (i.e., non-White) minorities” to 11.2%, or 3.2 million of a population of 28.5 million, and then in the 2016 census to 22.3% non-White, or 7.7 million of a population of 34.5 million, a 240% increase in twenty years. By 2020 Australia’s 3.2 million post-1973 non-indigenous non-Whites were 12.5% of its population. In the same year European Whites were already a minority of the U.S. population under the age of thirty, and the broader category of “whites” (i.e., including semi and non-European Caucasians) were projected to become a minority of the total population around 2043
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So like the New Europe of the United States, the other New Europes of Canada and Australia, along with the populations of Western Europe can no longer be accurately described as racially English, Irish, etc., but as multiracial populations. Their governments no longer serve the interests of their native populations but those of the rapidly growing non-White populations that are replacing them.
Post by: guest5 on January 24, 2021, 02:21:02 pm
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"Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel talks about the latest efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic with the Biden administration's chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who says the goal of 100 million vaccinations in 100 days is entirely achievable. Fauci also discusses how politicization of public health measures (like wearing masks), mixed messaging from the Trump White House, and claims that COVID-19 is a hoax have thwarted America's efforts to limit the pandemic's toll.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88_IByZsDM
Post by: guest5 on January 12, 2021, 01:58:51 am
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Baratunde Thurston explains how Black Americans show up for America and implores Republicans and other Americans 'join us because we've been fighting this a long time.'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui4ggewTTGg
Post by: guest5 on November 30, 2020, 02:00:50 pm
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Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 30, 2020, 04:37:52 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzTxdTHm00
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 20, 2020, 11:01:20 pm
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‘Reach Out to Trump Supporters,’ They Said. I Tried. I give up.
Seventy-three million Americans voted for Donald Trump. He doubled down on all his worst vices, and he was rewarded for it with 10 million more votes than he received in 2016.
The majority of people of color rejected his cruelty and vulgarity. But along with others who voted for Joe Biden, we are now being lectured by a chorus of voices, including Pete Buttigieg and Ian Bremmer, to “reach out” to Trump voters and “empathize” with their pain.
This is the same advice that was given after Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory, and for nearly four years I attempted to take it. Believe me, it’s not worth it.
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I’ve even tried and failed to have productive conversations with Muslims who voted for Mr. Trump. Some love him for the tax cuts. Others listen only to Fox News, say “both sides” are the same, or believe he hasn’t bombed Muslim countries. (They’re wrong.) Many believe they are the “good immigrants,” as they chase whiteness and run away from Blackness, all the way to the suburbs. I can’t make people realize they have Black and brown skin and will never be accepted as white.
I did my part. What was my reward? Listening to Mr. Trump’s base chant, “Send her back!” in reference to Representative Ilhan Omar, a Black Muslim woman, who came to America as a refugee. I saw the Republican Party transform the McCloskeys into victims, even though the wealthy St. Louis couple illegally brandished firearms against peaceful B.L.M. protesters. Their bellicosity was rewarded with a prime-time slot at the Republican National Convention, where they warned about “chaos” in the suburbs being invaded by people of color. Their speech would have fit well in “The Birth of a Nation."
We cannot help people who refuse to help themselves. Mr. Trump is an extension of their id, their culture, their values, their greed. He is their defender and savior. He is their blunt instrument. He is their destructive drug of choice.
In other words, if we do not expect to be able to persuade Trump himself to admit he is wrong, we should no more expect to be able to persuade Trump supporters to admit they are wrong. More and more people are understanding this now:
https://twitter.com/Judson4Congress/status/1329435562751750152
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Reach Out to Trump Supporters?
"Trumpism" is simply "permission" to be the WORST possible version of oneself.
To be a complete and utter disgrace to humanity, with ZERO feelings of responsibility to the Society in which one lives.
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Post by: guest5 on November 17, 2020, 04:02:09 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxneZbFZzko
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You do not compromise with the most fear based irrational people in the room....
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 16, 2020, 11:11:39 pm
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when many politicians and pundits talk about healing a divided nation, they create false equivalencies between the supposed “radical left” and historic white supremacist organizations. This will not set the table for understanding, nor will coddling the “white rage” that is often mischaracterized as economic anxiety. Healing isn’t about giving people more time to make themselves ready to accept policies that advance racial equity.
Finally more people understand what I have been saying for years, namely that it is a mistake to attribute racism to economic anxiety.
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Liberals and conservatives aren’t necessarily divided by their respective political philosophies; the wedge is racism. For instance, Black and Latino or Hispanic Americans go to church more other racial groups; on the surface level, this might make one assume they vote more Republican, like white evangelicals. But those church-going people of color vote overwhelming Democratic. Republicans would probably have many more Black and Latino or Hispanic members if the leader of the party didn’t
conflate white nationalists with racial justice activists.
Even the supposed divide between urban and rural America isn’t hurting the country as bad as racism. After the 2016 election was called in favor of Trump, it didn’t take long for analysts to declare that Democrats needed to better understand and empathize with rural voters and the working class—as if there are no Black and brown working-class people living in small towns. What’s destructive about these takes is the unstated assumption that the country can’t heal if white Americans aren’t accommodated first.
If Biden is to truly heal a divided country, he should not coddle white racial anxieties rooted in a perceived loss of status and privilege. Policy should not be built on how it may assuage or enflame these pathologies. Americans—particularly those who are Black, Native American, Asian American, and Latino or Hispanic—have little use for policymaking that’s distracted by the threat of a racist backlash. Being a president to all Americans means not centering white grievances rooted in false notions of superiority.
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The recent calls for unity shouldn’t confuse us. Racism isn’t to be negotiated with; it’s to be scrubbed from our policies. Certainly, all Americans must have a say, and the president must acknowledge every voice. However, giving attention to the perceived loss of racial superiority isn’t going to heal a divided country. That can only come by dismantling the racist policies that built up such division in the first place.
Exactly. Unity requires removing those who do not want unity.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 12, 2020, 10:45:45 pm
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/americas-two-souls/617062/
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A Battle Between the Two Souls of America
There is a divide in America between the souls of injustice and justice.
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On the day of Floyd’s funeral, the attack lines were set. Floyd’s soldiers were attacking racism and police violence as the problem. Trump’s soldiers were attacking all those demonstrating against racism and police violence as the problem. The battle of 2020—the historic battle for America—was on.
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Biden wrote. “If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation.”
No one can now deny the battle. The Biden and Trump campaigns made clear the battle before the nation. But what if American history; what if Charlottesville; what if Trumpism; what if the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrations, and natural disasters this year; what if the election and its chaotic aftermath have shown us something else about the battle? A second national soul on the battlefield?
We the people of the United States do not have a single national soul, but rather two souls, warring with each other. The battle for the soul of America is actually the battle between the souls of America.
I agree in every way except that I consider only one of the two souls to deserve to be called American.
Floyd's soldiers = American soul
Trump's soldiers = Western soul
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If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now, after Trump received the second-highest vote total of any presidential candidate in history; after Trump refused to concede; after moderates started blaming progressives for GOP gains and Trump’s narrow loss. Because, of course, when moderates lose or barely win, moderates are never to blame. Because, of course, when Trump loses, Trump is never to blame.
Humans lie about themselves, like they lie about their nations. Humans and nations hide behind the cloak of ideals and intentions. But the outcome of what humans do and what nations do is never a lie. The outcome—what comes out of a nation’s policies, practices, and ideology—is what a nation breathes. Nations—like institutions and individuals—are not inherently anything. They are what they do. What they do is what they breathe. And what they breathe is their soul.
After millions of Americans partied all day on public streets, after Harris graced history in her suffragette-white pantsuit, Biden gave a rousing victory speech Saturday night from Wilmington, Delaware. “I’ve long talked about the battle for the soul of America,” he said. “We must restore the soul of America. Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail.”
But can Biden admit that those darkest impulses are collectively called Western civilization?
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“America is a mix of light and shadow,” Meacham said during his address to the Democratic National Convention on August 20. “Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall dwell in the American soul, but so do the impulses that have given us slavery, segregation, and systemic discrimination.”
Can Meacham admit that the shadow is Western civilization?
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Biden and Meacham both speak crucially about the battle, the twoness. But what if the twoness dwells in the nation, not in a single national soul? Opposing forces can dwell in a mind, in a nation. But can opposing forces dwell in a soul—if soul is elemental like breath? It is hard to imagine the enslaver and the enslaved being together in any elemental sense. It is hard to imagine Trump and the survivor who voted against him being together in any elemental sense. But they have been battling in the same nation.
There is a divide in America between the souls of injustice and justice: souls in opposition like fire and ice, like voters and voter subtraction, like Trump and truth.
The soul of injustice is called Western civilization. (And "ice" should be all caps.)
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There have been many battles between the souls of America on many issues. Both souls—the soul of justice, the soul of injustice—were there at the founding, in the 1770s and ’80s. They battled during the Continental Congresses. They battled in the First Congress. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of justice with the battle cry of “necessary evil” by the end of the 18th century. But the defeated soul of justice battled on in the shadows of history. In an 1844 letter to his fellow abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass called for a “great moral and religious movement” that involved “the quickening and enlightening of the dead conscience of the nation into life, and to a sense of the gross injustice, fraud, wrong and inhumanity of enslaving their fellow-men,—the fixing in the soul of the nation an invincible abhorrence of the whole system of slaveholding.”
Instead, racist Americans compromised on manacled bodies again in 1850, as they had in 1820 in Missouri, as they had at the founding in Philadelphia. The Civil War, which started as an effort to put the soul of injustice back in its slaveholding place, transformed into a battle between the souls of the nation. The soul of justice won the Civil War but lost the battle. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of justice with the battle cry of “separate but equal” by the end of the 19th century. But once again, the soul of justice battled on in the shadows of history.
Then came the Great Migration, and a New Deal for some of those who migrated north, and the great Ella Baker and Rosa Parks. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall took the soul of injustice to the Supreme Court, and preachers like Martin Luther King Jr. chose “to save the soul of America,” the motto of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, newly formed in 1957.
The soul of justice won the civil-rights movement but yet again lost the battle. Once again, racist Americans imposed a compromise, conjuring a Black criminal menace rather than acknowledging the continued crime of racist policies leading to racial inequity. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of justice with the battle cry of “color-blind” by the end of the 20th century.
Then came the movement for Barack Obama, the Movement for Black Lives, the movement for anti-racism. Then came the movement for Trump, the movement for law and order, the movement for white supremacy. Both movements were powerful. Both movements were mainstream. Both movements were never turning back. All Americans were gripped by one or the other, or both: the movement for the soul of justice, and the movement for the soul of injustice.
And once you consider that the same soul of injustice was found in all the Western colonial powers, it is trivial to identify the soul of injustice as Western civilization.
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But Democrats, independents, and Republicans who religiously believe the myth of the pure American soul are not about to consider that we have had two souls, that we have seen a battle between slaveholders and abolitionists, Confederates and Unionists, red shirts and civil-rights activists, red hats and Black Lives Matter protesters. The two souls are not prime material for political campaigns.
We can change this via consistent messaging.
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Many white Americans, in particular, really did believe that the first Black president was poisoning their nation’s soul. They answered Trump’s call to make America great again in 2016. Four years later, many Americans believed that Trump was poisoning their nation, and answered Biden’s call to restore the soul of the nation.
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In the end, the souls animating both the red hats and the honking cars want a restoration—they want things to go back to normal. In the end, they will all be disappointed. There’s no saving America’s soul. There's no restoring the soul. There's no fighting for the soul of America. There’s no uniting the souls of America. There is only fighting off the other soul of America.
Very well put. When we speak of uniting Americans, we do not mean attempting to unite the two souls. Rather, we mean uniting the American soul so that it can become strong enough to destroy the Western soul.
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Obama and Trump did not poison the American soul any more than Biden can heal it. Trump battled for the soul of injustice, and the voters sent him home. Soon, President Biden can battle for the soul of justice.
Our past breaths do not bind our future breaths. I can battle for the soul of justice. And so can you. And so can we. Like our ancestors, for our children. We can change the world for Gianna Floyd. We can—once and for all—win the battle between the souls of America.
Better yet, we can prove that only the soul of justice deserves to call itself America.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 10, 2020, 03:17:22 am
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked things off on Friday with a tweet that terrified Trumpworld.
“Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?” she wrote. “I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”
A group calling itself the Trump Accountability Project sprung up to heed AOC’s call.
“Remember what they did,” the group’s sparse website declares. “We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed his government. Those who funded him.”
https://www.trumpaccountability.net/
Post by: guest5 on October 30, 2020, 08:34:39 pm
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VICE heads to the Southwest to see how one indigenous tribe’s fight to protect their land and ancestral history is playing out at the San Diego border. Then we hit the streets of Phoenix with a group of progressive military veterans on a mission to change the hearts and minds of voters in the growing battleground state of Arizona.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7UMbJHsNs
The 2020 Presidential election is coinciding with one of the most polarizing times in modern American history - VICE travels across the country to learn about the extraordinary actions of ordinary people that could shape our collective future.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 22, 2020, 11:36:22 pm
https://donaldtrump.watch/
These are all the people who will have to be at least prohibited from reproducing before there can be any possibility of a united America.
Post by: Starling on October 20, 2020, 08:06:39 pm
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/23-reasons-living-in-the-90s-was-the-absolute-freaking-best
1. "Driving to the mall on Friday night with friends and not knowing who else might be there. It was thrilling wondering if you would run into your crush — and not knowing because no one had phones or social media."
2. "POGS! Nothing like
5. "Developing photos! The excitement of opening the envelope and seeing what memory you captured was a thrill. Everyone would flock to you when they saw you had photos."
6. "Not having to maintain an 'online image' or prove to others that we had interesting or adventurous lives."
7. "Not having people pretending to have the perfect life, face, body, etc. in our faces all day, every day thanks to social media. It was really nice."
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10. "The way the Internet was so open. You weren’t dealing with mega-corporations back then — it was all just people running their own websites, starting small companies, trying new stuff."
11. "It feels like it was the last time the world wasn’t so scary. Everyone was super excited about what a new millennium would bring, 9/11 hadn’t happened yet, and we were all so full of hope and optimism. I miss that innocence."
13. "Letters from friends studying abroad or going to college in a different state than you. It was so nice to pick up your mail and see familiar handwriting. Long letters — especially those written over a week or even a month — were the best."
14. "African American representation on television. Martin; Living Single; Fresh Prince; Girlfriends; Half and Half; Sister, Sister; The Arsenio Hall Show; In Living Color."
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No matter who you were, you had positive representation in media.
15. "Going out for dinner with family and friends and not seeing a damn cell phone on the table."
21. "Space Jam. Michael Jordan (aka the G.O.A.T.), the most famous players in the NBA, and Looney Toons in one movie?! I still get excited when I watch it."
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 16, 2020, 04:37:15 am
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/joe-biden-urged-appoint-muslim-federal-judges-grace-meng
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The vice-chair of the Democratic Party is calling on Joe Biden to commit to appointing, for the first time, Muslim judges to the federal bench if he were to win November's presidential election.
House Representative Grace Meng made the request in a letter to the Biden campaign last week, asking the former vice president and his running mate Kamala Harris to publicly make the commitment.
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The letter was drafted by the Muslim Bar Association of New York and signed by the South Asian Bar Association of New York.
In their letter, Meng and the two organisations highlighted that the roles of Muslims in America pre-date "the founding of the nation", pointing out it is estimated between 10 to 15 percent of those trafficked to the continent for slavery were Muslims.
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In 2016, Trump said he believed Muslim and Hispanic justices should not be eligible to oversee any case involving him because "it's possible" they would be biased against him.
Post by: Starling on September 20, 2020, 08:11:16 am
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Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 18, 2020, 02:07:04 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7w9qyCdMA
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 16, 2020, 01:01:48 am
Only if he would not similarly defend a Jew. Otherwise False Leftist.
Post by: Starling on September 15, 2020, 09:06:02 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6omxJJrw4
From the show "What Would You Do" an American soldier instinctively defends a Muslim deli worker being harassed.
True Leftist in uniform?
Post by: guest5 on September 10, 2020, 01:47:04 pm
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A new Pew Research poll has revealed 73 percent of people in the United States believe the government is crooked and unaccountable to the public. The poll found people across the political spectrum share a mutual disdain for the government. Rick Sanchez, host of “The News with Rick Sanchez,” discusses.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_FWY7Rxw8&feature=youtu.be
Post by: guest5 on August 11, 2020, 01:24:07 pm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-citizenship-renounce-trump-coronavirus-tax-a9663791.html
Number of Americans giving up US citizenship skyrocketing in 2020, report says
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article244847412.html#storylink=cpy
A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, according to new research. Here's why
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/us/us-citizenship-renounced-data-trnd/index.html
Not surprised at all! The political "elites" that run the US and western civilization are some of the most miserable, imbecilic, and Judaic **** this world has ever known. The societies and cultures they "create" are pure trash!
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 18, 2020, 11:53:19 pm
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Post by: guest5 on July 09, 2020, 07:22:16 pm
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Former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden unveiled his economic recovery plan and stressed the importance of uniting America. Biden said, “The only thing that can tear America apart…is America itself…we need to remember who we are.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGG9JUOMwE
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 07, 2020, 11:41:57 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/column-trump-makes-clear-two-202234422.html
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Column: Trump makes it clear: There are two Americas, and November is for choosing sides
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There is Donald Trump’s America, a world of white racial resentment where the Confederate flag proudly flew, where monuments to traitors are to be revered, where protesting racial injustice is an intolerable act of aggression, and where a pandemic that has killed at least 133,000 Americans and put millions out of work is a mere inconvenience that people will come to accept.
And then, there is what I like to think of as the real America, a deeply flawed country that is starting to come to grips with the wages of racism, a too-violent police culture, a wealth gap, an education gap, a health insurance gap. A country that believes in its better angels, a country that knows it can do better.
In other words, there is Western civilization, and there is America. What we have to do is get people calling them by these names. False Leftists especially need to pay attention: never describe anything bad about the US as "American"; describe everything bad about the US as "Western". This is how we can reclaim Americanism for the left!
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE, so that America can rise from the ashes.
Post by: guest5 on July 07, 2020, 09:04:13 pm
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MSNBC anchor Ari Melber quotes MSNBC viewers of all ages to explore how views and conversations are shifting about race, civil rights and hip hop. Melber quotes one mother who wrote into The Beat to relay how after watching the show's special report about Black artists and rappers confronting police brutality, she said, “Now I get it, I wasn’t listening to those rappers back then, but I understand now.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXp3tg2Jlt4
I've been monitoring hip-hop for this type of activism in tandem with the True Left ideology for well over a decade now. I'm glad more people are finally listening!
BONUS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VQye6P8k0
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 04, 2020, 12:18:39 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtAjZ0MztQ
The more Americans unite, the more worried Westerners become.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 03, 2020, 12:12:12 am
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In the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody, dozens of American Muslim organizations have come together to call for reform to policing practices, and to support black-led organizations.
“The victimization of unarmed Black Muslims has a long and troubling history,” said a coalition statement signed by more than 90 civil rights, advocacy, community and faith organizations. “As American Muslims, we will draw on our diversity, our strength, and our resilience to demand these reforms because Black lives matter.”
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Like members of other faith groups, many Muslims in America have joined in the outrage unleashed after Floyd, a black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck. Groups from multiple denominations across faiths have publicly called for action against racism and aligned with the goals of peaceful demonstrators.
In street protests, statements, sermons and webinars, American Muslims have rallied against racism and discussed reforms.
“Muslim American organizations are committed to advocating at all levels to put an end to excessive use of force which has led to the murders of countless Black Americans,” said Iman Awad, legislative director of Emgage Action, one of the statement’s signatories. “Our message is that we will continue to fight but most importantly uplift the work being done by our Black leaders.”
Muslims in America are ethnically and racially diverse and Floyd’s death has also reinvigorated conversations about the treatment and representation of black Muslims in their own faith communities.
“I’m hopeful and heartened by the number and diversity of groups that have signed on,” said Kameelah Rashad, president of Muslim Wellness Foundation, also a co-convener. “That says to me that there’s at least recognition that we as a whole can no longer separate Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, surveillance, and violence. People are reconciling with the notion that means our struggles are intertwined.”
Now, she said, is the time for action.
“It’s vital that non-Black Muslims develop a respect for the resilience and resistance of Black people.”
The statement said: “Black people are often marginalized within the broader Muslim community. And when they fall victim to police violence, non-Black Muslims are too often silent, which leads to complicity.”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/officer-tou-thaos-silence-actually-killed-george-floyd
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The image of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on the neck of a Black man, George Floyd, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds has been etched into the American consciousness.
But for many Asian-Americans like myself, there’s another lingering image from that fatal encounter—the face of the Asian officer who stood by and did nothing as Floyd was violently choked to death.
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Among those who empathized most with Southeast Asian refugees was the gay black civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin. In an ad headlined "Black Leaders urge admission of the Indochinese refugees,” paid for by the International Rescue Committee and published in The New York Times in 1978, 80 black leaders concluded, “If our government lacks compassion for these dispossessed human beings, it is difficult to believe that the same government can have much compassion for America’s black minority, or America’s poor.”
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Like many Black Americans, Hmong youth were over-policed, stereotyped as gang members, and victimized by the institutional failures that fueled the school-to-prison pipeline.
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“All of the legislations that were created to punish and criminalize Black people were also the same legislation and guidelines that were criminalizing us,” says Vaj.
Police brutality hit home for many in the Hmong community in 2006, when 19-year-old Fong Lee was shot eight times and killed by Minneapolis police officer Jason Andersen, who had been assigned to the Metro Strike Gang Force. The official account accused the dead teenager of being armed, but later, his family argued the gun was planted by the police after paperwork was uncovered that implied the gun was already in police possession. Black and Hmong activists rallied around Fong’s family in comfort and solidarity in the high-profile case, bringing many into the wider conversation about justice for racist police killings.
"They were the loudest voices for us," Fong's older sister, Shoua Lee told the BBC. "Even before we asked for help from other communities, they had come to us and offered their help."
Fong was hardly the only Hmong slain by the police in and around the Twin Cities. Others include 13-year-olds Ba See Lor and Thai Yang, who were shot in the back with a shotgun by a suburban police officer in 1989; 29-year-old Jason Yang, who police say jumped off a freeway off-ramp to his death while fleeing officers in 2010; and 52-year-old Chiasher Vue, who was shot by police in his home in 2019.
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Asian-Americans who have bought into the idea of us as model minorities still cannot grasp that the discrimination of Black people around the world has been what informs the racist systems that discriminate against other people of color and actively pit us against each other. The imperialist white supremacist institution that intervened and invaded our countries (giving us our oft-quoted “we are here because you were there”) is the same white supremacist institution that kills Black people at home.
Martin Luther King knew that. Bayard Rustin knew that. The Black activists who uplifted Fong Lee’s family knew that. The white supremacist structure inherent in the police is what clouds any expectation of solidarity between officers of color and the overcriminalized populations they come from.
But what should we expect from a system that was originally founded to uphold the ultimate white supremacist institution of slavery?
At a rally organized by BLM-Minnesota, Tou Saiko Lee, the organizer, stood next to Youa Vang Lee, the mother of Fong Lee, as Youa urged her community to stand on the side of justice. Her presence at the rally was transformative in lending empathy to the Black community from a Hmong perspective. “A lot of people saw their mother in Fong Lee’s mother,” said Lee.
The daughter of Jason Yang, a Hmong man who was shot dead by Minneapolis police in 2010, also lent her support for the #Hmong4BlackLives movement in a lengthy Facebook post. “We are grieving for George Floyd’s family because we know,” Autumn Yang wrote. “And it hurts to see that some people in my own community won’t support BLM due to the color of their skin when BLM is fighting for the same thing that my family fought for in 2010.”
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 03, 2020, 12:08:06 am
Inner change is also required:
www.yahoo.com/news/latinos-must-confront-ingrained-anti-110856016.html
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Latinos must confront 'ingrained' anti-black racism amid George Floyd protests, some urge
Ana Sanz, 26, marched for about 10 miles with a sprained ankle on Monday in Washington, D.C., to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and to demand accountability for the dehumanization of black people at the hands of law enforcement.
But Sanz, an Afro-Latinx from Washington who works with women overcoming domestic and sexual violence, said it's also time for something else — for her fellow Latinos to confront the racism and anti-blackness within the community.
Proximity to "Eurocentricity and whiteness is how our ancestors survived" through oppression, a painful legacy that still prevails and needs to be eradicated, Sanz said.
This is what I have been saying.
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Jasmine Haywood, an Afro-Latina who has researched anti-black Latino racism, told NBC News that millennial Latinos like Sanz are looking to break cycles of internalized racism and the ways Latinos perpetuate and uphold white supremacy.
"What Latinos need to realize is that our oppression is bound up and intertwined with the oppression of the black community," Haywood said. "Until they are liberated, until they are free from injustices and oppression, we will never be liberated."
Haywood said anti-blackness sentiments are "ingrained in our cultures" in part because generations of Latinos were "taught to seek partners that have a certain European or white phenotype or lighter skin to lighten their family trees."
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While Latinos largely acknowledge their ethnicity and African roots — dating to Latin America's colonial period, when mixing occurred among indigenous people, white Europeans, slaves from Africa and Asians — many still struggle to consider themselves as black. In Pew's survey, 39 percent of Afro-Latinos identified as white, while only 18 percent identified as black
Ultimately we need to discard all these terms (all of which were invented by Western civilization), but until then, we first need to reject belief in "white" superiority,
So long as you believe in "white" superiority, it is logically impossible to not also believe in "black" inferiority (or, for that matter, Jewish hypersuperiority). Western standards of superiority/inferiority must be discarded.
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At the same time, Latinos of every color face overt and subtle racism and discrimination, whether they were born in the U.S. or not.
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"White-passing Latinos really need to come to terms with their privilege in the context of anti-blackness," whether they were born in the U.S., Latin America or the Caribbean, and they "need to just accept the reality that we also come from a racist society that is embedded in white supremacy," Varela said.
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Vilson said it is important to remember "how interconnected so many of our struggles are."
"The focus on anti-blackness does not mean that we don't care about kids in cages. Similarly, we understand that slavery also manifested in so many Asian Americans who had to build railroads in this country. We understand that the prison system was exponentially built on the backs of black people through the 13th Amendment," he added. "The more we can hone in on some of the worst offenses, we can find ways to alleviate all kinds of different aggressions and oppressions."
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE!
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us.yahoo.com/news/floyd-case-could-finally-unite-085701529.html
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In the case of Floyd, the store in which he allegedly attempted to pass a counterfeit $20 bill is owned by a Muslim American of Palestinian heritage named Mahmoud Abumayyaleh.
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it was a 17-year-old clerk who called the police, not Abumayyaleh, who was out of the store at time and who has stated he personally knew Floyd and would’ve never called the authorities if he had been present
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On the more positive side though, the person who will lead the prosecution of the officers for killing Floyd is Muslim: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who announced Wednesday that he was upgrading the charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin from third- to second-degree murder and he charged the three officer at the scene with aiding and abetting in the murder.
Add to that, we’ve seen an “unprecedented outpouring of support from Middle Eastern and South Asian Muslims” for Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, according to Margari Hill, an African-American Muslim who serves as executive director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, based in Alta Loma, California.
This second development has not always been the case. As longtime activist Linda Sarsour, co-founder of MPOWER Change, told me , “Since the 2014 police murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, we have seen more non-black Muslim participation in the anti-police brutality movement because now we have begun to understand the intersections of oppression by law enforcement and that one-third of our Muslim community is African-American, and they are hurting too.” But she added, “We still have so much more work to do.”
That was the same sentiment I heard from Cleveland City Council member Basheer Jones, the first Muslim ever elected to the council with his 2017 victory. Jones, a 33-year-old African-American, is doing his best to bring together the diverse facets of the Muslim community. I’ve seen Jones give impassioned speeches to Muslim audiences that were primarily Arab and South Asian, telling them in essence, “I’m with you on Syria and Palestine, you have to be with us on Black Lives Matter.”
Jones, who is now actively considering a run for Cleveland mayor in 2021, explained that when he first ran for office three years ago, he received very little support from the greater Muslim community, but that has dramatically changed over time. Jones noted that one of the most effective tools in uniting and animating the disparate parts of the Muslim community is none other than Donald J. Trump: “It doesn’t matter if you are Middle Eastern, South Asian, or black, if you are not white, you suffer from the impact of white supremacy—which has grown even more acute in the time of Trump.”
In other words, Jews (by far the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump administration) must never under any circumstances be considered "non-white".
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Jones, who was a community organizer before running for City Council, spoke of the long list of African-Americans wrongly killed by the police in Cleveland, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by a police officer in 2014 while playing with a pellet gun. But he noted the the Floyd case was especially heartbreaking and jarring: “Not only did we see the police with a knee on George Floyd’s throat for over eight minutes, the police knew they were being filmed and still didn’t care.”
In Minneapolis, where Floyd was murdered, the Muslim community has been especially active—not just participating in the protests but organizing them as well, explained Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Hussein, who is of Somali heritage, remarked that since the Muslim community in Minneapolis is primarily African American, they’ve been leading the protests. But he added that there has been a visible presence by the Palestinian American community, which he views as a very positive development.
Hussein, who was involved in protesting past police killings in Minneapolis such as of the case of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a police officer who was later acquitted, the Floyd case has animated the Muslim community unlike ever before. In Hussein’s view, the horrific killing of Floyd on video has “fully engaged” the Muslim community to stand up for black lives and oppose police brutality.
For more on BLM support for BDS:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-platform-black-lives-matter-accuses-israel-of-genocide-backs-bds/
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www.yahoo.com/entertainment/george-lopez-says-latinx-celebrities-195853724.html
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George Lopez has a message for Latinx celebrities who are choosing to stay silent during the George Floyd protests: stop.
"You see some comments that are like "How am I supposed to help black lives when they don't help us? That's the wrong attitude. You don't do something and expect something in return. You do it because it's right," the comedian tells EW.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-ewbWH-kP/?utm_source=ig_embed
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQ19eAFUq8/?utm_source=ig_embed
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www.yahoo.com/news/one-big-difference-george-floyd-140544805.html
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“This is utterly different from anything we’ve seen,” said Douglas McAdam, a Stanford sociologist who studies social movements, referring to the recent protests. Since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, every highly publicized death of an African American man while in police custody brought protests, he said, “but overwhelmingly in the black community.”
The pattern evident in the streets has now been confirmed by early demographic data: Researchers fanned out across three American cities last weekend and found overwhelmingly young crowds with large numbers of white and highly educated people.
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While opinion polls on race do not always capture what people actually think, surveys have shown that racial attitudes among white Americans have been shifting. There has been a sudden and sharp turn by white liberals toward a much more sympathetic view of black people in recent years, said Andrew Engelhardt, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, who has published papers documenting the shift.
“In the last 10 years or so we’ve seen something unprecedented with white Democrats,” Engelhardt said.
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by 2018, white liberals felt more positively about blacks, Latinos and Asians than they did about whites.
They should also stop calling themselves "white" ASAP. The sooner the only people left calling themselves "white" are all rightists, the tidier the battlefield becomes.
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 02, 2020, 11:58:08 pm
I support the recent increase in tendency to call out racists as un-American:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBfgn7go-e4
(I of course also appreciate the reference at 3:51 to Poland and Hungary.)
The following is a nice approach too:
www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-confederate-president-reelection-232605303.html
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Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For President Of The Confederacy
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We need more of this (just ignore the idiot at 2:57):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMIwf4NGw8
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A topic that should have been addressed a long time ago:
www.yahoo.com/news/officer-stood-george-floyd-died-224329297.html
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“People don't have a baseline of an understanding of what anti-blackness even is,” Vaj, who’s Hmong American, said. “Yes, we [Asian Americans] have pain and we suffer from oppression and discrimination and racism. Black people are in a different boat. On top of that, their struggle with the police, at least in this country, has a long history of 400 years of control and occupation. I think that that's really important for us to acknowledge that.”
Tensions between the black and the Asian communities have long existed. The strained relations stem, in part, from being set in opposition to one another throughout American history, Vaj said. One of the most glaring examples is the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of four white police officers for use of excessive force in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, a black construction worker. Businesses sustained roughly $1 billion in damage, with roughly half being Korean-owned. Divisions between immigrant Korean business owners and their black customers widened.
The organizer, who comes from a refugee family herself, said she can look back to as recently as her own people’s journey in the U.S. as evidence. When America resettled Southeast Asian refugees following the Vietnam War, many were placed in poorly funded urban areas with little infrastructure, such as Long Beach and Stockton, California, or the Bronx, New York, where black and brown communities had already existed.
“When you are put into this situation, and you live amongst other poor black and brown folks with very little resources, there is that piece of strain between communities that must fight for the same resources,” Vaj said. “There isn't enough for all of you.”
Moreover, resettlement efforts did not include sufficient introductions between refugees and the communities they now inhabited, Vaj said. The information that was fed to the new immigrants often did not humanize communities of color, she added.
“Everything you've learned, you've learned through the lens of white supremacy. And this is what this country is built on,” Vaj explained. Even now, the organizer said she’s received abusive comments and criticisms from some members of her community for standing with the black community.
Ellen Wu, a historian and the author of “The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority,” overlapped many of Vaj’s thoughts. She noted white supremacy has historically fed on the exploitation and destruction of the black community.
As Asian Americans began to arrive in the United States, white supremacy targeted the group as well. The government passed racist legislation like the Chinese Exclusion Act, and fueled movements like the anti-Japanese movement of the early 1900s.
But Wu explained that as time went on, white supremacy took on other forms. Fearing that anti-Asian racism could jeopardize the U.S.’ place as a leader on the world stage and impede imperial expansion abroad, white liberals sought to dismantle Asian exclusion legislation and practices during and after World War II.
“In other words, they expected a geopolitical payoff to recognizing Asian Americans as ‘model citizens,’” Wu said.
In the 1960s, white liberals wielded the model minority stereotype to stifle black social movements, using Asian Americans as “proof” of meritocracy and equal opportunity for people of color. As she mentions in her book, politicians weaponized Japanese American “success stories” after World War II as a tactic in reframing Japanese American incarceration and weakening the civil rights movement. Compliance with, rather than opposition to, the state would bring rewards, the politicians hoped to show.
“The insinuation was that hard work along with unwavering faith in the government and liberal democracy as opposed to political protest were the keys to overcoming racial barriers as well as achieving full citizenship,” Wu wrote.
The evolving forms of white supremacy, Wu said, gave Asians more space for social mobility.
“These gains, however, have come at a cost: complicity with white supremacy.”
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Wu also clarified that Asian Americans are a diverse group with subgroups that have a range of power and privilege. Since their initial resettlement roughly 45 years ago, Southeast Asians, including Hmong, have dealt with the pain of impoverished neighborhoods and inadequate support under the backdrop of existing racial injustice, Quyen Dinh, the executive director of Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, said.
This is another reason why you need to stop calling yourself "Asian", as I have long recommended. Or "black", for that matter. Or any other Western-invented category. The only category we need is the anti-category "non-white". WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE JEWS.
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“Let’s not forget that state violence in the United States has affected Asian Americans too,” Iyer said.
She pointed out that in 2006, a Minneapolis police officer Jason Andersen shot and killed a 19-year-old Hmong American Fong Lee who had been riding a bike with friends. An all-white jury ruled that Andersen, who claimed he saw Lee with a gun, did not use excessive force on the teen and exonerated him. A 57-year-old Indian grandfather, Sureshbhai Patel, was slammed to the ground and left partially paralyzed by Alabama officer Eric Parker during a visit to his son’s family.
“While incidences of police brutality against Asian Americans do not occur with the frequency they do against black people, we cannot deny that police brutality and discriminatory policing targets black and brown bodies at disproportionate and alarming rates,” Iyer said.
In addition to providing some historical perspective, Wu said Asian Americans can remind their own communities that many privileges they take part in came as a result of black movements.
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There has been marked support from many Asian Americans for the black community during this time, many of the experts noted, particularly after tragedies such as Floyd’s death. Iyer noted that organizations, students and activists have created toolkits, campaigns and town halls to further solidarity practices between black and Asian communities. She also mentioned she’s seen examples of youth engaging in conversations between Asian small-business owners who operate convenience stores in black neighborhoods and black residents.
This is what we need more of, and more publicity for.
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For Asian Americans to avoid the discussion on race would bring dangerous results, Lakshmi Sridaran, the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together, explained. Particularly as the community observes the rise in anti-Asian hate violence and racism amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they must interrogate their own reliance and trust in law enforcement. She noted that some communities look to the criminal justice system to mitigate hate.
“These complex relationships of distinct and shared struggles are informed both by interpersonal and state violence,” she explained. “If we recuse ourselves from these discussions, then we further entrench ourselves in white supremacy and continue to endanger other communities of color.”
This is what I have been saying all along. And it's not just about having discussions. Eventually it will be about willingness to use firearms to protect one another.
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www.wsj.com/articles/protests-spread-beyond-big-cities-from-raleigh-to-santa-rosa-11591099005
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“The nation has erupted,” said Kami Chavis, director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest University School of Law, who called the outcry more intense than past protests. “What feels different to me about this time is that there’s so much solidarity across communities.”
Bethany Cannon, a 25-year-old student and bartender, organized protests that drew hundreds both Saturday and Sunday in Lubbock, Texas, a conservative city of 258,000 that is majority white and just 8% black. Ms. Cannon and others couldn’t recall another Lubbock protest with such crowds, but she called Mr. Floyd’s death a breaking point of too many police killings and too little change.
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In El Paso, a Texas border city of 681,000 that is 81% Hispanic and less than 4% black, hundreds of people marched from a local park to police headquarters Sunday. Malik Dado, an Army reservist and activist of Asian and Hispanic descent, said that though El Paso is a long way from Minneapolis, the community understands racial injustice; a gunman accused of targeting Mexican-Americans killed 23 people in a Walmart there last year.
“It’s all of our fights, not as black or white or blue, but for the American people,” Mr. Dado said.
www.yahoo.com/news/teens-tiktok-exposing-generational-rift-141705669.html
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Social media is awash with earnest shows of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The best of these posts have been materially useful to the cause. Others, less so. But on TikTok, Gen Z is modeling the most important tenet of allyship: taking it upon yourself to research, point out, and confront racism, especially when it feels risky or uncomfortable to do so.
Fifteen-year-old Izabella, for example, documented her family's frustrating response to George Floyd's killing while in police custody, in a TikTok with more than 1.5 million views.
"I literally hate my family so much," Izabella said, eyes wet from crying. "It's just. They just tried to argue with me that George Floyd — like, they just tried to tell me that he deserved that 'cause he did something wrong, and that it was okay. That is not okay. And it's just making me so upset. I don't know. I do not wanna live here. I hate livin' in Louisiana. I hate livin' around these racist f-cks. Like, I just wanna leave."
In two days, her TikTok following went from roughly 50 to 17,000 people. After picking up traction on the platform, her video eventually landed on Twitter when culture critic Safy-Hallan Farah shared it.
"My sister sent me a TikTok of a white girl crying about her parents saying George Floyd deserved to die, tearfully disowning them," she wrote. "There's a whole genre of white gen z kids processing in real-time what's new information to them (but not us), that their parents are sociopaths."
Racism is psychopathy towards the outgroup. This is one of the simplest ways to explain what racism is.
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Elaborating on the everyday racism she has observed in her community, which is located in the deep south, Izabella said she routinely hears white people "saying the n-word and making fun of black people."
"It makes me sick," she added.
On Monday, 16-year-old TikTokker Grace shared a tearful excerpt from a conversation with her father.
"Why can't I just speak my mind about it without anyone getting mad?" she asked her father in the clip, which was filmed using her front-facing camera.
"Because you won't stop," he replied. "And it's really, really, really annoying."
"Because I'm trying to say that black lives matter?" the teen asked, visibly upset.
"You said that, and now you're good," her father said. "You just keep talking about it and talking about it...We can choose not to listen because you've already said all of your points. And then you just keep going on and going on and going on. And it's ruining — it's just like, ruining the day."
To all anti-racists with racist parents, the best long-term thing that you can do is voluntarily refrain from reproducing.
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www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/black-lives-matter-protests-near-me-small-towns
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The movements and marches that convulse big cities don’t usually (or ever) make it to Havre. Nor do they usually make it to hundreds of other small towns across the country. But the protests following the death of George Floyd, who was killed in police custody on May 25, are different.
All over the country, people are showing up — often for the first time in their lives — to protest police brutality and injustice. In tiny ag towns like Havre and Hermiston, Oregon, but also in midsize cities Topeka, Kansas, and Waco, Texas; on island hamlets (Friday Harbor, San Juan Island; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Bar Harbor, Maine); and in well-to-do suburbs (Lake Forest Park, Washington; Darien, Connecticut; Chagrin Falls, Ohio). They are showing up at the courthouse. They are kneeling and observing eight minutes of silence — a reference to how long Floyd was pinned to the ground in a knee chokehold by the Minneapolis police officer who was later charged with his murder. They are marching down interstates and waving signs on street corners. Sometimes, like in the town of Alton, New Hampshire (population 5,335), where one woman organized a protest just two months after being hospitalized with COVID-19, only seven people come. Sometimes, like in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, there are thousands.
These protests are covered by local news outlets, but amid the deluge of national news — major protests in major cities, guard tanks and helicopters, tear gas and rubber bullets, looting and destruction in select cities, the president’s reaction, massive economic anxiety and unemployment, all against the backdrop of the continued spread of COVID-19 — it’s hard for these stories of smaller, even silent, protests to break through.
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There have been protests in Belfast, Maine. In Farmington, New Mexico. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In Bentonville, Arkansas. In Lubbock, Texas. In Idaho Falls, Idaho. The biggest anyone can remember in Paducah, Kentucky, in Bozeman, Montana, in Pendleton, Oregon, in Frisco, Texas, and in Ogden, Utah. In Tacoma, Washington, pastors knelt in the rain, pleading with God. In Bowling Green, Kentucky, three rolling days of protests. In Owatonna, Minnesota, a student-led protest lasted for 10 hours. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, thousands gathered on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. In Myers Park, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Charlotte, North Carolina, where black people were prohibited from owning property for decades. And in Petal, Mississippi, where protesters have spent days calling for the resignation of Mayor Hal Marx, who tweeted last week that “If you can talk, you can breathe.”
These protests cut across demographics and geographic spaces. They’re happening in places with little in the way of a protest tradition, in places with majority white population and majority black, and at an unprecedented scale. People who’ve watched and participated in the Black Lives Matter movement since 2015 say that this time feels different. And the prevalence of these small protests is one of many reasons why.
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Riverton, population 11,000, is surrounded by the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. Like a lot of towns that border Native American reservations — it can feel, as Steele put it, “old-fashioned.” But on Monday, more than 150 people showed up to protest. Some were from Riverton; others drove from the reservation and as far away as Lander. An older white woman had written “THIS WYOMING NATIVE KNOWS BLACK LIVES MATTER” on the back of her T-shirt.
In September 2019, a Riverton police officer shot and killed a Northern Arapaho man outside the local Walmart after he allegedly had attempted to stab the officer, giving new life to long-standing complaints about the mistreatment of tribal residents by off-reservation police. (Native Americans are killed by police at a higher rate than any other ethnic group in the United States.) In November, the city met with the Northern Arapaho tribal council to attempt to improve relations between the two. But as Layha Spoonhunter, who is Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapaho, and Oglala Lakota, told me, there was significant skepticism and racism from people in town.
Spoonhunter decided to put together the event, along with Micah Lott, as a way to “bring to light issues that we experience as people of color,” he said. He said the overwhelming response from the city, where you still regularly see Confederate flags hung in windows and in trucks, was positive. “There were people who shouted, ‘Hope you get the ‘rona,” he said. “But most people honked in support, or raised their fist, or if we shouted ‘black lives matter’ or ‘justice for Floyd,’ they would open their windows and yell it back.”
“As Indigenous people, we wanted to stand in solidarity with Black Lives,” Lott told me. “We put it on in Riverton, because of its older white conservative population and its prejudice toward Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.”
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/demonstration-at-us-embassy-protests-against-police-violence/
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About 300 people participated in a peaceful protest against police violence and racism in the United States Thursday night at a candlelight vigil in front of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
Dressed in black, wearing masks and holding candles, the assembled crowd of mostly young people paid tribute to George Floyd, the African-American man who was killed on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, allegedly by a police officer.
U.S. citizens, Mexicans and other foreigners expressed their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and added their voices to protests that have occurred in all 50 U.S. states and in major cities around the world.
“We are here to remember the black lives that have been killed by the police in the United States where racism is an integral part of its systems and institutions,” said one of those attending the vigil.
“Your fight is my fight #BlackLivesMatter,” “Racism kills. I can’t breathe” and “Justice for George Floyd” read some of the signs hoisted by the crowd.
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“Just like our oppressions, our struggles are also linked. The anti-racist struggle in the United States is the same as that of Mexico and other parts of the world, the struggle of indigenous peoples is the same as that of blacks,” Bailey added.
This is what I like to see.
Bonus:
metro.co.uk/2020/06/05/protesters-form-circle-around-muslims-can-pray-peacefully-12810202/
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Muslims were able to pray safely during a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn after hundreds of people formed a protective circle.
A moving video shows non-Muslims creating a human shield to keep Muslims out of potential harm from officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD), who have come under fire over their excessive use of force.
Stance Grounded, who tweeted the footage, said: ‘Non-Muslims surround Muslims so they can pray safely from the harm of the NYPD during a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, New York. I LOVE THIS. THIS IS HUMANITY!’ He added: ‘They were really prepared to get tear gassed, maced, shot w/ rubber bullets just so fellow humans could pray in peace. If that isn’t LOVE, I don’t know what is. If that isn’t HOPE, I don’t know what is’.
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The video of Muslims being protected as they pray has been praised for showing people coming together in a show of solidarity against racism.