February 2012
48 posts
My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck...
thegoddamazon:
queerhairyvag:
Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now! AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Before he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels a little...
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via lati-negros)
of-praxis:
In New Jersey, the data showed that only 15 percent of all drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike were racial minorities, yet 42 percent of all stops and 73 percent of all arrests were of black motorists—despite the fact that blacks and whites violated traffi c laws at almost exactly the same rate. While radar stops were relatively consistent with the percentage of minority violators,...
Do you know Yuri Kochiyama?
of-praxis:
jhameia:
dreams-from-my-father:
ancestryinprogress:
I’m giving this woman flowers every single day that she is alive to let her know that cradling Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying is the most powerful thing she could have done for him in that moment, in that historical moment in our lives.
You see because she was still is an ardent social rights/social justice activist—on...
no really, if someone calls Egypt "kemet" please...
of-praxis:
feralnostalgia:
environmint:
feralnostalgia:
we are not still wondering how the pyramids were built.
Ancient Egyptians were, in terms of 21st century racial categories, definitely not white, but not especially black:
Dynastic Egyptians referred to their country as “The Two Lands”. During the Predynastic period (about 4800 to 4300BC) the Merimde culture flourished in the...
Arizona Senators water rights theft would be... →
of-praxis:
nedsecondline:
Countering these attacks by elected Navajo leaders is Louise Benally, Dine’ of Big Mountain resisting relocation on Black Mesa.
The so-called Navajo Hopi land dispute is actually a result of the backdoor schemes of Arizona Congressmen and attorneys for Peabody Coal. The goal is to remove more than 14,000 Navajos from their homeland to expand Peabody coal mines on...
“In the world according to the majority of Western media, Pakistan might well be...”
– Meet Pakistan’s DIY Generation
I love this because I love the genre(s) it features but even more so because it does a lovely, lovely roundup on indie/ambient music in Pakistan by Talha, Daniel from orangenoisepk, Asfandyar Khan, Mole, “Dalt Wisney”, Basheer and the Pied Pipers among other equally...
“Huey Newton is one of the most important people to have been produced by the...”
– James Baldwin
I think this is exactly what upsets me so much when I learn about him. He was such a beautiful, intelligent, talented person but they broke him. He made lots of mistakes that are unforgivable- siphoning BPP school funds to feed his crack habit and killing innocent people. But I cannot...
Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
jonathan-cunningham:
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a...
Deported Dad Begs North Carolina To Give Him Back... →
of-praxis:
In late 2010, Montes was deported to Mexico after nine years in the United States—cuffed and loaded into a van by federal immigration officials who drove him from his hometown of Sparta in the rural North Carolina mountains to an immigration detention center.
With Felipe Montes gone, his wife Marie Montes fell on hard times. She was pregnant with their third child and was...
EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL: I am reading... →
of-praxis:
I am reading Assata Shakur’s autobiography and there is a scene where she describes how she went into the white section of a movie theatre when she was in the 5th grade or so. She went in because she wanted to buy a picture of Elvis and they were not selling it in the Black/colored section of the…
Minorites didn't keep you out of college
of-praxis:
thundalicious:
How are white students excluded from competitive schools because of minority students? For every 1,000 students admitted about 100 might be Blacks and 75 Latino. These applicants were selected from 20,000 applicants. So 175 students kept 19,000 kids from getting into a university? American media has completely blown minority students in competitive schools out of...
This Is What Happened to CeCe →
This is a guest post by Redlark. Redlark is a white, lower-middle-class queer activist working a pink collar union gig in the Twin Cities. They are working with an amazing group of friends and allies of CeCe McDonald to get CeCe’s charges dropped and help her move back into her normal life.
Cece McDonald stood up to bigots and survived a hate crime. Now she’s in the county jail waiting...
what race are you?
black people: black
white people: 2% Greek, 9.1% German, .0000032% Russian, 92% Irish, 49% French, 100% blue eyed devil
hispanic people: not Mexican
asian people: not chinese
Dear Asian Men Who Are Convinced That White Guys...
of-praxis:
xanthophiliac:
spicyobsession:
I get where you’re coming from. Popular culture and media decided forever ago that it would make the white man look better if you guys were desexualized into nerdy, small-penis sidekicks or not mentioned in the TV Show/Film/Book/Video Game at all. For every one John Cho, there are 9000 Mr. Lees the creepy boss from Two Broke Girls. Doesn’t exactly...
svnoyi:
eccentricsoul:
svnoyi:
saskgirly:
For the Indigenous Women
neetainari:
chiefelk:
Native women are murdered at 10 times the national rate; 1 out 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime, and 3 out of 5 physically assaulted. Even worse, 88% of the perpetrators are non-Indian and cannot be prosecuted by tribal governments. Stand and take action now to restore safety and...
“[TW: rape, violence, and domestic violence]
There is a country where the...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
US on Russian and Chinese UN Veto: "Disgusting",... →
verbalresistance:
A Quick Listing of The United States’ Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972–2011 * (Including Resolutions against Decades of Atrocities and Violations, Often Supported and/or Bankrolled by the United States)
Year + The UN Resolution which was Vetoed by the United States:
1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.
...
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners →
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.
The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”… .
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Conversations I've witnessed and experienced.
White person: Makes x statement.
Non-white person: Here is a factually-based reason why x offends me.
White person: You're being sensitive. You shouldn't be offended because of y and z.
Non-white person: Here is a factually-based, and very politely-worded reason why y and z have created the conditions that x is offensive to me.
White person: I insist that you stop overreacting. It's always been like this, that's life.
Non-white person: "This" is my life and my reality.
Wamapoke wedding in Parks and Recreation, by...
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
feministfilm:
lakalenyu:
Amy Poehler, the creative force behind Parks and Recreation, is building quite a track record on Indians. Unfortunately, it isn’t a positive one. There are these incidents in the series: Spirit of Pawnee in Parks and Recreation Face-Cutting in Parks and Recreation Twisted to Death in Parks and Recreation Indians in Parks and Recreation Her...
Black Inventors: Part Two of Two →
jhameia:
racismschool:
Continued…
How many of these black inventors have you heard of?
Dr. Henry Sampson co-invented and co-patented the gamma electric cell in 1968, which produced stable high voltage output and current. He also holds three patents concerning solid rocket motors and one on the direct conversion of nuclear energy into electricity.
The son of escaped slaves from Kentucky,...
Despite their economic limitations Venezuela and... →
Alfredo Murga said the large countries such as the United States and those of Europe have made only empty promises, while Haiti’s reconstruction hasn’t had the global support it should, citing as example that the two billion dollars pledged by ex U.S. president Bill Clinton have yet to reach that country.
19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being... →
lost-and-searching-in-america:
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched...
