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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 19, 2021, 9:57 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKgI_jVRvg
Monetary reparations are an insult. The minimum justice is
eliminating the bloodlines of all descendants of the
perpetrators.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 20, 2021, 10:35 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/california-city-apologizes-history-hate-234531668.html
[quote]A California city has formally apologized to early
Chinese immigrants and their descendants for the historic
injustices suffered at the hands of Antioch's founding
community.
Why it matters: A rise in anti-Asian hate has focused attention
on the United States' legacy of racism against Asian Americans.
The treatment of Asian Americans today is directly connected to
those early years, Antioch Mayor Lamar A. Thorpe said.
Background: Chinese who immigrated to California in the 19th
century repeatedly faced racism, scapegoating and xenophobia,
which the city says was at its peak between 1850 and 1870.
During that period, Antioch officially became a "sundown
town," banning Chinese residents from walking city streets after
sunset.
To commute between work and home, Chinese residents built a
series of tunnels connecting the business district to their
homes.
Like most of U.S., Antioch participated in "The Driving Out"
and forcibly removed Chinese residents. On one particular day in
1876, white mobs gave Chinese residents until 3 p.m. to leave
the city before burning Chinatown to the ground — "no
exceptions," the city said.
What they're saying: "[T]he story of Chinese immigrants and the
dehumanizing atrocities committed against them should not be
purged from or minimized in the telling of Antioch’s history,"
the city said in its resolution.
The city also said it "must acknowledge that the legacy of
early Chinese immigrants and xenophobia are part of our
collective consciousness that helps contribute to the current
anti-Asian-American and Pacific Islander hate."
Antioch is the first city in the U.S. to officially
apologize for mistreatment of Chinese people, Thorpe said in a
news conference last month.[/quote]
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 4, 2021, 10:20 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=698JXFGDYu8
Ignore 5:33.
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Re: BLM
By: guest5 Date: June 5, 2021, 11:31 am
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Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton
[quote]What we aren't taught about the Black Panther
Party.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZTLT8WpcQ
[quote]Tyrone Kalu
2 days ago
I Gotta give my respect to my English Teacher who fought the
school's curriculum to teach us about the death of Fred Hampton
when I was in the 11th grade. [/quote]
[quote]theFLCLguy
1 day ago
This should be taught in every school. [/quote]
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Re: The "Black" and "White"
Identity Politics Scam
By: guest5 Date: June 5, 2021, 12:17 pm
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Tulsa's Not The Only Race Massacre
[quote]The Tulsa Massacre isn't the only race massacre you
weren't taught in school.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSMD4bPXjw
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: guest5 Date: June 10, 2021, 11:13 pm
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Tulsa Resident Calls Out City Council Over 1921 Race Massacre
[quote]This Tulsa resident, whose relative participated in the
Tulsa Race Massacre, is calling on the city to do more to
rectify the damages inflicted on the Black community.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou4WVC0qy-E
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2021, 10:38 pm
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It's OK for "whites" to be bad losers:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-boxing-champion-beat-great-121137877.html
[quote]When a Black boxing champion beat the 'Great White Hope,'
all hell broke loose
An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his
title against a white boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It
was billed as “the fight of the century.”
The fight was seen as a referendum on racial superiority – and
all hell was about to break loose in the racially divided United
States.
Jack Johnson, the Black man, decisively beat James Jeffries,
nicknamed “the Great White Hope.” Johnson’s triumph ignited
bloody confrontations and violence between Blacks and whites
throughout the country, leaving perhaps two dozen dead, almost
all of them Black, and hundreds injured and arrested.
...
Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Johnson grew up as the Jim
Crow era in American history was getting started. The previous
year, Rutherford B. Hayes became president after promising three
former Confederate states – South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana – that he would withdraw federal troops, who had
protected the measure of racial equality Blacks were beginning
to achieve.
As federal forces left, whites disenfranchised Black voters and
passed segregation laws, which were enforced by legal and
illegal means, including police brutality and lynching.
Journalists, too, sought to maintain social order by preserving
myths about white supremacy.
Johnson’s boxing career challenged those myths. He dispatched
one white fighter after another and taunted both the fighter and
the crowd. He was brash and arrogant and made no attempt to show
any deference to whites.
...
Johnson won the heavyweight title by easily defeating the
defending champion Tommy Burns in 1908. Novelist Jack London,
writing in the New York Herald, wrote about Johnson’s “hopeless
slaughter” of Burns and, like other journalists, called on
former champion James Jeffries to come out of retirement and
“wipe that smile from Johnson’s face.”
Jeffries announced to the world that he would “reclaim the
heavyweight championship for the white race.” He became the
“Great White Hope.”
The Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, said Jeffries and
Johnson would “settle the mooted question of supremacy.” The
Daily News in Omaha, Nebraska, reported that a Jeffries victory
would restore superiority to the white race.
...
The New York Times warned, “If the black man wins, thousands and
thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his
victory.” The message was clear: If Jeffries won, white
superiority would be proved – but if he lost, whites would still
be superior.
After Johnson easily defeated Jeffries, the Los Angeles Times
reinforced white supremacy, telling Blacks: “Do not point your
nose too high. Do not swell your chest too much. Do not boast
too loudly. Do not get puffed up. … Your place in the world is
just what is was. You are on no higher place, deserve no new
consideration, and will get none.” Nearly a century later, the
newspaper apologized for that 1910 editorial.
...
No white boxer could defeat Johnson in the ring, so white
America worked to defeat him outside the ring. Johnson was
arrested in 1912 and charged with violating the Mann Act, which
made it illegal to transport women across state lines “for the
purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral
purpose.” He served 10 months in federal prison.
But he was much more than one man. “No longer the respectful
darky asking, hat in hand, for massa’s permission, Johnson was
seen as the prototype of the independent black who acted as he
pleased and accepted no bar to his conduct,” Randy Roberts wrote
in “Papa Jack,” his biography of Johnson. “As such, Johnson was
transformed into a racial symbol that threatened America’s
social order.”
Whites responded to Johnson’s triumph by using violence to keep
Blacks in their place by any and all means. When Black
construction workers celebrated Johnson’s victory near the town
of Uvalda, Georgia, whites began shooting. As the Blacks tried
to escape into the woods, the whites hunted them down, killing
three and injuring five, Roberts wrote.
Such scenes were repeated throughout the country, according to
local media reports.
When a Black man in Houston expressed his joy over the fight’s
outcome, a white man “slashed his throat from ear to ear.”
Another Black man in Wheeling, West Virginia, who was driving an
expensive car, just like Johnson was known for, was dragged from
his car by a mob and lynched. A white mob in New York City set
fire to a Black tenement and then blocked the doorway to keep
the occupants from escaping.
...
Johnson’s punishment served as a cautionary tale for Blacks
during the Jim Crow era. Black athletes, however talented,
whether it was sprinter Jesse Owens or boxer Joe Louis, were
warned they had to be the “right type” of Black person, one who
knew his place and did not challenge the racial status quo.
In those sports where Blacks were not banned and instead
begrudgingly allowed to compete with and against whites, there
were violent attacks on Black athletes. Jack Trice, an Iowa
State football player, died of injuries from the attack he
suffered in a game against the University of Minnesota in 1923.
The end of professional baseball’s color line in 1946 line was
possible only because Jackie Robinson promised he would not
respond to racist epithets and physical abuse so that he would
be acceptable to white America.
In the 1960s, white America taught Muhammad Ali, whom many
considered the “wrong type” of Black athlete, the lesson it had
once taught Jack Johnson. Ali, a brash Muslim who refused to
defer to the demands of white supremacy, was convicted of draft
evasion for refusing to be inducted into the armed services. He
was stripped of his heavyweight title and sentenced to prison.
Other Black athletes, like sprinters Tommie Smith and John
Carlos, baseball player Curt Flood and football player Colin
Kaepernick, all found themselves punished and ostracized for
challenging white supremacy.[/quote]
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/sports-as-a-platform-for-protest/
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 8, 2021, 10:34 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-old-laws-justifying-white-034659674.html
[quote]The Racist Old Laws Justifying White-on-Black Killings
Are Still Here
The lawyers for the white men who admit, and were captured on
video, killing Ahmaud Arbery, have filed papers declaring their
plan to “rely heavily upon Georgia’s… citizen’s arrest statute”
as a defense strategy. That is, they will argue during the
October murder trial that Greg McMichael, a former police
officer, and his son Travis were attempting a perfectly legal
citizen’s arrest of Arbery because they decided he was up to no
good—a supposition steeped in white presumptions of innate Black
criminal guilt.
Essentially, the defense will be resting its case on the idea
that it was actually Arbery who was breaking Georgia law by
refusing to heed the shouted demands of a trio of white
vigilantes in pickup trucks with shotguns.
Thomas R. Cobb, the white enslaver who wrote Georgia’s citizen’s
arrest law, would likely see this as an appropriate application
of the statute. In 1858, Cobb published An Inquiry into the Law
of Negro Slavery in the United States of America, in which he
wrote that Black folks, “as an animal, in stature, in muscular
energy, in activity, and strength,” not to mention “in mental
and moral development” had experienced their “greatest
development while in slavery.” Two years later, as Georgia’s
slave patrols and police ranks saw their membership head off to
the front lines of a fight to keep Black people enslaved, Cobb
penned a law to ensure every white person could help keep Black
folks enslaved at home.
“Thomas R. Cobb wrote a racist doctrine on how to legally lynch
Black folk, essentially,” Rep. Carl Gilliard, who led the
successful fight after Arberry’s killing to repeal Georgia’s
citizen’s arrest law, told me. “He gets killed in 1862 in
battle, and then Georgia comes back in 1863 and adopts the
ideology as a citizen arrest law. The law would change very
little before Ahmaud Arbery was killed in 2020.”
The concept of citizen’s arrest has its earliest roots in 13th
century England, when King Edward I enacted the Statute of
Winchester, which encouraged community members to pitch into
vigilante mobs, seize the criminal in their midst, and “deliver
him to the sheriff.” In the British colonies, that “community
watch program” added a racial element. A 1686 colonial law
invited white citizens to ask any and all Black folks for papers
proving they were not enslaved runaways; four years later, the
amended legislation levied a 40 shilling fine against whites who
did not stop, arrest and punish “wayward” enslaved people.
Citizen’s arrest laws were given new life around the South
during the Civil War as a way of controlling Black folks who
might escape and join the Union. But they also expanded far
beyond the Confederacy. Today, 49 states have citizen’s arrest
statutes, which variously deputize everyday,
often-ignorant-of-the-law citizens to make arrests using as much
“physical force as is justifiable” (New York) to the far more
permissive border of “if the life of the person should be taken”
(South Carolina).
Guns and enduring anti-Black racism make these ambiguously
worded laws especially dangerous, as do so-called “stand your
ground” and “castle doctrine” laws. Since the first Stand Your
Ground law passed in Florida in 2005, “the odds of convicting a
shooter for killing a non-white victim is half of that compared
to cases where the victim is white” in the state’s courts. A
July 2020 SPLC report notes that “the number of homicides of
Black people deemed justifiable more than doubled in Stand Your
Ground states between 2005 and 2011, while remaining unchanged
in the rest of the country.” According to the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, “white-on-black homicides are 250 percent more
likely to be found justified than white-on-white homicides in
non-stand your ground states”—but that horrifying “disparity
increases to 354 percent in stand your ground states.”[/quote]
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 29, 2021, 2:13 am
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Mary Trump gets it:
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/mary-trump-isnt-ruling-future-194048791.html
[quote]“We never addressed inequality in our country. I think
many of us thought we had, but then my uncle came along and
really held a mirror up to the country, and all he did was give
all those people who harbored and hid hate a reason to come out
from behind a curtain. He gave them an excuse to be open about
who they are, and he ignited and endorsed all the racism that
existed in this country, and that really came to life under his
administration. And we never dealt with systematic racism in our
government, not only locally but nationally and in our justice
system. We have a long way to go to fix this country, and I
think the book is just about trying to explain to people that
these problems have existed for years, and still exist and we
have a lot of work to do.”
To that end, she writes, “Ours is an ugly history full of
depraved, barbaric, and inhumane behavior carried out by
everyday people and encouraged or at least condoned by leaders
at the highest levels of government. A denial of that history is
a denial of our trauma.” Only remembering will heal us. Maybe it
will even set us free.”
“If you look at Donald’s time in office, 100 percent of the
government of his administration represented something like 22
percent of the very worst of the U.S. population. What’s even
more frightening is that over 10 million more people voted for
him in 2020, despite knowing who he was, and all the destruction
he caused. If you supported him, you supported racism. There is
no gray area. I have wiped from my life every single person who
supported him. There is no saying, ‘oh, I’m not racist, I just
like tax cuts.’ There is absolutely no room for conflating
racism with anything else.”[/quote]
The only thing she will not say (but I will) is what must be
done with those who voted for him in 2020 if America is to be
saved. Wiping them from her life is not enough; they are still
out there. What needs to be done to Trumpists is what Psaki said
Biden intended to do to ISIS-K:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/he-didnt-want-them-to-live-on-the-earth-anymore-psaki-clarifies-bidens-isis-k-threat-191828037.html
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 24, 2021, 12:31 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/l-groups-commemorate-1871-massacre-223804654.html
[quote]A century and a half after a violent race riot in Los
Angeles’ Chinatown terrorized the city’s Chinese American
community, area schools and organizations are calling attention
to the 1871 massacre, which they consider a “forgotten history.”
In observance of the 150th anniversary Sunday, local groups have
been commemorating the race riot, which resulted in the murder
of roughly 20 Chinese Americans — among the largest mass
lynchings in American history. The organizations hosted a
livestream performance and a K-12 teacher training workshop on
the riot last week.
...
In addition to lynchings, many white residents looted Chinatown,
stealing roughly $1.5 million of property in current dollars,
money the immigrants could not afford to lose, Huang said.
"The Chinese arrived here because ironically they called
California 'Gold Mountain,'” Huang said. “They did not find
gold. They found death. And it really took only two hours to
kill at least 20 of them.”
Huang emphasized that though about 20 bodies were found, there
could have been more deaths that went undiscovered. But of the
hundreds who were involved in the killings and destruction, not
a single person was held accountable. The few who were arrested
were released on a technicality, and ultimately no one would
serve a prison sentence. Chinatown had been burned down and was
never rebuilt, and the newspapers that documented the day
claimed that it was “what the Chinese deserved” because it began
as a dispute within the community.
...
Ellen Wu, an associate professor of history at Indiana
University Bloomington, explained that at the time, the West was
a hotbed of anti-Chinese sentiment. Many white Americans
ascribed to the idea of “manifest destiny,” the belief that
expansion across the continent was justified and that they were
the ones entitled to the bounty of the American West, she said.
It was also a period when slavery had been abolished and
American industrialism was on the rise, while opportunities for
white people to own their own farms and work for themselves were
simultaneously on the decline. White people increasingly found
themselves having to earn wages by working for others, she said.
“Very quickly white workers start to basically come to a
consensus that Chinese workers are different in a threatening
way,” Wu said. “And a big part of that assumption, that they’re
threatening, is that they are our new embodiment of unfree
labor.”
Against such a backdrop, racial tensions in California were
palpable, experts said, and the state would become notorious for
the burnings of Chinatowns and other enclaves up and down its
coast. The massacre in Los Angeles, however, was one of the
first acts of mass violence and terrorism toward the Chinese
American community of that era.
About a decade later, the country would implement the Chinese
Exclusion Act, which put a 10-year moratorium on any Chinese
labor immigration, the first legislation in the U.S. that
discriminated by ethnicity.
Huang said the effects of such events were felt for years
afterward, likely contributing to generational trauma and
shaping the way in which many Asian Americans chose to deal with
racism.
“I was told by my parents, don’t stick out, don’t make trouble.
Because there is a terror that we’re different enough. You don’t
need to make things worse by drawing attention to yourself,” he
said. “We have a history to show that we have been targeted time
and time again.”[/quote]
Bad advice. They will target you no matter how you behave,
because this is not about your behaviour, but their Manifest
Destiny. The correct response is to buy firearms and apply
Ahimsa.
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