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Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 11:58 pm
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OLD CONTENT
I support the recent increase in tendency to call out racists as
un-American:
HTML 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-23
2605303.html
[quote]Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For
President Of The Confederacy[/quote]
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We need more of this (just ignore the idiot at 2:57):
HTML 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.htm
l
[quote]“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.”
...
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.[/quote]
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.
[quote]“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.
...
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.[/quote]
This is what we need more of, and more publicity for.
[quote]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.”[/quote]
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-rale
igh-to-santa-rosa-11591099005
[quote]
“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.
...
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.[/quote]
www.yahoo.com/news/teens-tiktok-exposing-generational-rift-14170
5669.html
[quote]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."[/quote]
Racism is psychopathy towards the outgroup. This is one of the
simplest ways to explain what racism is.
[quote]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."[/quote]
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-matte
r-protests-near-me-small-towns
[quote]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.
...
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.
...
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.”[/quote]
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/demonstration-at-us-embassy-protests-ag
ainst-police-violence/
[quote]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.
...
“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.[/quote]
This is what I like to see.
Bonus:
metro.co.uk/2020/06/05/protesters-form-circle-around-muslims-can
-pray-peacefully-12810202/
[quote]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’.
...
The video of Muslims being protected as they pray has been
praised for showing people coming together in a show of
solidarity against racism.[/quote]
#Post#: 70--------------------------------------------------
Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2020, 12:08 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Inner change is also required:
www.yahoo.com/news/latinos-must-confront-ingrained-anti-11085601
6.html
[quote]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.[/quote]
This is what I have been saying.
[quote]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."
...
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[/quote]
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.
[quote]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.
...
"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.
...
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."[/quote]
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE!
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us.yahoo.com/news/floyd-case-could-finally-unite-085701529.html
[quote]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.
...
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
...
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.”[/quote]
In other words, Jews (by far the biggest beneficiaries of the
Trump administration) must never under any circumstances be
considered "non-white".
[quote]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.[/quote]
For more on BLM support for BDS:
HTML 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
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-ewbWH-kP/?utm_source=ig_embed
HTML https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQ19eAFUq8/?utm_source=ig_embed
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www.yahoo.com/news/one-big-difference-george-floyd-140544805.htm
l
[quote]“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.
...
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.
...
by 2018, white liberals felt more positively about blacks,
Latinos and Asians than they did about whites.[/quote]
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#: 71--------------------------------------------------
Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2020, 12:12 am
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www.yahoo.com/news/muslims-join-demand-police-reforms-130012297.
html
[quote]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.”
...
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.”[/quote]
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HTML https://www.thedailybeast.com/officer-tou-thaos-silence-actually-killed-george-floyd
[quote]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.
...
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.”
...
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.
...
“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.
...
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.”[/quote]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2020, 12:18 am
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Our enemies have made a video for us:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtAjZ0MztQ
The more Americans unite, the more worried Westerners become.
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: July 7, 2020, 9:04 pm
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"I Wasn't Listening": How Protests And Hip Hop Are Sparking A
New Race Dialogue Across Generations
[quote]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.”[/quote]
HTML 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:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VQye6P8k0
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 7, 2020, 11:41 pm
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Mainstream journalists almost get it now:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/column-trump-makes-clear-two-202234422.html
[quote]Column: Trump makes it clear: There are two Americas, and
November is for choosing sides
...
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.[/quote]
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.
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: July 9, 2020, 7:22 pm
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Joe Biden: ‘If We can’t Unite America, We’re Done’
[quote]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.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGG9JUOMwE
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 18, 2020, 11:53 pm
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This is what American unification looks like:
[img width=1024
height=1280]
HTML https://i0.wp.com/www.occidentaldissent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EdK-sxMWsAIjyIA.jpeg?w=1080[/img]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: August 11, 2020, 1:24 pm
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‘They’ve had enough of everything’: Record numbers of Americans
are giving up their US citizenship
HTML 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
HTML 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
HTML 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 cunts this world has ever known. The societies and
cultures they "create" are pure trash!
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: September 10, 2020, 1:47 pm
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73% of US respondents: Gov’t crooked, unaccountable
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_FWY7Rxw8&feature=youtu.be
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