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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 28, 2021, 9:30 pm
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Our enemies remind us again that they are not American:
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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.
> ...
> 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.
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They also can't even spell "wean" correctly.....
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 4, 2021, 10:49 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/same-hate-targeted-muslims-turning-174110884.html
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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.”
> ...
> 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?”
> ...
> 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.”
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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.
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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!
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 9, 2021, 10:00 pm
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Our enemies keep reminding us that they are not American:
HTML 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.
> ...
> 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.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 13, 2021, 10:45 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-communities-show-solidarity-amid-213753873.html
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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
> ...
> “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.”
> ...
> 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.”
> ...
> 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.”
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Finally, remember Jews are "white".
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Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 18, 2021, 9:51 pm
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Asian-Owned Restaurant Defaced by Racist Graffiti, Locals Rally
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> Locals rallied around this Asian-owned restaurant after it was
vandalized with racist graffiti.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 24, 2021, 10:30 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-asians-blacks-experience-racism-110039226.html
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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.
> ...
> “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.
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
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So far so good.....
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> And the 11 Jewish worshipers shot to death during a Shabbat
service at their Pittsburgh synagogue.
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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?
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Not unless Jews are recognized as part of white supremacy:
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 27, 2021, 12:08 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/problem-anti-asian-violence-not-200000145.html
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> OPINION: The truth is that white supremacy has long pitted
Asian Americans and Black Americans against each other
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
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(Which does not include Jews.)
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 31, 2021, 11:30 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-asian-american-women-working-100011389.html
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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.
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
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Third World Women's Alliance:
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(It goes without saying that Jewish women have (accurately)
never been considered to be Third World women.)
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Re: Inspired by Muhammad
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 3, 2021, 9:58 pm
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Meet the Muslim hip-hop duo making waves on social media
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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.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: Starling
Date: April 4, 2021, 5:15 pm
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Amtrak releases map of expanded US rail network it says it can
build with $80 billion from Biden's infrastructure plan
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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.
>
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