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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 13, 2022, 7:30 pm
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Just a reminder to Americans who maybe interested in True
Leftism, your point of contact is here:
HTML https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/
NOT ME! Many of us here on this forum are not American citizens.
If you truly are interested in American True Leftism then your
best bet is to contact an American True Leftist if you wish to
speak about this topic more with someone.
Also, I am not interested in personnel relationships with
anyone. My next friend will most likely be of the canine
species. Thank you for your understanding! [emoji120]
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 13, 2022, 9:15 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/because-know-possible-japanese-americans-175719924.html
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> At a virtual town hall meeting in August, generations of
Japanese American community organizers spoke alongside leaders
from the Black reparations movement.
>
> Called “Reparations Then, Reparations Now!” the meeting
coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Commission on Wartime
Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings, which marked a
turning point in the Japanese American redress movement.
>
> “Just as Black Americans supported our community’s struggle
for redress, we will strive to support and show solidarity with
Black people as they fight for reparations today,” said Michael
Nishimura, a 29-year-old doctoral student and organizer.
> ...
> Solidarity between Japanese Americans and Black Americans
around federal reparations is decades old. The civil rights
movement “was deeply embedded in our early formation and early
thinking,” Masaoka said of the Japanese American redress
movement. Representatives of the JACL attended the March on
Washington in 1963.
>
> Opposition to the Vietnam War and the push for ethnic studies
classes in California colleges were other uniting forces for
African American, Asian American, Native American and Chicano
students.
>
> Black politicians — including the late Rep. Ron Dellums,
D-Calif.; the late Rep. Mervyn Dymally, D-Calif.; and the
Congressional Black Caucus — were also integral to the redress
movement, said traci kato-kiriyama, an artist and organizer with
the group Nikkei Progressives. In his historic testimony on the
House floor in 1987, Dellums recalled watching his childhood
friend, who was Japanese American, being taken away from his
home.
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> “This Black American cries out as loudly as my Asian American
brothers and sisters on this issue,” Dellums said, urging
Congress not to strip key provisions from the Civil Liberties
Act.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 29, 2022, 12:02 am
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3 random strangers make an awesome song
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> I was walking to the store and saw this guy playing by
himself. The beat was good so I started recording. By the end of
the song 2 other random guys joined. None of them knew each
other. Its effing awesome.
>
> Jaime Maldonado - videographer
> Jesse Rya - guitarist + vocals
> Ron Lashley - Rapper
> Howard Mullins - vocalist
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr478w--dpE
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 2, 2022, 1:31 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/america-belongs-us-chinese-lion-113102645.html
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> 'America belongs to all of us': How the Chinese Lion Dance
bridges Indianapolis cultures
> ...
> The brothers, ages 8 and 6, were getting ready to perform a
traditional lion dance and ring in the Year of the Tiger. In the
minutes leading up to the dance Saturday afternoon, their father
Noe Amos went to check on them, once again.
>
> “I think he feels more nervous than they do,” their mother,
Zahyra Arenas, joked.
>
> They are Mexican American, and they don’t typically celebrate
Lunar New Year, Arenas notes, but this year is special. After
months of watching YouTube videos and practicing at home, the
boys had the opportunity to express their newfound passion for
lion dance in front of a real audience.
>
> “I'm happy and proud that they're willing to learn a different
culture that is not ours,” Arenas said. “It helps them I guess
feel more secure, more knowledge(able) of other people … And
right now in the world we live that just keeps you inside of a
bubble, coming out here … we still need this.”
> ...
> On Saturday, the crowd was surprised with a lion dance
performance that included kids of Chinese and Hispanic
backgrounds, including a dance group called Sones de Mexico.
> ...
> “That's what it is about,” he said. "America is not defined by
one single ethnicity ... it belongs to all of us."
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I suggest American lion dancers, as a longer-term objective, try
to develop a unique American lion design, just as other
countries each have their own lion:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_dance#Regional_types
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: Polinc_Socjus
Date: February 2, 2022, 8:23 pm
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> I suggest American lion dancers, as a longer-term objective,
try to develop a unique American lion design, just as other
countries each have their own lion:
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I read lion dance and immediately thought of a certain
subculture that they could draw inspiration from.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8l0CnOYSA
Not a lion but the performance is kind of similar.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 15, 2022, 8:18 pm
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This is the kind of solidarity we need:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/race-may-played-factor-college-130024410.html
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> My race may have played a factor in my college rejections, but
I support affirmative action
> ...
> Serving as an admissions reader and my overall time in college
helped cement my beliefs about affirmative actions: I support
it.
> ...
> The reality is that without affirmative action, colleges will
still play favorites
> ...
> For those unfamiliar, legacy admissions is the practice of
giving people preference in the college admissions process
because they share a familial relationship with an alumnus. It
sounds a little more racist if you think of it as some people
getting into a college because they share DNA with someone who
graduated from there.
> ...
> we see that 43% of white students at Harvard are legacy,
athletes or related to donors or staff. The numbers do not hold
the same for minorities, including Asian Americans.
> ...
> What really hurts is seeing Asian Americans being used by
white people like Edward Blum to attack a system that benefits
ourselves and other minorities. The playbook is so old, there
are numerous ways to describe what is going on: Asian Americans
are being used as a racial mascot, used as a racial wedge and
are being racially triangulated against other minorities by
white people in their fight against affirmative action. But it
doesn’t have to be that way.
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Blum was covered here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10964/#msg10964
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 22, 2022, 2:31 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNGJDuFjH4
Best comment:
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> MAGAts: "I'd Rather Be A Russian Than A Democrat"
> The Rest of Us: "I'd Rather Be An American Than A Republican"
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 22, 2022, 9:02 pm
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Our enemies post another periodical reminder to us that they are
not Americans:
HTML https://www.amren.com/features/2022/03/should-whites-put-america-first/
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> Several publications have published longer explanations of why
the country is beyond hope. This Unz Review article is called
“America Must Die – So That The People Can Live”:
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> A recent study stated that the US now has an astonishing 44
million people who were foreign-born, of which about 75% are
legal and 25% are illegal. Nearly half of these millions were
born in just five countries: Mexico, China, India, Philippines,
and El Salvador. Surely not more than a percent or two of these
44 million are White. The grand edifice that is America is
collapsing as we speak.
>
> Therefore, it is time to accept reality and give up America
for lost. Put away your flags, your pins, and all your
red-white-and-blue paraphernalia. Toss out your MAGA hats;
America will never be “great again.” Anyone who tells you
otherwise is a liar or a fool. The country is rotting from above
and below.
> ...
> In his book Homo Americanus, Croatian writer Tomislav Sunic
lists many artists, writers and philosophers — both European and
American — who could accurately be called “anti-American:”
Martin Heidegger, Ezra Pound, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, and
T.S. Eliot. Some, such as Francis Parker Yockey, would have
preferred Soviet control of all of Europe after the Second World
War. Those parts the Soviets did control are now much whiter
than those that were dominated by the United States. Some
Western Europeans are moving to Eastern Europe to escape the
American-style racial diversity that is now a feature of many
formerly white nations. If American thinking spreads into
Eastern Europe, those countries, too, will gradually be
obliterated.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 25, 2022, 9:51 pm
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Mayor Lightfoot continues to set an example of folkism:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nicole-lee-her-way-becoming-192626451.html
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> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has nominated Nicole Lee to
replace Patrick Daley Thompson as the 11th Ward Alderman,
potentially making her the first Asian American woman to serve
in the City Council.
>
> Speaking at a media conference at Bridgeport’s Zhou B Art
Centeron Thursday, Lightfoot announced Lee, who has deep roots
in Chicago’s Chinese American community, as the final candidate
to replace Thompson.
> ...
> “It is exciting and historic that the Mayor has appointed the
first Alderman from the Chinese American community,” said State
Rep. Theresa Mah, a Democrat who represents Chinatown and the
first Asian American elected to the Illinois General Assembly.
“I know Nicole, and I am confident that she has the right skill
set to represent all 11th Ward residents well in City Council.”
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Once again it disproves rightist claims that "non-whites" in
positions of power will promote only their own ethnic group.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg5074/#msg5074
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg5081/#msg5081
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 26, 2022, 10:07 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/am-filipina-kentuckian-must-foster-092249775.html
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> I am a Filipina Kentuckian, we must foster connections among
communities of color: Opinion
> ...
> I am a one-and-half generation, self-proclaimed Filipina
Kentuckian. I call Kentucky home, but in a state with a small
AAPI population, I often find myself feeling isolated from
people with similar experiences and emotions relating to
race-based violence and trauma. However, I was recently reminded
that violence against Black, Indigenous and people of color is
not new and takes many forms. The legacy of slavery and
colonialism created societal and cultural barriers for BIPOC
individuals to connect. Much of the violence and discrimination
is used as a tool of white supremacy to divide BIPOC Americans
and hinder our ability to build collective power
> ...
> Colorism and anti-Black racism exist within the AAPI
community, and a parallel type of discrimination happens when
anti-Asian biases and rhetoric across racial lines. Despite
this, we must remember that as people of color in America, we
have more in common than we have differences.
> ...
> We, as BIPOC people, have all experienced generational and
individualized harms from a system made to reinforce white
supremacy. Out of survival, we – as an AAPI community and as a
BIPOC community as a whole – must remove barriers, biases and
prejudices against each other so we can stand together in
solidarity. They cannot ignore us when we are many.
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Thank you for accurately not including Jews in the BIPOC list.
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