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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
s Scam
By: rp Date: September 24, 2021, 12:33 pm
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Keep in mind, Petito died before reproducing. Make of that what
you will.
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 24, 2021, 11:25 pm
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HTML https://deadspin.com/yes-the-nfls-taunting-penalty-is-racist-1847716682
[quote]“In general, I don’t really think there’s a place for
taunting in the game,” Belichick said on WEEI Boston on Monday.
“I think that’s poor sportsmanship and it leads to other things.
It leads to retaliation, and then where do you draw the line? I
think the whole idea of the rule is to kind of nip it in the bud
and not let it get started.
“I’m in favor of that. I think that we should go out there and
compete and try to play good football and win the game on the
field. I don’t think it’s about taunting and poor sportsmanship.
That’s not really my idea of what good football is.”
I’m confused.
Is this the same man who once told his team, “There’s nothing
wrong. In fact, you should be excited when you make a play.
Hell, look at all the work you put into it?”
Sure is. He even added: “And when you can show that picture
visually to your opponent, that’s what intimidation is.”
It’s never lost on me that when white players get fired up or
upset on the sidelines, it’s instantly viewed as passion and
love for the sport. But, when Black players do it, it’s “too
much,” “out of control,” or it “crosses the line.”
Black joy has always been viewed as criminal.[/quote]
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: guest55 Date: October 4, 2021, 5:20 pm
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Chris Hedges & Cornel West | The Vicious Legacy Of White
Supremacy
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH9BiF8FV_0
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Re: Military decolonization
By: Zea_mays Date: October 17, 2021, 8:31 pm
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In the 1950s-1960s, Iceland wanted US troops stationed in it,
but not any "black" troops. After repeated pressure by US
Presidents and Generals, Iceland eventually agreed to allow
literally "three or four" "blacks". It was not until the late
1970s that this policy had ended and the percent of "black" US
soldiers stationed Iceland were roughly equal to the overall
percent of "blacks" in the military.
[quote]The 1951 U.S.-Icelandic Defense Agreement paved the way
for a permanent U.S. military presence at the Keflavik base in
Iceland, an outpost that played a crucial role in U.S. strategy
during the Cold War. The article explores two gender-related
aspects of the U.S.-Icelandic Cold War relationship: the
restrictions on off-base movements of U.S. soldiers, and the
secret ban imposed by the Icelandic government on the stationing
of black U.S. troops in Iceland. These practices were meant to
“protect” Icelandic women and to preserve a homogeneous
“national body.” Although U.S. officials repeatedly tried to
have the restrictions lifted, the Icelandic government refused
to modify them until the racial ban was publicly disclosed in
late 1959. Even after the practice came to light, it took
another several years before the ban was gradually eliminated.
Misguided though the Icelandic restrictions may have been, they
did, paradoxically, help to defuse domestic opposition to
Iceland's pro-American foreign policy course and thus preserved
the country's role in the Western alliance.
[...]
In no other European country hosting U.S. military facilities
did the Americans face harsher restrictions. The United States
also reluctantly went along with a secret demand by the
Icelandic government to ban the stationing of black soldiers in
Iceland—a policy that contravened President Harry S. Truman’s
1948 desegregation order in the U.S. military. After World War
II, Greenland (under Danish jurisdiction), Canada, Newfoundland,
Bermuda, and the British possessions in the Caribbean were also
on a U.S. list of overseas basing areas in which black soldiers
were deemed not to be welcome. But all these places except
Iceland were removed from the list in the 1950s, although
assignments of black troops were sporadically cancelled to
countries such as Turkey because of domestic political
considerations.
[...]
The article shows that gender was at the heart of Iceland’s
exclusionary practices against U.S. soldiers—that the underlying
reason for sealing off the Keflavik military base was a
patriarchal need to protect Icelandic women from having sexual
relations with foreigners. Women’s organizations generally
supported this policy. What is more, the Icelandic government
was able to dictate the terms of its relationship with the
United States throughout the Cold War. The U.S. government had
practically no say in the matter.
[...]
In March 1971 the Nixon administration formally handed the
Icelandic government a memorandum detailing its complaints and
asking for changes. The document noted that “nowhere in the
world [were] U.S. troops subjected to such stringent
restrictions as in Iceland, neither in democratic nor [in]
authoritarian states.”
[...]
During World War II the U.S. military was still segregated, but
some influential military officials who favored racial
integration tried to resist foreign requests for whites-only
deployments. U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson rejected such
demands by the Australian government and several Central and
South American governments. But in the case of Iceland, Stimson,
perhaps betraying his ambivalence about race, was far less
principled. He claimed that blacks would find it “a bit cold” to
stay in Iceland and expressed no qualms about the Icelandic
demand to exclude blacks from serving on the island. The U.S.
government, it turned out, strictly enforced the ban throughout
World War II. In one instance, a plan to send black soldiers to
Iceland for a special technical mission was scuttled at the last
minute. By mistake, several black troops were briefly sent to
Iceland to work in kitchens of the U.S. Navy, but they were
withdrawn as soon as the Department of War realized that their
presence violated the Icelandic government’s racial policy.
Icelandic women who had relationships with white soldiers were
ostracized and branded as whores, but when it was revealed that
some of the black soldiers had attempted to fraternize with
Icelandic women, this was deemed an unpardonable offense.
[...]
After World War II, and particularly after Truman’s
desegregation order in 1948, the U.S. military encountered far
greater difficulty in acceding to foreign demands for the
exclusion of black troops. But when the United States and
Iceland negotiated the 1951 Defense Agreement, Icelandic
officials used the same arguments they had cited a decade
earlier. Icelandic Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson wanted
to make sure that “none of our black friends” would be part of
the U.S. troops stationed in Iceland, at least not among the
first contingent. ... The Keflavik base, which from 1952 to 1961
was under U.S. Air Force command, was the only foreign site at
which this discriminatory policy was enforced. Although this
policy was officially secret, white troops who came to Iceland
in the 1950s were informed of it.
[...]
U.S. Navy in 1961, increased pressure was brought to bear on the
Icelandic government. The Kennedy administration even
contemplated making a public announcement that the Icelandic
government was fully responsible for the policy. Only under this
pressure did the Icelandic government agree to a new informal
policy, which was conveyed to the U.S. government as follows:
The Icelandic government will not oppose the inclusion of three
or four colored soldiers in the Defense Force, [...]
[...]
the government said it was prepared to make the same concession
it offered two years earlier: “to allow three or four carefully
selected married blacks”
[...]
The Craighill report proved to be the first step toward ending
the ban. At the outset, only a few black soldiers were chosen to
serve in Iceland—consistent with the Icelandic government’s
wishes. Their number increased slowly, and in the 1970s and
1980s all restrictions apparently were removed, probably
unofficially.
[...]
The Icelandic policy of preventing sexual relationships between
Icelandic women and black soldiers did not change from World War
II until the mid-1960s. Yet, interestingly enough, the ban did
not apply to other “colored” people. Filipinos, for example,
could stay in Iceland without restrictions.[/quote]
HTML https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/6/4/65/12687/Immunizing-against-the-American-Other-Racism
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 21, 2021, 8:44 pm
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It's OK for healthcare to be "white":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/enslaved-peoples-health-ignored-countrys-121853269.html
[quote]Foremost among the unrelenting cruelties heaped upon
enslaved people was the lack of health care for them. Infants
and children fared especially poorly. After childbirth, mothers
were forced to return to the fields as soon as possible, often
having to leave their infants without care or food. The infant
mortality rate was estimated at one time to be as high as 50%.
Adult people who were enslaved who showed signs of exhaustion or
depression were often beaten.
...
White masters, often brutal and violent, dehumanized the
enslaved people who worked for them and became wealthy from
their work. Slaveholders justified their treatment by relying on
the widely accepted view of Black inferiority and the physical
differences between Blacks and whites. Racist medical theory,
the racist notion that the blacks were inherently inferior and
animal-like who needed maltreatment to be sound for work, was a
critical element.
Enslaved people were poorly fed, overworked and overcrowded,
which promoted germ transmission. So did their housing – bare,
cold and windowless, or close to it. Because they were not paid,
slaves could not maintain personal hygiene. Clothes went
unwashed, baths were infrequent, dental care was limited, and
beds remained unclean. Body lice, ringworm and bedbugs were
common.
This treatment began in slave dungeons, built by Europeans on
the coastal shores of Africa, where enslaved Blacks awaited
shipment to the New World. In Ghana, for example, perhaps 200
were cloistered in tiny spaces where they ate, slept, urinated
and defecated. Archaeological research has shown the dirt floors
were soaked in vomit, urine, feces and menstrual blood.
Conditions within the dungeon were so deadly that cleaning them
was discouraged; those who tried risked smallpox and intestinal
infections.
...
And if a doctor was involved, Black patients were not
necessarily told anything about their condition. The medical
report went directly to the slave owner.
...
Some of the Black women were used in medical experiments; much
of the research, some conducted without anesthesia, focused on
maternal health. As the white scientists inflicted tremendous
pain on the pregnant women, the infants being carried sometimes
died. Through the torture of these enslaved women, many white
physicians and white medical institutions gained considerable
fame and wealth.
Adverse health consequences for Blacks facilitated the
establishment of some medical advances, such as the invention of
the speculum for gynecological exams. One enslaved woman
reportedly endured 30 gynecological surgeries without
anesthesia. Medical interests and also economic and political
interests were served.[/quote]
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 10, 2021, 8:50 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-black-look-white-horrible-140002729.html
[quote]I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things
White People Feel Safe Telling Me.
I was outside my house gardening a few weekends ago when a
neighbor, whom I had known for almost 30 years, stopped by so I
could pet his large, fluffy dogs. I took my gloves off, squatted
down to give the dogs a really good scratching around their ears
and felt the sun on my back. What could be better? And then my
neighbor said: “Why do you have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign on
your front lawn when all those people do is kill each other?”
My lovely day screeched to a halt.
“You know I’m Black, right?” I said, standing up as tall as my
5’4” frame would allow, the sun shining on my blond hair. I
continued to pet his dogs, because I needed the comfort of
petting dogs at that moment, and because I needed to keep my
hands busy so they didn’t slap that man’s face.
After the usual back and forth of him saying “No!” and me saying
“Yes!” and then him trying to gauge exactly “how Black I was” by
asking which of my parents was Black and me replying “Both,” we
had a very uncomfortable conversation about racism.
I told him about my father’s struggles to get an education
because guidance counselors and admissions agents would not
accept Black people into community colleges or SUNY programs in
the 1950s and ’60s. I told him that even though my father was a
veteran, he could not be approved to use the GI Bill for college
or buy a house, since no one would process his paperwork because
he was a Black man. I told him that people painted “Go Home
Nigger” on the back of our home when my parents finally saved
enough money to build a house in the suburbs of Syracuse, New
York. And I told him how “Black Lives Matter” calls attention to
the fact that Black people are considered less than white people
― and that needs to stop.
I also told him if people don’t understand that Black lives
matter, Black people will continue to be murdered by the police
and denied opportunities by the establishment. We will not be
allowed to participate in the “American Dream,” and we will be
made to feel that this is somehow our fault, when it is in fact
the fault of a racist society with the full support of our
government.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had to have this conversation.
Encounters like this have been going on for a very long time for
me.
...
There is also the story of a great-aunt, Annie Mother, who would
pass as white to purchase properties and then sell or rent them
to Black family members and other Black families who could not
find decent, affordable housing. I wanted to be like Annie
Mother, so I pursued a career in social justice, specifically
issues related to housing.
My parents originally tried to purchase a home in Syracuse in
the 1960s. Most of the houses they made offers on had deed
restrictions that stated the home could not be “sold to Negros.”
Determined to own their own home, they decided to build a house,
and found some land in a subdivision in Liverpool, New York,
where the builder was happy to sell to them. Despite this good
news, they soon learned they couldn’t get approved for a
mortgage. My dad had a good job at General Electric and my
parents had savings, but none of this was enough, because they
were Black.
My dad accepted a transfer to a position in Alaska, because he
could earn double what he’d make in Syracuse. My mom and I moved
in with my grandmother for a year and my mom banked all of my
dad’s checks. When he returned, my parents paid cash to have
their house built in Liverpool.
This was the same house on which people painted “Go Home
Nigger.” They did this when we already were home ― there
was no other “home” to go to. We lived in a white neighborhood,
and I went to a school where all the other students were white.
Before I started kindergarten, my parents had “the talk” with
me. If you don’t know about “the talk,” let me explain it to
you. “The talk” is about race. It’s about being Black in a world
run by white people, where white people make the rules.
...
I didn’t look Black, but I am Black, so we figured I could and
would be subjected to racist actions by my peers. We were
prepared for groups of white parents to gather at the school to
shout at me. Or spit on me. My parents needed me to understand
that if this happened, it didn’t mean I was bad. It meant the
adults were bad
...
In high school, one student came dressed as a klansman for
Halloween, carrying a noose. Another student, wearing blackface
and a loincloth, ran around in front of him. When the few Black
students and a number of our white classmates complained to the
principal about it, we were told we needed to “develop a sense
of humor.”
...
White people think I am white too, and therefore feel safe
saying all kinds of horrible things they might not say publicly.
I’ve had people tell me it “disgusts” them to see interracial
couples. They’ve told me they don’t understand why Black
neighborhoods look so “ghetto,” and that Black people are
“animals” or “thugs.” Many of these people are educated, and
hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or
influence over Black people. They are doctors, judges, lawyers,
social workers and politicians. That’s frightening.
...
Living as a Black woman who looks white has allowed me to
experience white privilege firsthand. Because people assume I am
white, it is assumed I am honest, smart and trustworthy. Many
times I have thought to myself: If I looked Black, how would
these people treat me? And I have known, without a shadow of a
doubt, that I would be treated with disdain or suspicion, or as
a criminal. I know in many instances that if I looked Black, the
police would have been called to question me. And this sickens
and angers me. How many of our Black brothers and sisters have
had the police called on them simply for the act of living their
lives?[/quote]
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: guest55 Date: January 18, 2022, 12:06 am
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Let's talk about history and an oppressor narrative....
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xl5uvqtQg
Beau answering a CRT question from one of his viewers.
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: guest55 Date: January 23, 2022, 4:04 pm
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How Slavery Caused the American Civil War
[quote]We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated
historical documentary series on the history of the American
Civil War. In this first episode, we will cover the reasons that
caused the American Civil War, and will talk about the effects
of slavery, tariffs, taxation, expansion, the election of
Lincoln, Bloody Kansas and much more showing the reasons why a
number of states seceded from the Union and declared the
Confederate States of America leading to a long and bloody
conflict. The series will also focus on all the major battles of
the war, including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman's March, Appomattox Station,
and more.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb9u4CKxOLE
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/abraham-lincoln/
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 25, 2022, 8:23 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-not-alone-lot-white-211016684.html
[quote]McConnell’s not alone. A lot of white folks don’t think
Blacks are real ‘Americans’ | Opinion
...
if you think McConnell is the only one who needs to be reminded
that, as Black poet Langston Hughes once put it, “I, too, sing
America,” you haven’t been paying attention. You missed Chuck
Todd of NBC’s “Meet The Press” describing how “parents” are
worried about critical race theory while “parents of color”
might have a different view. You also missed CBS News’ tweet
asking, “How young is too young to teach kids about race?” As if
children of color don’t learn about race about the same time
they learn about walking. Finally, you’ve missed all those news
stories where reporters talk about “working-class voters,”
“suburban moms” or “evangelicals” when they mean “white” — as if
Black and brown people did not work, live outside the city or go
to church.
Granted, this is not the bigotry of torches and hoods. No, this
rhetorical decoupling of “African” and “American,” of Black
people from normal human functions, represents “only” the
bigotry of the implicit assumption, the things some people
believe without consciously knowing they do — much less
interrogating why they do. And yet, they do.
For them, white is the default position, the color of generic
American-ness and, truth be told, generic human-ness. By
contrast, Black and brown are the colors of exoticism,
noteworthy only for how they diverge from, challenge or impinge
the perceived norm.
That’s what McConnell’s mouth revealed about him. But it is
necessary to recognize that he is not an outlier. Nor is inexact
language the sin here. Rather, it is language that implicitly
disavows, disinherits and disrespects tens of millions of people
who are every bit as “American” as Mitch McConnell on his best
day. Yes, it’s “only” the bigotry of the implicit assumption.
But that’s the most common kind.[/quote]
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Re: The "Black" and "White" Identity Politic
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By: guest55 Date: January 28, 2022, 11:55 pm
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Martin Delany: The Father of Black Nationalism (Unique Coloring)
[quote]In this episode of Unique Coloring, Daniel J. Middleton
draws and discusses the life of abolitionist, physician, and
newspaper editor Martin Delany, the acknowledged father of black
nationalism and the first black field officer appointed by the
Union Army.
This Martin Delany biography features me drawing another
grayscale coloring page for my black history adult coloring
book.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fVfTNkeAw
[quote]Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885)
was an abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier, and writer,
and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism.[1] Delany
is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for
Africans."[2]
Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now
West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia), and raised in
Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Delany trained as a
physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and
1854 in Pittsburgh, Delany treated patients, even though many
doctors and residents fled the city out of fear of
contamination. In this period, people did not know how the
disease was transmitted.
Delany traveled in the South in 1839 to observe slavery
firsthand. Beginning in 1847, he worked alongside Frederick
Douglass in Rochester, New York to publish the North Star. In
1850, Delany was one of the first three black men admitted to
Harvard Medical School, but all were dismissed after a few weeks
because of widespread protests by white students.[3]
Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa. He
visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American
Colonization Society, and lived in Canada for several years, but
when the American Civil War began, he returned to the United
States. When the United States Colored Troops were created in
1863, he recruited for them. Commissioned as a major in February
1865, Delany became the first African-American field grade
officer in the United States Army.
After the Civil War, Delany went to the South, settling in South
Carolina. There he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau and became
politically active, including in the Colored Conventions
Movement. Delany ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor as
an Independent Republican. He was appointed as a trial judge,
but he was removed following a scandal. Delany later switched
his party affiliation. He worked for the campaign of Democrat
Wade Hampton III, who won the 1876 election for governor in a
season marked by violent suppression of black Republican voters
by Red Shirts and fraud in balloting.[/quote]
[quote]Medicine and nationalism
While living in Pittsburgh, Delany studied medicine under
doctors. He founded his own practice in cupping and leeching. In
1849, he began to study more seriously to prepare to apply to
medical school. In 1850 he was accepted into Harvard Medical
School, after presenting letters of support from seventeen
physicians, although other schools had rejected his
applications. Delany was one of the first three black men to be
admitted there. However, the month after his arrival, a group of
white students wrote to the faculty, complaining that "the
admission of blacks to the medical lectures highly detrimental
to the interests, and welfare of the Institution of which we are
members". They cited that they had "no objection to the
education and elevation of blacks but do decidedly remonstrate
against their presence in College with us."[18]
Within three weeks, Delany and his two fellow black students,
Daniel Laing, Jr. and Isaac H. Snowden, were dismissed, despite
many students and staff at the medical school supporting their
being students.[19] Furious, Delany returned to Pittsburgh. He
became convinced that the white ruling class would not allow
Black people to become leaders in society, and his opinions
became more extreme. His book, The Condition, Elevation,
Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United
States, Politically Considered (1852), argued that blacks had no
future in the United States.[20] He suggested they should leave
and found a new nation elsewhere, perhaps in the West Indies or
South America. More moderate abolitionists were alienated by his
position. Some resented his criticizing men who failed to hire
colored men in their own businesses. Delany also strongly
criticized racial segregation among Freemasons, a fraternal
organization.[citation needed]
Delany worked for a brief period as principal of a colored
school before going into practice as a physician. During a
severe cholera outbreak in 1854, most doctors abandoned the
city, as did many residents who could leave, since no one knew
how the disease was caused nor how to control an epidemic. With
a small group of nurses, Delany remained and cared for many of
the ill.
Delany is rarely acknowledged in the historiography of
African-American education.[21] He is generally not included
among African-American educators, perhaps because he neither
featured prominently in the establishment of schools nor
philosophized at length on Black education.[22] [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Delany
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/secret-societies-and-occult-forces/
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