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Re: EU
By: France Date: November 26, 2023, 9:56 pm
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HTML https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/reporters/20231124-we-re-not-asking-for-the-moon-forty-years-on-what-legacy-for-french-anti-racism-march
'We're not asking for the moon': Forty years on, what legacy for
French anti-racism march?
[quote]
Forty years ago, on October 15, 1983, a handful of young people
set off from the southern French city of Marseille on a long
march north to Paris. They were demanding equal rights and a
stop to racist crimes blighting France at the time. By the time
they reached the French capital on December 3, they were flanked
by tens of thousands of demonstrators. FRANCE 24 brings you a
special 50-minute documentary looking back at this historic
event and its legacy.
Our reporters caught up with Djamel, Farid, Marilaure and Toumi,
some of the protagonists of the 1983 march. Heroes to a whole
generation of immigrants and second-generation immigrants in
France, they bring us an uncompromising view of their initiative
that shook up French society, but also on what has happened
since.
Indeed, these "marchers" often take a bitter view of the
shortcomings, failures and unfulfilled promises of French
politicians, and of the isolationthat the inhabitants of
working-class neighbourhoods still face too often. Forty years
on, the legacy of the March for Equality and Against Racism
resonates more than ever in a fractured French society where so
little has changed.
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Re: Anti-racism before the Counterculture era ended
By: antihellenistic Date: December 28, 2023, 12:08 am
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Counterculture was total revolutionary opposition to the
Democratic Western Civilization
[quote]In his new book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the
Sixties, Claremont Institute scholar Christopher Caldwell
explains how the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark
legislation designed to end segregation in the South, gave
unprecedented power to Washington and ended up dividing the
country.
To be sure, Caldwell recognizes that Jim Crow was immoral and
needed to be eradicated. But in doing so, he contends, the law
enacted permanent emergency powers that vastly increased federal
control over the private lives of Americans. The law created new
crimes, outlawed discrimination in almost every aspect of public
and private life and exposed nearly every facet of American life
to direction from bureaucrats and judges.
What had seemed in 1964 to be merely an ambitious reform
revealed itself to be something more. Caldwell writes:
“The changes of the 1960s, with civil rights at their core, were
not just a major new element in the Constitution. They were a
rival constitution, with which the original one was frequently
incompatible–and the incompatibility would worsen as the civil
rights regime was built out.”
This seems like extreme language today, but there were prominent
figures at the time who pointed out that the civil rights laws
were on a collision course with the Constitution. Presidential
candidate Barry Goldwater and law professor Robert Bork both
pointed out that the Act created conflicts with the
constitutional protections accorded to private property and
freedom of association.
...
Needless to say, none of these policy ideas, from busing to
affirmative action, had popular support. But they rolled on
nonetheless, supported by the new regime of political
correctness, which proved to be the enforcement arm of the civil
rights revolution.
Caldwell traces the origins of PC to the student upheavals of
the late 60s, especially the five-month strike organized by
black students at San Francisco State that led to the
establishment of ethnic studies departments at all major
universities by the end of the 70s.
Caldwell notes that:
“Political correctness was a top-down reform. It was enabled not
by new public attitudes toward reactionary opinions but by new
punishments that could be meted out against those who expressed
them. The power of political correctness generally derived,
either directly or at one remove, from the civil rights laws of
the 1960s.”[/quote]
The rightist's solution to the Counterculture
[quote]Toward the end of the book, Caldwell writes,
“Republicans, loyal to the pre-1964 constitution, could not
acknowledge (or even see) that the only way back to the free
country of their ideals was through the repeal of the civil
rights laws.”
This is the most provocative statement in the book, yet it has
the feel of a throwaway line. The author surely knows that
ending the Civil Rights Act is not politically feasible.
But we could push for two major changes. First, eliminate
affirmative action once and for all and make civil rights law
color blind. Second, strike back at PC by enforcing freedom of
speech on campuses so that students are exposed to a diversity
of opinions and not just a diversity of races and
genders.[/quote]
Source :
Posted on March 3, 2020 The ’64 Civil Rights Act and the Origins
of Political Correctness Nicholas J. Kaster, American Thinker,
March 2, 2020
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2020/03/the-64-civil-rights-act-and-the-origins-of-political-correctness/
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: antihellenistic Date: April 18, 2024, 12:58 am
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The Real Counterculture Movements were Confrontative and Against
Democracy
[quote]Around the time of the Freedom Rides, a young student
named Fred Hampton joined the NAACP, assuming a leadership role
within his local chapter that led him to grow Chicago’s West
Suburban Branch’s Youth Council to five hundred members. Hampton
had long been involved in on-the-ground activism; he started his
own free lunch program at ten years old, cooking meals for
neighborhood children. When Black students were excluded from
his high school’s homecoming contest, Hampton organized a
walkout. The attention from the protests forced his high school
to hire more Black teachers and diversify the administration.
But his opposition to the Vietnam War led him to look for
something more powerful. That’s when he found the Black Panther
Party. Well, actually, the Black Panther Party found Hampton.
And by the time Hampton attended his first Black Panther meeting
in November 1968 as a founding member of the chapter, Hoover had
already opened a file on him. Hampton’s phone had been tapped
for nine months, and he had been designated as a “key leader” in
the FBI’s “agitator index” for five months.31
Six months after joining Chicago’s Black Panther chapter,
Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact with every gang in
Chicago, and started teaching them the intricacies of the law.
The coalition of Black gangs would shut down construction sites
and other white-owned businesses unless they hired Black
workers. He also upset the city hospitals when he convinced
doctors to volunteer and give free medical care. Bob Brown, one
of the founders of the Illinois chapter, soon left the party to
work with Stokely Carmichael, making Hampton the party’s
national deputy chairman. Speed was watching.
In 1968, Fred had a brilliant idea—one that would ultimately
lead to even more surveillance from Speed and the government.
Hampton was a follower of Malcolm X and had been active in Black
organizations his entire life. Fred knew that power came from
unity, so he started a mission to unite all the gangs of Chicago
through his powerful rhetoric. He convinced the gangs to pool
their money and start supporting Black candidates for political
office. The street gangs formed a truce and united to monitor
the police in Black neighborhoods. In 1969, Hampton organized
the United Front Against Fascism conference. Calling the
conglomerate the “Rainbow Coalition,” the group included Black
gangs, Puerto Rican gangs, and others. The multiracial
collective united under the principles of economic kinsmanship.
From July 18 to 21, 1969,32 more than five thousand organizers
from across the United States attended the conference, including
lawyers, politicians, and civil rights activists from all walks
of life. The coalition was united under the idea that universal
freedom couldn’t be achieved until Black liberation became a
reality, and that Black liberation could only be achieved
through armed self-defense and community control of the
police.[/quote]
Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 275 -
276
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: antihellenistic Date: April 18, 2024, 1:13 am
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[quote]If we believed the whitewashed, safe-for-work version of
the civil rights struggle, we would believe that a lone white
man killed Emmett Till, jolting Black people out of a dreamlike
state to suddenly realize that we didn’t have all the rights
afforded to us by the U.S. Constitution. In response, Martin
Luther King convinced everyone to hold hands and march
peacefully until he could remember his dream. When he told the
world about it at the March on Washington, America suddenly saw
the error if its ways and handed Black people their humanity and
everyone lived happily ever after.
That is the Cliffs Notes version of the civil rights struggle
that exists in our collective whitewashed memory and is sold in
social studies classes across America. Through a complex
combination of whitewashing, guilt, and an intentional recasting
of history that absolves them of their hatred, our historical
translators have painted a sanitized, impressionist portrait of
a struggle for Black liberation that was eventually fulfilled by
America’s unwavering commitment to justice and equality. Out of
whole cloth, they managed to fabricate a fantastic ahistorical
myth that somehow became truth. They remember a socially
conservative, respectable campaign of racial reconciliation, not
a movement of anti-establishment revolutionaries. And for their
sake, the doctrine of nonviolent resistance was eventually
reduced to simple “nonviolence.” They never speak of the
“resisting.”
As long as America has existed, Black men and women have been
engaged in a fight for full equality and liberty. But unlike the
fairy-tale version would have you believe, the struggle has
never been passive, nor has Black resistance been nonviolent. In
their quest to “get free,” Black people have always availed
themselves of the right to self-defense and armed resistance. Of
course, this would lead to them being characterized as criminals
or malcontents. There is a difference between how one chooses to
defend oneself and how one chooses to address social, economic,
and political inequality through protest. The former is a
personal choice, while the latter is an organizing strategy. The
truth is, peaceful protest was just one tactic used by a small
arm of what we call the civil rights movement.[/quote]
Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 284
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Re: Anti-racism before the Counterculture era ended
By: antihellenistic Date: April 18, 2024, 1:39 am
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[quote]Robert F. Williams may have been the biggest badass of
them all. Born in 1925, Williams served in the Marines before
returning to his hometown in Monroe, North Carolina, in 1955 and
joining the NAACP. The press estimates that more than half of
Monroe’s twelve thousand residents were members of the KKK. So
Williams applied to the National Rifle Association to charter a
chapter and formed the Black Guard. Made up of around sixty men
who were mostly veterans, they charged themselves with
protecting Monroe’s Black neighborhoods from the white boys in
the pointy hats. In 1957, the Klan tried to attack the home of
local NAACP vice president Dr. Albert E. Perry, but the Black
Guard had fortified the house with sandbags, and the two groups
engaged in a Wild West–style shootout. The Klan never returned,
and the city of Monroe banned Klan motorcades.
Williams’s bold tactics were not just deployed by men in town,
either. When Dr. Perry was arrested on charges of “criminal
abortion on a white woman,” Williams led a group of armed women
to the police station as they “surged against the doors,
fingering their guns and knives until Perry was produced.”9
And his words were just as radical as his actions. In response
to the acquittal of a white man charged with raping Mary Reed, a
Black woman, Williams said:
We cannot rely on the law. We can get no justice under the
present system. If we feel that injustice is done, we must right
then and there on the spot be prepared to inflict punishment on
these people . . . Since the federal government will not bring a
halt to lynching in the South and since the so-called courts
lynch our people legally, if it’s necessary to stop lynching
with lynching, then we must be willing to resort to that method.
We must meet violence with violence.10
The statement, made on the courthouse steps in Monroe, prompted
the NAACP to suspend him from the organization. But Williams
wasn’t cast out; he essentially became the de facto security
guard for some of the largest civil rights protests. During a
1961 protest for the Freedom Rides, a white mob held Monroe’s
Black community under siege. In the mayhem, a white couple made
a wrong turn and wound up in Williams’s neighborhood. Williams
offered them a place to stay and warned them that he couldn’t
guarantee their safety if they tried to leave. After a few hours
they left unharmed, but law enforcement agents convinced the
couple to say that Williams had kidnapped them, forcing his
family to flee the state. On August 28, 1961, the FBI issued a
warrant for Williams, charging him with unlawful interstate
flight to avoid prosecution, warning agencies that he “has
advocated and threatened violence” and should be considered
armed and dangerous.11 Williams fled to Cuba, where he
established a radio station urging Black soldiers to participate
in an insurrection against the United States. He returned in
1969 and was extradited to North Carolina, and the state
immediately dropped all charges.
Williams’s legacy loomed large. He always noted that his
proudest accomplishment was that during the entire existence of
the armed guard, no Black person under their protection lost
their life to racial violence. At his 1996 funeral, Rosa Parks
said he “should go down in history and never be
forgotten.”12[/quote]
Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 289 -
291
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