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Re: EU
DIR 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?
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>
> 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
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 28, 2023, 12:08 am
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Counterculture was total revolutionary opposition to the
Democratic Western Civilization
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> 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.”
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The rightist's solution to the Counterculture
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> 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.
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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
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: April 18, 2024, 12:58 am
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The Real Counterculture Movements were Confrontative and Against
Democracy
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> 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.
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Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 275 -
276
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: April 18, 2024, 1:13 am
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> 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.
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Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 284
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Re: Anti-racism before the Counterculture era ended
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: April 18, 2024, 1:39 am
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> 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
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Source :
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America page 289 -
291
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Re: Anti-racism before the Counterculture era ended
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 13, 2026, 2:25 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYgFYDfNkA
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> today we're talking about how
> 0:099 secondsIran freed only black American hostages and
refused to release others.
> 0:1818 secondsSo let's go back to 1979.
> 0:2121 seconds66 Americans were held hostage. They were taken
hostage by university students in Iran. To be specific, the
> 0:3030 secondsAmerican embassy in Tehran after they were
taken, the Iranian
> 0:3838 secondsleader then came out and said, "We are going to
release 13 black American hostages and only them."
> ...
> because we want to stand in solidarity against the oppressed
and we believe that the blacks in America that was his word are
oppressed and we don't want to
> 7:167 minutes, 16 secondshold them hostage
>
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This is folkism. We should follow this example (of course
applying to "non-whites" more generally).
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> Iran knows the truth. Black folk, black folks in America are
not the enemy. Um,
> 26:3226 minutes, 32 secondsFBA Young Lion said, "The problem
is us black Americans don't have a collective geopolitical
agenda or understanding of
> 26:3826 minutes, 38 secondshistory. uh the Ayatollas and Moar
Gaddafi all supported black Americans
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:)
Woke comments:
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> This is the same thing that happened in Pennsylvania recently
a couple of years ago. They took hostages and were killing ppl.
When they found out there were black Americans among them, they
immediately released them and apologized to them. They said they
would never do black Americans any harm.
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> The Vietnamese dropped leaflets telling black soldiers to
return home because it wasn’t their fight.
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> My father said the same thing. He said they verbatim said “ go
home black man, this not your war “. And ran past him didn’t
shoot aim or anything.
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> I was in Egypt and black and arabs leave in peace.. Only
western brought war in peoples countries
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> In addition, the Iranians, who were the Persians, stated that
Blacks were their "ancient brothers" whom they would not harm
and who had never offended them in several thousand years of
history.
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> Iran funded and supported the ANC armed liberation struggle in
South Africa
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> BECAUSE WE ARE NOT THE ENEMY OF IRAN, NOR ARE WE THE ENEMY OF
ISLAM.
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> Also let’s not forget Gaddafi wanted to gift Black Americans
with 1 billion dollars for economic development and business
development of our community.
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> All Black American service members should mutiny if they are
ordered to attack Iran.
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> Its About Solidarity
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> all those countries that have been bullied and oppressed stand
united agianst demon
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> They know who the real demons are.
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> When Europeans get involved, backstabbing and double-crossing
becomes the business of the day.
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Duginist infiltrator comment:
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> After this video I hope the Americans now will understand the
position of South Africa on why RSA stands with Russia & Iran
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::)
Anti-Duginist woke comment:
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> Did You Hear About Russian Soldiers Are Putting Bombs on
African In Ukraine an Russia War It’s Sickening They Tricking
Africans To Fight in There War With Ukraine
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Re: Anti-racism before the Counterculture era ended
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 19, 2026, 11:48 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANlaIt9XM0c
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> 8:47
> Kennedy continued in his letter, "I
> 8:50
> recognize that Israel cannot accept the
> 8:52
> return of all refugees without
> 8:55
> endangering its security and its Jewish
> 8:58
> character. But I also believe that the
> 9:00
> refugees have legitimate claims that
> 9:03
> cannot be ignored forever."
> 9:06
> This was Kennedy trying to balance two
> 9:09
> positions, support for Israel's security
> 9:11
> concerns and support for refugee rights.
> 9:15
> He was arguing that both were
> 9:17
> legitimate, that both needed to be
> 9:19
> addressed.
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The narrator is illiterate. Kennedy in the above statement never
claimed that Israel's security and Jewish character were
legitimate concerns. Kennedy only recognized the legitimacy of
the refugees' claims. Kennedy was implying that the refugees'
claims should be supported despite awareness that they would
endanger Israel's security and Jewish character.
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> 9:21
> Kennedy's letter did not satisfy his
> 9:23
> critics.American Jewish organizations
> 9:26
> continued to pressure him.
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Yes, because these organizations were not illiterate, unlike the
narrator.
Woke comments:
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> During his presidency, Kennedy was also trying to stop Israel
from developing nuclear weapons. He was also trying to get the
forerunner to AIPAC to register under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act. Interestingly enough, Kennedy also cut US aid
to Israel in half in his last budget. Kennedy was also carrying
on a private correspondence with the Egyptian President Nasser.
Then, suddenly, all this came to an abrupt end on November 22,
1963, quite a coincidence.
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> That is what got him assassinated by Mossad.
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> That's the True American and what America stands for !!
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