Congressional Black Caucus. “[A] pathetic, self-serving group of racists… advancing their purely racist agenda.” He later adds that “all members of Congress should be ashamed of the Congressional Black Caucus, as should be their constituents.” And finally: “They are truly a disgrace to all Americans.”
The NAACP. “[S]imply promotes racism and hatred for their own, primarily finical, interests” and “without prejudice and racial divide, the NAACP would simply cease to exist.”
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. “[W]hat I would expect of a racist.”
Trayvon Martin’s funeral director. A “racial activist and former head of the local NAACP.”
Benjamin Crump, Natialie Jackson and Darrly Parks, attorneys for Travyon Martin’s family. “The scheme team.”
Zimmerman’s Father says white people ain’t racist, black people are. He is the true, despicable voice of the United States, quite frankly. It has ALWAYS been the contention of white supremacy that white people are as pure as the driven snow and black people hold all the vices and immorality. Blackness has ALWAYS been white supremacy’s convenient and literal scapegoat. (H/T @Pundit_AcadEMIC)
And y’all wonder where Georgie boy got it from!
Merf. Thinking is Hard.
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Incidentally, for people going “I wish all the nazistuck drama would just stop”, welcome to my life.
This is just drama for you. It’s just someone choosing a bad costume and other people calling them out on it (or being oversensitive~ and forgetting to think about the poor Germans).
It’s not just drama for me. I am brown. I grew up in Austria. I grew up with my female cousins having rocks thrown at them as they walked home from school, with a stranger walking up to one of them and punching them in the eye, with being surrounded by guys on the bus and having ethnic slurs thrown my way (and then having the bus driver try to kick us all off together where I would be alone and vulnerable and outnumbered), with men coming up to the bus where my mother was seated and punching it under her window and trying to shake it.
I had a guy hit on me and later his friends told me that he has a swastika tattooed on his chest because he used to be a Neo-Nazi. And then they tried to convince me to go out with him anyway. Because clearly my safety and my right to not date people with racist emblems on their body is less important than their friend getting laid despite having preached Nazi doctrines and done who the fuck knows what else.
This isn’t something that I can walk away from because it happens by virtue of me existing. People choose to take offense to my existence based off nothing more than the color of my skin. They choose to hurt me, to harass me, to make it clear that I am less than human.
I can’t do anything about that except fight against people like that and fight the idea that it’s somehow okay or somehow doesn’t matter. Because it’s just “drama”.
Wearing a Nazi costume is the same as wearing a Klu Klux Klan costume. Neo-Nazis are still here and they’ll be encouraged to see you support them. That you think that the oppression, persecution, harassment and outright murder of people of color, homosexuals, Jews, etc is a good idea. They will think that you’re on their side.
And me? I’ll think that too. Because this is my life and my experience, if it looks like a Nazi, dresses like a Nazi and spouts the same Nazi-apologist bullshit as Nazis, it’s a Nazi. And that means they’re probably going to attack me, physically, verbally or sexually.
So it’s great that it’s just drama for you. It’s great that you can just ignore posts about it or scroll past. I don’t have that luxury because when they start throwing rocks, it’s me they aim at.
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Because apparently there’s yet another round of Nazi, Nazi-facism, Nazi-genocide apologism going around on various parts of Tumblr. And yet another case of one group of people deciding that since an emblem, a word, a phrase, a section of history, a uniform, a newsletter, a pamphlet, a discussion and more; DON’T personally apply to them, doesn’t touch them because it’s THEIR life and death, THEIR sweat, and tears and blood, THEIR family history - then it’s just someone doing it for the ‘drama’ for the notice’. It’s just the cause of the moment. It’s just ‘politically correct’ as in things people say in order NOT to say the dark, evil, bitter, sinister truths that somehow became ‘unpopular’ because someone decided treating other humans beings as less hands WASN’T the thing to do. In public. Full face.
And omg aren’t you daring and edgy and Avant-garde and all the rest of that shit for verbally supporting; dark deeds done, dehumanization and racist propaganda.Seriously, far too many white people just plain have no empathy or compassion; especially the young ones who get trapped in some childish psychologically state where the world has to revolve around them, their needs alone and their perspectives, to the detriment of everyone and everything else.
Self reblogging to add a thing I found:
http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-malcolm-harris/
The account @Anti_Racism_Dog didn’t last long. Twitter suspended it quickly, a fate reserved only for the most aggressive, abusive and hateful users. What could a dog – an anti-racist one, at that – do to deserve it? @Anti_Racism_Dog had one real function: to bark at racist speech on Twitter. The account responded to tweets it deemed racist with the simple response ‘bark bark bark!’ Sometimes it would send wags to supporters but that was pretty much it.
For the short time it lasted, it was amazing to watch how people reacted to @Anti_Racism_Dog. The account would respond mostly to what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva would call ‘colour-blind racism’, that is, racisms that are generally right-libertarian in orientation and justified through appeals to supposedly objective discourses like science and statistics. It’s a notoriously insidious white-supremacist ideology, a virulent strain evolved specifically to resist anti-racist language. Colour-blind racism defends itself by appeals to neutrality and meritocracy, accusing its adversaries of being ‘the real racists’. Although its moves are predictable, they’re hard to combat rhetorically since they’re able to ingest the conventional opposition scripts. Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.
@Anti_Racism_Dog inverted the usual balance of energy in online dialogs about race. Precisely because the dominant global discourse is white-supremacist, it is rhetorically easier to make a racist argument than an anti-racist one. Look at almost any comment thread or discussion board about race and you can see anti-racists working laboriously to be convincing and to play on their opponents’ ‘logical’ turf, and racists repeating the same simple lines they were taught (‘I didn’t own slaves’, ‘I’m just stating the facts’, ‘The Irish were persecuted too’, etc.) ‘Trolling’ as a certain kind of internet harassment is tied to time: the successful troll expends much less time and energy on the interaction than their targets do. It’s the most micro of micro-politics, an interpersonal tug of war for the only thing that matters. But have you ever played tug of war with a dog?
A true troll doesn’t have a position to protect because to establish one would leave it vulnerable to attack, and playing defence takes time. @Anti_Racism_Dog, by fully assuming the persona of an animal, was invulnerable to counter-attack. You can’t explain yourself to a dog and you look like an idiot trying. The only way to win is not to play but this is the colour-blind racist’s Achilles Heel: they’re compelled to defend themselves against accusations of racism. It’s the anti-racist argument that gives them content; theirs is an ideology that’s in large part a list of counter-arguments. After all, white-supremacists are already winning – their task now is to keep the same racist structures in place while making plausibly colour-blind arguments against dismantling them. @Anti_Racism_Dog was empty of anything other than accusation and so left its targets sputtering.
The account served a second purpose: as a sort of anti-racist hunting dog. @Anti_Racism_Dog quickly attracted a lot of like-minded followers who understood the dynamics at play. Whenever it would start barking at another user, this was a cue to the dog’s followers to troll the offender as well. There’s only so much one dog can do alone. Colour-blind racism is particularly dangerous because it isn’t immediately visible as such. It provokes good-faith discussion from liberals about what counts as racism, muddying the water. But @Anti_Racism_Dog’s strategy draws new lines about what constitutes acceptable discourse on race, placing colour-blind racists on the other side by speaking to them like an animal. What would be taken as totally insane in flesh space can be infuriatingly clever online.
(via cabell)
Native American student is fined and denied her diploma after wearing an eagle feather on her cap at graduation from a school in Alabama.
via IAmNotAMascot
Actual Experience
- Him: Well there are certain mitigating circumstances, like generational accounts. If your great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, and then you had accounts here. Did you great-grandparents bank here? (he then smiles)
- Me: Sir, I'm sure you're fully aware my great-grandparents were probably slaves. I don't think they were allowed checking accounts.
- Him: Well, you never know. Can you find out?
- Me: Have a nice day.
- Him: You too!
Instead of meeting with Aboriginal youth who had traveled 1,600 kilometres by foot in -50°C frigid winter temperatures to Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Harper went to an airport photo-op with two pandas.
Inspired by the Idle No More movement, 17-year-old David Kawapit Jr. and six friends left their traditional territory to travel for two months through brush, snow and frigid winter temperatures - walking from northern Quebec to Ottawa to call attention to local issues facing youth, including suicide, and fight for the future of Aboriginal people in Canada.
And instead of meeting with the walkers, Prime Minister Harper chose to leave town for an expensive photo-op with two pandas.
Canada’s Aboriginal youth face many hurdles — and this panda PR shows you the problem with this government’s priorities.
It’s outrageous that Aboriginal children and youth in Canada receive $2-3,000 less education funding each year than non-native children and youth — and need to walk 1,600km just to be heard by our government.
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Am I the only one who gets these occasional yearnings for oriental women?
wow
Obviously the comment is gross but what the clip looks like it’s suggesting is even worse. Together this has to be the most disgusting thing I’ve seen all week.
what the fuck is WRONG with you, op?
I see it’s still time for homocidal impulses.
(via yiheyuans)
here they come
These statements just fucking baffle me. What do you think we are ALWAYS FUCKING TAUGHT IN SCHOOL? What do you thikn we always saw on the History Channel (before it turned into Snow Plow Survival Man or w/e)?
WE DO NOT NEED A WHITE HISTORY MONTH BECAUSE OUR HISTORIES HAVE DOMINATED HISTORICAL DISCUSSION FOR CENTURIES. Oh and btw as soon as a PoC tells you some fucked up shit about our history - e.g. imperialism, racism, genocide - you don’t want to listen to it so clearly you have no fucking interest in history at ALL.
o.O it begins…
I believe it was deluxvivens who said, “can you imagine having a White History Month that actually told white history? little white children would be going home killing themselves.”
(Source: kohenari)
Aziz Ansari teaches Giuliana Rancic a valuable new dance move at the Golden Globes. [x]
i’m here for this.
(Source: cantgetnoworseee, via fromonesurvivortoanother)
Here is a picture of the Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Mu chapter Penn State sorority that decided to do a Mexican theme, presumably for Halloween.
As you can see, all the girls are wearing sombreros, fake mustaches and they have maracas in their hands. But the kickers are the two signs they have in the middle. One says “Will mow lawn for weed + beer” and the other says, “I don’t cut grass, I smoke it.”
Yeah.
This is racist. It’s insensitive, inaccurate, perpetuates harmful racial stereotypes and it’s a lazy attempt at a group costume. But if any of you recognize these women and/or know which sorority they’re a part of, please let me know in my ask box.
When I find out which sorority is responsible, I will report them to the University and to their national headquarters. They deserve to get their sorority suspended and get kicked out of the sorority.
EDIT:
Okay, listen up!
After some sleuthing around the internet, I have confirmed that this photo is of members of Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Mu chapter at Penn State!
Soooo, here’s contact information for the parties that must know about this:
Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Penn State
Phone:814-863-8065
Email:greeks@sa.psu.edu
Penn State University Panhellenic Council
Advisor: Susan LeGally - sul33@psu.edu
President : Julianne Robbins - jer5229@psu.edu
Penn State Office of Student Conduct
Phone: 814-863-0342
Email: studentconduct@sa.psu.edu
National Alpha Chi Omega Headquarters
Phone: 317.579.5050
Email:http://www.alphachiomega.org/contact.aspx
Susan Hogle, Receptionist - receptionist@alphachiomega.org
Jessica Kelly - Director of Collegiate Experience -jkelly@alphachiomega.org
Cheri O’Neill - Executive Director - coneill@alphachiomega.org
Arianna Maggard - Chapter Consultant - amaggard@alphachiomega.org
LET’S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE. LET’S NOT LET ANOTHER GROUP OF STUDENTS BE RACIST AND NOT GET ANY PUNISHMENT FOR IT.
Racist. As. Fuck. Y’all are horrible. They deserve charter revocation and serious disciplinary action.
(Source: iblamereagan, via tranqualizer)
