From One Survivor to Another
IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY: During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt pledged that Filipinos who fight for the United States will be granted citizenship and military benefits. As a result, over 200,000 Filipinos fought side by side with American soldiers during World War II. Shortly after the war ended, that promise was taken back with the Recission Act of 1946. It was not until 2009 when President Obama signed a bill that would give Filipino World War II veterans a lump sum compensation of $15K ($9K for those living in the Philippines) to the less than 18,000 veterans who are still alive today. Yes, such an amount is not commensurate to the benefits they missed out on for over 50 years, but yet to this day a majority of them still have not received such meager compensation. So, LET US REMEMBER THE FILIPINO VETERANS WHO WERE NOT ONLY VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II, BUT ALSO VICTIMS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM.
White People Study: New Argument Analysis
Out of a total of 39 test subjects, I can honestly say there was only one who said something I had never heard before. They were the first person to ever say white people could sue for defamation and libel. Here is the complete text:
So when people accuse us of things we didn’t do. When people call us assholes because of things that someone else does… us pointing that out to them makes us part of the problem?
Like, we’re the assholes when we could easily sue you to hell and back for defamation and libel. We’re the bad guys when you decide it’s better to accuse innocent people rather than the fucking guilty ones.
Jesus.
Now, if you notice in the original post, nowhere was it said that all white people were racist or that all white people derail posts to talk about themselves. It even specifically states that the post is directed only towards white people who “don’t get it”. Only in the test subject’s brain does this very specific sentence refer to “all white people”. In everyone else’s mind it only refers to a specific subset of white people who do not understand that derailing a post about institutional or personal racism to talk about how they feel is a very rude thing to do.
I would like to see how the court case would play out if someone did attempt to sue. I have the strong feeling that no lawyer worth their salt would take the case, and even if someone did take it, they would be laughed out of court. Nowhere did anyone say this person was a card carrying member of the KKK. Nowhere did they accuse them of racism. Nowhere was a specific person ever addressed. While this was a very interesting thing for them to say, it is still just as worthless as every other argument brought up by the other test subjects.
The argument does, however, have a very interesting edge to it. The threat of legal action is a common tactic used to attempt to silence those who offer up dissenting opinions. Unfortunately, this tactic does have a history of working. That is why it is very important everyone know what libel, slander, and defamation of character actually consist of so they can’t be bullied into silence by people who like to use big words.
PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PASSED THIS
So yesterday I posted a video of a Lakota elder who talked about his experience being the victim of a hate crime. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!
http://www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-hate-crime-against-lakota-sioux-elder-vernon-traversie?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall
[warning for graphic image in link above]
and here’s the video again
Justice for Vernon Traversie.
this is the guy who had KKK carved into his skin by doctors. fucked up :\
Members of the Red Warriors, an antifascist gang in France, 1985. Red Warriors used violent force to remove Neo Nazi gangs from France and provide safe spaces for immigrants during the rise of white nationalism and an outbreak of violent crime against people of colour. They formed a squat called “L.U.S.I.N.E” and were considered the most effective gang to counter nazi violence, working to instill fear in their opposition.
white people who think you’re anti-racism/”not racist”, if you’re not doing this, you’re literally doing it completely wrong.
Here’s the documentary that this story came from for anyone who’s interested in watching it:
re-re-bageling because video link
!!!! this documentary looks awesome
Stop the sales of gun targets that resemble Trayvon Martin! →
Link is a Change.org petition. You do not need to display your signature publicly, so please, there are no reasons for you not to sign!
Sign now!
Who the hell thought this was okay?
I have no clue, and yes, I am reblogging myself because this needs more attention.
So why do I expend so much effort on lifting up the oppression of black people? Because anti-black racism is the fulcrum of white supremacy.
A fulcrum is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the support about which a lever turns” or, alternatively, “one that supplies capability for action.” In other words, if you want to move something, you need a pry bar and some leverage, and what gives you leverage is the fulcrum – that thing you use so the pry bar works like a see-saw.
The racial arrangement in the U.S. is ever changing. There is no “bottom.” Different groups have more ability to affect others at different times because our roles are not fixed. But, while there’s no bottom, there is something like a binary in that white people exist on one side of these dynamics – the side with force and intention. The way they mostly assert that force and intention is through the fulcrum of anti-black racism.
”Do you know what, fuck everything I said today about “white privelege.”
After enough research I’ve reverted to me original conclusion that the term “white privilege” essentially means that racism is all “whitey’s” fault and has nothing to do with evolutionary biology or tribal mentality and the only way to solve it is for “whitey” to feel shamed for his own race. And I think I now know how so many people got brainwashed into it. It’s from these ultra PC insane social justice slacktivist who will either bully and shame people into submission or trick people with deceptive and convoluted languages or other things. Do you know what? I get it, whites do get a lot of perks in western society but it’s not my fucking fault. My race is not something I can control and I can try to fight for the rights of others but you can’t expect me to go around feeling sorry for privilege that I never asked for and I can’t control. Let me ask you something, do you think that Muslim men are somehow culpable for all the oppression that Islamic extremists have done? Because that’s essentially the same thing you are suggesting, that I’m somehow culpable for the genocide of Native American’s and the enslavement of Africans just because I happen to be born white. Do you know what? You may have brainwashed everyone else but you with your bullshit but you will never brainwash me!
This!!!!! We refuse to apologize. We will NOT bow down like slaves because of what our ancestors did!! White people are being targeted everywhere and frankly we’re sick of it. You will not brainwash us into thinking we’re evil when we represent all that is good and holy in this world. Evolutionary biology puts some people ahead of others….. so what?? We should celebrate this instead of trying to repress it!
White people = good
PoC = bad
Most likely ricksantorum-2012 has argued that there’s good and bad in every race and that no one should be generalized.
“We represent all that is good and holy in this world” will turn into “DON’T GENERALIZE ALL WHITE PEOPLE! I’M NOT LIKE THAT!!” in about 45 seconds.
i dont understand
i can’t tell if this is poe’s law or some sort of super-evolved version of it.
In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York →
I do believe I was one of these stops.
Domestic terrorism.
Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars (via socialuprooting)
Wow. I am absolutely stunned. I thought the use was pretty much the same across the board, while I knew the rate of arrests/incarcerations were higher for Black people/POC. But this really puts the “War on Drugs” into perspective.
(via siddharthasmama)
(Source: freethoughtblogs.com)
Lying with statistics to appropriate the struggles of WoC.
These numbers are made up to prove a point.
If, based on an article that trans people as a whole are murdered about “one a month”, 40 trans people died in the last 40 months.
33 of them are trans women of color. 4 of them are trans men of color. 2 are white trans women. 1 is a white trans man.
How fair is it to say that “trans people die at a rate of one per month”?
How fair is it really? It’s misleading.
It’s used constantly to keep the face of trans issues WHITE.
Can we stop framing it like this, PLEASE?
Trans people are not a monolith. SOME OF US ARE SEVERAL TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET MURDERED THAN OTHERS.
Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
Labor exploitation.
(via stfuconservatives)
suddenly had this awesome song from TMNT: Turtles in Time stuck in my head
and then i remembered the whole white washing of April O’Neil thing. There’s a post here and a scan from the original comics of her here, distinctly olive-skinned and with a kinky afro.
it’s interesting how very little this is mentioned.
Natalie Portman to Zhang Ziyi (x)
sophisticated FF commentary:
O_O
(via feministfilm)
Natalie Portman, I AM SO DISAPPOINT
(Source: cheryl-tunt)
It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” –
I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on.
So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.
”comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
i can’t echo this enough. this happened all the time in Los Angeles. I started biking to work and school (18 miles each way to work, 22 each way to school) in 2005 because I was dirt poor and couldn’t even afford a $3 day pass on the Metro. It wasn’t a fashion statement or an attempt to be green. I needed those $3 to eat.
(via panasonicyouth)
Also applicable to the ways in which race and class shape the discourse around what counts as exercise…
(via cufats)(Source: thisisom)
