I asked why i post pictures like this and it’s simple….I refuse to allow myself to forget for one second the history of this countries treatment of my People. This is something i had to research for myself since my “History” classes were very brief on the part of AMERICAN History. Never forget that freedom for Blacks did’t happen in 1865
i just learned how they would take souvenirs and practice necrophilia.
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Reelblack checked in with Dr. Angela Davis during her recent stop at Bryn Mawr College. In this short clip she discusses her latest books on Prison Reform. (apologies for the poor audio—please take time to hear this great woman’s words)
This is a photograph from a book called ‘Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography ins America” (pub. 2004). The photo is called ‘The lynching of Frank Embree, July 22, 1899, Fayette, MO”
By all reckoning, that makes this barely 113 years old.
There are two other matching photos to the set. The one below, and the one of him hanging, which is too upsetting to post. You can see it (along with others from much later time periods here: http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/race/four.html)
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White people, just look at your ancestors.
Why should we trust YOU?
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A march during the “Civil Rights Movement” in Atlanta, Georgia.
In Neely Fuller Jr.’s book, The UICCSC, he presented the following code:
Study the past (history) for one basic purpose:
To learn about the mistakes that were made in the past, so as to be better prepared not to make the same type mistakes in the future.
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The only reason to have a construct such as a “Race” is to practice “Racism”. The only Race that exists is the White Race. They are the only group that functions as a Race, subjugating and mistreating all people who are not members of the White Race (non-white).
Also, racial classifications or so-called nationalities are used by Racists (White Supremacists) to cause confusion and division amongst non-white peoples (ex. African-American, Latino, Asian, Mixed-Race, Hispanic, Puerto-Rican, etc.). You are either part of the Race or you’re not (non-white). It is more constructive to keep things simple.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach coined the term “Caucasian” because he believed that the Caucasus region of Asia Minor produced “the most beautiful race of men”. He is praised in western literature as the father of scientific/physical anthropology. He first used the word ”race” in 1775 to classify humans into five divisions: Caucasian, Mongolian or Asian, Ethiopian or African, American or Indian, and Malay or pacific islanders. He considered the Ethiopian race the inferior race.
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How the System of Racism (White Supremacy) Has Been Refined In the Area of "Law"
From a Counter-Racist perspective, it would be most accurate to describe the graphic linked above as a representation of how the system of Racism (White Supremacy) has been refined in the so-called U.S.A., rather than using the somewhat nebulous term “Racial Caste System”.
The informative graphic is based on the work by Michelle Alexander, entitled The New Jim Crow, which chronicles how Racists (White Supremacists) use the area activity of “Law” to mistreat non-white people on the basis of color.
After reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, I worked with Anne Rhodes to create this infographic. Massive as it is, it’s still just a fraction of the data she presents.
In many ways, this system is more dangerous than slavery or segregation. We need to end the idea that our…
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Blacks, though native born, were arriving as the poorest people from the poorest section of the country with the least access to the worst education. Over the decades of the Migration, they came with every disadvantage and found themselves competing not only with newcomers like themselves but with second- and third-generation European immigrants already established in apprenticeships and factory jobs that were closed off to black migrants, the immigrants and their children permitted into the very trade unions that prohibited black citizens from joining.
Because they were largely excluded from well-paying positions in even unskilled occupations and were concentrated in servant work and other undesirable jobs, blacks were the lowest paid of all the recent arrivals. In 1950, blacks in the North and West made a median annual income of $1,628, compared to Italian immigrants, who made $2, 295, Czechs, who made $2,339, Poles, who made $2,419, and Russians, who made $2,717.
‘There is just no avoiding the fact that blacks were more severely discriminated against in the labor market and elsewhere,’ Lieverson wrote. They ‘had to work more hours to earn less money than anyone else,’ the historian Gilbert Osofsky wrote…
The presence of so many black migrants elevated the status of other immigrants in the North and West. Black southerners stepped into a hierarchy that assigned them a station beneath everyone else, no matter that their families had been in the country for centuries. Their arrival unwittingly diverted anti-immigrant antagonism their way, as they were an even less favored outsider group than the immigrants they encountered in the North and helped make formerly ridiculed groups more acceptable by comparison.
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I’ve seen black musicians when they’d be jamming at a jam session with white musicians—a whole lot of difference. The white musician can jam on something that he’s heard before. If he’s heard it, then he can duplicate it or he can imitate it or he can read it. But the black musician, he picks up his horn and starts blowing some sounds that he never thought of before. He improvises, he creates, it comes from within. It’s his soul, it’s that soul music. It’s the only area on the American scene where the black man has been free to create. And he has mastered it. He has shown that he can come up with something that nobody ever thought of on his own before.
Well, likewise he can do the same thing if given intellectual independence. He can come up with a new philosophy. He can come up with a philosophy that nobody has heard of yet. He can invent a society, a social system, an economic system, a political system, that is different from anything that exists or has ever existed anywhere on this earth. He will improvise; he’ll bring it from within himself. And this is what you and I want.
Malcolm X, Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964)
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Louis Reyes Rivera: The History of Racism and Psychosis
I recorded this back in January, during a workshop about the history of racism, hosted by Students United for a Free CUNY
Louis argues that it is not racism that is affecting us — it is a psychosis of the human mind.
I argue that this psychosis is European oriented, that is, that Europeans have globally organized their insanity and psychotic minds and, as a result, continue to destroy the Earth and its inhabitants, both people of color and themselves.
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…for 500 years we have lived in a European-conceived intellectual universe. I am willing to acknowledge that I am influenced by this conception, but I am, at least, at war against it because I realize that it is not only detrimental to my people, it is detrimental to the whole world.
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“The white man that landed here, he came with two great weapons: one is the bible and the other was the gun. If [he] didn’t humble you with the bible, [he] crumbled you with the gun.” (Deceit and Violence)
Black Power Mixtape is a documentary film consisting of archival footage from Sweden. It’s worth a watch and has been showing repeatedly on PBS lately. Of course, a critical “eye” should be used whenever viewing material (especially when it’s produced during a time when the world is dominated by Racism). Nonetheless, there were some very interesting statements and observations made by people like Kwame Toure and Angela Davis.
Another moment in Racism (White Supremacy). This system has gone on far, far too long.
Replace White Supremacy with Justice ASAP!
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” —Lorraine Hansberry. She died on this day in 1965. Hansberry was 34.
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CodeLens offers a critical examination of the unjust system known as Racism (White Supremacy) to discover ways in which it can be dismantled and replaced with Justice. Justice means guaranteeing no person is mistreated for any reason and guaranteeing the people who need the most help get the constructive help they need.
