thegirlanachronism93:

siddharthasmama:

mia-the-wonder-slut:

THIS IS SO PERFECT OMG

best post ever

the internet is over

everyone go home

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ethiopienne:

pretty much.

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torayot:

albinwonderland:

amantesuntamentes:

wtfwhiteprivilege:

How to Raise Racist Kids

Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”

Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two.

Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than everybody else.

Surprised? So were authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman when they started researching the issue of kids and race for their book NurtureShock. It turns out that a lot of our assumptions about raising our kids to appreciate diversity are entirely wrong:

Click to read the article!

don’t you just love it when people finally accept the glaringly obvious? i know a lot of people that need to read this

The article above is great, as is this one on how to talk about racism with kids.

I’m glad that these things are being studied and knowledge being disseminated. I shouldn’t be surprised, really, but why do some white people take an awfully long time to discover that water is wet?…

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via humanformat)

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from “A Open Letter to White Anti-Racists” by Tamara K. Nopper (via ayiman)

This is a brilliant post. Please click through for the entire piece.

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ihavethisblog:

Let’s just turn the racist logic around for a second:

According to racists, in order to be racist one must:

• Hate all Black people. You must never have met even one Black person that you even sorta kinda liked. You must never have smiled at any Black person, ever. Why Black people specifically? I don’t really know, but racists always seem to defend claims against racism with some version “I don’t hate Black people, my [anything ever] is Black”.

• Have no Black family. Your second cousin’s new wife is Black? Congratulations, you are officially incapable of being racist ever again.

• Be 100% white. Oh, you heard somewhere that your family might be “a little bit Native American”? Well done, it is now impossible for anything you do to ever be racist.

• Have the explicit intention of being offensive and racist when doing something offensive and racist. If you were “just joking around”, you’re home free, nobody gets to be offended about it and you are definitely not a racist.

• Actively not want equality. You must be against racial equality in all it’s forms. If you think anything except “Hell no, those colored people shouldn’t have anything. Fuck those lazy bastards!” when you hear the phrase “separate but equal” there’s no way you could be a racist.

• Be from a family that arrived in the U.S. before it became the U.S., owned slaves, went on frequent indian-killing sprees, rounded up Japanese-Americans during WWII, and never ever ever did anything to help any Person of Color, ever.

• Not be Irish or Jewish. What’s that, you’re Irish AND Jewish? You just won not-a-racist bingo, my friend.

• Consciously think of all People of Color as inherently different and less than you. If it’s subconscious or has been culturally-ingrained in you, rest assured, it’s not your responsibility to do anything about that and you are certainly not a racist.

If you do not fit all criteria on this list, you CANNOT be a racist.

(But, remember, that’s according to racists.)

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emeraldtriangleprincess:

wretchedoftheearth:

emeraldtriangleprincess:

wretchedoftheearth:

Anyone who doesn’t understand the connection between slavery, Jim Crow, and the modern urban ghetto and mass incarceration of black males should read this article and see how there have always been institutions controlling and confining black people in the US, even if their purpose seems less obvious.

from “Deadly Symbiosis: when ghetto and prison meet and mesh” by Loïc Wacquant

Wacquant makes some really important connections here, and this is definitely worth a read. However, having spoken with Wacquant and read a few of his books, one of my primary concerns with his arguments and scholarship is how urban-centric he can be. This is understandable considering his background (Chicago), but overlooking contemporary rural poverty and the roles agriculture and discriminatory rural policy play totally removes a major portion of what’s going on here. As we can see in Georgia and Alabama’s new solution to shortages of plantation labor (working prison inmates as indentured labor, the bulk of which are Black),  it is extremely important that attention be given to the prison industrial complex’s relationship with industrial agriculture and systems of oppression.

I agree - I feel like being in a city can kind of make your research urban-centric (I’m guilty of this myself). I like Wacquant, but I would be interested in reading something like this that does include rural poverty (and if something like this already exists I would also be interested in reading it).

To be honest there’s not much rural stuff out there on this subject, at least that I know of. I know Ruth Wilson Gilmore has been somewhat of a pioneer in these kinds of studies, and will personally endorse everything she’s written. This article is a less-than-perfect start on some of it…I’ve found that organizations like Critical Resistance (which RWG works with, as well as Angela Davis) have much more info on this than academics.

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witchsistah:

Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: When “stand your ground” fails John McNeil killed a white man who assaulted him in his home. But, unlike George…

expectaction:

WEDNESDAY, APR 11, 2012 10:41 AM US MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME

John McNeil killed a white man who assaulted him in his home. But, unlike George Zimmerman, he’s serving life

BY RANIA KHALEK

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George Zimmerman and John McNeil (Credit: AP)

I’m tellin’ y’all they takin’ us back to Jim Crow.  They’re already uber punishing Blacks who defend themselves against Whites while letting Whites off scott free who murder us in cold blood.

THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING, FOLKS!

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zorascreation:

religiousragings:

abaldwin360:

The opening quote, above, was related to us by Kenneth Chamberlain Jr, when he appeared on the “Democracy Now!” news hour talking about the police killing of his father. Chamberlain Jr was holding on to the LifeAid pendant that his father wore around his neck in case of a medical emergency. Perhaps unbeknown to the White Plains police who arrived at Chamberlain Sr’s door that morning, the LifeAid system includes a box in the home that, when activated, transmits audio to the LifeAid company, where it is recorded. Chamberlain Jr and his lawyers heard the recording in a meeting at the office of the Westchester county district attorney, Janet DiFiore.

Chamberlain Jr repeated what he heard his father say on the tape: “He says, ‘I’m a 68-year-old man with a heart condition. Why are you doing this to me?’ … You also hear him pleading with the officers again, over and over. And at one point, that’s when the expletive is used by one of the police officers.” One of Chamberlain Jr’s lawyers, Mayo Bartlett, told me about the racial slur. Bartlett is a former Westchester county prosecutor, so he knows the ropes. He was explicit in recounting what he heard on the recording.

“Kenneth Chamberlain Sr said to the police, ‘I’m a sick old man.’ One of the police officers replied, ‘We don’t give a fuck, nigger!’” The recording also includes a taunt from the police, as related by Bartlett, “Open the door, Kenny, you’re a grown-ass man!” It was when Chamberlain Jr related how the police mocked his father’s military service that he broke down. “He said, ‘Semper fi.’ So they said, ‘Oh, you’re a marine. Hoo-rah. Hoo-rah.’ And this is somebody that served this country. Why would you even say that to him?” Chamberlain Jr wept as he held his father’s marine ring and veterans administration card.

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How is this even conscionable?

No. 

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zorascreation:

religiousragings:

abaldwin360:

The opening quote, above, was related to us by Kenneth Chamberlain Jr, when he appeared on the “Democracy Now!” news hour talking about the police killing of his father. Chamberlain Jr was holding on to the LifeAid pendant that his father wore around his neck in case of a medical emergency. Perhaps unbeknown to the White Plains police who arrived at Chamberlain Sr’s door that morning, the LifeAid system includes a box in the home that, when activated, transmits audio to the LifeAid company, where it is recorded. Chamberlain Jr and his lawyers heard the recording in a meeting at the office of the Westchester county district attorney, Janet DiFiore.

Chamberlain Jr repeated what he heard his father say on the tape: “He says, ‘I’m a 68-year-old man with a heart condition. Why are you doing this to me?’ … You also hear him pleading with the officers again, over and over. And at one point, that’s when the expletive is used by one of the police officers.” One of Chamberlain Jr’s lawyers, Mayo Bartlett, told me about the racial slur. Bartlett is a former Westchester county prosecutor, so he knows the ropes. He was explicit in recounting what he heard on the recording.

“Kenneth Chamberlain Sr said to the police, ‘I’m a sick old man.’ One of the police officers replied, ‘We don’t give a fuck, nigger!’” The recording also includes a taunt from the police, as related by Bartlett, “Open the door, Kenny, you’re a grown-ass man!” It was when Chamberlain Jr related how the police mocked his father’s military service that he broke down. â%8 

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flapjackstate:

[image: drawing of a white person saying “I don’t see race, I’m a good person.” Below is a translation that says “I’m going to use my place of privilege to refute and deny the sufferings of those who do not have white privilege while at the same time erasing their personal and cultural history”].

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radfemscorpion:

[Image description: Background is 6 piece pie style color split with black and yellow alternating. Foreground is a picture of a blue mutant scorpion. Top text reads “You’re the real racist…”. Bottom text reads “…for pointing out the racist history of feminism”. End description.]

Submitted by kiriamaya.

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fromonesurvivortoanother:

EDIT: here’s a response to the most common concerns for this list.

• “politeness” - not when your views are a direct assault on their humanity - and if you don’t understand why they are, too bad - that’s your issue to figure out
• an explanation for why they are offended
• their time
• the time of day
• open dialogue on the issue - there’s a ton of books for that— or you can go find someone and, instead of having this compelling need to talk about how you feel, simply LISTEN
• preservation of your feelings
• a handshake or a hug
• their bodies, their hair, their clothes, their culture
• their name
• a simple label to define themselves
• information on where they are from or how their family got here
• any personal information at all
• a seat on the bus
• a decent tip
• free use of the slurs which have historically been used against them
• some kind of ridiculous statement in which they speak for everyone else who is also in that group
• they don’t owe you anything, actually

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xtremecaffeine:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

sourcedumal:

Source 1 

Source 2

There you have it. We’ve known this for ages, but a wonderful black woman has proved it through white-people approved studies.

You’re not just racist. You’re active racists.

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