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Developers Halt #Louisiana Grain Elevator Project That Would Disrupt Black Historic Sites
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The grain terminal was the subject of a May 2022 ProPublica investigation that revealed how a whistleblower’s findings had been buried.
#News #BlackHistory #Business #Race #Agriculture
https://www.propublica.org/article/wallace-louisiana-greenfield-grain-elevator-black-history
"I know the guy was born in 1946 – 21 years before the US struck down state antimiscegenation statutes – but it’s 2024. It feels laughably out of touch to be publicly bemused by multiracial people when they are the fastest growing demographic in the US. …
While Vance has staked his future on Trump, it has never been more clear that the former president is a relic of the past."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
I recently finished reading Grace Ji-Sun Kim's When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 2024), and want to share some excerpts from this book.
I realize this is a theological (and Christian-focused) book, and not everyone will be interested in this topic — so forewarned is forearmed. Religion has a huge impact on politics and that impact needs to be understood, I'd add.
Let’s Talk About Race & Native Identity
A Chelsey Moon video essay about race and Native identity
#Race #Identity #Native #Indigenous
https://youtu.be/407Rm95-fJ8?si=WXjwq_I2sGc1MwH6
This is what the #rightwing has been reduced to; attacking #KamalaHarris for hugging people. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. They've got nothing of substance to say about her, so they're attacking her for her #race, her #gender, her laugh, and her hugs. Anything to avoid confronting the fact that she's an amazing, well-qualified #publicServant who's going to kick #Trump's ass in November.
cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
#Kamala2024 #FoxNews #VoteBlue
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-host-launches-latest-on-kamala-harris-targeting-her-hug/
Alicia Norman responds to Trump's attack on Kamala Harris with false claims that she has only recently "become black":
"As a Black woman with Cherokee Indian heritage, I prefer the term bi-ethnic or bi-cultural as opposed to mixed race because 1) we are all the same race—I mean, I didn’t mate with a giraffe, and 2) being mixed is closer to truth, again, for all of us."
~ Alicia Norman
#Trump #KamalaHarris #race #racism
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https://oneangryblackchick.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-responds-to-donalds
#CfP for the #conference "Drawing the Line: #Race, #Gender, #Ethics, and the #Arts", which will take place at The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College on March 28-29, 2025.
🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: October 15, 2024
📌Further Information: https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/drawing-the-line-race-gender-ethics-and-the-arts/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #LiteraturePhilosophy #LiteratureGender #LiteratureArts
Content warning （自分含め）ミックスの人についてふと思ったこと A passing thought about mixed racedness
人種がミックスされてる人が（主語が大きいのは置いといて）一般的に受け入れられ難いのは「人種」は実在するものではなく、社会的に作り上げられた「概念」だからこそかもしれない
いつもなら人種は自分で決めるものではなく、自分が生活する社会によってラベルが貼られ、そのラベルによって立場や扱い方などが予想されたりするけど
#ミックス の人たちときたらそうはいかない
なぜなら
<人種がミックスされてる人しか自分の人種との関係性を決められないから>
つまり私たちが存在してるだけで人種の社会的な役割が成り立たなくなることが多く、「人種＝具体的で必然的なもの」としか思ったことがない人にとって理解に苦しむものになってるかもしれない
I think part of the reason it's hard for some people to accept the existence of #MixedRace folks is because #race itself is a social construct
Your race is usually given to you by the society in which you live, & from there, folks will assume your place in society, how to treat you, etc etc
But such is not the case for mixed folks
Because ‼️ the only ones who can decide how a mixed person should identify is the mixed person themself ‼️
Our very existence challenges the use society has for race as a concept, so folks who've only ever thought of race as something real & concrete end up not knowing how to deal with it
"Trump campaign scrambles to blame Black journalists for Trump’s racism"
"The campaign knew it was a disaster before it was even over. What was supposed to be an hour-long question-and-answer session was abruptly cut short by Trump’s campaign after just 34 minutes—'an indication of how much of a train wreck it was for him,' tweeted Axios reporter Sophia Cai, 'and also how good the questioning was.'
Trump came out of the event on defense."
In Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Justice Brown codified the "one drop rule" - that a person with any African blood, no matter how little, is considered to be Black. Period.
Trump has created a new rule - he'll decide if someone is Black....
"White man tells Black journalists his Black opponent is not Black"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-nabj-racist-harris-interview/
"The shocking Q&A session was a preview of what a face-to-face encounter with Kamala Harris would look like."
They Used Their Adopted Black Children As Slaves
by Kat Blaque
"A West Virginian couple adopted 5 black children between the ages of 6-16 from a center for homeless youth. Those children were then locked into a shed and used as slaves on their farm. As a black adoptee, I have thoughts."
Can technology help us obtain a brighter future?
https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/can-technology-help-us-obtain-a-brighter-future/
"Smashing Whiteness"
"Our biggest obstacle is that Love and Rage is still culturally very white … Smashing this culture of whiteness is a major task in becoming the kind of truly inclusive organization we are committed to building." Thus argues a 1997 editorial that sparked controversy in the newspaper of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation. The editorial intervened in an ongoing debate: should the predominantly white federation attempt to become multi-racial or should it accept its whiteness and try to work in coalitions with people of color?
These debates exposed the internal contradictions of Love and Rage (1989-1998), which was the most significant American anarchist organization of the late twentieth century. Love and Rage was embedded in the largely white punk world even as they attempted to move beyond it. Although punk had helped keep anarchism alive during the post-1960s neoliberal counterrevolution, particularly during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, members …
"Smashing Whiteness"
"Our biggest obstacle is that Love and Rage is still culturally very white … Smashing this culture of whiteness is a major task in becoming the kind of truly inclusive organization we are committed to building." Thus argues a 1997 editorial that sparked controversy in the newspaper of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation. The editorial intervened in an ongoing debate: should the predominantly white federation attempt to become multi-racial or should it accept its whiteness and try to work in coalitions with people of color?
These debates exposed the internal contradictions of Love and Rage (1989-1998), which was the most significant American anarchist organization of the late twentieth century. Love and Rage was embedded in the largely white punk world even as they attempted to move beyond it. Although punk had helped keep anarchism alive during the post-1960s neoliberal counterrevolution, particularly during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, members worried that punk’s white subcultural affinities excluded people of color and thus held back the federation’s revolutionary potential.
Yet despite its contradictions and shortcomings, Love and Rage transformed the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the US anarchist movement. Influenced by a new generation of Black anarchists, they advocated militant anti-racism and "race traitor" politics that sought to abolish whiteness in order to build revolution.
This is the first paragraph of my chapter "Smashing Whiteness: Race, Class, and Punk Culture in the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (North America, 1989-1998)" in the new edited volume DIY OR DIE! Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together & Punk Anarchism.
