(Source: frostbitten-nightmares, via vegan-dreams)
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This is the place in which, it seems to me, most white Americans find themselves. They are dimly, or vividly, aware that the history they have fed themselves is mainly a lie, but they do not know how to release themselves from it, and they suffer enormously from the resulting personal incoherence. This incoherence is heard nowhere more plainly than in those stammering, terrified dialogues white Americans sometimes entertain with that black conscience, the black man in America.
The nature of this stammering can be reduced to a plea: Do not blame me. I was not there. I did not do it. My history has nothing to do with Europe or the slave trade. Anyway, it was your chiefs who sold you to me. I was not present on the middle passage. I am not responsible for the textile mills of Manchester, or the cotton fields of Mississippi. Besides, consider how the English, too, suffered in those mills and in those awful cities! I, also, despise the governors of Southern states and the sheriffs of Southern counties; and I also want your child to have a decent education and rise as high as his capabilities will permit. I have nothing against you, nothing! What have you got against me? What do you want?
But, on the same day, in another gathering, and in the most private chamber of his heart always, he, the white man, remains proud of that history for which he does not wish to pay, and from which, materially, he has profited so much.
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James Baldwin, Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes
James Baldwin wrote these words in 1966
1966
I repeat 1966
It is 2013
47 years later and White people are still strumming to this same tune of “don’t blame me”.
Wow.
(via theraceproblem)
“In the most private chamber of his heart” he’s a racist? Bullshit. Who is pulling your strings? It’s divide and rule. You’re doing the racists dirty work for them. The racist points to such statements and says “look the blacks are racist against the whites, so you can be, should be, racist too” Don’t go there. The working class, if it exists anymore, must stand UNITED AGAINST OPPRESSION. Black and white unite and fight.
(via anarcho-queer)
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
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Samuel P. Huntington (via seinedoll)
#1 in amorality and flexible tolerance for injustice & human suffering!
(via thepeoplesrecord)
Westerners are not the only violent ones, they happened to be the winners. Don’t forget the Islamic Empire that ruled much of Europe or the Chinese or Russian Empires. Of course the west wouldn’t have done it without armies of mercenaries.
(Source: gardariki, via anarcho-queer)
"Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.’"
— John Fugelsang (via pregnat420)
Not only in America, but I get your point. You could say “only a Christian…..”
(Source: araberber, via johnpeaceprize)
Sack Richard Littlejohn for his disgusting attack piece against Lucy Meadows, apologize for printing it, and institute a editorial review process to prevent this kind of discrimination from ever ending up in print again.”
This week, a schoolteacher took her own life, a tragic result of media bullying that was egged on by a right-wing columnist for the UK’s 2nd-largest paper.
Lucy Meadows just wanted to quietly teach her students, but Richard Littlejohn of the notoriously inflammatory Daily Mail led a nasty witch-hunt against her. In a hit piece mockingly titled “He’s not only in the wrong body… he’s in the wrong job,” Littlejohn began a wave of harassment that drove Lucy from teaching. Two months later, she would be dead.
Lucy’s death sent a wave of shock and anger across the UK, with tens of thousands of people demanding that Daily Mail fire Richard Littlejohn. The Daily Mail is one part a of huge global media conglomerate, and if people around the world stand up to hold the paper accountable, it will send a clear message that the media can’t peddle this kind of bigotry and get away with it.
John Littledick is, was and probably always will be an ignorant, bigoted piece of shit, which is why the bigoted, homophobic, racsist Daily Mail pays him hundreds of thousands of pounds to write that shit.
(Source: neutrois, via anarcho-queer)
What really pisses me off is the right wing working class…..
At least she did something. WTF does this guy want? Should we all just give up and walk away because individually our efforts are just a drop in the ocean?
I guess he doesn’t give a fuck about the environment or women’s rights on any thing else that requires a bit of thinking and a lot of individuals’ action because, after all, he can’t change the world on his own.
Hey stoopid, ever heard of democracy?
Fuckwits like that benefit from trade unions and student protests and individuals risking their own freedom, but all he can do is make a fucking stupid sarcastic comment.
Fortunately we aren’t all so self centred and egotistical and we will continue to strike, protest and spread the word wherever we see injustice.
What really pisses me off even more than the right wing working class is people thinking that it’s OK to be racist if you’re not white.
(Source: wadniewsti, via johnpeaceprize)
Richard Berman: if you see this man in public, please spit on him. If you serve him food ever in any restaurant, please do the people of the world a favor and defecate in it.
April 29, 2013Yesterday we reblogged something from HumaneWatch.org, which was criticizing (& representing straight-up lies) against the humane society. One reader was kind enough to inform us that HumaneWatch is one of the many misinformation projects of Richard Berman’s. All of the above organizations are various projects run by Berman and Company, paid for by the ruling class, intended to spread misinformation & lies for the benefit of the ruling class.
Richard Berman is a Washington, D.C.-based hired propagandist who uses front groups to defend his corporate clients against the public interest. Using his lobbying and consulting firm, Berman and Company, as a revenue vehicle for his activities, Berman runs at least 23 industry-funded projects, such as the Center for Union Facts, and holds 24 “positions” within these various entities.
Make a mental note of the above organizations and keep in mind these brands. Never reblog (like I did) Berman and Company’s propaganda.
It was suggested to me that Charity Navigator is an honest & useful tool for actually evaluating how charities are spending their money. Here’s their information on The Humane Society of the United States. They have a 4 star rating.
The information in that post against the humane society was wrong, but it got 800+ notes (and we contributed to that count in a big way). Please reblog this & do some more reading/post your own posts about the propaganda campaigns Richard Berman is running to combat the misinformation.
I’m sorry we posted the original post, but let’s not allow this opportunity to expose this terrible organization go to waste.
I also took down the original post and apologize for the misinformation - I should have done some research first.
Sorry readers, but I’m gonna be like a dog-with-a-bone reblogging this one, in hopes that I can see this post get more notes than the original misinformation.
(via thepeoplesrecord)
