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Yesterday Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover released a music video for his new song, “This Is America.”
I just want people to remember to give credit to the director Japanese filmmaker Hiro Murai.
Woa
i’m in love with him for real
Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers.
By Lisa Wade, PhD
One of the important conversations that has began in the wake of Dylann Roof’s racist murder in South Carolina has to do with racism among members of the Millennial generation. We’ve placed a lot of faith in this generation to pull us out of our racist path, but Roof’s actions may help remind us that racism will not go away simply by the passing of time.
In fact, data from the General Social Survey — one of the most trusted social science data sets — suggests that Millennials are failing to make dramatic strides toward a non-racist utopia. Scott Clement, at the Washington Post, shows us the data. Attitudes among white millennials (in green below) are statistically identical to whites in Generation X (yellow) and hardly different from Baby Boomers on most measures (orange). Whites are about as likely as Generation X:
And they’re slightly more likely than white members of Generation X to think that blacks are less intelligent than whites. So much for a Millennial rescue from racism.
All in all, white millennial attitudes are much more similar to those of older whites than they are to those of their peers of color.
At PBS, Mychal Denzel Smith argues that we are reaping the colorblindness lessons that we’ve sowed. Millennials today may think of themselves as “post-racial,” but they’ve learned none of the skills that would allow them to get there. Smith writes:
Millennials are fluent in colorblindness and diversity, while remaining illiterate in the language of anti-racism.
They know how to claim that they’re not racist, but they don’t know how to recognize when they are and they’re clueless as to how to actually change our society for the better.
So, thanks to the colorblindness discourse, white Millennials are quick to see racism as race-neutral. In one study, for example, 58% of white millennials said they thought that “reverse racism” was as big a problem as racism.
Smith summarizes the problem:
For Millennials, racism is a relic of the past, but what vestiges may still exist are only obstacles if the people affected decide they are. Everyone is equal, they’ve been taught, and therefore everyone has equal opportunity for success. This is the deficiency found in the language of diversity. … Armed with this impotent analysis, Millennials perpetuate false equivalencies, such as affirmative action as a form of discrimination on par with with Jim Crow segregation. And they can do so while not believing themselves racist or supportive of racism.
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
Well then
Generational racism
We already knew this. But thank you, science, for substantiating our knowledge.
The change goes into effect this fall (2015) and will affect 5 million public school students. Source
and the american education institution continues to fail us.
These attacks in Charleston is exactly why I don’t like and will never accept Nu Atheist critiques of religion that are devoid of contextualization.
Besides the fact that killing people in a place and time of worship is about the most reprehensible thing you can do, Emanuel AME church is the oldest Black church in the South and its history is entrenched in the struggle against Jim Crow terrorism. There’s absolutely no convenience or coincidence in the attacker’s choice of location.
In case it hasn’t been made resoundingly clear already, a vast majority of political organizing and radical coalition building was/is done in the context of Christianity with black resistance in the US. Everything from the Montgomery Boycotts to the Million Man March. Yes without question, black people have been colonized in warped white supremacist renditions of Christianity, but the fact that it was malleable enough to be reclaimed in Black politics proves how theology, like most things, is essentially a blank slate and its impact is wholly up to individual intention.
You think religion is useless and a primitive aspect of the human condition that has no place in your life? Cool, good for you. I respect your right to that believe that (or disbelieve that). But for many people around the world, it is a respite, pillar of hope, cultural focal point and an integral facet of day-to-day life. To suggest ripping that away for a faux intellectual talking point is profoundly cruel and absurdly unfeasible.
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Important
For all my victims of the new Jim Crow
YES! Get that Apple money!!!!
reblog to save a life and bank account
Cause all our records aren’t clean
hold up y’all because these the tweets I’ve been waiting on
Today marks the 28th Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It also marks 28 years of reducing the legacy of radical social justice and antiwar activist into that of loving quotes on racial reconciliation. Ultimately, think back to what you were taught about Dr. King and you’ll most likely remember his role in bus boycotts, sit-ins, and famous speeches. Like the memorial erected for him in Washington D.C., the meaning of Dr. King’s legacy has been ossified by the establishment into one of nonviolence and love. What you are not taught is that Dr. King’s concept of love manifested in his theories on social justice, economic equity, human rights, and global war. Today, the establishment that hated Dr. King markets an illusion of who he was. I’ll let the good Doctor make his own case:
On war, capitalism, and civil rights
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
On economic justice
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. ”
On internal colonialism
“The purpose of the slum is to confine those who have no power and perpetuate their powerlessness. The slum is little more than a domestic colony which leaves its inhabitants dominated politically, exploited economically, segregated and humiliated at every turn.”
On Jim Crow as both racial and class warfare
"The Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow," King lectured from the Alabama Capitol steps, following the 1965 march on Selma. "And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a black man."
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You were probably taught that Dr. King’s harshest critics were white southerners and more radical elements within the movement like Malcolm X. The truth is that during his life the mainstream media criticized Dr. King. On his stance on the Vietnam War, Life magazine described his speeches as “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.”
During his life, Dr. King was not well received by the establishment. In the years since his death in 1968, his image and political significance has been sanitized and neutralized. He serves as a mouthpiece for love and compassion as the keys of historical progress. What one should remember, was that Dr. King was intensely critical of the capitalist state, global war, and separating economic rights from civil rights. What Dr. King was for was protest, education and direct action. If you truly honor Dr. King and his legacy, you honor the core values of what he stood for.
really important thing to be aware of as we celebrate Dr. King’s birthday/legacy today.
Colour-blind racists say things like this:
And believe things like this:
Notice how white people never seem to do anything bad.
While they would agree with most of those statements, they would have a hard time saying them straight out like that. Race makes them uncomfortable. Their statements would be more long-winded and watered down, throwing in phrases like those from the first list, even the one about the cousin.
They seem to think that if they do not say the words then racism will somehow go away by magic. As if racism is just a matter of words.
They rarely think of themselves as “white” and avoid saying the word “black” in public, even when they are thinking it. Their supposed colour-blindness is a front.
For example, I have heard white people talk about someone who I knew had to be black just by the way they bent over backwards to avoid saying the word “black”. Yet when they left the room and thought I could not hear, they said “black” just as plain as day, as if they were talking about their dress.
They avoid the word “race” too. Instead they use words like “culture”, “background”, “ethnicity”. That is why they like the word “African American” so much: it seems colour-blind.
They are not as mean or violent as Jim Crow racists, nor do they wear their racism well. Unlike Jim Crow racists, they are willing to vote for a black man for president. But they still look down on blacks and still believe the stereotypes, adding some of their own.
They are not as colour-blind as they think. The only colour they are truly blind to is white.
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The world continues to mourn the abortion of justice we witnessed in real time yesterday, helpless to stop the state-sanctioned murder of Troy Davis.
As we mobilize and vow that this time it won’t be in vain, the following heart-wrenching story reminds us that Black men have been legally lynched in this country since it’s inception — the fight is not over.
George Stinney, Jr. was only 14 years-old when he was murdered by the state of South Carolina at the height of the Jim Crow era on June 16, 1944. He was accused of killing two white girls, ages 8 and 11, with a rail-road spike.
According to Attorney Steve McKenzie, who says that he is haunted by the case, George was allegedly offered ice-cream by detectives as they coerced a confession out of him:
The sheriff at the time said Stinney admitted to the killings, but there is only his word — no written record of the confession has been found. A lawyer with the case figures threats of mob violence and not being able to see his parents rattled the seventh-grader.”
According to records, over 1,000 people packed the courtroom. The trial lasted one day and no Black people were allowed to enter the building; there is no transcript of the proceedings.
As reported by the Associated Press:
“Guards walked a 14-year-old boy, Bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 95 pounds, the straps don’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.”
