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Trump’s anti-Asian rhetoric has been directed at others beyond Chao. Over the weekend, he went after a Biden aide, Kathy Chung, believed to be responsible for packing the then vice president’s materials when he was leaving office in 2017. He has said that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s name “sounds Chinese” (Youngkin is not Chinese). He has mimicked Asian accents while talking about Asian leaders. He has mocked Asian accents on the campaign trail; he charged a reporter with asking a “nasty question” about Covid testing while insinuating she was doing so because of her Asian background. And he called Covid “Kung-flu.”

Meridith McGraw in Politico. The private angst over Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Elaine Chao goes public

His rhetoric “says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”

#republican party politics #racism #american foreign policy #donald trump

A close listen to the call reveals more than just overt racism on the part of both men, however, and reflects a larger world view about what kinds of people are worthy of American attention.

UVA | Miller Center. Reagan, Nixon, and Race

In October 1971, the future president [Ronald Reagan] employed a hateful racial trope

#ronald reagan #racism #treachery #american foreign policy #republican politics

1968

On Monday Earth Day, I was thinking about the student actions for Palestine at universities across the country. I am inspired by the students' bravery. I am sure they are aware of the dangers and that no matter what they will bare costs. I felt sad too.The thoughts about this year brought up memories of 1968.

I was only 13 in 1968. I am sure I conflate things that happend later with that year. But I am just as sure that 1968 rocked the foundations of my world. I was all shook up. Itwas a year that cuts time, where nothing would be as it was.

I was surprised clicking on an old link from my blog to a 50-year retrospective of 1968 in photos put together by Alan Taylor in The Atlantic. To my amasement The Atlantic let me see the article--for well over a year I have not be able to get around their paywall for any articles. If it opens for you it's a very good collection of photos.

I'm sure there are many 13-year olds taking in the events of this year sensing that this year is different. And they are wondering how to proceed.

I was thinking about Earth Day, in 1970. We had moved to Charlotte, NC and I made a really groovy teenager room. On my desk I had envelops with literature about Earth Day. I also had the book The Strawberry Statement. That book is why I had some sense of the 1968 campus protests from a student perspective, albeit a few years after. The title of the book comes from one of Columbia's Deans said in the press which students mocked as "the strawberry statement": "Whether students vote 'yes' or 'no' on a given issue means as much to me as if they were to tell me they like strawberries." The bitterness about diminishing the humanity of studnets ressonated.

One of the parts of the book I remember is the author of the book, James Kunen telling about picking up a hitchhicker. I remember it because he was driving a Dutch car called a Daffodil. In 1968 one of the moms in the car pool drove a Daf. My mom drove an Opel station wagon with a puny engine and another neighbor had an Isetta--it's a bit strange to think of small cars in the sixties. The hitchhicker was Black, Kunen read the guy as Black, but he also observed that hisskin was lighter than his own. It made racism visible in a way worth wrting about.

In 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech laying out the three evils of society: the sickness of racism, poverty--excessive materialism, and militarism. I probably didn't know about the speech, but do believe that I'd internalised, at least by 1970, connections between poverty, militarism and racism. A white kid in the suburbs understood that to be anti-war was also to be anti-racist and anti-colonial. It was important to know that I wasn't the only one.

My education in whiteness was also ramping up, perhaps most obviously as a factor of my age and schooling. I went to a school that was under a court-mandated desegregation plan. I was a new kid at schoo and didn't have lots of friends. There was an underground press that I didn't have much connection to, but I had some. The Earth Day materials are an axample. I would send self-adressed stamped envelops off and sometimes tape quarters to index cards, or send stamps to adresses found in the want ads of The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.

I am really happy when I see Zines on the Internet because they're familiar with the life line that made me feel connected. Young people are seeing the news. I am sure that they want to "connect, "to find the other ones" as Timothy Leary famously advised , just as I needed to.

#politics #youth #campus protests #teach in #solidarity #palestine #poverty #racism #militarism

This may not translate into immediate support for Palestinian freedom, but Palestinian liberation is being seen in the new light of day. This is the challenge for the left now, the one we are all focused on and the one we must think most sharply about. We are living through a revival of internationalism and another extended moment of mass protest. Even as we tire in the face of exhausting odds, a hulking imperial ship that refuses to acknowledge our power as it trembles, we must persist. A victory against the systems that oppress Palestinians is a victory against the systems that oppress us all.

Hammer and Hope, No. 3 Spring 2024. ANTI-ARAB RACISM AND THE U.S. AND ISRAELI WAR MACHINES

The West’s dehumanization of Arabs has helped to normalize war crimes.

#americn foreign policy #war on greater middle east #racism #opression #empire

By distorting the features and culture of African Americans—including their looks, language, dance, deportment and character—white Americans were able to codify whiteness across class and geopolitical lines as its antithesis.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) quoted in an article by Harmeet Kaur at CNN. This is why blackface is offensive

As an old white man many of my white friends insist they're not racists. I don't think I'm racist, but I'm old enough to know that all my years of training and indoctrination into whiteness sometimes rears its head. Sometimes it's ugly and shocking to me.

A good rule of thumb is blackface is always wrong. This afternoon I saw a video clip of Pat Paulsen on the Merv Griffin Show circa the late 1960s telling awful ethinic jokes in blackface. All the while Paulsen is interspersing the jokes with commentary that it's time to give up on such demeaning humor.

Paulsen almost certainly imagined the routine as satire. It could only work as satire if the routine made people very uncomfortable in seeing how ugly such humor is. It almost suceeds. But the deeper revelation, if we're honest, is that it does not succeed and everybody knows it.

Racism lives in us and when we pretend, however convincingly, that we can't see it, we are prey for those who will manipulate that within us.

#blackface #racism #whiteness #white supremacy

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“I understood that what was happening in South Africa with its racism was like the racism in Nazi Germany in Europe that we were supposed to be fighting against.”

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Denis Goldberg quoted in an obituary by Jason Burke in The Guardian. ‘A giant has fallen’: anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg dies aged 87

Close associate of Nelson Mandela spent 22 years in whites-only prison in South Africa

In The Guardian obit there's a link to a video of Denis Goldberg at Youtube. It' just shy of five minutes long and worth watching. It seems important that his understanding of the connection of racism in South Africa with racism in Nazi Germany came when he was just a boy beginning school.

#denis goldberg #south africa #racism #hafrada #segregation #plaestine #israel

As a First Nations psychologist, allow me to unpick Price's claim that there are no lasting negative impacts of British colonisation

Despite Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's claims, the conditions enabling colonialism don't simply 'disappear' by denying they continue to exist.

This is a brave and smart article. While it is grounded in an Australian context, it is helpful for understanding racialized trauma and trauma in general.

#tracy westerman #trauma #indigenous #australia #racism #psychology

The debates about climate policy since the passage of the IRA have been marked by dynamics that make these occurrences more likely — particularly an effort to once again define the climate crisis as a matter of energy policy, separate from concerns about the environment and unconnected to efforts to build a more just society. In fact, many of the loudest advocates for “cutting red tape,” who are almost exclusively white men, argue that demands for a just transition are incompatible with the demands of decarbonization or simply that they do not understand how to “effectively” address environmental justice concerns. As a result, policy proposals that aim to balance efforts to decarbonize with the needs of Black communities are increasingly dismissed as ancillary, insufficient, or, worse, “unserious.”

Rhiana Gunn-Wright in Hammer & Hope. OUR GREEN TRANSITION MAY LEAVE BLACK PEOPLE BEHIND

I’m an architect of the Green New Deal, and I’m worried the racism in the biggest climate law endangers our ability to get off fossil fuels.

#energy transition #racism #white supremacy #democracy

But it was the same story every time: The community was not asked for input and held no political power. This was adding insult to injury since many of these majority-Black neighborhoods had sprung up in the first place because of redlining and Jim Crow segregation. While they often became vibrant, self-contained enclaves, the fact that they were under-invested and overcrowded was subsequently used as rationale for destroying them. One of the most devastating effects has been how these inequities have reinforced the racial wealth gap.

Jay Fernandez at ACLU. Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81

#geography #racism #interstate highway #democracy

The move—which will give the Lonestar State’s Republican leadership a new level of authority over a diverse school system in one of its bluest cities—is sure to draw fresh national attention to debates over whether state intervention can improve school systems.

Eve Blad in Education Week. What’s Behind Texas’ Takeover of Houston Schools

#republicans #cruelty #racism #education #houston

But the politics of division can’t help the Earth now. Nature is endangered by threats that come from no specific villain or location. The oceans grow warmer and more acidic, marine mammals are contaminated, dead zones spread, plastic debris flips from wave tops to beaches and into the guts of birds. No one is innocent. Categories won’t help us — nation, race, good, and evil — for they have little to do with humanity’s need to fit within a global ecological niche. Power won’t help us either. Power itself is a good deal of the problem, as coercion divides the people who must ultimately work together. Besides, the powerful have never instigated the kind of social transformation we now require. The solution has to come up from the people, through persuasion, enlightenment, and the creation of new norms, until the powerful are swept irresistibly along in the new social reality. This is a better job for the weak, who often have more at stake in the loss of nature, a closer relationship to its gifts, and a greater capacity to recognize when a certain level of material wealth is enough.

Charles Wohlforth in Orion. Conservation and Eugenics

#nationalism #white supremacy #environment #racism #eugenics

[T]he Martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon argued in 1956 that we should abandon the habit “of regarding racism as a disposition of the mind, a psychological flaw”. Rather, “military and economic oppression most frequently precedes, makes possible and legitimates” racist beliefs. And this “systematic oppression of a people” can continue even if a majority of citizens do not have racist biases, unconsciously held or otherwise.

Arun Kundnani in the Guardian. There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’

While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system

What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism

#racism #anti capitalism #frantz fanon #clr james #book #abolition

That one place.

Michael Harriot tweeted:

We were debating the most racist state of ALL TIME, so here’s a question for the Blacks:

You’re gonna be instantly transported to another state & time in history. You don’t get to choose where you go but you can EXCLUDE 1 state from the possibilities

Which state do you exclude?

“Mississippi” took and early lead in the comments. As an old White guy reading I was annoyed by what Black people put up with everyday. But then noticed some comment from folk living in Mississippi, “Undaunted” isn’t quite the right work because it suggest folks are unagraid. Fear is is a good reason Missisippi tops the responses. But in spite of it all peoplelive creatively there. I thought of Makani Themba and Cooperation Jackson.

There are some really hard places to be in. Yet in hard places there are people who do good work and have much to show us all about what can be.

#geography #mississippi #racism #creat something good #cooperation jackson

Robert E. Lee wore a puzzled look as he examined the officer’s dark features, then recovered enough to extend his hand and remark, “I am glad to see one real American here.” On that April 9 afternoon, 150 years ago, at the McLean House in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Lee was greeting Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian who was serving as General Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary. Parker replied with dignity, “We are all Americans.”

Mariam Touba at New York History. “We Are All Americans:” Grant, Lee, and Ely Parker at Appomattox Court House

#surrender at appomattox #this day in history #ely parker #history #racism

Mississippi Legislature Passes Bill Creating Unelected Court in Jackson

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

On Friday, March 31, the Mississippi Legislature passed a controversial bill that would create a separate, unelected court over parts of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital. House Bill 1020 would allow court personnel, including judges and prosecuting attorneys, to be appointed by white, statewide officials even though Black Mississippians make up more than 80% of Jackson’s population.

#law #racism #mississippi

We already know that … [most] children being hurt are the Black children,” Teasley added. “Shining a light on this [shows] what’s being done to Black people in real time. That leads to mass incarceration and everything that comes with it: generational trauma, the school-to-prison pipeline.

Courtney Teasley quoted in an article by Edwin Rios in The Guardian. Police stopped a Black couple in Tennessee – and took their children

Bianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams’ case fits pattern of child welfare services fueling disparities in who gets to remain a family

#families #law #racism

The origins of the U.S. child welfare system lie in the forcible separation of enslaved families, the control of emancipated Black children as apprentices to former white enslavers, the mass removal of Indigenous children to be placed in boarding schools as an instrument of tribal genocide, and the shipping of European immigrant children on orphan trains to work on distant farms.

Dorothy Roberts in The Regulatory Review. The Regulation of Black Families

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

An interview with Roberts at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

#families #policing #book #racism #abolition #white supremacy

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