Similar to #Canada’s #ResidentialSchool system. The last residential school closed in 1996. (Grollier Hall, closed in 1997, wasn't state-run residential school.)
The U.S. Federal Indian boarding school system ran from 1819-1969 & included 408 federal schools.
The flags outside of #SCOTUS Justice Alito's homes are symbols that fuel white nationalism.
Throughout U.S. history, Americans have been warned that anti-Black #racism is deeply embedded in the fabric of our society and institutions... and has always been a threat to #democracy. Real progress will require racism to be confronted within Americans' minds, homes, and communities first, not just Washington D.C. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/24/alito-censure-flag-jan-6-democrats
[“The judge hates Donald [#Trump,” he said. “Just take a look. Take a look at him. Take a look at where he comes from.” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan emigrated from Colombia as a child. But this time there was little outcry from the inured populace, and if Republican leaders had any complaints about Trump’s textbook #racism (or on his third #Reich moment of this campaign) I must have missed them.]]
#Racists in #Canada are flipping out at #ParksCanada decision to tell ugly truth about #JohnAMacDonald & not #whitewash factual #history to appease white folks who think that cruel man was a hero. He was a #genocider of Indigenous & a huge #sexist jerk. People like that don't deserve respect after death. People who put evil people like that up on heroic pedestals suffer from #racism.
Just search Parks Canada & John A MacDonald & you'll see what I'm talking about. I'm not giving racists traffic.
The Palestinian genocide has exposed so many things. You may not care about it, but the issues arising from it in : #surveillance , #corruption, #lobbying, #internationallaw, #racism, etc. etc. will come to affect you— one way or another.
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
Remember Patrick Braxton? The absolute legend who got sick of his small Alabama town being run by a bunch of unelected racist anti-vaxxers? The guy who ran for mayor of Newbern, AL, and won, despite said unelected officials trying to give him the wrong information about running for office? The guy who was then subsequently locked out of the mayor's office by said racist anti-vaxxers and sued?
Well, he has had a minor setback: a federal judge refused to grant his and other plaintiffs' request for an immediate injunction forcing Haywood "Woody" Stokes III (the unelected, white mayor who inherited the mayoralty from a 60-year-long chain of unelected white men) to stop locking Braxton out of town hall and step down. She noted that the plaintiffs, by waiting over a year to file the suit, failed to show the urgency of the request. However, she also noted that his argument in the trial, set to begin this September, is likely to win out.
Rather than boosting a screenshot of a social media post of someone else talking about but not linking to an artist's work, I've looked up the artist and the work and am linking you to more details.
It is from Yale itself, so you should of course read it critically. But it has more detail and context that is important to Kaphar's transformative work.
Just in case folk need reminding of Eric Clapton's hugely racist rant in 1976 which he later on drink and drugs. An excuse he also used in 1999 when admitting he raped his then wife Pattie Boyd numerous times in the 70s too.
I censored the slurs but you can probably guess what they are.
"[Greg Abbott's nullification of a jury's convication of Daniel Perry for murder] was a gross injustice in a former Confederate state that reeked of the bad old days of Southern jury nullification, a modern update on the impunity with which white men lynched Emmett Till and then laughed at justice."
Whitney Mitchell, who was engaged to Foster before his death at the hands of Perry, laid out her feelings about the pardon in a statement sent to the Observer.
“I loved Garrett Foster. I thought we were going to grow old together. He was the love of my life. He still is. I am heartbroken by this lawlessness,“ she said. “With this pardon, the Governor has desecrated the life of a murdered Texan and US Air Force veteran, and impugned [the] jury’s just verdict. He has declared that Texans who hold political views that are different from his—and different from those in power—can be killed in this State with impunity.”
We rightly talk about anti-Semitism in relation to Israel/Palestine but we also let the hateful Islamophobia slide. This is from the Daily Telegraph in the UK. #racism
Very concerning: An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to US-Police Departments. A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by Israeli police & many settlements. There’s a documented history of US-Israel security tech exchanges, which civil rights & racial justice advocates have long criticized for contributing to the militarization of the police: #Surveillance#PoliceState#Racism#Droneshttps://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/