Supermajorities denying those who disagree with them the right even to debate ideas in a legislature, first in Tennessee, now in Montana — while openly attacking their identities and using “insurrection” to describe any form of protest is wrong, undemocratic, and unconstitutional.
@TonyStark How did today's "Republicans" accomplish these "supermajorities"?
Everyone needs to be aware that it were true Republicans, who introduced & passed the Fifteenth Amendment, the 1st of 3 Reconstruction Amendments, & that it's today's so-called "Republicans", who are constantly & intentionally violating it, to sabotage the will of the majority of American voters.
What does the 15th Amendment mandate?
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Whenever America’s paranoid White nationalists start spouting their “great replacement” bullshit, remind them that it’s the nation’s White immigrants and their descendants who — throughout our nation’s history — fought feverishly to relocate this country’s indigenous peoples: Native Americans. Those who resisted were murdered.
This evening I made the mistake of eating my tea while watching the #C4News piece on a group of England's chinless wonders apologising for their slave-owning ancestors. It made me want to puke.
The aristocrats, who say they want to stimulate a conversation, call for the state to make reparations. To whom?
These parasites should have their assets confiscated and titles liquidated, and be hunted for sport by the oppressed of all colours.
"While the South lost the Civil War technically, White Southerners did not in fact lose the war substantively. After all, Jim Crow, convict labor, and lynching happened with near total impunity, and African Americans experienced decades of pernicious neglect from the federal courts and government."
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Whether it's #Morrissey, #PhilipLarkin or #MattHealy the amount white people will bend over backwards to forgive their favourite racists is extraordinary.
"Labour suspends Diane Abbott in attempt to stifle fresh antisemitism row. MP loses party whip after writing letter suggesting Jewish, Irish, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people had not experienced racism"
This after the Corbyn years and 'that' mural. Have the left in Labour learnt nothing?
Stating Jews do not experience full-fat #racism thanks to being white is basically political poison after 6 million were murdered by the #nazis in the 1940s.....
#DianeAbbott referenced slavery in support of her view - which ended over 100 years before the liberation of #Belsen
She deserves suspension - a truly stupid thing for her to send that letter - what was she thinking?
A publishing house wanted an author to cut its reference to #racism in her #book re. a love story set in a World War II incarceration camp for #JapaneseAmericans
The author wrote Publishers "want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. ... Our voices are the first sacrifice at the altar of marketability".
@KatLS While #Atlanta is one of the very few cities in the country with a true, thriving, #Black middle-class, #racism is still a fixture & since anti-#trans movements have gained a foothold in America, #LGBTQ friendly doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Black trans #women are killed at DISPROPORTIONATELY higher rates than any other group. It remains extremely dangerous for these women just to try to exist amongst the rest of us. #TransRightsAreHumanRights#BLM#BlackMastodon
“If the pardon happens, I am concerned that people who agree with the pardon and with what Perry has done will end up following him thinking they’ll get a pardon too.”
After everything we've seen this calendar year alone, it's clear the two parties stand for almost the exact opposite -- one for a better future and the other for a return to a restrictive, Jim Crow past.
In Oklahoma, a sheriff was caught discussing ways to murder journalists and lynch black people. If anyone tells you that fascism isn't alive in America, they need to wake up. Because it's here... and it's spreading.
Be vary wary of anyone labeling multi-racial anarchist/anti-fascist blocs as "white anarchists," especially if they are doing so to discourage direct action against our enemies. This is a form of white washing to silences and removes the agency of non-white comrades.
FYI - Here are 21 pages of racist text messages and death threats sent by Antioch, California cops including the Antioch police union president, about Antioch’s Black mayor Lamar Thorpe and other people in general. Antioch is 45 miles east of San Francisco. https://bit.ly/3GMqYXg
Had Anita Hill been a White woman, Clarence Thomas never would’ve made it to the SCOTUS.
Had Obama been a White man, the Affordable Care Act would’ve been a fait accompli instead of the years-long, knock-down, drag-out affair that racist GOP sociopaths — excuse the redundancy — made of the bill’s path to approval.
Had Trump been a Black man, given his history as a career criminal, he’d have been impeached, removed from office, arrested, tried, and imprisoned years ago. #ClarenceThomas#racism
The Republican Party has no choice but to cheat. They can no longer win elections. The count of decent voters in the U.S. outnumbers the the lowlifes. Were it not for the bullshit Electoral College and gerrymandering, the party would’ve met its demise decades ago. It’s official: the GOP is a party of moral decay and human rot. #GOP#MAGA#racism#bigotry#misogyny#LGBTQIAphobia#nativism#xenophobia#WhiteNationalism
@Erik
I'm from a Scandinavian country, with of our own issues of course, but this is for us beyond comprehensible.
Very confusing to observe the Free country of USA, then read the history, and especially this.
When looking at documentaries about the civil right issues "over there", it almost feels like a third world country in some way.
I apologize if I insult some of my very dear friends from USA.
This is something we never understood in Europe, despite all our wars.