#White#Americans: As we near May 5 & a holiday massively co-opted by the #US, many of you/us should reconsider that sombrero & learn the history of #CincodeMayo. It celebrates an epic battle w/the French won against all odds & was revived by activists from the 1960s/70s #Chicano Movement because they viewed their struggle against the systemic #racism they faced in the #UnitedStates in the same light.
Perhaps we should also divest from universities and start reimagining how we obtain/share knowledge.
“Cambridge’s Emmanuel College has severed ties with a philosophy fellow after his remarks on race and meritocracy sparked controversy. Nathan Cofnas faced backlash for suggesting that in a merit-based system, #BlackRepresentation would be limited outside of sports and entertainment.” #racism#BlackMastodon
According to #Trump, #racism is a big problem in America. But not racism against black Americans and other PoC. No, the true victims of racism are white conservatives. If only they could get together and build a society that privileges them over everyone else. One can dream. 🙄
First Hassan, now Klippenstein. Real bummer to see a new wave of leftists not merely sticking by Substack, but hitching their wagons to it from the start.
so weird how our officials jump to silence the supposed bigotry for Israel but when we complain about systemic racism, they tell us it's protected speech
"A former athletic director of a Baltimore-area high school was arrested Thursday morning and charged with using artificial intelligence to fake antisemitic and racist comments supposedly made by the school’s principal."
#Community groups have previously raised #awareness around the fact not all people feel comfortable or safe reporting hate to #police, which police acknowledge in the report.
“White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II . . . What white Americans have never fully understood--but what the Black can never forget, is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it."
The situation itself, that a white man who hailed himself a great ally was privately a bigoted racist, is not a surprise. That happens a lot. But it’s repugnant when someone thinks their publicly-exposed “private” comments exonerate them from their wrong doing.
“Unfortunately…comments which I never intended to share publicly have come to light.”
But you said them. That’s who you are. Publicly or privately.
I understand it's easy to blame Hamas and the Palestinian resistance for Israel's disproportionate and genocidal response, but the second Nakba was long coming.