Science has proved that “races” don’t exist in human beings.
But a mystery still goes on: the strange inclination for firearms to hit the young and black.
Both are wrong.
Take down capitalism should be at the same pace as the identity inclusions of race, sexism, sexuality, etc.
But the answer bothers me. Do feminists and anti-racists really think that there are TWO different revolutions? Do they think that the revolution against capitalism is “someone’s” revolution (this “someone” being a white, male, middle-class intelectual)?
Racism, feminism, LGBT, struggle against capitalism… they should all be the same historical proccess for true democracy: the government of the people (with inclusion of the minorities). To split them is to meagre our forces, for none of them will be successfull if we do not think them as one.
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In the internet, great part of members fights against racism, against opression over LGBT, against machism.
These, tho, are horizontal opressions: even members of dominant classes fight for these causes, because they are opressed as much. Everybody forgets, tho, the vertical opression: the CLASS STRUGGLE. We can erradicate racism and machism without touching the economical and political structures of society. We need to fight for the independence and autonomy of the poor people too. Economical justice and a State more political inclusive.
I think class struggle is more, much more deep than any of these other opressions (some call it “privileges”). We need to fight, yes, against all those horizontal opressions, AS MUCH as we fight for the working classes over the world. Proletariat, field workers, people without jobs, people that works at the bottom of the social stratification.
Equalty in the distribution of lands. Independent labor unions. A press made by citizenship, not parties or corporations influence. We need to fight against corruption, and to use the money for the PEOPLE.
That’s what I think.
And at this EXACT MOMENT, there is a worldwide racist manifestation against brazilians, translated in the twitter tag #BRASILNOBANANAFORYOU. That’s sad, very sad. And revolting.
FUCK IT if the motive is soccer or anything. That’s WRONG.
There has never been another large historical event that has it’s decedents be told to ‘get over’ than the ancestors’ of the enslavement of millions of Africans transported across the Atlantic.
There has never been such any formal set of reparations for the 300+ centuries of…
Shame is a hard feeling to swallow.
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On January 12, 2010, one day after his 18th birthday, CAPA High School honors student Jordan Trent Miles was ambushed by three plain clothes Pittsburgh police officers, who failed to identify themselves and approached him aggressively. The officers did not say “Stop! Police!”, they jumped out of an unmarked vehicle, one of them yelling “Where’s your money? Where’s the drugs? Where’s the gun?” Miles, never before in trouble with the police and thinking he was being robbed, began to run, and slipped on the icy sidewalk. The officers overtook Miles and administered a brutal beating that left him unrecognizable, ripping dreadlocks out of his head, and continuing to beat him as he lay on the ground after their initial assault, stammering the Lord’s Prayer. There can be no explaining away or excusing what was done to Miles.
The police officers lied about what happened, claiming there was a bulge in his pocket they assumed was a gun but “turned out to be a Mountain Dew bottle”. No bottle was ever entered into evidence, and Jordan and his friends will tell you he doesn’t even drink the soda. The officers also attempted to claim a neighbor reported him as a prowler and attempted to bring assault charges against Miles, which were tossed out of court when the neighbor said she did no such thing. Despite all this, the City of Pittsburgh went on to reward these violent officers with a commendation and, during their suspension, paid them more than they earned while working. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh DA has not brought charges and the Justice Department announced on May 4th, 2011 that it would not prosecute the three officers. The mayor and police chief announced on May 5th that the three officers would be returning to work.
“I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.”
this is exactly what i’m talking about.
look at the pathetic amount of notes on this. why can’t this get coverage? i don’t give a shit about another missing white girl.
Omg :-/
I think that happens MUCH MORE often than we think.
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gh2u:
I always reblog this as a matter of principle.
Very pertinent to today’s events. I’m thinking this material should be distributed amoung the protestors.
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When a person or group that used to be treated as special is suddenly treated equally, the reaction is to feel oppressed. From their perspective, the movement toward fairness seems unfair.
That’s why we have white people complaining about racism,
men complaining about sexism,
straight people complaining about having homosexuality “forced” onto them,
and Christians complaining about persecution.
The last picture was so appropriate I had to use it twice.
THIS
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“The Tea Party can go straight to Hell!” ~Maxine Walters