Www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistakes.pdf. White Face, Black Lineage. So What? « PostBourgie. Today a story popped up in my newsfeed: “A White Face With A Forgotten African Family.” The link leads to an interview with Joe Mozingo , a “blond-haired and blue-eyed” Californian who found out he is descended from Edward Mozingo, a black, indentured servant who gained his freedom in seventeenth-century Virginia. Joe Mozingo’s journey to trace his ancestry was first chronicled in the LA Times a couple of years ago, and has since been released as a book. I haven’t read the book, and I’m not interested in trying to figure out its relative merits as a work of art, genealogy, or anything of the sort.
Nor do I want to neglect the one or two aspects of the aforementioned article that I think can be potentially illuminating. Take, for example, the following quote: LYDEN: You stumble across many people with the name Mozingo in this book. This, I think, offers insight into how deeply intertwined people’s conceptions of whiteness are with the notion of a white (ahistorical) lineage. Porn Stars of Color Face Racial Inequality and Wage Gap Too. Www.smi.uib.no/seminars/Pensum/Abu-Lughod.pdf. Why are NYPD murders on the rise? Some 15,000 people filled Fifth Avenue for the silent march against the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy (Adriano Contreras) IT WAS 5 a.m. on October 4, and 22-year old Noel Polanco was driving himself, a co-worker and a friend home from his job at a nightclub in Queens when he was pulled over on a highway median by an unmarked vehicle. It turned out that Noel had cut off a police car belonging to the Emergency Services Unit, a division of the New York Police Department tasked with responding in "high-crime areas.
" Officers approached the car with rifles out, shouting at the driver to put his hands up. Within seconds, Officer Hassan Hamdy had fired one round through the open passenger window at the driver, killing Polanco, a U.S. "There was no time to put your hands up at all," front-seat passenger Diane DeFerrari told the New York Post. As DeFerrari told the New York Times, "This is all a case of road rage on behalf of the NYPD--that's all this is. " According to another Times article: The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole. America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin | Race on GOOD.
America Is Dying Slowly. That title graced a 1996 hip-hop compilation devoted to AIDS awareness (check the acronym) and the precarious survival of young black men in this country more generally. I bought that album when it came out, partly for conscience, partly for youthful self-righteousness, but mostly for love of the music it contained. In the 15 years since I’ve listened to hip-hop obsessively and loved it fiercely, protectively, and sometimes irrationally, all the ways that people are supposed to love things. I turned 17 in 1996, the same age Trayvon Martin was when he was killed a little more than a month ago. By all indications he loved rap music too, and maybe that’s all he and I ever had in common because I never got shot for it and never dreamed I would, and the reason why is visible in the photo to your left. Rap music doesn’t get unarmed kids shot to death, “it’s different” does. Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation « escalating identity.
By CROATOAN, April 2012 Contents Synopsis I. Identity-Based Organizing II. III. IV. V. The other civil rights movement. This pamphlet was written collaboratively by a group of people of color, women, and queers – and is offered in deep solidarity with anyone committed to ending identity-based oppression and exploitation materially. The fact that we must specify our identities in advance before making our argument is an index of how powerful, widespread, and largely unquestioned is the premise that arguments always reduce to identity positions.
According to the dominant discourse of “white privilege” for example, white supremacy is primarily a psychological attitude which individuals can simply choose to renounce instead of an entrenched material infrastructure which reproduces race at key sites across society – from racially segmented labor markets to the militarization of the border. This politics assumes that demographic categories are coherent, homogeneous “communities” or “cultures.” Being White,Being Good: White Complicity,White Moral Responsibility,and Social Justice Pedagogy: Barbara Applebaum: Amazon.com. Iraqi-American is imprisoned by US for saving his family from US sanctions | Glenn Greenwald. I'm currently traveling around the US on a speaking tour, and as I've written before, one of the prime benefits of doing that is being able to meet people and their families whose lives have been severely harmed by the post-9/11 assault on basic liberties.
Doing that prevents one from regarding these injustices as abstractions, and ensures that the very real human costs from these government abuses remain vivid. Such is the case with the treatment of Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, an Iraqi-American nuclear engineer who just began a three-year prison sentence at the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas penitentiary for the "crime" of sending sustenance money to his impoverished, sick, and suffering relatives in Iraq - including his blind mother - during the years when US sanctions (which is what caused his family's suffering) barred the sending of any money to Iraq.
The sanctions regime decimated Hamoodi's family. But in 2002 and 2003, Hamoodi was not just a nuclear engineer. Amanda Reiman: 75 Years of Racial Control: Happy Birthday Marijuana Prohibition. "There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. "- Harry Anslinger, first Drug Czar. As we approach the 75th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in the United States on October 1, it is important to remember why marijuana was deemed illicit in the first place, and why we as Americans must open our eyes to the insidious strategy behind 75 years of failed policy and ruined lives.
Fast forward to 2012. The strategy of using marijuana laws to stop, detain and imprison poor and minority populations must stop NOW. We can stop this from happening. Oregon, Colorado and Washington are all considering a more sensible and humane approach to marijuana as all three have tax and regulate initiatives on their ballots this November. The Everyday Language of White Racism (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture): Jane H. Hill: 9781405184533: Amazon.com. Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks. MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election.
Both whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the last 60 years, according to the study. However, whites believe that anti-white racism has increased and is now a bigger problem than anti-black racism. Sommers and co-author Michael I. Norton of Harvard asked a nation-wide sample of 208 blacks and 209 whites to indicate the extent to which they felt blacks and whites were the targets of discrimination in each decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. A scale of 1 to 10 was used, with 1 being "not at all" and 10 being "very much. " Abraham Lincoln’s Racism in Context: Reflections on His Era and Ours. Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday was last Thursday. He and Darwin were born on the same day, an interesting coincidence. Lincoln was just voted recently by historians as the number one U.S. president of all time.
Presumably this is because he presided over the country during the difficult Civil War, and much action he took during that era deservedly gets this high level of praise. photo credit: Tony the Misfit Yet, virtually none of the current discussions of Lincoln –in this hagiographic mood the country is in–seriously focuses on Lincoln’s extensive racist framing of U.S. society and what that has meant, then as now. Lincoln was a willing servant of that foundational racism. I am not nor ever have been in favor of the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the free negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office or having them to marry with white people….
What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? by Jared Diamond. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Crown, 529 pp., $30.00 The fence that divides the city of Nogales is part of a natural experiment in organizing human societies. North of the fence lies the American city of Nogales, Arizona; south of it lies the Mexican city of Nogales, Sonora. On the American side, average income and life expectancy are higher, crime and corruption are lower, health and roads are better, and elections are more democratic. Yet the geographic environment is identical on both sides of the fence, and the ethnic makeup of the human population is similar. Different economists have different views about the relative importance of the conditions and factors that make countries richer or poorer. There is no doubt that good institutions are important in determining a country’s wealth. An example, mentioned in Chapter 12, is the diamond boom in Sierra Leone, which contributed to that nation’s impoverishment.
Racism, History and Lies. Queens of Sex-Radicalism Rap.