Of course I know this one! Good ol middle school days! When wearing a band aid on your face was cool! Where is Nelly these days!?
Aww Twins Inc! So I assume you’re black and filipino as well? Btw why the anonymity? Like 2pac said “only God can judge me..” or you for that matter…
Among young black men in America, about 10 percent are currently incarcerated. It’s shocking, but we’ve almost grown used to it.
But while those young men are in prison, what’s happening to their wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters?
Eviction. A new study coming out of Milwaukee shows that eviction is for black women what incarceration is for black men. One in 20 households there are evicted every year. In predominately black communities, that rate doubles to 1 in 10 families.
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(via lucidstrike)“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
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I tell my students this every single semester.
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doubly relevant today
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Kiera Wilmot is a 16-year-old Black female high school student in Florida who is facing the permanent destruction of her young life because of intellectual curiosity. A Black girl with a curious mind and an inclination towards science—in a country that places 25th in math, …
Hummm how’d you know that’s one of my favorite 2pac verses?
Thomas Hall [ex-slave]
“Under congressional policy approved by Lincoln, the property confiscated during the war under the Confiscation Act of July 1862 would revert to the heirs of the Confederate owners. Dr. John Rock, a black physician in Boston, spoke at a meeting: “Why talk about compensating masters? Compensate them for what? What do you owe them? What does the slave owe them? What does society owe them? Compensate the master? … It is the slave who ought to be compensated. The property of the South is by right the property of the slave… .”“
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Day 5 Of White History Month: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 - 1865), and is well known as the “Great Emancipator” and is held by many to be one of the best presidents of all time.
While Lincoln is held to be a “moral visionary”, this was simply not true. Lincoln’s defenders state that he was still better than his contemporaries, but this too is untrue. As mentioned on Day 1 of White History Month, Lincoln had contemporaries such as John Brown who far exceeded him in moral worth.
Abraham Lincoln was as much a white supremacist as the average white man in the 19th century. None of his actions had a visionary moral basis, nor was he guided by a desire for social equality. His views were used by Southern congressmen in the 1960s to rail against the civil rights movement, and are even used today in white supremacist literature.
Abraham Lincoln was not in favor of racial equality and believed that Black people were inferior to white people. He was a fan of minstrel shows that popularized harmful, insidious anti-Black stereotypes that held that Black people were inferior.
Although he is nicknamed the Great Emancipator, he was in support of a globalized system of slavery. Lincoln was in support of the Corwin Amendment - which was passed by the 36th Congress - that would have made slavery a permanent institution of the United States. He wanted to ship Black Americans to Africa when they were freed, and alternatively supported segregation as a solution to the “Negro problem”. In his time as president, he also ordered the largest mass hanging in US history of Dakota Indians in 1862.
Abraham Lincoln was just as much a white supremacist as his contemporaries, and although he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he was no anti-racist nor an abolitionist hero.
Abe Lincoln was a white supremacist.
Abe Lincoln also did a lot of very good things for black people in this country, and it’s very likely that if he survived, reconstruction would have been handled better, and the rights of black people would have been less impinged in the following 150 (and continuing) years. As well, the South would likely have been less racist, economically disadvantaged, and probably a better all around place to live.
People are complicated. Abe Lincoln was no saint. His importance must not be underestimated either. Much like FDR, he did a lot of great things, but had a lot of glaring issues.
(Also I blame our top-notch and totally not-racist-at-all education system in this country for the fact that Abe Lincoln’s racism seems to be news to people.)
Uhhh…no.
No shit “people are complicated”, we’re not in kindergarten here. What makes you think that white supremacists need defending? when they have an entire system glorifying and defending them?
Also, you’re dead ass wrong considering that Abraham Lincoln thought Black people were inferior and was a pretty virulent anti-Black racist even for his time. He supported
1) sending Black people back to Africa upon manumission
OR
2) Jim Crow laws and strict segregation, which, you know, ended up happening anyway
You can’t posit that some better situation would have happened had he not died, because you’re clearly relying upon your clearly positive views of him. He was a white supremacist. Not good for his time. Not progressive. Not anti-racist. Not morally opposed to slavery. Not concerned for the plight of Black Americans.
You’re just. So wrong.
I am pretty sure he was morally opposed to slavery, but I didn’t deny anything else of that. Because I agree with all those points. Much of the cause of the Jim Crow laws was because of how reconstruction was (mis)handled. Abraham Lincoln had a clear plan of how to proceed with reconstruction. In the end reconstruction was overtaken by corporate interests, continuing the economic downfall of the South, already suffering. This helped along a grudge against the North that continues to this day, and continued the trend of the South being far more reactionary politically.
So no, I wasn’t talking about any of Lincoln’s policies directly.
I never said he was good for his time because he wasn’t.
I never said he was anti-racist because he wasn’t.
I’m saying the response to a system that consistently glorifies people without arguing sanely about their bad points is not a system that does the opposite.
See, here’s where you’re wrong -
“I am pretty sure he was morally opposed to slavery,”
Since you apparently don’t want to actually read about him, I’ll do it for you.
“Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, said of the Corwin Amendment:
I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service….[H]olding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”
If he had survived, what makes you think he would have made things better AT ALL???
I honestly want to know how you can say that when Abe said himself that he has no objection to not interfering with a state’s “rights” to enslave black people??
I’m pretty sure the man that took the power of the presidency to it’s limit (and then some) with freeing the slaves as one of his big pushes was not a white supremacist.
Why does this website even argue things like this lol
You don’t think it’s white supremacist to say the government shouldn’t interfere with a states right to enslave black people??
But…how??
This website argues things like this because the school system is so white washed that it tricks people like me and you into thinking that just because he did some good things for black people that it means he was totally not racist.
The entire system has us believing people can say and do racist shit and as long as they aren’t ~actually~ raping and murdering PoC that it means they aren’t racist, whiteness upholding, white supremacist assholes.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c77d96bbf3f36f8883421801c6dd0504/tumblr_mixc5uRj3H1rls6a0o2_r1_250.jpg)
