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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2020 14:21:49 GMT
The Fat Psychopathic Pathological Lying Clown in charge of the UK wants another report to state the same as all the other reports that the UK is an institutionally racist shit hole, & then do nothing about any of it.
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2020 19:46:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 12:02:08 GMT
Police Departments Are Parasites on the Public Purse AN INTERVIEW WITH STUART SCHRADER By aggressively pushing for higher budgets and salaries, police officers have insulated themselves from accountability while draining resources from essential public programs. It’s long past time to defund them. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/police-spending-austerity-defund-pandemic
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 17:37:07 GMT
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism BY HADAS THIER The well-intentioned drive among white progressives to “check their privilege” or “take responsibility” for their unconscious biases won’t do much to fight racism. But forging real solidarity through concrete campaigns, protests, and movements can. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/racism-george-floyd-racial-justice-protests-privilege
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 17:45:01 GMT
Defunding the Police: Replacing Guns With Prescription Pads Is Not the AnswerIt is likely that deep down, people know that the mental health system, particularly psychiatric hospitals, serve much the same function as the police and jails: social control. As stated by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, in her recent article "We don’t need cops to become social workers: We need peer support + community response networks," “Psychiatric institutions are, in fact, part of the carceral state. This means that they are part of the many systems that function to: contain people, take away their locus of control, offer surveillance, isolate them from their communities, and limit their freedom.” www.madinamerica.com/2020/06/defunding-police-prescription-pads-not-answer/
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 18:07:17 GMT
Idols must fall. We can’t address racism in the present without condemning Britain’s colonial past. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2020/06/17/idols-must-fall-we-cant-address-racism-in-the-present-without-condemning-britains-colonial-past/As the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement continues to make waves and hold racist power structures to account, the marketplace of ideas is thriving. People wanting to reduce racism to a debate and consider ‘both sides’ insist that while racism is bad, vandalising statues is arguably worse. The prime minister expressed his views (behind a paywall, of course) saying we can’t “photoshop” history by removing figures we don’t agree with from our public spaces. Launching into a defence of former PM Winston Churchill, Johnson gives an impassioned argument for why Churchill’s statue should remain standing in Parliament Square. Gaslighting But Johnson’s bad-faith arguments are as breathtaking as they are insulting. In fact, they probably amount to what could be described as gaslighting – an abuse tactic often employed by narcissists. This is because demanding the removal of statues of racist figures, including Churchill, is actually about not wanting to “photoshop” history. It’s about demanding that we acknowledge Britain’s racist colonial past, and the people it harmed. It’s about removing the label of ‘hero’ from someone like Churchill who is guilty of a number of heinous crimes against People of Colour, including, but not limited to, genocide.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 18:13:41 GMT
Why Do So Many Black Superheroes Have Electricity Powers? io9.gizmodo.com/why-do-so-many-black-superheroes-have-electricity-power-1795504279"Growing up as a kid who loved comic books, I spent many an afternoon running around the park pretending to be a superhero fighting all manners of evil. Fun as it was, the process of picking out which superhero I wanted to be always stressed me out for one particular reason that still bothers me to this day. Back then, it felt odd flipping through my mental Rolodex of characters and realizing that, if I wanted to play as a black hero, it was almost guaranteed that I’d be doing jazz hands to simulate zapping people with lightning. See, there are a lot of black comic book characters with electricity-based superpowers. A lot. Certainly, there are a number of differences between Storm, Black Lightning, (Black Lightning’s daughter) Lightning, Black Vulcan, Juice, Static, and Shango the Thunderer. But there’s also something about them all that feels derivative at best and stereotypical at worst, considering that the vast majority of the most popular black superhero characters were created by white men. (It’s worth pointing out that Black Vulcan was created by Hanna-Barbera for the Superfriends cartoon, which producers felt needed a black character even though Black Lightning already existed. It’s also worth pointing out Black Vulcan was created after Black Lightning’s creator Tony Isabella left DC over creative differences.) The earliest black superheroes like Black Panther and Luke Cage crossed the comic book color line with their technology and super strength, but over the years, electrokinesis has seemingly become to go-to power black characters are most often assigned. But why?"
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 18:20:23 GMT
"It’s oddly disconcerting nowadays to hear regular mentions of the phrase "systemic racism" from mainstream journalists who adamantly refuse to criticize (or even name) the system that U.S. racism is entrenched in. That system is "CAPITALISM." Published on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 byCommon Dreams Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism Let us name the system: "racial capitalism." byJeff Cohen www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/17/just-saying-systemic-racism-doesnt-expose-systemic-racism
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2020 19:05:10 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2020 11:55:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2020 17:42:43 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2020 19:40:30 GMT
Cuba Condemns US Systemic Racism at the UN Human Rights Council www.telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-condemns-us-systemic-racism-to-the-human-rights-council-20200618-0006.htmlThe Latin American country urged the United Nations to implement pro-equality strategies worldwide. Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva Wednesday denounced the systemic racism and police brutality prevailing in the United States before the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). “The reality is that racism and police violence against Black people and minorities are not exceptions or errors within that system. They are the system!” Pedroso said. The Cuban diplomat stressed George Floyd’s murder was not an isolated event, but a consequence of recurrent human rights violations. He also explained that Black communities face economic and social disparity due to centuries of systemic racism. “We hope that these unfortunate events will mark a turning point in the future in the fight against racism, discrimination and the abuse of Black people,” Pedroso stated.
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 15:13:32 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 15:14:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 15:16:26 GMT
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