If you care about human beings and their right to walk freely down the street without facing harm… if you care about human beings regardless of color, sex, pgp, or creed and their murderers running free…. if you think its wrong to hold someone else’s life as less than simply because he is black than sign the petition for Trayvon Martin. sign it because you are aware this world isn’t fair. you are aware that being a person of color in this world means that you may be shot and killed and your white murderer runs free. sign this because no parent should have to bury their child especially because of racism. Justice for Trayvon Martin.
Sign the petition, share the petition and call and email these people and tell them to release the 911 tapes and arrest Trayvon’s MURDERER
Bill Lee (Sanford chief of police) 407.688.5070 email: bill.lee@sanfordfl.gov
Jeff Triplett (Mayor of Sanford) 407.688.5001 Email: jeff.triplett@sanfordfl.gov
City Attorney for Sanford FL 407.322.2171 email: lgroot@stenstrom.com
A. Bryant Applegate (County Attorney) 407.665.7257
Email: ssharrer@seminolecountryfl.gov
I’m reblogging this even though I’m sure it will help because it might make some folks feel better to do something.
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and in his honor, the Black students’ union sent out an email summing up MLK’s life, politics and legacy, along with a reminder of what we students can do. The email was sent to the Black students’ union email…
I know, I was trying to be concise. I actually have quite a few posts in my archive relating specifically to the detrimental nature of the model minority myth.
And the college thing is so fucked up. Not to mention some past racist incidents in the city I live in that never got reported or talked about in the media because the people involved were Filipino.
Uggggh.
When will Asians finally be accepted as People of Color?
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and in his honor, the Black students’ union sent out an email summing up MLK’s life, politics and legacy, along with a reminder of what we students can do. The email was sent to the Black students’ union email listserv and the Latino students’ union listserv.
But not to the Asian students’ union listserv.
Why the resistance to including Asians as people
How to Be a Racial Justice Hero, on MLK Day and All Year Long
I have a few criticisms here and there about this, but it’s cute and ideal for the young at heart.
And props on including “knowing when NOT to speak” because many white “allies” just don’t seem to get that it’s not about them or their feelings/voices/etc.
Why There’s No Such Thing as “Reverse Racism”
In any discussion of racism and it’s alleged “Reverse,” it’s crucial to start with the definitions of prejudice and discrimination, to lay the foundation for understanding racism in context. There’s a reason these three terms exist, and a very good reason not to conflate them, as I’ll demonstrate below.
Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually everyone feels some sort of prejudice, whether it’s for an ethnic group, or for a religious group, or for a type of person like blondes or fat people or tall people. The important thing is they just don’t like them — in short, prejudice is a feeling, a belief. You can be prejudiced, but still be a fair person if you’re careful not to act on your irrational dislike.
Discrimination takes place the moment a person acts on prejudice. This describes those moments when one individual decides not to give another individual a job because of, say, their race or their religious orientation. Or even because of their looks (there’s a lot of hiring discrimination against “unattractive” women, for example). You can discriminate, individually, against any person or group, if you’re in a position of power over the person you want to discriminate against. White people can discriminate against black people, and black people can discriminate against white people if, for example, one is the interviewer and the other is the person being interviewed.
Racism, however, describes patterns of discrimination that are institutionalized as “normal” throughout an entire culture. It’s based on an ideological belief that one “race” is somehow better than another “race”. It’s not one person discriminating at this point, but a whole population operating in a social structure that actually makes it difficult for a person not to discriminate.
Blacks.
As we approach MLKJ day, I am struck by the difference between the blacks I read about from the past, and the blacks I see in everyday life. I am convinced that if Dr.King were alive today he would be disappointed by what he saw. In his day, blacks were driven and determined, eager to be educated and eager to be equal. Today we see the opposite; blacks content to remain ignorant and blame racism for it. I happen to agree with Herman Cain, when he said that nothing is keeping blacks down but themselves, and their culture of violence. Remember “The Help”? Yes, I know this is fiction, but it was based on real life. Aibileen and Minnie and the other maids were smart, loving, and most of all eager for equality. Not so now - today’s blacks are eager to blame whites for their non-equality. The Civil Rights Era was an era of hope and excitement for the potential the african-american race. The modern era has seen blacks become rude, ignorant, and impoverished.
Yes, I know that this doesn’t apply to all blacks - there are numerous exceptions, with our president being the most prominent. It does apply to the majority, though. Just think about our high school experience. What group is the loudest? The rudest? Who are the ones that hold back our test scores? Who populates our discipline office? What group most often gets into fights? Think about our IB class. Out of roughly 96 students, 6 are black. Just 6.
Rap music is an excellent example of black culture. Drugs, sex, crime, money, and alcohol are all widely covered topics. Women are objectified into sex machines, often described as only “bad bitch” or “ho”. And this is to supposed to exemplify “hood” life. Why? Why is so little effort put into getting out of this state of poverty?
The answer lies in a culture that focuses solely on money and the status and “swag” that it brings. And to them the quickest way to achieve that status is crime. And as long as black culture remains the same, blacks will never rise above the level of poverty and ignorance that smothers their potential.
Is this really what the amazing men and women of the civil rights era worked so hard for? To me, modern african americans disgrace the memories of MLKJ and Malcolm X and Thurgood Marshall and Rosa Parks. And Aibileen.
You can go fuck yourself.
I honestly considered being “nice”, but then I realized you’re not so nice yourself so why should I bend over backwards to “educate” you on your stupidity?
And if you happen to be black? I don’t care. Go have brunch with Herman Cain, and then the both of you can go fuck yourselves.
(Source: creatureofgrief)
RaceMash
Basically a blog dealing with racial issues, mostly in America but with some posts about other countries as well. While there will be many posts dealing with the black/white binary, I also hope to shed much focus on race issues concerning First Peoples, Latinos, Middle Easterners, South Asians, East Asians, Southeast Asians, people who are bi or multiracial, and any other minority groups I may have forgotten to mention.
