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september 2023
"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
MAYA ANGELOU
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
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"To mute the slave has always been to the best interests of the
slave owner ... When a Black voice is raised in protest to oppression, those who are comfortable with our oppression are the first to criticize us for daring to speak out against it."
Harry Belafonte
in a country built on genocide and slavery, the denial or civil and human rights is common
Susan Opotow asserts that:
Moral exclusion occurs when individuals or groups are perceived as outside the boundary in which moral values, rules, and considerations of fairness apply. Those who are morally excluded are perceived as nonentities, expendable, or undeserving. Consequently, harming or exploiting them appears to be appropriate, acceptable, or just.
*RECOMMENDED READING: THE RACIST ORIGINS OF THE 'PRO-LIFE' ABORTION MOVEMENT THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT
DURING MUCH OF THE 19TH CENTURY, ABORTION WAS UNREGULATED AND BUSINESS WAS BOOMING.
*RECOMMENDED READING: THE REAL ORIGINS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
THEY’LL TELL YOU IT WAS ABORTION. SORRY, THE HISTORICAL RECORD’S CLEAR: IT WAS SEGREGATION.
Richard Wolff: A capitalism that perpetuates itself via racism incurs huge self-protection costs: to police and imprison or to provide some safety nets for its shock absorber "races" or varying combinations of both. When capitalists shift some or all of those costs onto the tax obligations of workers, more social tensions emerge. Workers are then told their tax payments must compensate for the "deficiencies" attributed to the shock absorber "races" rather than to the structural irrationalities of capitalism. Racial conflicts then preclude or tear apart working-class political unity. Racism persists in no small part because its benefits to capitalism outweigh its costs, or at least those costs capitalists have to bear.
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so why do over 50% of white women voters vote republican???
55 percent of white women voted for Trump. And while that number could change in the coming months, it’s clear that seemingly no discriminatory policies or hateful speech will stop these voters from supporting Trump, or the next candidate just like him.
Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America
“This has strong implications if we’re looking at racial and ethnic differences in the accumulation of wealth,” Darity observes. “This can be tied to — especially if we’re thinking about black/white differences — the long-term consequences of enslavement; the Jim Crow period; and social policies that created wealth for whites but didn’t do so for blacks, like the GI Bill and the subsidization of the purchases of homes with public funds which is disproportionately made available to whites.” (Black veterans had limited choices of colleges and often could not take advantage of the GI housing provisions.)
William Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
NOT ME!!!
Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages and make no resistance, either moral or physical.”
headlines: highlighting the struggle
cartoons(at the end)
food for thought
kpete - DEMO UNDERGROUND
rights funnies
Whose Turn?
Khalil Bendib = other words.com
