and to the generations they’ve raised and conditioned to see the lifestyle of the pre-civil war south as a bucolic paradise of loving masters and their happy nd respectful servants. replacing the words we use to describe the features of our own slaveholding society does not, cannot fix the past but it can name the things for what they were. that list of words isn’t a final writ, or at least it isn’t to me but it’s not a bad starting point and if some of the choices that writer made aren’t suitable than we can find other ways to name the things that were.
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Sorry, I counted them amongst the monsters.
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and i’m sorry to say that until i was 13 or 14 i could have been counted among the conditioned. in 5th grade i believed my textbooks when they told me that most slaves loved their enslavers and the movie song of the south made perfect sense whether you took it as being set before or after the war.
by 8th grade history i thought the way my textbook talked about slavery was absolutely crazy. i wanted my teacher to explain to me how anybody could love and respect the very people who had put them in chains. i was lucky in that my history teacher that year told me if i wanted to know more i should read the autobiography of frederick douglass which told me a lot indeed.
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Bigotry and hate are taught; you resisted the programming, and you now dedicate your life to teaching others better.
Good on you for that.
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Personally, the only thing in that which I find at all open to criticism is that it could be reasonably argued that he was overly generous to Clinton.
So, asking rhetorically: why was Obama forced to disavow this church? Reminder that it wasn’t just the GOP that joined in the condemnation of Reverend Wright.
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i can answer rhetorical questions! two words–
white fragility.
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According to a member of the grand jury “the 12-member panel was presented only with possible charges for Detective Brett Hankison.” They were not given the option to charge either of the officers that shot Breonna Taylor. The attorney general’s office says “no charges could be recommended for those two officers because the investigation had concluded that their use of force was justified.”
In other words, they freely admit the grand jury was a sham purely for public display and the AG had already decided that the officers would not be charged with anything for her murder
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While the protesters march, police continue business as usual:
Jaywalking. “Outreach”.
I’m not posting every one of these sorts of things; it’s too demoralising.
Just assume that it’s always:
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Speaking of business as usual, Michael Harriot was in rare form with his latest lesson on history, white supremacy, and current events:
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“Each perpetrator will be dealt with appropriately,” Gordon promised.
Unless dealt with appropriately means each and every perpetrator is expelled then SFA President Scott Gordon is full of horseshit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMYxrshTMX/?igshid=kiclx5gm2pr4
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Reminded me of this case a couple of years ago:
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People racist at emory! NO! /s
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The budding Karen who called the cops on her classmate for EWB is a real piece of work.
The rest of her twitter timeline is basically more of the same. 
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is there any mechanism for complaining to gofundme about this racist asshole trying to raise money to enable her racist bullshit?
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Doesn’t look promising.
The following are examples of situations that are not considered fraudulent on our platform:
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Disagreeing with the nature of the fundraiser or the character of the GoFundme organizer
I take that to mean GoFundMe are probably fine with scum raising money for their legal harassment. 
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so in other words “being a racist asshole and trying to raise money to pursue more assholery” is no reason to stop their fundraiser?
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It gets worse…
“I absolutely don’t condone calling the police on a peaceful, law-abiding person of color, especially not because their mere presence makes a white person feel threatened. Sarah is a personal acquaintance and a friend of mine, but what she did in this situation was a grievous moral error, and I’m not defending it. What makes it worse is that, according to the Yale Daily News story and Siyonbola’s account, this isn’t the first confrontation of this kind that she’s instigated.
Humanist, another site that has hosted content from Braasch issued a statement as well, but it also removed Braasch’s blog post where she defended pro-slavery stances and showed support for banning burqas.
The post in question was from 2010, but Humanist contends that it was just brought to their attention that it contains “racially offensive argumentation.”
The entire Humanist statement:
“We have removed the article “Lift the Veil, See the Light” by Sarah Braasch (published in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of the Humanist magazine) from our website after it was brought to our attention that it contains racially offensive argumentation. The article was part of a point-counterpoint on the topic of laws barring Muslim women in France from wearing face-covering veils. In the article in question, which argues for the ban, the author equates the small number of slaves who wanted to remain with their owners after emancipation (an idea that is itself still a justification for racism in some circles) with women who choose to be “slaves” in abusive, misogynistic, or otherwise patriarchal religious traditions.
“She makes this analogy–which we have judged to be inaccurate and racially offensive–to argue that if human beings are forced or conditioned to accept indignity, suffering, and an inferior position in society then that society has an obligation to make laws to correct that. While the author’s final point is one some humanists might champion, the analogy to American slavery is definitely not.
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https://twitter.com/glasgow_sugar/status/1311410662548140033?s=21
Again: capitalism, imperialism and racism are all aspects of the same thing. There is a direct causative relationship between the modern white-dominated world and the expropriation, enslavement and genocide of the Global South.
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