Tag: racism

rifa:

kimreesesdaughter:

kimreesesdaughter:

uncommonbish:

This is REALLY getting out of hand now.

I want White People to be charged when they call 9-1-1 with non emergencies, it is a federal crime. They trying to get us all killed. Been trying.

Here’s the surveillance footage

His uniform bag brushed up against her.

These types of accusations are the same reasons Emmett Till, Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin aren’t with us. So don’t think of this as minuscule. White America has to be stopped.

HEY there is a gofundme for this boy going right now if you wanna donate towards his education in the wake of this. Its being done on behalf of his family but the gofundme has been retweeted by Shaun King so I’m going to go ahead and trust it.

izanzanwin:

#CancelYandy Part 1: on the invisibilization and criminalization of Indigenous peoples

Sources:

cu-curu-gol:

tilthat:

TIL that 14 of the poorest African countries are forced by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank.They are effectively putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French treasury.

via reddit.com

For reference, their entire GDP is $2.465T, meaning more than 20% of France’s entire GDP is solely wealth gained from the labor of former colonial subjects who suffered horrific crimes against humanity while under their rule. And this is without taking into account other neocolonial policies that they have in place as well.

Harsha Walia (Vancouver) – “I got grabbed and detained by cops this morning…”

nathanialroyale:

anjalicyril:

allthecanadianpolitics:

“I got grabbed and detained by cops this morning, but then released (thanks to Samuel and Brenda for being there to de-escalate the cops and for sticking around) for apparently inciting a vehemently anti-refugee crowd.

I was on my way to work and saw tons of banners claiming Trudeau is responsible for the murder of Marissa Shen. For those who don’t know, Marissa Shen was a 13-year old girl who was murdered in Burnaby in 2017. Her murder was devastating, and particularly so in Burnaby (close to my extended family’s place) as it was in Central Park where so many families, especially immigrant families, congregate. A few months ago Ibrahim Ali was charged, and the media has been hyper-focused on the fact that he arrived to Canada as a church-sponsored refugee from Syria.

This has had huge ripple effects. Faith Goldy has been picking up on this. Laura Thompson, who is running to be school trustee as a white supremacist anti-SOGI candidate, was a previous similar rally. I am obviously not a fan of Trudeau, but he’s become the target for letting in ‘too many refugees’ by the fascist white supremacist right by people like Goldy and Thompson and Ibrahim’s migration background – which should not be relevant- is now part of their arsenal. This is part of a frightening global trend with escalating white supremacist rhetoric and policies against refugees esp Muslim refugees in Europe.

I walked by the rally and started talking to a group of people about why they were focused on the refugee process, and explaining how the refugee process is already too stringent, expressing my concern that this fixation on his refugee background has contributed to a strong overall anti-refugee climate (and i know this concretely because i have been talking to progressive churches about sanctuary for a family who are facing deportation and the churches are worried about the hostility and can’t take on sanctuary at this moment), and why weren’t we talking about violence against women and girls and vulnerability to violence as a priority instead.

The conversation is heated and I keep getting baited about ‘supporting murderers’ and my own personal background (am i a mom, a canadian, my ethnicity and religious background)

As soon as media cameras noticed the conversation, the whole rally surrounds me, I can’t physically leave, and they start yelling and baiting me with: (I probably dont have the order of everything right coz it was intense and all in all was around 20 mins or so)

“no bail for murderers’ ’ you support murderers’.”

I respond that I work and am connected to a community reeling from the grief of serial murderers.

“how do you know the pain of a mother, you probably aren’t a mother.”

Yes I am

“Are you a Muslim”

No I am Sikh, but so what if I was.

“Sikhs have created so many religious problems too”

Wow. That’s a fcked up thing to say.

I start to respond more fully to that one, but then loud chanting begins:

“We don’t want a refugee flood.” “More screening for refugees”

There isn’t a flood, Canada accepts less than 0.01 percent of the worlds’ refugees. And aren’t you here for some reason of your own? (the crowd is entirely Chinese folks).

“Are you a refugee? We are hard working Canadian citizens”

A guys spits on me and at me, so I can’t even respond to that one. I move back, the cops move in. Cops tell me I am obstructing, I start to debate with the cops about how that is even possible given that i am surrounded and its public space, then they tell me I am inciting a crowd – a crowd that is literally surrounding me and chanting over me about ‘Don’t support murderers. No bail. Screen refugees’.

More happened in between and the cops grab me, but I was tearing and close to crying at the end. Not from debate or confrontation – that is familiar though never comfortable – but because this is the brutal fucking reality of some immigrants with deeply conservative values that align with capitalism and white supremacy, of working with and supporting women dealing with daily endemic violence and to have a horrific murder of a young girl suddenly become about everything *except* violence against women and girls, of being forced to defend a government policy that is so abyssal to begin with, of not knowing if this one family – or any other family – will be able to get church sanctuary anytime soon because of this huge chill effect, of being overwhelmed by the number of people i know who are in detention right now facing deportation who have a right to be free.

At the end, one woman comes over to talk for bit, we have a decent conversation about the problematic anti-refugee rhetoric and how suddenly the conversation has pivoted to refugees when before he was charged there is some discussion about increased safety for women and girls in the area – which was a more relevant and necessary conversation. We hug and she gives me a flower and asks if I will attend her chinese womens book club that has been talking about this. I say yes and she gets my number. Samuel Holmes graciously encourages her to see the big picture too.

But the intensity and immensity has me shook and I feel even more frustrated at how deep multi racial, cross community, racial justice work and relations is sorely lacking in our city.“

–

Submitted by @theslightestwords.

everyone should read Harsha’s book on border imperialism 

You can find Undoing Border Imperialism Here 

Thanks, that is now added to my wishlist!

Harsha Walia (Vancouver) – “I got grabbed and detained by cops this morning…”

diversehighfantasy:

iusedtoknowwhatawishwasfor:

thetimesinbetween:

aaronexplainsitall:

And not only are they still alive, they’re STILL VOTING. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU NEED TO VOTE AGAINST. GO OUT AND VOTE.

segregation: not actually history! actually within living memory!

Yes! These dumb bitches voted trump in! These damn boomer idiots could care less about us because they’ll be dead in 20 years max. We need to take care of us and the next generations. Vote against these stupid racist broads.

It’s 100% not just Boomers. It’s Xers and Yers and Millennials, too. Even Gen Z is part of it. I saw a busload of teenage MAGAs at a rest stop over the summer.

Don’t keep thinking it’s only old people. That’s what we GenXers thought, and now our generation is just as bad. It’s a continuing cycle. The racists of the world are NOT going to die out in 10-20 years. That’s a fallacy that leads to complacency. Young people are part of the problem, too.

Meet Helen, 5, detained by Trump, forced to sign away her rights in court.

mostlysignssomeportents:

“On Helen’s form, which was filled out with assistance from
officials, there is a checked box next to a line that says, “I withdraw
my previous request for a Flores bond hearing.” Beneath that line, the
five-year-old signed her name in wobbly letters.”

What the Trump administration is doing to these thousands of children is morally repulsive. We have to stop it.

Here’s an excerpt from a New Yorker feature
on Helen, “a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl” seeking asylum from
Honduras. She ends up in court, separated from her parents. The
organization helping her is lupenet.org, and you should support their work.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/11/meet-helen-5-separated-and-d.html

A Fake Online Review Claimed Refugees “Slaughtered Goats” In A Hotel. This Newspaper Helped It Go Viral

latining:

allthecanadianpolitics:

For months, hundreds of asylum-seekers have been temporarily housed in Toronto hotels while waiting for permanent housing. A result of this unusual situation is that one of the hotels, the Radisson Hotel Toronto East, has been inundated with negative TripAdvisor reviews, some of which are fake. These often false claims have been shared widely on social media by far-right and anti-Muslim figures.

Now Trip Advisor has suspended commenting on the Radisson Hotel Toronto East’s page after a prominent Toronto newspaper columnist spread a completely false claim that asylum-seekers “slaughtered goats” in the hotel bathrooms.

The Oct. 3 offering from “investigative columnist” Sue-Ann Levy depicted the Radisson as a chaotic hellhole due to the presence of asylum-seekers. She wrote that the hotel’s halls were strewn with garbage, its walls were covered in graffiti, and guests were disturbed by the presence of refugees, whom she describes as “loitering” in the lobby despite their living in the building.

Levy did not quote anyone who stayed at the hotel, or hotel staff, and appears to have relied entirely on reviews found on “the reputable TripAdvisor website,” as she described it.

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This is the article that inspired a Canadian terrorist to try to burn down the hotel.

The Toronto Sun needs to be held accountable for spreading hateful propaganda. They rely on advertising to publish their hate speech, so boycott and business you see advertising in the paper and contact them to tell them that you’re doing so. No one should patronise any business that advertises in hate speech publications.

A Fake Online Review Claimed Refugees “Slaughtered Goats” In A Hotel. This Newspaper Helped It Go Viral

fandomshatepeopleofcolor:

eriknutinthispoosy:

spiritroots:

westafricanbaby:

afrosoka:

“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”

— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)

ALL OF THISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Let it be known that I am black and Jewish and I am reblogging this. You can’t compare atrocities or genocides or massacres, that’s not what Trevor is talking about.

It’s about the different layers and perspectives and histories. It’s about forgotten peoples and vague estimates and how some people try to say what’s the worst when what they are really saying is “these people matter the most.”

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Exactly.Like for example in India, they have the MILLIONS of people who were killed by the hands of white colonialists during the time they ruled india for 200 years. Rarely anyone bothered to keep record of everyone who died fighting for the freedom of their country aside from a few freedom fighter leaders because unlike hitler, British rulers didnt count whoever they killed and just saw the death of those people as a stepping stone in their glorious conquest to “tame the savage people” of colonized countries.Indian history is painted red with the millions of people who lost their lives while being tortured and shot down by the british rulers and thats the worst atrocity towards humans any indian will come up with if you ask them. In India,as Trevor said, “ Hitler is just another strongman from the history books.”

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Incoming CAQ Government To Keep Crucifix In Legislature While Demanding Civil Servants Lose Religious Symbols

gingerest-ale:

allthecanadianpolitics:

The incoming Coalition Avenir Quebec government is facing criticism for saying it has no intention of removing the crucifix from the legislature, even as it plans to crack down on some civil servants who wear religious symbols.

Simon Jolin-Barrette, a spokesman for the Coalition transition team, said Tuesday there is no contradiction between the new government’s plan to impose strict religious-neutrality rules on certain public servants and its desire to maintain the crucifix.

He said the crucifix, which has hung behind the Speaker’s chair since the 1930s, is part of Quebec’s heritage.

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Anyways fuck la caq.

This is nothing more than the government using laicism as an excuse for islamophobia. They claim to want our government to be truly without religious influence, but refuse to take down THE GIANT CATHOLIC SYMBOL IN OUR PARLEMENT.

Yeah. We have a catholic heritage here in Quebec. Yeah we demanded that there be clear separation of church and state.

But I’d ask Legault this: which seems to provide the closest link between our government and religion: teachers or any other civil servants wearing clothes that corresponds to their own personal religious belief or a huge religious symbol hanging over the head of our lawmakers?

And guess what: other religions are part of other cultures heritages. And when we welcome them here, they become part of our culture too. But it’s so much easier to be afraid of those who are different. It’s so much easier when it’s “us” against “them”. It’s so much easier when you can get all your purelaine friends to unite because you’ve told them they have a common enemy.

But when we’re taking decisions that determine the livelihoods of people, the inclusion of people and just basic human decency and open-mindedness, we can’t chose the easy way. Because the right decisions are never easy.

And by implementing regulations that hurt people of other religions but not christians, then you’re doing exactly what the church wants you to do. We can never truly be free from the church on a government level until we start taking action against the racism, sexism, colonialism and the fear of other religions that the church taught us.

So yeah. Fuck la caq. Fuck their islamophobia and fuck their bigotry. I’m québécoise, and I’ll stand against them. And I’m not alone. We as a people can do better and we have an obligation to do better. And I encourage anyone opposed to the caq to be loud and clear about it and let be known by all that we’re not just going to take this lying down.

Sorry for the rant, but I’m angry and dissspointed in my country, and in my people.

Incoming CAQ Government To Keep Crucifix In Legislature While Demanding Civil Servants Lose Religious Symbols