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A day-long conversation about the politics of race and identity representation in comics at Northeastern University Afrofuturism and the Black Imagination Pa...
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It looks like a movie bomb to me," police said about the electronic clock Ahmed Mohamed had brought to school to show his teacher.
This 9th grade Muslim boy, Ahmed Mohamed from Sudan, was arrested for being smarter than his idiot racist teachers.
He explained to them all that it was a clock, explained to the principle and police that it was a clock, but they insisted that “it looks like a movie bomb”.
This freaking 14 year old was escorted out in the middle of his class by freaking cops, and then out of his school in fucking HANDCUFFS
One source stated that, upon walking into the room he was interrogated in at his school, an officer remarked “yeah, I thought it’d be him”.
Like I am furious beyond words. He was arrested, led out of school in cuffs, pulled out of class by police officers, and SUSPENDED FROM HIS HIGH SCHOOL ON TOP OF THAT
This entire ordeal is traumatizing, and his entire high school life is going to be miserable for it. Nobody will ever let him forget it, and he has a record now.
If he was white, he would’ve been praised for his brilliance in being able to construct a clock on his own, but instead, this brown Muslim boy is thrown out in cuffs.
I hope his family sues the school and police department for every fucking penny
Kamilah Brock spent 8 days in a NY mental health facility because she owned a BMW
Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned. To add insult to injury, Brock was then charged a hefty sum by the hospital.
Every single doctor and nurse involved should lose their licenses, that hospital should be sanctioned, and every officer involved should be FIRED AND JAILED FOR KIDNAPPING
Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parent
…”“My file is peppered with references to my colour,” she says. “The racism was relentless and brutalising. My formative years were devastated by it.”
Adaser is one of about 70 mixed-race people who have come together in the past few years as Mixed Race Irish, a campaign and support group. They believe they were taken into care because they were mixed race, that there was a different unspoken “policy” for them and that they suffered an “extra layer of abuse” because of their racial identity. They say racism was endemic, systemic and systematic, in the care system and in Irish society, and that their experiences were particular to them…
Adaser, who now lives in London, was born in 1956 to a white Irish mother, who was a telephonist at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, and a black Ghanaian father, who was a doctor there. Her mother had to leave the city to have her, such was the shame of being unmarried and pregnant – particularly by a black man.
Her mother did not bring her back to Dublin but placed her in St Clare’s Convent in Stamullen, Co Meath, and it was from there, aged 18 months, that she was transferred to Dublin, to St Patrick’s mother-and-baby home, on Navan Road.
Like other mixed-race Irish children in the mother-and-baby homes, she was never offered for adoption. She believes this was policy, based on a presumption that nobody would want to adopt a mixed-race baby. Instead she was fostered, or boarded out. “When I was four I was sent to a couple in their 60s. No, they weren’t vetted. They were invited to select a child. People were paid by the State to take in children. This couple had no pension, and I was an income source…
When she was six she was transferred to St Joseph’s industrial school in Kilkenny, where she says she suffered extreme day-to-day abuse because of her skin colour. “When I arrived they must have all been told a black girl was coming, because every girl was out gawping at me as I walked up to the front door.
“I lived in a state of pure terror,” she says, “and each night I wondered if I would survive the racist brutality of the institution the next day.”
Nuns told her that “no man will ever want you, because you’re black”; a career counsellor said she should “consider taking man friends” to support herself. “I was told I wouldn’t amount to anything and should consider prostitution,” Adaser says.
Her black background was vilified and even denied, she says, and she was constantly told that she would never be wanted in Irish society. “I was not allowed any identity at all. That is very, very damaging for the soul.”…
She became pregnant when she was 16, and although the father wanted to marry her she was sent to Ard Mhuire mother-and-baby home, in Co Meath, where her 21-day-old son was taken from her. “Not even my son was my own. I had been reared to believe I was entitled to nothing.”…
When she was 20 she left for England, and until a few years ago she blotted out her life in Ireland. She didn’t tell anyone she was Irish, partly because her past was too painful and partly because people didn’t believe her. “Irish people aren’t meant to be black. Or brown. Or LGBT. Or Traveller.”
She returned to education, taking a master’s degree in social policy at London School of Economics.
She now has a daughter, and grandchildren, as well as the son she gave birth to in Ireland, with whom she is in contact.
“In the end I had to reconcile my past. I was brought up in Ireland. I learned to bake soda bread. I was fluent in Gaelic. I had a lot of counselling. It has been very hard. I don’t blame the older girls in the institutions who made my life hell. They had been brutalised too and were products of the system,” Adaser says.
“The system had taken the eugenics of British imperialism, and Irish society, the church, had to ‘civilise’ us. Our Irishness was an inconvenience, and society did not want us. We were the dust of Irish society, to be swept away, never acknowledged as existing. Many still want us, and the racism, to be airbrushed away.”
Embedded for generations Prof
Bryan Fanning, head of the school of applied social studies at University College Dublin, and an expert on racism and migration, says that Mixed Race Irish, in seeking to be taken seriously by the commission, is doing a huge service.
“This group are trying to force Irish society to look at the racism that has been embedded in it for generations,” he says. “We like to think there is no real racism in Ireland, but their experience shows it has been a deeply rooted part of Irish society and never properly faced.
“We have a growing population of young, black and mixed-race children in our schools now, facing into a society which has a huge, largely unacknowledged, problem with race. If we can’t begin to explore, in a serious way, racism in our recent history, what are we saying to these children?”
One of hundreds
Adaser feels nervous talking publicly about her experience, but she says that she must for the many mixed-race Irish who cannot. “My story is one of hundreds. My story is their story. And our story is Ireland’s story too.”
According to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, “The terms of reference include a requirement to identify the extent to which any group of residents may have systematically been treated differently on any grounds, including the grounds of race. Of course, the commission intends to fulfil this requirement but has not yet reached that point in its investigation.”
READ MORE (TW SEXUAL ABUSE/ABUSE/RACIAL SLURS)
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I went into some buildings and you heard the boos and the racial remarks but that kinda geared me up. I was called the N-word so many times that I thought it was a compliment, you know l.p.(laughs) So I just went out and played. […] They had never seen a black man on the ice. I just told myself: “Just go out and play and try to represent the hockey club at the best of your ability. And if the fans can’t see that then don’t worry about it.” I am a black man. I know when I look in the mirror that I am a black man. Nobody needs to tell me that. — Willie O'Ree, who became in 1958 the first black player in the National Hockey League
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Masquerade Nuptuale and Portrait of Siriaco
Portugal (1788)
The website that came along with this submission is in French, and although I don’t really know French, I did the best I could with the names, birthplaces, and descriptions of the people who are in these portraits:
Martinho de Mello e Castro, black native of Bahia, sent by the governor and captain-general of Pernambuco, José César Menezes, who arrived in 1787. He is 14 years old.
Dona Roza Corazon de Jesus, aged 18, from Horguetta (?) She was sent to the court by José Gonçalves da Conaro, then Governor of Angola and arrived in this city on September 7, 1781. She is famous for her face that combines vivacity, wisdom and grace that adds to her attractiveness.
Don Pedro, black native of Luanda, capital of the kingdom of Angola. He was sent to the court by the governor who was Baron Mossamedes. He is between 30 and 40 years old, recognizable in this portrait because of his unusual face.
Marcelino de Tapuia, from Mariuá sent by Martinho Souza e Albuquerque, the then governor of Pará; he is 26 years old.
Donna Anna Rio de Sena. She was sent to Portugal by Antonio de Mello y Castro, governor and captain general of Mozambique. She arrived in June 1787; she is 17 years old.
Dom José, native Maruide, aged 30: happened in Rio de Janeiro and from there to the court where it arrived December 24, 1786, sent by the viceroy of the states of Brazil, who was Luiz de Vasconcellos e Souza.
Siriaco, from Cotingiba where he rose to Bahia and from there sent to the Portuguese Court by Dom José Rodrigo de Menezes e Noronha who was then the Governor and Captain General [Bahia]. He is 12 and came to this court July 1786; exceptional and famous accidents of complexion can be seen in his portrait.
Sebastian, a native of Rio Sena where he was sent to Portugal by the then Governor and Captain General Mozambique Antonio de Melo e Castro, arrived in July 1787 and he is 31 years old.
The second portrait is of Siriaco on his own, minimally clothed to show his complexion. I’d encourage any readers who speak French or Portuguese to check out the site and hopefully do a better translation than I’m capable of. The names, ages, and birthplaces should at least be correct.
18th c portrait of Siriaco, African boy with vitiligo. Also portraits of people of colour who were dwarfs at the Portuguese court in the late 18th c., including Dona Roza, favourite of the Portuguese queen.
alienor.org/publications/mascarade-nuptiale/negre-pie.php
mindfucked.
This whole we have been mocked and didn’t even realize.
oh my gawd…
Shit
afro-textured hair along with big exaggerated painted lips and a big fake red nose. the whole idea of circus clowns stems from racism and the mockery of black men who were slaves at the time
Holy shit
honestly why didn’t this occur to me sooner
Oh God. Whaaat? And i thought i was woke!?
BRUHHHHHHHHHHH maybe at a certain point they changed from black face paint to white face paint when blackface stopped becoming socially acceptable 😦😧😦😧😦
This is either the greatest realization or the greatest reach of all time
^^^^ RIGHT? Regardless I’m pissed. Hate those bastards anyway.
http://black-face.com/blackface-clowns-history.htm
i’ll put it to rest with solid evidence. thats not a reach, thats history.
Awwwww shit! :O
The Route of Division
In Birmingham, Alabama, a public bus takes about a dozen housekeepers from their low-income, mostly black neighborhood to a wealthy white suburb. These are the only stops the city bus makes; these are virtually the only people who ride it.
By Ashley Cleek in Birmingham
Photos by Carolyn Drake / Panos Pictures
Ready to say goodbye to one of the last black-owned corners of Mississippi Avenue?
Neither are we!
This week I concentrated my efforts on a story about a Black-owned Masonic loge in North Portland that’s been on the same corner since the late 1960’s. After being vandalized by white-supremacist graffiti, it was the target of a complaint that racked them up a massive bill with the City for violations they might not be able to afford to bring their building into compliance with.
I know a lot of us spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the rapid gentrification of North and Northeast Portland, and the loss we feel that our families and friends can no longer afford to live in the city. But we’re in a position where we can still perhaps help one last part of history stay in its beloved corner. They need our help, and in order to to do that, we must raise awareness of their struggle and understand what the cost of keeping them here really is. My full story and more is up now at the Portland Observer and available for free in red boxes throughout the city.
Hey everyone, Dr. Ross Danielson finally made an online petition to SAVE PART OF BLACK PORTLAND so PLEASE sign it and share this please please please they need ALL THE SUPPORT THEY CAN GET.
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The Dismantling the Ivory Tower Network Gathering will take place the Thursday before the conference and is for people of color connected to colleges, universities, and academic centers who want to chart new strategies for social justice organizing. This gathering is coordinated by and welcomes participation from queer, trans and cis gender academics of color as an opportunity to create strategies to better engage these institutions. We will begin by outlining the challenges we face as academics invested in social justice, such as the separation between academic institutions and the communities in which they are located and how we can heal from traumatic experiences within academia. The rest of the day will be spent strategizing. We will set priority areas of engagement for institutional change by sharing skills we can use to dismantle the “Ivory Tower” and make organizing our guiding principle on and off campus.
A young worker at a forced labor camp is tied to a pickaxe as punishment. Texas, early 1930s.
PBS did a documentary a while back called “Slavery By Another Name” and this image was part of it. The level of depravity and violence enacted on Black people in this country is bone chilling. Many of the prisoners in these forced labor camps were children.
Click here for the more information on the documentary. Click around the site to see images. When I first saw them, I felt like I got hit with a ton of bricks. You can just see the overwhelming sense of defeat and hopelessness in the eyes of the Black folks in the images. You might shed some tears. I certainly did.
This is US History. Know it.
fuck more info - HERES THE DOCUMENTARY ITS CALLED PEONAGE
