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Aboriginal people of Australia 🇦🇺.

They look so much like the people of Papua New Guinea. That's because at the Torres strait, you can practically wade across from PNG to Aus at low tide - under 4km. So yes, they are practically the same people!

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Sketch, Kevin Boyle

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arinzeture

"I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say I was for it either. At first, I viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. [Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, I opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a Black trench coat and a Black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners.

I never forgot that day. We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is… “

Assata Shakur

arinzeture

"...it takes time to become free of the lies and their shaming effect on Black minds. It takes time to reject the most important lie: that Black people inherently can't do the same things white people can do, unless white people help them." --- Kwame Ture, "Power and Racism," 1997, in The Black Scholar. ❤️💚🖤✊🏾

captain-price-returns

they had 19 year old /pol/ users going through all federal spending and deleting anything where the words were too big to understand

realjaysumlin

What should anyone expect from a group of fuck-ups? Diarrhea for certain.... Isn't this fitting for a shitty administration, some shit you don't have to make up.

arinzeture

"We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America! The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans. It is a fight for ideals, lest this, our common fatherland, false to its founding, become in truth, the land of the thief and the home of the slave, a byword and a hissing among the nations for its sounding pretensions and pitiful accomplishments."

W. E. B. Du Bois

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✨ Grace Wisher was 13 years old when she sewed the Star-Spangled Banner — the flag that inspired our national anthem.

She was an indentured servant in Mary Pickersgill’s home, working alongside an enslaved Black woman whose name history never bothered to record. Together, they stitched their place into the foundation of this country.

Yet when the story got told, only one name made it to the history books. Only one woman got remembered. Only one got the credit.

Grace Wisher didn’t just sew fabric. She stitched herself into America’s story. And it’s time we say her name.