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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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“The institutionalization of the study of race can become dangerously aligned with the normalization of the repressive functions of the state. These functions have historically produced race as the limit of ideological and discursive struggle, the illegible matter that we can interpret only through the vigilant infliction of legitimate violence” (30).
Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Duke University Press, 2011)
Note the commentary at the end of the video:
“Lucky for the guy he can now say he touched Beyonce’s derriere!”
This is exactly the kind of commentary that perpetuates rape culture.
Implicit in the media coverage/social message is the idea that women’s bodies—ESPECIALLY the bodies of women of color—are infinitely and inherently available for whatever exploitation men deem fit. Women’s value as sentient, living beings is perpetually reduced to that of playthings for the whims, desires, experiments, and actions of men.
The expectation is that women should count on this misogynistic abuse as a matter of course, that it is as natural as dirt, water, light, and air, and is, therefore, acceptable—and beyond acceptable, it is a man’s godly, divine, unquestionable, unstoppable right to engage in, deploy, and orchestrate this behavior.
And most men will make all sorts of excuses to defend and protect this behavior, operating from the premise that a man’s natural, sexual expressive state is rape, that all men are, by their very biologies, rapists.
Additionally, when men pretend to be moral creatures, we will act as though we believe rape is wrong while simultaneously placing the burden of prevention on women. We will police women’s sexuality, their reproduction, their style of dress—every one of us, from Jehovah to Allah to Satan to Charlie Sheen to Steve Harvey to our fathers and sons, sanctified and baptized in a startling and profound violence against women. Frightened by the very wombs from whence we came (fuck Adam’s rib!), insignificant in the face of their genius, we retreat to barbarism and recklessness and call it civilization. And this is the root and engine of rape culture.
Which is why when I hear that a woman destroyed her rapist—bludgeoned him to death or stabbed him until there was nothing left but a puddle of red jelly, I do a fist pump, meditate, and smile in the name of Oshun, in the memories of all the women who didn’t make it, and as a witness for all the women who survived.
Ashe!
“Each body has its art...” ― Gwendolyn Brooks
So true!
A magnificent conversation started...There's a much needed task of reflecting on the meanings of blackness among Latinas/os and Latin Americans. This task is not solely about cultural affirmation, nor it is primarily one of juxtaposing blackness to other racial and ethnic categories. The task is about addressing the moral injury perpetuated by the subjugations, inequalities, everyday racism and marginalization that Afro-Diasporic communities face. It is about naming, challenging, pushing back against continual oppressions, not only in the Americas but worldwide, to deny the humanity of darker races. The unfinished business of abolition continues...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/25/186450606/las-caras-lindas-to-be-black-and-puerto-rican-in-2013
What a powerful message written twice-in-bodies. "The earth, as my both, are not things to sale but to be defended." "A woman is a Revolution within a REVOLUTION."
When W. E. B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910, as the house magazine of the fledgling NAACP, he created what is arguably the most widely read and influential periodical about race and social injustice in U.S. history. Written for educated African-American readers, the magazine reached a truly national audience within nine years, when its circulation peaked at about 100,000. The Crisis’s stated mission, like that of the NAACP itself, was to pursue “the world-old dream of human brotherhood” by bearing witness to “the danger of race prejudice” and reporting on “the great problem of inter-racial relations,” both at home and abroad. The magazine thus provided a much-needed corrective to the racial stereotypes and silences of the mainstream press—publishing, each month, uplifting accounts of achievements by African Americans, alongside stark accounts of racial discrimination and gruesome reports of lynchings. In the twelve years that will be covered by the MJP edition (from 1910 to 1922), The Crisis also addressed most every facet of life for blacks in America, devoting special issues to such topics as women’s suffrage, education, children, labor, homes, vacations, and the war. From the start, the magazine actively promoted the arts as well, and is deservedly recognized as an important crucible for the Harlem Renaissance. Among the notable authors who published in The Crisis during the MJP years is Jessie Fauset—who began contributing in 1912 and became the magazine’s literary editor in 1919—as well as William Stanley Braithwaite, Charles Chesnutt, Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina W. Grimke, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Arthur Schomburg, Jean Toomer, and Walter White.
NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino
During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.
White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.
• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.
• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.
It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”
In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.
Can we also acknowledge the white privilege of feeling comfortable carrying these things around because you will, statistically, be less likely to be targeted by police and if you are caught your sentencing will, statistically, likely be much lighter?
...beauty of the inner struggle of the heart.
Constructing a lecture on peace. It is not unlike writing a poem. Finding words to articulate the beauty of the inner struggle of the heart
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Justice systems, in the USA and worldwide, find creative and increasingly repressive to ways criminalize women. These criminalization dynamics seek to reinforce patriarchal patters of domination and gender role conformity.
"If you don't know..." Sex without consent = RAPE..."now you know."
Put simply, we are reaching a moment in hip-hop cultural politics that portents to change the game: rap artists (many would say not to confuse them with hip-hop artists) are being asked to take responsibility for their lyrics by our community. This is clearly the case as it pertains to Rick Ross's lyrics in U.O.E.N.O. Violence against women ain't dope. If you don't know now you know...playa...
http://thegrio.com/2013/03/28/petitions-call-on-rick-ross-hip-hop-industry-to-take-responsibility-for-rape-lyrics/
TODAY: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 25th is United Nations International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the…
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Why So Few Men Speak Out Against Violence Against Women?
For a few days now, this question has troubled my thoughts? Last week I attended various consciousness raising events about the continual violence women faced, not only in the United States but worldwide. Violence against women saturates news media. Can you believe the gull of Fords' India Ads? The constant: men are the main perpetrators of violence against women; most men remain silent on the problem. As a son, a spouse, a father, an educator of color, I expect more about myself, and of those men around me, than a feeble nod of the head anytime violence against women is mentioned. This self-proving helped me realized that I don't bring this problem up as much as I could. Ironically, I more often than not manage to bring many opportunities I am afforded into a teachable moment to raise issues of mass-incarceration, including the harsh punishments being doled out to women of color. And yet, I have not incorporated violence against women fully in these moments... Note to self: You have some serious work to do moving forward!
Role play and interactive technology helped primary teacher Jeremy Dean increase his foreign students’ English vocabulary at a language immersion school in Spain
The thought of Glissant pushes to think us to think the planetary connectivity of our existence with an active stance towards our realities. "Passivity," Glissat says, "plays no part in Relation" (Poetics of Relation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1997, p137).