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"The history books, which had almost completely ignored the contribution of the Negro in American history, only served to intensify the Negroes' sense of worthlessness and to augment the anachronistic doctrine of white supremacy. All too many Negroes and whites are unaware of the fact that the first American to shed blood in the revolution which freed this country from British oppression was a black seaman named Crispus Attucks. Negroes and whites are almost totally oblivious of the fact that it was a Negro physician, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the first successful operation on the heart in America. Another Negro physician, Dr. Charles Drew, was largely responsible for developing the method of separating blood plasma and storing it on a large scale, a process that saved thousands of lives in World War II and has made possible many of the important advances in postwar medicine. History books have virtually overlooked the many Negro scientists and inventors who have enriched American life. Although a few refer to George Washington Carver, whose research in agricultural products helped to revive the economy of the South when the throne of King Cotton began to totter, they ignore the contribution of Norbert Rillieuz, whose invention of an evaporating pan revolutionized the process of sugar refining. How many people know that multimillion-dollar United Shoe Machinery Company developed from the shoe-lasting machine invented in the last century by a Negro from Dutch Guiana, Jan Matzelinger; or that Granville T. Woods, an expert in electric motors, whose many patents speeded the growth and improvement of the railroads at the beginning of this century, was a Negro? Even the Negroes' contribution to the music of America is sometimes overlooked in astonishing ways. In 1965 my oldest son and daughter entered an integrated school in Atlanta. A few months later my wife and I were invited to attend a program entitled "Music that has made America great." As the evening unfolded, we listened to the folk songs and melodies of the various immigrant groups. We were certain that the program would end with the most original of all American music, the Negro spiritual. But we were mistaken. Instead, all the students, including our children, ended the program by singing "Dixie"." - Martin Luther King Jr., as quoted in Carson, Clayborne. 2001. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Grand Central Publishing. Cap: Black Power.

#mlk monday

probablyasocialecologist

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide, and if one says that one is not good enough to have a job that is a solid quality job, if one is not good enough to have access to public accommodations, if one is not good enough to have the right to vote, if one is not good enough to live next door to him, if one is not good enough to marry his daughter because of his race, then at that moment, that person is saying that that person who is not good to do all of this is not fit to exist or to live. And that is the ultimate logic of racism.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., The Other America

#leftism #racism #mlk monday

February 7th, 2021

Police killings of Af. Am. yet more of a hoax/ “red herring” and caricature of the “Poverty of IDPOL”...

I believe there is an argument to be made that there has been no greater movement toward “racial equality” in the U.S. than reflected in the number of Af. Am. vs whites killed by the police in the U.S. In the the late 1960’s and early 1970’s @ 7 X more Af. Americans than whites were killed by police By 1985 the proportion dropped to under 3 to 1 and now is closer to 2 to 1 — roughy the proportion of Af. Americans to whites who are “poor”. Improvements in the disparity between Af. Am. and whites re income, wealth, education, health care, etc. don’t come close — and in some cases have worsened. However, focusing on these other disparities that impact far more people would more directly indict capitalism and the corpratocracy — instead of deflecting criticism by targeting racism and highlighting individual racists in the police force.

It so difficult to get these facts across in the current mindset among liberals/ “progressives”. BLM has such a presence that trying to demonstrate the fallacy that police violence is not directed specifically at Af. Ams. immediately gets you tagged as an apologist for racism. It’s frustrating because the violence exhibited by police in the U.S. functioning as an instrument of social control in poor/ working class communities is a way more serious problem than individual cops motivated by prejudice toward black people. The killings of whites and others get hardly any attention, only the killings of Af. Ams. make the national news but 75% of those killed by cops are others.

obsoleteware

It's essential that you understand the inseperable relationship between capitalism and racism.

What is a greater example of capitalism than the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Confederacy of white slave owners making their entitlement to black labor the bloodiest American war? It's inevitable but still pretty shocking to come across the antithetical views of a racially ignorant Marxist.

Study American capitalism and it's relationship with systematic racism. Put aside whatever freak disdain you have towards oppression politics. You cannot call yourself an enemy of capitalism while denying how the genocide of indigenous Americans and the desecration of their cultures, and the enslavement of black Americans have created a racially-motivated system of capitalism that is colonial at heart.

There's a well-known history between poor blacks and poor whites, where racial boundaries ceased in order to band together and attack the big man. It started with the union. It dies everytime white people forget history.

You're making an ass of yourself.

noosphe-re

“The fetishism of words is the opposite of the recognition of reality, and man’s search for reality and his own increasing approximation of it characterizes his development. His search for reality is at the same time his negation of illusions. The Buddha, Moses, the Greek philosophers, the new science, the enlightenment philosophers, the great artists, the great physicists, biologists, chemists, Marx and Freud—they all have in common the passionate desire to break through the deceptive “Maya” of the senses and of “common sense” and to arrive at a perception of human and natural, of spiritual and material reality. Their fields differed, their methods differed, but no doubt their impulse and goal was the same. All that the human race has achieved, spiritually and materially, it owes to the destroyers of illusions and to the seekers of reality.”

— Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud