Social Justice Papi

 Organizer & sociologist living in The Bay but from Minneapolis He/Him/His

[socialjusticepapi]

To me, a White person is not an “ally” to Black people until:

1. You support Black rage: Although you’ll never understand it, you need to support the fact that our visceral reactions are valid.

2. You support reparations in every form necessary: Thru wealth & resource redistribution, community healing, transformative justice, etc.

3. You use the privileges you have to protect and advance Black people, and cast privileges aside whenever possible to benefit Black people.

4. You don’t need Black people to constantly point out White Bullshit for you to notice it: You recognize when that movie, article, survey, “fun” experiment, online test, etc. was made by and for White people.

[socialjusticepapi]

Where’s the “Blue Lives Matter” crowd to defend the cops that do speak out against police brutality and corruption? Because many of the officers that do get fired or placed on leave, and I don’t see y'all showing up for them. Or do we only defend the cops that defend your privilege?

[localadmin]

oh you like history? name everything that ever happened

[superunfriendlyreminder]

Excellent thread.

[fomysquad]

Cops kill this student, after getting arrested his family did not know how he died until it was too late

[gonzetti]

what’s his name i need a name

[fomysquad]

Matthew Ajibade

[deeztumbls]

Matthew Ajibade

[txbeergoddess]

Monsters are real and they wear state uniforms

[angryisokay]

Looks like this case is from 2015, and you’re not going to like how the convictions turned out.

[txbeergoddess]

You are right. I do not like that at all. These fucking murderers keep getting away with murder

[thisiseverydayracism]

When karma turns out to be a bigger bitch than you.

Being a minority does not give you a right to be an anti-black piece of shit.

[lavitabella87]

I heard on Twitter that her snitching got that poor woman fired. 😒😒😡

[bellairestrella]

The book deal was cancelled, her publisher tweeted about it

[thisiseverydayracism]

[shefloatsblack]

[gluten-free-pussy]

Where’s that solidarity you guys are always going on about

[enigmatic-goat]

Friend: Says something.

What I want to say: I’m really interested in what you are saying. As my friend, I support you. I want you to know I am still here, still listening, and still enjoying what we are sharing together. However as this is a topic I myself have no experience with, or little to say or offer, I’m unable to produce much in the way of input from my side. However trust that I still adore listening to you!

What comes out: Yee.

[oockitty]

This post shot me in the face four times.

[forafricans]

A portrait of a little girl in the backseat of a car. Mali. ©Delphine Diallo

[glumshoe]

I am grateful for headphones for allowing me to listen to songs on repeat forty times without completely maddening other people.

[odinsblog]

I am asking other men to please pay attention to this. Sexual predators and airplane creeps, a thread: https://twitter.com/joannachiu/status/1110079640998023168?s=21

[adi-fitri]

Here are the links from the above tweet, just in case: Bystander Tips (stopstreetharrassment.org): http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/male-allies/bystander-tips/  What bystanders can do about harassment on public transportation by @EndingViolence @_AngelaMarieMac : https://www.bwss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BWSS-Transit-Tuesday-Brochure.pdf Sexual Harrassment Training Doesn’t Work. But Some Things Do. The Upshot, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/upshot/sexual-harassment-workplace-prevention-effective.html

[sleepynegress]

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.”

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Scott Woods (X)

he motherfucking dropped the truth.

(via mesmerisme)

[gahdamnpunk]

This is insane

[maribelmayde]

holy fuck, this is A LOT

[red-stick-progressive]

Also that figure is way too low, modern population estimates might be as much as twice that. There were between 25 and 40 million in central Mexico alone, almost as many people in the North Amazon, almost as many in the Andes, and almost as many in the American South. All saw 80 to 99 percent population loss in the period of 2 to 3 generations.

The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.

Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.

That’s not even genocide, it’s apocalypse.

[diasporangael]

Why are you all omitting the well known fact that it was not purposeful genocide but simply new microbes introduced that no one knew about at that time.

[red-stick-progressive]

Cuz that’s not true.

Tw genocide, tw violence

When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.

They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.

Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.

The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.

The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.

And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.

Colonizers are not innocent just cuz the germs did a lot of the work of the apocalypse.

[shrike-dyke]

(tlaxcallān had a democratic form of government)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

6 Questions to ask when you’re making a tough decision

1. What option would I choose if I knew I would definitely succeed?

2. What would I do if I didn’t feel scared?

3. Who can I talk to who’s been in my shoes?

4. What are the likely outcomes of each choice and decision?

5. What is the worst thing that could happen; what is the best thing that could happen?

6. Am I making this decision for myself, or am I choosing to please other people?

[reverseracism]

New St. Louis County prosecutor fires some staff | Nation | stltoday.com

[bando--grand-scamyon]

He’s shaking the table and I’m asking the lord to protect him.

[svckmyblog]

goals

[paninimami]

No really protect him

[saturnineaqua]

Srsly because ppl like him have been turning up dead.

[bilt2tumble]

^^^ In Ferguson? They sure have. Y’all need to put yo heads on swivel & keep eyes on this man’s 6 O’clock, out thata’way. Don’t just pray for his safety, Insure it.

[dinothundersblog-deactivated201]

banksy is so funny how do you gentrify vandalism

[ithelpstodream]

[dandelionofthanatos]

If ever there was a paragraph that described Canadian-Brand Racist Jackassetry, THIS IS VERY IT.

[yournewfriendshouse]

‘When you believe niceness disproves the presence of racism, it’s easy to start believing bigotry is rare, and that the label racist should be applied only to mean-spirited, intentional acts of discrimination. The problem with this framework–besides being a gross misunderstanding of how racism operates in systems and structures enabled by nice people–is that it obligates me to be nice in return, rather than truthful. I am expected to come closer to racists. Be nicer to them. Coddle them.’

It’s so good to see this articulated!

[sqrim]

Afro-Mexican Children in Guanajuato, 1910. Romualdo García