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[icedsodapop]

Singaporeans' responses to Minister Faishal Ibrahim's resignation over "inappropriate exchanges" with a woman is really a showcase of misogyny. "This is a set-up", "this woman is psychotic and evil", Minister Faishal is nearly 60 fucking years old with 2 fucking kids??? His annual salary is nearly $1 million SGD?? He's the fucking minister in charge of Muslim affairs?? Shouldn't he be held to higher scrutiny as a highly paid leader of a religious community?? Why are Singaporeans angrier at the woman instead??

And the Singapore media has been deliberately vague over the nature of the relationship between Minister Faishal and this lady, apart of alluding that the texts were inappropriate. The media and the public bere have been trying to run Faishal's PR campaign, vouching for his moral character. But this is a PAP minister, he's from a political party that has often launched civil defamation lawsuits against their critics and opponents. For a PAP minister to resign over texts, no mention of a civil defamation lawsuit against the lady, vague allusions to the deed by state media? It must have been baddddd.

[icedsodapop]

More misogyny...

By not disclosing what really happened between Minister Faishal and the lady, and publishing the texts, all the media is doing is just emboldening misogyny in Singapore, encouraging the myth that women can just randomly accuse a man and make him lose everything. We don't even know the exact nature of their relationship and people are already assuming that the woman must be at fault. For all we know, Minister Faishal could have been the one harassing her.

Minister Faishal's resignation from the PAP is sending shockwaves becos of how abnormal it is for a politician from the dominant political party to actually receive some consequences. And Singaporeans don't seem to realise it.

[icedsodapop]

I think what's also driving me up a fucking wall is the double standard Faishal Ibrahim is receiving from the public vs female politicians from the Workers' Party, like Nicole Seah and Raeesah Khan got treated after news of their scandals broke out. Faishal Ibrahim gets to have a public outpouring of all the good that he did for the community. Meanwhile, no one brings up the good work that Nicole Seah and Raeesah Khan had done advocating for their constituents when they were going through their scandals, just mockery 😑

[icedsodapop]

And now the hunt for Faishal's accuser has turned into a witch hunt 🤡

Most Singaporeans can't be arsed to boycott or organise or protest, but we got so much energy to find random women to harass and accuse 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[icedsodapop]

What is also extremely concerning is how the PAP is not stepping in to tell the public to stop doxxing Faishal's accuser and creating collateral damage as a result. It really feels like they are throwing smoke off Faishal's trail by making the public focus on his accuser instead.

What's even going to happen to the actual lady if she's found out? Are Singaporeans going to cancel her, cause her to lose her job, exile her, throw stones at her? So, Faishal and his family deserve peace and redemption on his part but not the woman? What fucking double standard is this??

[papasmoke]

[msbrwnsugr]

coldest picture in history

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[creatingblackcharacters]

"Some scientists warn that the very DNA evidence and technology that has freed hundreds of African American men like Johnson may soon be wielded by police to criminalize and convict Black and Hispanic men. From California to London, DNA data banking has allowed the collection of genetic evidence for convicted felons on the premise that those who have been convicted have sacrificed some of their rights to privacy.

But Troy Duster, a professor of sociology at Berkeley and author of Backdoor to Eugenics, warned in 2001, "The same technology that will exculpate people today is also being used to put people who have merely been stopped by the police into generic databases." He is correct.

In 2000, Miami police seeking a violent criminal described vaguely as "Black or Hispanic" stopped 2,300 Black and Hispanic men on the street and quickly took a buccal swab from each, swabbing the interior of each man's cheek. The police now had samples of their DNA, accompanied by identifying information- suspect profiles- and each man was free to go.

The samples were tested against DNA left by the rapist at the scene, but none of these men's DNA matched that of the putative assailant. Therefore, all of these men have demonstrated their innocence, but police have stored their genetic data in a database to be tapped when they next seek a perp."

Chapter 12- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

It’s so fucking rudimentary to consider Black Americans a largely oppressed underclass with the country’s most revolutionary history of struggle and this has been known across the world by revolutionaries for decades.

Because people are intellectually dishonest this is not saying Black Americans are a singular class with internally equal experiences of oppression. There are class divisions within every community and minorities within those communities who possess most of the wealth and power compared to their toiling brethren. Obviously you unite the most deeply oppressed of any group with one another.

But a few Black millionaires and petty property owners does not make Black Americans a majority petite and big bourgeois community, quite the opposite. The deepest poverty outside of reservations in the United States is experienced in the ghettoized and increasingly gentrified de facto segregated Black neighborhoods. Black Americans have had the most revolutionary organizations in America’s history, from slave revolts to what WEB Du Bois referred to as the “general strike of the slaves” during the Civil War to spontaneous insurgencies to radical labor unions to outright Marxist vanguard parties.

Of course there are members who are ideologically or economically tied to imperialism and do not wish to cease receiving the benefits. But there are also the deepest of the poor who have repeatedly tied the violence of the American streets to the violence of American imperialism. This is increasingly a common analysis again with a mass movement building.

We are Marxists, we recognize that there are contradictions in everything. Of course they may have strong political divisions within them, that’s just how life works. There are backwards pro imperialist white workers and revolutionary white workers too as there are lackeys in your own country.

[creatingblackcharacters]

"Every state now maintains genetic databases that are matched to genetic samples taken from crime scenes, such as blood traces, in order to facilitate finding the person who has committed the crime. [Catherine] Crier echoed the sentiments of many present when she asked why being in the genetic database would be a problem for an innocent Black man. "If he is not guilty, what is the problem for a man in the database? He has nothing to worry about."

But he does. Multiple levels of bias feed the all-Black and Hispanic databases, and lawsuits such as the Pamela Fish case cited earlier already have verified that DNA evidence is no more immune to fraudulent or incompetent manipulation than is other evidence. Then, too, there is the collective stigmiatization: if only men of color are in the database, only men of color become suspects and only they can be convicted. Databases that exclude white men, the numerical majority group, will miss most criminals.

As the American Criminal Law Review points out, "Optimal effectiveness, however, would require a universal DNA database that contains DNA fingerprint of every citizen, otherwise potential matches would be missed." Although a universal DNA database would be more efficient than one based upon skin color, it is also ethically unacceptable because it would necessitate coercion. The DNA sweeps, from Miami to London to Truro, have met with varying levels of resistance and resentment and so cannot be described as voluntary.

Will the novel DNA fingerprinting technology lead to the imprisonment of more African-American men than have been freed because of it? This technology's benevolent face has been seen most often, but it has another, sinister, visage. This dual nature holds true for almost every application of genetic science to African American health and welfare. Historically, every boon appears to have been accompanied by a stigmatizing threat to health or freedom. For American Blacks, genetics has always been wielded as a two-edged sword."

Chapter 12- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

[blackhistoryalbum]

A PLACE OF OUR OWN | 1950

A group of young women posing in their swimsuits and sun dresses besides an advertisement for Paradise Park, Florida, one of just a handful of segregated recreational areas in the South exclusively for African Americans [Click image to enlarge]

Photo by Bruce Mozert. By permission of Bruce Mozert. Courtesy of Cynthia Wilson-Graham. Reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida.

Black History Album, The Way We Were [Website | Tumblr | Pinterest | Facebook  | Twitter  ]

[ladybegood]

Lena Horne, 1969

[lamiafemme]

[gael-garcia]

“When I was growing up, I was trying to make a connection between the life I saw, and the life I lived. There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country, and what your future is in it. This is one of them.” — James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), a novel by James Baldwin, adapted by Barry Jenkins (teaser)

[creatingblackcharacters]

Sharing a screenshot bc video links aren't allowed but I found this video yesterday and thought it'd be good to share!

Dope!

And honestly, speaking of kpop sounding material, I finally heard Gnarly for the first time the other day... Get Manon and Lara OUT OF THERE!!!!!!

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

"And I know you know all of this and it's okay if you come and cry about Nick all day. But I'm terrified all the time and I just really need my best friends with me to march at pride, okay?"

[creatingblackcharacters]

"For years Black parents believed that getting our children into better schools and neighborhoods was the surest path to opportunity. But now many of us are wondering: what does it cost to be the only Black child in the room?

Look, our kids being in predominantly white spaces can open doors. There’s no question about that. But we must understand that there is an underside to those opportunities. The question many parents should be asking isn’t just what our children gain from these spaces, but also what they might lose if we aren’t intentional about keeping them grounded in their own culture.

Let’s face facts. When we talk about raising Black kids in predominantly white spaces, we usually focus on academics and future opportunities. What we also need to discuss is what constantly being “the only one” does to a child’s sense of identity.

Research shows us that Black children as young as 10 are viewed as older and less innocent than white children. (10! They are only babies.) That means many of our kids learn early that they have to think about how they’re perceived in ways their classmates who need sunblock 3000 to go outside in the summer never do. They become experts at managing how the present themselves to others before they are even old enough to understand why.

But there is another, greater danger. And it’s something much quieter that you might not know is happening before it’s too late."

Article HERE

Because I've been asked about it, Imma share this article that came across my dash. 👍🏾

[smsomah]

Two women at a Tuareg wedding, 1988. Thomas Seligman

[superbestiario]

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” – Gordon Parks

Segregation history, Gordon parks. 1956