#abolotionist

[colorizedhistory]

[disgustingposer]

The thing about still having a male body is that living in a collective society means that your social role is what you are no matter how much you internally think said social role fucking sucks, by still having the male body I still carry with myself the body of the opressor, the body of the rapist, the body that abuses and make the opressed cry, be scared and to die, it doesn't really matter on my mind how much I think that fucking sucks and how I don't want to be that, the outside world still thinks that's who I am and this is what I do.

And it isn't their fault, I am not nonbinary enough, I am not the same as the people that loudly say "NO" to gender and fully expresses their denial of the blood-soaken thing Gender is, my body is still male, my clothes are still male, my hormones are still male, my genitals are still male and this make people outside on the street see a male, not a genderless vaguely-femenine thing my mind wants me to be.

I am the creepy male, I am the potential abuser, I am violent, I am greedy, I am entitled, I am misogynistic. It isn't their fault to think that way because that's what masculinity truly at its core when it comes to western perspectives on gender, most people that see that when they see me are correct and justified to think that despite that being the surface because the surface is what matter in societies, the people seeing you in the streets aren't thinking about the depth of your personality, the people who you just met aren't thinking through the real depths of who you are and what you believe, they aren't seeing someone who is nonbinary when they see, they are seeing a male, meaning they are seeing me as potentially dangerous.

When I was younger I thought it was the fault of the women that they saw me as potential dangerous, but as I grew up I found out that: 1. It isn't their fault, it is the fault of the men that victimized them on both brutal and discrete ways on a patriarchal 2. Me thinking that in the first place was a sign that at the core of my personality I am still the entitled needy male that wants to be taken care of to the women surrounding them, that's what my raising made me be at the really deep core, a spoiled man that was spoiled due to being a man. A man whose privilege comes from the blood of multiple women. It truly doesn't matter if my mind tries to dodge this by saying "Hey I am queer and on the closet this means I am truly not privileged" That's not how society fucking works because as I said before, your role on society isn't dictated by who you individually are, it is by what society sees you as and, when it comes to gender, this is an immutable fact.

I am still registered as male in my legal documents, doctors see a male body when I go there, people say "sir" when they see me in the street. It's unescapable.

Those perspectives aren't just agreed by Ms. wombynpotterhead here on this site. Transfeminists would all agree with what I have said before, because it's their blood where my privilege resides, the blood of the women who got killed, raped, beaten. Doesn't matter how many transfeminist and gender abolotionist texts I read on the anarchist library. Masculinity is a virulent disease, it dominates who I am, it spreads into others and I never get the oppurtinity of truly saying NO to this disgusting disease because I don't have the access to or maybe I am a coward who doesn't even take E.

[historicalgarments1]

1797 portrait of Jean-Baptiste Balley-Mars by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson. Balley-Mars "who represented Saint-Domingue in the French National Convention in Paris in 1794, is widely credited with persuading that body to abolish slavery in France and its overseas colonies." He was kidnapped when he was a boy from Goree and sent as a slave to Saint-Domingue. In later years he was able to buy his freedom and served in the French military, fighting against the British during the American Revolutionary war. Here he wears a French officers uniform with a sash and hat with tricolor panache. . . . . #historicalgarments #menswearmonday #menswear #mensfashion #fashionhistory #18thcentury #18thcenturyfashion #jeanbaptistebelley #annelouisgirodettrison #Haiti #France #frenchmilitary #abolotionist #blackhistory #history #breeches #panache #POC #frenchassembly #americanrevolution (at Château de Versailles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoICaM1lofe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q9gqtzrbouem

[ashermiss]

There are times when I truly hate this family

[stachmousworld]

Joséphine de Beauharnais

I’m always annoyed when I see people praise this [insert all types of insults]. I have never liked her and never will. 

She was born in a plantation house, in Martinique, as the child of one of the wealthiest slavers family. Her family had around 120 slaves.

 When her dear husband, Napoleon, signed for the first time the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean Islands, she pushed him to reestablish it, because her family was losing money, and the now freed slaves were becoming richer. They knew how to farm, how to manage their money and they were 3 to 4 more numerous than the entire population of colonizers. 

The worst part is that she never fought for the abolition despite witnessing the atrocities happening in plantations. She was never disgusted by it. No. Despite all the abolotionist movements rising in Europe, this useless woman didn’t do shit, because her family’s wealth depended on slavery.

So, everytime I see people linking my island, where my ancestors had been exploited by her family and many others, with this woman, I’m pissed. When I see people saying that she was the princess of Martinique or any type of shit, I want to throw up. 

[theeprogression]

A Guardian at the Gates of Harlem

Naqi Cruz

October 6th 2017

 A Guardian at the Gates of Harlem

Black America is in the process of reevaluation, conducting a critical analysis of its existence. It is not an unprecedented phenomenon for us to experience this state of mass reflection. We have replicated it throughout the generations. It is a necessary evolutionary experience that leads to organized action such as Abolitionism, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and even today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement. Furthermore, there’s a correlation between our mass reevaluation and the occurrence of once seemingly unfathomable revelations about the American ethos, the condition of humanity and Black identity. From these revelations come targeted organized action, a natural progression. So it should be no surprise we are casting a critical gaze upon the symbols of white supremacy so blatantly apparent in our society, such as certain flags and monuments. This is a noble and absolutely necessary endeavor. Nonetheless, it is also important to appreciate artworks that pay tribute to the progress of Black America. This past September, I chose to evaluate the form and content of the Frederick Douglass Memorial in what I once considered the Southern border of West Harlem in New York City.  This memorial symbolizes Black perseverance overcoming detrimental circumstances.  

I discovered this memorial in the summer of 2010, the year it was constructed. The six year anniversary of the site’s official dedication was on September 20th, 2017. I cannot thank sculptor Gabriel Koren and designer Algernon Miller enough for this priceless work of art. The entire memorial sits atop a traffic circle surrounded by residential buildings, specifically located on Central Park North and Frederick Douglass Blvd. (West 110th street and 8th Avenue). The bronze sculpture of Frederick Douglass is considered to be of “heroic scale” according to its official description. However, it is of relatively modest size compared to its Central Park South-Columbus Circle counterpart. That is, the memorial site and statue itself is much less grand than the Christopher Columbus monolith that dominates Columbus Circle, just a few miles south of the Douglass memorial. The seventy-six foot Columbus construct dwarfs the eight foot Douglass statue. Although they are two separate works, their scale ratio is symbolic. The Columbus statue towers over the affluent traffic circle, surrounded by high end retailers, corporate giants like Time Warner and even President Donald Trump’s International Hotel. It is fitting the Columbus monolith is located among a concertation of phalli named after the pirate himself.  Relative to other statues of notable leaders, one could argue the Columbus monolith projects a scaled hierarchal concept. This glaring inconsistency becomes more obvious when one contemplates the individuals' merits and experiences in the context of their era and circumstance.  Christopher Columbus is infamous for spending the better years of his life orchestrating the oppression of others and pillaging their native lands. Mr. Douglass on the other hand experienced unfathomable hardships throughout his life-long battle to rid himself and others of oppression, an oppression birthed in the superiority complexities like “Manifest Destiny.” As the case with the majority of Black Americans in the early 1800s, Mr. Douglass was born into slavery and raised not to know his heritage. Illiteracy, malnutrition and bodily harm are but a few of the affects caused by enslavement he endured. He ultimately seized his freedom and became magnificently successful in spite of unparalleled physical and psychological oppression. Undeniably the Frederick Douglass memorial symbolizes much more than the amount of construction materials used or land allotted for the project. It is a portrayal of his intellect, perseverance and honor. Three ideals Douglass upheld while withstanding several adversarial ideologies. He was subjected to systematic psychological oppression and overcame it. Such comprehensive oppressive ideology produces violent manifestations like slavery and the Jim Crow laws. This memorial signifies our powerful heritage and the protracted war of Black Americans to protect our heritage.

      The three-dimensional bronze Douglass sculpture is in a naturalistic style despite being increased in scale to eight feet. The surface is smooth to the touch. It is flanked by geometrical cubic and triangular blocks made of granite and a bronze fountain wall complete with flowing water (all of which are three-dimensional constructions). Mr. Douglass’ facial expression can be described as hardened. His gaze is aimed northward up Fredrick Douglass Blvd, overlooking Harlem, like a lighthouse overlooking its harbor. The free-standing Douglass sculpture is leaning slightly more on his left leg with his left arm relaxed. His right hand is resting firmly on a lectern, he was a renaissance man and a noteworthy orator.

           The memorial consists of two-dimensional aspects as well. A constellation of stars depicting the Big Dipper and the North Star are engraved along the fountain wall. These inscriptions represent the stars that were utilized as navigational tools to reach the Underground Railroad, the elaborate network of secret routes and safe houses organized by revolutionaries, abolitionists, and humanitarians so slaves could escape bondage and seize their freedom. The written words are another aspect of two-dimensionality and are engraved on the memorial. These words are actual quotes from Fredrick Douglass himself! Many of them express powerful ideals with letters all capitalized such as, “RIGHT IS OF NO SEX – TRUTH IS OF NO COLOR…” part of the motto for a weekly paper he published called The North Star.

           This memorial and the life of Fredrick Douglass are invaluable testaments. Still, almost 200 years since the birth of Frederick Douglass in 1818, America still struggles with achieving equal rights and enforcing justice. Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, activist, orator, writer, publisher, and statesmen among many things. He would have been an enemy to someone like Columbus. The pioneering actions of Mr. Douglass are prime examples of so-called American values. As a leading forefather not only in advocating for Black people, but on behalf of advancing the rights of women and the preservation of the union through his consultations with President Lincoln, Frederick Douglass is among those who dedicated their lives to the multifaceted battle for collective emancipation of body and mind. This can seldom be compared. This battle is one Black people around the world still struggle with today and this memorial represents the infinite potential one can conjure even in the face of the bleakest circumstances.  

[georgepearkes]

Another Rhyme, Not Another Repeat

On May 24, 1854, Anthony Burns was arrested by police officers on Court Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They were following instructions of a US Marshall, who in turn was responding to a warrant issued by US Commissioner Edward G. Loring. Burns' crime was to flee enslavement at the hands of Virginia's Charles F. Suttle in 1853. This was a high profile enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Given low barriers to proof of ownership of another human being, Loring remanded Burns to Suttle following a May 26 riot by abolitionist Bostonians attempting to free the man. On June 2nd, the date Burns was to be placed on a ship bound for the Chesapeake, Boston was effectively under martial law to prevent another riot. In total, the government expended about $40,000 (roughly $1.2mm in today's dollars) sending Burns back to slavery.

Massachusetts had a history of slavery, with thousands of slaves by the mid-18th century. However, for all sorts of economic, geographic, cultural, and religious reasons slavery was never particularly important to the state. Slavery was a feature of the colony almost from the beggining, possibly as early as 1624, though it was always a marginal practice when compared to other colonies. Slaves were roughly 2.2% of the population at peak in the mid-18th century, but even then free blacks were roughly 5x more numerous than enslaved blacks. By 1783, a series of legal challenges to enslavement culminated in a case where the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (that is, the state government) charged that a slaver named Jennison had assaulted and battered his slave. Jury instructions from Chief Justice William Cushing argued that finding in favor of the victim Quock Walker would mean slavery is "effectively abolished as it can be by the granting of rights and privileges wholly incompatible and repugnant to its existence." Jennison was found guilty. In other words, the government and courts decided that slavery required physical violence to be maintained and therefore was unacceptable under the law, ending slavery in the state (though an explicit ban was not present until the 13th Amendment's ratification in 1865). By 1790 there were no recorded instances of slavery in the Massachusetts.

The federal government had obviously taken a very different path. The writing of the US Constitution had to defer the question of slavery for fear it would destroy the fragile, hard-sought consensus between the 13 former colonies. Then-nascent abolotionists couldn't prevent the document from punting, insituting the three-fifths compromise on apportionment, including a clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 1) that prohibited a national slavery ban until at least 1808, and prohibited free states from protecting escaped slaves via state law (Article IV, Section 2). Virginia was the superpower of the colonial period, and slave states were rapidly growing, in no small part thanks to the despicable plantation model. Over the next 50 or so years, a number of features of the United States' political organization (population distribution, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Electoral College) allowed for increasing entrenchment of slavery in national laws. While Prohibitionists didn't lose every battle, they were basically ineffective compared to the power of the South defending the bloody practice on its soil.

The Fugitive Slave Act allowing Burns' capture was signed into law by Millard Fillmore, a Whig from New York who sought to soothe the South in the Compromise of 1850; that bill did not even allow slaves to gain procedural rights related to their capture, as abolitionists sought. The President in June of 1854, Franklin Pierce, was a New Hampshire Democrat elected by a 254-42 Electoral College landslide victory over Whig Winfield Scott largely because he opposed radical abolitionists. Pierce was nominated by the Virginia delegation of the Democrats in the 1852 convention. He was a compromise candidate that the South could rely on to prevent attacks on slavery and he strongly supported Burns' recapture in Boston.

To summarize, Massachusetts had decided a practice was not acceptable. The federal government had a different set of imperatives. When these two clashed, the federal government's power was inescapable, regardless of local law, custom, practice, or preference. While sentiment against the government's policy was strong, one section was able to dominate. Sectional loyalty was rooted not just in economics or politics, but also culture and geography. Virginian planters and Bostonian abolotionists were not just representatives of different schools of thought on scripture, natural rights, and legal doctrine, but were also part of a geographic divide that naturally created separations of distance as well as ideas.

Today, there are similar conflicts, right down to the state in question. This week in Massachussets, state Judge Shelley Joseph and one of her court officials were charged with obstruction of justice for allowing an undocumented immigrant to escape detainment by a plainclothes ICE enforcer. The defendant was appearing on drug posession and fugitive charges, and after his hearing was permitted to use a sally port to avoid detention. US Attorney for Boston Andrew E. Lelling filed charges of obstruction of justice, saying "We cannot pick and choose the federal laws we follow."

Just as in 1854, the United States faces a deep rift on how to treat undocumented immigrants. "Sanctuary cities" often find themselves completely at odds with state or federal law, and we're now starting to see that divide trickle down to the actions of individuals like Judge Joseph or her court officer. The clear moral case (and one that is basically consistent with their obligations under state law) they feel is not consistent with federal law, and actions that under most circumstances would be viewed repugnantly (riots in 1854, alleged obstruction of justice in 2019) come under a different light. The failure of national efforts at compromise (remember the Gang of Eight?) is only making things worse, contributing to entrenched positions. That isn't to say that everything will be fine once a compromise can be reached. As we saw in the first half of the 19th century, agreements like the 1820 Missouri Compromise or Compromise of 1850 can't work without true agreement. Violations (the 1854 repeal of 1820 by Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act is a prime example) will continue as long as either side of the issue has the political power to attempt further efforts.

There is, of course, lots of commentary on the prospects for a new civil war. Cosplaying pundits love the idea of rural America taking on urban America over any number of issues: abortion, voting rights, immigration, redistribution, commercial regulation, and so forth. In addition to being amateurish love of violent conflict with no regard for its litany of costs, these forecasts of a new violent clash are ridiculous.

The lead-up to the Civil War had many features of the current set of seemingly irreconcilable divides that are currently at issue, but importantly these divides were sectional. Support for enslavement of human beings was not generally split within states, just as abolition wasn't split within states.1 Today, the absolute opposite is the case. Values in metropolitan areas are far more similar across states than values are within a state's rural areas versus those metropolitan areas. There is no sectional conflict in today's America, even if the political vitriol and separation of points of view is just as stark today as it was in the 1850s. For all the talk of red and blue states, rural versus urban or suburban dwelling is a far stronger predictor of perspective on our social conflicts than first-past-the-post vote counting at the state level. The geography of our split contains it.

How these various conflicts evolve and resolve is beyond my ability to speculate, but a careful reading of the sectional history of the United States gives compelling evidence that we are not repeating a prior history. The national war over slavery featured riots long before Fort Sumter and the secession of the Deep South in order to protect its horrifying institutions of bondage; a single judge's contempt charges are not the same thing. History's fascinating lessons about prior events are easy to overlay today, but that same history shows today's resolutions will be different, and offers an opportunity to learn both about our own past and current present. The lessons we take away from that are diverse, but sound much more like rhymes than repetition.

There are some major exceptions; the Appalachian parts of committed seceding states like Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee were deeply opposed to secession. I discussed that dynamic on Twitter, but would note even then that the intra-state conflicts were sectional, with specific geographic areas rather than intra-geographic areas dividing opinion. ↩︎

[wonderwomancharacter]

Day 1739: Hank Jessup

Full name Henrietta Sojourner Jessup. Hank was named after Sojourner Truth the abolotionist. A rent-a-cop with aspirations of being something more, Hank would eventually go on to become the superhero 'Sojourner'

Hank Jessup would wind up crossing paths with Artemis after the Amazon of Bana Migh-Dall returned from a stint being dead. Wherin Hank who had attempted to join the police force wound up instead being given security detail to spend her nights guarding a supply of freon in a building across the street from the cemetary.

Sighting the gangsters digging up bodies, Hank would confront them and would in that moment meet Artemis. The two would hit it off and would work together to stop the villains. Though Hank in the process would lose her job for leaving her post guarding freon.

Artemis would be impressed by Hank Jessups courage and willingness to run into danger, and offered to train her as an Amazon. Hank accepted and would become Artemis's partner in butt kicking.

Shortly after their training started, Artemis would be approached by the demon hunting group known as the HellEnders who offered Artemis a spot on their team since she saved two of them from a group of devil worshipping racists. And Artemis accepted. On the condition that they also accepted Hank Jessup into their ranks.

Thus Hank Jessup would go on to become 'Sojourner' a superhero trained in the ways of the Amazons and supplied with an array of gadgets, laser canons, holy hand grenades, and other standard demon hunting munitions thanks to the team herself and Artemis had joined.

Though only after she fought tooth and nail with the Hellenders over her codename with them wanting to give her names like 'Cudgel' and 'Porkbelly' because they used a random name generator for all of their own codenames.

[ditaarcanggi]

#BookReview (1 of 50) - Wonder RJ Palacio.

I have just finished a fantastic book.  

I am so happy to be talking about Wonder by RJ Palacio,

It is technically children book, but it doesn’t really real like usual children book.  

It will be pretty sure it is going to be spoiler but it is okay as long as you can take a learning from it.

This book follows  a ten year old  boy named August Pullman, who was born  with very a rare genetic condition  that cause him to have a major facial deformity, he had many different surgeries over the years, he said 27 different surgeries in the face and he is still left not looking like a normal little boy because of all of these different surgeries,

He hasn’t been able to go to the regular school  and he has been homeschooled by his mom.

One day his mom realized that she should deliver him in a regular school and to make him adapted and having many friends, the question was why his mom was so confident because she knew her son was capable enough to adapt, but his mom realized it wasn’t easy.

His mom try to convince him that he should be okay!

Aside of that : August Pullman was

a)      extremely smart

b)      Like normal boy inside like any other regular 10 years old boy

a.      He loves starwars

b.      Playing video game

c.       Like a little nerd

d.      Really loves science

He realize he look so different, so people make all of these snap judgements.

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When the first day of the school he was very nervous all people were stared on him.

And guest what he felt on the first day school was.

He did get bullied  a lot of time due to his face surgery ☹

He tried to get to see what he has to deal with day by today

n  He had eaten in canteen alone

n  He had studied alone

  In this book, we let us know the point of view of all the family members from

Mother, Father , Sister and they are very supportive.  

He believe if there are choices to be right and to be kind please choose kind.

When people get bullied him :

-  he was  still be a good student

- he was trying the best in every single subject that made him number one in the class

- he still kept smile whatever conditions went on.

He chose kind.

All those kindness extremely made him more  popular. Almost everyone has at last warmed up to him and wants to be his friends. In the end of the year, Auggie wins a special award for courage and kindness. He realizes how far he has come since the beginning of school, and he now has a solid group of friends and feels comfortable with who he is.

 The most important part of the novel was when the headmaster announce who will be getting the winner of Becheer Prep Schol for the courage and All the best winner already mentioned and all winners were Auggie friends

- Charlotte wons music

- Amos won in sports

- Ximena won the overall academic excellence

And Mr. Tushman’s speech was very meant

“Ladies and Gentlemen , I am very honored to present you this years Beecher Prep School scholastic Achievers, Congratulations to all of you! The final award this morning is the Henry Ward Beecher Medal to honor students who have been notable or exemplary in a certain areas through out the school year. Typically. This medal has been our way of acknowledging volunteerism or service to the school. Henry Ward Beecher  was, of course, the nineteenth century abolotionist – fiery sermonizer for human rights- after whom this school was named, while reading up on his life in preparation for this award, I came upon a passage that he wrote that seemed particularly ruminating upon all year long.Not just the nature of kindness , but the nature of one’s kindness. The power of one’s friendship, the test of one’s character, the strength of one’s courage”

Mr Tushman’ voice cracked abit, like he got all choked up. He actually cleared his throat and took a big sip of water , and Augie started paying attention for real now to what he was saying

And Mr. Tushman continued his speech “ The strength of one’s courage, kindness, friendship, and character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us , on occasion, to greatness. And this is what the Henry Ward Beecher Medal is about : recognizing greatness.

But How do we do that? How do we measure something like greatness ? Again, there’s no yardstick for that kind of thing. How Do we even define it? Well Beecher actually had an answer for that.

Greatness => Lies not to being strong , but in the right using of strength, He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts.

He is the greatest, whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of this own, without further ado, this year I am very proud to award Henry ward beecher medal to the student whose quiet strength has carried up the most hearts. So will August Pulman please come up here to receive this award ?

 In Conclusion, it does, send a great message about how powerful kindness can be in a person’s life, if you are just a little bit kind can really change somebody’s life, being kind isn’t enough. You should give one level up from that points, being kinder 😊

[d244]

Note to self g/ender abolotionist is code for T/ERF

[nictophilic-clinomaniac]

So, as some of the Americans on here may know by now, Harriet Tubman will be replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

My favorite fucking thought on this is that she obviously would have NEVER thought that she would be recognized in this way a little over 100 years after her death.  

A black woman is replacing a white man (who was *surprise* a disgusting human) on currency, and that’s one of the biggest honors for her sacrifices that I can think of.

[anniedayenow]

Harriet Tubman - Abolitionist, spy, suffragette, nurse, scout, first female Civil War assault leader and maybe a paragraph in American History books.