#new jim crow

[uboat53]

Well, I at least appreciate Tennessee making their racism crystal clear by expelling two black members of their assembly but not the white member who took part in the exact same activities.

It's the new Jim Crow, guys. Nothing more, nothing less.

[usauthoritarianism]

This is the Real United States

[darealprisonart]

A WRITTEN GUARANTEE

I Had To Learn To Trust And Believe In A Promise A Word Sent Down By One Most Powerful And Just What Was Asked Of Me Was All Well And Good But That Goal Seemed Unreachable When I Checked Out Where I Stood But Included With That Promise Was A Written Guarantee That Any Who Does Good And Believed Had A Seat In Paradise For Eternity His Word Became My Cacoon And I Feel Myself Coming Anew In His Word…

[negrolicity]

[alwaysbewoke]

[mysharona1987]

Isreal: “We have to stop terrorism!”

How is limiting water to people stopping terrorism?

Reminds me of the foreign, humanitarian doctor who went into Gaza and was shocked when the IDF refused to let him in with his basic medical supplies.

[houghtonlib]

Houghton Library acquires a copy of the Green Book for 1949, a vital guide for African American travelers in the Jim Crow era.

Green, Victor H. The Negro motorist green book: an international travel guide. New York, N.Y. : Victor H. Green & Co., [1949]

2023-638

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[tododeku-or-bust]

I know anybody can write a book and make it sound correct, so this isn't me saying that all authors are inherently right.

But it is wild to me because so many of the answers that white people seek about race and racism... Are in books that Black people of many backgrounds write. So many things that we point out on here, I've read. I mean, I knew most things from experience, but I've had it backed up with facts from endless sources in books I've read, compiled by Black lawyers and activists and academics. It's all there. There's no need for Black people to get on this app and "lie" or "over exaggerate". It's there. It can be found. Reality is reality. When we say do the reading, you will actually benefit from said reading. You'll probably feel less insecure even, about how to move forward!

I'm rambling, really. I just love to learn, especially when it helps me contribute to conversation and to help the world around me. I can't imagine just... Having the resources to point out the truth to me and I just... Don't take it. If you actually wanna be antiracist, why would you not drink in all this information that has been so carefully crafted for you?

[palestinegenocide]

Violating intimacies

Israeli soldiers have photographed themselves posing with the lingerie of Palestinian women they have displaced or killed in Gaza. They join a long line of conquest images, from Abu Ghraib images to the spectacle of Jim Crow-era lynchings.

[Link]

It was the tongue that stopped me cold. The tongue and the savage, shit-eating grin on the soldier’s face as he and his buddy mug for the camera. Look at us! Look what we found. It’s a bra, a woman’s bra, a Palestinian woman’s bra left in a home she was forced to flee. And now it’s ours, and we’re going to play with it because we can, and we’re going to take it on the street and pose with it and show the world who we are, frat boys pumped for genocide. 

[karinyosa]

reminder that you can email congress for a ceasefire here and the white house here. don't forget to mention/also email about us government ending funding to israel and sanctioning them, and holding them accountable for war crimes, but the immediate need right now is a ceasefire. there are other online writing actions on the first link including calling the white house

[uboat53]

Well, here we go again, the new Jim Crow is here to tell you how "slavery was good for the slaves, akshually".

Specifically, Florida's new education standards require that students learn "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" and about "acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans" as if racial violence wasn't just one-sided.

Let's hope this type of education designed to facilitate racism doesn't last long.

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

The Communist Manifesto didn't come out until 1848, so it's impossible for Feuilly to have read it in canon; however, Les Mis wasn't published until 1862, and I refuse to believe that Feuilly's character was not at least informed by some of the ideas.

[nashvillethotchicken]

I wish there were more black people who were into iwtv so I can talk about how Louis's class and race interests intersected

[blueiight]

Louis w the camera. claudia w the diary..

[bitchesgetriches]

Sup bitches! I’m in love with a very sweet, smart, hardworking man - who also finished a 20-year prison sentence three years ago. He has a great, well-paying job in a small business, his credit is blossoming, and he is beloved my all; by all accounts a success story. But of course, there are barriers, namely finding a place to rent. I have no such barriers, but I know most places do background checks on all potential occupants. What are our options?

Legal discrimination against ex-convicts is one of the blackest stains on our country. You and your partner have our sympathy and support! He has done his time and by rights should be entitled to the full privileges of any other citizen. And yet.

Remember that we are NOT legal professionals, and so we can't offer legal advice. What I CAN tell you is that if you are the only person on the lease, you will be the only one subject to a background check. Additionally, if you submit his criminal record up-front, in a personal letter to a private landlord (rather than a giant rental corporation), they're more likely to be reasonable about your case.

For more practical advice and to understand your partner's rights, risks, and options as an ex-convict, we recommend reading "The New Jim Crow." It talks about the racial component of the criminal justice system, but the discriminatory aspects of post-prison life are broadly applicable.

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander: A Bitchtastic Book Review

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