#new jim crow

[usauthoritarianism]

This is the Real United States

[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.

[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.

[sunbookie]

“Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.”

-Michelle Alexander, "The New Jim Crow" 🧠📚✍🏿🤔

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Can you recommend me resources for racial literacy, please?

so this is a hard question to answer when I don't know where you're from or what your background is.

The first book you should be reading if you're USAmerican is

preferably the 10th edition.

here's some articles and resources that are free though.

This is a really good starting point if the above are too confusing though

let me know if you need more resources!!

mod ali

[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

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

So I know that you're allowed to send people in prison books as long as it's sent directly from the publisher. And I also know that Luigi Mangione apparently had The New Jim Crow on his "want to read" list. And it made me so curious of what would happen if I sent him, or anyone in prison, a copy of The New Jim Crow considering how critical the book is of the prison system. Like how censored are the reading options of people in prison?

[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. 

[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.

[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

[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.

[blueiight]

Louis w the camera. claudia w the diary..