The Official Racism Thread Social • Page 97

It's well documented how racism in modern medicine and public health has specifically failed african americans. No 27 year old in 2017 should be dying from a heart attacik.

 

Mom was watching Gone with the Wind oh and of course POC are the ones that are the maids and butlers.

Had to leave the room. Really wish more people were aware of stuff like this in old "classic" films

 

long thread

 

The Weeknd Quits H&M Partnership Over Racist Ad: 'I'm Deeply Offended' | HuffPost

 

Saw a cop stopping two dudes on the street in what looked like basically random description-based harassment (we've had a string of robberies, usually committed by "2-3 blk males in x color hoodies," although none tonight) and they obviously were just trying to go about their night. Is there anything a passerby can even do in that situation, particularly without making things worse for the stopped folks?

 

Agreed. Similarly, Assyrians in the US are super Americanized. I even just learned that some call themselves Italian and run away if you speak Assyrian to them. I never, ever heard of that in the UK.

 

2 popular lefty youtubers did some good videos (as always ofc, if anyone watches these and sees any issues, please let me know, i like to learn).

also:

 

Are Assyrians people from Syria?

 

Yes and no haha. So, we're an ethnoreligious minority, indigenous to the Middle East, mainly from what is now known as the countries of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.

People from Syria are called Syrians, and there are Syrian-Assyrians. My family are Iraqi tho.

Assyrian people - Wikipedia

Hope that helps

 

"On January 23, Tunisia celebrated the 172nd anniversary of the abolition of slavery, reminding many people that it was the first Arab society to do so. The country is making history again with a draft law that, if passed, would criminalize racial prejudice, the first law of its kind in North Africa.

The work behind Tunisia’s pioneering law against racial discrimination began after the uprising in 2010–2011, which inspired black Tunisians, sub-Saharan African migrants, and their allies in civil society to push for legislation to end almost two centuries of de facto social and economic racial discrimination."

Termination With Prejudice - Carnegie Middle East Center - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

"Racism is fatal in Egypt. In December 2005, Egyptian riot police killed at least 23 unarmed Sudanese refugees, including small children, who had occupied a public park in front of a United Nations office for three months.

Last year, prominent Nubian activist Gamal Sorour died in detention. Sorour was among 25 Nubians arrested for staging a peaceful protest “demanding the return of Nubians to their ancestral lands, from which they were evicted in the 1960s to make way for the lake behind the High Dam on the Nile,” as the Associated Press reported."

Opinion | ‘Black Panther’ and the anti-black racism of Egyptians

 

So I just learned about Claudette Colvin today (thanks to Reddit). Why isn't she taught about in school? It makes sense that the black leaders of Montgomery didn't want to have her be a civil rights leader because she was pregnant and that she could easily be discredited but it's still pretty messed up that (according to Margot Alder) the civil rights leaders decided to get Rosa Parks due to her hair and lighter skin and only use Colvin as inspiration for Park's demonstration.

 

My friend is watching Cheers and there's not 1 single black character in Boston

Boston truly is rcaost

 

At the 58 second mark, there’s clearly a black patron behind Woody.

 

Hey Schools Maybe Don't Give a Bunch of Students Blackface Masks to Wear OK???

 

Ended up on a white supremacist forum by accident today. Turns out they're active in my hometown. Don't feel safe nearly anywhere anymore. I don't deserve to feel like this.

 

At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring Suspicions — ProPublica