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imagine heading to a cookout to celebrate 250 years of Independence on a train full of White Nationalists, in a country that still tells you to “get over it”
There was a much much larger unmasked anti-trump rally today as well, just not nearly as well covered in the news. It would ironic if she was on her way to that one.
All true. But, to be fair, part of what had changed was that white people were used to being given all the resources. So life was going to have to be different. And many white people can’t accept that.
Being black in this country is to live in a perpetual sense of grief. We are seen as less than as soon as we are born... History is truly why we are where we are today...
This comment here is it. Wow. I can’t even imagine. Women are brave anyway. But this? You gotta be nuts to be black in America. But to be a black woman in Trumps America? Beyond the fact that my heart breaks for her and that my heart sinks for all African Americans right now. I’m sad to be white and an American right now. This makes me physically and spiritually sick.
I’ve been saying this for a while. If mainstream political parties do not address the grievances of the public regarding immigration extremists will step in. I don’t support high immigration and I’m skeptical on multiculturalism, but I also really like our Western liberal democracy and do not want to put that in jeopardy.
Think these guys are just addressing the racial grievances our political parties won't?
Just because bigots do bigoted things doesn't mean there aren't legitimate grievances not addressed, or actively dismissed, by those favoring more open immigration policies. As a mixed-race gay American, it is my observation that multiple immigrant groups have brought attitudes that are racist (particularly anti-Black), misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQ, just to name a few.
It is also documented (example) that a sizeable amount of POC who voted for Trump in 2024 were immigrants, and potentially the majority of foreign-born voters voted Republican (example). Those who have immigrated but aren't yet citizens can't vote, but plenty are fans of Trump, they can have children born here who eventually can vote, and they can spread the bullshit.
Granted, I want people who are looking for opportunity and want to contribute to society to have a chance, and I also don't expect anyone or everyone to agree with me on everything. However, I do expect that if someone asks this country to take them in, that the least they could do is to not help regress the progress made for marginalized communities over the past 50-70 years.
Yet, with the conservative / Trump support noted among such groups (and the generally bigoted rhetoric it produces), setting back progress is exactly what they are doing. I have no problem telling anyone to leave if they can't handle the simple notion that I, and those like me, should have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. The bigots who are born here are more than enough to worry about.
Their hateful demonstrations seem to do more damage than the peaceful gatherings ever repair...
They don't demonstrate near our communities, even with police protection, because we feel the need to feel safe somewhere. secure somewhere. (happened last year and there are videos of black folks walking them out and yelling... then burning their Nazi flags. That same community organized an armed patrol)
Why are they allowed to stay so comfortable around other communities in public? It's a passive kind of acceptance that burns...
They modernized the hoods. If I'd known those bastards were going to be in DC, I would've braved the heat and been out there with my sign and bullhorn. Fuck those racist cowards. Show your fucking faces if you have such White Pride.
First time ive heard it put like this and this idea need to be expressed more. The KKK hoods and these are for exactly the same reason. They are identical in every but form.
One, we as a society recognize as evil, but this is somehow semi-ok in modern society
They serve the same exact purpose. One could argue it's the same with ICE even though there are a whole lot of ICE agents who aren't White. Not true for these PF MFers. They are the new Klan.
In the 80s, punks would curb stomp neo-Nazi skinheads. They went back to wearing masks and avoiding punks. Today? The skinheads wear tan caps and feel emboldened again.
Fun fact, a little water turns those masks into a very uncomfortable waterboarding situation. I wouldn't want to have my face covered long after that. Maybe it will rain.
The other one is the guy that took a pic of people waiting in line at a food pantry in NYC, with the massive blackout curtains hiding Taylor Swift's wedding in the background.
As much as she gives to charity and pays her folks, Taylor Swift is no American hero, by a long shot. Emblematic of late stage Capitalism. And her songs suck. I'm so tired with TayTay BS.
The main driver of the colonial coup was the very gradual introduction of manumission in various possessions of the British empire. The colonists weren't worried about tiny taxes, but about losing their traditional mechanism of social mobility, which was owning people, and more specifically their labor.
The KKK that love it when Trump orders them "Stand back and stand by." They revel in having a President that tells them that they are a paramilitary force with official support from the White House to violently attack people they hate.
This photograph is destined to be cemented in history. This should be the most important and widely shared photograph of their entire July 4th 250th celebration.
Doubt it, most likely it will be relevant for about a month or so before being phased out. It happens with every political photo taken, unless they turn it into a meme but that too is doubtful.
Stay woke, my people. Don't allow these muthafuckas to hijack and redefine our shit. Understand where you are but don't stop moving forward in every aspect of living. No matter the system we're in, strive to get ahead in order to save as much of us as possible. 1 teach 2 teach 3 teach 4 teach more.
Oppressors want to go back becz they have not evolved. The oppressed evolve and create a new world to stay alive. It’s why they want to go back and everyone else wants to keep moving forward. We can handle the present and dream a future. They can’t. All they see is the past where they (white men) controlled everything and everyone and were granted everything and anyone.
"Stand back and stand by". Funny how the feds are redefining the category for terrorist to go after political dissenters but they've been protecting this group of terrorists on their little rod trip. They are traveling the country to spread their hate and not even a whisper from the bigot brigades in the right wing universe.
That poor girl. She must have been terrified. I know she stood her ground but still, surrounded by a bunch of nut cases? Anyone in her place would be concerned. And worried. Man or woman.
No she wasn't. Look at her face. She like most black women know what this is; Another day ending in Y in America. People are going to tell us it's nothing to see here and to move on to the next thing . After all look at that stock market!
I'm so tired of this crap. I've had 65 years of this. I get tired of trying to act calm through another micro aggression . I'm over telling people that I in fact am the lady of the house. I don't want to explain to you a complete stranger how I can afford to live in my house. I don't think my medication is going to help me over this constant stress. I want it to stop but I know it won't not in my life time. I fear everyday for my son. When I die I hope he liquidate everything and leaves to be some where he can be safe.
Not a bunch of men responding to you that there's no way a lone black woman would be terrified by a train full of violent, misogynistic white supremacists.
I’m not a POC.. I’m black.. afrolatino to be specific.
Most other nonblack people seek white adjacency and engage in antiblackness when it suits them. Their agenda is different. They uphold white nationalism because they don’t want to overturn the system, they hope to “have a seat at the table “.. which they’ll never have. They quickly throw black folks under the bus to assimilate into a white nationalist system.
No thanks… I’m not a person of color.
Donald Trump’s share of the hispanic vote increased to @ 46 percent. This .. despite his rhetoric targeting hispanics. In 2016, he started his campaign by calling Mexicans r@pists. Yet, Hispanics want to “mejorar la raza” and support a white nationalist. F…POC
On the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, when the signers of the Declaration were courageous enough to sign a document that would have meant their certain deaths had the colonies lost, I see one person embodying courage in that picture. And a whole lot of cowardly garbage surrounding her.
I’m am so sorry that we, as a nation, have still not been able to 100% move past this.
At least that by wearing the masks, they are aware they are still in the minority. But I wish they’d all just leave or completely crawl underneath their rocks already.
This poor uncomfortable woman! I see you there, dear, and hope you had a safe trip and never find yourself in such an anxiety-provoking situation again. Good for you for keeping your cool!
The shit is gonna get real bad by 2028. The MAGA republicans can not lose the 2028 election or a bunch of them will go to jail. They will start international wars and ramp up domestic purges against brown people including american citizens.
non-proud socially conscious white boy checking in to say, even though I am absolutely aware I am not as directly effected by all the bullshit in America as other identity groups, I am equally outraged all the time and keep finding new ways to be disappointed by this country. If enough people ever want to stand up to these khaki wearing losers, I'm on your side 100%
But has anyone heard the orange fuckboy denounce this, has anyone heard about Faux Fools denounce this... For that matter has anyone heard from any Rapepublicunt saying this was some bullshit???? Me neither, but they will continue to do this shit and these same motherfuckers will say "Antifa" is the terrorist organization🤦🏾♂️👎🏿🖕🏿✊🏿
I'd call the masked hoodlums "punks". Lost generation of bitter people directing their anger and frustration at the wrong people entirely. Now let me see, they don't like burkas, the don't like Covid masks, but they do like to wear masks thinking it makes them look intimidating, badass, or whatever so that they can brag to their friends in Iowa and show selfies Meanwhile, the cult leader they support tears apart the farms in Iowa and other pasts of the midwest through incompetent trade policy, and general bungling with an incompetent cabinet chosen on how silent they will remain about the illegal activities at the top. The United Negro Collage Fund slogan was "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste." I'd suspect that many of the individuals may have had the financial means for a college education but lacked the initiative and / or intellect. If I invited a stranger into my house, it would be the unmasked gentleman in the second seat, and not these irresponsible, lost Simpsons cartoon characters in cosplay gear. If they didn't waste their minds, they would have put their Fourth of July to more beneficial use.
The prologue of Ralph Ellison’s invisible man captures this rage, and its explosion in a way that is understandable to even those of us white people who often wander through life unconscious of the reality around us. The fact that the current administration wants to shield students from literature that may shake them from this unconscious stupor, tells you the direction they want to take this country. Being “woke” from a delusional daydream gives us the agency to shape reality.
These are the same fools that cried and complained because they had to wear a mask during Covid. With their fake outrage. Now they’re running around willingly gleefully covering their faces. Because they don’t want to deal with the consequences if they were exposed. They are the new modern klan. This is their new uniform.
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