Steve: hey buck remember that time we rode home in the ice truck? And you dated that girl? Remember how hard you worked to win that prize? Lol memories.
Bucky: I can’t believe it’s been 95 years and you still don’t get that I’m gay as fuck for you I played that game to impress you you are blind as shit why do you remember her name you wanna know what I remember your shirt was white and your eyes are as blue as the sky Steve listen to me punk it’s been actually 84 years can we kiss or what
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
This was her then:
This is literally how she looks in 2017.
She’s literally not even old.
Some of those people in that crowd are VOTING this year. Their children raised by them are voting this year. And they want to Make America Great Again.
Hey remember when JKR said the sk*nwalker wasn’t actually a horrible monster and was just native Americans being dumb and not understanding wizard shit
Remember when she deadass said that for real and thought that was fine
Also remember when she thought there were just random ancient castles in North America like how there are in europe. Do you remember
She was like “the American wizard school goopygloop is in an ancient castle in North America”. First of all who built that shit. The pilgrims? My guy jebadiah who has 9 children dying of dissentary like oh yeah I’m gonna build a fully functional Scottish castle right here in the middle of Roanoak. That’s a good use of my time and resources.
Remember how she wrote about her Very Special Irish Colonizer who gains the instant respect, adoration and servitude to all kinds of Indigenous creatures of legend from different cultures, while simultaneously treating said cultures as a single entity?
Remember when she thought it was a brilliant idea to make a magic boarding school for native kids? Because there’s totally no trauma associated with that…
A lot of people are really scared and angry because of the results of the newest climate change reports — as they should be. But I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news reports like “HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING” and bizarrely enough, the answers are never like “weed out climate change deniers from your government, impose strict new rules for the corporations that are creating most of the emissions, pour government resources into alternate forms of fuel, etc.” It’s always like “carpool to work!”
Look. Of course you should be working to reduce waste in your own life. But let’s not fucking pretend that consumers are the ones who made this mess. You know what another recent study found? Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. If the rest of us stopped ALL WASTE and fucking ascended to a higher plane of existence that no longer requires consumption of any kind, the world would still be absolutely fucked if those 100 companies keep on as they do.
I hate this personal responsibility model when it comes to conservation. By ignoring the actual source of the problem and focusing on individuals instead, guess who gets targeted? The absolute most vulnerable individuals on the planet. When people advocate personal responsibility, somehow they’re never talking about billionaires and their private jets. They’re creating straw bans that will make life more dangerous for people with disabilities. They’re shaming women for using disposable menstrual products. They’re criticizing the poor and destitute for using “wasteful” products because they’re all they can afford. They’re making vaguely eugenic statements about getting people in “third world countries” to stop ~breeding~ so much. It’s monstrous.
Stop shaming consumers for the sins of corporations and their powerful investors. Stop placing the blame at the feet of the people who already have the hardest time getting through life. Do something, and by “do something” I mean buy a reusable coffee cup on the way to fucking vote. Go to a protest. Call a representative. Demand accountability from the people who got us into this mess.
It’s as good a time as any to remind everyone that these apocalyptic projections have been known by politicians and capitalists since the 70s. There are already numerous cases of indigenous populations losing their ancestral homelands to climate change. A significant portion of our global refugee crisis, it’s as bad as in the aftermath of WWII, can be attributed to climate change creating political crises as people fight over scarce resources. Puerto Rico a colony of the United States got devestated by two hurricanes last year. A few other islands in the Caribbean were razed to the ground from powerful storms. Seismic activity is increasing in the Caribbean. Temperatures are sweltering across the US. For a sizeable portion of humanity the 2030 date has been a reality, as the most progressive presidential candidate of the United States recently said it’s time to stop being civil with parties with against your interest
A person who can befriend people of any political ideology is someone to avoid.
And they’re so smug about it too. That just means you stand for nothing. That’s nothing to be proud of.
If you can’t do so, you probably lack civility. Minding your manners and befriending people across the aisle is beneficial to the nation as a whole. What has division amongst our countrymen ever done for us? Can you name one good thing infighting produces?
Freed the slaves?
In the middle of a war created by division which claimed millions of lives? That’s a good thing?
Yeah since it freed the slaves
That would have come about anyway. And you’ll remember that it freed slaves in territories that continued to rebel against the Union until the 1863 deadline. It didn’t outlaw or suspend the institution of slavery, and it certainly didn’t end the impoverishment of former slaves. It wasn’t this cure all you seem to think it was.
It came about sooner than “it would have happened anyway” and it not ending the racism and impoverishment against former slaves doesnt negate that it ended slavery.
I’m sorry who do you think you’re talking to? The simple statement it freed the slaves implied nothing else besides it freed the slaves and you would do well not to talk to people like you know what they know.
Yes, it freed the slaves if the slaves could escape to the North. It wasn’t really enforceable since the CSA was a separate entity. Out of 3.1 million slaves, how many managed to get to the north after 1863 and before 1865? About half a million. And if they were caught while trying to do so, do you think the southerners just let them go on their way? Hardly.
Half a million out of slavery totally worth it.
All 4+ million in the north and south in December of 1865 is more worth it to me.
Both are good.
Also why is it beneficial to be friends with Nazis?
@prcximity why is it beneficial to be friends with Nazis?
You get to learn where they live.
“All 4+ million in the north and south in December of 1865 is more worth it to me.” But that wouldn’t have happened without the war…that’s the whole point. The South was fully imbedded in slavery and made it a condition for secession. Lincoln said he would keep slavery if it kept the nation together. There is no guarantee that a motion to end slavery wouldn’t have fizzled out and been replaced with stronger repression without the war to galvanize the Northern states and territories. The breakdown of Reconstruction literally proves why enslaved people would not have been freed if “compromise” was an option.
What I think @prcximity fails to understand here is that the Emancipation Proclamation was not an enactment of policy, it was a symbolic gesture on the part of Abraham Lincoln who had previously taken a soft stance on slavery in the hopes that the southern states would come back into the fold peacefully if they felt reassured that there was a chance they would get what they wanted– the preservation and continued expansion of the institution of slavery. He ultimately revised his position in part due to immense ideological political pressure and in part for purely strategic reasons.
Advisors like Frederick Douglass and critics like Harriet Tubman, both former slaves themselves, advised him that since the whole reason for the war was that the southern states were threatened by the possibility of abolition suggested by the limitation of slavery’s spread into new territories, the war would continue indefinitely as long as the possibility of abolition was on the table, and as long as there’s slavery, there will be people who think there shouldn’t be slavery, so the only way to take the possibility of abolition off the table forever and end the war was to abolish slavery. Even if the war stopped and slavery remained intact, it would start up again the second slaveholders felt threatened again. Remember, it wasn’t even the threat that slavery might go away that caused secession, it was the idea that the government might slow the growth of slavery.
It’s true that the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t actually legally free anyone– the states it applied to were rebel states that would certainly not respect its authority– but it was never supposed to. The Emancipation Proclamation served one very simple purpose: Abraham Lincoln declaring that he was no longer sitting on the fence, he had officially sided with the abolitionist cause because the only remaining options were “abolitionists win and slavery goes away” or “slavery stays, war continues forever.” It was a political move designed to tell rebelling slaveholders that they should stop waiting for the Union to relent and say “we’ll leave slavery alone as long as the war ends” because that promise was never going to come. The Emancipation Proclamation was not what freed the slaves, it simply promised that the war would only end when Slavery was abolished– a promise that was ultimately fulfilled in 1865 with the ratification of the 13th amendment.
Many in the south held no delusion that they’d be allowed to remain an sovereign slave nation, and their desired result was that the Union would finally say “enough is enough,” readmit them to the union, and concede the issue of abolition allowing them to keep expanding slavery into new territories. With that outcome off the table, they had no leverage, and the development that they would need to completely overthrow the union government, something they knew they couldn’t do, to preserve slavery was devastating to confederate morale.
Furthermore, it’s intellectually dishonest to frame the civil war as a successful conflict instigated by the north to end slavery, especially if you’re going to say that the violence wasn’t worth it because it was going to die a natural death anyway. It was a failed conflict instigated by the south to preserve slavery. Abolitionists would’ve been thrilled if Slavery had simply gone away with no war needing to be fought. Slaveholders were willing to fight tooth and nail to keep it alive. Abolitionists actually WANTED slavery to end “the easy way,” but slaveholders insisted on having a war to keep it alive. They failed, and slavery ended as a direct consequence of their failure. @prcximity‘s posts seem to be written under the delusion that the 13th amendment would’ve been passed in 1865 even if the Southern states hadn’t seceded, causing confederate officials to be barred from holding public office at the war’s conclusion, making it possible for abolition to be passed.
And most importantly, it’s this “being friends with people of differing political opinions” that caused the resurgence in slavery in the form of the convict leasing system that evolved into the current prison-industrial complex. These things were only established because people wanted to “mend bridges” with former confederate officials and allow them to once again run for and hold public office. With the support of the newly-formed Ku Klux Klan, former confederates once again found themselves in the house and senate and used that position to overturn abolition in any way they could constitutionally get away with, as well as slashing the budget of the Freedmen’s bureau, specifically to prevent them from ending the impoverishment of former slaves, a goal which they’d already done a lot of amazing work towards. If we hadn’t attempted to be “friends” with former confederates, there would have been no agents of the Klan in the house or senate, there would have been no convict leasing system, and the Freedman’s bureau would’ve had the budget to accomplish their reconstruction goals and get former slaves set up and comfortable. Things were looking very positive during reconstruction up until reasonable people tried to “be friends” with ex-confederates by removing their ban on holding public office.
All of the critiques @prcximity has of the Civil War scenario come from the fact that trying to be “civil” and “friends” with people who will take advantage of good people’s kindness is a recipe for good people being taken advantage of. Abolitionists tried to quietly and civilly limit the spread of slavery, and slaveowners instigated a violent uprising to stop them. Reconstructionists tried to be forgiving, and former confederates used that forgiveness to re-enslave as many black people as they could while sabotaging the institution designed to protect the liberties of free black people. Historically, repeatedly, we have learned that in a debate between White Supremacists and People Who Disagree With White Supremacists But Are Willing To Put That Difference Aside, it literally always ends with “white supremacists get what they want,” but when you make white supremacists feel like they can’t express or enact their ideology without being rejected completely by polite society, it ends with “less white supremacists.” To think otherwise is naive and frankly kind of stupid.
Hey everyone, with all this discussion around Twilight happening lately, let’s take advantage of it by signal boosting an important issue.
For those who don’t know, the Quileute tribe used in Twilight is a real, actual tribe whose stories and traditions were stolen by Stephenie Meyer and butchered to suit her racist needs. You can read more about that here.
And now, they’re asking for help. Their tribal school, and several other important locations including housing, is in a massive tsunami risk zone. In 2012, they gained a lot of their traditional land back, and they’re finally able to move from highly dangerous areas to safer higher ground. But that sort of move is expensive and slow, so they’re accepting donations to make the transition happen as quickly as possible. The tribe has received federal funding to move the school, but that’s not the only location inside of the risk zone.
The Quileute people were treated terribly by both Meyer and her fans, and we can help make up for some of that damage by helping them now.
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