#Slavery

Korey Zelda

ksterlingzelda

america’s capitalist society built its foundation on the super exploitation of Africans who were brought as slaves; the stealing of land from Indigenous and Mexican people; and the genocide of

fogo nos racistas BLM ✊🏾

dubuhirai

okay i just woke up and i’ve seen a lot of people talking about cultural appropriation, because of this picture of twice, and i think it would be nice to

Kwasi

Olu_GH

by (barely) popular demand, a list of black spec-fic writers and book that I have enjoyed over the years. note: I am going to stick to stuff I have read,

Khalsa Jünger

senghmishima

From 'Dark Age America' by John Michael Greer:"...in the last years of Rome, so many people of the collapsing empire readily accepted the rule of barbarian warlords in place of

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

Sometimes, when a place with which you once had a strong personal association is in the news, one can't help but reflect upon it. I spent 4 years in the

SWNID-19 😷

SWNID

Idolatrous affection for the United States is inconsistent not just with Christian faith but with, well, what the United States is supposed to be.The American Experiment is founded on the

Sir Humphrey

pinstripedline

Today, I posted a blog talking about Admiral Nelson and asking whether the RN needed to re-evaluate its attitude to him - https://bit.ly/3nC4bSF The response on social media has been, to

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

From the very beginning, nations used corporations for power and profit until corporations turned a corner and reversed the process, transforming nations into support vessels, making use of their militaries,

Alec 🏳️‍🌈 🦔 Always distant. Never social.

dreamsofpdx

I'm tired. I'm tired of living in a country where black people are dis-proportionally killed, arrested, threatened, oppressed, vilified, and shamed. The images coming out of MN this morning of

RITA ADUBA

RitaAdubaBlog

When I read people praising Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla I laugh at their ignorance. This woman was our finance minister twice and she did nothing other than influence a naive Obj to

Siddhant Adlakha

SiddhantAdlakha

The replies to John Boyega’s (simple, sensible) tweets on racism indicate the need for a refresher on what racism even is, and why you can’t be racist to white people,

Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair

harrisonjaime

The spirit of Lee Atwater is still alive and well in today’s GOP. We hear the dog whistles. Folks like Mitch & Haley probably haven’t even read the 1619 project.

Shimon Prokupecz

ShimonPro

!!! Attorney General William Barr slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him on Tuesday, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision

Women's Voices

WomenReadWomen

Rant:I'm honestly so tired of this trans bullshit.Women have so much to deal with now; normalization of porn and sexual slavery, FGM, rape that is also normalized, and rape by

Allanah Rolph

allanah_rolph

ALL FELLOW WHITE PEOPLE:remember when we were 8 and learned about slavery and asked how that possibly happened? when we said that WE would never have allowed something so horrible

Brian Zahnd

BrianZahnd

During Columbus’ governorship of Hispaniola the Arawak people were either sold into slavery or forced to supply a certain quantity of gold every three months. Those who failed to meet