There were many more killings than those of activists. A Louisiana black businessman’s murder is the latest case reporters have reopened.
See on colorlines.com
history
10 examples of #AAPI’s rich history of resistance
“In the wake of the #AsianPrivilege response hash-tag to #NotYourAsianSidekick and #BlackPowerYellowPeril, it appears as if (among other misguided ideas) there is a prevailing notion out there that, in contrast to other minorities, Asian Americans “lack a history of resistance” (or that we think we do), and that this invisibility and dearth of civil rights history actually confers upon the Asian American community a form of racial privilege.
…”
See on reappropriate.co
Why We Still Mourn for Wounded Knee
Community Village‘s insight:
This article has some historical details that I didn’t know. I recommend the whole article. There are so many good sections I didn’t want to quote just one.
Remembrance, reconciliation are focus of Dakota 38+2 Riders
NEW ULM – On horseback, bundled against the cold, a band of riders passed near New Ulm Tuesday, one day away from arriving in Mankato to commemorate one of the saddest, angriest moments in Minnesota’s history.
The Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride originated in Lower Brule, S.D., has been making its way across South Dakota and southern Minnesota to Mankato, where on Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Two other participants were hung elsewhere. It was the final act in the US-Dakota War, which had raged across this area in August of 1862, but just the beginning of the U.S. war against the Native Americans that ended with the Wounded Knee massacre. It was an act that has affected the souls and psyches of the survivors and relatives of those involved in the war, even today.
Since December 2008, the Dakota 38+2 Ride has covered the 330 miles from the Lower Brule reservation to the hanging site in Mankato.
See on www.nujournal.com
The Baldwin-Kennedy meeting
The Baldwin-Kennedy meeting (May 24th 1963) was when Robert Kennedy met James Baldwin to talk at length about race in America. Dramatis Personae: Robert Kennedy – president’s brother, Attorney Gene…
Community Village‘s insight:
This account is telling of current race relations in the U.S.
The oppressors still don’t get it and they think they are not oppressing.
See on abagond.wordpress.com
Anti-AMERICAN LATINO MUSEUM campaign update Mexica Movement
Mexica Movement met with ceo of American Latino Museum on Friday 12/6/13.
When we initially rsvp’d to attend the townhall we were disrespected and denied entrance to attend. After a few emails, we agreed to meet with them in person, and not by phone as they initially proposed. We met with Estuardo Rodriguez, the CEO of the museum and explained to him in much detail why we were not Latinos and how this museum was genocidal. After an hour we came to the agreement that he would allow us the last words of the townhall, all 5 minutes of it. We agreed. The townhall was mainly made up of vendido academics and artists who displayed no interest in representing our people. Known ex-chicanos were proud of embracing the concept of latino. Stay tuned for the video to come. The campaign continues. Check out the report written by the American Latino Museum yourself:
http://americanlatinomuseum.org/asset…
Watch Olin Tezcatlipoca and Citlalli Anahuac read the Mexica Movement declaration against the museum here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-QC…
See on www.youtube.com
2013: The year in pictures – CNN.com
“July 3: Assistant State Attorney John Guy, left, and Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda display the hooded sweatshirt worn by teenager Trayvon Martin on the night he was shot by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. A jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder.”
Community Village‘s insight:
The bullet hole is right over his heart.
See on www.cnn.com
#DecolonizeHistory: Storytelling & Resistance
“I started writing because there was an absence I was familiar with. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager… and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that.” –Ntozake Shange
#DecolonizeHistory is about storytelling that disrupts space to present narratives that have been actively silenced or neglected.
…
“Colonialism set the foundation for all other ‘ism’s’”
– Krysta Williams
…
See on decolonization.wordpress.com
“Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement” – Book Review Series #2
Historians of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s naturally tend to focus on the movement’s activism and the variety of forms it took. White segregationists receive much…
See on andrewpegoda.com
No Thanks to Thanksgiving
By Robert Jensen, AlterNet
“One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas.”
…