“Building Brides is our response to the persistence of violence in our society and against members of our ethnic communities, the most recent instance being that of the killings at the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin.
The primary objective of this event is to create, promote and render a thought-provoking civil discourse among members of our communities.”
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“It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.”
So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white people’s clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”
Eliminate your culture – or else.
My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.
No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.
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CNN Headline News profiles professor of art Ken Gonzales-Day about his exhibition examining lynchings during California’s early history.
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“This video recording is from a presentation in Phoenix, Arizona on February 16, 2013. Olin Tezcatlipoca lectures with a poem on the disastrous state of our mental and economic affairs as a Nican Tlaca people, as Indigenous people.”
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On Sunday September 15th 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls: Addie Mae Collins, age 14 (1949-1963) Cynthia Wesley, age 14 (1949-1…
There is an excellent Spike Lee documentary called “4 Little Girls” filled with many heart wrenching scenes and interviews of the parents, family and friends.
One of the most heart-rending and poignant scenes is when the father of one of the murdered girls shows the cinematographer an absolutely perfect photo he took of his beautiful happy daughter hugging a white doll as close as she can to her head as her and the doll pose for the camera.
The beautiful innocence of childhood contrasted alongside the hate and violence of racist adults is emotionally overwhelming. Viewing a happy photo from a grieving parent made me sad and sick to my stomach at the absurdity of the hate and violence in this world.
It’s not enough to say that one man or four men were sociopathic killers. The whole U.S. culture allows those sick and twisted people to be members of our society virtually unchecked.
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“On WNYW’s morning news show, Bobby Rivers interviewed filmmaker Spike Lee for the release of his first documentary, “4 Little Girls.” Lee’s 1997 feature covers a racial hate crime in September 1963 that made international headlines.
Four children were killed in an Alabama church bombing two weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic March on Washington.”
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Appalled by the murder of four little girls, a white Alabaman spoke out against racism—and was forever shunned for it.
See on www.theatlantic.com
“The Taínos (tah-EE-noes), commonly called the Arawak Indians, were the main people who lived in the Caribbean when Columbus arrived in 1492. They are the ones he called “Indians”, thinking he was in Asia.”
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“Spanish genocide and disease wiped out 85% of the Tainos. It shocked Europe, even back then. And yet, despite all that – or, rather, because of all that – the Spanish debated whether the Tainos had souls in the Valladolid Debate (1550-1551).”
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Formal apology for colonial era mass killings comes ahead of state visit by the Dutch prime minister to Jakarta.
People from the Netherlands (Dutch) claim to be among the happiest people in the world (page 23). This is how happy people behave? Invade another country and massacre people?
Or, the Dutch were not happy in 1949? (highest period of European racism)?
See on www.aljazeera.com
Rare behind-the-scenes photos of civil rights activists training to endure the harassment and violence they would face.
The movie “The Butler” depicts the training and the lunch counter abuse and oppression.
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