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9906 Haiku | jllopart

A pierna suelta
duermen algunos siempre;
como los mancos.

j.ll.folch 10/9/24

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It’s Not New — It’s Our Legacy | Filosofa’s Word

Race-based hatred and violence are nothing new in the United States and did not start with J.D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants.  In fact, racial hatred and violence are a large part of our history, the history that some would whitewash away given half a chance.  What we see today is just a continuation of centuries of intolerance, racism, and bigotry in all its forms that lead to violence and ultimately murder.  Last Sunday marked the 61st anniversary of one of the most notable and heinous such events, as author/historian Joyce Vance reminds us …

The Legacy of Hate

By Joyce Vance

15 September 2024

Today, it has been 61 years since a white supremacist’s bomb went off at 10:22 a.m. at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were getting ready for church services.

VICTIMS OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING ON SEPT. 15, 1963: DENISE MCNAIR, 11; CAROLE ROBERTSON, 14; ADDIE MAE COLLINS, 14; AND CYNTHIA WESLEY, 14. A FIFTH LITTLE GIRL, SARAH COLLINS RUDOLPH, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. (CREDIT: AP PHOTO)

In the environment of permissible hate that permeated the culture and the legal system in the Deep South in 1963, the men responsible went unpunished for decades. The FBI officially closed its investigation in 1968, without bringing a single indictment, although they had identified the men responsible. Racist leaders like Alabama Governor George Wallace and Police Commissioner Bull Conner tolerated racial violence, even encouraging it. The Ku Klux Klan lynched Black men and Black boys, using terror to try and maintain political control.

It sounds familiar.

Today, as church bells ring across my city and people mourn the loss of young lives and condemn the evil men who made it possible, this country is at risk of repeating that history. Just like violence against Black people was often justified by lies about crimes they had committed, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are spreading lies about Haitian immigrants—lies that are so ridiculous they would be laughable if their potential impact wasn’t so deadly serious. A woman who posted on Facebook that a Haitian immigrant had eaten her neighbor’s cat has recanted. But the truth doesn’t matter to Donald Trump, who has continued, as he did on the debate stage last Tuesday, to add outrage over immigrants eating dogs and cats to his repertoire of campaign lies. This morning, on Truth Social, Trump is unleashing a torrent of hate against immigrants—his choice in this election, as in 2016 and 2020, for a spew of venom designed to blind Americans to the truth and force them into Donald Trump’s arms…

Source: It’s Not New — It’s Our Legacy | Filosofa’s Word

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इंसानियत / Humanity

इंसानी बातें तो कोमल मीठी बातों से शुरू होती है,  लेकिन जब गुस्सा दिमाग पर होने लगता हावी है… शब्द होने लगते हैं तीखे, और तर्क सामने आते हैं,  लगते …

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