Category Archives: racism

Godfather of terror: Saudi Arabia and ′IS′ | World | DW.COM | 25.11.2015

Saudi Arabia exports its version of Sunni Islam with the utmost consequence. In the last 25 years a former US ambassador estimated in a published study in 2007 that the kingdom had invested at least 87 billion dollars in religious propaganda worldwide. This sum, he thinks, may even have increased further due to the high price of oil over an extended period. The funds went towards the construction of mosques, Madrassa Koran schools and religious institutions, and helped finance the training of Imams, publishing houses and Wahhabi text books.A large part of the funds go to economically weak, but populous Islamic countries in south and southeast Asia, such as Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, or Malaysia. Proselytizing for Wahhabism is also done in parts of Africa. For many people in these parts of the world it is the only possibility of getting a school education. There they learn how to read and write and are also given access to the Wahhabi teachings. But there are also Saudi Arabian financed institutions in the West.

Source: Godfather of terror: Saudi Arabia and ′IS′ | World | DW.COM | 25.11.2015

Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Are Mostly Made By Latinos In SoCal: LAist

Before Donald Trump turned his presidential campaign into one based on racism, xenophobia, and blatant lies, it was basically a kitschy little hat that read “Make America Great Again.” Turns out those hats are made by the same people that Trump once vilified as criminals and rapists.Those trademark red trucker caps with white all-caps lettering (also available in several other styles, including camo with orange lettering) are the product of the Cali-Fame hat factory in Carson, where most of the employees are Latino. “When we first got the order [for Trump’s caps], I said to myself, ‘Just wait until he sees who’s making his hats,'” Yolanda Melendrez, who works at the Cali-Fame factory, told the L.A. Times. “‘We’re Latinos, we’re Mexicans, Salvadoreños.'” Melendrez is a Mexican immigrant who was brought to this country by her parents when she was a baby.”A lot of what he says about Latinos is not correct,” she adds. But in the end, to her, a job’s a job: “I get paid to do it and it pays my bills.”Brian Kennedy, president of Cali-Fame, gave his employees the same message when they were asked to make the hats by the Trump campaign. “I said to them, ‘We’re not political. We’re here to work,'” he told the Times. “And I haven’t gotten any negative comments.” As for how his company was connected to Trump in the first place, it’s because Cali-Fame has been making hats for Trump’s golf courses for a while.

Source: Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Are Mostly Made By Latinos In SoCal: LAist

A Definitive Debunking of Donald Trump’s 9/11 Claims – The New York Times

Confronted by Bill O’Reilly, Mr. Trump essentially shrugged: “I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert, and it was also a radio show.” He has said, variously, that 200,000 or 250,000 Syrian refugees would be coming to the United States; the Obama administration’s actual goal for next year is 10,000, as FactCheck.org reported.Indifferent as Mr. Trump is to facts, in retailing the myth of the dancing Muslims, he could not face a more sober and careful fact-finder than Mr. Farmer.Now a professor of law at Rutgers University, he led the Sept. 11 commission’s investigation of the disarray in the nation’s air defenses on that morning and exposed as fiction claims by the Pentagon that fighter pilots were in hot pursuit of the hijacked airliners. In fact, military officials did not know about three of the four hijacked planes until after they had already crashed. That became the subject of a book by Mr. Farmer, “The Ground Truth,” which was hailed by Jacob Heilbrunn in The New York Times as a “precise and reliable accounting of what happened.”Mr. Farmer said isolating and stigmatizing Muslims now, whatever its short-term political appeal, would spawn more alienated Muslim youth and potential recruits for the Islamic State.“Whatever the message, it is just plain wrong to cite thousands of Muslims dancing in Jersey City or Paterson on 9/11 as support,” Mr. Farmer said. “That simply never happened.”

Source: A Definitive Debunking of Donald Trump’s 9/11 Claims – The New York Times

Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘Even if it doesn’t work they deserve it’ | US news | The Guardian

Donald Trump touted the benefits of waterboarding in a campaign rally on Monday night, telling a crowd that “you bet your ass” he would bring it back into use.Addressing thousands of people in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican frontrunner praised waterboarding, an interrogation method that has been called torture. “I would approve more than that,” he said.Trump told supporters: “Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. In a heartbeat. I would approve more than that. It works.”The Republican frontrunner then added “… and if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us”.Trump is not the first Republican candidate to endorse the use of waterboarding, which involves simulating drowning, in an attempt to elicit information from terror suspects.

Source: Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘Even if it doesn’t work they deserve it’ | US news | The Guardian

We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

So there you have it. Donald Trump is posting racist imagery that comes directly from neo-Nazis.I hope you’re not surprised that a guy like Donald Trump, who continually spouts fascist rhetoric, is attracted to fascist memes posted by neo-Nazis. This is where the right wing has ended up in 2015.

Source: We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO

A KKK Rally minus the white pointed hood with eyes holes.A Trump supporter is heard in the background encouraging violence yelling “beat his ass”. Shouts of white power, could be heard in audience all during speech.At a Birmingham, Alabama, rally for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, a black protester was roughed up.The GOP frontrunner reiterated his call for the surveillance of “certain mosques” then spoke of the Syrian refugees who are fleeing from violence at the hands of ISIL.“I want surveillance. I will absolutely take (a) database on the people coming in from Syria,” Trump said, according to CNN. “If we can’t stop it — but we are going to if I win — they’re going back.”Then a fight broke out, because of course.Trump said, “Get him the hell out of here,” and the crowd took action.

Source: Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing Culture of Violence in the US, by Henry A. Giroux « Algérie Résistance

The widespread availability of guns is the reason for the shooting and killing of children and adults in Chicago, Boston, Ferguson, New York City and in other major cities. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence reports that « in 2010, guns took the lives of 31,076 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. [In addition], 73,505 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2010. » (7) And the toll of gun violence on young people is truly heartbreaking with almost 30,000 young people killed in a 10-year period, which amounts « to nearly 3,000 kids shot to death in a typical year. »(8) According to a Carnegie-Knight News21 program investigation,For every US soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in the United States. More than 450 kids didn’t make it to kindergarten. Another 2,700 or more were killed by a firearm before they could sit behind the wheel of a car. Every day, on average, seven children were shot dead. A News21 investigation of child and youth deaths in the United States between 2002 and 2012 found that at least 28,000 children and teens 19-years-old and younger were killed with guns. Teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 made up over two-thirds of all youth gun deaths in the United States. (9)

Source: Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing Culture of Violence in the US, by Henry A. Giroux « Algérie Résistance

Shabbat morning in Hebron | “And you shall teach this to your children”

The soldiers are bad here, but the settlers are worse. There is a Jewish woman who is notorious for trying to run over internationals and Palestinians with her car and a Jewish man who pretends to be a paramedic. He drives an ambulance but has no medical training or skills and arrives at scenes of injury to Palestinians for the purpose of impeding real medical assistance and causing further harm.While here, I have come to associate tzizit, kippah, and the star of David as synonymous with rifles, machine guns; harassment and/or impending injury. I have somewhat adjusted to this association, but this Shabbat morning it is more difficult. I find a part of myself wanting to forget that the soldiers and Jewish settlers call me a whore and traitor. I find myself wanting to follow the tallit wearing youth down the hill, wanting to hear the morning prayers. Quietly, under my breath I say the Sh’ma and feel tears well up in my eyes. I wonder what has become, and what will become, of Judaism?

Source: Shabbat morning in Hebron | “And you shall teach this to your children”

My humanity is not yours to control: My thoughts on #ShiningALight | First you Survive/ Then you Thrive

I watched most of the white participants offer qualified apologies, requests for patience and demand sympathy and support for their position.I saw many Black participants discuss the matter from a colonized mind that could not demand for itself what it would offer others.The white participants took the forgiveness and anguish of the Black Participants for granted. And requested more of the same without offering anything in return. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that relations between peoples mirror those between individuals.As an individual, when wronged, mistreated, disrespected, marginalized, maimed, murdered… etc., I am looking for a full acknowledgement of what was done to me and an unqualified apology. If there is an explanation of why I was you victim, great. But no excuses.And then I fully expect the wrong doer to make amends. To evidence his emotional state of being sorry.Anything less than that is useless.And then the wrongdoer is to commit to and actually never commit the harm to me again.Whites in America are very comfortable with the notion that black people have to earn full humanity and citizenship. And upon the completion of the Herculean effort, by Black people, white people will pronounce us human and citizens.If you don’t already see my full humanity and acknowledge my full citizenship that we don’t even need to talk.  There is nothing I can do to change your mind.  My humanity is not yours to give. It never has been.White people as the keepers of power have the ability to end racism today.

Source: My humanity is not yours to control: My thoughts on #ShiningALight | First you Survive/ Then you Thrive