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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?
10·6 days agoRelevant section from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
As [Edmund] Morgan says, masters, “initially at least, perceived slaves in much the same way they had always perceived servants . . . shiftless, irresponsible, unfaithful, ungrateful, dishonest. . . .” And “if freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done.” And so, measures were taken. About the same time that slave codes, involving discipline and punishment, were passed by the Virginia Assembly,
Virginia’s ruling class, having proclaimed that all white men were superior to black, went on to offer their social (but white) inferiors a number of benefits previously denied them. In 1705 a law was passed requiring masters to provide white servants whose indenture time was up with ten bushels of corn, thirty shillings, and a gun, while women servants were to get 15 bushels of corn and forty shillings. Also, the newly freed servants were to get 50 acres of land.
Morgan concludes: “Once the small planter felt less exploited by taxation and began to prosper a little, he became less turbulent, less dangerous, more respectable. He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.”
We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?
22·6 days agoAnti-black racism has been a cornerstone of America since Jamestown
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBCEnglish
5·7 days agoOh looks like they hit that mail truck. Got too close to the school they were bombing
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
1·9 days agoThere are a significant amount of support facts for how French Colonialism and Neocolonialism have affected Burkina Faso, not to mention the plethora of other countries affected similarly. Not only does Fanon use a large amount of supporting facts in his works, it’s very easy to find such in reference to neocolonialism online. As I have when responding to the other person.
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
1·9 days agoFirst, thank you for well written response
It’s true that Fanon himself did not write too much on neocolonialism, as it was a bit past his time. However, if you understand how reactionary sentiments foment in the process of an anti-colonialist revolution, it’s not difficult to understand how that persists in the face of neocolonialism, as western empires continue to subjugate these nations with modern methods.
In the case of Burkina Faso, we can’t ignore France’s neocolonialist actions since their independence. They have not been sovereign in the same sense that western nations have. While western nations were able to develop civil rights free of the constant battle against neocolonial dominance, this is still not the case for countries like Burkina Faso. France has still been a constant threat against their sovereignty, and as such, the anti-western hardliners continue to stay in power.
Spoiler
Unlike what they did in Indochina and Algeria, France granted independence to most of its West and Central African colonies peacefully in the 1960s. Just because these new countries were independent in name, however, does not mean they were sovereign… the African Financial Community (CFA) franc monetary zone, which is inherently unequal and rooted in exploitative practices.
For decades, France had a certain level of control of Burkina Faso’s monetary situation through their establishment of the CFA Franc zone, This monetary union between numerous West African countries and France, stipulated that these countries maintain their monetary reserves within French treasuries [8]. This monetary policy resulted in an economy that increasingly favored French imports instead of attempting to rely on domestic production, which maintained the historical level of dependence on France that existed within the country and neighboring regions. This dependence on France has made it difficult for Burkina Faso to sustainably develop local communities due to economic policies that favor foreign influences instead of local development.
On 15 October 1987, the socialist president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated, aged 37. He was killed in a military coup that is suspected to have been backed by France, the former colonial power.
After Sankara’s death, Burkina Faso entered a period of political instability, marked by coups, military regimes, and civil unrest. During this time, France played a significant role in Burkina Faso’s political affairs, supporting various regimes and exerting its influence on the country’s economic policies. This led to the emergence of neocolonialism, where France maintained its grip on Burkina Faso’s political and economic systems, despite the country’s formal independence.
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
1·9 days agoNo, it’s not unless you’re claiming Fanon in unreliable and not credible. A counter argument of ‘I don’t personally think so’ is not a valid counter argument against the highly respected works of an academic who both lived and studied his lifes work
The Wretched of the Earth
A Dying Colonialism
Black Skin, White Masks
If you can’t attack the substance, you attack the source. The only other time I’ve seen a weak bs claim of ‘appeal to authority’ is from people who try to discredit human rights reporting on genocide.
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
22·10 days agoMy analysis is based on Fanon, how well read are you on anti-colonialism?
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
32·10 days agoThis history of lgbt acceptance and religion is complicated, but that is beside the point here.
Colonialism and Imperialism are absolutely to blame for the reasons described prior, they have significantly halted progress made in civil rights within their target countries. A foreign power mass executing your people makes it difficult for the conversion to be anything but liberation.
If you want to learn more about the psychology of colonialism on the colonized, and how that influences social beliefs and revolutionary resistance, read anything Frantz Fanon.
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World News@lemmy.world•People of Burkina Faso should forget about democracy, says military rulerEnglish
75·11 days agoTo put it simply, when western forces colonize a people, they simultaneously suppress and frame their traditions as barbaric and prop up their own western values as civilized. The colonized people experience unconscionable violence from these western forces, seeing first hand the inhumanity being caused in the name of ‘civility’. Naturally, as anti-colonial resistance mounts, the most anti-West voices gain the most momentum, seen as less corruptible to those western forces and more unwavering in their resistance. So it’s no surprise that reactionary attitudes on civil rights come as a reaction to western colonialism.
It’s only once a people are able to reclaim their sovereignty that civil rights movements are able to build, fight for, and win those rights domestically. Without being co-opted by foreign powers with the only goal of destabilization.
I wasn’t aware of the connection myself until I read Fanon’s works at length
The suppression of those traditions, on Fanon’s account, marginalize or push tradition into secret—or, perhaps, keep the tradition in the open, but always as backward, abject, and contrary to modernity. This means tradition is still alive, not a mirage, and as alive also valued deeply by communities resisting colonial rule. Such traditions can be instrumentalized for the sake of revolutionary action, only to be evaluated after colonialism for their suitability in a postcolonial nation and culture. The same logic is elaborated in “The Algerian Family”, where Fanon explores the traditional structure of families in Algeria, in particular how those families set gender identity, power, marriage, and reproduction in fixed roles. Revolutionary families, he argues, identify these fixed roles and break with them while also maintaining a conviction that their practices are Algerian—that is, Algerian in the new sense.
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World News@lemmy.world•TikTok pulls Israeli ultranationalist’s account for breach of hate speech rulesEnglish
2·12 days agoI just added the book title and also a great video by Adi Callai on the subject, both have been invaluable imo
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World News@lemmy.world•TikTok pulls Israeli ultranationalist’s account for breach of hate speech rulesEnglish
9·12 days agoZionism has it’s roots in Christianity. In short, it began purely religious, expanded to include Jewish Zionists early on, notably in the wake of pogroms in Europe, expanded to include secular justifications as European powers (Britain in particular) were sold onto the project. In any case, Antisemitism was Weaponized to benefit the Zionist project, at the expense of the safety of the Jewish diaspora.
Ilan Pappe has a very detailed book about the origins to the modern day lobbying apparatus: Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
I haven’t read too much of the book yet, so that’s the best summary I can come up with right now
Zionism began as an evangelical Christian concept and later an active project. It appeared as a religious appeal to the faithful both to aid and be prepared for the ‘return of the Jews’ to Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state there as the fulfilment of God’s will. But soon after, the Christians involved in this campaign politicised this ‘theology of return’, once they realised that a similar notion had begun to emerge among European Jews, who despaired of finding a solution to the never-ending anti-Semitism on the continent. The Christian desire to see a Jewish Palestine coincided with a similar European Jewish vision in the late nineteenth century.
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World News@lemmy.world•TikTok pulls Israeli ultranationalist’s account for breach of hate speech rulesEnglish
91·12 days agoZionism is not Judaism
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World News@lemmy.world•Israel says it will keep control over part of southern Lebanon after war with Hezbollah endsEnglish
411·14 days agoBut if the Lebanese army pushed back, that might anger their US overlords
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World News@lemmy.world•UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts sayEnglish
2·17 days agoAh, totally fair
Although oil can also be critical for the creation of many drugs as well
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World News@lemmy.world•UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts sayEnglish
1·17 days agoIt is the sea passage, that being blocked causes global supply chain shortages, causing major energy and manufacturing problems more many countries globally, which also impacts the resources of countries not directly affected.
The interconnectedness of global Capital has been turned against itself
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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million
41·18 days agoThat’s odd, it seems to work for me so I’m not sure how to fix the link. But I put together a list of works a while back, some have links but they may not all be active. Libgen or Anna’s Archive have reliable copies tho.
While less formal, https://decolonizepalestine.com/ has an incredibly comprehensive collection of info. Everything I’ve tried to fact check on there has come up true at least.
Historian Works on the History
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Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History - Nur Masalha
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The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha
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A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
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The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe
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The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy
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10 Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe (summery)
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The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan
Documentaries
A shocking insight into Israel’s Apartheid | Roadmap to Apartheid | Full Film
Palestine 101 with Abby Martin
Life in Occupied PALESTINE by Anna Baltzer
How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown
One year of Israel’s war on Gaza: Al Jazeera special coverage
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary
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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million
73·18 days agoIsrael is based on Zionism, a fascist ideology focused on settler colonialism
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian that has written extensively on the subject, I highly recommend his works if you’re interested in learning more
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He can read the room and knows that the DNC is doing the exact opposite. Allowing him and other right-wing figures like MTG to lead the conversion when it’s the Democrats that should be.
It’s very dangerous, and goes to show how bad the Zionist rot is in the DNC for both the public and future elections.