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It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

hell yeah alysa liu hell yeah oakland hell yeah free palestine hell yeah art on your own terms and not just for competition results, even at the olympics

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

my town converted our old lead abatement center into a police annex. losing track of how many times I've thought, "this would never get past an editor" about real events.

My "I don't! believe in Phrenology" tee shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tee shirt.

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.

Breaking WaPo:

The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

state-sponsored child trafficking

Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.

There’s so much to loathe, but it’s perhaps this Columbia grad who pranced her way into a both vapid and vitriolic opinion gig with the paper of record, going from that to getting paid by Substack to get them on the map and now taking over network news, claiming to be against elitism that gets me.

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

I feel like this pretty much sums up the rot at the core of American civic life as a whole.

“Hold the fuck up, cowboy. I signed up for the great power, not the great responsibility when I signed up for the church/media/government/think tank complex/etc.”

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

When paramedics arrived at 9:42 a.m., Ms. Good was in the driver's seat, unresponsive, with blood on her face and torso, the records say. After they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse. She had two apparent gunshot wounds on the right side of her chest, another on her left forearm and a possible fourth on the left side of her head. Blood was flowing from her left ear, and her pupils were dilated, the Fire Department's report said.

Renee Good wasn’t dead the moment she was shot, and they still denied her medical assistance. As I said in my video at the time, they could not have known whether there was an opportunity to save her bc they didn’t let anyone assess her. There has to be some consequence for denying her that chance!

Trump's insistence on seizing Greenland is contextually bound to his obsession with the genocidal legacy of Andrew Jackson. Danish territory or not, this is foremost an assault on indigeneity. He believes he has a right to the land *specifically* because the population is overwhelmingly indigenous.

A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

Every once in a while some bootlicker toad will pop up with some shitty claim like "none of this would have happened if ONLY they had been POLITE" and aside from the fact that this is appeasement bullshit, it's not true.

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

This is an occupying force.

Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation

Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.

The time for state police to arrest the ICE agent is yesterday. You may still be able to do it now. Once that's done, start investigating those who participated in the cover-up.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

If everyone just lets this go, that's the ballgame. Anytime they want to kill someone they'll just say the FBI is handling it.