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Introducing the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity

Now that he no longer gives a shit about convincing progressives that he’s not actually a racist crank, Ron Paul gets to hang out with all his old friends publicly again. So, the advisory board of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity contains exactly the sort of people you’d expect:

Lew Rockwell, Paul’s former congressional chief of staff and later vice president of the company Ron Paul & Associates, which published the newsletters. Paul always denied authorship, insisting that unknown staffers produced the publication; several sources subsequently fingered Rockwell, now the head of a small think tank in Alabama called the Ludwig von Mises Institute, as the lead writer.

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John Laughland, a British writer who has never met a Central or Eastern European autocrat he didn’t like. A prominent defender of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic… Laughland has also defended Ukraine’s Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych (whose attempt to steal the 2004 election sparked that country’s peaceful Orange Revolution) and lamented the fateof Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s last dictator, victim of “humiliating treatment” at the hands of a “propaganda campaign waged against” him “by the West.”

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Oxford historian Mark Almond… referred to Belarus’s 2006 presidential election as a “landslide” for Lukashenko, “demonized” because “after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the West did not need to look far to find another bogeyman.”

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Judge Andrew Napolitano, a legal analystfor Fox Newswho has saidthat “It’s hard for me to believe that [7 World Trade Center] came down by itself” and that the9/11 attacks“couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us.”

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Southwestern Law School professor Butler Shaffer, in an articlefor Rockwell’s site titled, “9/11 Was a Conspiracy,” asks, “In light of the lies, forgeries, cover-ups, and other deceptions leading to a ‘war’ in Iraq, how can any intellectually honest person categorically deny thepossibility of the involvement of American political interests in 9/11?”

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Walter Block, an anarcho-capitalist professor of economics and fellow at the Mises Institute. Like many in Rockwell’s neo-Confederate circle, Block believes that the wrong side won the “war against Southern succession” and blames most of America’s current problems on “the monster Lincoln.”

 

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In 2000, what began with a few students playfully throwing peanuts at one another on a school bus ended in five Black male high school students being arrested for felony assault, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. When one of the peanuts accidentally hit the white female bus driver, the bus driver immediately pulled over to call the police, who diverted the bus to the courthouse where the students were questioned. The Sheriff commented to one newspaper, “[T]his time it was peanuts, but if we don’t get a handle on it, the next time it could be bodies.

Handcuffs On Success: The Extreme School Discipline Crisis in Mississippi Schools, a report by the Advancement Project, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Mississippi Conference of the NAACP, and the Mississippi Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse [PDF]

This is absolutely insane. I don’t think I can actually read this whole thing. It just makes me want to die inside. How have we let our society come to this?

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stfuconservatives: Distorted, perverse caricatures of Black and Hispanic people hoarding money in a house on the cover of your magazine… what could possibly go wrong? (Never mind that most of the people responsible for the housing crisis were white and already wealthy. Shhhhhh no. We don’t talk about that. The threat here is minorities, people!) High-res

stfuconservatives:

Distorted, perverse caricatures of Black and Hispanic people hoarding money in a house on the cover of your magazine… what could possibly go wrong?

(Never mind that most of the people responsible for the housing crisis were white and already wealthy. Shhhhhh no. We don’t talk about that. The threat here is minorities, people!)

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The Three-Fifths Clause, the Compromise Over Slavery and Its Lingering Effects

mohandasgandhi:

In addition, the three-fifths clause had a significant impact on presidential elections. At the Constitutional Convention, Madison said that a direct election of the president “by the people” would be the best system, but he rejected it because slaves could not vote, and thus the Southern states would be at a disadvantage. Instead, Madison came up with the Electoral College, which allocated presidential electors based on the number of members of Congress that each state had. This gave the South a bonus in the Electoral College.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson, who owned close to 200 slaves at the time, would not have been elected president without the presidential electors created by counting slaves for representation. Even though slavery is long gone, the Electoral College, which allows someone to become president while losing the popular vote, continues to haunt our political system. It is a perverse legacy of slavery and the three-fifths clause in our Constitution.

It’s also interesting to look at how this plays out today and how our electoral system continues to use Black voters and citizens to elect candidates who don’t govern with their interests in mind. Increased voter ID laws, measures to curb voting among minorities, and disproportionately high incarceration rates among Black people under inflated felonious charges work to deprive Black Americans of their voting rights. However, congressional reapportionment and gerrymandering often work to increase districts and redraw district lines by counting Black Americans, increasing the electoral college vote, but our voting laws, in addition to the institutional racism that heavily effects one’s ability to vote, deprive a large amount of Black Americans the vote or the ability to elect representatives who would vote for candidates with their interests in mind in the electoral college. 

It’s also worth noting that for drawing Congressional districts, inmates are generally counted as residents of the community where the prison is located, and in most states aren’t allowed to vote at all. Given the makeup of American prisons, and their locations largely away from inner city areas, you can imagine the effect this has as well.

(Source: azspot)

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America does not really want a black middle class. Some of the most bracing portions of Wilkerson’s book involve the vicious attacks on black ambition. When a black family in Chicago saves up enough to move out of the crowded slums into Cicero, the neighborhood riots. The father had saved for years for a piano for his kids. The people of Cicero tossed the piano out the window, looted his home, torched his apartment and then torched his building. In the South, when black people attempted to leave to earn better wages, they were often forcibly detained, and thus kept in slavery as late as the 1950s.

On a policy level, there is a persistent strain wherein efforts to aid The People are engineered in such a way wherein they help black people a lot less. It is utterly painful to read about the New Deal being left in the hands of Southern governments which were hostile to black people, and then to today see a significant chunk of health care, again, left in the hands of Southern governments which are hostile to black people. At this point, such efforts no longer require open bigotry. They are simply built into the system.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The American Case Against a Black Middle Class,” on his reactions to reading Isabel Wilkerson’s book, The Warmth of Other Suns. It really never gets taught in school that one of the ways that FDR got the New Deal to pass to allow significant chunks of it to not apply to black people. The Dixiecrats were a substantial portion of the Democrats’ congressional majorities, and their needs were catered to. Generally pretty quietly.

And it wasn’t just confined to the South. When blacks started moving north in greater numbers, plenty of people who were against the South’s Jim Crow laws weren’t willing to deal with a black family in their nice suburban neighborhood. Cicero was, I believe, a particularly bad example. But there was a general expectation that the creation of the vast American middle class in the decades after WWII was supposed to be the creation of a vast, white, middle class.

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Morgan Stanley discriminated against black homeowners and violated federal civil rights laws by providing strong incentives to a subprime lender to originate mortgages that were likely to be foreclosed on, according to a groundbreaking lawsuit filed today.

Source (via squashed)

I know, I know, you’re all shocked to see capitalism and racism going hand-in-hand. Had the vapors myself.

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This is what racism looks like in our supposedly post-racial society. A glance at the aggregate numbers should dispel the illusion that racism is a product of individual racists. White privilege and black disadvantage persist even though Bull Connor is not prowling the streets of Birmingham with his fire hose.

But don’t tell this to the judges or the lawyers on either side of the latest affirmative action case. Racism is not on their clouded radars. Instead, as Bert Rein, arguing for the plaintiff, put it, the University of Texas’s affirmative action program is a “quest for diversity.” His sparring partner Gregory Garre agreed, describing “the university’s interest of assembling a broadly diverse student body” as “indisputably compelling.”

Simon Waxman, “Diversity Against Justice,” on the recent Supreme Court arguments in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas. Somehow, over the years the legal rationale for affirmative action has changed from dismantling white privilege to encouraging diversity. Waxman explains how that’s an incoherent and self-contradictory goal.
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golis: Striking image from this new report from FRONTLINE’s Sarah Childress. Read it: Is There Racial Bias in “Stand Your Ground” Laws? | Criminal Justice | FRONTLINE | PBS Am I cynical for thinking that Stand Your Ground laws are just privatization of the police’s role in racial oppression. Over the years, our society has made it harder for the police to just kill black people they think might be dangerous, so we’ve gone and created laws that make it easier for everyone else to. High-res

golis:

Striking image from this new report from FRONTLINE’s Sarah Childress. Read it: Is There Racial Bias in “Stand Your Ground” Laws? | Criminal Justice | FRONTLINE | PBS

Am I cynical for thinking that Stand Your Ground laws are just privatization of the police’s role in racial oppression. Over the years, our society has made it harder for the police to just kill black people they think might be dangerous, so we’ve gone and created laws that make it easier for everyone else to.

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Newton’s Third Law

pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:

You can fill black and brown bodies with bullets for only so long before black and brown bodies fill the streets. When that happens, your riot gear won’t be able to save you.

Along similar lines, I’ll add this quote from Black Rage by William Grier and Price Cobbs:

As a sapling bent low stores energy for a violent backswing, blacks bent double by oppression have stored energy which will be released in the form of rage—black rage, apocalyptic and final.

 
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At Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, different sides of the park have different closing times. Let’s guess which side of the park the person who said this lives on: I don’t know why there would be two different closing times in this park. But I hope it’s not racially motivated. High-res

At Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, different sides of the park have different closing times. Let’s guess which side of the park the person who said this lives on:

I don’t know why there would be two different closing times in this park. But I hope it’s not racially motivated.

Posted at 8:15pm
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radicallyconnor: esmeweatherwax: talldarkbishoujo: wretchedoftheearth: I’ve never seen a GIF of this. I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to. Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral. ^^^ that’s cool, I didn’t know any of that. And if I remember correctly, the gloves they wore belonged to Smith. They only had the one pair, that’s why one has the right handed glove and the other the left. Since we’re all adding knowledge here, I’ll point out that the president of the International Olympic Committee at the time was Avery Brundage. He ordered the USOC to expel Smith and Carlos, on the grounds that their gesture was a domestic political statement, and contrary to the Olympic spirit. Back in 1936, Avery Brundage had been the president of the US’s Olympic Committee, and was responsible for thwarting all calls for the US to boycott those games. You might recall the 1936 games, in Berlin, with all the goosestepping and Nazi salutes. Those were the sort of games that Avery Brundage liked, even giving a speech to the German-American Bund in 1936 about how they showed the Germans “believing in themselves and in their country.” Smith and Carlos, however had “warped mentalities and cracked personalities” for their “nasty demonstration against the American flag by negroes.”

radicallyconnor:

esmeweatherwax:

talldarkbishoujo:

wretchedoftheearth:

I’ve never seen a GIF of this.

I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.

Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.

^^^ that’s cool, I didn’t know any of that.

And if I remember correctly, the gloves they wore belonged to Smith. They only had the one pair, that’s why one has the right handed glove and the other the left.

Since we’re all adding knowledge here, I’ll point out that the president of the International Olympic Committee at the time was Avery Brundage. He ordered the USOC to expel Smith and Carlos, on the grounds that their gesture was a domestic political statement, and contrary to the Olympic spirit. Back in 1936, Avery Brundage had been the president of the US’s Olympic Committee, and was responsible for thwarting all calls for the US to boycott those games. You might recall the 1936 games, in Berlin, with all the goosestepping and Nazi salutes. Those were the sort of games that Avery Brundage liked, even giving a speech to the German-American Bund in 1936 about how they showed the Germans “believing in themselves and in their country.”

Smith and Carlos, however had “warped mentalities and cracked personalities” for their “nasty demonstration against the American flag by negroes.”

(Source: bloggingisnotwriting)

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kilyoum: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. I think I recall seeing this photo last year or so, and it was pointed out that at least a couple of the guys are actually Americans living in Israel for college or something. I can’t imagine what would drive someone to go halfway around the world to spread hatred and intolerance like this. High-res

kilyoum:

A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem.

I think I recall seeing this photo last year or so, and it was pointed out that at least a couple of the guys are actually Americans living in Israel for college or something. I can’t imagine what would drive someone to go halfway around the world to spread hatred and intolerance like this.

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There’s that old saying: the devil’s greatest trick is that he convinced people that he doesn’t exist. Well, white supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that, if it exists at all, it exists always in other people, never in us.
BR Fiction Editor Junot Díaz, in part one of an interview with Paula M.L. Moya. (via bostonreview)
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Just in case you were upset that after firing John Derbyshire, National Review didn’t have enough racist contributors, I’ve got good news for you

They’ve now got David Yerushalmi writing for them. A quick look at his career:

Yerushalmi, a lawyer, is the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), which has been called a “hate group” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His draft legislation served as the foundation for the Tennessee bill, and at least half a dozen other anti-Islam measures—including two bills that were signed into law last year in Louisiana and Tennessee.


Yerushalmi has suggested that Caucasians are inherently more receptive to republican forms of government than blacks—an argument that’s consistent with SANE’s mission statement, which emphasizes that “America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white.” And in an article published at the website Intellectual Conservative, Yerushalmi, who is Jewish, suggests that liberal Jews “destroy their host nations like a fatal parasite.” Unsurprisingly, then, Yerushalmi offered the lone Jewish defense of Mel Gibson, after the actor’s anti-Semitic tirade in 2006. Gibson, he wrote, was simply noting the “undeniable Jewish liberal influence on western affairs in the direction of a World State.”


In 2007, he pushed legislation to make “adherence to Shari’a” a felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. That same proposal called for the deportation of all Muslim non-citizens, and a ban on Muslim immigration. The United States, he urged, must declare “a WAR AGAINST ISLAM and all Muslim faithful.”

This is today’s “respectable conservatism.” Not so different than when they were yesteryear’s “respectable conservatism.”

 

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dibin:

The English Defence League’s planned ‘celebration’ of its three years of existence turned sour as they were outnumbered by antifascists in Luton on Saturday 5 May.

The EDL claims Luton as its home town, but only around 800 or so supporters turned out for a rally held behind a huge steel fence that degenerated as drunken thugs – who had been allowed to assemble in pubs that opened specially at 8.30am – threw bottles at police and set off fireworks and smoke bombs.

That number is far below the 2,500-3,000 supporters it bussed into Luton last year and marks the success of antifascists in containing the threat of the EDL’s racist and fascist thugs at a series of demonstrations around the country in the past three years.

UAF

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