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Do not feed this monster of the White imagination! This is not a human being. This is a racist creation in the form of a 19th century collecting box: collecting money in Europe for the 'mission' and 'civilisation' of Africans. This paranoid sculpture has nothing to do with Black people. But it says a lot about Europe's frame of mind in previous generations. Don't feed this mindset. Wherever you are.
7Artisans manual lens at F1.2, ND filter, reflector.
We are all racist when we turn our back on God.
We say.
I know better than you!
I am better than you!
You don't exist!
I hate you!
I won't listen to you!
IS'NT THAT WHAT WE SAY TO PEOPLE.
I hate you because your black, or white, or green or purple.
I am better than you!
You don't exist!
I know better than you!
the truth is that God had one plan.
God made man and woman.
We don't know if Adam was green purple yellow or orange.
We don't know if Eve had red, black, brown or silver hair.
All we know is that God made man from all of earth's elements and Eve from Adam's rib.
Last time I looked the earth was every color that we could imagine.
Last time I looked at Eve she was part of the earth.
Stop turning away from God. Both turn towards the Creator and there will be no more of these issues. Until then enjoy racism.
Aix en Provence
Après une étude approfondie de ces volatiles dans les rues de la ville, deux conclusions s'imposent : - les pigeons ne sont pas racistes
- les pigeons apprécient l'art
This racist cop is ticketing this cab for an expired meter even though she knows the driver is in the mosk across the street enjoying an afternoon pray. This has been going on for years, cops target muslims at prayer for an easy ticket. Where is the freedom of religion promised in the constitution?
Greetings from America’s Favorite Racist Tourist Trap, South of the Border in Dillon, South Carolina.
According to this article, hate crimes rise by up to 100 per cent across England and Wales. Just wondering, how many people would still vote for Brexit if they knew that food prices will go up, but all foreigners will be staying in the country?
_The 5 my kees on the ground (1rst photo)
_ The 6 my appartment robbered by my direct neighboor. Number 4. (2nd photo)
_ In the night of the 6 to the 7 after a very short but very bad dream, i knocked gently on his door to explain myself with this old racist. He never opened the door so i wrote with a knife 'FAF' (='Fascist') and 'VOLEUR' (=Robber) on his door. (3th Photo)
May 30, 2020 protest against police brutality and for racial justice. #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
STOP Being Racist - is the message on a public electrical box on Broadway in own town Los Angeles! Artist Unknown !
Na foto em ponto de fuga, Vanishing Point, são mais de 2 quilômetros em perspectiva na imagem entre os pilares da Ponte Rio-Niterói de 13 Kms.
Uma foto que já me falaram que toda vez que vão para Paquetá o Ladrão e Racista da Penha tenta fazer e sempre fracassa.
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Sonhada por D. Pedro II em 1875 que encomendou um projeto de um túnel e não de uma ponte, objetivando ligar a Cidade do Rio a Niterói, a ligação via Ponte somente virou realidade 100 anos depois.
Ponte construída no velho esquema dos DESgovernos da Ditadura Miliar de 1964 de mandar alguma empresa estrangeira construir, fazer empréstimos no exterior e depois rolar a dívida com outro empréstimo até largarem o governo no meio da década de 80 com inflação superior a 100%, gigantesca dívida externa com o FMI e arrocho salarial no Brasil com o salário mínimo valendo menos que 100 dólares.
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This needs to go, don't just paint it white and add a plaque !!! Dinah's family should get money for starting this restaurant and now hotel .www.paloaltohistory.org/dinahs-shack.php
As racist as it may sound, Glenn is my favorite character, whether its cause were both Asian or not, I don't know, but I just love him so much and I was very disappointed at his "death" and overjoyed at his survival and I always thought making walking dead figures are just too simple and not really that hard I figured why not. You'll probably see Daryl and negan. On almost every Lego custom Glenn his eyes are normal size, Well coming from an Asian, lets be frank for an accurate mini figure they're not normal sized. I used a concept Lego used on short round and another Asian mini fig and its a perfect balance between racist prick and accurate figure. Also in the background my completed Avatar aang, Zuko, Goku, And Deadpool.
There wasn't a major event in Chicago this weekend but I was heartened to see that the people standing up against hate in Boston and other cities massively outnumbered the neo-Nazis. I will continue to protest of the neo-Nazis hold a rally in Chicago.
I have a few thoughts about some recent events and, as I wait for the eclipse, I just wanted to get some of it out.
First, the title of this photo is a major chant of this movement from day one. It was shouted when the day after the "election" It was shouted on Not My President's Day. It was shouted at the Women's March. It was proclaimed at the March For Truth, The Tax March, the LGBQT March, the Muslim Ban protests, the Inauguration protests, the Science March.
I feel like the conversation liberals have constantly had with centrists and conservatives kind of goes like this...
Liberal: Trump is actually a nazi.
Centrist/Conservative: You can't believe that! He has a son in law who is Jewish! He can't be a nazi!
Liberal: His parents were both proud to be KKK members and he has appointed and supported white power neo-Nazis in his cabinet. This Muslim ban is the first step in a long agenda.
Centrist/Conservative: Oh, no, the Muslim ban is just to keep us safe.
Liberal: Explain to me how it keeps us safe. Did you ever stop to look at how the countries not banned are those that have business transactions with Trump whether or not they have a record of terrorism?
Centrist/Conservative: I haven't really looked into it...
Liberal: And, how do you think Muslim grandparents are exactly endangering this country?
Centrist /Conservative: I haven't really been paying attention...
Liberal: And what about the sharp increase in hate crimes that are occurring across America...how is that keeping anyone safe or making American Great Again?
Centrist/Conservative: I've just been really busy to look into it.
Ok, so I actually had a conversation like that as early as February. FEBRUARY. It's now August.
Second, sometimes people talk about how the media is so negative against Trump vs. how it's the job of journalists to hold our elected leaders accountable and get information out to us. Sometimes, I applaud journalists in their ability to do this but I am very frustrated over the media picking up on this self proclaimed "Free Speech Rally"
Let me tell you how I see free speech...I see it as if you have something to say that doesn't harm anyone, you can say it. But, if your idea of free speech is you bring weapons, beat up and murder people then that interferes quite a bit with another Constitutional Right: Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. So, it's not on governments where even the police force doesn't have your same level of weaponry to allow you a platform to proclaim hate speech and commit bodily harm on those who don't agree with you. Governments are supposed to keep all of their citizens safe. The police force in Charlottesville allowed people to be murdered and badly beaten under their watch because they were outnumbered and terrified. The same kinds of things started happening in Germany leading up to WWII. I was recently glad to see the ACLU proclaim they weren't going to defend dangerous hate speech but it's also important that the media does not call these "Free Speech Rallies" but instead calls them "Neo Nazi Rallies." Call these people what they are and call their rallies what they are.
Third, I hate to say this one. Thanks Heather Heyer....you were brave and courageous and just and you did the right thing. Heather Heyer's mother also has a sense of dignity not acknowledging Trump's phone calls after his "both sides" comment. However, I have a sinking suspicion in my heart that if Heather Heyer had been a woman of color, Trump never would have even acknowledged her. I know this because of the many women and men of color who have lost their lives simply for being who they are who have not been acknowledged and used to galvanize a movement. Take the example of Nabra Hassanen, for instance, a young teenager who was murdered leaving an IHOP earlier this year. Did she get a tweet acknowledging her life and this grave injustice? Of course not, because she was killed because she was Muslim. Many of our beautiful Americans who are trans also do not get acknowledgement when they are murdered and many of them are men and women of color. So let's stop deluding ourselves with saying that black lives actually do matter in our country. They don't. People are getting arrested for taking down shitty racist statues but the nazis who brutally attacked Deandre Harris in Charlottesville haven't been charged even though there is tons of video evidence of their crimes.
Fourth, there are a few people who suddenly claim "art" and "history" as a reason for wanting to keep a bunch of poorly constructed racist statues. These people only seem to want to honor a certain history supporting an erroneous narrative that the Civil War was about states rights when it was very much about slavery. These deluded fools don't seem to care much for history when they are ruining sacred Native American grounds, stealing their artifacts, poisoning their water. Perhaps, it would be more accurate to state they really care about "White history and art." Now, that seems highly likely. But, if it's history and art that define a culture, I don't want a bunch of deplorable statues defining mine. How about we create a narrative of hope and strength around Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes...how about these statues are replaced with pioneers for just causes and we replace all the confederate flags with rainbow flags to show we are not divided by the color of our skin or who we love?
Fifth and Last, I have been glad to see some members of the GOP come out over the past week and say they don't agree with white supremacy and Trump's racist comments but I would like to remind them that actions speak louder of words. When you try time and time again to take away healthcare from millions of Americans, you're not targeting rich white people. When you try to take away any funds for helping poor African Americans get through college, that's racist. When you make sure that the pubic education system is a dismal failure by making sure that public schools don't have libraries, music, art, social workers, and funds for kids who speak English as a second language or who have disabilities and you target specifically poor urban areas, who exactly do you think you are claiming not to be racist? When you support the National Rifle Association, a racist organization that seeks to arm white power advocates just because they have lobbyists who give you kickbacks, who are you to claim you aren't racist? When you support incarceration of minorities for minor crimes like possession of marijuana, who are you to claim you aren't racist? When you support ensuring that those who have entered this country never have a chance to become citizens, who are you to claim you aren't racist? When you support a privatized prison industrial complex that preys upon minorities and introduces a modern system of slavery right before our eyes, who are you to claim you aren't racist.
Dear GOP-you are just as racist as your leader. You have proven it time and time again.
To Sum:
"Free Speech Rallies"=Neo Nazi Rallies.
Liberals have been aware of how harmful Trump is right from the beginning and trying to warn the rest of the country. Please listen instead of claiming we're just reactionaries. There are actual nazis marching in the streets. This is NOT ok.
Black Lives still don't matter to the powers that be in this country.
Confederate Monuments perpetuate harmful myths and are racist.
The GOP should not fool you into thinking they are not racist until they start legislating a whole lot differently.
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We got our Mom a new Nikon S630 digital camera for Mother's Day and I
was playing with it during the Angels game we were at on Sunday.
As I was taking pictures of my family, it kept asking "Did someone
blink?" even though our eyes were always open.
Sheesh! RACIST! :P
-Joz
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Los graffiti en el lado palestino de la barrera se han convertido en una de las más conocidas formas de protesta contra su construcción. Grandes áreas del muro contienen mensajes en diferentes idiomas dejados por activistas y visitantes.
Un grupo de palestinos e israelíes crearon "Artistas sin barreras" para protestar mediante el arte y la no-violencia contra su construcción.
La Barrera israelí de Cisjordania está siendo construida por el Gobierno de Israel, y se extiende aproximadamente un 20% a lo largo de la Línea Verde y el 80% restante en territorio cisjordano, adentrándose en el mismo hasta 22 kilómetros en algunos lugares, con el fin de incluir asentamientos israelíes densamente poblados, como Ariel, Gush Etzion, Emmanuel, Karnei Shomron, Guiv'at Ze'ev, Oranit y Maale Adumim.
Es un proyecto muy polémico que ha generado importantes críticas contra el Gobierno israelí por parte de distintos organismos como Naciones Unidas y organizaciones pro derechos humanos, así como una resolución no vinculante emitida en 2004 por la Corte Internacional de Justicia que declaraba su ilegalidad e instaba a su total desmantelamiento.
Consiste en un sistema de vallas y alambrados a lo largo de aproximadamente el 90% de su trazado, y en el 10% restante adopta la forma de un muro de hormigón prefabricado de hasta siete metros de altura, creado con módulos individuales, dispuestos uno al lado del otro e intercalados cada cierto intervalo con torretas para el control militar. Las partes de hormigón fueron erigidas para impedir ataques desde los edificios del lado palestino contra los vehículos que circulan en el lado israelí.
El nombre oficial que el Gobierno de Israel puso a la construcción es el de «Valla de seguridad», y por eso los israelíes suelen denominarla «Valla de separación», «Cerca de seguridad» o también «Cerca antiterrorista».
En los Territorios Palestinos suele denominarse en árabe como «Muro de la segregación racial», «Nuevo Muro de la Vergüenza» o «Muro del Apartheid», en referencia al antiguo régimen racista sudafricano. Esta denominación también es utilizada por algunos detractores de la barrera.
La denominación «Muro de Cisjordania», o simplemente «Muro», es utilizada por algunas organizaciones pro-derechos humanos, entre las que se encuentran UNICEF y Amnistía Internacional.
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I acquired this little antique made-in-Japan monkey girl vase from the estate of a family friend's mother and have had it sitting around for decades. It's silly and cute and yeah, it looks pretty frickin' racist to me. I hate the racist part but I kinda love the little vase. Philosophical quandry!
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Racist murders in Hanau: The night the world stood still
Taken from: Berliner Zeitung, by Tanja Brandes, 19.2.2021
www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/racist-murders-in-hanau-the-ni...
On 19 February 2020, a man shot nine people. The families of the victims have lived with the pain and many unanswered questions ever since.
Hanau - When Ajla Kurtović was getting ready for bed on the evening of 19 February 2020, she received a text about an alleged robbery – or perhaps a shooting – in the city centre. Kurtović exchanged a few brief messages with her father before going to sleep.
The next morning Kurtović's phone was full of messages, she told this newspaper almost a year later. Her father called and told Ajla that her brother Hamza had been shot the previous night. The injuries were only minor. Hamza was in hospital, but it was unclear which hospital. Her father and mother were waiting at the police station.
When Ajla Kurtović arrived at the station, her parents still didn't know Hamza's whereabouts.
Only later did Ajla Kurtović and her family find out what happened. Shortly before 10pm, 43-year-old Tobias R. shot three men in two different bars in the city centre before getting into his car and driving to Kurt-Schumacher-Platz in Hanau's Kesselstadt district. There he shot six more people in the street, in a bar and in a kiosk, before driving home. In the early hours of 20 February, tip-offs led the police to the perpetrator's home, where they found the shooter's body. He had killed his mother and then himself.
Why was Tobias R. able to keep on killing?
In the early morning of 20 February, the Kurtović family was waiting for news. At some point, Ajla Kurtović says, her voice trembling for a moment, someone read out a list of the victims of the shooting. Among them was the name of her brother, Hamza Kurtović. He was 22 years old.
"For us, the world stopped at that moment," said his sister.
One year later, the world is still turning but it isn't moving for Ajla Kurtović. She, her family and the relatives of the other victims still do not know what exactly happened that night. Although the course of events has been reconstructed, so many questions remain unanswered, too many to be able to somehow come to terms with the horrific crime.
Why was the perpetrator able to get into his car after he had already shot three people, drive to the next crime scene and continue killing there? How could it be that the police emergency number did not work properly on the night of the mass shooting? How did a mentally ill person legally acquire weapons? The psychiatric report certified the 43-year-old's paranoid schizophrenia after the crime, and it was revealed he had already been treated once for schizophrenic psychosis in a psychiatric hospital. Nevertheless, Tobias R. was able to join a gun club.
One of the most pressing questions for Ajla Kurtović and her family is: Why did it take so long until they were allowed to see Hamza? "Why weren't we told right away that night which hospital my brother was in?" asks Ajla Kurtović. That, she says, was "inhumane". Moreover, she says, the police continued to keep her parents' hopes alive throughout the night. "Even in the morning they told my parents: 'Your son is only slightly injured, don't worry.' When in fact Hamza had passed away shortly after midnight." In fact, a whole week passed before Ajla, her siblings and her parents would be able to see deceased Hamza again - in the forensics department.
Autopsy without the consent of the family
Armin Kurtović, Ajla's and Hamza's father, has serious accusations. An autopsy was performed on his son without the required family consent, and without giving his parents and siblings a chance to say goodbye to him beforehand. Armin Kurtović only saw his son again after the autopsy. "They slit open my son – I will never forget that sight for the rest of my life," Kurtović said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio.
Andreas Jäger is the victims' representative for the city of Hanau. He has accompanied the families of those murdered over the past year, helped them make contact with the authorities, helped them organise a move when the proximity to the crime scene became unbearable. And above all, he has listened. He too has said that official requests submitted to the police have fallen flat.
For Jäger, as well, the crime remains incomprehensible one year later. "When I heard about the attack on the morning of 20 February, my first thought was: 'That didn't happen here. People don't get shot in Hanau.'" You can't prepare for something like that as a city, said Jäger. "It is still unimaginable to me that someone from Hanau would shoot other Hanauers."
As incomprehensible as the act is - it did not come unannounced.
Days before, the perpetrator had already published a 24-page manifesto filled with racist fantasies and conspiracy theories on his website. It has also been proven that he had filed criminal charges containing paranoid, extreme-rightwing conspiracy theories with the Federal Prosecutor General's Office and the Hanau Public Prosecutor's Office in November 2019. Even then investigators assumed he had a mental illness.
When I heard about the attack on the morning of 20 February, my first thought was: 'That doesn't happen here. People don't get shot in Hanau.
The victims' relatives cannot understand how a mentally ill man was allowed to legally possess weapons. And they cannot understand why no action was taken although the perpetrator had announced his intentions on the internet. And the fact that media outlets speculated on the night of the attack that it had been a Milieutat - a feud within the immigrant community - rather than a murder.
Ajla Kurtović and the other relatives of the victims are still waiting for tangible political consequences. Immigrant associations and anti-racism organisations are also calling for a more comprehensive investigation of the crime.
Liisa Pärssinen, head of the Response, a counselling centre for victims of far-right, racist and antisemitic violence, says that support provided by the state of Hesse to the families of victims has been inadequate. "The victims' relatives are hardly listened to and they have to fight hard for help themselves," says Pärssinen. The financial resources provided are insufficient, and not enough therapists are available to adequately care for the survivors and the victims' relatives. Response is calling for a special fund for victims of rightwing violence.
Sociologist and rightwing extremism researcher Matthias Quent believes that the authorities, the media and politicians have learned something since the attack in Hanau. "Racism is now called by its name," Quent says. But even one year later, the realisation that the NSU murders and the assassination of politician Walter Lübcke as well as the attacks in Hanau and Halle were the consequences of institutional racism that has fostered for centuries, has still not taken hold.
"Instead, the image of a psychologically disturbed solo perpetrator is often spread, the 'lone wolf' who acts out of his delusions." Since the attack on Hanau, the federal government has presented an 89-point plan to fight rightwing extremism and racism. "That at least means that there is recognition that racism is a problem for society as a whole," says Quent. "A problem that we as a society have to solve."
Still no apology from the police
Ajla Kurtović says that in Hanau itself the solidarity after the attack was enormous. For the most part, her complaints are not directed at the city. "The city of Hanau and the mayor stood by us," she says. A conversation with the police, on the other hand, has still not taken place, nor has there been an apology. Her questions and those of the other families remain unanswered.
This is all the more agonising because there will be no trial. The perpetrator is dead. No court will be able to clarify how the crime could have happened, where mistakes were made, what could have been prevented. Nevertheless, the victims' relatives hope to get answers at some point. She still trusts in the rule of law, Ajla Kurtović says, but this trust is being put to the test.
Her brother and the other victims had all felt safe before, before 19 February 2020, in Hanau, in their home country. Of course there was racism before the crime, says Ajla Kurtović. Also in Hanau. "I never thought that I would be personally affected by it.
The city is not at peace for another reason. The father of the murderer is said to have repeatedly insulted relatives and friends of the victims during vigils honouring the dead. According to media reports, the 73-year-old has demanded the return of his son's murder weapon from the public prosecutor's office. Both the prosecutor's office and the relatives of the victim have filed criminal complaints against him.
The families and friends of the victims of the 19 February shootings have grown closer to one another - as close as the corona pandemic permits right now. Ajla Kurtović says it helps her to meet with the siblings of the other murdered victims. "We don't have to say much. After all, they have experienced the same thing as I have. They feel the same pain."
Today, 19 February 2021, one year after a mentally ill man, driven by racism and hate, preyed on his fellow human beings and killed nine of them, Hanau will remember the victims: Hamza Kurtović, Ferhat Unvar, Said Nesar Hashemi, Vili Viorel Păun, Mercedes Kierpacz, Kaloyan Velkov, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Sedat Gürbüz and Gökhan Gültekin.
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Pink tide - and a revolutionary is born again
By Rory Carroll and Lola Almudevar
When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara that had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over. His image and name would continue to inspire millions, but on the continent he wanted to transform he was a political failure, a defeated guerrilla on the wrong side of history.
Bolivia's peasants spurned Che's rebellion, leaving the Bolivian army and the CIA to capture him on October 8, 1967, kill him the following day, and rid South America of Cuba's revolutionary spirit. The soldiers reportedly drew straws to determine who would have the honour of shooting Che.
"And so he is dead," wrote the Guardian's Richard Gott, one of the few journalists at the scene that day. "As they pumped preservative into his half-naked, dirty body and as the crowd shouted to be allowed to see, it was difficult to recall that this man had once been one of the great figures of Latin America."
It was difficult to feel his ideas would die with him, Gott said. He was right. Forty years later the anniversary of the death is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back and Che is a hero.
Che's rehabilitation has been borne on the region's "pink tide" of left-wing governments, especially in Bolivia and Venezuela, where efforts are under way to promote socialism, deepen ties with Havana and roll back Washington's influence.
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, echoes Che's desire to wean people off capitalism by moulding a "new socialist man". The Argentine-born rebel's writings have been widely distributed in Venezuela and a government-run work and training scheme was recently named after him. Chavez has devised an ambitious scheme that ships Venezuelan oil to Cuba in exchange for 20,000 medical personnel who offer free treatment to Venezuela's poor.
About 800 doctors have moved to Bolivia since its President, Evo Morales, an ally of Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, was elected in 2005. Others are on their way to Ecuador now it has a socialist president, Rafael Correa. The scheme has widened so that poor patients from as far afield as Brazil, Chile and Nicaragua can fly to Venezuela and Cuba for free treatment.
"They have treated more than 120,000 [Bolivian] patients for free, without any conditions at all," Morales says. "What has Cuba asked of us? Have they asked to take ownership of a mine or to be partners in petrol? No."
Bolivia's President contrasted that with US aid, which he said came with strings, such as concessions for corporations that would perpetuate the neo-liberal economics, which he blames for impoverishing the region. "One wants to subordinate and impose conditions, the other gives unconditional co-operation."
Che envisaged violent insurrections against South America's ruling elites as part of a global fight against US imperialism, with the war in Vietnam just one front. Even Castro was said to be taken aback at his vehemence.
What Che would make of socialists who take power through elections rather than the gun no one can know. Not even Chavez, the reddest tinge in the pink tide, advocates communism. Nor is it certain the tide will endure.
But there is no doubt it has swept Che back into political battle after decades when he was little more than a handsome face on countless T-shirts and posters.
His name still inspires loathing among those who attend anti-government protests in Bolivia and Venezuela. Che was an enthusiastic executioner of the revolution's opponents in Havana, they say, and his elevation to secular saint bodes ill for democracy in the Andes. "He was a bloodthirsty Marxist who died and failed for a good reason," says Ignacio Baretto, a from Caracas. "We don't need him back."
Momentum is with those who revere the guerrilla. Chavez, flush with oil money and popularity, is building what he calls "21st century socialism". Morales has nationalised the energy industry and is ploughing through heavy resistance to rewrite Bolivia's constitution. Both presidents openly scorn the US.
Analysts agree that Washington has hemorrhaged influence over a region once its backyard. The dispatch of a US navy hospital ship to treat the poor has been viewed as a belated, feeble reply to Cuba's doctor army.
"Che was fighting for dignified societies, where no one is in the street, where no one is exploited and where people have the same opportunities to study and live," says Loyola Guzman, a member of Bolivia's constituent assembly and one of the few remaining guerrillas who fought next to Guevara. "That is what we are fighting for now."
I know you are reading this poem because there is nothing else
left to read
there where you have landed, stripped as you are.
—Adrienne Rich
HBW everyone! :D
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being my friends.
I am gaining perspective.
America is less racist than ever, and that is so remarkable. We are still unfortunately homophobic but we CANNNOT give up. If Obama has taught us one thing, it is that! =)
Student Quarters Olympic Village in Munich, Germany / Studentenviertel Olympisches Dorf (Olydorf), München
Student apartments in the bungalows of the former women's olympic village dating back to the summer Olympics 1972 in Munich. Since the bungalows were renovated in 2007-2009, each student has been allowed to paint their bungalow when they move in, they receive the paint and some tools for free and can choose whatever subject they like (except for sexist, xenophobic, racist motifs etc of course).
“I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is.” Cohen adds: “He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.”
Lindenpark, Potsdam (DE) 13th july 2007. Rude boys and rude girls dancing on Valkyrians tunes...
"Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose neo-Nazis and other political racists, especially if those racists call themselves skinheads.
SHARPs recognize the biracial origins of the skinhead subculture, and resent what they see as the hijacking of the skinhead name by racist extremists. Beyond the issue of anti-racism, there is no official political ideology of SHARP. However, some SHARPs have similar beliefs to politically-minded anti-fascist skinheads such as redskins and anarchists (such as those in the group Red and Anarchist Skinheads). Due to their anti-racist ideals, some SHARPs have been involved with groups such as Anti-Fascist Action or Anti-Racist Action. However, this is more based on personal beliefs, instead of directly associated with SHARP. In the 2000s, SHARP has become more of an individual designation than an official organization."
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"Le mouvement S.H.A.R.P (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice ou Skinheads contre les préjugés raciaux) désigne un mouvement de skinheads dits traditionnels se positionnant contre le racisme (contrairement aux boneheads).
Ce mouvement, né aux États-Unis vers 1980 est, comme le mouvement skinhead originel, dénué d'affiliation politique précise. Les skinheads sharp sont fondamentalement antifascistes et antiracistes.
En 1980, certains skinheads américains ont souhaité ancrer le mouvement dans l'antiracisme pour contrer la récupération qui en était faite par l'extrême-droite. Les premières affiches du sharp représentaient une botte en train de piétiner une croix gammée sur fond de drapeau américain."
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