Tuesday, December 31, 2024
"The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others," Tolstoy
CB: Yes , _social intelligence_ is the most important intelligence
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Yes Black Bottom was removed , but Black then , liberated from confinement in Black Bottom, took over the whole city ! The whole city became overwhelmingly majority Black population. That's how Mayor Young was mayor for 20 years. Detroit became Black Top, with the old Black Bottom area , Greater Lafayette Park populated significantly with Duboisian Talented Tenths, Black Top's like Coleman Young himself.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Rudolph , with nose so bright : "Hey , Santa , since you want me to lead your sleigh tonight, how about a raise ."
Rudolph , with nose so bright : "Hey , Santa , since you want me to lead your sleigh tonight, how about a raise ."
President-elect Donald Trump says he will enact a mass-deportation operation starting his first week in office. But according to photojournalist, author, and organizer David Bacon, there are serious limitations on what he can do, because big business in the United States depends so heavily on migrant labor.
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IMMIGRANT WORKERS - AN IMPEDIMENT TO MASS DEPORTATION: A Q&Q WITH DAVID BACON The Border Chronicle, 12/12/24 https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/migrant-workers-as-an-impediment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=373432&post_id=153031157&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8mf9r&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/12/migrant-workers-as-impediment-to-mass.html
Immigrant workers from the Woodfin Suites hotel and their supporters rally outside the hotel in Emeryville, California, while white students from college Republican clubs counterdemonstrate in support of the company. Hotel managers fired 20 workers, accusing them of lacking legal permission to work. (Photo by David Bacon)
President-elect Donald Trump says he will enact a mass-deportation operation starting his first week in office. But according to photojournalist, author, and organizer David Bacon, there are serious limitations on what he can do, because big business in the United States depends so heavily on migrant labor.
What follows in this interview is an analysis, from a worker's perspective, of Trump's promise to ramp up immigration enforcement. Bacon's analysis is informed by his history as a union organizer, decades of research and writing through multiple administrations, including Trump's first term, as well as knowledge of the global economic system. Bacon offers several examples of how undocumented workers organized, mobilized, and prepared for potential raids in the past, and notes that corporate bosses are not necessarily keen on mass deportations.
Bacon has authored several books, including Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration, and More than a Wall/Más que un muro.
What do Trump's mass-deportation plans mean for the U.S. economy and its many industries that depend on migrant labor?
Immigration enforcement doesn't exist for its own sake. It plays a role in a larger system that serves capitalist interests by supplying employers the labor force they require. Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than it's ever been before. Over 50 percent of the country's agricultural workforce is undocumented, and the list of other industries that depend on immigrant labor is long-meatpacking, some construction trades, building services, health care, restaurant and retail service, and more.
Trump is not free to eliminate this workforce-which is an advantage and even a source of potential power for workers. Employers know this, and within months of his 2017 inauguration, agribusiness executives were already meeting with him to ensure that he would not follow through on his threats of raids and a tightened border when they needed labor. Last month construction companies in Texas were warning Trump that mass deportations would threaten their profits. Even in 2006, growers in California bused workers to the big marches in hopes that the Sensenbrenner bill wouldn't deprive them of workers.
But workers, communities, and unions can't depend on employers to battle Trump for them. What companies need is labor at a cost they want to pay. The existing system has worked well for them. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 8 million of the 11 to 12 million undocumented people in the U.S. are wageworkers, and most earn the minimum wage or close to it. The abysmal federal minimum of $7.25 an hour produces an annual income of $14,500. Even the higher minimums in states like California render an income of barely twice that. The average farmworker family income is below $25,000. Yet Social Security estimates that the average U.S. wage is $66,000.
That difference is a source of enormous profit. If the industries that depend on immigrant labor paid the average wage, they would have to pay undocumented workers an additional $250 billion, so the rewards they reap from low-wage labor are huge. Trump has to guarantee not just workers to contribute the labor, but labor at a cost that is acceptable to corporate employers. If we look at his cabinet picks, it is clear that their needs come first.
In his 2017 meetings with growers, Trump promised to expand the contract labor system, in which as many as 900,000 people recruited by employers work in the U.S. each year. These workers can come only to work, not to stay. Visa categories include the notorious H-2A program for farm labor, like the old bracero program of the 1950s. Last year growers were given 370,000 H-2A visa certifications-a sixth of the entire U.S. farm labor workforce. The program is known for abusing workers, and the recent reforms by Secretary of Labor Julie Su are already being targeted by growers and their MAGA allies for repeal. The H-2A program is huge, but similar ones are growing in hospitality, meatpacking, and other industries, even for teachers in schools.
What do you expect to see in terms of workplace raids? Will corporate executives also be arrested and jailed?
Workplace enforcement is based on a provision, called employer sanctions, of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It makes it illegal for employers to hire undocumented workers. In reality, the law makes it illegal for people without papers to work. Over almost 50 years, the federal government has built up a database, called E-Verify, that seeks to identify every undocumented worker. ICE then requires employers to fire anyone it says is not in the U.S. legally.
Employers are almost never punished in this enforcement strategy. The only ones punished are workers, who lose their jobs and therefore can't pay rent, buy food, or survive. By making it impossible to live, the strategy seeks to force workers to "self-deport." Heavy workplace enforcement has also included raids, in which ICE enters workplaces and detains anyone they accuse of being undocumented. Both tactics have been used extensively by both Republican and Democratic administrations for half a century. Trump will undoubtedly make them a primary enforcement strategy too. There is also, however, a long history of resistance by workers and unions to workplace enforcement, and it is important to learn from that history the tactics we've used.
Migrant farmworkers, domestic workers, and their supporters march through San Francisco's Mission District to call for passage of the Registry Bill, which would allow undocumented people to gain legal immigration status. (Photo by David Bacon)
Under President George W. Bush, federal prosecutors charged workers with felonies for giving their employers a false Social Security number. He further proposed the complete enforcement of employer sanctions, but he was defeated in a suit filed by unions and civil rights organizations. Under President Obama, workplace enforcement was further systematized. In just one year, 2012, ICE audited 1,600 employers. Tens of thousands of workers were fired during Obama's eight years in office. Trump's announced appointments for the coming administration include some of the strongest advocates of this kind of enforcement.
In the period before Trump took office in 2017, many unions expected that workplace raids and firings would be a large part of his immigration enforcement program. The hotel union in Oakland, California, developed a proactive strategy to keep ICE away from workplaces, and it asked the Oakland City Council to protect immigrants on the job. The council passed a resolution, noting that Oakland has been a "city of refuge" since the anti-apartheid movement of the mid-1980s: "The City Council ... calls upon all employers to establish safe/sanctuary workplaces where workers are respected and not threatened or discriminated against based on their immigration status."
Like many unions, HERE Local 2850 (now part of UNITE HERE Local 2) sought alternatives by negotiating protections as part of their contracts with employers, requiring managers to notify the union if immigration agents tried to enter, interrogate workers, or demand papers. The contract says the hotel has to keep agents out unless they have a warrant. California's janitors union, SEIU United Service Workers West, drafted the Immigrant Worker Protection Act, a state law requiring employers to ask for a judicial warrant before granting ICE agents access to a workplace. It prohibits employers from sharing confidential information, like Social Security numbers, without a court order. The act came after years of fighting workplace raids and immigration-related firings.
As Trump took office in 2017, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Filipino Advocates for Justice, and several other groups organized trainings to prepare workers for raids. Union members acted out scenarios that used job action to protect each other. Some were veterans of an earlier organizing campaign among recycling workers, in which they stopped work to keep the company from firing employees for not having papers.
What else do you foresee the new Trump administration doing on immigration? And what do workers need to do to fight back?
In the outpouring of fear and outrage over Trump's threat to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, many have drawn parallels to the mass deportations of 1932-33. At the height of the Great Depression, with hunger haunting the homes of millions of working-class people, the relief authorities of that era denied food to Mexican and Mexican American families. Racist bureaucrats appealed to the government to deport them, claiming that forcing them to leave would save money and open up jobs for citizens. These age-old lies have been recycled again and again for a century, repeated most recently by the MAGA campaign.
Hunger was really the most powerful weapon used to force people to leave. But thousands were also swept up in street raids, and many more fled because of the terror the raids produced. Voluntary or not, people were loaded into boxcars and dumped at the border gates. The euphemism of the 1930s was "repatriation." Today's immigration enforcers call it "self-deportation." The idea is the same, and Trump and Pence are only the latest in a long line of proponents of this inhuman idea.
So Trump's enforcement program intends to make the conditions of life for people without papers so bad that they will leave. He may need some mass raids to instill the terror, but he can't, and doesn't have to, pick up every undocumented person in order to do this. This is important because just as the raids will target certain people, our resistance can also be targeted. This is part of our history of resistance.
People of faith hold a vigil outside the immigration building in San Francisco, California, where immigrants have their hearings before being deported. (Photo by David Bacon)
The working-class neighborhoods of Chicago, for instance, have a long history of launching huge marches to protest immigration raids. As Obama entered his second term in 2013, activists, including Occupy Chicago, blocked buses going to the immigration courts. Emma Lozano, from Centro sin Fronteras, and other labor activists were arrested. Similar direct-action tactics were used in Tucson, Arizona, by young people who chained themselves to buses carrying detainees to the notorious special immigration court.
Trump's 2016 campaign promised to make Chicago a focus for both enforcement and resistance. As anti-immigrant hysteria promoted by his campaign spread, ICE began detaining people during traffic stops, knocking on apartment doors and pulling people off the street for interrogation and detention. The enforcement wave included sweeps of the corners and sidewalks near Home Depot and other gathering sites for day labors looking for work. The public presence of day laborers has historically made them a particular target for immigration street sweeps.
Activists met the Trump threat with actions. In July 2019 thousands of people marched through the Loop chanting "Immigrants are welcome here!" A day earlier they'd shown up at the Federal Plaza after hearing that ICE agents were about to be deployed. Unions helped organize the resistance.
What about cross-border solidarity? Do you have any examples of international organizing that might be inspiring?
The relationship between cross-border solidarity and immigrant rights is based on an important reality. If we think of Mexico as being its people, and not simply a geographic place, then part of Mexico exists in the U.S. In Mexico this idea is called el gran México, or Greater Mexico. Mexican communities that are the home of migrants also increasingly discuss the existence of two rights-the right to social equality and labor rights in the U.S., and the right to stay home for people who don't want to be forced to leave in order to survive.
Increasingly, these rights animate the discussions of migrant organizations in the U.S. as well. The outpouring of support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador's campaigns among people north of the border, for instance, has been based not just on a love of democracy but on his promise to end the neoliberal reforms in Mexico imposed under pressure from the U.S and World Bank. Those reforms, intended to make Mexico profitable for foreign investors, have caused the poverty that forced people to leave in order to survive.
Organizations in U.S. communities of Mexican migrants often have, therefore, a more sophisticated analysis of what immigration justice requires. It means fighting for political change in both countries-against immigration-based repression in the U.S. and for change in Mexico, which creates the basis for a full life. In cities from Los Angeles to Fresno, from Chicago to New York, Mexican migrant organizations are among the most active organizers of demonstrations and resistance. The high point was undoubtedly May Day 2006, when millions of people marched to defeat the Sensenbrenner bill, a proposed law that would have made it a federal felony to be undocumented.
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The Sheridan Prize for Photography, encompassing art created by artists in the 9 San Francisco Bay Area counties and Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties has been awarded by jurist Eduardo Soler to “Watermelon Crew Tossing Melons”, a photograph by David Bacon.
David Bacon @photos4justice on the daily lives and ongoing struggles (both personal and political) of farmworkers - interview on Against the Grain with C.S. Soong https://x.com/radioagainst/status/1848820503898710137
Pushing Forward: Organizing in a Post Trump Reelection US November 22, 2024 by A Public Affair https://www.wortfm.org/pushing-forward-organizing-in-a-post-trump-reelection-us/ On today’s two part show, Esty Dinur speaks with photojournalist David Bacon who has a long history of documenting and fighting for immigrant rights.
BOOKS - LIBROS
More Than a Wall / Mas que un muro El Colegio de la Frontera Norte https://david-bacon-photography.square.site/product/more-than-a-wall-mas-que-un-muro/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte ucpress.edu/9780520296077 En Mexico: https://www.colef.mx The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013) http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
El Derecho a Quedarse en Casa (Critica - Planeta de Libros) http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008) Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008 http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801473074/communities-without-borders/#bookTabs=1
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004) https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520244726/the-children-of-nafta
Hijos de Libre Comercio (El Viejo Topo) http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html
WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: The David Bacon Archive exhibition at Stanford Libraries https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bacon/browse For a catalog: (https://web.stanford.edu/dept/spec_coll/NonVendorPubOrderform2017.pdf)
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
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MAS QUE UN MURO Cinco Entrivistas sobre la exposicion en el Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo, CDMX:
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2024 election: white race riot
America , land where Barbarians and Savages rule ;America, not blessed but damned .
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2024/12/exactly.html
Trump playing the racist trump card, racebaiting : Nixonian Southern Strategy wins again and again .
How we lost : White women voted Trump . His appeal saying he'd "protect" them from immigrants "trumped" abortion rights; most were “Karen’s” . His playing the race card worked for him again , as it had in 2016. Many Democrats and tv news Liberals _deny_ the racism of Trump voters .
Plus, abortions cut white population. "Childless cat ladies" don't build the white population either.
Racism and a white majority population are the bottom line for the majority of white people.
All issues in U.S. come down to white supremacy in population ratio; from the beginning of the nation. The threat to that ratio dominance especially from Latino immigration right now has determined this Presidential race .
2024 , like 1994, was WHITE RACE RIOT . And , of course, the Democratic candidate was a Black-Brown woman ; icing on devil's food cake.
Amazing how , though consistently presenting myself as critical of racism , Americans often act more racist than I estimate! I did not think they were gonna be this racist , but they are .
I guess I just protect myself from being angry and afraid by keeping my hopes up that we can defeat it . But it fools me most often .
We were counting on white women post -Dobbs punishing Republicans. The determinism of the race population ratio - white population dominance- caused majority of white women to go the other way. Actually many more white women than we feminists thought want to limit abortion because it cuts the white birth rate . More white women voted their race interest than their personal interest; and even their personal interest in grandchildren is anti-abortion.
race “interest “ : their racism actually causes them to vote for Republicans ( Since Nixon's Southern Strategy, the Republican Party is the party of white people , of racism , and the Democratic Party is relatively anti-racist,"Black Party") Republicans who proceed to enact laws against the material interests of the white working class masses who voted for them . Like anti-union laws , anti-abortion laws Or cut welfare : most people on welfare are white .
LBJ spilled the beans , and as a Segregationist Senator from Texas , he knew of what he spoke ; it was straight from thr horse's mouth .
Trump’s initial and main thing was (to paraphrase LBJ) to make lowdown white men ( and women ) feel superior to the best Black man , Obama . He’s still running against Obama ; that’s why he “mistakenly “ calls Biden “Obama.” Trump pulled down the superior Black man by lying that Obama was not born in the US , and therefore cheated to become President; that pulls Obama down below working class white men.So, white men vote Republican , empty their pockets for Republicans .
Racism allows Republicans to pick MAGA’s pockets but they’re willing to pay the price for their main desire : to be superior to N’s This is the kernel, the core of white supremacist beliefs. Trump is a racist king ; god literally for some . We are back to feudalism in some ways; Trump is a King white Rabble Rouser.
The specific racism in this election was 1) anti-immigrant ( anti. -Black/ Indian Harris . Both took precedence over abortion and male chauvinist pigism in Trump /Vance. The media is talking about all kinds of other causes , including of course, blaming the victim, Harris . This is nonsrnse because she played the hand she was dealt perfectly.
MSNBC ‘s Joy Reid and Professor Eddie Glaude are the only ones not denying the major causal role of racism causing 54% of white women to vote Republican
Denial of racism is the main form of racism . The people who don’t think they are racist , are racist by denying the racism of others and the system-like that lady trying to put it on economics . Bernie Sanders does the same thing.
DENIAL OF THE AFRICAN SLAVERY AND JIM CROW BY BANNING BOOKS EXPOSING THEM IS DENIAL OF WHITE SUPREMACY DENIAL OF STRUCTURAL RACISM BUILT ON HISTORICAL RACISM IS DENIAL OF RACISM . DENIAL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION , REPARATIONS ARE DENIAL OF WHITE SURPEMACY . ACCUSING BLACK PEOPLE OF SO-CALLED REVERSE RACISM IS DENIAL OF REAL RACISM ; LIKE WOLVES IN SHEEP's CLOTHING : RACIST VICTIMIZERS LYING THAT THEY ARE VICTIMS.
It’s not the economy stupid ; it’s the N’s and Mexicans
What’s all the banning of history books on slavery and Jim Crow ? It’s denial that U.S. is a racist country . She’s denying that the Trump victory is proof that it’s a racist country. The Most of the people who vote for Trump deny he’s a racist . Denial is rife in several different ways in the racist mentality of America.
Even the ones who consider themselves racist do not speak their true minds widely in public, so even they are denying they are racist . That’s why they admire Trump ; as they say he speaks his mind ; doesn’t deny it .
Of course , the full counter -reform against the civil rights and poor peoples programs of the 1960’s and 70’s began with Reagan , included not only denial that racists are racists but accusing anti-racists of being “racist” , reversal “racists “ because they are slandering “ the racists. Why are they slander the racists ? Because there is no more racism (“ is no more racism “ is another denial of racism)
Yes Colorblindness is Racismblindness . If you don’t ( won’t ) see color , how can you see racism /white supremacy?
Of course if one is racism blind, can’t see racism , one will be another kind of racism _denier_ . Deny, deny , deny : that’s the racist law.
You see, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2025/02/maga-white-identity-politics-white.html
This Trump slamming Detroit as a mess is one example of playing the race card /race baiting . Pandering to white supremacy worked once again for Republicans as it was a thin racist majority that won ; the Nixonian Southern Strategy won again for Republicans. Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to protect them from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
Let’s see whether Trump’s Gestapo distinguishes between the Latino men who voted for Trump and Latino “immigrants.” whites stole California. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Nevada from Mexico
David Bacon : "Trump is not free to eliminate this workforce-which is an advantage and even a source of potential power for workers. Employers know this, and within months of his 2017 inauguration, agribusiness executives were already meeting with him to ensure that he would not follow through on his threats of raids and a tightened border when they needed labor. Last month construction companies in Texas were warning Trump that mass deportations would threaten their profits. Even in 2006, growers in California bused workers to the big marches in hopes that the Sensenbrenner bill wouldn't deprive them of workers.
But workers, communities, and unions can't depend on employers to battle Trump for them. What companies need is labor at a cost they want to pay. The existing system has worked well for them. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 8 million of the 11 to 12 million undocumented people in the U.S. are wageworkers, and most earn the minimum wage or close to it. The abysmal federal minimum of $7.25 an hour produces an annual income of $14,500. Even the higher minimums in states like California render an income of barely twice that. The average farmworker family income is below $25,000. Yet Social Security estimates that the average U.S. wage is $66,000.
That difference is a source of enormous profit. If the industries that depend on immigrant labor paid the average wage, they would have to pay undocumented workers an additional $250 billion, so the rewards they reap from low-wage labor are huge. Trump has to guarantee not just workers to contribute the labor, but labor at a cost that is acceptable to corporate employers. If we look at his cabinet picks, it is clear that their needs come first.
I’m feelin the same vibe as your kids ; I’m feelin my Malcolm X identity ; the white man is the Devil. But I’m underground not out in his face like Malcolm . Malcolm was killed . So, was MLKing ; but we shall overcome, again . We learn from our ancestors mistakes; and preserve their truths .
BIDEN TELLS THE TRUTH : [Video] I found this on NewsBreak: President Biden says Ku Klux Klan members took their hoods off when Trump was in office because they ‘knew’ they had an "ally" in the White House.This man is losing it."Every other time the Ku Klux Klan's been involved they've worn hoods, so they're not identified.""Under [Trump’s] presidency, they came out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an ally. That's how I read it."
CB: THEN A SUPER MAJORITY OF WHITES VOTE FOR TRUMP, THE GRAND WIZARD, IN THE 2024 ELECTION , WHICH WAS A WHITE RACE RIOT. <<<<<
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2024/12/exactly.html
Trump playing the racist trump card, racebaiting : Nixonian Southern Strategy wins again and again .
How we lost : White women voted Trump . His appeal saying he'd "protect" them from immigrants "trumped" abortion rights; most were “Karen’s” . His playing the race card worked for him again , as it had in 2016. Many Democrats and tv news Liberals _deny_ the racism of Trump voters .
Plus, abortions cut white population. "Childless cat ladies" don't build the white population either.
Racism and a white majority population are the bottom line for the majority of white people.
All issues in U.S. come down to white supremacy in population ratio; from the beginning of the nation. The threat to that ratio dominance especially from Latino immigration right now has determined this Presidential race .
2024 , like 1994, was WHITE RACE RIOT . And , of course, the Democratic candidate was a Black-Brown woman ; icing on devil's food cake.
Amazing how , though consistently presenting myself as critical of racism , Americans often act more racist than I estimate! I did not think they were gonna be this racist , but they are .
I guess I just protect myself from being angry and afraid by keeping my hopes up that we can defeat it . But it fools me most often .
We were counting on white women post -Dobbs punishing Republicans. The determinism of the race population ratio - white population dominance- caused majority of white women to go the other way. Actually many more white women than we feminists thought want to limit abortion because it cuts the white birth rate . More white women voted their race interest than their personal interest; and even their personal interest in grandchildren is anti-abortion.
race “interest “ : their racism actually causes them to vote for Republicans ( Since Nixon's Southern Strategy, the Republican Party is the party of white people , of racism , and the Democratic Party is relatively anti-racist,"Black Party") Republicans who proceed to enact laws against the material interests of the white working class masses who voted for them . Like anti-union laws , anti-abortion laws Or cut welfare : most people on welfare are white .
LBJ spilled the beans , and as a Segregationist Senator from Texas , he knew of what he spoke ; it was straight from thr horse's mouth .
Trump’s initial and main thing was (to paraphrase LBJ) to make lowdown white men ( and women ) feel superior to the best Black man , Obama . He’s still running against Obama ; that’s why he “mistakenly “ calls Biden “Obama.” Trump pulled down the superior Black man by lying that Obama was not born in the US , and therefore cheated to become President; that pulls Obama down below working class white men.So, white men vote Republican , empty their pockets for Republicans .
Racism allows Republicans to pick MAGA’s pockets but they’re willing to pay the price for their main desire : to be superior to N’s This is the kernel, the core of white supremacist beliefs. Trump is a racist king ; god literally for some . We are back to feudalism in some ways; Trump is a King white Rabble Rouser.
The specific racism in this election was 1) anti-immigrant ( anti. -Black/ Indian Harris . Both took precedence over abortion and male chauvinist pigism in Trump /Vance. The media is talking about all kinds of other causes , including of course, blaming the victim, Harris . This is nonsrnse because she played the hand she was dealt perfectly.
MSNBC ‘s Joy Reid and Professor Eddie Glaude are the only ones not denying the major causal role of racism causing 54% of white women to vote Republican
Denial of racism is the main form of racism . The people who don’t think they are racist , are racist by denying the racism of others and the system-like that lady trying to put it on economics . Bernie Sanders does the same thing.
DENIAL OF THE AFRICAN SLAVERY AND JIM CROW BY BANNING BOOKS EXPOSING THEM IS DENIAL OF WHITE SUPREMACY DENIAL OF STRUCTURAL RACISM BUILT ON HISTORICAL RACISM IS DENIAL OF RACISM . DENIAL OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION , REPARATIONS ARE DENIAL OF WHITE SURPEMACY . ACCUSING BLACK PEOPLE OF SO-CALLED REVERSE RACISM IS DENIAL OF REAL RACISM ; LIKE WOLVES IN SHEEP's CLOTHING : RACIST VICTIMIZERS LYING THAT THEY ARE VICTIMS.
It’s not the economy stupid ; it’s the N’s and Mexicans
What’s all the banning of history books on slavery and Jim Crow ? It’s denial that U.S. is a racist country . She’s denying that the Trump victory is proof that it’s a racist country. The Most of the people who vote for Trump deny he’s a racist . Denial is rife in several different ways in the racist mentality of America.
Even the ones who consider themselves racist do not speak their true minds widely in public, so even they are denying they are racist . That’s why they admire Trump ; as they say he speaks his mind ; doesn’t deny it .
Of course , the full counter -reform against the civil rights and poor peoples programs of the 1960’s and 70’s began with Reagan , included not only denial that racists are racists but accusing anti-racists of being “racist” , reversal “racists “ because they are slandering “ the racists. Why are they slander the racists ? Because there is no more racism (“ is no more racism “ is another denial of racism)
Yes Colorblindness is Racismblindness . If you don’t ( won’t ) see color , how can you see racism /white supremacy?
Of course if one is racism blind, can’t see racism , one will be another kind of racism _denier_ . Deny, deny , deny : that’s the racist law.
You see, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2025/02/maga-white-identity-politics-white.html
Let’s see whether Trump’s Gestapo distinguishes between the Latino men who voted for Trump and Latino “immigrants.” whites stole California. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Nevada from Mexico
But workers, communities, and unions can't depend on employers to battle Trump for them. What companies need is labor at a cost they want to pay. The existing system has worked well for them. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 8 million of the 11 to 12 million undocumented people in the U.S. are wageworkers, and most earn the minimum wage or close to it. The abysmal federal minimum of $7.25 an hour produces an annual income of $14,500. Even the higher minimums in states like California render an income of barely twice that. The average farmworker family income is below $25,000. Yet Social Security estimates that the average U.S. wage is $66,000.
That difference is a source of enormous profit. If the industries that depend on immigrant labor paid the average wage, they would have to pay undocumented workers an additional $250 billion, so the rewards they reap from low-wage labor are huge. Trump has to guarantee not just workers to contribute the labor, but labor at a cost that is acceptable to corporate employers. If we look at his cabinet picks, it is clear that their needs come first.
I’m feelin the same vibe as your kids ; I’m feelin my Malcolm X identity ; the white man is the Devil. But I’m underground not out in his face like Malcolm . Malcolm was killed . So, was MLKing ; but we shall overcome, again . We learn from our ancestors mistakes; and preserve their truths .
BIDEN TELLS THE TRUTH : [Video] I found this on NewsBreak: President Biden says Ku Klux Klan members took their hoods off when Trump was in office because they ‘knew’ they had an "ally" in the White House.This man is losing it."Every other time the Ku Klux Klan's been involved they've worn hoods, so they're not identified.""Under [Trump’s] presidency, they came out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an ally. That's how I read it."
CB: THEN A SUPER MAJORITY OF WHITES VOTE FOR TRUMP, THE GRAND WIZARD, IN THE 2024 ELECTION , WHICH WAS A WHITE RACE RIOT. <<<<<
Monday, December 23, 2024
This Trump slamming Detroit as a mess is one example of playing the race card /race baiting . Pandering to white supremacy worked once again for Republicans as it was a thin racist majority that won ; the Nixonian Southern Strategy won again for Republicans. Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to protect them from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
This Trump slamming Detroit as a mess is one example of playing the race card /race baiting . Pandering to white supremacy worked once again for Republicans as it was a thin racist majority that won ; the Nixonian Southern Strategy won again for Republicans.
Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to "protect" themselves from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
White supremacy trumped all issues for America’s racist majority: tyranny of the majority
Trump playing the racist Trump card, racebaiting : Nixonian Southern Strategy wins again and again .
How we lost : White women voted Trump . His appeal saying he'd "protect" them from immigrants "trumped" abortion rights; most were “Karen’s” .
Plus, abortions cut white population. "Childless cat ladies" don't build the white population either.
Racism and a white majority population are the bottom line for the majority of white people.
All issues in U.S. come down to white supremacy in population ratio; from the beginning of the nation. The threat to that ratio dominance especially from Latino immigration right now has determined this Presidential race .
And , of course, the Democratic candidate was a Black-Brown woman ; icing on devil’s food cake.
Amazing how , though consistently presenting myself as critical of racism , Americans often act more racist than I estimate! I did not think they were gonna be this racist , but they are .
I guess I just protect myself from being angry and afraid by keeping my hopes up that we can defeat it . But it fools me most often .
We were counting on white women post -Dobbs punishing Republicans. The determinism of the race population ratio - white population dominance- caused majority of white women to go the other way. Actually many more white women than we feminists thought want to limit abortion because it cuts the white birth rate . More white women voted their race interest than their personal interest; and even their personal interest in grandchildren is anti-abortion.
race “interest “ : their racism actually cause them to vote Republicans, who proceed to enact laws against the material interests of the white working class masses who voted for them . Like anti-union laws , anti-abortion laws Or cut welfare : most people on welfare are white .
LBJ spilled the beens, and as a Segregationist Senator he knew of what he spoke
Trump’s initial and main thing was, to paraphrase LBJ, to make lowdown white men ( and women ) feel superior to the best Black man , Obama . He’s still running against Obama ; that’s why he “mistakenly “ calls Biden “Obama.”
Racism allows Republicans to pick MAGA’s pockets but they’re willing to pay the price for their main desire : to be superior to N’s This is the kernel of white supremacist beliefs. Trump is a racist king ; god literally for some . We are back to feudalism in some ways; Trump is a King white Rabble Rouser.
The specific racism in this election was 1) anti-immigrant ( anti. -Black/ Indian Harris . Both took precedence over abortion and male chauvinist pigism in Trump /Vance. The media is talking about all kind of other causes , including of course, blaming the victim, Harris . She played the hand she was dealt perfectly.
MSNBC ‘s Joy Reid and Professor Eddie Glaude is the only one not denying the major causal role of racism causing 54% of white women to vote Republican
Denial of racism is the main form of racism . The people who don’t think they are racist , are racist by denying the racism of others and the system-like that lady trying to put it on economics . Bernie Sanders does the same thing.
It’s not the economy stupid ; it’s the N’s and Mexicans
What’s all the banning of history books on slavery and Jim Crow ? It’s denial that U.S. is a racist country . She’s denying that the Trump victory is proof that it’s a racist country. The Most of the people who vote for Trump deny he’s a racist . Denial is rife in several different ways in the racist mentality of America.
Even the ones who consider themselves racist do not speak their true minds widely in public, so even they are denying they are racist . That’s why they admire Trump ; as they say he speaks his mind ; doesn’t deny it .
Of course , the full counter -reform against the civil rights and poor peoples programs of the 1960’s and 70’s began with Reagan , included not only denial that racists are racists but accusing anti-racists of being “racist” , reversal “racists “ because they are slandering “ the racists. Why are they slander the racists ? Because there is no more racism (“ is no more racism “ is another denial of racism)
Yes Colorblindness is Racismblindness . If you don’t ( won’t ) see color , how can you see racism /white supremacy?
Of course if one is racism blind, can’t see racism , one will be another kind of racism _denier_ . Deny, deny , deny : that’s the racist law.
You see, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.
This Trump slamming Detroit as a mess is one example of playing the race card /race baiting . Pandering to white supremacy worked once again for Republicans as it was a thin racist majority that won ; the Nixonian Southern Strategy won again for Republicans. Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to protect them from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
Let’s see whether Trump’s Gestapo distinguishes between the Latino men who voted for Trump and Latino “immigrants.”
Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to "protect" themselves from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
White supremacy trumped all issues for America’s racist majority: tyranny of the majority
Trump playing the racist Trump card, racebaiting : Nixonian Southern Strategy wins again and again .
How we lost : White women voted Trump . His appeal saying he'd "protect" them from immigrants "trumped" abortion rights; most were “Karen’s” .
Plus, abortions cut white population. "Childless cat ladies" don't build the white population either.
Racism and a white majority population are the bottom line for the majority of white people.
All issues in U.S. come down to white supremacy in population ratio; from the beginning of the nation. The threat to that ratio dominance especially from Latino immigration right now has determined this Presidential race .
And , of course, the Democratic candidate was a Black-Brown woman ; icing on devil’s food cake.
Amazing how , though consistently presenting myself as critical of racism , Americans often act more racist than I estimate! I did not think they were gonna be this racist , but they are .
I guess I just protect myself from being angry and afraid by keeping my hopes up that we can defeat it . But it fools me most often .
We were counting on white women post -Dobbs punishing Republicans. The determinism of the race population ratio - white population dominance- caused majority of white women to go the other way. Actually many more white women than we feminists thought want to limit abortion because it cuts the white birth rate . More white women voted their race interest than their personal interest; and even their personal interest in grandchildren is anti-abortion.
race “interest “ : their racism actually cause them to vote Republicans, who proceed to enact laws against the material interests of the white working class masses who voted for them . Like anti-union laws , anti-abortion laws Or cut welfare : most people on welfare are white .
LBJ spilled the beens, and as a Segregationist Senator he knew of what he spoke
Trump’s initial and main thing was, to paraphrase LBJ, to make lowdown white men ( and women ) feel superior to the best Black man , Obama . He’s still running against Obama ; that’s why he “mistakenly “ calls Biden “Obama.”
Racism allows Republicans to pick MAGA’s pockets but they’re willing to pay the price for their main desire : to be superior to N’s This is the kernel of white supremacist beliefs. Trump is a racist king ; god literally for some . We are back to feudalism in some ways; Trump is a King white Rabble Rouser.
The specific racism in this election was 1) anti-immigrant ( anti. -Black/ Indian Harris . Both took precedence over abortion and male chauvinist pigism in Trump /Vance. The media is talking about all kind of other causes , including of course, blaming the victim, Harris . She played the hand she was dealt perfectly.
MSNBC ‘s Joy Reid and Professor Eddie Glaude is the only one not denying the major causal role of racism causing 54% of white women to vote Republican
Denial of racism is the main form of racism . The people who don’t think they are racist , are racist by denying the racism of others and the system-like that lady trying to put it on economics . Bernie Sanders does the same thing.
It’s not the economy stupid ; it’s the N’s and Mexicans
What’s all the banning of history books on slavery and Jim Crow ? It’s denial that U.S. is a racist country . She’s denying that the Trump victory is proof that it’s a racist country. The Most of the people who vote for Trump deny he’s a racist . Denial is rife in several different ways in the racist mentality of America.
Even the ones who consider themselves racist do not speak their true minds widely in public, so even they are denying they are racist . That’s why they admire Trump ; as they say he speaks his mind ; doesn’t deny it .
Of course , the full counter -reform against the civil rights and poor peoples programs of the 1960’s and 70’s began with Reagan , included not only denial that racists are racists but accusing anti-racists of being “racist” , reversal “racists “ because they are slandering “ the racists. Why are they slander the racists ? Because there is no more racism (“ is no more racism “ is another denial of racism)
Yes Colorblindness is Racismblindness . If you don’t ( won’t ) see color , how can you see racism /white supremacy?
Of course if one is racism blind, can’t see racism , one will be another kind of racism _denier_ . Deny, deny , deny : that’s the racist law.
You see, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.
This Trump slamming Detroit as a mess is one example of playing the race card /race baiting . Pandering to white supremacy worked once again for Republicans as it was a thin racist majority that won ; the Nixonian Southern Strategy won again for Republicans. Majority of white women voted as Karens for Trump to protect them from Immigrants of Color; and against the Black-Brown WOMAN.
Let’s see whether Trump’s Gestapo distinguishes between the Latino men who voted for Trump and Latino “immigrants.”
Friday, December 20, 2024
Myth of Beauty beautifying the Beast from Darwinian Human sexual selection/breeding in the Stone Age ; smaller teeth , smaller face ( more skull space for brain , prettyification
Beautifying the beast hypothesis of female sexual selection of human face :
Smaller teeth make more room in the skull for brain . So beautified face with smaller teeth allowed bigger brain . And a smaller face is not as rough a kisser.
Thus Genus homo beauties beautified the male "beasts ." We have a historical memory of this in the "Beauty and the Beast " myth, parable , story , in coded form of course, metaphor .( See anthropologust Claude Levi-Strauss ; "Structural Study of Myth)
Importantly , this is the positive feedback loop causing brain to evolve bigger from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens .
Bigger brained individuals are more adapt at culture/custom/tradition , especially courting culture . This is the main cause of selection/breeding for bigger and bigger brains. Bigger brains get more mating pass on more genes to the future generstions
Thus AntionetteBlackwell's ( _The Sexes Throughout Nature_) critique of Darwin and Spencer is correct. Cooperation ( especially between females and males ) and balance drive human evolution , not savage rivalry and competition . With humans its Survival of the Nice and Fertile ; not so much the rough and tough .
Already in Darwin's founding text of physical or biological or evolutionary anthropology , _The Descent of Man_, Darwin steers us away in subtitle from "adaption through struggle for exustence , for self-pteservation and to the environment" to "Sexual Selection !" For with culture-symbolic inheritance , humans select their environment rather than their environment selecting them. So, the predominant force in human selection is sexual selection as Darwin suggests
But Darwin still has a masculinist focus on competition between males for mates; rough and toughness .
Antoinette Blackwell's revolutionary critique of Darwin ( in correspondence with Darwin) is that in the Stone Age when most of human bodily evolution took place it was the _gentle_men who were selected for mating by females because they new how to be gentle and handsome; ATTACTIVE TO THF OPPOSITE SEX ; not the rough tough , beastly guys ! Human evolution is predominantly Beautifying of the Beast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexes_Throughout_Nature
Dear Maria, Preparing for class to discuss the conflict between the theory of inheritance of characteristics and the theory of random genetic mutation I thought : 1) Darwin had a) no theory of the cause of variety in a species b) no theory of _how_ characteristics are inherited, 2) Darwin had no conflict with LaMarck on inheritance because Darwin didn't have one . Actually, I don't know that LaMarck had much of one either. 3) Darwin had no variety theory either so no conflict with LaMarck's explanation of variety. 4) Furthermore, LaMarck's was a natural selection theory ! In his famous giraffe example, the giraffes that stretch their necks are selected for by their environment ; stretching the neck is an adaptation . Inheritance of acquired characteristics conflicts with random genetic mutation , discovered post Darwin. Culture as inheritance ( in brain cells, language and memory, instead of gamete cells) of acquired characteristics (not body cells , but extra-somatically , in objective reality) is more efficient adaptive process than genetic mutations that occur randomly relative to the adaptive problem they solve. Because, cultural inventions (acquired by one generation and passed on to the next) are caused by the adaptive problem they solve and do not arise randomly relative to the adaptive problem they solve. Thus, there is the population expansion of homo erectus and then Homo sapiens out of Africa with the origin of culture in the Stone Age. Maybe ? Charles
As Preeminent Anthrpoligist Marshall Sahlins hypothesizes based on the ethnographic, ethnohistorical and archaelogical evidence , when some populations of hominins adopted symbolic communities with policies of gentility especially to women , human society originated :
" The decisive battle between early culture and human nature must have been waged on the field of primate sexuality…. Among subhuman primates sex had organized society; the customs of hunters and gatherers testify eloquently that now society was to organize sex…. In selective adaptation to the perils of the Stone Age, human society overcame or subordinated such primate propensities as selfishness, indiscriminate sexuality, dominance and brute competition. It substituted kinship and co-operation for conflict, placed solidarity over sex, morality over might. In its earliest days it accomplished the greatest reform in history, the overthrow of human primate nature, and thereby secured the evolutionary future of the species." — Sahlins, M. D. 1960 The origin of society. Scientific American 203(3): 76–87.
Dear Maria,
Preparing for class to discuss the conflict between the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics and the theory of random genetic mutation I thought :
1) Darwin had a) no theory of the cause of variety in a species b) no theory of _how_ characteristics are inherited,
2) Darwin had no conflict with LaMarck on inheritance because Darwin didn't have one . Actually, I don't know that LaMarck had much of one either.
3) Darwin had no variety theory either so no conflict with LaMarck's explanation of variety.
4) Furthermore, LaMarck's was a natural selection theory ! In his famous giraffe example, the giraffes that stretch their necks are selected for by their environment ; stretching the neck is an adaptation .
Inheritance of acquired characteristics conflicts with random genetic mutation , discovered post Darwin.
Culture as inheritance ( in brain cells, language and memory, instead of gamete cells) of acquired characteristics (not body cells , but extra-somatically , in objective reality) is more efficient adaptive process than genetic mutations that occur randomly relative to the adaptive problem they solve. Because, cultural inventions (acquired by one generation and passed on to the next) are caused by the adaptive problem they solve and do not arise randomly relative to the adaptive problem they solve.
Thus, there is the population expansion of homo erectus and then Homo sapiens out of Africa with the origin of culture in the Stone Age.
Maybe ? Charles