Tag Archives: white supremacy

Oakland: Self-Respect and Community Self-Defense Forum

This event is part of the No More Trayvon Martins Campaign and the organizing around building the National Plan of Action for Racial Justice and Self Determination that the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement has initiated with support from the Black Left Unity Network, and the National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights. Self-Respect and [...]

Exposing the Music of White Racist Hate

Wade Michael Page was, among other things, a musician. The man who, on August 5, stormed into a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee, Wis., and opened fire, killing six worshippers and wounding several others, was the singer of a hardcore band called End Apathy. Rough and aggressive, with a clear “fuck all authority” theme running through [...]

Wisconsin Shooting Reveals Connections Between U.S. Military and Fascist Groups

A critical element, which has been virtually ignored in all the media coverage of last Sunday’s massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin is the close connections between the US Armed Forces and various fascistic and white supremacist organizations. Wade Michael Page, a neo-Nazi and former US Army service member, murdered six people and critically [...]

How To Be A Reverse-Racist: An Actual Step by Step List For Oppressing White People

White people who are confronted with their white privilege and the white supremacist acts they perpetuate have been known to cry, “You’re being a reverse-racist!” That is completely true: people of color have the power and control to create, perpetuate, and maintain brutal systematic reverse-racism that oppresses white people every day.  As such, we have created [...]

We are Trayvon Martin and We are Dangerous!

New York City’s Ignite Collective relates issues with the mobilization around the Trayvon Martin killing. On National Oppression of New Afrika The murder of Trayvon Martin is yet another life taken from us in the past few years that reminds us of the continued white supremacist oppression of New Afrikan people. It is also a watershed [...]

We Are Trayvon (#Trayvon Martin Tribute) [Saturday #Culture]

The proceeds of this song, now available on iTunes, will go toward the Martin family. [youtube tx34U9Yg_ic]

Trayvon Martin and the History of Lynching

What is lynching?  In its prevalent forms in American history, it appears as the administration of racial formations through terror.  The mutilation, shaming and degrading of black bodies, and also the corpses being retrieved and displayed as trophies, was intended to maintain the symbolic subjection of black people to, in bell hooks’ formulation, “white supremacist [...]

Trayvon Martin and the Need for an Independent Human Rights Movement

The irrelevant, disconnected, abstract chatter that we see on the “mainstream” human rights listserves as it relates to issues that Black and oppressed communities are concerned with – and concomitant complete lack of substantive discussion about the Trayvon Martin case – demonstrates once again the need for a formation that centers the perspectives, interests and [...]

From Trayvon Martin to Wall Street: Racist Violence is Used to Maintain an Unjust Social Order

Speakers at a recent rally and march to protest the murder of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by a white, self-appointed, guardian of the racist social order in Florida rightly pointed to the broader institutional racism that permeates race relations in America. Institutional impunity was added to Trayvon’s murder when the local police in [...]

‘Bitch Ass Niggers’ and ‘Fucking Coons’: Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and the Protection of ‘Police Murder’ in America

Once again another young Black man has been shot and killed, under highly questionable circumstances, by a representative of law enforcement.  Also once again, African Americans and our allies fear that justice will not be served on the perpetrator.  Unfortunately, this fear is neither imagined nor an overreaction; it is grounded in concrete reality. That [...]

White Nationalism and Sacred Ground

mosque protest

Mobs in the streets to protest the Muslim equivalent of the YMCA being built two blocks from the scene of the September 11th attacks, now referred to as “Sacred Ground.” Meanwhile, Glenn Beck and his army of bigot get geared up for a rally 47 years to the day at the site of Martin Luther [...]

Terre’Blanche Killing Reminder of Black Workers’ Plight

dead nazi racist eugene terreblanche

Notorious South African racist and founder of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), Eugene Terre’Blanche, was beaten to death over the weekend by farm workers demanding back wages the accuse the pro-apartheid organizer of never paying. One site points out Terre’Blanche was actively involved in terrorizing South African Blacks. “In the run up to South Africa’s [...]

Shooting of Portland Anti-Racist Activist Likely a Neo-Nazi Ambush

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, March 27, a man was brutally attacked in the heart of downtown Portland. His attacker shot him and left him lying in the street. He is currently fighting to overcome extensive injuries. It is no secret that this man, Luke Querner, is a long-time anti-fascist activist. He has devoted over [...]