This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forward to the 1:54:28. This episode is also dedicated to Stacey Park Milbern, one of the creators of the disability justice movement. We also dedicate this episode to the Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP).  The transcript at 1:55:00 is from a livestream of a community vigil held in the victims' honor and in solidarity with Black and Indigenous sovereignty. Cash App: $mpopsea, Venmo: MPOP_SEA


Recommended Reading:
-Resisting State Violence by Dr. Joy James (Ericka reads an excerpt from that book in this episode)
-Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson 
-Some Reasons For Chinese Exclusion: Meat v Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism (Author Unknown)
-Essay on Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows during political imprisonment by the FDR administration during WWII by Malia McAndrews: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536560/summary

-The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad 

-Search for articles on the history behind yellow peril movement and Richard Aoki, an FBI Informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in the 60s

-Note on Marxism: Engels' father owned a factory and Marx was white and didn’t understand that capitalism is always racialized like Cedric Robinson and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore talk about - check the book out if you want, there are some goods in Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith

-Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice Official Statement: https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/official-statement-from-samaria-rice-mother-of-tamir-rice-lisa-simpson-mother-of-richard-risher-and-the-collective/
How to Support Samaria and Lisa: Cashapp-$SamariaRice
Cashapp: $lisalee693


Support
Tamir Rice Foundation/Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland, OH
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP)
List of Black Owned Bookstores: https://nonamebooks.com/Bookstores
Zora's Daughters Podcast: https://zorasdaughters.com/

Music by Benjamin Earl Turner-Apathy Happy

Editors Note: Both Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel wore Blackface

The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White

A longie but goodie just in time for the fall of US imperialist projects in Afghanistan...and autumn. TLDR: It’s giving very much hating on the not rich who did not understand the assignment of shutting the fuck up and running politicians their propers for re-election. A tax on vibes.
If "Taliban" means "student" in Pashto--the US is the teacher. 

Have you ever asked yourself why tax reform is such a contentious issue and has been for decades? Have you ever stopped to think that politicking, grandstanding and "fashion diplomacy" is part of moderate, centrist Democrats' pandering to a more leftist, "progressive" voter base but without alienating their prioritized white voter base too much (think Nancy Pelosi kneeling in the kente cloth sash in 2020)? There's a slavery era explanation for that:

The tobacco rice and indigo that our ancestors grew and produced were considered in Alexander Hamilton’s own words “which must be capital objects in treaties of commerce w foreign nations” and precipitated the events that led to this country’s independence in 1776 following the Revolutionary War. His more famous quote, though, "no taxation without representation" portends a more glaring contradiction: imagine being mad you have to pay taxes to enrich the British whose royal companies, militaries, fleets and slavers sold and transported the Indigenous Africans you enslaved and calling TAXATION slavery while actually enslaving people? Tax the rich is again policy sloganeering and is a liberal democratic/partisan rallying cry that can’t happen in good faith in an oligarchy that siphons all its resources to an already massive defense budget. Just earmark our reparations, will ya?

Maybe the majority of folks who at least have some semblance of a revolutionary or radical politic aren't hating on rich people or Met Gala attendees or AOC herself, but instead recognizing that she and other politicians across the spectrum are sworn to serve a country that used the international slave trade between Britain and Spain to generate revenue to build a domestic manufacturing infrastructure to keep taxes lowered for their most invaluable taxable import--Black people and whose Central Intelligence Agency created the Taliban to wrest power from the USSR's puppet pro-soviet government during the Soviet Afghan War in 1979-1989 as part of plan to distort the public's view of the barbaric, warmongering, misogynist primitive backward United States to continue competing for oil and other natural resources in Central Asia, including the global heroin trade to finance the invasion of other countries, arm the genocide of their number one ally in the region (the Israeli Government. See Kamala Harris's comments on Israel)while pretending to care about "women's right's" and immigration while whipping Haitian immigrants at the border. That said, shirking accountability for their complicities in systems of oppression to remain elected isn't above any of their paygrades--even the politicians you like!

Eyes On Haiti
Oligarchy: https://haitiantimes.com/2021/07/16/haitians-can-no-longer-hide-behind-the-caste-system-killing-our-country/
US mass deportations of Haitian Immigrants: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021/09/20/border-patrol-using-whips-del-rio-round-up-haitian-immigrants/5789596001/

Recommended Reading: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/newsletter/afghanistannograveyard?fbclid=IwAR20EeWyNUk4MpwUubcXZ53usiqemg3Rl6u4ZkeSioLAO14DiY5A2E4KrRA
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/afghanistan

Tariq Ali: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/debacle-in-afghanistan
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/4AF487C90CA14FB985256E000057B5EB?OpenDocument

Global Heroin Trade Links to US presence in Afghanistan: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/84028515/FULL_TEXT.PDF

AOC: https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/aoc/

You Can't Tax the Rich in an Oligarchy: Haiti, Afghanistan, Upper East Side Goddam

BIPOC, POC, NBPOC and other acronyms for Others...what are their origins and how do they inform a desire for and distance from Blackness across nation-states? Is the term POC a relic from slavery legislation in the US or a useful modifier that can unify the "global majority"?

Leading up to Transgender Awareness Week we get deep into it all and mo' with our love and special guest, afroindígena poet, award winning author and artist Alan Pelaez (They/Them)! Support for this episode can go directly to Alan: Venmo--@migrantscribble

Recommended Reading:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/30/295931070/the-journey-from-colored-to-minorities-to-people-of-color

https://thegrio.com/2021/05/01/black-freedmen-tribal-struggle/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714413.2021.1968235?scroll=top&needAccess=true#b0001 

All things Alan:
https://linktr.ee/MigrantScribble

What is Brown?: The Fear and Future of a Black Planet feat. Alan Pelaez(@Migrantscribble)

Day 3: Black People Tell Black History feat Liz Thompson.

69 Years after Brown v Board of Education and 59 years after 464,000 Black NYC public school students and teachers staged one of the largest protests in US history, led by Reverend Milton Galamison on Freedom Day, we are still questioning whether or not the US education system is still as racist and inequitable as ever (it is).

Elizabeth (she/her) is a queer Creole-Ghanaian writer and educational equity researcher based in Washington, D.C. With over a decade of experience in student affairs, alumni relations, & development, Elizabeth’s background centers on engaging alumni from marginalized populations and the socio-historical impact of U.S. public school desegregation on Black students and educators. Elizabeth earned her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Hood College and George Washington University, respectively. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and an alumna of the Public Leadership Education Network, a national, nonpartisan organization that prepares college women and marginalized gender groups for leadership in the public policy arena. Elizabeth currently serves as editor of Politics and Advocacy at @mixedmag, an online multimedia magazine dedicated to promoting creatives of color and celebrating multiethnic & multicultural voices.

Venmo - @baaba-mensima
CashApp- $lizthom86

Intro Music: "Black People Tell Black History" by Patience Sings
Outro Music: "Apathy Happy" by Benjamin Earl Turner

Are US schools really desegregated if Black history is illegal? Feat. Liz Thompson

Or alt title: Stealing Negros Spiritual Experiences. And I don't know how many times we have to say this. Even the existence of such a thing as "American" music is dubious. Black people created all genres of music in the US and despite the global influence and unabashed imitation of our Black American cultural art forms, we've profited the least from their reach and much propaganda persists:

Black music is NOT the "soundtrack to America"
nor did it arise from a blend of styles from a "multi-ethnic" population 
and when you say every genre has "Black roots", that's just an unnecessarily genteel way of saying that we created all genres of music in this country. 

Join us and the inimitable @patiencesings as we talk negro spirituals, the afropessimisms of prayer warriors and the merits of Black music made for and by Black people.

Patience Sings is a vocal prominent creative certified Reiki practitioner and writer native to Washington, D.C; Ever learning Afro-futurist, an advocate for fat Black folx, a champion for Black and Brown Youth and a proponent for Black mental health and healing through grief.

Patience is most recently recognized as the "Scat" of the Peace & Bodyroll Duo BOOMscat, and CEO of Mojuba, a rental space and artist collective in Silver Spring MD.

Patience is currently most proud of her collaborative work as an inaugural Cultural Work fellow at the Highlander Center for Education and Research, and for BOOMscat’s contribution to The Black Sound Lab at Dartmouth College and their Black Covid Care project.

Support their work:

Venmo: @patiencesings
Cashapp: $patiencestaysinging
Paypal: PayPal.me/Patiencesings
https://www.peerspace.com/pages/listings/6323998c616b05000fda8301?utm_medium=ios&_branch_match_id=647184576935628039&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL0hNLSouSExO1UssKNDLyczL1ncvSHGNNAn2Ta5IAgA4Gn4%2FJgAAAA%3D%3D


Intro Music: "Black People Tell Black History" by Patience!
Outro Music: "Apathy Happy" by Benjamin Earl Turner
References: 
Helen Baylor
Kurt Carr
Richard Smallwood
Maurette Brown Clark
I'll Fly Away by Hezekiah Walker
Goin Up Yonder by Walter Hawkins

The Spiritual Experiences of Negros--Stolen: All "American" Music is Black Music Feat Patience Sings

It's me again...and we're back...
Alternate episode titles: 
-One genocide minds
-Destabilize, Disrupt and Destroy: US Foreign Policy in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East 
-AFRICOM: Obama's Scramble for Africa Still Scraping By Under the Doppler in 2024
-Freedom ain't free: On a politics of indifference to Black death 

From Congo to Tigray to Darfur, there are multiple genocides happening on the continent of Africa and the United States' government is complicit in ALL of them just as they aid and abet Israel's genocide against the Palestinian People to shore up its political and economic power in the region. There is a genocide against Black people here in the US, the same US that still has a one million dollar bounty on Assata Shakur but ya'll don't hear me tho. 

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From the river to the sea (who gon check me boo?): Someday We'll All Be Free

Traditional Midwives were criminalized, exploited and erased, their 1000 year old practices mined to create the field of obstetrics and this marginalization of Black and Indigenous midwives continues today. Learn more about the origins of the Black maternal health crisis in this country and movements to resist it--one birth at a time. 

Alternate episode titles:
-We gone be known as the niggas that be crying on here podcast
-A Black Queer Midwife Saved Our Life
-Racha owns the only Black owned and operated birthing center in the entire state of Virginia--why is that?

 Join us for another episode of Black People Telling Black History with Los Angeles' own, the incomparable Racha Tahani Lawler Queen, our midwife turned family. 

Support Racha's work and continue to invest in the birthing cottage:
Venmo: @Black_Midwife  

Racha Tahani Lawler Queen is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Licensed Midwife (LM), Registered & Certified Sangoma (South African Traditional Healer Herbalist), fourth generation midwife, farmer, and textile artist. A practicing traditional midwife of 20+ years, supporting families in hospitals, birth centers, and in homebirth. Lawler Queen has supported over 1,600 families in their out-of-hospital birthing, and for over a decade prioritized Black & Brown midwifery students as a clinical preceptor and academic preceptor. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit Black Farm Studio House with her spouse dana washington-queen that amplifies artists, Black, Brown, Indigenous farmers, and provides subsidies to aid reproductive wellness of LGBTQIA2 folks across the African diaspora. On August 1st 2023, she opened Gather Grounded Midwifery's - Birth Cottage in Midlothian, VA.  A reimagined birth cottage (center), modeled after how her great great-grandmother's midwifery cared for Black & Indigenous families in Elmo and Forney, Texas. 

Social Media: 

Instagram: @gathergroundedmidwifery    @Blackfarmstudiohouse
Tik Tok:  @gathergroundedmidwifery

For more information on the birthing cottage in Virginia, visit:
www.gathergroundedmidwifery.com


Intro Diddley: Patience Sings (IG: @patience.sings)

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Black Midwives Existed Before Doctors and are Still Delivering Us Today ft. Racha

Alternate episode titles: 
-Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You
-This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swiftie friendly episode, absolutely nothing to shadow ban here, nope not at all (devil emoji)

If you couldn't tell, we are super juiced to invite you all to a very special, mind reconfiguring politic shaking and shaping episode of Black People Telling Black History with the Icon herself, Dr. Joy James. Join us in chopping it up with Dr. James in what was a rich discourse spurned from her new book, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (after) life of Erica Garner, out now. This pre-Valentine's Day episode is all about love (see what I did there), but not the hallmark card consumer capitalist iteration of love but the love that has us stop our movements from being exploited and destabilized by capitalist interests from compadors or even well meaning actors who are subservient to the system. Agape driven love, what Dr. James demarcates as, "love as political will, communal care and protections...a spiritual, political phenomenon...our capacity to care for and defend ourselves from state violence while also nurturing and being nurtured by individual selves and communities." A love that Assata Shakur and Erica Garner had; both captive maternals, Dr. James argues, who driven by a love for Black people,  forged maroonage in their own right--"unrepentant insurrectionists, the unembraceable against whom the state exercises severe sanctions. A love Black political prisoners who are still being detained in US prisons today had, risking their lives and freedoms on behalf of Black liberation, a love beyond sentimentality, a love perhaps even for those who don't love us back (working on that). 

Do not miss out on all this free game and don't say we ain't never did nothing for you.

“Despite our care, emotional intelligence and political determination, without collective strategies, our caretaking freezes or falters. Becoming trained maroons capable of coordinating war resistance deflects or defies predatory violence." --Dr. Joy James

Support for Dr. Joy James:
https://www.commonnotions.org/new-bones-abolition
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-pursuit-of-revolutionary-love-joy-james/1141549285
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/contextualizing-angela-davis-9781350368637/
Intro Diddley: Patience Sings (@patience.sings)

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Twin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy James

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde

Join us in discussing the Black intersex revolution, imagination beyond violence visited upon our bodies and community as home with our dear love Saifa Wall.

Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield in England examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy in Ireland and England. Saifa is the former Board President of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and a former advisor to the Astraea Intersex Fund for Human Rights. Above all else, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocate for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations.  In addition to his work and activism, he is a loving dad to his dog, Justice. 

Support for Saifa:

Every Body film: https://www.focusfeatures.com/every-body/watch/
Personal Website: https://www.seansaifa.com/
Black Intersex History: https://www.them.us/story/little-jimmy-scott-black-intersex-history-profile

Venmo: @seansaifa-wall
Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/seansaifa

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Saifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.

...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will. 
From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover what it is, what it's not and how to stop it.

Mayowa is a writer, stand-up comedian, and discourse girlie who has spent the past decade between London, Berlin, Lagos & and now back in Atl. Their work discusses anti-blackness and how it shows up within: colorism, texturism & desirability.

Support for Mayowa:
Instagram: @mayowasworld 
venmo @mayowasworld
PayPal.me/Mayowasworld
linktr.ee/mayowasworld


Intro Music: Patience (@patience.sings)
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While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa

...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapministry) as she gives you a quick 30 minutes of necessary game on this Monday afternoon made for wage theft and dream death on how imagination was a requisite for our ancestors' freedoms, the blueprint they laid out for revolution and how to take back your body from the State from can't see in the morning to can't see at night. 

Support for Tricia and more resources:
www.thenapministry.com
If you don't do nothing else today, please check out her new book, Rest is Resistance, a guide and manifesto on Black liberation's departure from white supremacist capitalist grind culture

Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51E6lgtFIq0vdQYuHf3Tap?si=e14d54cf12f94d24

Tricia is the founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the ‘rest as resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s  work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.  She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto and The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture.

Intro Music: Patience Sings (@patience.sings on IG)
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Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps

Parts 1 and 2
If the shoe fit, go grab some socks

"without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and [their] oppression."--Audre Lorde

Join us for a special episode of Black People Tell Black History (yes, it's giving very much Anita Baker 365 days of the year same ol love) with our love Elle Moxley talking about community, how some of ya;ll wouldnt know what it is if it fell and hit you in the head and how market forces, capitalism and white supremacy are driving us away from each other, the theft of our culture is driving us away from each other in an attempt to lessen our pride in our shared identity and even that's not enough to assure solidarity, gentrification is physically doing the job of isolating Black folks from one another. So what do we do?

When it comes to liberation, everybody won't come (and don't want to)
Everybody is not your friend and how we (mostly Ebony) are resisting all of that and subsequently learning the hard way. 

Thank you, ReesaTeesa.

Who Tf Was I Friends With? Community and Friendships in the Age of Aquarius feat Elle Moxley

For Hind, For Dexter, For Wadea, For Jordan and all others whose names go underreported, whose lives are undervauled, whose resistance is met with no fanfare.

Support Within Our Lifetime, Palestinian led NYC based community organization: https://wolpalestine.com

The genocidal settler colonial regime of Israel will be brought to heel, the genocidal settler colonial United States government will be brought to heel.

We must do this together and resist the allure of anti-Black divisive voices and agents of the state, would be movement detractors seeking to undermine and silence hundreds of years of Black and Palestinian coalition building and solidarity. We will win.

Source: Audio excerpt from YouTube, “Kwame Ture’s Debate with a Zionist” (1973)

Recommended Readings/Resources
https://www.aaihs.org/coke-money-and-apartheid-divestment-in-u-s-higher-education/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067218

https://www.wsj.com/finance/dear-columbia-students-divestment-from-israel-wont-work-48c56f57#:~:text=The%20divestment%20campaign%2C%20along%20with,their%20government%20to%20change%20direction.

Don't fall for the okey doke: Anti-Blackness is Divisive and Perpetuates Settler Colonial Violence

No Pride without Black Trans Liberation and Reparations--Not Rations, Pooh.

Black trans liberation, much like Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples across the globe, requires a complete redistribution and reorganization of the current power structure/status quo--is GLAAD ready? Is GLSEN ready? Are you ready? 

Alt episode titles:
How do we respond to white violence? (aka what's the proper procedure?)
Coddling of the dominant narratives and who gets permission to be tardy to the party? 
The faux care economy and celebrity machine--who actually cares and do we, as marginalized peoples, need them to?
Hoodrat to Headwrap to Lacefront ft Elle Moxley
What resistance will require of us? What does solidarity demand of us?

Recommended Reading and Resources:
Go see the I'm Your Venus film, executive produced by our homegirl, the artist, filmmaker, director and icon Jonovia Chase:
Tix here:
https://tribecafilm.com/films/i-m-your-venus-2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/arts/design/kiyan-williams-whitney-biennial-white-house.html

BK's own Ms. Boogie's newest slapper, The Breakdown: https://open.spotify.com/album/1FOqdClvDEVvUajf7wjz7j

Subscribe and check out: FQ Crazy, Sexy, & Cool Podcast hosted by Asia Snowden, Tabytha Gonzalez and Tempress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLxAFIKLKEc

Episode dedicated in loving memory and honor of Tamir Rice

Places to Support:
Tamir Rice Foundation:
https://www.tamirericefoundation.org/donate
Within our Lifetime:
https://wolpalestine.com/donate/
Marsha P Johnson Institute: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjY0OTc
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts:
https://www.btfacollective.org/

Episode this month sponsored by Bookshop.org, use code PRIDE24 for 15% off select LGBTQIA+ titles

For more recommended reading materials and resources, visit patreon.com/ihartericka

Until Black Trans Women are Free, Ya'll Will Have Macklemore Ol' Bleach Blonde Ass ft Elle Moxley

Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity 

They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode

Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001
https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651

Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?

What it is and what it is not

Who gets seen in rainbow capitalism and who gets left out?

What do we do without white cis het corporate crumbs? Will we be forced to rely and lean on each other, community, village and return pride to its roots as a riot, a protest?
Rainbow capitalism is racism, facism, the anti-thesis to queer. It's not the queer celebrities making millions from marketing to and profiting from Black and Brown queer and trans folks on the margins that are going to save us, just US.

If we are fighting for us to take back our resistance and liberation  from the very apolitical, corporate, white pride structure. And we're fighting to liberate ourselves and to liberate one another, and we're doing so with a strong framework of solidarity, the question is not necessarily what's our responsibility, what's our response to anti-blackness, transphobia, cisheteronormativity, imperialist capitalism that attempts, with gusto, to pervade our movement and end our lives?

The Origins of Pinkwashing and its connection to the apartheid state of Israel 

For a free list of recommended readings, materials and resources, visit www.patreon.com/ihartericka.com

To purchase merch: https://ihartericka.com/shop/
Portion of the proceeds go to Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout, Within Our Lifetime, Friends of the Congo and Hometax Sudan. Let's run it up for them.

This episode is sponsored by Bookshop.org
Find a local Black queer and/or trans owned bookstore near you:
https://bookshop.org/pages/bookstores

Editors note: the podcast about the genocide in Sudan I referenced is called, Society of Strife, NOT Society of Destruction.

Painting the Rainbow Green: The White Cisgaytriarchy’s Oeuvre of the Almighty Dollar

Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k


Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die
The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC

Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was designed to be autocratic really and only with the interests of a small few white people in mind. And by those—I mean those constitutionally considered human.

The constitution and declaration of independence could have been written w the blood of Black indigenous and Indigenous/First Nations so much of it was spilled to birth the current system whose efficacy and legitimacy we all find ourselves in constant debate about online and elsewhere. 

So yes ima think voting is the only means to achieve change or the most powerful change in a system that tells us routinely how to go about change and how not to go about change so that nothing will ever change, because if I stopped believing that, I’d have to actually do something more than what I’m told, I’d have to imagine, I’d have to create, I’d have to divest from whiteness, I might not make a million dollars, I might make a million enemies, I might have to go out after I vote and hit the streets and never leave, I might have to care about people the system has deemed undesirable and disposal

I mean that’s a tall order for the average person in a white supremacist capitalist society that works me til I’m broken and breaks me til I’m dead

I’ll take the fucking sticker instead!!

Is that how the song goes?

Join us for a special election episode exploring:

Electoral College Origins and Inexplicable Explanations for Its Continued Use 200 plus years later

Kamala Harris criticism - unprincipled and legitimate, misinformation and who it serves surprisingly, a critique of Harris is an endorsement of trump? The anxiety and fear around critiques of Kamala being co-opted and bastardized by white supremacists

People online defending electoral politics by positing that there are no revolutions happening despite the fact that current revolutions happening everywhere...maybe even next door.
- [ ] Mayamar 
- [ ] Kenya 
- [ ] Venezuela 
- [ ] Cop City 
- [ ] Land back campaigns 
- [ ] Palestine

Outro: el Hajj Malik el Shabazz
"Democracy is Hypocrisy Sticker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfAFfu6VD0

Recommended Reading and Resources Forthcoming at www.patreon.com/ihartericka

There's No Democracy to Save and No One is Telling Ya'll Not to Vote: Hammer, Sickles & Stickers

...What we finna do come tomorrow? 
...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win
...will you fear power or contest with it?

A hallmark feature of any presidential election in a racist country is the continued psychological warfare against the colonized, especially Black people, who, along with Arab Muslims, will be inevitably blamed, scapegoated or strategically pitted against one another in service of the powers that be, for no other reason than if we were to coalesce our efforts toward our own interests and liberation, that could signal the end of empire and all the symbolism, pomp and circumstance that they hope will keep us distracted and placated. 

We are living in a lie, a constant paradox: 
Black people are no better off from the open theft and profiteering of our culture by white people but appropriation masked as "multiculturalism" in the media is at an all time high and judging by the decreasing numbers of Black folks in physical public space in major metropolitan cities, is showing no signs of slowing down (if you can just "be" Black, why would you need Black people?). Record numbers of white people are using tiktok and other technologies to fine tune their mimicry of what they think Blackness is while at the same time decrying we won't be "replaced"; Vanity fair is publishing articles about the "radicalization of america's white young men" and giving a well known white supremacist a whole spread about how wealthy "conservative extremists" are calling themselves "anti-imperialists" in a fake populist rebrand while a privately owned newspaper is upset at its billionaire owner for blocking their presidential endorsement and also regularly publishing Israel centric propaganda around freeing the hostages when there are twice as many or more Palestinians held captive before oct 7? This is sometimes  peppered with actual unbiased coverage of the genocide here and there (to some individual writers' credit).

The US says it is committed to protecting Ukrainian sovereignty after Russia's attempts to annex their land but not that of the Palestinian people...who also had their land stolen?

In 2021, Kamala Harris was quoted saying wars are fought over oil but in a few years it’ll be over water

Elon Musk is building what will be the world's largest supercomputer in South Memphis, TN in a predominately Black community and authorities there greenlit the project with no community input or oversight in a part of the city that is currently plagued by a water crisis, replete with lead and other pollutants. This is 3 years after the community started a successful grassroots resistance movement that stopped two companies who were planning to build a major oil pipeline right in the middle of a historic Black neighborhood. They did the bulk of their organizing during and despite of a Trump presidency.

European investors are buying farmlands in water rich areas, mostly in Africa and even in parts of the US to sell to areas that are water poor and dividing up last remaining farmland on earth to take advantage of what they call...
“Empire crops”

This has been happening under democractic and republican administrations. So again, what's going to be our answer? Will it b a departure from what colonialism wants, thinking about something other than yourself? What's it going to be after you slip that paper in that box?

Recommended Reading and Resources Forthcoming at www.patreon.com/ihartericka

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Rashad Pridgen (Soul Nubian). Rest in Power, my love

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Bipartisan Genocide: Don't Blame the Colonized for the Colony's Design

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"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills

"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin 

Alt episode titles: 
Hegemony, Iniquity, Occlusion 
Dehumanization, Erasure, Indoctrination
We've been here before, we've never left. The place where a z*on*st and a n*zi can exist inside the same washed up, recycled shock jock racist tech magnate bureaucrat, use thee quintessential anti-semitic gesture on national television and be defended by the head of a million dollar anti-semitism watchdog org that mostly just targets Black people. Yes, even here: a place where neo n*zis came up short in Lincoln Heights, Cincinnati the first all-Black, self-governing community north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and got ran out, they shit took, their flag burned. The pork escort service was no match for Black love.

Happy Black History, Present, Futures Monf and 365 days of the year in my anita baker voice. Sending you all our tender love no matter where you are, what you are going through, whether it's genuine fear from a place of privilege, comfort from having felt a false sense of safety in the promise of a democractic administration or a delayed reaction to living under a Herrenvolk democracy, join us for the first episode of the year in our attempt to ease the collective anxiety with a little, gentle, reality check and reminder of where you are and more importantly, who you are, from the Federal Act-Rite Administration (with love).

Everything's going to be okay. 

Know Your Rights, Resources about ICE:
https://baltimorebeat.com/know-your-rights-in-english-spanish-and-french/

https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/KYR_FLYER_ENGLISH-single.pdf

Shout out to the 'Nati, Stand Up--Dialing in from the Resistance:
https://www.theroot.com/welp-thanks-to-cincinnatis-black-community-neo-nazis-1851762684

Excerpt from Queering the Color Line by Siobhan B. Somerville
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New DEI, Same Ol' Ethnostate: Desperation, Extermination, Imitation

Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)
Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW
Free Em All 
Justice for Momodou Taal Now

Alt Episode Titles:
There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?
What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse
Who Said the US was a Democracy?
When Will White People Segregate Themselves from Black Culture
Aint no skims at Walmart however...follow us

Recommended Resources:
PREA law: https://theappeal.org/trump-executive-order-trans-prisoners/
Carol B Anderson talking about Prince Edward County Virginia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUET24K1c
Treaty of Paris 1783

TikTok: @surelovetoball
Substack: https://lovetoballsholedo.substack.com

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Restoring American Values: Buying Skims in a Lonely Sundown Town

...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.

Recommended Reading:
https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism/

 https://ia801806.us.archive.org/20/items/AgainstInnocenceRaceGenderAndThePoliticsOfSafety/against-innocence-READ.pdf

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Put Some Lulu on My Butt While Whitey's on the Moon: What's a Life Worth...

-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!

- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it

- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they hate the actual Aryans (in and near Iran) and want to bomb them

-They named themselves Caucasian after mountains that they have no relationship to

-They wouldn't know an anglo saxon if it hit them in a head which would be virtually impossible for them to do because anglo saxons never existed...

-Misogyny, racism, transphobia and homophobia are a hedged of protection against their own insecurities (“I didn't get to be a fire engine when I was little but I’m a man tho!” head ass)

-They spend all night and day on reddit, thecoli, twitch and tiktok studying how to be anything and anyone other than themselves...but yet, we still believe what white cis men tell us a man is?

Okay.

Pride Episode! Happy Pride
-[ ] Ms Rachel
- [ ] Gentrification - changing NYC
- [ ] masculinity. Question for Black cis men: who are you!?
- [ ] Bernie Sanders on the Andrew Schulz podcast

What is masculinity if it’s not wielded?
Brooklyn gentrification on the heels of white settlers to South Africa being imported here
What does it all mean bro?
Goalpost of what it mean to be a man can be moved backwards and forward according to their agenda

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The Merrells to Misogyny Pipeline: What Mr. Charlie/Sanders/Schulz Taught You About Being a Man

This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith

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The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)
"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks
No pride with genocide
Everything you are being told about Iran in the mainstream media is a lie derived from the same binaries that harm trans/tgnc and queer communities particularly us Blacks and whatever imminent fear you have of "WWIII"  done already happened and/or is already happening in someone else's world and if you Black, already happened to people who look like you just 40 years ago. 

Queer as in hella glitter and chocolate babies and watermelon woman and i am your venus documentary and diana ross and patrik ian polk and brandy full moon and june jordan nem and stud step baby daddies and allofthat and especially queer as in an unequivocal ten toes stance with the people of Iran and all oppressed peoples across the globe opposed to western hegemony and white supremacist colonial violence. 

-Jojo Siwa, white queerness/white queer community only caring about the aesthetic
-love island bombshells and actual bombshells 
-Skrmetti Ruling
IRAN (Israel is actually the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons but I aint seeing too many tiktoks or NYT articles bout them)
-Van Jones saying we should support trump??
--Whoopi Goldberg and cross-cultural solidarity (she ain't lying)
-90% of Israelis support bombing of Iran? 
-MAJORITY civilians killed in Iran but media is not reporting, many more have fled Tehran (capital of Iran)
-Iran, gender binary, transphobia and anti-blackness link
 


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Recommended Reading:
Closing excerpt from The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky 

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Pride of Mass Destruction: Do You Want The Aesthetic of Freedom or to Actually Be Free?

This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All

Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director  (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York BK all-day, geography student at UC Berkeley and writer (IG: @isaiah.iman.blake)

Questions to consider:

If desire is a matter of life and death, if how you look determines if you live or die and how you live and die, what are we going to do? 

Since desire is currency the more you have, the more you the want the more valuable you are, what does that mean for our relationships, especially Black trans, non binary, agendr tgnc and queer people? How are people able to separate how they treat the people they are in relationship with and how they think about, view and in turn, treat others? 

What does social media necessitate in terms of how we perform accountability and connection to one another?

-Interracial Dating and Partus Sequitur Ventrem
-Black Revolutionary Love
-Epstein Files and Noam Chomsky
-Sites of Return

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On Desirability: Karl Marx, Beyonce, and You feat Deme & Isaiah

...And the beauty of not falling in line.

Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2! 

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The Episode:

Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction?
Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty ideals that white people themselves both control and regularly fail (and when they fail it, they shift the goalpost ever in their favor)

-GOP-1s/GLP-1s: A global "rightward" conservative drift coinciding with a boon in the weight loss drug industry, a billion dollar social media attention economy focused mostly on how people look and a concurrent decline in advocacy for Congo, Sudan, Haiti and the ongoing genocidal violence against Black people in this country may be revealing an uglier truth about white supremacy than once thought before.


Who has capital and who doesn’t all wrapped up in who is beautiful or not, another such binary created by the State

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Desirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards

...we are not allowed to hate back. Does whiteness make room for love? Does it have the capacity to do so? 

I think Aileen Wuornos may have been onto something...


This episode is dedicated to the legacies of Jamil Al-Amin and Alice Wong. Rest in Power


**Editors Note before some of yall start: yes, I know that Valerie is a cover by a white British group before Amy did it and they was appropriating too so my point still stands 

-UN Resolution 3379: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/un-resolution-denounces-zionism

(Spoiler: it was revoked)

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What's Love Got to Do With It: The World Hates Blacks but...

Does black love include white people (or anyone who isn't black)? We all know the answer to that. Pack a lunch---this is a long one with an extended review of Queen and Slim *SPOILER ALERT* at some point but not spoiley in beginning. Skip review if you haven't seen it yet.

Highly Recommended Reading
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (available for purchase online, fuck Amazon).

Register for Ericka's first live webinar-Gender 101!! December 12, 11am PST/2pm EST: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN___4Vk0cST6SS18NoWa7paA

References
Bechdel Test for Trans Actors
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/7x5nje/there-wasnt-a-bechdel-test-for-trans-representation-so-i-made-one

Queen and Slim Interview Links

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2019/11/queen-and-slim-lena-waithe-melina-matsoukas-interview-1202191741/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/why-queen-slim-star-jodie-160026506.html

National Geographic predicted Americans will look like in 2050 (not 2024 or 2030* as stated in the podcast)

https://www.mic.com/articles/87359/national-geographic-determined-what-americans-will-look-like-in-2050-and-it-s-beautiful

Wack basketball player Patrick Patterson's anti-black statements can be found here: https://www.bet.com/news/sports/2019/11/26/clipper_s-patrick-patterson-slammed-for-referring-to-black-women.html

Music-Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner

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The Marsha P. Johnson Institute at https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzA3MDk=?fbclid=IwAR2whgNasaYmVhRi0CW_UgAbp2z3K-1UH0bKtBMqgzhxb8BHb6v6SqyrOWY

Bonus:

Love is Love...Or is it Tho? The Interracial Dating Episode

Suspend Rent Now. Tweet, call your state and local elected officials, send them letters, sign existing petitions like this one or create your own: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reclaim-our-homes-rent-suspension-now?source=facebook&&fbclid=IwAR0k822tpVxcZCieQlNpvMYuyV2ZDHYYsXAuolABqMjKT5SceD6VTBuTj5w. 

I know we are all asking ourselves, "how long do we have to live like this?" in regard to shelter in place or social distancing guidelines but when it comes to racial violence and white supremacist rhetoric, we also must ask ourselves--how long do we have to live like this? The promise of a new world, of "coming together" starts with an interrogation and rejection of mass marginalization under global capitalism and how we got here, to a pandemic that costs human lives. Until then, make sure to Buy Black. Voice Credit for Intro: Tasha Lott.

Highly Recommended Reading and Resources:
COVID-19: Black Girl Majik Wellness InitiativE: https://medium.com/black-girl-magik/covid-19-black-girl-magik-wellness-initiative-73e01198418d

Racial and Social Justice Webinar 3/31: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kjb5lUV7T0GpW4JqXmqhzQ

Marsha P. Johnson Collective Solidarity Webinar 3/26: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItc-6rpzkiJDEZZUW0kg3jtgRMTPlYPw

Sex Ed Talks for Families and Kids w/ Dr. Tracie Gilbert @thembianaiya--follow her on Instagram for more info!

List of Black Owned Businesses to Support for Toilet Paper, Household Goods and Supplies: https://whereyoucamefrom.biz/article/black-owned-toilet-paper-mouthwash-and-laundry-detergent-brands.html?fbclid=IwAR2LhReKvjx0oiUMUGbMa8X8onbmFzIOB4GMY1YQxpyQQLjaWn753VZ1wLU

Covid-19 Resources for Undocumented Californians: https://ciyja.org/covid19/?fbclid=IwAR1EyvSLokfdjKVpttwOpM_bvV1ugQ96_ObIEL9zqpTMMLyllt2gaDVeG2c

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv4AazvLFVUNAgXoxqBqfZ7jJVkrMroa-CET6Vt6XygR-CaQ/formResponse

Vocal NYC Safe Needle and Syringe Access for HRT: http://www.vocal-ny.org/syringe-access/?fbclid=IwAR0y7FIWx2z7kf-H_rB6OFB4Q5clk3l0WDFclWN4gO34lFPRdpVPvQRfPiU￼

Local 10 ILWU Union RE: Grand Princess: https://m.mixcloud.com/HardKnockRadio/hkr-intv-w-trent-willis-covid-19-danger-at-the-port-and-west-oakland/?fbclid=IwAR3xPujK2j9X7hsEpZxT5EdSyROzzIpWxbU_EMKPMXifIYE4bsIZHt0CZeM

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/upshot/coronavirus-sick-days-service-workers.html?fbclid=IwAR2oFkmKBTHwfMyChZNYL2sx68yFodvI3WH2hcVPaKAhnuygHLXf9eXQQwI

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/duncan-socrates-lemp-maryland-shot-police-officer?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0Q8ZnJvBazkaBAK0YM9QaimBDegP-Qu4Hpsm6tmgo1dYzhN_8FmCJMx_k


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/nyregion/Coronavirus-nyc-rich-wealthy-residents.html?fbclid=IwAR2Kavq-d6x24D3aYzIvxMU6kP3ce7f9kMI31tyxKpFpPoPWS1RjOtu3TyE


https://www.wbtv.com/2020/03/18/homicide-investigation-underway-south-charlotte/?fbclid=IwAR3skZSoo6_6lUwVlvXpWL8lMlFXUWS4D_qeBAAXQSgOeBTYVrkm3KkDDz8

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-03-18/homeless-occupy-more-vacant-homes-coronavirus-pandemic-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR1Xcj72LU6_kMYOdl_O2ahBrP4bIkz4pTMnkktPQ1vU1u5Kc4t11JP9XZo

https://kion546.com/health/coronavirus/2020/03/18/farm-workers-still-on-the-job-during-shelter-in-place/?fbclid=IwAR1IRgg-VUYQpXAKqCASr5vk0WZRg0w1rzx4aiemENv0KVjueHTqrQFGasE

http://www.universitytimes.ie/2020/03/jstor-makes-database-accessible-to-the-public/?fbclid=IwAR3sMkLa3D4HonVzCiVDHluG-Wapk6QbKWy6HW9Q8zYIjkHY1O4W48fs80A

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/19/here-are-51-republican-senators-who-just-voted-against-expanding-paid-sick-leave-all?fbclid=IwAR0OJTYoEayihfsLC3d5T0VZqsa41ePdSR6jo1xFcRienrOWVhIQwOHOgVo

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e6ff060c5b6eab7793acaea?fbclid=IwAR33WhflUeKLqR0En948f0IIs6Q-m2XNQwwNssEjaXNkYxbApTwfcq0EnBU

Music: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner 

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Washing Our Hands of White Supremacy: Coronavirus and all the Other Pandemics #Suspend Rent Now!

It's business as usual in AmeriKKKa...a state of emergency has been declared in New York State yet rent is still due all the same. Black people still comprise the highest number of deaths from COVID 19 across the nation and our enemies couldn't be more visible. Dr. Armen Henderson, a black doctor in Miami was handcuffed by police for no reason while administering COVID 19 tests for the unhoused. Essential workers are making less money than ppl receiving unemployment. The rich get richer and the senators still sell stocks before impending market crashes and buy stock in teleconferencing companies, too. Being essential is not a prize when you're disposable tomorrow. Some people got shelter and places, and some people got million dollar stimulus checks. But Gavin Newsome is great tho, right? 

Highly Recommended Reading

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/all-but-three-people-who-died-from-covid-19-in-st-louis-were-black-2020-4%3famp

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-millionaires-wealthy-tax-break-loophole-a9466476.html?fbclid=IwAR3ijwPs712zS3Vos0RTDCKVmLFy9sm7CrbF367ZAktD4c2HxLMsc2FPdC0

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-data-reveals-blacks-are-dying-in-15205002.php?utm_campaign=CMS+Sharing+Tools+%28Desktop%29&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR3hhboaKXbdeQwJVxmsN6IfMBFhgiFzljQ4hIx_y1hF4P2Fdf_QzFIuw7E

https://aeon.co/ideas/land-and-the-roots-of-african-american-poverty

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ny.curbed.com/platform/amp/2020/3/27/21195216/new-york-rent-freeze-legislation-coronavirus-covid-19

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/armen-henderson-arrested-homeless-coronavirus-testing.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0yauIdP7WdDCGfqRxoIcpQ9-rHWBNco1aDi3KpXAJdZNJNU6uKuSAsiNc

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/04/14/why-are-rich-americans-getting-17-million-stimulus-checks/?fbclid=IwAR14MNRkAY5etW8P9MuJAASE11YnGol25y6AiOXDqVnTaOTasKXPvgm36vE#5d701cf665b4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216965/McDonalds-China-bans-black-people-entering-fears-coronavirus.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR3eoxMMHTIw_Jj3ELQFSLpy-tFBEq5Sm9fGFarGPOc9LuxEiLr6X6hvQxk

https://www.colorlines.com/articles/uspss-largely-black-and-female-workforce-rallies-save-jobs?fbclid=IwAR16zqUo3pRIK_eeRXhTlF3S_bmzLqVm0GKnoV_VmGYSCxRdDFy0n27sWJM


https://www.theroot.com/in-coronavirus-economy-somehow-trumps-friends-keep-get-1842734509?fbclid=IwAR3Vfo6MQjBFJj1G37rlivlNrknoCUWYVTf-uRJmoaa03JtoQYOu95-UNsU

https://www.theroot.com/we-figured-out-why-coronavirus-is-killing-black-people-1842774532?fbclid=IwAR3wisRyvlpOkYmKKrhmAyBfc-_VpfUF6CLJLbwmTTaocBXAzTOdcR1LylU

https://www.theroot.com/report-black-people-are-contracting-and-dying-of-coron-1842679305?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1586025005&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3LZqEPa8Gybyfrq_yegPfGxTkpcjfM1yJzdSb89jw_elTpX4MUQKOeuQ0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-stay-home-rich-poor.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3RrV3rA9-h0Imc38SwO9AL7KqkhaQnsqTTMYTG2Rb2w0MOZLnNVLvYehQ

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/23/news/companies/walmart-ceo-pay/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/835343965/-a-perfect-storm-extremists-look-for-ways-to-exploit-coronavirus-pandemic?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1ExBtQkpZ4gwEp9P2utwn1hF-uma8LdDLCmlO-Jm16sSH8LbcfxPXCFGk

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Music by Benjamin Earl Turner: Apathy Happy

30 Days A Slav--Essential: Disposable Tomorrow.

There is a genocide against Black people in the United States happening now and white people are intentionally killing us while other white people, incentivized by our deaths, write FB statuses. Black skin in white masks beg for forgiveness on white ppl's behalf, rationalize their terror as some fault of our own and do the bidding of the police state and the mainstream white corporate celebrities that support them. Black trans women and femmes still comprise some of the highest deaths in this country but their deaths at the hands of the state and its agents go unnoticed--erasure as a tool of the oppressor. 

Content Warning: Police brutality, violence, death, racism, transphobia, misogynoir, homophobia, housing insecurity, wage and labor exploitation, white peopling.

Referenced Reading: 
Nina Pop, 2020: https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/06/trans-woman-nina-pop-stabbed-death-missouri

Tony McDade, 2020: https://www.out.com/news/2020/5/29/tony-mcdade-black-trans-man-killed-police-florida

Shantel Davis, 2012: http://m.amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/jun/29/family-and-friends-remember-shantel-davis-demand-j/

Breonna Taylor, 2020: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5272499002

Charleena Lyles, 2017: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pregnant-seattle-mother-killed-seattle-cops-shot-7-times-article-1.3457822?fbclid=IwAR1j_OiXdzhO1miBQDN41_FQlx438zWeMFEFAtgf8WsOyOJrgWHXdOgQpMY

Sgt Tess Deterding, Rancho Cordova PD: https://www.ranchocordovapd.com/Home/Components/News/News/4044/2312

Derek Chauvin: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/28/us-police-officers-fired-rehired-why?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0YPi18XV5Ru5ZdXs32_I5PHTf3B3OEnxe9V7Yh7BUoOF99MDZia7d0tLA

Cancel Rent Now: Stop the Landlord Bailout Bill A10522/S08419- https://flatbushpower.org/resources/2/

White Agent Provocateurs infiltrating Minneapolis protests: https://mobile.twitter.com/GypsyEyedBeauty/status/1266162964727562240

Black(ish) Agent Provocateur/Stop asking people “what he do”: https://www.thedailybeast.com/shaun-king-keeps-raising-money-and-questions-about-where-it-goes-3?fbclid=IwAR16V1OFbHTHHm02YnLzrI-toWubTpuzQm7aAvmfj4Uo7iPX7gg55xdpUqs

White Riot: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/what-a-white-supremacist-coup-looks-like?utm_campaign=falcon&utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3bMVZ1YEqccoi6a_AQhYtddxiU3ChSYH_KZIbQR9U4zLy7plY4kmTdbCg

Joe Biden: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-allegations-women-2020-campaign-2019-6%3famp

Politicians Insider trading: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/justice-department-drops-insider-trading-probes-three-senators-n1215196?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR3BIdp2UzwgkO8V9lRYnOIM9eWuLDwAoAQtePDPinPIHKsztXtrIkPZSxc

Markia Nelson: https://racebaitr.com/2019/07/24/free-markia-nelson-taking-back-what-capitalism-stole-is-not-wrong/

Amy Klobuchar (edit: Derek Chauvin’s 2006 case wasnt heard until after she took office but look up Myon Burrell’s case she oversaw: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/klobuchar-minneapolis-george-floyd.amp.html)

Elizabeth Shirey: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/amp/news/south-carolina-woman-charged-skhylur-davis-assault/

On Eviscerating Model Minority Myth and NBPOC Complicity: https://www.liberatedtogether.com/blog/eviscerate?fbclid=IwAR3yLaVwy29rvKc_4_2lSCSGrn-7SCVzd_LMomu-iC1md1RMB_mjTUPizD0

Minnesota Ranked 2nd Worst for Racial Equity in US in 2017: https://www.google.com/amp/s/minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/08/22/minnesota-racial-inequality/amp/

http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesota-still-has-some-of-the-worst-racial-disparities-in-the-nation/504390741

Christian Cooper*(not Christopher as I inadvertently referred to them): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/amy-cooper-christian-central-park-video.html

Love to All Black People, Everywhere
Music: Apathy Happy Benjamin Earl Turner

When the Chickens Come Home to Roost They Will Be Seasoned

And the Epsteins, the Michael Wolls, the Roger Stones, the Alexander Hamiltons, the David Starkeys, the Stephen Millers, the William Barrs, the Joe Biden's, the Tucker Carlsons, the Reed Hastings, Benjamin Netanyahus, Winston Churchills, FDRs, your non-profit executive director, maybe your partner, maybe you. There are so many names of white cis men who commit murder, spew anti-Black racism with impunity, collude with a white supremacist state to leverage the anti blackness inherent in our institutions--keeping Black people from access to capital that belongs to us in a country that we built, but also rendering the violence that happens to us invisible when these same white cis men RARELY lose their jobs (like being the President of this country) or face even the slightest consequences for the most egregious offenses from "white collar" crimes, environmental degradation and genocide. Black has somehow become synonymous with "crime", our deaths ruled "accidental" "misunderstandings" up for debate--after all, when a white person says or does something racist, they get a pre-written apology, a vacation, it's said they need a racial and social justice workshop, to read white fragility written by a fragile white person, all while keeping their same level of privilege, power and financial standing. Meanwhile, Black people meet the ultimate, permanent cancellation for far less. It's about time we "Say their names"...before they say ours. 

Can you name white people who have caused harm? Or do you only have the names of those who experienced it? 

Breonna Taylor:
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/fired-lmpd-detective-told-to-relax-before-raid-on-breonna-taylor-s-home-colleague-says/article_d5ed15c4-c23b-11ea-bc8a-c75a4606a8f7.html

Highly Recommended Reading: 
Alex Acosta x Jeffrey Epstein:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

White Celebs Blackface: https://www.thewrap.com/stars-blackface-blunders-ted-danson-kylie-jenner-jimmy-fallon/

White and Rich While the World Gets Sick: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/15/891318651/its-nice-to-be-rich-big-banks-are-raking-in-profits-in-the-stock-market?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR0VTC1tXitYtnRkkNo81YPFsSysqfSVCpCq0GmjHE4G11JI4mrZYKxCImo

87 Protestors Charged for Protesting Breonna Taylor's Murder, but Not 1 Officer who Committed the Murder has been:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/87-arrested-outside-kentucky-ags-house-during-breonna-taylor-protest/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm&fbclid=IwAR2KaMFkFgblERtfZI8Cz1nzef1RX9jDLFrNbKG6R_ZX8VLI70UPe_LEudM#app

Tucker Carlson Goes on Vacation like Most Anti-Black White People Do: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/media/tucker-carlson-ex-staffer-posts/index.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention?fbclid=IwAR2_KCu_MFLqwhOPUF_Xl6ejna5Ri6fM5CJn7RgOx_F6Gr4YEpYywukxJjg

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/02/david-starkey-widely-criticised-for-saying-slavery-was-not-genocide?fbclid=IwAR10qN6lg3Jsy1OfTIGidU9Ku3y4eGTo_nK2eCKvQ1BPYcFi1CxysrLKreg

Latinidad: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/when-it-comes-to-latinidad-who-is-included-and-who-isnt/

Hamilton: Follow @comiteboricua on IG to learn more about Luis A. Miranda, Lin Manuel Miranda’s father, and the continued destabilization of PR

White cis man financial crimes: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/21/business/hoffenberg-confesses-to-ponzi-scheme.html

Netflix countering Monique’s ongoing discrimination lawsuit against them: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/thr-esq/netflix-blasts-moniques-retaliation-claim-as-nonsensical-discrimination-dispute-1269315

Frank Wills/Watergate:
https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/black-watergate-hero-still-gets-no-respect/article_19c3cb2f-3552-591b-9b96-bdfce7bfb325.html

Music: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner

White Ppl Can't Get Cancelled: The Bezos You Know; The Hankinsons, Cosgroves and Mattinglys You Dont

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