Notices by Frantz Fanon (jwillia2@mastodon.online), page 2

"The purpose of racism is to control the behavior of white people, not Black people. For Blacks, guns and tanks are sufficient." ~ Otis Madison "Confronting Racism" (January 1997)

Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

“...as far as I can assess all of us who want to fight within the system are completely underestimating the influence the system has on us.” ~ Steve Biko

More than half of US states reporting 'very high' COVID activity levels: CDC

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-half-us-states-reporting-195900004.html

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.~ Booker T. Washington

In Paulo Freire's words: As the oppressors dehumanize others and violate their rights, they themselves also become dehumanized. As the oppressed, fighting to be human, take away the oppressors' power to dominate and suppress, they restore the oppressors humanity they had lost in the exercise of oppression.

“Those who commit the murders write the reports”

— Ida B. Wells

“I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain’t.”

— Assata Shakur

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells and Assata Shakur

"What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater (1920)

“Boston itself was a flea market of racism. It had all varieties, old and new. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-’em-back-to-Africa racists, and in the university areas phony radical-chic racists…Other than that, I liked the city.” ~ Bill Russell

In the wake of the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a given: that if you were Jewish, you would support Israel, and that was that. But as more Jews speak out against Israel's actions in Gaza, it's exposing deep rifts within Jewish communities – including ones that are threatening to break apart friendships, families, and institutions.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-switch/id1112190608?i=1000653386349

US Senate and Biden Admin Usher in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/25/us-senate-and-biden-admin-usher-in-a-two-year-expansion-of-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance/?utm_source=pocket_saves

Statement from Morehouse chapter of AAUP and AUC members of FSJP-Georgia calling on Emory to drop charges against our Morehouse student and all other protestors. Also calling on AUC schools to condemn Emory’s repressive actions.

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-borders-4912532b11a9cec29464eab234045438

LEAKED NYT GAZA MEMO TELLS JOURNALISTS TO AVOID WORDS “GENOCIDE,” “ETHNIC CLEANSING,” AND “OCCUPIED TERRITORY

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

“Violence in the American situation is inescapable. White society is violent, white American society is particularly violent, and white American society is especially violent towards blacks.”

Walter Rodney, Groundings

"Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude." - Kwame Ture

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier ... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.” - Gore Vidal, 1977

For the oppressed our knowledge of the workings of power (white supremacy, patriarchy, economic exploitation, hetero-sexism, etc.) is a skill that is crucial in the development of our own sense of efficacy in creating societies that value human beings over profit generation.

People's CDC COVID-19 Weather Report January 8, 2024 | People's CDC

https://peoplescdc.org/2024/01/08/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-65/

The Black mis-leadership class, which links Black advancement to a the neoliberal agenda of the wealthy few, is an existential threat to humanity because they support an agenda that intensifies domestic and global inequality and insecurity for everyday people. #BlackMastodon

See the difference in framing.