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  • What Has Changed?

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    I have lived in Germany for over ten years now, and I can honestly say I have never seen so much racism in my whole life, and that is saying something because I come from the so-called United States of America (a settler-colonial project of land theft and genocide) that somehow forgot to teach the kids the origins of that land and rarely discusses the original inhabitants.

    I wanted to start this project to help people, but to be honest, I have grown very discouraged. I feel that some people do not want to change, and never will. They will always believe they are smarter or better than others, and their arrogance is something that infuriates me. Why should I waste my energy on them? I have better things to do with my time. These people clearly do not want the world to change since it works in their favor. They do not care about the physical and psychological damage their evil system of racism distributes against BIPOC people.

    They don’t see the tears of the children because their parents get into heated exchanges with racist people trying to pick fights with them or insulting them on the street (knowing full well that their hands are tied.) I have come to feel that, this must be the German way of attack. They see you are at work and again have your hands tied, and that is when they choose to strike, push you or even threaten your life and insult you. I have come to the opinion that many of these people truly have no shame about their dirty history and their dirty present because if they did they surely would not continue to act this way. Maybe they should ask themselves, “Why are so many Germans living all over the world?” Where was your Xenophobia then? And what of the crimes committed by those German Settlers around the world?

    I should have known it since the moment I first visited back in 2006 and they treated me like crap and me and an Asian-American woman were the only ones who were pulled to the side and reprimanded in a foreign language and had to listen to some scumbag voice his opinions about us angrily.

    Scot-Free

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    Why is it that so very few Germans in the western sector were castigated for the Holocaust? A very select few were punished for the evil that killed an estimated 11million people of which over 1.5 million were children. Why is that? Could it be because if they dug deep enough, they would find out the roles played by Robber Barons, so-called respectable organizations, and major corporations? Could it be that companies were “Too big to fail” in the midst of a Cold War, and therefore Germany needed to be helped back on its feet?

    Colonial Past

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    In regards to the Holocaust, I constantly hear people ask, “how could this happen in such a civilized society?” It seems people that ask this question are not aware or don’t bother to take into account the crimes committed in the German colonies of Cameroon, Togo, Deutsch Somoa, Tsingtao, German Southeast Africa, German Southwest Africa, among others. In German Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia) alone one would read about how between 1904-1908 there was a genocide committed against the Herrero and Nama peoples. Also, you will come across information on how anti-miscegenation laws, already existed there. If you study further you would learn about how Germans transported people on cattle trains and had concentration camps in their German South African colony, the concept was not new to them, and they also had what is believed to have been the first extermination camp on Shark Island.

    Another detail worth noting is the fact that German Universities and anthropologists, people like Eugen Fischer were already demanding skulls, and even whole human heads with the skin left intact as if some sort of trophy or something that they could display to others stating how different (meaning superior) they were to these people of darker complexion.

    They Need to Teach Us More

    I have read where Herman Goering at the Nuremberg Trials asked the French, the English, and the Americans “Who are you to try us?” I found this so interesting, and agree that those countries should tell the world their histories as well. These countries have all committed genocides and have all stolen land, and have all helped maintain white supremacy all over the world.

    After learning about the pseudo-science Eugenics and having learned how Adolf Hitler was greatly influenced by people like Madison Grant among others, and after further inquiring about the international eugenic conventions and the horribly racist eugenic ideas taught in universities, that most likely played a role in the worldwide pigmentocracies we see today, I feel that those racists that funded that movement should also be blamed and more attention should be paid to that subject as well.

    I continue to do homework on I.G. Farben and I truly feel that their role should be taught more in detail when discussing the Holocaust. I mean how can they not teach you about the conglomerate that was the biggest chemical company in the history of the world at that moment in time, and what role they played in rearmament, experimentation on human subjects, funding, slave labor? What was their relationship to Zyklon B (the prussic acid used in the gas chambers)? What was their relationship to Auschwitz? Who was American I.G. the U.S. subsidiary company that was taken over by the U.S. government for “Trading with the enemy” in 1941?

    Why is it Happening Again?

    People keep asking how can the world (Germany included) be tilting to the right? Well, there are a lot of reasons. For one the disparity between the rich and the poor just continues to increase. People that are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table are in dire straights and they are frustrated. Many people believe that fascism is a revolution from the top down, and I would agree. Multi-national corporations are out to make a profit and do not wish to curtail their behavior. If our food loses nutrients so what. If neo-liberal policies are gonna hurt us all with the austerity and the privatization, they are getting ready for a backlash from us, they know the unrest is coming, and so in their minds they feel, they need to divide us, and if that doesn’t work then prison and the surveillance state is the backup plan.

    They are planning for civil disobedience, they are planning for the climate refugees, war refugees, and economic refugees. We are all at risk, but they must separate us and turn our anger against other victims of the same madness, and the right-wing will serve as their buffer zone, they will be fed more scraps and will be used as the muscle to keep the others in check. That is their plan. They make wars to kill BIPOC people and to sell their weapons. The corporations will not change course. They will stick to their plan.

    How Did Your Country Get So Rich?

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    Europe and its colonizers in the Anglosphere went out and exploited the resources and labor of people in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Then they have the nerve to not teach the real history and omit the whole thing. The hypocritical west has fooled the world into believing they are the model of civilization has continued on rewarding the dictators and their cronies, that crush all hope of fair distribution of the wealth and resources of countries worldwide. And the same hypocrite west after causing the problems and the poverty in those same countries in the global south, still have time to make wars on those countries and then militarize their borders and add the extra financial incentive of For-Profit Immigration Detention.

    Tell me again why is it that the Spanish language is spoken in twenty different countries? What role did Spain play in those countries? Were there any reparations or even apologies for the theft, genocide, and rape? How are people from Latino America treated in Spain today? As a member of N.A.T.O., what role have they played in helping create refugees? What role have their financial institutions and corporations played in creating poverty? And tell me again, just why do Ceuta and Melilla belong to Spain? (The same criticisms can be made about many European countries and their offshoots in the Anglosphere and their historical behavior).

    Ask a person suffering from Racial Trauma or Racial Battle Fatigue just how “multiculti (multicultural)” they feel this racist German country is. I can see why many of them saw an appeal in Donald Trump, I really can, since his first state of the union address was on the 30th of January, which is the same date Hitler came to power, and so people with right-wing persuasions worldwide flocked to his corner.

    Recommended Reading Material:

    The Kaiser’s Holocaust – David Olusoga

    War Against the Weak – Edwin Black

    They Thought They were Free – Milton Meyer

    I.B.M. and the Holocaust – Edwin Black

    The Destruction of the European Jews – Raul Hilberg  

    Trading with the Enemy – Charles Higham

    Hitler’s American Model – James Q. Whitman

    The Nazi Connection – Stefan Kühl

    The Nazi Hydra in America – Glenn Yeadon

    Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler – Anthony C. Sutton

    The American West and the Nazi East – Carroll P. Kakel

    KL – Nikolaus Wachsmann

    Hell’s Cartel – Diarmuid Jeffreys

    The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben – Joseph Borkin

    Hitler – Ian Kershaw

    The Devil’s Chessboard – David Talbot

    Factories of Death – Sheldon Harris    

    Imbeciles- Adam Cohen

    School for Barbarians – Erika Mann

    The Splendid Blond Beast – Christopher Simpson

    Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli

    Border and Rule – Harsha Walia

    Border Nation – Leah Cowan

    One Long Night – Andrea Pitzer

    The Holocaust – Laurence Rees

  • Compassion

    When talking about the racism they have encountered, sometimes all BIPOC people would like to feel is some sort of compassion. Some sort of empathy. The typical “well racism is everywhere” is like another dagger to the heart of someone that is already hurting.

    I recently had an experience where I told a really personal and painful story to someone and when they said, “that bastard” in regards to the person that had hurt me, it made me appreciate that person so much because I felt that they actually cared, and it felt really nice to see someone actually care, instead of trying to make excuses for the behavior of a racist.

  • What Malcolm X Means to the BIPOC and Oppressed

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    Malcolm Little was born on May 19th 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was one of four children born to Louis Helen and Earl Little (Earl Little also had three children from a prior relationship who lived in Boston.) Malcolm X had many reasons to be angry at Euro-Americans. His father and four uncles were killed by Euro-Americans and his mother was put into a mental institution for 26 years, tearing Malcolm’s family apart and splitting him up from his sibblings. Eventually like many other poor urban youth from broken homes, Malcolm was pulled into the street life. On the streets of Boston and later New York he would make a name for himself as a hustler and a pimp and eventually landing in prison on a burglary conviction. Malcolm ended up serving seven years in prison, and it was while incarcerated that Malcolm discovered books (which he read vigorously) and Islam and both changed him forever.

    Malcolm took on the surname “X” because he stated that “Little” was the slave name given to his ancestors, and since he did not know his real African name, then “X” would suit him better than his birth name “Little.”

    Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam upon release from prison, and continued to be mentored by Elijah Muhammad whom he had already started writing and taking instruction from while incarcerated. With time Malcolm ended up becoming a national spokesman for the religious organization, and became quite a prolific speaker. His speeches varied in subject, e.g. he could speak about religion, or he could denounce “white supremacy” and educate Europeans and Euro-Americans about their true histories and about their unjust actions towards the global BIPOC community. Malcolm represented the Nation for several years until he eventually broke ties with the Nation and decided to start two organizations the Muslim Mosque Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).

    Malcolm made the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) and met with many world leaders in Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm was always pushing for Pan Africanism and trying to shed light to the plight of African Americans in the so-called “Land of the Free.”

    Ask Yourself

    What does the legacy of Malcolm X mean for BIPOC people today? Do his words still inspire people of color, fighting everyday injustice and racism? What does the name Malcolm X mean to the kids lost in the streets, who think there is no way out for them? What does Malcolm X mean to the kids who are tired of white supremacy? What does he mean to BIPOC people that have felt humiliation or discrimination in their lives? What does Malcolm X mean to the kids who have seen their culture not covered by school curriculum or represented on television or in film? What does Malcolm mean to the kids that looked for role models, but saw them killed off one by one, or still captive behind prison walls like e.g. many former Black Panthers? What does his name mean to those like me who are sick of racism?

    What He Still Means Today

    Malcolm X was someone who seemed fearless when it came to telling the oppressor his truths. I personally had never heard anyone speak to white people the way he did. He would speak for those who couldn’t, who had no voice, and he was a hero to the oppressed of the world. His presence is needed now more than ever, in a world where white supremacists again feel emboldened to terrorize BIPOC people like they have done so continuously in the past.

    I truly feel that if Malcolm X would not have been assasinated he would have continued to do a lot of good for humanity. I feel that he was that “fighting spirit” I feel he was that “Pride” he was a champion of the oppressed. He was our champion, he was a role model and that is why we will never forget him and will continue to study his speeches. Malcolm X is also a symbol that people can change; that if you only have faith in them and don’t give up on them, the most unexpected miracles can happen. Malcolm X is a hero that continues to influence and touch lives. He had the courage that we will all need to confront and defeat racism.

    • “Some personal heroes of mine.” (Photo by, Miguel Torres)

    Sources:

    X, Malcolm, et al. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Reissue, Ballantine Books, 1992.

    “Malcolm x.” Www.Malcolmx.Com, http://www.malcolmx.com/biography. Accessed 18 May 2021.

    “The Life of Malcolm X Documentary.” You Tube, uploaded by ILM FILM, 27 Dec. 2019, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnX0tgNu4NA&t=241s.

  • The Berlin Conference 1884-1885

    • There is an apartment building today, where the old Reich Chancellery once stood, and this sign, and another dedicated to the history of the Chancellery are the only reminders of the event that happened at this location.
    • Reich Chancellery formerly Wilhelmstraße 77
    • “Berlin Conference” oil painting by, Anton von Werner

    The Berlin Conference or as some call it the Congo Conference was held in Berlin, Germany between the 15th of November 1884 and it continued until the 26th of February 1885. It was organized by German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck and was held at his chancellery. The conference was attended by members from thirteen European countries and the United States who aimed to set agendas of territorial aggression on African land. There were no African representatives at the conference, nor was much thought placed into to the ethnic differences of the people whose lives were to be affected by these artificial borders being erected by these decisions. In order for no future disputes to develop between the colonizers; future rules for colonization and free trade were decided at the conference.

    Congo Free State

    Also during this infamous conference it was decided that the exclusive right to colonize the majority of the Congo, (under an imperialistic project given the name of “Congo Free State“) would be granted privately to King Leopold II of Belgium, while some minor portions of land, and waterways inside Congo remained neutral and open for commercial purposes, the majority of the country would fall under the king’s control. The book “King Leopold’s Ghost” by Adam Hochschild is very well written and is full of the stories of injustice and violence that took place in the “Congo Free State” between 1885-1908.

    The story of King Leopold the second’s Congo is a story of human beings forced to work on rubber plantations and killed for choosing not to work, or for not working hard enough. It is a story of sickness and famine. It is a story of fathers watching their children mutilated by the Belgian king’s agents. It is a story of workplace quotas placed on the Congolese and if they weren’t met, than this would lead to horrendous maimings of a person’s hands or even feet. Another common tactic of the king’s agents was kidnap family members and hold them as ransom, until a certain amount of work was finished. It is said ten million people were murdered in the Congo under the reign of King Leopold II.

    German Interests

    Germany ended up colonizing the countries of Togo, Cameroon, German South East Africa (modern-day Burundi, Tanzania, and Rwanda), and an area they called German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).Terrible atrocities can be read in all four territories. In German South West Africa alone the German colonizers committed what has been called the First Genocide of the Twentieth Century against the Nama and Herero people in which it is estimated as many as 100,000 people were killed. For anyone wishing to learn more on the subject I would recommend David Olusoga and Caspar W. Erichsen’s wonderful book entitled, “The Kaiser’s Holocaust.”

    Repercussions and Aftermath

    One cannot begin to imagine the suffering that this meeting paved the way for. The millions of dead human beings, and the millions more that survived, but were left with the pain and memories of brutality, rapes, mutilations, humiliation, exploitation, displacements, the traumas that could never be atoned. Although France, England, and Portugal had colonies in Africa prior to the meeting. This meeting gave future colonization in Africa the go ahead.

    Then after decades of colonization came the decolonization struggles, the proxy wars. How many more lives were taken? And what can be said of the Civil Wars? What effect did carving up, lands and creating territories, disregarding the people of the land and their way of life have on those wars?

    Formerly known as Palais Schulenburg, the city palace of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833)
    later housed the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

    Sources:

    Rosenberg, Matt. (2021, February 16). The Berlin Conference to Divide Africa. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/berlin-conference-1884-1885-divide-africa-1433556

    The Berlin Conference 1884–1885 / Africa’s Great Civilizations. (n.d.). http://Www.Pbslearningmedia.Org. Retrieved April 19, 2021, from https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/6031c3a2-ada9-42b4-8045-52006e2a2b07/the-berlin-conference-of-1884-1885/

  • Policing and Violence

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    Through the years I’ve read many stories about people of color shot by the police. I have even read stories of kids and even babies shot by the police. The media reports these stories, but they rarely ask the hard questions that need to be asked and sometimes the media has even resort to vilifying the person murdered.

    Children are just that. They are kids, with a lot to learn, they are growing up, learning one day at a time. Some kids depending on their social standing/class or ethnic background can afford to make mistakes, and they can learn from them, and those around them will see those mistakes as just a part of their life, it was a stage they went through, or just a stupid idea or action, but for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) the mistake they make can seriously jeopardize their future, or even cost them their lives.

    When I read about police shootings of BIPOC, especially children, it breaks my heart, and I do not understand “What kind of a world, would allow this to continue to happen?” In what kind of world do we have to fear those (supposedly) entrusted to protect us?

    When I read about wars and how the majority of the casualties are women and children, and when I read about drone attacks killing civilians it destroys me. When I read about children being arrested or even shot, by police or soldiers anywhere in the world, I just cannot understand it. How could you do that to a child? What threat was that child to you? I do not understand this, these are children, and no child deserves evil. The world must push their so-called leaders to end all violence against children immediately.

    No Margin For Error

    Before the media or society stigmatizes BIPOC children or young men, because of the choices they make when they are not fully mature; They must first look in the mirror. These kids are growing up in the society you made for them. They watch your racist and violent television shows, and films. Programming that “glorifies violence and fast money.” They go to your racist schools that teach them nothing about their people, and instead omit information as to the true history of the United States. The kids hear the popular music on the radio, and it is not all uplifting. There is no “Conscious Rap” for the young kids to listen to on the radio. Usually the type of music that gets radio play is the type that glorifies the dollar and turns women into objects. If the kids turn on the news or reads the newspaper, all they see is violence.

    The U.S. is involved in endless wars against BIPOC, and one has to wonder if to these children it must seem, “hey look at the country, they just go and find something they like or they need, and they go and take it by force.” Ask yourself “What are you teaching them as a society?”

    For these kids growing up today in an incredibly xenophobic world. All these kids see is violence all around them. For kids in many western countries (countries built on the genocide of the indigenous people, or countries that benefitted from the genocide,exploitation, and theft of BIPOC and continue to do so) these kids are watching their people being abused and attacked.

    For kids growing up in the U.S., especially in the inner city add generations of Redlining, and underfunded neighborhoods, over policing, a School to Prison Pipeline, and easy access to guns and drugs, and you do not need a crystal ball to see that these kids are growing up in a trap.

    Ask Yourself

    How many hours do these kids parent or parents have to work to pay the rent? Why must their parents work sometimes two jobs just to barely get by? Why is housing so expensive and why can’t the average person afford to get by working 40 hours a week?

    Why does the media not talk about the Prison Industrial Complex? Is there a business motive to over policing and incarcerating BIPOC people? Why does the media not mention the history of groups like the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the Brown Berets, the Young Lords? What changes did those groups bring to their communities?

    Why have they militarized police? Who benefits? Is this their new form of Eugenics to purposely incarcerate so many BIPOC males on “Minimum Mandatory Sentences” so that they don’t reproduce? Why do police beat peaceful demonstrators? Why are police given immediate immunity from prosecution, are they going in expecting to shoot someone? Would a waiter be given immunity from prosectution if he took a life while on duty, why is it different?

    We need to rethink policing, and we must push for a better world for the kids of today and the kids of tomorrow. All kids should grow up with the same opportunities to succeed and not have to fear police officers or soldiers.

    R.I.P. George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Stephon Clark, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery Philando Castile, Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Richard Trejo, and the thousands that have been killed by police.

    Learn More:

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/massive-peaceful-protests-us-demand-police-reform-71117694

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/23/police-terrorism-protest-g20-law

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalo-police-officers-arrested-shoving-75-year-protester/story?id=71106787

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/ahmaud-arbery-jogging-georgia-shooting/index.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-sandra-bland-what-we-know-so-far-n396036

    https://time.com/5642648/eric-garner-death-daniel-pantaleo-suspended/

    https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/trayvon-martin

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/newly-released-interview-footage-reveal-shifting-stories-officers-who-shot-n751401

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/24/detained-us-largest-immigrant-detention-trump

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48375144

    https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Human-Rights-Abuser-Israel-Trains-US-Police-Report-20200531-0005.html

    Police Militarization

    https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/16/us/officer-charged-philando-castile-killing/index.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-investigating-death-breonna-taylor-killed-police-her-louisville-home-n1212381

    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html

    Books:

    Lockdown America – Christian Parenti

    Are Prisons Obsolete – Angela Davis

    American Prison – Shane Bauer 

    The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander 

    Shackled and Chained in Capitalist America – Eugene Puryear

  • Black Lives Matter

    (Photo by, Miguel Torres)

    On my walk yesterday afternoon, I witnessed a mural from a distance and so I decided to check it out. As I approached, I saw the piece, and I read the statement on the bottom. I became very upset after noticing how someone had defaced the word “Black.” The mural is of George Floyd, the 46 year old man murdered by Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin on the 25th of May, 2020. The mural originally read “Black Lives Matter” but someone changed it to “Lives Matter.” So, this person means to tell me, and anyone reading this mural, that “Lives Matter” as if “All Lives Mattered Equally?” Well let me just reflect on what you are saying….

    If it was true that “Lives Matter” then the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color of the world would not have been exploited for the last 529 years. If it was true that “Lives Matter” there wouldn’t be refugees leaving war torn countries, (Wars of Western Imperialism) seeking a better life for themselves and their children. If “Lives Matter” there wouldn’t be drones killing civilians, or thousands of BIPOC children dying from malnutrition daily. If “Lives Matter” The continued Imperialism of the west, would not still continue to dehumanize BIPOC people in order to continue to exploit their countries. If “Lives Matter” there would be no dictators that keep their people down, so that western countries can have access to the so-called, “Free Market” as they help themselves to the resources of that country. If “Lives Matter” than there would no need for “Immigration Detention.” If “Lives Mattered” there would not be a need for racist programming on television or film, and all histories would receive the same amount of attention, but clearly that is not the case.

    Ì am Chicano and I am very supportive of Black Lives Matter, because they are only reminding the world that “Black Lives Matter” because everyday the world reminds them by their actions towards Africans and the African diaspora that they don’t.

    Not too far away from the George Floyd mural, I ran across this sign, I see these all over Berlin, and I have never seen these defaced. What this offensive advertisement tells me is that the dehumanization of the Native People of Turtle Island, does not bother folks. The dehumanization of a people who were victims of genocide, in the means of commercializing a product is not offensive to the kind of people that would claim that “Lives Matter.” (Photo by, Miguel Torres)

    If All Lives Truly Mattered

    As an adult, I started reading vigorously about the histories of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and their struggles. I learned what White Supremacy was all about. I also learned that the same people who insist that they do not see color, are the same people who support the system of White Supremacy simply with their silence. That is all it truly takes. All human beings are important, but what is being stated is that clearly, some need to be reminded that “Black Lives Matter” because it seems like some people do not want to acknowledge it. So, here is another reminder, Black Lives Matter!

  • Racism

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    If I had to reflect on it, I would have to say, that I have experienced racism for most of my life. I can remember back in the 5th grade, when a kid told me that I was brown, therefore to him, I was “yucky.” 

    I remember a girl putting me down, because the color of my skin. I can also remember a relative showing me the whitest part on his body, (his leg), and telling me, that he was from Spain, and that another relative of mine, was an “india”, (spanish for Indian, which is what the Spaniards, wrongfully called the Natives of the Americas). 

    Sometimes the racism I witnessed happened to others, like when I was in sixth grade an African American student was doing the Pledge of Allegiance, and the teacher kicked his leg because it was sticking out too much for her liking. I never did forget that moment. It felt like for some reason this Euro-American teacher, did not like that student for some reason, and was Looking for excuses to make his life hard.  

    I remember as a kid in my late teens and how since I was never taught, my people’s history, how I felt kind of strange, when a co-worker told me, that Mexicans were just a bunch of Indians, and I thought to myself, “no, we are Mestizos meaning we were Native mixed with Spanish“, like that spanish mix, made us better. Where did that idea come from?

    Every person of color that I have talked to, has told me that they were also told, “to find a blanquito, or blanquita (In other words to get a person with European roots, so that in their belief, this would better our gene pool), to better the race“, as if something deep inside us, has told us, that dark skin is not beautiful, or that they are more beautiful than us.

    I remember countless run-ins with police, and how they would “Stop and Frisk” me for just the way I looked. How sometimes they would stop me, three or four times a night. I remember when a police officer pulled me over, and asked me why was I in a specific neighborhood, and if they did not have contact lense shops in my neighborhood, implying that I did not belong in that specific neighborhood. 

    In my lifetime I have been called many derogatory names, I have also heard my fellow Mexican people, called many not so very nice names, even by the former U.S. President Donald Trump, and I am tired of it. It is not fair how Anglo-Saxon’s get different treatment than I do, when it comes to airports, border checkpoints, or at embassies.

    The damage caused by racism is permanent. People of Color have to carry the abuse, we take it home, and bring the stress home to our loved ones, or may even explode on the wrong people, because that pain after building up inside you for so long, eventually comes out.

    Why Won’t They See

    I really wish people would see the harm White Supremacy has caused and continues to cause. I do not understand how some Anglo-Saxons would choose to ignore this history and present day happenings, and continue believing in White Supremacy, after all the damage this dangerous way of thinking has caused. Millions of people have been murdered because of these ideas. How could some people be so heartless? Racism is the behavior of bullies.

  • Planet H3lp – A Children’s Book Explaining Many Troubles Facing Humanity, Including Racism Through a Science Fiction Story

    Planet H3LP was very concerned with its neighbor Planet Earth. The inhabitants of Planet H3LP have studied Earth for millions of years, and no period had alarmed them as much as the last 700 years. They witnessed sicknesses and wars. They had even seen some science, that is not proven to be true, trying to justify the exploitation of others. Exploitation means to take advantage of someone for one’s benefit. Some people were so greedy that they even enslaved other people to enrich themselves; disregarding the feelings, suffering of others.

    The inhabitants of Planet Earth (Earthling’s) wisdom was not on the same level as the people who populated Planet H3lp (H3lplings). The humans on Planet Earth’s intelligence was so behind that they never even knew about Planet H3lp. Earth’s people thought that Mars and Venus were their only neighboring planets. But the beings of Planet H3LP knew better, and the H3lplings were always very much aware of Planet Earth and its inhabitants.

    It was Manties first day at the plant, and it was normally a very chaotic environment, but there seemed to be more going on today.

    Reports were coming in from Earth, leaving the H3lplings unsettled and concerned. Humans needed immediate assistance. They did not even realize how serious the situation was. Manties saw his colleague Santiess standing outside his office, he approached him and asked, if he had heard the news.

    “Santiess, did you hear the new reports that came from Earth today?” Manties asked.

    “No, what’s going on, is everything okay?” asked Santiess.

    Manties answered, “Well the humans are still not getting along, and they fail to help each other. Now their environment is in great danger.”

    “Well that doesn’t sound good. Why can’t humans see that they need each other? Why can’t they see that they have more in common, than they do differently?” Santiess wondered.

    “I don’t know, maybe we can come up with something to help them awaken.” Manties responded.

    After fully evaluating this new information, and after reading the full report from Earth, Santiess desperately stated, “Just look at these numbers. Look at their poor water quality. Look at their poor air quality. Look at the pollution of their oceans!”

    “What is wrong with their oceans?” Manties asked.

    “The water on Earth is becoming acidic which makes it dangerous for marine life. This is not natural, nor are the plastic islands in the ocean made up of all the plastic the humans use.” Santiess replied.

    “These Earthlings need to see that if they want continue to survive as a species, they will need to tackle these problems together as one.” Manties answered.

    “Yes, we must find a way to make them see that they must live in harmony with other beings on the planet, and with the planet itself. There must be something we can do to help them. They are so distracted by diversions, meaning things meant to distract them, that they can’t focus on what’s truly important.  For example, if you put them in front of some glowing box called television, you can watch them as they become statue-like, with their eyes glued to the screens.

    They will also sit like mindless spectators for three hours to watch a sporting event, but will not take 2 minutes to make a phone call or write an e-mail demanding change, when something is unjust.” Santiess declared.

    “Their new technology is even making food less healthy. But they will never be able to address these problems, if the humans continue to fight each other, and treat each other differently as if some people are worth more than others. They do not seem to understand that they are all the same. People come in all colors. Humans have different skin colors because their melanin levels vary. Melanin is a pigment making molecule, protecting the skin from the sun. The more sun a person is exposed to the more melanin is produced, therefore darker skin. Pigment is a natural colorant. That is the only difference between these people. They must learn that, there is one race and it is the human race.” Manties explained.

    “The people of Planet Earth must also learn that they actually grow enough food to feed their entire world, and no one should ever go to bed hungry. They should set better priorities, focusing on education and morals.” Santiess pleaded. 

    Both H3lplings left the room feeling very frustrated with what was going on. They both wished they could help their neighbors on Planet Earth.

    The news spread fast and everybody on Planet H3lp was talking. “Can you believe the people of Planet Earth; their climate is warming and all they can do is fight with each other instead of dealing with this serious problem together?” two H3lplings wondered.

    Everyone was very concerned.

    All life on Planet H3lp was busy contemplating what to do, as the cities were abuzz with chatter and all were constantly brainstorming, searching for a solution to solve this dilemma on Earth.

    The Elders finally came to a conclusion. It was decided that they would develop a secret sound can. This would be flown immediately to earth, exposed on humanity, and the sound would help awaken the people, so they can see that there was still time to save humanity and Planet Earth.

    Many volunteered but only two H3lplings would be selected for the mission.

    They worked day and night, for four days, and finally they had developed something, that just might work.

    The big day finally arrived.

    Everyone left their posts, and went off to wish the pilots good luck.

    Chanssy and Manties were chosen to fly to Earth, and carry out the mission. Chanssy said his goodbyes to his friends, while Manties was inside the spaceship, making sure everything was ready for takeoff.

    They all stood motionless, not knowing what to expect. If this really worked, then their neighbors on Earth would know what it would be like to truly live in peace with one another.

    Sakel, the head engineer in charge of the planet’s Research and Development department, took a deep breath before he softly stated, “I really hope this works because these people really need our help.

    After an undetected landing Chanssy and Manties left the spaceship, looking for humans.

    “You there, stop!” said Chanssy, pointing to the first human he saw. He pulled out the secret sound making can (P.T.G. 27500), and used it as instructed.

    “I hope this works.” Manties thought.

    “Awaken people!”

    The people of Earth heard the sound, and it somehow opened their eyes. It was a sound unlike they had ever heard before. There was a bit of everything in the sound, they could hear sadness and pain, joy and laughter. The sound did something to them, it rubbed off all the programming and somehow, they awakened and compassion filled their souls. Something had definitely happened, and it transformed them. At once, humans started behaving differently towards one another and they could now see, that they should all take care of one another. People should end all suffering, make life better for all, and take care of Mother Earth.

    And this made everyone, including Santiess very happy.

    People started helping each other, and they were all much happier for it. It made them feel good to assist each other, and want to look out for each other.

    People also stood up for each other and fought for human rights and their environment.

    Whenever someone was being treated unfairly, they stood up for one another. They finally realized that all people are the same, and that they must always speak out and stick up for one another.  

    The mission was a success, and the world was now a better, happier place. Earth’s inhabitants actually felt like things were going to be better from now on. Hope was restored.

    Planet H3LP continued to keep a watchful eye on Planet Earth, and if they ever needed their assistance, they would be happy to help.

  • History and Some Questions

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    To learn about White Supremacy one can start by studying the treatment of African Americans, from 1619 until the present day. By doing so will learn about human beings that were kidnapped from Africa and brought against their will, in chains to a foreign continent. These human beings suffered every abuse imaginable. In your studies you will read about rapes, beatings, the humiliations of being examined and sold as property for the benefit of white slave masters. You will read about mutilations, trauma, and the overall exploitation of their lives, which continued even after slavery with a system called Sharecropping, and the Convict Leasing System, which was a system of legalized slave labor through the Penal System.

    Another topic you can focus on is the constant terror that African Americans lived under wether from local militias or the Klan. How did events like the East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917, or the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 affect the African American community?

    Be sure take to take the time to read about the Civil Rights Movement and learn how African Americans had to fight for their rights. In your studies you will come across the subject of Redlining and now ask yourself “how that has affected the accumulative wealth of African Americans and their life prospects in comparison to European Americans?”Be sure to ask yourself the question how did the crushing of movements like the Black Panthers or the killing of their leaders e.g. Medgar Evers and others affect African Americans as a community? Then ask yourself the question, as a percentage of the population, why are African Americans over represented in U.S. prisons?

    What is the True Purpose

    If you still want to know more about White Supremacy, then I would suggest that you should take the time to study the Cold War and the proxy wars fought in its name. Would the millions that died in those proxy wars be considered BIPOC? What about in recent wars, are these Black, Indigenous and People of Color dying in these modern wars? Why?

    White Supremacy is when you know they would not dare shoot tear gas canisters at Canadian women with babies, if for some reason they ever had to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere, unlike the similar incident that happened in November 2018 on the U.S.-Mexico border.

    We Must Learn Our History

    Germany’s National Socialists were intrigued by certain U.S. policies e.g. Immigration Restriction Acts. They knew the history of the United States, they knew exactly how the U.S. attained its Lebensraum (Living Space). It is a story of European Settlers dehumanizing and then killing or expelling the Native Americans and placing them in reservations. The National Socialists were also highly conscious of how badly African Americans were treated, and were curious about U.S. Anti-Misegenation Laws that banned interacial marriage.

    As you continue to study U.S. history you will come across subjects like the One-Drop Rule, that stated that one drop of black blood made a person non-white. The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 labelling races white or colored, so as help ban intermarriage between the groups. the Cable Act of 1922 would deprive women of U.S. citizenship if they married a man from a foreign country. You would come across so-called Better Breeding Pseudo-Scientific ideas of the Eugenics Movement, and read about the History of Forced Sterlization in the U.S.

    Don’t forget to learn about the Bath Riots of 1917, and the history of people being deloused at the U.S.-Mexico Border. You may also learn about what happened to Gee Jon in 1924, and how he was killed by gas in a lethal chamber.

    Also feel free to further your education, and read more on the subjects of genocide, imperialism, K.K.K., Jim Crow Laws, the lynchings, the Japanese American internment camps, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, napalm, Agent Orange, COINTELPRO, Forced Sterilizations of one third of Puerto Rican women of child bearing age, Their Involvement with the forced sterilization of Peruvian women in the 1990’s, Syphilis experiments on Guatemalan women, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, The experiments conducted at Holmesburg Prison, the cancer cell experiments conducted on Puerto Ricans, the countless race riots, the bio weapons, suppression of labor, mass incarceration, For Profit Prisons, The School to Prison Pipeline, even recent events for example, read about how today they may be labeling kids”Black Identity Extremists” for having the audacity of saying, “Black Lives Matter.”

    What I Learned in School Has Taught Me To Beware of What Information is Omitted

    As a child I was taught that all men are created equal, but then I learned about what happened to Emmett Till,  and how his killers walked away, free of any charges. In school I learned that Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, but then I learned about Bombingham, and about the fate, of the 4 little Girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama.

    I learned about how the back of the bus was reserved for Rosa Parks, because of the color of her skin. I learned how they gunned down Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark, I learned about Bobby Hutton, I learned about Malcolm X, and asked myself, why African American leaders are always murdered?
    They told me about the Pilgrims, but then I learned about The Pequot Massacre, The Trail of Tears, The Long Walk, Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee.

    I learned about the Repatriation of U.S. Citizens of Mexican descent that started back in the late 1920’s and into the 1930’s during The Great Depression, I learned About Operation Wetback in 1954,  I learned About the Crimes of the Texas Rangers. I learned About the Zoot Suit Riots, and the crimes against Mexican Americans.

    I learned about The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and stolen land, and then I thought about how my people are being treated today in Immigration Detention Centers.

    Why Speak Out

    I am criticizing the country I was born in, because I want the U.S. to be better, and to live up to the standards, we all believe it stood for, we want the country to be good, and that is why sometimes you have to speak the truth, even if some people do not want to hear it. We cannot change U.S. history, but we can fight to make sure, that the countries future is better, and can stand for freedom and justice for all.

    Recommending Reading:

    1. War Against All Puerto Ricans – Denis A. Nelson
    2. The American West and the Nazi East – Caroll P. Kakel III
    3. Hitler’s American Model – James Q. Whitman
    4. The Nazi Connection – Stefan Kühl
    5. Medical Apartheid – Harriet A. Washington
    6. War Against the Weak – Edwin Black
    7. Imbeciles – Adam Cohen
    8. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
    9. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
    10. The Bomb – Howard Zinn
    11. The Black Panthers Speak – Philip S. Foner
    12. Killing Hope – William Blum
    13. Rogue State – William Blum
    14. The COINTELPRO Papers – Ward Churchill
    15. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley
    16. The Nazi Hydra in America – Glen Yeadon and John Hawkins
    17. Ringside Seat to a Revolution – David Dorado Romo

  • Racist Politicians


    I have experienced racism my whole life, and I hate it. I wish we lived in a world where we saw each other as equals, I really do.  But after years of watching how the right-wing has been rising worldwide, and after watching how these overtly racist politicians fuel the flames of racism so that they can benefit from it politically, it all really sickens me. 
    I don’t believe that these opportunists politicians know, or care about the damage they cause with their tactics. It seems like they could care less about how their hatred emboldens other white supremacists who then terrorize people of color who are forced to live with the abuse, the threats, and the violence. 

    These racist politicians do not care about the mental health issues, the anxieties, the depression, or the stress related health issues, high blood pressure problems they help provoke.  They do not care about most people, but they clearly do not care about the well being of people of color who are forced to live their lives, just taking in the abuse condoned by these same racist politicians. 

    Catch 22

    People of color have the choice they can either fight back or ignore the abuse. One reason people think twice before fighting back is that there is always the threat of jail, and so if they do not want to end up going to jail with the possible added risk of losing their jobs and not being able to pay their rents, and even more seriously complicating their lives. 

    These same people usually out of fear for further consequences usually choose to walk away, and ignore racists and their hurtful words and actions. These victimized people usually end up swallowing this anger. They must find alternative ways to deal with all the anger and all the injustice. They more or less are simply expected to live with this “Institutionalized Racism” that seems invisible, or all too normal to others, who are comfortable and not affected. 

    Oppressed groups are even critized for how they choose to protest injustice. When police shoot African-Americans they are only adding to the continued genocide that started over 400 years ago; and African-Americans wishing for the terror at the hands of the police to stop, are critized by insensitive and racist people for not “Staying in their place,” as if they are supposed to forever bow down to white supremacy. 

    Racist politicians and their loyal followers seem to wish for these oppressed people to just shut up and live with it, and they wish them to stop bringing up the past, because Euro-Americans especially hate being reminded of the true manner in which their country came to be. The U.S. for example, is not a land made up of immigrants, it is a country build on genocide, stolen land, theft, slavery, exploitation plain and simple, and this can apply to many countries in the so-called Anglosphere and other former european colonies. 

    Racist politicians do not care about the young men being incarcerated for long periods of their lives, so that they do not reproduce, because after all that is their main eugenic objective, that and feeding the Prison Industrial Complex. 

    Fueling the Flames

    Racist politicians will help blame marginalized populations for all of societies ills, when in reality these marginalized people are the same people whose countries have been torn apart and exploited by the countries with the stronger economies that the poor are now fleeing to. 

    But the citizens of these european countries, and their colonial offshoots are blind to this fact, and would rather just worry about their own frustrations or short comings and blame all that is wrong in their lives on people of color or minority groups. 

    Instead of doing some research and finding out why the world is the way it is, and how it all works, and who this system serves and instead of tackling real issues affecting us all as a human species e.g. climate change. The oligarchs, politicians and the media continue to turn us on each other. It keeps the game going and makes things easier for them.