#antiblackness — Public Fediverse posts

Somehow I missed this when the story broke a few weeks ago: Atomwaffen Division co-founder Brandon Russell has been given a 20-year prison sentence for plotting to attack the Baltimore power grid with his girlfriend (h/t @MusiqueNow). He had been found guilty back in February, but sentencing was only earlier this month.

They picked Baltimore in part because the girlfriend, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, also a neo-nazi, was from the area, but mostly because it's a city with a large Black population. Clendaniel recently got an 18-year sentence for her part in the plot.

https://apnews.com/article/brandon-russell-maryland-power-grid-attack-plot-neonazi-9e6d8ff8c7695e356f566cce8caa902b

#BrandonRussell #AtomwaffenDivision #FuckThatGuy #Baltimore #NeoNazis #fcknzs #AWD #Terrorgram #accelerationism #racism #AntiBlackness

"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

(continued) 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

#KleeBenally on his cover of the #BobMarley's song "Redemption Song":

"I have a complicated feeling about this song but wanted to fit in with a Diné hand drum style... you can read about that story on my patreon ;)

"This is also for my Afro-Indigenous relatives and all those combating anti-Blackness that is perpetuated in many Indigenous communities. For #Diné '#Nahiłi' is a term my sister Radmilla Cody has introduced to address anti-Blackness in #DinéBikeyah. If I ever perform this live, it would definitely be a shout out for all those challenging #AntiBlackness and showing love for #AfroIndigenous relatives."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUxJT2lGec
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic #MusicForActivism #MusicForResistance #SongsOfFreedom

Goth Is White: Pallor, Prejudice and Purity
Shonalika
@shonalika
the deep dive into the history, gatekeeping and exclusion, racism and colorism, uplifting of pallor, flirting with fascism, fetishization and appropriation, conflicting ideologies and reality, and all-round white supremacist tendencies of the alternative/goth subculture that absolutely no-one asked for
#BlackMastodon #BIPOC #LGBTQ #Trans #Goth #white #whiteness #antiBlackness #Racialized #Racialization #RacializedClass #Classism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knrnIY8snKk&t=3328s

https://archive.org/details/history-will-not-absolve-us

THE LESSONS OF THE WUO: HISTORY WILL NOT ABSOLVE US, A Critical Analysis of the History of the WUO by former members of the Weather Underground Organization

Topics
#WUO, #WeatherUnderground, #armedstruggle, #communism, #selfcriticism, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #misogyny, #rapeculture, #antiLGBTQIA+, #homophobia, #BlackLiberationArmy, #PrairieFire, #RevolutionaryCommittee, #PFOC, #patriarchy, #fascism, #antifascism, #Osawatomie, #antiimperialism

This essay, written by ex-Weather Underground members, is undated. It responds directly to “The Split of the Weather Underground Organization”, which was published in 1977.

https://archive.org/details/escravos-roceiros-e-rebeldes

Escravos, roceiros e rebeldes by Stuart B. Schwartz; Jussara Simões

Topics
#Brazil, #Brasil, #escravidão, #escravos, #história, #rebeldes, #rebelião, #históriadoBrasil, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #racismo

Estudo de um dos temas mais cruciais da historia do país, este livro aborda, de maneira original, como os escravos estruturavam sua própria vida e o papel decisivo que tiveram na construção e funcionamento do sistema escravocrata.

O author mapeia especialmente as limitações e oportunidades de uma população incapaz ce construir seu próprio destino, e que consegue apenas (e esporadicamente) limitar a ação de seus senhores, vivendo numa equação desequilibrada que a prejudicia enormemente. E esse mapeamento é perpassado pelas relações nada simples que havia entre escravos, senhores e outras camadas sociais na sociedade escraocrata brasileira.

Ao mesmo tempo, escudado no pressuposto ético de que a História deve servir para se entender e explicar o presente, o autor situa na atualidade o singular fenômeno estudado, em que a função da cidadania vem sendo cada vez mais debatida e justificada.

https://archive.org/details/jazz-funeral-for-uncle-tom

A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by Harmony Holiday

Topics #artwriting, #prose, #poetry, #jazzfuneral, #jazzfunerals, #jazz, #Blackhistory, #musicalhistory, #historyofmusic, #ritual, #visualculture, #antiblackness, #culturalanalysis

Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom is exactly what it announces it is, a book as dynamic and eternal event wherein a feminine voice leads her band of improvisers in a procession of joyous interrogation and forgiveness. This ritural is simultaneously a purging of any cowardly impulses in the speaker and in the culture she addresses and speaks as, and a releasing or banishing of unfit archetypes, readying the landscape for fresh forces by torching the weakest links in the prevailing mythos.