#systemic-racism — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny
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Systemic Racism, Individual Responsibility: Why Black Positivity Triggers White Rage
Bustling street scene of Black Wall Street’s shops, theaters, and businesses in early 20th centuryLast week, I wrote an article about the Black family—specifically the enduring institution of the Black family reunion. It was a celebration of culture, resilience, tradition, and community. It was not an indictment of white people, nor did it mention systemic racism or historical atrocities. It was simply a quiet, intentional affirmation of Black life.
Yet, a predictable pattern struck again.
In the comment section of the facebook post used to promote the article, a few readers lashed out with visceral, unprovoked hostility. One reader insisted I needed to “teach the Black family some good parenting skills” and asserted that “the only people holding back Black people from success are Black people.” All mind you without reading the article. All this from the promotional post. When I pushed back by listing foundational Black inventions that shaped modern American life, another reader jumped in with outright rage, claiming that Black people are “a race without any meaningful accomplishments” and that “Black Wall Street is a made-up lie… it was a dirt road average Black town.”
Notice what happened there: I never brought up Black Wall Street.
He did. Out of nowhere. Unprompted.
That unprompted reaction reveals something critical. He didn’t bring up Tulsa because he was ignorant of it; he brought it up because he knew about it and actively chose to degrade it. He knew the history, felt threatened by its implications, and felt compelled to diminish a thriving, self-sustaining Black community to a “dirt road” to keep his own worldview intact.
When we talk about systemic racism, people often run to one of two extremes: either blaming every white person individually, or treating “the system” as some abstract, faceless ghost that nobody is personally responsible for.
The truth is far more uncomfortable.
Systemic racism is structural. It refers to the policies, institutional designs, and historical inertia that yield disparate outcomes across race, regardless of individual intent. It is how a Black police officer, operating within a system built on specific historical incentives, can participate in institutional brutality. The design of the machine transcends the color of the person operating it.
However, recognizing the power of the system does not exonerate the white individual.
The white individual sitting behind a keyboard may not single-handedly draft laws, set bank lending policies, or draw redlined district maps. They do not uphold the entire structural apparatus of systemic racism on their own. But it is their personal attitude—the cruelty, the willful denial, and the hostility that surfaces the moment Black excellence is mentioned—that fuels the engine.
The system is what denies my rights, but it is the individual that denies my peace.
Why does the simple assertion of Black joy or historical achievement provoke such irrational hostility? Because for those who have anchored their identity in a rigid racial hierarchy, Black progress is viewed through a zero-sum lens. If Black people built Greenwood—a 35-square-block district with its own luxury hotels, modern hospitals, banks, and legal practices where dollars circulated for nearly a year—then the myth of absolute white superiority collapses.
Rather than adjust their worldview to accommodate the facts of Black achievement, it is psychologically easier for them to declare those facts “bullshit,” “exaggerations,” or “lies.” Aggression becomes a defensive armor to avoid the discomfort of unlearning.
This is precisely why platforms like My Two Cents exist.
The goal of documenting our history, celebrating our cultural traditions, and highlighting our achievements has never been about seeking permission, begging for validation, or picking a fight with strangers in a comment section. It is about grounding ourselves in truth.
When people invade a space dedicated to Black positivity and lash out with unprovoked anger, they are demonstrating the exact individual cruelty that keeps racism alive on a human level. You do not get to claim innocence while actively fanning the flames of contempt. You do not get to pretend a thriving community was a “dirt road” just to preserve your own racial comfort.
Ultimately, that rage is a confession. It reveals a deep-seated fear that if the myth of Black inferiority completely shatters, the foundation of unearned privilege crumbles with it.
We cannot control every system designed to limit us, nor can we stop every hostile comment on the internet. But we have absolute control over our narrative. We will continue to gather at the family reunion. We will continue to honor the legacy of Greenwood and the countless inventors, thinkers, and builders who shaped this nation. We will continue to speak our history plainly—not to convince those determined to hate us, but to ensure our community and our children never forget who we are.
The system can keep its barriers, and the trolls can keep their rage. Our peace, our history, and our joy belong strictly to us.
#Blackhistory #Blogging #Dailyprompt #History #Society #SystemicRacism #Whitefragility #Whiterage #History #philosophy #racism #writing -
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https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/adidas-golden-boot-race-top-scorerDid they delayed the Announcement to avoid #Pedo47 embarrassment of having to give it to Mbappe???
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Police scandals are symptomatic of much larger issues
#Canada #Police #PoliceReform #Racism #RCMP #Montreal
#Accountability #PoliceMisconduct #Politics #PublicTrust
#CriminalJustice #PublicSafety #BlackCommunities #SystemicRacism #LawEnforcement
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The Confederate Question Never Closed
An old professor's epigram, tested against the monuments, the forts, the flag, a Supreme Court ruling from this spring, and the counterfeit history of emancipation now spreading online. An old history professor of mine once offered a sentence that has outlasted most of what I learned in his classroom. The South lost the battle, he said, and won the war. He meant that the Confederacy was more alive in the present than it had been on the April morning when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. The claim sounded like provocation at the time. It reads now like a weather report. Army forts carry the names of men who took up arms against the United States. The Supreme Court has just rewritten the rules that protected Black voters in the states most determined to suppress them. A battle flag the rebel armies never managed to carry into Washington was paraded through the Capitol in 2021. My professor's epigram deserves a hearing, and it deserves a harder examination than its admirers usually give it, because one half of it is true in a way that should alarm anyone who wants a working democracy, and the other half is false in a way that can disarm the people who would defend one. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/02/the-confederate-question-never-closed/
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A therapist on what happens when you spend 400 years treating the wrong problem. The exhaustion is real. The anger is proportional. The diagnosis has been wrong the entire time. CTM S1E19 — full episode now up.
#BlackHistory #HistoryPodcast #TherapistExplains #racialequity #SystemicRacism #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory
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Systemic racism is an export commodity. It's a cancer.
When majorities vote on the nature of rights for a minority, we get north america today. 🤮🤬😱😑
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_British_Columbia_Indigenous_treaty_referendum
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#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #racism #systemicracism
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A moving walkway is a great metaphor for systemic racism. This allegory is from Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her book “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” Dr. Camara Jones extended the metaphor to include dismantling the system in her TED talk “Allegories on race and racism.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4sw6VXGFA_4
#movies #airport #systemicRacism #racista #antiracism #racism #StandUpToRacism #FogoNosRacistas #AntiRacista #AntiFa
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116687306759179921
Wowwwww, the racist right wing fascist political set truly does think the public is stupid.
I even know who this fucker is. How does a nationally-celebrated bigot like her NOT know who this scumbag is?
Fuck right off, with that bullshit.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #whitesupremacy #systemicracism
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How long does it take to execute a child in the United States of America?
In 1944, the state of South Carolina needed only 83 days to arrest a 14-year-old Black boy named George Stinney Jr. and then put him to death.
#GeorgeStinneyJr #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackamericanhistory #blackhistorymatters #racialequity #racialbias #racialequality #SystemicRacism #CriminalJustice #JuvenileJustice #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #PostConviction #JusticeSystem
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Steffi Love and Namor discuss W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk." #blackauthor #blackauthors #webdubois #bookdiscussion #discussion #blm #blacklivesmatter #civilrights #discrimination #enddiscrimination #endracism #racism #systemicracism #endsystemicracism #doubleconsciousness #jimcrow #jimcrowlaws #segregation #racialinjustice #marchforcivilrights #equality #identity #psychologicalconflict #racismiswrong #doll #dolls #dollcollector #dollcollectors #dollphotographer
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What’s happening in Tennessee is the epitome of systemic racism and the fall of democracy in America.
“The map aims to give the GOP a clean sweep of the state’s nine congressional districts by fracturing Black-majority Memphis between three districts.”
#Tennessee #JustinPearson #VotingRights #VRA #SystemicRacism #Fascism
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Racism Is Costing America Everything: Caller Exposes the Economic Truth
A caller exposes how racism drains resources, divides workers, and keeps Americans struggling while elites benefit from economic inequality.
#capitalism #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #ProgressivePolitics #racism #socialJustice #systemicRacism #USEconomy #WealthGap #workingClass https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oT1 -
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116450239421688881
All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism
