Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) in February 27, 1973, a 71-day uprising began when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to demand treaty negotiations. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage.
The town was promptly surrounded by an army of U.S. personnel. John Sayer, author of “Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials”, wrote - “The equipment maintained by the military while in use during the siege included fifteen armored personnel carriers, clothing, rifles, grenade launchers, flares, and 133,000 rounds of ammunition, for a total cost, including the use of maintenance personnel from the National Guard of five states and pilot and planes for aerial photographs, of over half a million dollars.”
Although the Department of Justice (DoJ) prohibited media from the site, the occupation received support from the Congressional Black Caucus and prominent public figures, including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda. Angela Davis was turned away by federal forces as an “undesirable person” when she attempted to enter Wounded Knee in March 1973.
Marlon Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, to speak at the 45th Academy Awards on his behalf. She appeared at the March 27th ceremony in traditional Apache clothing and stated that Brando declined the award due to “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry…and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee”.
Tribal leaders called off the occupation after 71 days after the killing of Lawrence “Buddy” Lamont, a local Oglala man, by U.S. sniper fire. The terms of ending the occupation included a mandated meeting at Chief Fools Crow’s land to discuss reinstating the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that the Black Hills of South Dakota belonged to the Sioux people.
In the 1980 Supreme Court case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the Court held that the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the nation required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at $1.3 billion as of 2011.
“If we accept the money, then we have no more of the treaty obligations that the federal government has with us for taking our land, for taking our gold, all our resources out of the Black Hills…we’re poor now, we’ll be poorer then when that happens.”
former Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls
I hope you nerds have a great next week and also first week of March. 
Remember no crackers
I continue to be disturbed by how few people, even POC, realize that “benevolent racism” is still racism.
Saying “Asians are good at math and science” is racist.
Saying “Black people are super athletic” is racist.
Saying “Latinos are such hard workers” is racist.
People not realizing this is why racial fetishism gets a pass from so many people, including POC.
it’s always the first line of defense when you call out a poc tap dancing for white attention. they always try to say it’s just a joke or that it’s a good thing but yet they’re still always doing it for white people.
Also it’s the first thing libs love to bring up to defend why poc are important, like no we shouldn’t protect latinos humanity on the basis that they are economically productive, they are just people
https://hexbear.net/post/7766227/6945625
Yeah, I think I’m taking a break from posting for awhile. the tourettes discussion has brought about a sense of unbelonging in me and the feeling of a lack of solidarity with poc in online spaces that I could get literally anywhere. I need to find real community.
The latest :discourse: seems to be about Asian-American diaspora media about the pressure of being successful and related traumas about it.
Dunno what to make of it. Seems lower stakes that what the rest of you’ve been through.
I’d rather talk about anything else than have all these white people in my mentions.
Is this about Hatchling? The Asian woman with her white boyfriend after vacation?
No, its some other show (harr harr the whole discussion was about how tired this premise is) called Dang!
Maybe theres some lens to see this from a marxist perspective, but thats not for me to do
Oh I saw that announcement. I like Stephanie Hsu but the premise felt… over used.
I might try it anyway, heck I watched Awkwafina’s show in it’s entirety. But it must be hard seeing the same media
@3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net its just like you said
Having empathy for non-human animals is good and necessary but the fact they overlook the extreme suffering of their fellow humans, even some of the most vulnerable such as children and the elderly is where we go wrong. In white liberal circles it almost seems like it’s a badge of honor to be callous towards human suffering but feel moved by animal suffering (unless it’s animals they dislike such as pandas since they’re a Chinese symbol or the animals they use for food), we should be moved by both. And it’s almost always focusing on cute animals over poc lives. This is me speaking from personal experience but I remember years ago where a viral tiktok by a white girl where she admitted she felt no sympathy for homeless people (men, women and children) but felt moved by homeless animals and so many white people agreeing. Disgusting.
Unfortunately, most humans love what animals can do for them more than they respect them as individuals.
They seen them as toys or food most times.
After recent events I’m gonna submit these beauties as emojis, wish me luck!
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Oh I’d love if this one became an emoji.
I was about to comment on how my wife got me into Katseye recently but it feels so out of place in a sea of serious grievances lol
Whites really be giving everybody headaches.
Been semi off hexbear the last couple days and i try to ignore the baftas because i hate the british but damn reading through this thread yall are going through it arguing with crackkkers, i didn’t realize the discourse was getting this big. love you all, go vegan, get a gun, and uplift black folks and their voices
“FBAs” don’t identify with the term “African American” specifically because they hate the “African” part of it.
I don’t identify with the term “African American” specifically because I hate the “American” part of it.
We are not the same.
FBAs confuse me so much, they hate themselves bad. I only don’t like calling myself African because I want to distinguish myself from Africans who recently came here (don’t want them to ask which country etc.). But I definitely know I’m African and my people are from somewhere over there and I’m darn proud of it.
Same for me.
I do identify as Afrikan above all else, but I probably wouldn’t refer to myself as such in any context where it could incur confusion.
Those tourrettes threads were bullshit and I regret reading them. Intersectionality is hard but does it have to be this hard?
I’m reminded how last thread some of us were talking about how race is the primary contradiction in our lives, the primary thing that oppresses us. Yes I’m disabled, yes I’m queer, but the racial violence of the system has been so much more deleterious to my life that those former two are mere blips for me. And that’s something that white people seem to really struggle with understanding when I tell them, because to them disability and queerness are the biggest oppressions they’ve experienced so they struggle to understand when I go “yeah those are small problems for me.” Kind of like how I used to have a partner with such bad chronic pain that to them, the chronic pain I suffered from on my worst days was a good day to them.
Also fuck that guy weaponizing Palestinians’ suffering to harass someone living in Africa, like that guy exemplified several harsh things I’ve seen about “white allies” all in one go.
The conversation veering into debating whether or not the white dude should feel bad about compulsively shouting a racial slur was disappointing. That’s not what matters, it’s the 2 high profile Black actors being publicly humiliated by the BBC at their own awards ceremony who decided to leave in the slur even though Delroy Lindo and Micahel B. Jordan took it as gracefully as they could in hopes that the system would respect them.
It’s a reminder that the racist society sees POC as having a higher “pain tolerance” for disrespect and that the BBC will not suffer any consequences from this because of said racist society. If the actors were white this would not happen and we know this from how quickly they shutdown any mention of Palestine.
Something that bothers the hell out of me is when white queer people expect me to be queer first and Black second.
I did that, and it led to immense self-hate and feeling like I belonged literally nowhere.
My queerness and androgynous presentation greatly impact how I move through the world, yes, but no matter what, anyone who looks at me will see that I am Black FIRST. Not only that, but unlike my queerness, the fact that I am Black is literally tied to an entire fucking history and lineage, and that shapes the conditions of how I and other Black people as a whole exist today.
There is not a single thing about me that is actually more important than my Blackness, honestly. People will say, “Why do you make everything about race?”. Well, it’s because the system did it first. That’s why, motherfucker.
No white person (or non-Black person, period, to be honest) I have dated has been able to make me feel seen in terms of race. Even the very person who would be in what is supposed to be the most intimate position they could ever possibly be in my life could not truly grasp this extremely important thing about me and how I exist in this world. Their intentions could’ve been the best, and they could’ve been the nicest people, but it made my relationships hurt and devoid of joy.
I am even very careful about having white people as just friends, let alone me refusing them as partners.
To this day, I think of the first partner I ever had and how she, as a Black woman, made that relationship feel like literally no other relationship of mine that came after that. She is actually the only Black person I have dated so far, and that is something I intend to change when I am far more stable.
White leftists are a fucking joke.
people will say, “Why do you make everything about race?”. Well, it’s because the system did it first. That’s why, motherfucker.
Well said and thank you for enunciating these things, reading your thoughts has been very helpful for me in coming to understand my own related experiences!
100% this. They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don’t suffer when it’s not that at all. Until they get that through their heads we won’t get anywhere. The racism is embedded literally everywhere and no place is safe, not even our countries are safe when the empire can just bomb and invade us and the white dominated queer/disability spaces aren’t safe for poc either until white minorities unlearn all the racist bs they’ve been taught from birth, starting by acknowledging it.
They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don’t suffer when it’s not that at all.
They have the absolute nerve to say this while ICE is kidnapping random people with skin color darker than printing paper and the US is about to bomb Iran.
Yeah. Oh no a white person got humiliated publicly meanwhile poc are getting put into camps. These are somehow the same in their minds.
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For the reddit thing, was that because reddit has a large and active Minneaoplis board while we don’t? (And I don’t know that we should have such hyperlocal boards given what a small userbase this is, it makes doxxing easier)
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This to say I love and support all my fellow poc comrades here in this thread and we deserve sm better than what our white “allies” could ever give us. I’m not planning on leaving this site (yet) but if I ever did I’d miss y’all only
I know I had a post ready to say goodbye but empoc is too good. We gotta stick together. If another burning isntreal flag convo started, I can’t leave you all hanging
Same here. This thread allows us to at least bond and let off steam.
How cooked am I for saying this outside of this thread lmaoReally good comment
Thank you comrade!
@ the PS in that post: exactly. Racism is systemic. It’s possible to have racism without there being any racists because of it. This is like the most basic shit that systemic discrimination (whether it’s racism, sexism, transportation, whatever) = prejudice + power.
Yet it seems to go out the window for these crackers when they have to examine their own racial prejudices and biases. It’s pretty telling how unanimous this is among PoC and whites on this site they’ve taken the stance that they have, getting super defensive about it and strawmanning what’s actually being said.
Edit: autocorrect changed “transphobia” to “transportation” but I’m leaving it because it still makes sense.
Hell even non-leftist poc have a grasp on this. Whites as a whole are fragile to an extreme.
For context, the crakkker accused a poc of “thinking racial slurs are more uniquely harmful than other slurs” when they rightfully pointed out that had he said, for example, the t slur, people would be more outraged.
Get behind me! I’m on your side
I noticed they replied to you with that and had to say something. Crackers + victim mentality = best duo.
Chad comment
I almost made a comparison about how global south people are expected to cheer on western countries when they do basic shit like electing mamdani (who still hates homeless people, called AES countries dictatorships and is against globalizing the intifada) but if we don’t immediately press the socialism button when idk our leader gets kidnapped, or we get bombed or invaded etc we’re “traitors to the revolution” while they sit on their asses comfortable not doing shit to destroy the empire from inside lmao.
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Israel shouldn’t exist. ‘OH SO YOU THINK ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE HUH?’
But with the nword and tourettes apparently. Right wing trolls are actually incredible at what they do because they’ve got both leftists and libs marching to their tune
“so you’re saying disabled people shouldn’t exist in public” type beat
I think this is what a lot of the same users that are pushing back here are also missing. Their talking points are word for word exactly what rightwingers are saying. Telling black people to just “get over it” is extremely insensitive, at best, and racist, at worst.
If your talking points are the same as those of right wingers, if you’re saying the same things they are in this bullshit discourse, you are a fucking mark at best. Apparently it’s massive news to some users that righties will weaponize other minorities against black and brown people all the time.
White hexbears: black people have the right to be upset!!!
black people: are upset
white hexbears: start a new discourse war to rival the “burning the israeli flag is antisemetic” discourse war
Fucking sick and tired. Never accommodate crackers or focus on their issues, I am begging all of you, it’ll never benefit you or any poc movement.
Looks like BlackRedGuard pissed off the site’s resident racism and ableism understanders https://hexbear.net/post/7763428?scrollToComments=false
Here we go again in less than 48 hours
Why are whiteys so pissed off? It’s not a lie that many slaveowners were disabled but ig historical facts are now ableist lmao Also did you get banned from the site as a whole? Since I see banned next to your name which would be fucking golden considering nyakobi or whoever that fucking cracker was only got demoted for SENDING DEATH THREATS TO SOMEONE WHO REQUESTED A BURNING EMOJI OF THE PISSRAEL FLAG AND CALLED THEM ANTISEMITES. But pissing off white people is now ban worthy? Fuck shit stupid fucking site man LoveYourself was right to leave I hate all white people.
Buckras continuously prove to me that there is no true unity between white leftists and leftists of color. There is a reason why my politics put anti-imperialism, Black struggles, and the Global South first, but it wasn’t always like this. I used to be much less educated and didn’t realize how indispensable this framework was for my understanding of politics as well as my well-being. White people are always gonna be white first, and my experience has told me that I’m always gonna be Black first, but believe me when I say that, in the past, I tried to be something else. It never worked, and it never will.
It fucking sucks. We will never be fully seen as equal, our humanity will never be fully acknowledged by these people will it? Yet we will always bear the burden of accommodating every single woe they might put upon us and be shamed and ostracized if our politics don’t focus on them. I wish all poc, but especially those on the left would wake up to this but tbh with “allies” like this? Its inevitable for anybody who is politically literate. Maybe generations in the future we’ll truly find equal footing once their children are no longer brainwashed from birth but not today. I’m just staying in this thread and the news ones from now on with few exceptions tbh fuck this site and fuck that it is somehow one of the least worse. Fuck crackers and fuck them weaponizing their marginalized identities (which still will never hold a candle to being poc).
To add: I block any cracker on here who reveals their ass and I’m not missing how many of them identify as queer lmao so much for unity!!!
CW: Racist Violence
I have seen how terrible these people are IRL, even. I have been physically assaulted by white queer people, including white queer women. This even happened to me at an earlier job I had, and I felt scared to tell anyone because I knew that no one would be on my side, especially since I was the only Black person there.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I fell like unless it’s a white cis man they never take it seriously since for the white cis man they are victims of them as well and can just blame his gender.
white people here be like: who amongst us haven’t said a slur to a Black person, that’s right no hands so we should let slurs slide
The kind of people to say “It’s just lyrics, so what’s the big deal?” when singing along to a rap song with the n-word in it.
the thread was locked again
I find it funny how many are saying “black people have every right to be upset” but when black users are upset, their first instinct is to shut them up and make incredible comments comparing black folks to gusanos or making a snide remark about “you calling me a cracKKKer means you want to call me another slur dont you?”
Like… are forgetting that Arab users just left this site because of a racism and liberal Zionist problem not that long ago? Have we seriously not learned anything from that?
The shit that happened with LoveYourself still pisses me the fuck off every time I think about it.
you calling me a crackkker means you want to call me another slur dont you?
Yeah: honkey, mayoskin, settler, nazi, nazbol, incel, limey, frog, britbong reject, kraut, hanz, baby thief, bootlicker…take your pick. I have a bunch of things referring to Whitey.
no-purpose flour
some guy said “black sympathy”
“Gusonos”, “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, and now “black sympathy” all upvoted and backed up by other users
Saving this in case he deletes again
white leftists fall for tokenisation very quickly, we on the other hand have experience with it since the beginning of colonialism, we know that a person from our ethnicities color and culture can be a racist and a reactionary to their own people. but in their minds a peson with [marginalisaton factor ≥ 1] can’t be racist
Their entire conception of racism is upside down in the literal Hegelian sense, to them racism is simply a mindset that can be washed out with some good intentions, the right ideas. They don’t perceive it as a VERB, a set of actions and practices maintained through collective effort with a material basis in capitalism
They’re not upside-down Hegelians when it comes to transphobia, queerphobia, or misogyny, suddenly then they’re up to third-grade level and they know what a VERB is, but when race comes into the picture, best believe it’s back to kindergarten
@AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml sorry to tag but couldn’t respond anymore due to least em_poc thread closing but just goes to show how they have no ends to their depravity and that no living being, no matter how innocent and defenseless, is safe. It’s like a few years back when a white Karen actually got attacked by libs not because she called the cops on an innocent black man but cause he caught her on camera rough handling her dog on a leash. I love animals, cats especially, and animal cruelty triggers me asf, but the fact they excuse cruelty to human (poc really) but draw the line at animal cruelty is wild.
but cause he caught her on camera rough handling her dog on a leash.
I don’t understand these types, either. And it always seems like it’s dog people. Carnists who revel in animal cruelty and misanthropy, unless it’s a dog. Then they get mad.
There were some fuckwads stealing Palestinian dogs and sending them to be re-homed in Europe through some charity or some shit a while back. God forbid you help Palestinian refugees or care about children. Nope! Gotta steal their dogs because they had the audacity to get in the way of your bullets.
Hope those fuckers live miserable lives. Maybe it’s the cat person in me but yeah it’s almost always dog people. I’m starting my veganism journey to the best of my abilities and not being in charge most times of what food is bought in this house but the cognitive dissonance will never not surprise me, chinese people are evil cause they eat dogs but somehow eating pigs, who are much smarter than dogs, is fine.
they have no ends to their depravity and that no living being, no matter how innocent and defenseless, is safe.
Yes. This is the point we must reiterate time and again to everyone who will listen: The israelis are a detestable people, bereft of humanity, their “state” without an ounce of legitimacy, their “nation” a fabricated myth, their “society” an irredeemable death cult across all political lines.
