On this day, 9 August 1970, 150 people, including the British Black Panthers marched on local police stations to demand an end to police raids on the Mangrove West Indian restaurant in Notting Hill. Nine people, including writer Darcus Howe, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to incite a riot. All were later acquitted of conspiracy charges. Home Office documents later revealed the raids were part of a plot to destroy the emerging black power movement in the UK. This is a photo gallery of the British Panthers: https://libcom.org/gallery/british-black-panther-partyhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1184283948423420/?type=3
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Anonymous asked: Do you expect white women to teach non white men about sexism and gay whites to teach homophobic non whites about homophobia? Or is this exemption only for white racists because your relatives are white supremacists and you want sympathy for them.
I don’t expect anything of anyone who isn’t able and willing.
What I do think is that people who would be relatively safe doing so should put in the effort to educate and combat bigotry, because there are a lot of people out there starting to question the bigotry inherent in our society and would absolutely be able to be educated if someone was there to do so.
I’m not expecting folks to put themselves in danger and try to rehabilitate klansmen. What I do think folks should be doing, if they are able, is talking to their coworkers and neighbors about social and political issues in terms that they haven’t been conditioned to immediately shut down.
I’ll own that my post wasn’t well-put and it comes off as a shitty take, okay? I wish I’d worded everything better. But I stand by what I said insofar as rural folks are a lot more willing to listen than people think, if someone is willing to put in the work. It puts a bad taste in my mouth that organizers are so willing to write off entire regions that are perfectly able to be educated, just because, “oh, rural rednecks are all idiots who can’t change.”
And as far as the wanting sympathy for my relatives crack, the ones who did refuse to listen to me and unlearn their bigotry have been cut off and I don’t really give a shit about them.
Building a movement takes work, and some of the most important work is engaging with and educating people who are politically backward. Those of us who are able to have got to weaponize our privilege and perform that work. If we have no education, agitation, or outreach, then we have no movement, and them’s the brakes.
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Photo by @kathleenhertelphoto What does the fox say. Lake Clark National Park & Preserve. #Fox #Wild #AT2G #RedFox #Ndutu #Nature #Wildlife #Animals #LakeClark #Wildeyesa #Earthcapture https://www.instagram.com/p/B9RFnCzA4O2/?igshid=17vhikab46528
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Nature is Speaking.
Photo by @mikefellsafaris With all the current flooding in Africa and the whole global corona pandemic, it is hard not to believe that nature is fighting back or speaking to us. It feels like the environment hit full capacity and the globe has become saturated. This pandemic somehow seems like a reset button for the planet as we know it! #bat #vampire #corona #wild #nature #ndutu #wildlife #animals #igs_africa #wildeyesa #earthcapture #coronavirus https://www.instagram.com/p/B-H_6AoAZ9L/?igshid=141ycdzyyst7i
Newly out for everyone: the concluding part of our podcast miniseries about the 43 Group of militant Jewish anti-fascists in Britain after World War II, which included hairdresser Vidal Sassoon.
We speak with Jules Konopinski, a former member, as well as Daniel Sonabend who spent six years researching group.
Listen to the whole thing on your favourite podcast app by searching “Working Class History” or go here: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/
Pictured: One of the barneys involving the group, on Ridley Road, Dalston, 1948 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1382784601906686/?type=3
“All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.”
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (via philosophybits)
Stay inside, don’t meet with friends, don’t go to work — these are the messages coming from public health officials at every level of government. But increasingly, experts say they believe those stark warnings must be augmented with another message:
If you think you might be sick, even a little sick, get tested for coronavirus.
“Everyone staying home is just a very blunt measure. That’s what you say when you’ve got really nothing else,” says Emily Gurley, an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Being able to test folks is really the linchpin in getting beyond what we’re doing now.”
