“Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.”Excerpt from “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands”
This is why I won’t call myself Filipinx-American.
“According to the Pentagon, there are approximately 865 US military bases abroad—over 1,000 if new bases in Iraq and Afghanistan are included. The cost? $102 billion annually—and that doesn’t include the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan bases.”
— Around the Globe, US Military Bases Generate Resentment, Not Security | The Nation
Colonisation is not satisfied merely with holding people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns the past of oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it
“
| — | Frantz Fanon (via trinithinker) |
Consider that in the decade preceding 2009 the bottom 99 percent of Americans shouldered approximately 63 percent of federal taxes, and that those taxes were allocated into the pockets of the top 1 percent, in part, through war and militarization. Also consider that the richest of the rich pay significantly lower tax rates than the working class. If we look at these facts rationally we come to understand the true meaning of the phrase “redistribution of wealth,” that it is not a picture of the rich giving disproportionally a piece of “their” pie to the working class for our sustenance, rather it is a picture of the rich taking the entire pie from working class tables and expecting thanks for the crumbs left.
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.“
— Martin Luther King Jr.
whats with all the hate for atheists from leftists? unfair much?
Anonymousthepeoplesfriend-deactivated201:
Atheism as a politic is an idealist and liberal ideology that places the reasons for oppression on ideological instead of material factors. It’s also played hand in hand with imperialism through the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries as a means of dehumanizing the imperialized
Malcolm X’s straight up opposition to colonialism in Vietnam and support for the Vietnamese revolutionaries: “It shows the real ignorance of those who control the American power structure. If France, with all types of heavy arms, as deeply entrenched as she was in what was called Indochina, couldn’t stay there, I don’t see how anybody in their right mind can think the U.S. can get in there - it’s impossible. So it shows her ignorance, her blindness, her lack of foresight and hindsight; and her complete defeat in South Vietnam is only a matter of time.” - Malcolm X, 1965
