41, worked as an analyst-programmer for the Quebec government. “He had two young children who waited in vain for their father to return home,”
Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, was originally from Morocco and emigrated to Quebec City to attend Laval University. He was known as a backbone for newly arrived Muslims. “He was almost like the president of the community. He helped and guided all the people who arrived here – students, families,” said a member of his Moroccan community group.
Khaled Belkacemi, 60, was from Algeria. He received a master’s in chemical engineer from Université de Sherbrooke and was a professor at Laval University.
Boubaker Thabti, 44, was a pharmacy worker from Tunisia who lived only 5 minutes away from the mosque. He had two children, ages 3 and 10.
Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, and Ibrahima Barry, 39, were friends and civil-servants from Guinea that lived in the same apartment building, but were not related despite sharing the same last name. Ibrahima Barry worked for the health insurance board and had four young children, and Mamadou was an IT worker who left behind two sons.
I want every news org to put this fact front and center when writing about the shooting.
AAAJ (Asian Americans Advancing Justice) has created a website here where you can report anti-Asian hate crimes.
This is real life! This is real shit happening to real people! I don’t want to hear any more discourse that acts like Asians or Chinese people in particular are gonna be safe or don’t need to worry about the new regime
Ugh. Sorry to hear that NO minority is safe (but not surprised).
Romani people exist okay? We exist, and we experience
racism, and prejudice and fucking casual hatred and erasure and constant, never
ending microaggressions and if you are a white activist I can almost guarantee
you are not fucking helping.
Stop giving the total number of Holocaust victims as six
million, it was nearly twice that. Better yet, just stop using the Holocaust as
a rhetorical device in general if you’re not Jewish or Romani.
But okay fine you wanna talk about the Holocaust? Lets talk
about the fucking Holocaust.
Did you know entire dialects of our language went extinct
because everyone who spoke them was killed?
Did you know Romani children were the favorites of the Nazi
scientists for experimentation because they were easily bribed with chocolate
and toys? Josef Mengele (May he burn in every afterlife) sewed two four-year-old
twin children together, back to back. Their names were Guido and Ida and their own
mother had to kill them out of mercy.
Non-romani and non-Jewish people need to stop comparing what
is happening to the Holocaust because guess what? You don’t understand our fear.
You don’t understand how we’re feeling. I watched the fucking president sign an
order to ban Muslim people from entering this country and now I cant stop
having nightmares about brown triangles and fucking gas chambers.
and you do not
know how this feels, you do not understand the visceral cultural memory that
exists in ever Jewish and Romani person; I guarantee you do not get it.
In Mississippi you can still fine a Rom for moving to your
county. Texas law refer to Prostitutes, Vagabonds and G*psies in the same
breath and fines all of them $500 for existing in public. In Pennsylvania it is
illegal to even be Romani without a license. A license to exist, a license to
be allowed to be alive. And that’s just in the U.S, where I live. Romani
children in Europe still go to segregated
fucking schools
And I don’t have an Instagram anymore because I was sick of
seeing white girls appropriate my culture and call themselves g*psies as if it wasn’t
a slur, insisting that they just love my culture so much and yet none of them are
willing to defend me against the Nazis who want to finish killing my people
I wonder if my survival will be predicated on how happy I can
keep my racist white family. I wonder if they will be the ones who turn me in.
I look at every white person around me insisting that we need to give Trump a
chance and all can see is their backs turning on me when everything goes to
shit.
I cant even go shopping without seeing t-shirt slapped with
racial slurs, watching businesses being built atop my people graves, see our
suffering reduced to an aesthetic, as if Romani aren’t still forcefully
sterilized when they go to the hospital for cold medicine
Are you fucking listening? Do you understand what I’m
telling you? I’m not a prop, im not an aesthetic, im not fucking Halloween
costume, im a real actual person whose people are suffering I am so fucking sick of leftists and
so-called activists who refuse to acknowledge that Romani people even exist,
let alone try to, gods forbid, help us.
The only gadje I ever see defend Romani people are Jewish
people. And that’s great, Jewish people thank you, but why are the only gadje
who care about us getting murdered by Nazis the one’s who are also getting murdered by Nazis?
Stop talking about fucking “peaceful transitions of power”
and “don’t fight hate with hate” and “if you punch Nazis you’re just as bad”
stop fucking telling Jewish and Romani people they are just as bad as the
monsters who fucking slaughtered millions of their people
Fucking hell I don’t even know what the point of this post
is im just so fucking done with your
shitty activism and your half-assed defenses and your “listen to both sides of
the argument even if one side is LITERAL NAZIS” nonsense and your refusal to
listen when people call you out on your bullshit im just done
“why are the only gadje who care about us getting murdered by nazis the ones who are also getting murdered by nazis?”
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y’all gon learn today.
Teach the children.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
Im here for the gay POC cowboys
Guys: “vamoose,” “hoosegow,” “calaboose” it’s all Spanish.
since american news sources have been spreading misinformation through racist and speculative headliners, i want to put it out there that the shooter who killed six people praying at a quebec mosque last night was NOT a moroccan muslim man (the moroccan man was later confirmed as a witness). the shooter was terrorist alexandre bissonnette, a known far-right leaning white nationalist, and this was very clearly an anti-muslim hate crime. please make sure you aren’t spreading lies that will hurt others, and keep the quebecois community in your thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time.
The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.
So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.
Bring it back.
Bring this back.
For real.
That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?
That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.
Also let’s be starkly clear about this: under COINTELPRO the FBI raided the homes of Black Panthers and outright murdered them. They conspired with local police forces to harass, assault, and concoct false evidence against anybody affiliated with the BPP. And they didn’t keep their operations confined to the black community directly. When a white woman working in civil rights was killed by the KKK (they were aiming at her black passenger) the FBI excused the KKK by claiming that she was a communist and slept with black men. They refused to accept the reports of white agents who said that the BPP were no threat and demanded that the agents falsify information to paint the BPP as violent domestic terrorists. The FBI was determined to quash revolutionary black movements that were chiefly devoted to community protection and development and they stopped at nothing in their attempts to reach this goal.
One thing we don’t talk about even in our own retellings and reclaimings of BPP history is that a large part of the reason the government worked to break them up wasn’t because of armed action, but because they provided so many necessary social services and programs: free breakfast for children, walking the elderly to and from banks safely to cash their social security checks, free medical centers, door-to-door sickle cell testing, blood drives, raising money for bail, clothing donations, legal aide, busing people to and from prisons to visit, commissary for prisoners. Not only did they fight back against state violence in their confrontations with police, but also by resisting the forced conditions of poverty, criminality and scarcity created by the state to further destroy their communities. J. Edgar Hoover genuinely wrote in an FBI memo that:
“The Breakfast for Children Program B represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities B to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.”
When I need a good example of the antiblackness that is fundamental to this country’s history and how it persists even now, I remember that the BPP were viewed as a threat to national security, not because they were armed, but because they wouldn’t allow black children to die from starvation and malnutrition.
I went into some buildings and you heard the boos and the racial remarks but that kinda geared me up. I was called the N-word so many times that I thought it was a compliment, you know (laughs) So I just went out and played. […] They had never seen a black man on the ice. I just told myself: “Just go out and play and try to represent the hockey club at the best of your ability. And if the fans can’t see that then don’t worry about it.” I am a black man. I know when I look in the mirror that I am a black man. Nobody needs to tell me that. — Willie O’Ree, who became in 1958 the first black player in the National Hockey League
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