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The Poor American White Our Trashing of Poor Whites, and Their Trashing of Others The sights & thoughts of Jacob Holdt (Danish traveller to America) -------------- Vagabonds and blacks have a special relationship to poor whites, who for the rest of society barely exist. With their guns hanging inside pick-up trucks as symbols of power, they are the ones who shoot at hitch-hikers late Friday nights, throw beer bottles at you other nights and try to run you over at all hours. While the better-off whites create the climate it is the poor who exercise much of the direct physical oppression of black people, who in turn contemptuously call them "poor white trash". It was they who were given the brutal and sadistic roles of slave overseers and catchers. Like poor whites in today's America, the overseers sensed that they were held in contempt by plantation society and took out their insecurities and hostilities on the blacks in relentless cruelty. It was to them that demagogic Jim Crow politicians addressed themselves, but when blacks got voting rights and swung the political pendulum towards more liberal politicians, the poor whites had much of their policing role reduced. But they still cling to the overseer role and I sometimes heard them talking about "shooting up nigger town". Like the blacks, they suffer from self-hatred and therefore react violently against their surroundings by for instance throwing trash all over. They too have their intelligence impaired by malnutrition and neglect, and can be even more fearful than blacks. When I approach their shacks they usually are frightened and run inside and lock the doors. When I go hunting with them and see their cruelty to the animals, I realize that the source of their violence and abusive behavior is their own early oppression - beaten as helpless children into their insensitive and repressive social role. This cycle of mistreatment is similar to that suffered by blacks who tend to replay their violent experience on their own kind; the poor whites not only have their own children, but also the blacks as a vulnerable and socially sanctioned target group. Having always been told that whites are superior they feel left behind when they see blacks in better jobs than themselves. Poorly educated, their suffering is partly caused by having been indoctrinated with the caste feeling that "no nigger can ever attain the status of even the lowest white," and they therefore feel left behind when they see many blacks living better and having better jobs than themselves. They feel that "niggers have gotten too many rights." They do not understand the inner dynamics of our system which often leaves them unemployed, and blame anyone different - just as similar groups in Europe use Muslim immigrants as scapegoats, Irish Protestants use Catholics, Israelis use Palestinians, Japanese use Koreans, Indians and Africans use lower castes and tribes - and everybody fantasizes about the Jew - especially where no Jews exist! Since no society or system has ever been free from oppression, we must in every new generation learn to embrace and heal anger before it accumulates into tragedies like Yugoslavia, Rwanda or World War 2. This presentation is difficult, for the pain we witness is our own deeper pain and insecurity. The more personal pain people in my audience are in, I find, the less can they usually relate to other people's pain - and endure this presentation. But if we dare not confront the dark sides in ourselves, we all too easily act them out in displaced anger. With no cradle to grave equality and security in America, especially the poor are at great risk here. Their racism and poor education often makes them even more right-wing than most Americans and against any social safety net which would also benefit blacks. When I live with poor American whites I understand how this lack of security - linked up with our own constant insensitive propaganda against them as "red-necks" and "crackers" - leads this unhappy and bitter minority into right wing hate behavior, creating a devastating psychological inferno for blacks. - taken from www.american-pictures.com Tags: classism racism democracy America poverty race bigotry conservative liberal republican confederacy right-wing kkk nazi klan southern pride |
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MLK to Poor Whites Martin Luther King, Jr. explaining how through racialist illusions, poor/working-class whites support their oppressor. The MLK You Don't See on TV Tags: Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drum Major Instinct racism prejudice kkk ku klux klan Birmingham arrest jail black African American civil rights slavery overseer aristocratic plantation poverty Bacon's Rebellion Jamestown |
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MLK Destroys the Bootstrap Philosophy Using history and rationale, Martin Luther King destroys one of the cruelest, most twisted, and most ignorant of American racialist views. The MLK You Don't See on TV Tags: Dr Martin Luther King Jr Remaining Awake Through Great Revolution conservative liberal poverty ghetto discrimination segregation racism slavery jim crow emancipation proclamation 40 forty acres mule Homestead Act land grant European immigrants college farming subsidy subsidies |
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MLK rejects Communism and Capitalism "America, you must be born again." Dr. Martin Luther King speaking August of 1967. The MLK You Don't See on TV Tags: Dr Martin Luther King uncensored politics religion socialism socialist Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky dialectical materialism united states america democracy christianity racism poverty war Yahshua Jesus Isa Nicodemus |
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MLK: Uncensored (Part 2) We all know about Martin Luther King's "dream" for racial harmony in 1963, his 1965 march in Selma, and his assassination in 1968. But what was he up to between '65 and '68, and why the lack of media attention to those years today? The MLK You Don't See on TV Part 2 MLK on: - Financial hypocrisy of racist America - American sin, and Black Love - Negroes prevented from reaping fruits of their hard labor - American arrogance - White America's disease of racism - Reparations Tags: Dr Martin Luther King Jr Where Do We Go From Here racism capitalism sin slavery Why Jesus Called Man Fool africa Drum Major Instinct vietnam war roman empire Remaining Awake Through Great Revolution european immigrants land grant college farming agricultural subsidy subsidies |
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MLK: Uncensored (Part 1) We all know about Martin Luther King's "dream" for racial harmony in 1963, his 1965 march in Selma, and his assassination in 1968. But what was he up to between '65 and '68, and why the lack of media attention to those years today? The MLK You Don't See on TV Part 1 MLK on: - Silence during moral crisis - Government tactics against dissent - Blacks killing Vietnamese for liberties they themselves don't have - The hypocrisy of the Press - U.S. support of Hitler sympathiser - Poor Americans, and Vietnamese soldiers - Spiritual death of America - American arrogance Tags: Dr Martin Luther King Jr ebenezer baptist church christian Why Am Opposed War Vietnam racism segragation poor blacks whites greatest purveyor of violence civil rights media press propaganda General Nguyen Cao Ky french france colonialism poverty |
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Malcolm X on "Extremism" (5/5) Malcolm X in a classic debate at Oxford University in England, defending the position: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Speech highlights: - Malcolm X explains the Congo Crisis of 1964 - Malcolm X demonstrates a brilliant African American debate style - Malcolm X quotes Shakespeare - Malcolm X deconstructs the United States Congress Tags: Malik Shabazz Oxford debate extremism terrorism war on terror reverse racism Western propaganda freedom fighter Israel Palestine Darfur Iraq humor moderation Patrick Henry Liberty Or Death Shakespeare Hamlet To Be Not ovation |
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Malcolm X on "Extremism" (4/5) Malcolm X in a classic debate at Oxford University in England, defending the position: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Speech highlights: - Malcolm X explains the Congo Crisis of 1964 - Malcolm X demonstrates a brilliant African American debate style - Malcolm X quotes Shakespeare - Malcolm X deconstructs the United States Congress Tags: Malik Shabazz Oxford debate extremism terrorism war on terror reverse racism Western propaganda freedom fighter Israel Palestine Darfur Iraq humor media press Muslim Islam hajj black Afro African American jim crow slavery Civil Rights bill Edgar Hoover government racist By Any Means Necessary South Africa apartheid senate congress integration law Birmingham Riot |
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Malcolm X on "Extremism" (3/5) Malcolm X in a classic debate at Oxford University in England, defending the position: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Speech highlights: - Malcolm X explains the Congo Crisis of 1964 - Malcolm X demonstrates a brilliant African American debate style - Malcolm X quotes Shakespeare - Malcolm X deconstructs the United States Congress Tags: Malik Shabazz Oxford debate extremism terrorism war on terror reverse racism Western propaganda freedom fighter Israel Palestine Darfur Iraq humor media press humanitarianism Conservative Liberal extremist radical black Afro African American |
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Malcolm X on "Extremism" (2/5) Malcolm X in a classic debate at Oxford University in England, defending the position: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Speech highlights: - Malcolm X explains the Congo Crisis of 1964 - Malcolm X demonstrates a brilliant African American debate style - Malcolm X quotes Shakespeare - Malcolm X deconstructs the United States Congress Tags: Malik Shabazz Oxford debate extremism terrorism war on terror reverse racism Western propaganda freedom fighter Israel Palestine Darfur Iraq humor media press Congo murder Patrice Lumumba Stanleyville assassination Moise Tshombe mercenary Christian missionary |
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Malcolm X on "Extremism" (1/5) Post-hajj Malcolm X in a classic debate at Oxford University in England, defending the position: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Speech highlights: - Malcolm X explains the Congo Crisis of 1964 - Malcolm X demonstrates a brilliant African American debate style - Malcolm X quotes Shakespeare - Malcolm X deconstructs the United States Congress Tags: Malik Shabazz Oxford debate extremism terrorism war on terror reverse racism Western propaganda freedom fighter Israel Palestine Darfur Iraq humor |
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Secret Malcolm X recording with FBI FBI agents visit to the office of Malcolm X after his suspension from the NOI, with the intent of coercing him to provide information about his Black Muslim group. Employing one of the FBI's own covert tactics, Malcolm secretly recorded the conversation with a tape recorder hidden under his couch. Extremely rare audio. Tags: Malik Shabazz Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad black muslim African American Afro-American civil rights FBI CIA COINTELPRO deception trickery bribery divide conquer |
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Malcolm X on Negro Leaders and March on Washington (pt 2/2) Pre-hajj Malcolm speech, concerning "Negro Leaders", and the August 1963 'March on Washington'. Excerpt from "Message to the Grass Roots", delivered Nov. 10, 1963 in Detroit, MI. Part 2 of 2 Tags: Malik El Shabazz Nation of Islam Detroit politics revolution America civil rights movement segregation Dr Martin Luther King Roy Wilkins James Farmer Asa Philip Randolph Whitney Young John Lewis Kennedy JFK Walter Reuther white liberal jews catholic protestant Have Dream MLK Lancaster Baldwin |
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Malcolm X on Negro Leaders and March on Washington (pt 1/2) Pre-hajj Malcolm speech, concerning "Negro Leaders", and the August 1963 'March on Washington'. Excerpt from "Message to the Grass Roots", delivered Nov. 10, 1963 in Detroit, MI. Part 1 of 2 Tags: Malik El Shabazz Nation of Islam Detroit politics revolution America civil rights movement segregation Uncle Tom Al Sharpton Imus Ann Coulter Jesse Jackson Dr Martin Luther King Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC Rob Williams Gloria Richardson NAACP Birmingham race riot Roy Wilkins James Farmer CORE Bull Connor John Kennedy JFK Asa Philip Randolph Whitney Young Lewis |
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Eugene McDaniels - "The Parasite" "The Parasite (For Buffy)", from Eugene McDaniels' 1971 album 'Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse'. Album preportedly shelved by Atlantic records after a call from then vice-president Spiro Agnew expressing his concerns about its incendiary lyrics and subject matter. Tags: Gene psychedelic soul funk jazz rock blues politics protest satire propaganda Native American Indian genocide United States pilgrams Saint-Marie |
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Meshell Ndegeocello - "Dead Nigga Blvd. (Pt.1)" Me'Shell Ndegéocello D.N.B. (Dead Nigga Boulevard) Songwriters: Allen Cato, Meshell Ndegeocello Tags: black afro african american martin luther king malcolm malik shabazz soul funk music cookie bass urban ghetto freaknik beach bike week Afrocentrism afrocentric Ancient Egypt Kemet Kemetians dick gregory property human rights |
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John Coltrane - "Wise One" The haunting "Wise One", from Coltrane's 1964 album Crescent; taking listeners through the entire emotional cycle of fragile longing, seeking that reaches up, and reconciliation. Inspired by Coltrane's first wife, Naima. - John Coltrane (tenor sax) - McCoy Tyner (piano) - Jimmy Garrison (double bass) - Elvin Jones (drums) Tags: John William Coltrane jazz modal avant garde hard bop free spiritual church melancholy noble beautiful mesmerizing |
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How to receive the reward of Jazz... Wynton Marsalis explains the nature of Jazz (art in general), and how one must open themselves to it to reap its benefits. Tags: jazz art music bebop bop free avant garde swing Coltrane Mingus Miles Davis Ellington Beethoven Picasso Shakespeare |
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The Blues Explained... Ken Burns' brief explanation of the Blues. Tags: Mississippi Delta Blues country migration jazz spirituals gospel music guitar jim crow black African Afro American |
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Nathan Davis - "A Thought for Cannon" "A Thought for Cannon (Dedicated to Julian Cannonball Adderley)", by Nathan Davis, from the 1976 album 'If'. Tags: jazz post hard bop free avant garde smooth soul funk soprano sax saxaphone musician University Pittsburgh ocean sunset |
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Racism = Fascism = You're a sucker, (pt.2) Don't Be a Sucker! (1947) Anti-racist propaganda film produced by the US War Department in 1947, explaining how racist demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists. The film was made in order to make a case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. Due to fears that the film would be offensive to white Southerners, the film was not intended initially to be broadcast to the general public. Tags: United States America blacks negro catholic freemason immigrant jews nazi aryan Berlin Germany Hitler army military |
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Racism = Fascism = You're a sucker, (pt.1) Don't Be a Sucker! (1947) Anti-racist propaganda film produced by the US War Department in 1947, explaining how racist demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists. The film was made in order to make a case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. Due to fears that the film would be offensive to white Southerners, the film was not intended initially to be broadcast to the general public. Tags: United States America blacks negro catholic freemason immigrant jews nazi aryan Berlin Germany Hitler army military |
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History of the U.S.A. in 3 minutes "A (Banned) Brief History of the USA", cartoon by Michael Moore. Tags: United States America indian white black pilgrims genocide slavery segregation civil war jim crow kkk gun laws NRA |
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British Empire -vs- Sudan, pt.5/5 Under the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past defeats. Part 5 of 5 The Sudan/Al-Qaeda connection. Tags: Sudan media propaganda imperialism Muslim Al Qaeda camps Hassan Turabi Osama bin Laben poverty jihad terrorism |
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British Empire -vs- Sudan, pt.4/5 Under the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past defeats. Part 4 of 5 To persuade the British public to support a military campaign to both avenge the defeat of General Charles Gordon and bring a regime change, the British government presents Sudan as a human rights disaster. The Battle of Omdurman ends with 11,000 slaughtered Sudanese Mahdists. Tags: Britain England Sudan colonialism media propaganda Reginald Wingate railroad General Herbert Kitchener maxim gun |
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British Empire -vs- Sudan, pt.3/5 Under the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past defeats. Part 3 of 5 The siege and fall of Khartoum. Tags: Britain England Egyptian Sudan prime minister William Gladstone Charles Gordon sufi dervish insurgency Hassan al Turabi |
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British Empire -vs- Sudan, pt.2/5 Under the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past defeats. Part 2 of 5 British General Charles Gordon dispatched to Sudan to protect Khartoum from the growing Mahdist regime. Through diplomacy, Muhammad Ahmad Al Mahdi attempts to prevent the ensuing bloodshed. Tags: Britain England Sudan Egypt Africa imperialism colonialism Khartoum William Gladstone victorian Charles Gordon uprising |
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British Empire -vs- Sudan, pt.1/5 Under the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past defeats. Part 1 of 5 British Colonel William Hicks and his 7000 men enter Sudan, and are slaughtered by the Sudanese forces of Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi. Tags: Britain England Sudan Egypt Africa imperialism colonialism Colonel William Hicks Omdurman mahdi jihad war sharia law |
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Meet the Janjaweed (3/3) Journalists secure unprecedented access to a key Arab armed group accused of being part of the infamous "Janjaweed militia". The Janjaweed are blamed for some of the worst atrocities that have drawn the world's attention to the conflict, where hundreds of thousands have died. Tags: Sudan Darfur civil war conflict genocide rape media propaganda |
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Meet the Janjaweed (2/3) Journalists secure unprecedented access to a key Arab armed group accused of being part of the infamous "Janjaweed militia". The Janjaweed are blamed for some of the worst atrocities that have drawn the world's attention to the conflict, where hundreds of thousands have died. Tags: Sudan Darfur civil war conflict genocide rape media propaganda |