Jonathan Chait’s “Not A Very P.C. Thing To Say” In a Nutshell

Another cis gender hetero scum running his mouth complaining about having privilege

The Belle Jar

Today in New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait discusses how hard it is to be a white man these days. In case you don’t have the time or moral energy to read his 5,000 word opus of angst, here’s a brief rundown.

1. If this article seems familiar, it’s because you’ve read it before. Not only that, but you’ve experienced it in various iterations both online and in real life. This article is that guy from the philosophy class you took ten years, the one who Kool-Aid mans his way into every Facebook discussion about feminism to tell you why he’s actually a humanist. This article is that sweaty, overbearing man at a party who corners you and aggressively questions you about socialism in what he thinks is a charming way, but when you try to respond to him he just talks over you. This article is every guy who thinks he’s the…

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A Word for Men’s Rights (1856)

And so it began

From Traitor to Martyr: Robert E. Lee and the Myth of White Victimhood

Victims

The Activist History Review

by Maarten Zwiers

Robert E. Lee was a traitor. He resigned from the United States Army in 1861 after the secession of his home state Virginia. He actively took up arms to destroy the Union in order to establish a republic dedicated to the maintenance of slavery and the hegemony of the southern planter aristocracy. In 1862, Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia and wreaked havoc in the eastern theater of the war until his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse three years later.

General Robert E. Lee in 1865. Lee’s son Custis stands on his right. Courtesy Library of Congress.

The Confederacy was dead, but a strange thing happened after Reconstruction; across the South, monuments began to appear that celebrated losers, the generals and politicians who had advocated secession and then mismanaged the southern rebellion. Stranger still, some of these men eventually became national heroes, with Lee as…

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New Book: “Afrocubanas”

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Repeating Islands

Afrocubanas: Historia, pensamiento y prácticas culturales [Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices] (Havana: Ciencias Sociales, 2011) is a new collection of multidisciplinary essays edited by Daisy Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry.

Description: Distancing itself from typical academic discourse, the writing in these critical essays explores the complex issues of gender and race. Starting with the introductory text, the essays break with clichés about black women, which are usually reproduced played by society in everyday life, in popular artistic production (for instance, in certain songs that promote stereotypes), in mass media, and other opinion-creating vehicles. The book subverts models rooted in various areas of inquiry, through the lenses of many different approaches, generations, and trends, bringing to light another point of view about black women, their action, thought, and history of resistance, as well as their pivotal influence in the consolidation of national identity.

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Patrice Oneil relationship advice for the ages

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Blackmystory weblog

On the heels of K Michelle eviscerating black men for not being up to whatever artificial standard she has set for her self. Remember, she is a self proclaimed “bad bitch” and like all of the other bad bitches who are strong, independent, educated and unsubmissive black women like K Michelle, knows what they  want, yet can’t get what they want. Of lately the trend is for used up community properties or morbidly obese looking bad behaving bed wenches to chime in on white society’s propaganda about black men being unreliable, unfaithful and just plain bad. Nowhere have we seen the women of other ethnicity go on social media, day time teevee shows, movies and book best sellers, to talk about their men, as black women do black men. White men, Arab men and south Asian men have being doing so many vile and nasty shit to their women for centuries…

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Concerning Black Theology

Farewell

Marcus Garvey

And here we go

CREATIVE QUALITY

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940)^[1] was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanismmovements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).^[2]

Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism.^[2] Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). The intent of the movement was for…

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Béhanzin, King of Dahomey, one of the last African Resistant to French Colonization

African Heritage

Behanzin, king of Dahomey

Béhanzin (Gbêhanzin) Hossu Bowelle or the ‘King Shark‘ was one the most powerful kings in West Africa at the turn of the 19th century.  He was the eleventh king of Dahomey, and the last independent ruler of Abomey before French colonization.  Who was really Béhanzin?

Born in 1844 in Abomey, Béhanzin was the eleventh king of Dahomey from 1889 to 1894.  His name, Kondo, was changed to Béhanzin after he succeeded to his father Glèlè.  His personal symbols were the shark, the egg, and two coconut palm trees, while those of his father were the lion and the ritual knife of Gu.  His name actually meant ‘the egg of the world or the son of the shark‘.  His great love for the freedom of his country, culture, and people led him to courageously and fiercely…

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“Colonization in Reverse”

the setting sun of the british empire

I recently came across a poem that made me smile.

OK, that wasn’t quite right. I didn’t really come across it recently, I remembered reading it a year ago, and thought it might make a good entry for the blog. Saying you came across it recently just sounds like a better way to start, rather than saying you came across it a year ago, forgot all about it, and then remembered it again because of the Empire blog. Anyway, I wanted to put it in here.

It’s pretty hard, looking up a poem on the Internet, if you can’t remember the title, or the author, or any of the verses. I knew there was something about “by de hundreds, by de thousands” in it, but Google just spat out all the news articles of hundreds of thousands of people joining rallies or protesting or having no water or whatever else…

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On Being Proper: Misreading W.E.B. Du Bois’s Respectability

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speaktomekhet

It’s anyone’s best guess whether some recent attempts to link representative thinkers of African (American) intellectual traditions to political cultures not befitting their oeuvre emanate from noxious political cultures themselves, or whether such moves made largely in the public arena are simply intellectually dishonest or lazy. What is clear about these intellectual projects is that they are contemptible. One such project has been the now en vogue exercise among an emergent intellectual class in African America, that relishes in showing the “conservative” and/or “elitist” nature of thinkers who have preceded them, many of whom are (in)directly responsible for these pundits’ very existence. Less scholars, more self-described cultural critics and “race” writers, these commentators are the contemporary carriers of the strain of thinkers identified and denounced in Adolph Reed’s 1995 broadside, “What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?” Things seemingly have gotten worse. For in recent years, a number of the newer…

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