#racialized violence

[todaysdocument]

“There is a riot in this city, in opposition to the Draft, which threatens to be quite serious. . . .”

On 7/13/1863 in NYC, white immigrants rioted out of anger at the rich who could avoid the draft, and then turned their violence toward Black people. 

Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands

Series: Letters Sent

Transcription: 

[stamp] WAR RECORDS COPIED 1861-1865 263

Head Quarters,

Department of the East,

New York City, July 13, 1863

Loomis Colonel G.

Commanding Governor's Island

Colonel,

The Major General Commanding

255 directs, that you send immediately to this city for

276 special service all the troops, regulars and Volunteers,

that you have now under your command, to report

to Col. Robert Nugent A.A. Provost Marshal General,

No. 106 Leonard St. The men will have forty rounds

of ammunition each with their arms.

By Command of Major General Wool

C.T. Christensen

Asst. Adjt. General

[stamp] WAR RECORDS COPIED 1861-1865

Head Quarters

Department of the East,

New York City, July 13. 1863.

Paulding Rear Admiral H.

Sir,

There is a riot in this city, in opposition to

the Draft, which threatens to be quite serious. I have

ordered all the troops in the forts in this harbor to report

to Colonel Nugent A. A. Provost Marshal General No. 106

243/270 Leonhard St. New York City - but in all, they amount to only

a small band. Can you not furnish us with a company

or more, of Marines for that purpose, by aiding us at this

moment, you will confer a favor on the city authorities,

as well as myself.

I remain, sir,

Very respectfully

Your Obedt Servant

John E Wool

Major General

#archivesgov #July 13 #1863 #1800s #Civil War #U.S. Civil War #New York City #riots #the draft #military #immigration #racialized violence

[revsuekim]

America, the Violent

            Toward the end of the mid-term election cycle, the Republicans resorted to their usual gaslighting ads. The emphasis was on crime and violence, with some pictures, certainly, but more with verbiage that anyone who is afraid of Black people and Black crime readily identifies.             It was Lee Atwater, a Republican strategist, said in 1981that Republicans had to find ways to say…

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#American violence #Election ads #Racialized violence #White job violence

[intersectionalpraxis]

I just... how depraved can one be? I'm running out of words to describe these sadistic, vile, and dangerous racist zionists.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #current events #antiblackracism #antiblackness #white supremacy tw #tw racial violence #tw racial slurs #israel is a terrorist state #end the genocide #end the occupation

[orange-coloredsky]

a development team that looks like this could not possibly have any preconceived biases against Black people. noooo way. its just a mistake that all of the Black people in fo4 are slaves or named after fascist colonizers or murdered or stereotypical conspiracy freaks. there is no way that the reality of this team is reflected in the art they create over and over and over and over and over and over and

[ID 1: A photo of the Fallout 4 development team taken from above and forward, showing a large crowd smiling at the camera, made up apparently entirely by white people, and almost entirely by white men. End ID.]

#im sorry i cant fucking deal with this shit anymore #genuinely if youre white/nonblack and think that you can excuse the shit this team has done to Black characters with fanfiction ass excuses #i think 1: you should unfollow and 2: you should maybe fucking get more Black peopel in your life #but then again i wouldnt want to put them through that because its not our fucking job to make you realize that racialized violence in medi #made by white creators cannot be uncritically examined. that is Dangerous #and it is a privilege and a huge one at that to believe that fiction is a bubble outside of reality

[laniidae-passerine]

Danver’s specific brand of racism is so intrenched in love it’s fascinating. Her daughter is precious to her and her daughter is Indigenous and in this town, an Indigenous woman is not viewed as a precious thing. They are abused and raped and murdered and therefore, being white is the ‘better’ choice. She is actively whitewashing her daughter, not only because she’s afraid of what she doesn’t understand and because of typical coloniser mentality, but because she doesn’t want to lose her. Danvers can’t distance Indigenous identity from white violence and it’s killing what she loves.

#it’s why she doesn’t mind the other indigenous people she lives alongside #not until she cares about them #because then she had to grapple with racialised violence #that Indigenous women in Alaska (and all over the world) experience violence at a significantly higher rate than other women #and it’s her job to keep them safe! she’s the chief of police and she has changed NOTHING #she is complicit in that violence! and she doesn’t want to face it #doesn’t want to face her role and doesn’t want to acknowledge how horrible everything is #so she’d rather try scrape away indigenity from the people she cares about then accept it. because to her that means accepting #that they’re much more likely to die or experience considerable pain #she’s fascinating to me. you can love someone so much you wanna kill a huge part of them #make them walk around feeling a ghost #liz danvers #chief danvers #jodie foster #true detective #night country #true detective: night country #tw racism #tw violence #tw racially motivated violence #tw rape

[alwaysbewoke]

Stole his adult whole life 😢

After serving 44 years for a rape and burglary he did not commit, 68-year-old Ronnie Long reached a settlement with the state of North Carolina for $25 million - the second largest wrongful conviction settlement in U.S. history. Long was initially given only an insulting $750K in compensation. But after filing a civil lawsuit, he was awarded an additional $25 million along with a formal apology.   In 1976, Long was only 21 years old when an all-white jury that was “hand-picked by local law enforcement” convicted him of raping a “prominent” 54-year-old White woman in Concord, NC. He was given two life sentences. An appeals court finally overturned his conviction in 2020, citing jury tampering by the police chief and false testimonies from detectives. Prosecutors also deliberately suppressed evidence that could have proven his innocence, including: a rape kit that collected 43 different fingerprints and a suspect’s hair that did not match Long’s. Semen samples also “disappeared” from evidence.   After his release, Long was eager to spend time with his family, including wife Ashleigh, who he married from prison in 2014. Sadly, both of Long’s parents died before seeing him freed and exonerated from this American nightmare. His mother passed just 30 days before his release. He told CBS News, “I know my mother and father died with a broken heart...I’m gonna tell them now, when I visit the gravesite, ‘Your son is clear.’”

#police brutality #police corruption #police misconduct #acab #end police violence #justice for victims #police accountability #stop the abuse #cop watch #white supremacy #racism #social justice #equality #end hate #anti-racism #racial equality #stop racism #no to hate #dismantle racism

[wheelerapologist]

People who cant even try to understand why Lucas would seek social protection by joining the basketball team (a big thing in Indiana I am told) please block me

#stranger things #lucas sinclair #stranger things 4 #he is canonically a victim of racial violence the bullying he faces is different than mike or dustin

[pcktknife]

why did they decide to give skullgirls the most insanely complicated controls for ps4

#theres no way other fighting games are like this 😭 #don't give me weird colored buttons just tell me the controlssssss #anyways in other news they updated the game to get rid of filias horrendous story intro andthe black egrets ugly armbands i think big bands #story was also changed a wee lil bit regarding racial violence and freaks are upset abt it #kae.txt

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"If you point out subtle but invasive forms of bigotry then maybe YOU'RE the REAL bigot 🤔" I am biting you and I am killing you.

#this shit always fucking happens every single time #when you talk about racial coding in media #or dogwhistles that a lot of people don't recognize #it doesn't matter how horrible or even obvious it is the people talking about it are always going to be accused of being bigots #because we're supposedly the ones associating those traits with [insert group] #instead of pointing out established patterns of bigotry and violence

[todaysdocument]

Memorandum relating to racialized violence at the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in Mobile, AL, where some Black workers had recently been promoted to welders. May 25, 1943. 

Record Group 211: Records of the War Manpower Commission

Series: Speeches by Members of Regional Office Staff and Other Material

Transcription: 

FORM OEM-32 [top left side of paper]

(8-7-42) [top left side of paper]

[A date stamp appears on the top right side of the paper.  The stamp is circular with numbers 1 to 12 around the circumference with an arrow pointing to 9. The center part of the stamp says RECEIVED MAY 27 1943 War Manpower Commission Atlanta, Ga.]

[Below the stamp are what appear to be initials, handwritten, with a check mark on top of them. The name Allen is handwritten below.]

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

————————

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

TO:  Mr. Constangy [left side]

DATE:  5/25/43 [right side]

FROM:  Toulmin G.A.T. [The initials are handwritten to the right of surname] [left side]

5:30 PM [right side]

SUBJECT:  Racial Disturbance - ADDSCO [left side]

Attached are clippings from the afternoon "Mobile Press".

Today, I have had contacts with the following and have obtained what I believe to be reliable information from them.

Lt. Campbell, Naval Intelligence

Arthur Kearney, ADDSCO

Mr. Craven, " [ditto marks below ADDSCO above]

John Boucher, CIO - ADDSCO Union Rep'v.

J. C. Gates, Mgr., USES, Mobile.

Chas Baumhauer, Commissioner, City of Mobile.

Apparently the disturbance came off when the morning shift went on at 7 o'clock.  It is said that the first shift of negro welders went on about 11 o'clock last night and were finishing up their work at 7 this morning.  The whiteworkers [sic] began to collect in groups and it is said that they first threatened to strike.  Later, according to eye witnesses, they began to throw various pieces of steel, etc., at negroes near the work.  One white foreman is said to have been injured when he attempted to make the white men desist.  Mr. Craven said it was understood that one of the men hit him with a 2x4 rail and knocked him out, also a cut necessitated surgical treatment with a number of stitches for the wound.

One of the negroes who saw the trouble came up and [sic] here and said about five negroes were injured.  This seemed to be so, but I was told later that none of the injuries were very serious.  Large numbers of both white and negro workers left the yard and came back to the city.  A group of about 2 hundred negroes went first to the union headquarters and then were persuaded to go home until better order was secured.  The negro who came up to see me said his foreman urged his crew of laborers to leave the yard until order was restored and safety for them assured.

So far as can be ascertained this evening, no further trouble has developed at the yard.  However, instructions have been issued for women and children to remain off the streets and for citizens to be conservative in their talk, being careful not to stir up any further racial feeling.

[Stamp at bottom of page shows a soldier with a rifle and along side are the words FOR VICTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS]

[page 2]

FORM OEM-32 [left side of paper]

(8-7-42) [left side of paper]

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

—————

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

TO:  [blank] [left side]

DATE: [blank [right side]

FROM:  [blank] [left side]

-  2. - [typed in the middle of this section]

SUBJECT:  [blank]

It seems that the better element at the yard took no part in the demonstration this morning, and I heard from Hugh Cornelius, General Superintendent for Doullut & Ewin, General Contractors, who have an office near where the trouble began, that he felt that the attack on the negroes was without any justification whatever and the action of a bunch of hoodlums.

It is hoped that the Management of ADDSCO will restore order and that the Yard will resume operations tomorrow morning.

The United States Employment Service has been cautioned to be particularly careful in handling releases during the next few days so that as little disruption of labor market conditions will result from this unfortunate incident as may be.

Dr. Morley will return to the office tomorrow morning and will, no doubt, keep you advised of any developments.

Encllsures [sic]

[A stamp appears on the bottom left side of page with a soldier holding a rifle and alongside are the words FOR VICTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS]

#archivesgov #May 25 #1943 #1940s #World War II #WWII #racialized violence #segregation #Black history #African American history #Mobile #Alabama #war work

[notchainedtotrauma]

Rep. Pamela Stevenson (D-Louisville) speaking against the implementation of anti-trans legislation.

#Rep Pamela Stevenson #transmisogyny #racialized transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #transphobia #white supremacy #antiblackness as the foundation of the world #hegemonic violence

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Winnipeg residents put the city's chief police officer in the hot seat during a discussion on policing Black communities that sometimes became heated, with the recent death of a young Nigerian student looming over the talks.

The town hall, called Policing Black Manitobans, was held in the wake of 19-year-old Afolabi Stephen Opaso's death. Opaso, a University of Manitoba student, was shot by police on Dec. 31 after officers responded to a well-being call at an apartment building.

About 70 people showed up Sunday afternoon and packed the African Communities of Manitoba's offices.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #winnipeg #manitoba #policing #cops #police #racism #racial profiling #anti blackness #police brutality #police violence

[in-case-of-fire]

#black lives matter #blm #united states #police violence #police brutality #cops #protest #social justice #stop police brutality #black lives movement #racial justice #black lives still matter

[enbycrip]

And herein lies a significant crux of the issue.

It was not remotely “unbelievable” to his colleagues, who could have spoken up at any point, but who happily continued to let the creature continue to leverage his authority to prey on marginalised women.

It is *certainly* not “unbelievable” to the marginalised women and trans folk of all genders who are regularly sexually assaulted and sexually abused by police officers. Particularly BIPOC and disabled ones.

If *anyone* found it “unbelievable” that a Met police officer did this, they weren’t even remotely paying attention.

It’s like everyone who says disableism, racism and transphobia is “shocking”. Nope, pal, it’s routine. Sickening, yes. Shameful, yes. But not shocking. If you’re paying any attention whatsoever.

Finding police brutality “unbelievable” is a sign of looking away from the structural scale of the issue because you want to live in the comforting lie that policing is just and justified. It makes it *immeasurably* harder for survivors to get justice and it makes women and trans people of all genders immeasurably less safe.

#all cops are bastards #disabled #disableism #transphobes #police #police violence #police brutality #police accountability #racial justice #racisim #uk police

[books-apples-socks]

(...) Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll. What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays. But he stuck to it like a man in silence, and at last arrived before the captain, whom he saluted in the handsomest style. He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head. “Here you are, my man,” said the captain, raising his head. “You had better sit down.” “You ain’t a-going to let me inside, cap’n?” complained Long John. “It’s a main cold morning, to be sure, sir, to sit outside upon the sand.” “Why, Silver,” said the captain, “if you had pleased to be an honest man, you might have been sitting in your galley. It’s your own doing. You’re either my ship’s cook—and then you were treated handsome—or Cap’n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!” “Well, well, cap’n,” returned the sea-cook, sitting down as he was bidden on the sand, “you’ll have to give me a hand up again, that’s all.” (...) Silver’s face was a picture; his eyes started in his head with wrath. He shook the fire out of his pipe. “Give me a hand up!” he cried. “Not I,” returned the captain. “Who’ll give me a hand up?” he roared. Not a man among us moved. Growling the foulest imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon his crutch. Then he spat into the spring. “There!” he cried. “That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.” And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.

#one of the most compelling aspects of black sails as an adaptation is that it absolutely plucks out these threads and weaves them #in an even clearer pattern #there is no merit in a civilisation that metes out humiliation to the ones it deems dishonourable and the connection between the two #and basic human kindness #same as i would argue there is no personal value to people that engage in the same type of behaviour on the interpersonal level #(as seen through dufresne) #disfigurement and disability as spectacle and spectacle as punishment and the system of values that upholds both #which leads to the weaponisation vulnerability in the face of brutality #(this among many other things extends to jack's character arc and his relationship with masculinity as represented by blackbeard) #but also in specific relation to disability #the imagery billy foists over silver's name without permission as part of his propaganda #has direct roots to the impact of the original material #to the one legged demon jim hawkins conjures up in his mind #and to the belief systems inherent to the success of chattel slavery #there is no ideological difference between a belief in racial purity and ableism #the two are always hand in hand #anyway look at the violence inherent in the system etc #black sails #treasure island

[alwaysbewoke]

#florida #false accusation #grocery store #police encounter #racial discrimination #police brutality #black lives matter #systemic racism #violent arrest #save a lot #lakeland #racial profiling #police violence #discrimination #injustice #civil rights #racially motivated incident #police misconduct