(Part 2) Best african american demographic studies according to redditors

The struggles that black leftists (and leftists of color in general) face are not the same as the ones white leftists face. Dismantling capitalism won't get rid of racism. It won't get rid of bigotry. And unfortunately, white leftists aren't immune to being racist themselves. Getting rid of capitalism is only the first step to getting a more equal world. Be open to hearing about the struggles black leftists and leftists of color face. Stand with us instead of in front of us.Let our voices be heard when the issues of racism come up.

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Fair enough, I can supply you with some reading materials. I apologize if my comment came off snarky.

Alexandra Kollontai - The Social Basis of the Woman Question

Frederick Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State


Endnotes - Gender, Race, Class, and other misfortunes

Gilles Dauve - On the "Woman" Question

Ahmed Shawki - Black Liberation and Socialism

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

Joseph Phillips, a black actor, wrote a memoir touching on his experiences with this phenomenon. The title is He Talk Like A White Boy. https://www.amazon.com/He-Talk-Like-White-Boy/dp/0762423994

In college I had a few classes with a black immigrant from Congo (don't recall if it was Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the much smaller Republic of the Congo). He was very soft-spoken and articulate, and spoke fourteen languages. English with near-fluency, IIRC he also French, Portuguese and a number of native African languages. He mentioned once in a discussion that white Americans never once gave him any grief about his accent or when he occasionally made a grammar or vocabulary mistake. But black people routinely teased him about "talking funny" or when he misspoke and mimicked him jokingly.

he also told me about a SJW incident with a white female professor. he described himself as "black African" or "black Congolese" once, and the prof interrupted him to say that "African American" was the preferred term. he said he had no objection to being described as black, and was not yet a US citizen so didn't feel right calling himself American. case closed, right? nope. the teacher lorded her privilege all over him and said that whatever he preferred, African-American was the proper description.

edit: the (black) economist Thomas Sowell also write an interesting book called Black Rednecks and White Liberals. He examines how 'ghetto' culture can actually be traced back to rowdy white rednecks who immigrated to the US from Scotland IIRC. ghetto is not authentic black or African in any way.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Un-Civil-War-BLACKS-NIGGERS-ebook/dp/B00BMHY5R4

it's a reference to

https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Considered-Suicide-Rainbow-Enough/dp/1936833158

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_/_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf

> So complimenting the hair of someone of a different race is racist? Appreciating a physical difference in another race is racist?

To comment on this, I would say generally that it's not, but it context always matters. Even if not racist, such behavior can be racially/culturally insensitive. Excessive comments and touching without asking are particularly complicated. If you look up online, you can find these are very common themes among black women; entire books have been written about the politics of black women's hair.

So, a simple aside, such as "I like your hair, by the way" is not the issue, here.

That's because God exists exclusively in perception - faith is a way of seeing. God cannot be conceptualized by anybody other than Himself. Us human beings reach Him through bits of prayer, involvement, and personal revelation. To conceptualize Him is to conceive Him - and that is why it is impossible.

God's unique joy is to create something out of nothing, mankind's unique joy is to create something out of anything. (Paraphrasing Chesterton)

Marshall McLuhan put it this way--

>There is a great contrast between perceptual and conceptual confrontation; and I think that the “death of Christianity” or the “death of God” occurs the moment they become concept. As long as they remain percept, directly involving the perceiver, they are alive. (ML 81)

>I came in on my knees. That is the only way in. When people start praying, they need truths; that’s all. You don’t come into the Church by ideas and concepts, and you cannot leave by mere disagreement. It has to be a loss of faith, a loss of participation. You can tell when people leave the Church: they have quit praying. (ML 64)

When asked by Hubert Hoskins, “If I were to say that the traditional Christian doctrine of the Incarnation can be expressed by the phrase, ‘Christ is the medium and the message,’ is that a percept or a concept?”:

>It is a percept because, as Christ said over and over again, it is visible to babes, but not to sophisticates. The sophisticated, the conceptualizers, the Scribes and the Pharisees–these had too many theories to be able to perceive anything. Concepts are wonderful buffers for preventing people from confronting any form of percept. (ML 82)

https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Light-Reflections-Religion-Media/dp/1606089927

Intersectionality was developed as a concept by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw to address the aporia within legal civil rights studies when it came to addressing the issues of Black women. Essentially, Black women could experience discrimination because of their Blackness or their womanhood but it was rendered illegible because discussions conflated racism with Black men and sexism with Black women.

At it's heart, its about recognizing how different structures of oppression interact to address the condition that different people go through. Your main takeaway, and the biggest misconception, is this: *Intersectionality should not be analogized like a deck of card**s.* Race, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Ability, etc. are not pure lines that interact with each other even when it seems they are discussed that way. Crenshaw developed the concept to center the experiences and oppressions of Black women as constitutive to racism, sexism, and capitalism, and not something auxiliary. After all, the math isn't One Black Woman = One Black Man + One White Woman. That makes no sense and replicates harmful assumptions about who should be at the center of our discussion in terms of fighting oppressive hierarchies. This means that Intersectionality and Black feminism should be feminism writ large and anything less is a deferral that centers white women as the embodiment and central subject of oppression and victimhood which directly fucks up many organized movements. Same thing with anti-racist movements.

Here's a link to her original intro.

Very good book on the history of the term that I haven't read yet but know is whatcha need.

While it certainly comes off in an entertaining manner, it's actually meant as a serious book addressing reasons for the achievement gap present in the current educational system. More info available on amazon.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body"
Take (y)our problems and turn them into opportunities.
Time has a funny way of changing everything.

Did you know in the past, blacks and asians marched together against racism?
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks

http://reappropriate.co/2017/03/unpacking-get-outs-asian-character/

https://www.amazon.com/Afro-Asia-Revolutionary-Political-Connections/dp/0822342812/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488826874&sr=1-1&keywords=9780822342816&tag=viglink128014-20

I know that Asians can receive racism from Blacks, but returning racism and deepening the divide will not help anyone. We worked together previously, why not again?
Why not bring all minorities combat racism together? I know people's traditional view of masculinity is a muscular, wealthy, promiscuous man, and that is certainly good, but masculinity is also more than that. It is being the best person you can be, loving all people and choosing to do the right thing even when it is hard to do so. I think Asians, because we are the "model minority" are in the perfect place to fight racism. What happens when the "model minority" calls a racist out for their bullshit? Continue to not give up hope, spread the word, and improve yourself to the best person you can be. It is the best way to say, "fuck you" to the system.

This subreddit is full of inspirational and woke people.

Survival Math, The Color of Law, Killing The Black Body, and Stamped From The Beginning are all really good ones as well. Not sure which avenue of "black books" you're trying to go down specifically so I just threw out some general titles. Let me know if you're looking for something unlike what I listed and I'd be happy to give more!

The overwhelming majority of black people feel Kaepernick and the NFL players who knelt were representing them.

This suggests to me you haven't spoken to (and more importantly, listened to) many black people to learn what they feel about racism.

Furthermore, I challenge you to read this, and especially this.

Yes, they have. I don't know about comparing the real dollar value of slaves to the value of a worker in the 21st Century, but historians have certainly explored the economics of a slave-based economy versus a free-enterprise economy.

The late Kenneth Stampp notably concluded that a slave-based economy was drastically less efficient (and obviously, immoral and hideous) than one in which employers competed for the services of free workers.

SOURCES:

Stampp, Kenneth M. Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. Knopf, 1956.

Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Belknap Press, 1987.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before The Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1995.

>Halfway through reading Roots and feeling alot of "white guilt" even though I'm Canadian and my ancestors did not own slaves

Here's the antidote, bro:

http://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578629

Also, don't confuse compassion with guilt. There's been a lot of pain, evil and suffering in the world. You can feel sad that it happened without feeling like you're somehow to blame.

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I'll disagree then. As that is a very narrow definition of racism, and fails to grasp all of its shapes and forms.

Edit: I'd highly suggest reading the book Everyday Racism.

>when she says to me, "You don't act like a black person..." just because I happen to be articulate and a touch nerdy.

Joseph Phillips? Is that you?

http://www.amazon.com/He-Talk-Like-White-Boy/dp/0762423994

I enjoyed this book.

Check out Taylor Branch's MLK trilogy.

First book is here.

Thoughts on Bill in what way? I've read this and I largely agree.

This is the type of mindset that allows for something called "de facto segregation." It has existed in rhetoric in the Jim Crow South but was actually perfected by the North and remains today. Structures were created from "on high" to "aritificially impose" segregation and these structures and their effects still exist today. Hoping they will just disappear "organically" is wishful thinking that allows inequality to exist unopposed.

This book is a good place to start on the subject.

However, since I know people have lives and don't necessarily have free time to sift through textbooks. Here's about an hour worth of podcast introducing the subject. The majority of people I see on reddit who begin this discourse don't even understand background information like this. The American education system has done an amazing job at convincing its youth that Brown v. Board of Education was the nail in the coffin for segregation and once you're indoctrinated into that belief it becomes obvious why the highest upvoted comments on threads like this exist.