Racist America and the Caste System

apartheid, man, any way you look at it . . .

White (for people whose parents were both White and carried themselves as a White person, education deportment, and skills).

Coloured (those of mixed race, neither White nor Black), which included Indians and Asians.

Black (Bantus, all Black Africans)

Apartheid applied sweeping reforms to government based on visible ethnicity, with all permissions granted to the White population and severely limited for Coloureds and Indians, but obliterating of humanity for Blacks.

Citizenship was removed from Black/Bantus forcing them out of city life and industry and assigned '”Homelands" that they were to govern themselves. They needed passports to travel around within the country their ancestors and themselves had been born, South Africa.

The Coloured group classification would expand further out by the 80s to distinguish Cape Coloureds, Malay, Griqua, Chinese, Indian, Other Asian, and Other Coloured.

If you were biracial born in the Cape, your birth certificate would list Cape Coloured. If you were biracial born outside of the Cape, you were either classified as Griqua (dependent on your ancestry mix, specifically, Cape Coloured of the Great Trek out of the Cape) or Other Coloured.

Non-whites could not change classification during their lifetime higher than the classification of their birth, no matter how they visibly presented. But if a Coloured person, visibly presented as White during the onset of Apartheid and their children maintained a visible White appearance, they would have been classified as White.

If a White woman had a baby with a non-white and the baby presented as White, the White parent could sneak the baby under White classification, without identifying the father or lying about the father. Alot of corruption was applied in Apartheid as the only way to improve the opportunities and living circumstances of children.

My father is a light skinned Coloured, both of his parents (my grandparents), were light skinned Coloureds, but could never be classified as White because at the onset of Apartheid my great grandparents were in an interracial relationship, White and Coloured (Melanesian looking).

Hero never to be forgotten fighting the worst of the worse — genocide.

Ava DuVernay’s latest film, Origin, opens with a question: if you were alive in 1939 in Germany, amid the rise of Hitler and fascism, would you be a conscientious objector who refused to make a Nazi salute? Or would you be like the majority, a complicit bystander to dehumanisation, exploitation and even genocide?

This immediately reminded me of the message US airman Aaron Bushnell posted on Facebook, just hours before self-immolating outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people.

He wrote: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”  

Bushnell’s extreme disavowal of American complicity in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza was a reminder to us all that silence and inaction in the face of violence enables the very systems upon which it is built.

And the sickness is a boomerang, with Jews the Nazis, man, and of course, Palestinians, the outcasts, the untouchables. And if you sing their humanity, praise them for their lives, well, the Jewish Nazis will come and burn your house down.

In Hollywood, Criticizing Israel’s Assault on Gaza Comes With a Price

A top movie agent, an Oscar winner, and the star of Scream VII have all been demoted or fired for calling out Israel’s bombing of Gaza.

Susan Sarandon didn’t get the same reprieve as Dakhil. The Oscar-winning actress and activist was dropped by her talent agency UTA, where she’d been a client since 2014, after speaking out at a pro-Palestine rally on Nov. 17 in New York City.

“There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence,” Sarandon said.

First came top CAA agent Maha Dakhil, who was demoted from her post as co-chief of the powerful talent agency’s motion pictures department after sharing an Instagram post calling Israel’s bombardment of Gaza “genocide.” Dakhil, who represents the likes of Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, and Natalie Portman, issued a heartfelt apology and deleted the post, but that didn’t stop one of her big clients, Aaron Sorkin, from dropping her over it. A subsequent report in Variety alleges it took the personal intervention of Cruise for Dakhil to keep her job, and The New York Post said that Dakhil has since embarked on a “Jewish listening tour,” meeting with Hollywood rabbi Steve Leder and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Amazing, going after people in 2024, forcing them into re-education/brainwashing camps of the ADF, the Nazi Jewish PR propaganda regime.

LINK.

Holly-Dirt’s Nazi’s.

On top of that which befell Dakhil, Sarandon, and Barrera, the aforementioned Variety report cited how CAA “cut ties with a staffer and two clients over incendiary anti-Israeli social media posts,” and that Hollywood power producer Marc Platt, the father of Ben and man behind La La Land and The Little Mermaid, had “texted WME leadership about why Boots Riley was still a client after the Sorry to Bother You writer-director urged his followers on X to boycott an industry screening of footage of Hamas atrocities at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,” dubbing the footage “murderous propaganda” because it was compiled by the IDF.

Meanwhile, Platt’s fellow producer on La La Land, Gary Gilbert, was busy sliding into people’s DMs threatening violence if they protested the screening. The piece also claimed that “WhatsApp text chains have popped up all over town” filled with Hollywood players “sharing instances of perceived antisemitism,” and that one such chain targeted filmmaker Ava DuVernay merely for speaking up in support of Dakhil, her agent. 

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Jews murdering for a very long time. Here’s a doc, since 1982:

Earlier this month, the Lancet published an article estimating that the total number of Palestinian civilian deaths caused directly and indirectly by Israeli attacks since October 2023 could be nearly five times higher than the official death toll, and could reach “up to 186 000 or even more.”

It noted that “this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”

According to the piece, the latest available count of Palestinians killed – 37,396 – is far too low, based on the fact that it is still unknown how many more lie under the rubble, how many are missing but not accounted for among the dead, and how many will perish due to starvation, dehydration, or diseases.

“Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases,” it noted.

However, even this Lancet estimate of nearly 200,000 dead might be only half the actual number of Palestinians killed, according to some counts.

And the two pieces of shit, BIPOC and Ayran, all racists against, well, billions — the Chinese:

Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin.

The series finale of Rest in Power, the six-part docuseries about Trayvon Martin’s murder, leaves viewers with a harsh dose of reality: the same tragedy that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement may have also helped Donald Trump become president.

In a new clip premiering here The Daily Beast, Florida-based Politico reporter Marc Caputo explores the surprising domino effect that sprang from the 17-year-old’s murder to a presidential election four years later.

“The Trayvon Martin case had local backlash but what I thought was interesting was there was also political backlash in the 2016 presidential election, which we didn’t foresee,” said Caputo in the video from the series’ final episode, set to air Monday, September 10 on the Paramount Network and BET.

Cuntsville:

• 1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to previous discrimination.

• 1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrimination. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”

• 1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four Black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.

• 1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

• 1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.

• 1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

• 2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”

• 2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a Black contestant, for being overeducated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”

• 2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”

• 2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it “insensitive,” and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”

• 2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first Black president — was not born in the US. He claimed to send investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a “carnival barker.” The research has found a strong correlation between birtherism, as the conspiracy theory is called, and racism. But Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.

• 2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”

• Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.

• As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for a ban on all Muslims coming into the US. His administration eventually implemented a significantly watered-down version of the policy.

• When asked at a 2016 Republican debate whether all 1.6 billion Muslims hate the US, Trump said, “I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them.”

• He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

• Trump has been repeatedly slow to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.

• He tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.

• Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her controversial — and later walked-back — claims to Native American heritage as a punchline.

• At the 2016 Republican convention, Trump officially seized the mantle of the “law and order” candidate — an obvious dog whistle playing to white fears of Black crime, even though crime in the US is historically low. His speeches, comments, and executive actions after he took office have continued this line of messaging.

• In a pitch to Black voters in 2016, Trump said, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”

• Trump stereotyped a Black reporter at a press conference in February 2017. When April Ryan asked him if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”

• In the week after white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters who stood against racism. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for “defending the truth.”

• Throughout 2017, Trump repeatedly attacked NFL players who, by kneeling or otherwise silently protesting during the national anthem, demonstrated against systemic racism in America.

• Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America. The White House denied that Trump ever made these comments.

• Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump reportedly asked, in reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly Black countries are bad.

• Trump denied making the “shithole” comments, although some senators present at the meeting said they happened. The White House, meanwhile, suggested that the comments, like Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests, will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests and his “shithole” comments is race.

• Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a 2019 tweet before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is seemingly a reference to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethnic cleansing in the 19th century in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of deaths.

• Trump tweeted later that year that several Black and brown members of Congress — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. It’s a common racist trope to say that Black and brown people, particularly immigrants, should go back to their countries of origin. Three of the four members of Congress whom Trump targeted were born in the US.

• Trump has called the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu.” The World Health Organization advises against linking a virus to any particular region, since it can lead to stigma. Trump’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway, previously described the term “kung flu” as “highly offensive.” Meanwhile, Asian Americans have reported hateful incidents targeting them due to the spread of the coronavirus.

• Trump suggested that Kamala Harris, who’s Black and South Asian, “doesn’t meet the requirements” to be former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate — yet another example of birtherism.

• And a study, published in November 2017 by researchers Matthew Luttig, Christopher Federico, and Howard Lavine, found that Trump supporters were much more likely to change their views on housing policy based on race. In this study, respondents were randomly assigned “a subtle image of either a black or a white man.” Then they were asked about views on housing policy.

  The researchers found that Trump supporters were much more likely to be impacted by the image of a Black man. After the exposure, they were not only less supportive of housing assistance programs, but they also expressed higher levels of anger that some people receive government assistance, and they were more likely to say that individuals who receive assistance are to blame for their situation.

Meanwhile, white supremacist groups have openly embraced Trump. As Sarah Posner and David Neiwert reported at Mother Jones, what the media largely treated as gaffes — Trump retweeting white nationalists, Trump describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and criminals — were to white supremacists real signals approving of their racist causes. One white supremacist wrote, “Our Glorious Leader and ULTIMATE SAVIOR has gone full-wink-wink-wink to his most aggressive supporters.”

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said on Tuesday, a sign the two men are looking to ease tensions between them.

"Looking forward to welcoming Bibi Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida," the former US president said in a post on Truth Social, using Netanyahu's nickname.

The meeting will be their first since the end of Trump's presidency, during which the two forged close ties, and comes at a time of strains also between Netanyahu and Democratic President Joe Biden over Israel's war on Gaza.

The Israeli leader angered Trump when he congratulated Biden on his victory over Trump in the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed the election was stolen from him by voter fraud.

Netanyahu requested an in-person meeting with Trump during his visit to Washington this week,