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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color TriWeekly Thread for the 06/04/2026 (hexbear.net)
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William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.

Trotter was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition.

Trotter was a key founding member of the "Niagara Movement" with W.E.B. Du Bois and contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), although he never participated in the group due to a bitter split with Du Bois.

"My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace."

  • William Monroe Trotter

https://trotter.umich.edu/article/timeline-william-monroe-trotters-life

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand the thought behind "learning a language secularly", I don't know if other languages have this or if it's an Arabic/Persian thing where you'll often see learners want to speak a language without the involvement of religion and culture I do not think many people can learn English separated from anglo religion, culture and taboos. I wish I was better at explaining my point but I haven't learnt a single language I speak "secularly" , I didn't read the whole English translation of the bible to speak English, but I had to consequently learn many things about Anglo versions of christianity and many parts of western traditions even though I didn't like or believe in it.

I physically can not comprehend it and I'm not educated enough on linguistics to call out anything or if to know something's wrong, but it feels like wanting to learn a language to talk to yourself.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

eh sounds like casual western chauvinism :brainwormsbrainworms to me, I mean, why else make a fuzz?

Religion is not mere superstructure but really has become a material force in people's lives, whether it comes institutionally or societally, and this is reflected into language and then thinking itself.

I think Jones Manoel had this to say about religion in Western Marxism, since religion, he said, actually influences political movements

https://blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution

There is a fundamental contradiction in many of the Marxist studies that are produced in the West. Every time that they speak of Marxism in Asia – in China, Korea or Viet Nam – or when they speak of popular movements in Africa such as in Egypt or Libya, they highlight the influence of religion on these political movements and the national adaption of Marxism. When any Marxist researcher studies, for example, Chinese Marxism, they are obliged to address the influence of Confucius’ philosophy on Chinese culture in a general manner and on Chinese Marxism in particular. Likewise, the influence that Islam has on many African countries is always taken into account in analysis of socialist nations such as Algeria.

When the time comes to look at Marxism in Western politics, however, the influence of Christianity in the construction of the symbolic, subjective and theoretical universe of this Marxism is rarely taken into account. It is as if in Asia, Confucianism has an influence on politics, in Africa, Islam has an influence on politics, but in Brazil, in the US, in France, in Portugal, Christianity does not perform a similar role in forming historic subjectivity. This is a mistake for a very simple and objective reason, which Antonio Gramsci points out in several different passages of Prison Notebooks: the Catholic Church is the longest operating institution in the West. No other institution has managed to stay alive for so long with the capacity to disseminate and circulate ideas and concepts, through a body of intellectual priests, bishops and theologians, organized within a bureaucracy like the Catholic Church has. So it is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism, politics, subjectivity, culture, and the symbolic field in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation, in each specific country as elements of analysis.

On a more tangential note -

Why should I be shocked that goodbye comes from Anglophone Christians saying 'god be with ye', nor should I complain that salamat comes from the word for wishing 'good health' by Muslim merchants