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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color Bi-Weekly Thread for the 9th of August 2026 (hexbear.net)
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The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks) was signed on this day in 1814 at Fort Jackson in Alabama. The treaty was agreed upon in the aftermath of the defeat of Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by U.S. forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

The treaty was the "largest single Indian cession of southern American land", according to historian Michael Rogin - around 23 million acres in Alabama and Georgia. The U.S. forces won with the battle with the help of allied Cherokee and Lower Creek forces friendly to the American side.

The terms of various treaties with the Creek nation would go on to be consistently violated by Americans colonizing the south.

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For someone that talks about ID pol so much, to say that one’s identity as a minority is political in and of itself is just, blegh. Basically indistinguishable from right-wing talking points.

Yeah... Just another supremacist but because hes "antizionist Jew" he gets a free pass i guess. One of "the good ones."

Someone shared this with me:

Norman Finkelstein is a white supremacist who has a complex where he must seem smarter than palestinians. When jewish zionists blacklisted him from universities, he blamed arab academics and “woke cancel culture” for his explusion. When discussing resistance heroes, he constantly focuses on how they read the Quran when he himself has clearly not read their work, see his disparagment of al-Rantisi below.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRNW6OmZkPs

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This has been a problem for decades:

I'm suspicious of any Negro be he politician be he clergyman or civic leader who is constantly patted on the back. I have a tendency to lead toward the Negro politician who is constantly condemned by the white power structure. This is my thought pattern I'm giving you an insight of it. In other words if a black man cannot have a white man as a friend he may have a white man who's friendly but being friendly and being a friend I think are two different things.

First time I met Herbert Hill personally was when they were picketing to stop the working on the Harlem Hospital in Harlem. Negroes for 10 years had to fight the city to get an annex built on the Harlem hospital because in Harlem we need a hospital more so than anything else. Our people are sick plus we do a lot of cutting and shooting of each other (though we profess to be nonviolent) and Herbert Hill brought his forces out and stopped the working on that. This is the first time I ever saw him. Then, when work was brought to a halt on a hospital in Harlem, the same Negroes tried to stop the work at the downstate medical center in Brooklyn which is predominantly white. They were out there for three months during the summer...couldn't stop anything and I never saw him. But he'll be out there on time now whatever something takes a stoppage of something that's going to affect the white man. You find the white liberal absent when it involves something that primarily will affect the best interests of black people, and black people only, then that white liberal is [absent]. President Herbert Hill is the labor secretary for the NAACP and if he was interested in black people he would prepare a black man with the type of knowledge and understanding of the labor troubles involving black people that would enable a black man to sit in the same position as secretary of labor or labor secretary NAACP.

I'm suspicious of whites who joined Negroes and always have to be in the lead, who always have to be the head, who always have to be at the top in Negro organizations. Those whites who really have the interest of blacks at heart give some advice to some Negroes and stand on the sidelines but don't join the organization and then get at the head of it and pose as a friend of Negroes.

-Malik el-Shabazz,

Interview at UC Berkeley

October 11, 1963

Full interview here.

White people, even so-called "allies," always have to be in charge. They can't undo their white supremacist brainworms, even when trying to be anti-racist. They tackle racism from the perspective of the White Savior, who knows better than anyone, rather than attacking racism in pursuit of true equality.

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

63 years and its the same thing. Depressing.

Martyr al Shabbaz knew the score.

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