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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

I hope you nerds have a good month of April cuddle

Remember no crackers

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[–] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

i finally finished wretched of the earth, still digesting and parsing through but man it’s incredible how much you can tell that a lot of thinkers were influenced by this book, shoutout franz fanon (i will say though the book is incredibly male centric :/ )

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this is a comment with 0 likes on youtube, not worth my waste of time, but it's interesting to look at the mentality of a U.S. soldier, Trans or not, And they always preface it with the "I only held the nails, I wasn't the nailing them to the crucifix", it shows that they know what they've done they don't regret it they're clarifying it to trick themselves and anyone who didn't connect the two dots. "I did it to escape poverty" and they're talking about healthcare and college, you want to escape poverty? hold up a gun and break into random people's homes and steal all their valuable stuff just like you did in Iraq and Afghanistan atleast then you won't have to go overseas.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish death upon Europeans who mald about immigrants and refugees "invading" Europe. People have to flee there in large numbers because of colonialism and empire, dipshits.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

https://youtube.com/shorts/M0LUdqFJEPI

I think of this "comedian", after those starving people moved to "where the food is" they want to deport them and put them into concentration camps. And it's like he sees that a people living thousands of years in a place without needing food aid suddenly needing it now but rings no bell in him, that maybe it's not because they spawned somewhere without food.

comments are racist as usual.

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Damn i didn't realize all the caliphates in west asia that are as old as 1,400 years old relied on USAID, this guy's a fuckin genius wowee

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[–] seaposting@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I need the overly neurotic, insecure people on various platforms including on this site to really stop analyzing global events through personal betrayal narratives and start treating reality with a level of sophistication and (yes unfortunately) level-headedness if you want to not only understand it but also to change it. But maybe that’s asking too much.

This has become increasingly clear the past few years. From Venezuela and Iran, to every other country that rarely gets the spotlight in the “international Left” media. After a certain point, reaction for the sake of reaction, critique for the sake of critique, leads to nowhere. Especially when legitimising imperialist aims (which is worse than nowhere of course, it actively harms the international movement).

Apologies for vague-posting but genuinely after a certain point, one should ask oneself - is showcasing your disapproval online affecting anything materially except satisfying your own ego - in which case it may be best to invest your time in non-political hobbies if it doesn’t go beyond the screen.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I get where you're coming from. I've been on the news mega more this year than I have been previously and I feel the same way seeing this in real time. Its more understandable coming from those who are close to, if not right in, the most affected areas of the conflict.

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

"Israel" is not different from America, When Netenyahu calls Palestinians Amalek that need to be wiped out, Trump says that Iranian civilization needs to be wiped. Then the "progressives" of such entities claim that "we do not Agree with him, he's just a right wing fascist" yet they do nothing about him, they're not silent in fear of prosecution, they're silent in agreement.

And to those self proclaimed Muslims and leftists who shout and cheer at every missile like they were the ones firing it, yet refuse to talk about the demonization of a whole nation, a whole sect should figure out where they stand.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got a job interview tomorrow with a company that is

  1. Big
  2. One of those places that people say "hires everybody"
  3. Is hiring multiple positions
  4. Hires quickly
  5. Pays pretty well

I hope I get it

Good lord, so ready to be a wagie

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[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Happy birthday to the Al-Sarkha, may it continue to upset zionists and their allies for many more years to come!

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Ziohran Copdani chumming it up with Barrage Obomber should open up the eyes of anyone who still has them closed, unfortunately they’re sealed shut with superglue

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My life and mental health only got better when I decided to permanently throw Reddit in the trash, and I will never forget that.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I actually met my first IRL r*dditor a few days ago at a painting thing. This guy shows up with a Vaush-style unkempt beard and starts off with "It's good to be able to work on stuff without the kids bothering you, right fellas? Haha..."

Okay so this guy is a dad who needs some alone time. That's normal. But then he proceeds to spend the entire time talking about his kids. "Oh that's like when my son did that in school!" or he'd say "My daughter showed me that," and so on, non-stop for like 4 hours.

I really wanted to say "Dude, shut the fuck up no one here cares about your son's grades or whatever the fuck. Maybe you should have brought them with you instead of perpetuating the same 'Dad can't show children interest or affection' shit your parents inflicted on you?"

But what really made me not like this guy (who was otherwise friendly and I probably shouldn't have been bothered by him) was that he finally felt comfortable enough to say "I saw on reddit..." He switched from talking about his kids to whatever slop he saw Stormfront. Memes, tutorials, whatever...he was unironically doing "I must consoooooom!" in response to astroturfing instead of recognizing he was getting psyop'd. Like no, guy. I don't use that shitty site because it's all fake nonsense or white supremacist propaganda or some sexual predator meeting spot.

Anywho. I think I mentally overreacted to this person's vibe. But he was a peak whiteboy millennial stereotype who may otherwise have progressive politics, yet hasn't ridden himself completely of libshit because his material interests are not with the rest of the proletariat.

Sorry for the rant, it's just been rummaging around in my head for two or three days now how much I hate these fucking people.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something I find incredibly confusing about the term "biracial" is that it is strictly defined on a genetic basis but it is a term that exists in relation to a social construct.

Here's what I find so damn frustrating: By the "genetic" definition of "biracial," I am "biracial," but in relation to all the social baggage that the term comes with? Absolutely not. How is it that simply having a certain genetic makeup means that the term gets permanently marked on my existence, but then when I see people talk about biracial people, they're out there saying shit like, "Biracial people look different from Black people. They are racially ambiguous, have light skin, and have curly hair instead of coily hair. They can never truly understand the monoracial Black experience." when literally none of that applies to me.

The term "biracial" is a misnomer because this discrepancy between denotation and connotation is never acknowledged. When one is "biracial" by denotation but not by connotation (as am I), discourse on "biracial" people can look incredibly disorienting, especially when it's being conducted by people who believe in race science (and let's be honest, it often is).

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

then when I see people talk about biracial people, they're out there saying shit like, "Biracial people look different from Black people. They are racially ambiguous, have light skin, and have curly hair instead of coily hair. They can never truly understand the monoracial Black experience."

Because this is bullshit that any reasonably aware black person who's spent time in community with other black people would shoot down immediately as nonsense (it also isn't even accurate; while I have wavy hair, my brother's is coily such that he grew out both an afro and dreads just fine).

This part's also only my experience (and may differ from yours) but I find that kind of discourse only really happens online, where there's no social pressure to slap such inanity down.

There's so much art about the biracial experience and how you won't get treated as anything other than just black most of the time by society that such discourse feels like a psyop; I wouldn't put much of any real stock in it, honestly.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Yep. Now that you mention it, I have never really seen a serious context, i.e., one that is not bozos on social media, hotep-adjacent YouTube channels, and obscure Substack articles smearing shit all over the wall, subscribe to this staunch view of race essentialism that some Black people seem to be obsessed with.

I especially find it such a headscratcher that so many Black Americans, of all people, want to play the racial purity game when that has done so much violence to them (as it is the master's tools) but also, by that very scientific racist framework, Black Americans certainly aren't "pure." Black Americans are a very "racially mixed" group of people, and that plays a part into why biracial people still get treated as nothing but Black.

There really is no way to tell if a person is "biracial" just by looking at them, and this especially rings true for Black Americans because this whole phenotype I mentioned of light skin, curly hair, and racial ambiguity? Many self-proclaimed "monoracial" Black Americans who'd say they have "four Black grandparents" have this very fucking look.

However, as I (and many others) are an example of, being "biracial" doesn't even guarantee ambiguity. I will never forget this time I saw these goofy Black race essentialists literally deny the parentage of Dennis Schröder simply because they are unable to fathom that a biracial person can look like exactly like that.

These fools were literally saying shit like, "The source that says he has a white father must've gotten it wrong! That must be an error!" When their narrow view that greatly distorts how genetics and phenotypical variations actually work is starting to see contradictions, it seems like their gut instinct is to think that these contradictions they're seeing are just the product of misinformation instead of being like, "Damn, maybe I was way more misunderstood about this than I thought." (many such cases)

Also, something that confuses me is that some of these people are sometimes so desperate to not look like race essentialists that they try to nebulously claim what, on the surface, seems like a social rather than genetic reason for rejecting biracial people from Blackness, e.g., "Biracial people have totally different experiences than Black people!"

That whole thing about "experience" is so meaningless to throw out. One of my close friends was born to two Afro-Haitian parents but got adopted by a white family at such a young age that she didn't know her parents and really had a hard time connecting with her Blackness until adulthood. Is she "not Black" by this logic?

This is also a very US-centric thing to say, too, because what they really mean is "my myopic idea of what constitutes a 'true' Black American experience."

With this being said mostly by socially conservative types, of course, it lacks intersectionality because you know what else greatly influences the kind of "Black" experience you have? Whether you are queer or cishet, whether you are neurodivergent or neurotypical, whether you are Muslim or Christian, whether you are poor or wealthy. But, of course, they'd never acknowledge this because the validation of their shaky ideas requires them to oversimplify things and throw out useless platitudes that don't actually pertain to a dialectical understanding of race.

The cringe I feel at seeing "Biracial is biracial, and Black is Black. It's just basic biology!" type comments.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And a good April to you. meow-hug

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So a while ago, the leftist tabletop game club near me went under and was bought out by another owner. Shit happens and the founder was a bit of an anarkiddy who was terrible at doing leftwing praxis. And by "terrible," I mean "Shouting at anyone who says something he doesn't agree with instead of explaining why their opinion is reactionary." He didn't want to educate and organize, he wanted to be the smartest person in the room. Needless to say, the club space made people feel unwelcome and a lot of baby leftists decided not to come back. Anyone not explicitly leftist got banned. Now no one is supporting him enough to keep the lights on and the rent paid.

New owner and his spouse buy the club and rebuild how things are done from the ground up, such as hosting regular events, setting up a community art space, and so on. They're both really friendly and welcoming. People who were wary of the previous owners come back and people from nearby cities are driving here to see what all the hullabaloo is about.

Despite this, I still felt something was off. I couldn't put my finger on it. Why was this new owner making me feel uneasy? He's not physically intimidating. He's always smiles and cultivating a family-friendly atmosphere. He's still maintained a lot of the same policies of no chud shit allowed. Why was I still bothered by him?

Then it hit me when I was looking at a wall. The BLM and Anti-fascist Action flags weren't there anymore. The Pride one was still there. I understand taking down the antifa flag. ICE is operating around and some chud sent a notice to a corporation over some other bullshit, so why wouldn't they also be willing to SWAT the place, too?

But the BLM flag? That tells me this guy sees skin color as "political" and "bad for business" (it's neither). It tells me he has no convictions, he'd rather make racists feel welcome than take a hit to his bottom line. He will rat me out to ICE once they start going after anyone who isn't white. He cannot be trusted. His leftism is performative.

I don't have this problem at another game shop nearby who has never been anything close to leftwing. The most they've done is LGBTQ+ friendly nights for kids. What's the difference? The owner of the shop is reliably in it for money. He doesn't want racism in the shop because it's leaving money on the table. He's always catered to non-white game communities not because he's anti-racist, but because it's good for business.

Neither he nor his employees would rat people out because they know doing so would make people feel unsafe and not spend money there. The gaming club on the other hand? I know I can't rely on them. Once scratched, fascists will bleed. They won't help if anyone there needs to throw down with the cops or ICE or the military or whoever.

I should've known better because it's always foxes and wolves with white people. I just couldn't figure out what was bothering me until I realized they took down a flag.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

was really bored so I wrote an odd time jazz bass solo earlier

was how I passed time while waiting for this interview I had to go to... honestly, I don't think it went well but apparently I'll get an answer around Wednesday.

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4

Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron

Thinking about this moon mission whatever while the US is exterminating people in a dozen different countries simultaneously.

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Of course one of the astronauts is a Black man. The genocidal US regime camouflages so I guess it would be nore accurate to say "Yankee on the Moon" now.

Diversity ™️

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Ain't even on the moon this time around. They'll totes be on it in 2 years though, or whatever it was. More attention paid to a glorified photography trip than the murder of millions.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Thinking back to this time I worked as a barista and this taller, bigger Black man would come in every morning and say he wants his coffee "Black and strong" just like he is.

At the time, I thought it was so corny and goofy and it made me laugh, but looking back, I see him as nothing but an absolute legend.

Hope he's doing well today.

[–] 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

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

Went ahead and filed a complaint over this gift card because they had two fucking delays... Based off of what I was informed, I should've already gotten this on the first of this month.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

General Tso's made using soya chunks, sriracha "lo mein" (whole wheat spaghetti) on the side

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Quite faithful with General Soy's chunks, looks very yummy

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

Just saw a post on here that makes me wish we had a hexbear equivalent of AAVE struggle tweets

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

On today's episode of "White people @belly_beanis@hexbear.net encounters IRL reveal their support is conditional"

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just found this banger

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Frustrated by the colonized minds of so many Black Americans saying "I like natural hair!" when they actually mean they only like a particular kind of natural hair, and that is typically the kind that is loose curls.

I am too "nappy" for my natural hair to be considered in this performative praise of natural hair.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

US cultural hegemony is a fuck. amerikkka

May your hair be always fine.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

a clip from years ago that lives in my head rent free was this couple (white gf black bf) getting approached by a racist guy talking about "intermixing is bad you will have worse babies" or something and the white girl responding with "actually scientific stuidies have shown that mixed children are smarter" and I keep dissecting the layers of wrong that short clip had.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instagram users would think that the interracial couple in that video is the epitome of being super "woke" and progressive, and they'd unabashedly side with them and see zero problems with such a reply, thinking they "owned" that racist.

It is just racist-to-racist communication.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

racismthey'll reply with "future single mom"

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, depends on if the post reached the liberal bozos of Instagram or the edgy, far-right bozos of Instagram.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like my grandad who likes (he is somehow still around despite being very, very, very very old) to go on very creepy rants about how he contributed to ending racism by marrying an Asian woman and also constantly brings up the mixed intelligence thing. Gotta be brainworms from living in the Jim Crow south. Like is it so hard to just reject the race science altogether?

White ppl in mixed relationships keep doing this shit, I remember a time at the airport where this guy was screaming at the (black) gate agent about how it’s possible for mixed couples to have kids. For context what started it was the gate agent going down a line asking if people were together

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it makes no sense since the races are already nonsese, like if that shit was real you wouldn't be saying "Asian" they'd be hyperfetishising a specific neighbourhood in Osaka that has a perfect genetic match with +35% Belgian +45% anglo saxon build. Half assed fetish fiction science.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Well whatever nonsense they’re trying to say, I sure as hell missed out on all that mixed ubermensch shit being the most average student ever and being sick 70% of the time as a kid

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

If mixed kids are smarter why tf am I the way that I am (I kid but I understand what you mean)

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did a djent version of Sappy by Nirvana

Neat bonus track idea for the 2nd album

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finally got another remake done.

Was the first song I ever wrote. Despite that, it's a long one with different parts. Had to fix a lot, mostly drums, because, like I said, I had no idea how to write drums when I first wrote this.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Coming across white people saying we should live under Black supremacy and men saying we should live under matriarchy and this seriously makes them think they're "allies"

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