BREXIT VOTE GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT IN HISTORIC LOSS

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BASICS FIRST 

     What does Brexit mean?

It is a word that is used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the [European Union] - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit...

     Why is Britain leaving the European Union?

A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting.

Read More:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

Reading between the lines of several articles over the last couple of years, the term "BREXIT" should fall on our ears and into our soul in the same way as the words "Trump's Wall" do.  That is, the true motivation of BREXIT is "control of their borders" which is a euphemism meant to cover-up white supremacy and xenophobia....same as it does here in the United States when people refer to Trump's Wall.

AND NOW THIS:
FAILURE OF THE BREXIT VOTE

The failure of the Brexit withdrawal agreement represents the greatest loss for a British government, breaking the previous record of 166 votes in 1924, when the minority Labour government lost the vote over an amendment put forward by the Liberal party to establish a select committee to investigate the government’s decision to drop criminal charges against newspaper editor JR Campbell. In the aftermath of that historic loss, then-Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald dissolved parliament and called a general election, which Labour promptly lost.

Read More: https://www.governmenteuropa.eu/brexit-withdrawal-agreement-fail/91897/ 

      So is Brexit definitely happening?

The UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March, 2019 - it's the law, regardless of whether there is a deal with the EU or not. 

Stopping Brexit would require a change in the law in the UK. 

The European Court of Justice ruled on 10 December 2018 that the UK could cancel the Article 50 Brexit process without the permission of the other 27 EU members, and remain a member of the EU on its existing terms, provided the decision followed a "democratic process". 

Prime Minister Theresa May warned Conservative MPs thinking of voting against the deal she reached with the EU that they risk "no Brexit at all". This is a reference to another referendum, which is backed by the SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru the Green Party, a small number of Conservatives and larger group of Labour MPs, who want the public to be given the final say, with the option to remain in the EU. They are trying to get the Labour leadership to back them - but Jeremy Corbyn wants to try and force a general election first...

Read More: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

As I understand it, if the U.K. leaves the European Union without an agreement, dire things like...um...the entire country being unable to buy groceries is going to happen...
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Video: Trevor Noah "gots jokes" as he gives you the news. But the white supremacy ruling the day here and in Europe is no joke at all.

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Australian Athletes Donned Full-Body Blackface to Impersonate Williams Sisters

 

As the Huffington Post reports, while the three players have been reprimanded and apologized for the racist costumes, the Penguin Football Club also offered a (predictable) defense of the players, saying the trio’s “actions were never intended to be racist in any way” and “all they meant to do was dress as one of their sporting idols.” 

But supposing that is true—when it comes to racist behavior, intent doesn’t much matter. The term “racist” isn’t an opinion or a judgment—though it’s often treated as such—it’s also a descriptor of behavior. Objectively racist actions do exist, and blackface is certainly one of them.

While the term “blackface” and its practice is most heavily associated with the U.S., it certainly occurs outside of America (because anti-blackness and racism, in a world shaped by colonization, knows no borders). 

Australia itself has a brutal history of colonization: as with the U.S., the commonwealth forced indigenous people into schools rife with sexual and physical abuse in order to destroy their cultures. Aborigines weren’t considered Australian citizens until 1967, and in certain parts of Australia, they couldn’t own property until 1975.

https://www.theroot.com/australian-athletes-donned-full-body-blackface-to-imper-1829165630 

I'm supposed to believe white adults in Australia don't know the difference between the words "mocking" and "admiration" in order to further believe that this horse manure of a maneuver is based on lack of education?

No sale. 

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REACT OR DIE: IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE BLACK IN BRAZIL

Repost 

2016

THIS SEEMS TRUE 

DESPITE BRAZIL HAVING 

THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF AFRICA-DESCENDED FOLK 

OUTSIDE OF AFRICA ITSELF. 

THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO "INVISIBLIZE" RACE, 

NOMINALLY ERASE RACE, 

AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS

BEFORE THE U.S.

TRIED TO DO THE SAME 

HAS HAD IT'S EFFECT IN BRAZIL

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"As Salvador kicked off Carnival, residents of Cabula...gathered to commemorate the murder of twelve black people on Feb. 6, 2015

Brazilian newspapers called "The Cabula 12" would be bank robbers and glorified the police officers as heroes. Yet, once more the victims of these police shootings were mostly black and poor black as Amnesty International says they are at least 80% of the time.

Autopsy reports showed, according to one article, that these "bank robbers" died on their knees with their hands on their heads. A secret video tape of what looks like a hospital corridor shows that three of the "robbers" have bullet holes in their backs.

Brazil's population is 50% of that of the United States. "Yet Brazil's police have managed to kill "more people in a five year span than U.S. police have killed in the last 30 years."

“The numbers are equivalent to a country at war,” said Hamilton Borges, a black liberation leader and founder of the anti-police violence movement Reaja ou Sera Morta, meaning “React or Die.” 

...Days after the massacre, protests erupted in slums throughout Salvador. Family members broke their silence and spoke to the media. During the carnival, a popular Afro-bloco group staged a die-in honoring Cabula and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Countless murals dot the city with the words: “We will never forget those killed in Cabula.”

America.Aljazeera.com 

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2016/2/25/the-cabula-12-brazil-police-war-blacks.html

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Cops in Brazil
Image Source: Twitter

The protests make it sound like a new day is dawning in the black areas of Brazil. 

And black people in this country need to take notice of the fact that maybe we are a part of that new dawn.  Black people in other countries are looking at us and they have been since long before Black Lives Matter.

We, as Black Americans, have power that those in Brazil don't, power that those in France don't.

We, with our whole 13% and American ideals,  have the ability to make ourselves heard in this country and also on the world stage. And we've probably had this power, without most of us being very aware of it, since Civil Rights Leaders used television so effectively to show how the United States was beating and lynching black people in the 1950s and 1960s for doing things as simple as trying to live free and vote.

 

I consider the willingness of the protests in Brazil to stand up another victory for Aliza Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors and their entire Black Lives Matter movement. And if the Black Lives Matter first function is to act like a spotlight, then let us all turn our eyes to the south, toward Brazil, and lift up their struggle.

If the U.S. can be embarrassed into treating us better than the did prior to the 1960s, Brazil can be embarrassed into stopping it's police force from murdering black people at will.

We, as black people, should always see ourselves as being part of a world struggle.
    

Read More On the deaths of The Cabula 12 

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/02/fighting_a_black_genocide_in_brazil.html


Read More On How Very Differently Race Is Constructed In BrazilBLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM

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HOW THE WHITES ARRANGED THE CONSTRUCTION OF RACE IN BRAZIL

Repost 

2016

Thinking about race identity in the Brazil has always been hard for me to wrap my head around because the white folks here in the United States constructed race in very different way.

In the U.S. it's normal for us to observe (even if we don't agree with it) hypodescent, commonly called "the one drop rule"

That is, in the United States, the mostly unwritten rule is if you have one drop of black blood you are considered "black." 

This is based on centuries old biological racism which is based on a erroneous belief in the biology of race. The belief in the white-constructed biology of race has been so strong that there was even a court case where a woman went to court to have herself declared white. I believe it was a state court(?) that once ruled that a person that had even 1/32 of  black ancestry meant she could not identify herself as white. 

(That probably means if one great, great or one great, great, great grandparent is black, you're black. I'll let you do the counting of "greats" But, understand this: Brittney Spears could find out she was  "black" using this method of racial identification)

Slavery, the obscure court case that I can't half remember, and everything in between (except maybe Le Dolezal) indicates that the dominant and excluding racial identity in the United States is "white."  

It is the dominant culture in the United States that demands this "purity."  And that kind of discrimination is normal to my brain. 
Even though some of us have given up forcing people to identify via the one drop rule,  people who have the slightest tinge of color in their skin mostly know that they are allowed to identify themselves as mixed, bi-racial, and even cablinasian.  But these slightly tanned folk without the narrowest of noses and lips, whobinsist on identifying as "white" despite white supremacy are given major side-eye by dark-skinned folk and greeted with outright shock by white people should they ever say words that mean, "I am white." 

In Brazil, though? They don't do hypodescent.

Whiteness does not nominally exclude in Brazil.

You can be as dark as Tiger Woods and Lupita Nyongo's lovechild and try to identify yourself as "white" so long as you can trace you biology to somebody white and you are pale enough in shade (I think? Colorism is a factor too. But I can't always figure out the racial math white Brazilians are doing.  It feels so twisted in my head)

You can try to identify as white no matter what shade you are. But I think there's a skin shade box you have to check off in order to identify as "white" too.  So if you're like Tiger Woods where being identified as "black" bothers you in Brazil, you have options that seem to mean (in U.S. terms) "brown-skinned," "mixed race", and/or "bi-racial"

As I understand it, many darkish-skinned people fear/hate being identified as black will identify as "white" if there is any way possible in Brazil.

Those that are too dark to claim "white" will claim to be in a group called "brown" And if you start earning a lot of money you can try to change your racial category into a paler one (That is, if you're light brown and poor you're in the group called  "brown"  (in English) But the same person might be able to claim to be "white" if that person is rich)

This goes a long way in showing just how deep the racism problem is in Brazil, though racism's pattern seems very different from that of the United States.

For a long time, pale folk of Brazil would claim that all this racial ambiguity they've built into their categories means there's no racism or less racism in Brazil.

But you know what?

Most of the CEOs in Brazil are pale, regardless of what words they use for the ethnic/racial identity.

When the models go from there (Brazil) to here (U.S.) in order to compete in the Miss Universe contest etc, the models have been historically been very pale to white. (I hope things changed in the age of Obama but the story below indicates, things don't change very fast.)

And according to what I'm reading, the government of Brazil deliberately made racial identity complicated, deliberately set out to make race and therefore racism harder to track by making the racial categories difficult to define.

    On Invisibilization

"When as the former slave owners set about diluting the country’s blackness, they also went to work on their cover story.

In the Brazilian creation myth – the country’s version of Canada’s “cultural mosaic” or the U.S. “melting pot” – the country is a democracia racial, a racial democracy. This official story was built on the idea that from the day slavery ended, Brazilians of all colours were equal.  After all, there was no segregation, no apartheid, no Jim Crow. Glossing over the massive disparities between the former owners and the newly freed slaves – who had no education, land or assets – the Brazilian elite, almost entirely white, declared the country uniquely equal and, in effect, postracial.

“It was ‘invisibilization,’” says Marcelo Paixão, who is black and a professor of economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. “The discourse was that we don’t have race in Brazil, so you don’t have race problems in Brazil, and you don’t need to discuss the inequality.” "

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/brazils-colour-bind/article25779474/

White sociologists in the U.S. actually had debates and became "confused" in the 1980 and 1990s claiming Brazil had a lot less racism than the U.S. 

But anybody with eyes --people who are not bent on to e-racing racism from view every single place they are able-- can see the racism every time they look at photos and images of the money-ed and powerful of Brazil.

Some will point to Brazil's habitual bragging about carnival and the variety of shades of people singing and dancing on the streets.

My answer? Yeah, well black people in the United States were oppressed as h*ll in this country during the 1960s and 1970s, Yet you would see black folk on television, in commercials, singing and dancing while they were ordering a burger, under the golden arches hourly.

The happy darkies pushed out front don't fool anybody here or there.  The affluent and powerful are paler here in the U.S. and in Brazil too, and in a lot of places around the world.

But for all Brazil's attempts at "invisiblization" racism, the overt kind, and the attending poverty seem much worse for Blacks in Brazil. 

Street actors recreating "Aladdin"

This photo may seem like a petty example of racism in Brazil to some. But the racism is so very overt here. 

These actors look like they are walking around out on the street or in a Brazilian Disneyland equivalent or a place very much like Hollywood boulevard. To me the racism displayed here (replacing the cartoon monkey with a dark-skinned black child)  is the tip of an iceberg. 

That is, you can only see a small part of the Brazil's Racism Iceberg on top of the water, but you know the rest of it is there and big enough to destroy the ship you're on.

Brazil, while having the largest black population outside Africa, was the last country to officially outlaw slavery in 1888. That's a little more than 20 years than after slavery was outlawed in the U.S.

However, Brazil didn't go through the same Slavery Part 2, Jim Crow, like we did here in the U.S.  Furthermore, this claiming to be post-racial immediately after slavery, some 100 years before the U.S. even thought about claiming such a thing, was much more effective in maintaining white supremacy.

How police treat black people in Brazil make the police in the United States look like saints. 

And cops, same as in the United States, come from the general population. Thy are not imported from Mars. Cops reflect the attitudes of the nation they are raised in.

In 2013, due to an overtly racist response from a sizable portion of the population, the reigning Queen of Carnival dethroned, so to speak, and changed from dark-skinned to light-skinned.

DARK QUEEN REPLACED

BACKGROUND:
Apparently there is a Queen of Carnival in Brazil voted in every year. And Nayara Justino was elected to be that Queen in 2013.

Justino was called everything from a monkey to a darkie, and told she didn’t deserve to be the Globeleza because she was “too Black.” What hurt most, though, were that many Black Brazilians also thought she was unfit for the title because of her dark skin.

“Black people in Brazil are ashamed of being Black,”  Neusa Borges, a Black actress explains in the video. “There are very few who will stand up and say, ‘I am Black.'”

As a result of the backlash, Justino was stripped of her title without...notice.  “They called me and said, ‘You’re not going to be Globeleza anymore. Thanks for your participation, 

Read More

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2016/02/heres-how-brazilians-treated-its-first-black-globeleza-carnival-queen/

After doing some reading on Brazil, you know what I think? 

I think it's one thing to be black in this country and have a smallish portion of black and brown folks that internalize racism and despise themselves. 

It would be quite another thing 

to live in Brazil 

where many or most of the people 

that WE, in the U.S. WOULD identify as black 

and being among 

light, medium and dark-skinned people 

who want to identify as anything but black. 

Clearly, the white racists there are a lot smarter than the ones here, and they have been from the very beginning. 

The white people in power there have the middle class white people hating the light people, and the next shade of light people down hating the brown people, and the brown people hating the black people.

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SOUTH AFRICAN WHITE WOMAN GOES TO PRISON FOR USING SOUTH AFRICAN VERSION OF N-WORD ON BLACK COPS

SOUTH AFRICAN BECKY SAID IT 48 TIMES

AND THE B**** GOT  THREE YEARS IN PRISON

HAAAA!!!!


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Islamophobia in Europe and in Africa should not be conflated

By MSAFROPOLITAN 



"[B]efore 9/11, hardly anyone used the term ‘Islamophobia’. Today, the term is used all the time, especially by liberals, but rarely with an accompanying reflection of its corresponding relationship to the ongoing “war against terror”....

Thus, it is not surprising that a growing number of Europeans, who since 9/11 have been fed a media diet of “war against [islamist] terror” dishes, are seemingly Islamophobic. However, since it is difficult to be afraid of something which is not always apparent, in practice, Islamophobia in Europe manifests really as good old anti-immigration, racism and bigotry. Europe finds itself in unstable times, not only politically but also economically and ideologically, and for many Europeans there is a stability to be found in the illusion of white supremacy.

In Africa, it is even more incongruous to talk about Islamophobia. Just like a Christianophobic Europe would mean a Europe that is in denial of its own history, so too is an Islamophobic Africa oxymoronic. Islam’s nuances – its poetry, philosophy and aesthetic beauty, as well as its repressive, violent traditions – are interwoven into Africa’s history....


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