Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) in February 27, 1973, a 71-day uprising began when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to demand treaty negotiations. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage.
The town was promptly surrounded by an army of U.S. personnel. John Sayer, author of “Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials”, wrote - “The equipment maintained by the military while in use during the siege included fifteen armored personnel carriers, clothing, rifles, grenade launchers, flares, and 133,000 rounds of ammunition, for a total cost, including the use of maintenance personnel from the National Guard of five states and pilot and planes for aerial photographs, of over half a million dollars.”
Although the Department of Justice (DoJ) prohibited media from the site, the occupation received support from the Congressional Black Caucus and prominent public figures, including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda. Angela Davis was turned away by federal forces as an “undesirable person” when she attempted to enter Wounded Knee in March 1973.
Marlon Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, to speak at the 45th Academy Awards on his behalf. She appeared at the March 27th ceremony in traditional Apache clothing and stated that Brando declined the award due to “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry…and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee”.
Tribal leaders called off the occupation after 71 days after the killing of Lawrence “Buddy” Lamont, a local Oglala man, by U.S. sniper fire. The terms of ending the occupation included a mandated meeting at Chief Fools Crow’s land to discuss reinstating the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that the Black Hills of South Dakota belonged to the Sioux people.
In the 1980 Supreme Court case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the Court held that the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the nation required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at $1.3 billion as of 2011.
“If we accept the money, then we have no more of the treaty obligations that the federal government has with us for taking our land, for taking our gold, all our resources out of the Black Hills…we’re poor now, we’ll be poorer then when that happens.”
former Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls
I hope you nerds have a great next week and also first week of March. 
Remember no crackers
I’m sometimes reminded of how the western soldier is, a man or women willing to kill for nothing, but is afraid of being killed, fighting for a cause they don’t believe in, and today dying for a god they don’t worship. To them holding a rifle is like holding a drill or a shovel or a tablespoon, a regular job, when the few them get killed while murdering our children, you can see the reactions of their fellow devils, in their ego, their view of invincibility and their supramacy, the death of a soldier to them is a workplace accident.
Happy women’s day to y’all, remember what Mao said “Women hold up half of the sky”, no liberation without women liberation and don’t fall for pinkwashing feminism when it comes to the global south
Celebrating the accomplishments of African women, both those on the continent and in the diaspora, this International Women’s Day. May revolutionary, decolonial, and womanist praxis ensure them dignity, peace, and liberation.
Down with white feminism, up with marxist and anti-colonial feminism now and forever!
Went to a local weeb convention and was reminded how much Latin American women love to cosplay as Snow White and Nico Robin
The extremely reductive mentality of Black people who say stuff like, “I had bad experiences with [Black men/Black women], so I’m gonna specifically seek out [white men/white women] because [Black men/Black women] suck!” reminds me of Black conservatives thinking shit like, “Democrats are terrible for Black people, so that must mean Republicans are great for us!”
Some of us Black people love false dichotomies, don’t we?
I think it is because people often want easy, binary answers to complex systemic problems, even though it is not that simple.
Happens with many Asians as well (in Canada, in truth also at least for some in Asia… can speak for ASEAN anyways).
Part of the western influence is creating this false dichotomy across the entire globe- social progress, for instance decent treatment of women and LGBT+ people is painted as “westernizing.” Not abusing one’s kids is “westernizing,” technological and economic development is “westernizing,” etc, etc… Somehow also for too many people/in parts of the world this view is somehow held alongside a view of the west as “godly (or historically so and now ‘corrupted by secularism/etc’)” thanks to the long and ongoing history of western evangelizing.
The amount of damage this has done… well, I can’t say for sure on the frequency of it vs. healthy mixed-race relationships with white people (perhaps half or a third, maybe less? hell if I know) but it’s certainly visible in many communities (and- from a outside view looking in, in many others like with yours). Anecdotally the scars of it have left a deep and ongoing trauma and issue in my family and upbringing… let’s just say that somehow both my mom and my aunt have this sort of mentality and it doesn’t pair well at all with mental illness
.I feel quite saddened by how few times I’ve seen actually decent interracial couples who are willing to call out the “weird” kind of interracial couple that gets the most clout online.
Y’know, when I say “actually decent,” I mean the people who just so happen to be of different races but do genuinely love each other. They’re not on some weird fetish shit, self-hating, or something like that.
I have only witnessed just a few of these people who have actually looked at interracial TikTokers who do that slave/slavemaster roleplay shit and said, “Yeah, this shit is fucked.”
Because, honestly, what I’m sensing, and truthfully, this is mostly my vibes, is that most interracial (particularly Black x white) couples are the kind to do slave/slavemaster roleplay, at least most you’ll see outwardly express their relationship online.
Even well-intentioned interracial relationships are often clouded by ignorance and naive “We’re in love, so let’s act like our racial difference doesn’t matter and doesn’t require extra labor in our racialized society. Let’s just be colorblind!” kind of thinking.
A similar thing occurs amongst Latin@s, at least in the US. I assume you’ve heard the annoying stereotype that Latin@ women are more passionate and therefore more “toxic”. I’ve heard that BS since my teens from guys and it’s such cope.
Fuck I hate that bullshit. My sisters were called “feisty Latinas” when we lived in the US. They both are neurodivergent and their meltdowns would be fetishized. In fact, a lot of the “passionate” latinas are neurodivergent and undiagnosed. Same goes with the “Latino temper” overall.
Me seeing how Black queer characters in media are basically always in interracial relationships
Media is bad at depicting Black love, period, but if you’re expecting to see a Black x Black queer couple? No chances.
I’ve seen a video of FD signifier where he counted how many main black characters were in a black x black relationship and it turned out to be ridiculously low, I don’t remember what video, but it also said how Friends had a single named black character in the 10 seasons.
sigh of relief that I won’t have to hunt down the exact video
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
but it also said how Friends had a single named black character in the 10 seasons
I find this fact so fascinating; just from an anthropological standpoint, makes me want to study white people and their various neuroses
Not planning on it being terribly long… maybe around 4 minutes
Once I finish this, this means I would’ve written literally 2 albums worth of music in really just about a year. Feels good!
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I fucking hate westerners explaining to me how akshully overthrowing Iran is good and how Iran is bad, and being centrists on the conflict.
Fuck you, i live in this region. I don’t need a fucking neocon NATO lib living cushily in europe explaining to me the fucking politics of my region, death to america, israel and europe
God i’m so angry right now.
they saw the Epstein files, they saw the genocide in Gaza, we should saw them in half
they will be put in mazov’s sausage grinder inshallah
god willing.
What I hate even more are the diaspora crying to officials about how their people must be killed for the better of the world. Absolute scum and then they try to use their identity to gain “exotic” points when convenient.
The same people who have been crying about women’s rights in Iran saw that one of the first things to come out from the US-Israel strikes was that an all girls school was hit killing 80+ girls and they still came out and thanked Trump.
So much this. I have Iranian friends celebrating on Instagram and I want to say, “Wtf is wrong with you? They killed hundreds of women and little girls. They are going to raze your family’s country to the ground like they always do. They’ve supported a genocide, supported Israel taking parts of Lebanon, Syria, etc. Have you never observed what the US has done to any place they visited?” But I don’t feel comfortable arguing against diaspora locals about their home country unless it’s a place I’m also familiar with or have relatives. They might pull out some history or local knowledge I’m not familiar with. But it still pisses me off, I just bite my tongue.
Irani expats who’re cheering on this violence are as bad as gusanos. idgaf what familial trauma they have nursed for the last 47 years since the Islamic Revolution, there’s no excuse to actively support AmeriKKKan Imperialism, murdering Iranis, and putting Iran back under the Western boot.
These are the same people that were crying about the US wanting to annex Greenland about a month or so ago. But now that they’ve check their
cards its back to the same old bullshit.
I continue to be disturbed by how few people, even POC, realize that “benevolent racism” is still racism.
Saying “Asians are good at math and science” is racist.
Saying “Black people are super athletic” is racist.
Saying “Latinos are such hard workers” is racist.
People not realizing this is why racial fetishism gets a pass from so many people, including POC.
it’s always the first line of defense when you call out a poc tap dancing for white attention. they always try to say it’s just a joke or that it’s a good thing but yet they’re still always doing it for white people.
Also it’s the first thing libs love to bring up to defend why poc are important, like no we shouldn’t protect latinos humanity on the basis that they are economically productive, they are just people
Like wtf should we support a “benevolent” racism that divides people into essentialized, division of labor roles? That’s literally the type of thing racism is supposed to justify for empire and capital…
Just had some cracker tell me they’re worried about getting on their flight from Bumfuck USA to Shithole USA because “Iran promised to blow up passenger planes”. (No they didn’t)
When a cracker sees the mass slaughter of brown people their first thought is how the uppity nonwhites are going to interrupt their vacation.
Actually you know what? I hope every single one of these vile crackers gets put on a plane and blown up over the ocean. Genocidal fascists all of them
Those tourrettes threads were bullshit and I regret reading them. Intersectionality is hard but does it have to be this hard?
I’m reminded how last thread some of us were talking about how race is the primary contradiction in our lives, the primary thing that oppresses us. Yes I’m disabled, yes I’m queer, but the racial violence of the system has been so much more deleterious to my life that those former two are mere blips for me. And that’s something that white people seem to really struggle with understanding when I tell them, because to them disability and queerness are the biggest oppressions they’ve experienced so they struggle to understand when I go “yeah those are small problems for me.” Kind of like how I used to have a partner with such bad chronic pain that to them, the chronic pain I suffered from on my worst days was a good day to them.
Also fuck that guy weaponizing Palestinians’ suffering to harass someone living in Africa, like that guy exemplified several harsh things I’ve seen about “white allies” all in one go.
100% this. They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don’t suffer when it’s not that at all. Until they get that through their heads we won’t get anywhere. The racism is embedded literally everywhere and no place is safe, not even our countries are safe when the empire can just bomb and invade us and the white dominated queer/disability spaces aren’t safe for poc either until white minorities unlearn all the racist bs they’ve been taught from birth, starting by acknowledging it.
They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don’t suffer when it’s not that at all.
They have the absolute nerve to say this while ICE is kidnapping random people with skin color darker than printing paper and the US is about to bomb Iran.
Yeah. Oh no a white person got humiliated publicly meanwhile poc are getting put into camps. These are somehow the same in their minds.
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For the reddit thing, was that because reddit has a large and active Minneaoplis board while we don’t? (And I don’t know that we should have such hyperlocal boards given what a small userbase this is, it makes doxxing easier)
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Something that bothers the hell out of me is when white queer people expect me to be queer first and Black second.
I did that, and it led to immense self-hate and feeling like I belonged literally nowhere.
My queerness and androgynous presentation greatly impact how I move through the world, yes, but no matter what, anyone who looks at me will see that I am Black FIRST. Not only that, but unlike my queerness, the fact that I am Black is literally tied to an entire fucking history and lineage, and that shapes the conditions of how I and other Black people as a whole exist today.
There is not a single thing about me that is actually more important than my Blackness, honestly. People will say, “Why do you make everything about race?”. Well, it’s because the system did it first. That’s why, motherfucker.
No white person (or non-Black person, period, to be honest) I have dated has been able to make me feel seen in terms of race. Even the very person who would be in what is supposed to be the most intimate position they could ever possibly be in my life could not truly grasp this extremely important thing about me and how I exist in this world. Their intentions could’ve been the best, and they could’ve been the nicest people, but it made my relationships hurt and devoid of joy.
I am even very careful about having white people as just friends, let alone me refusing them as partners.
To this day, I think of the first partner I ever had and how she, as a Black woman, made that relationship feel like literally no other relationship of mine that came after that. She is actually the only Black person I have dated so far, and that is something I intend to change when I am far more stable.
White leftists are a fucking joke.
people will say, “Why do you make everything about race?”. Well, it’s because the system did it first. That’s why, motherfucker.
Well said and thank you for enunciating these things, reading your thoughts has been very helpful for me in coming to understand my own related experiences!
The conversation veering into debating whether or not the white dude should feel bad about compulsively shouting a racial slur was disappointing. That’s not what matters, it’s the 2 high profile Black actors being publicly humiliated by the BBC at their own awards ceremony who decided to leave in the slur even though Delroy Lindo and Micahel B. Jordan took it as gracefully as they could in hopes that the system would respect them.
It’s a reminder that the racist society sees POC as having a higher “pain tolerance” for disrespect and that the BBC will not suffer any consequences from this because of said racist society. If the actors were white this would not happen and we know this from how quickly they shutdown any mention of Palestine.
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I love when euro/americans make fun of the term “global south” as if it’s some irrelevant group
Mf we’re literally %80+ of the global population, YOU are the minority here
the west must have 5 centuries of humiliation for true communism to be achieved
They don’t prolly even know the United Nations uses the term.
What exists to them is in their vicinity; all the rest are some ‘online’ things that turn out to be real that breaks their minds.
It’s just this casual ignorant and racist mentality they have, I’ll live with it, and if its get worse, eventually I must help unleash those 5 centuries. Otherwise, the Liu Xiaobos of these world still persist for that.
Put it in words better than i could
On the flip side, I have seen an Indian guy express disdain for the term. I’m not entirely sure what his thought process was. I think he viewed it as some “woke buzzword used by performative Western lefties” or something like that.
How cooked am I for saying this outside of this thread lmao@ the PS in that post: exactly. Racism is systemic. It’s possible to have racism without there being any racists because of it. This is like the most basic shit that systemic discrimination (whether it’s racism, sexism, transportation, whatever) = prejudice + power.
Yet it seems to go out the window for these crackers when they have to examine their own racial prejudices and biases. It’s pretty telling how unanimous this is among PoC and whites on this site they’ve taken the stance that they have, getting super defensive about it and strawmanning what’s actually being said.
Edit: autocorrect changed “transphobia” to “transportation” but I’m leaving it because it still makes sense.
Hell even non-leftist poc have a grasp on this. Whites as a whole are fragile to an extreme.
For context, the crakkker accused a poc of “thinking racial slurs are more uniquely harmful than other slurs” when they rightfully pointed out that had he said, for example, the t slur, people would be more outraged.
Get behind me! I’m on your side
I noticed they replied to you with that and had to say something. Crackers + victim mentality = best duo.
Chad comment
I almost made a comparison about how global south people are expected to cheer on western countries when they do basic shit like electing mamdani (who still hates homeless people, called AES countries dictatorships and is against globalizing the intifada) but if we don’t immediately press the socialism button when idk our leader gets kidnapped, or we get bombed or invaded etc we’re “traitors to the revolution” while they sit on their asses comfortable not doing shit to destroy the empire from inside lmao.
The core contradiction is colonial and it always has been.
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Really good comment
Thank you comrade!
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يا الله
I really scratched some kkkrackkkers by pretending brown people’s lives and deaths matter. Silly me, I forgot that killing is only bad when it’s done to white people.
HexBear is not the place I would have expected someone to get uncomfortable with me wishing ill upon the troops of the 4th Reich but I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised
Fictional antisemitism is the REAL issue, not human lives of victims of zionism
Shockingly this one wasn’t even about antisemitism, they didn’t even have that flimsy pretext, as far as I can tell it’s just a discomfort with the idea of counterviolence.
Gotta love it when they equate the violence of the oppressor to the one needed for liberation of the oppressed.
Calling for a curse upon the people responsible for committing a genocide against your people is the same thing as actually committing the genocide, ackshully. Why haven’t the victims of genocide considered the political sensitivities of whites? When whites are sharing their lived experiences, they need to sit down and listen. /s
Gotta love when they completely short circuit and bring out the self-righteous indignation as if it means jack shit
HexBear is not the place I would have expected someone to get uncomfortable with me wishing ill upon the troops of the 4th Reich but I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised
this site has had 5 different US Troops struggle session from what i can remember, it doesnt surprise me much
Every time a cracker has their fee-fees hurt by POC they make it all about themselves and turn it into a giant struggle session
In some cases, while pretending that it’s not even about their feelings
Troop struggles, liberal zionism struggles, votebluenomatterwho struggles, each time I think “ah, surely now we’ve shed the last of the dross” — alas! remnants stubbornly persist.
Nooooooo you don’t understand, radlib democrat #255882981 will be different from all the others. Don’t you understand that [insert DNC talking point here]?
there are some people that need to be purged in this site, especially those with a “consistent” track record. i have west asians on my twitter feed cheering on iran to give every american and israeli hell while ppl here are still centering their cracker feelings.
@3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net its just like you said
Having empathy for non-human animals is good and necessary but the fact they overlook the extreme suffering of their fellow humans, even some of the most vulnerable such as children and the elderly is where we go wrong. In white liberal circles it almost seems like it’s a badge of honor to be callous towards human suffering but feel moved by animal suffering (unless it’s animals they dislike such as pandas since they’re a Chinese symbol or the animals they use for food), we should be moved by both. And it’s almost always focusing on cute animals over poc lives. This is me speaking from personal experience but I remember years ago where a viral tiktok by a white girl where she admitted she felt no sympathy for homeless people (men, women and children) but felt moved by homeless animals and so many white people agreeing. Disgusting.
Unfortunately, most humans love what animals can do for them more than they respect them as individuals.
They seen them as toys or food most times.
Yeah some people find it bizarre that I like to just sit next to a pond and watch the ducks swim around. I’ll tell them about it and they’ll find some way to mention eating them. Like what the fuck is wrong with you?
I find it disturbing how some people just have to ruin wholesome things for others and even go as far as mentioning harm to other living beings for it. Just cause they’re empty inside doesn’t mean we all are.
