White Privilege

The way I see it, shit's gotten way worse in our society since the civil rights era. Any minority bringing up race is going to get attacked by white folks no matter what, and any white person bringing up race is going to get attacked by colored folks no matter what.

Instead of looking at these issues with change and improvement in mind, people are stuck playing the "you're race has it better than mine" game. People seem to fight over who gets oppressed more, but the fuckin point is that WE ARE ALL oppressed, just at different levels. The bottom line should be to unite and destroy the system that oppresses ALL of us, but instead, people fight amongst each other arguing over stupid shit.

The fact that de facto racism is hardly seen in public anymore doesn't change the fact that institutions continue to manifest ideologies that go back to the times of the conquerors of Europe. It also doesn't change the fact that white people talk amongst themselves and continue to be racist, just not out in the open.

Look at the prison system and the school system and show me how things are changing for the better...

And like I said, don't take what I wrote as a personal attack on the white people of this country. They are oppressed by the same system that oppresses me, it just oppresses us at different levels and that creates division within the working class and absolutely no unity, which helps continue the cycle because the fight is a fight for all people of this country and not just blacks by themselves fighting for black rights and Mexicans fighting for their rights. It's about the elites manipulating the global economy to only help themselves and their strategies to keep the masses divided.

This issue in America is class, but race is entangled in it and has been from the very formation of this country. If you believe that the issue in America is purely class with absolutely no race involved, than I strongly disagree with you.

Senate Bill 1108

Link: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/20/18494078.php

I heard about this and it's bull shit. It's fucked up that people have this idea that there should only be one language in this country and only one culture. Fuck that, there are hundreds of different cultures in this country and we need to embrace every single one of them if we want any kind of unity amongst the people of this country. People in Europe are accustomed to knowing several languages and cultures, while here in this country it is frowned upon and even institutionally discouraged! What fuckin' idiots.

"counter to democracy or Western civilization"= Anything different than WASP values, culture, language, etc.,

Che-Frida

In a time where many are confused and don't know their identity, people can get away with a lot without getting called out. An example of this is the "art" piece shown above. In this piece, Frida Kahlo's face is combined with Che Guevara's face to make one big "Che-Frida" face. Out of all the combinations of people that could be made in the history of the world, why this one? Let us examine...

First off, let's have a look at how similar these two icons are, since the idea combining their faces to make an art piece must stem from somewhere, right? We'll start with Frida first.
She was married to one of the most known Mexican artists of all time, Diego Rivera. In the shadows of Diego, she launched her own painting career and did well with herself by painting many self-portraits and becoming famous for them. In a life filled with tragedy, Frida made the best with what she had. Yet, with such a powerful and important life, it is still difficult to see where she and Che meet, at least in terms of actual impact on the masses and their situation.
Che, an Argentinian doctor, was a man who realized the global context he was living in and completely understood what he needed to do in order to help his people.

Che went on to be a vital part of the Cuban Revolution as well as a spark across many countries in Latin America where he was trying to help manifest the same type of revolution that happened in Cuba. He died in Bolivia in the middle of a revolt attempt and died as a martyr for all the people of Latin America and their US-imposed shitty situations. On the other hand, Frida painted awkward pictures of herself that said very little about or for the masses and were geared more towards personal and individualistic art.

Although many people like to talk about Frida in the same terms as Che and other revolutionaries, it is an obvious fallacy. I'm not one to talk down on Frida's accomplishments as an artist, nor do I ignore the fact that she was put in a very difficult position when she did this all. However, I do feel that the fact that she's a women gets her the majority of the recognition she receives. If a man would have drawn ugly pictures of himself in the same manner, I doubt that it would have had such a huge impact. However, if a woman accomplished even half of the things that Che did, she would be bigger than the Virgin Mary.

In conclusion, combining Che's face with Frida's face is not only idiotic, but is also a great disrespect to those revolutionaries like Che Guevara who let their nuts hang to the ground for their people. The only thing these two icons have in common is that those who have little connection with their Latin American roots can easily connect and identify with them because they are the token images "representing" us.