Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Myth of the White Whore
There is a pocket of racism — a cornerstone in the development of hereditary slavery and institutionalized racism — that is, to date, largely unchallenged and in many ways, still in effect. It has survived so tenaciously because it effects only a tiny segment of the population directly, but its effects are far-reaching nonetheless. Let…
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Without Peer
I had a run-in recently with some hard-headed, willfully obtuse neo-separatist bigots. The Black kind, (I don’t even talk to the White kind). I had made an assertion earlier that I should be spoken to as a peer, as an equal, not typecast as a White troll because I’m identifiable as what’s referred to there…
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Emmet
We were born in the same school district, Argo, Illinois, under the sickly sweet stench of the Argo corn starch factory. He moved away when he was nine. He was sadistically slaughtered on my third birthday, August 28, 1955. He was fourteen.
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We’re All Their Bitches Now
World Events, Intimately Related I opened my email inbox Thursday, July 17, 2015, to get notices of new posts on my Youtube subscriptions. I was shocked. Essentially the same story is unfolding in two corners of the globe to the same effect. Western superpowers (i.e., White Supremacists) reeling in their captives.
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The Confederate Flag Debate: What it Indicates
My nephew, who’s African American, shared this on his Facebook page. We had a good laugh about the butt flags. But seriously, I’m hearing a lot of White people talking about how this damn Confederate flag business is not a big deal, that First Amendment rights are being trampled, and there are lots of other…
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A Fate Worse than Death
Yeah, there were actually two different punishments for breaking that taboo. The guy would get killed, and the girl would get a fate worse than death. Sure, don’t you remember those Westerns? There’d be that lady who gets kidnapped in some battle, and then one day the soldiers bring her back to the Fort, with…
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Slaves and Hated Ghetto Thugs
So how does it feel to be a walking basket case of all the symptoms of people who’ve been slaves — or exploited, hated ghetto ‘thugs,’ for 530 years? Many Black people apparently don’t know, because they have rarely noticed that’s what has been going on with me. I have been really, really good at…
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Land of Blood and Bullshit
I came across Angelina Jolie’s movie, “Land of Blood and Honey” on Netflix. I didn’t realize it was hers at first and watched curiously to see if there might be anything worthwhile. The movie opened with a title describing Bosnia as one of the most diverse countries in Europe, where everyone was living in harmony.…
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Ustasha Survivor, Danko Milakovich
That morning, as we saw many Ustashas coming from down there, from [Croatian majority village of] Ivanjska, we were petrified. They were so black [in their Ustasha black, Nazi uniforms] on the white snow. Grandmother says that we should run, and we ran from our home to the house of [our uncle] Mladjen Milakovich which…
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The Woods of Brezje
A Short Short Story She regarded me with an insolent air of superiority. “You’re really into that, aren’t you?” She stood several inches shorter than me, as if to emphasize her superior femininity, half her height draped in exquisite blond curls, framing a face even more beautiful. “I know what you’re looking for,” she went…
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