#RacismEndedWhen = Racism officially ended when ..... (you decide)

[Coyotl]

Join the mockery with your own end date! Racism ended when .....



Twitter mockery forces Republicans to clarify that Rosa Parks didn't actually end racism
Dec 02, 2013 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/02/1259533/-Twitter-mockery-forces-Republicans-to-clarify-that-Rosa-Parks-didn-t-actually-end-racism

Sunday was Rosa Parks Day, and the Republican National Committee honored the civil rights hero in the best way they knew how:

Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism. — @GOP

Naturally, this gave birth to some epic Twitter mockery, under the hashtag #RacismEndedWhen, started by @FeministaJones:

#RacismEndedWhen another customer at the farmers’ market this morning told me how articulate I seemed. #IUseWordsGud
— @ggreeneva

#RacismEndedWhen this black professor's white students got her reprimanded for discussing race. http://t.co/...
— @DrJaneChi

......Did the Republican Party just admit that we don't live in a post-racial society? .....

RNC: "And tomorrow we remember the Roberts Court's bold stand and its role in fighting to stop people like Rosa Parks from voting."
— @billmon1

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As an anthropologist, I have my own serious viewpoint on this: Racism ended when people accepted that there are no races, just one big family of human beings.

As a humorist, I also have my own, futuristic viewpoint on this: Racism ended when the last Republican died.

[Coyotl]

1. Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience Dec. 1, 1955

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white patron in Montgomery, Alabama. The event touched off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html

Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. (Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus.) Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It also led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. Who was Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

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Rosa Parks’s official arrest report:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/01/rosa-parkss-official-arrest-report-she-refused-to-give-bus-seat-to-white-man-58-years-ago-today/

[Coyotl]

2. More #RacismEndedWhen tweets

Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama 1 Dec
Just like 1776 RT @TheDailyEdge: #RacismEndedWhen the @GOP unveiled its list of 2013 House Committee Chairmen


Sarah Myles Spencer ‏@Laydibluez 37m
Hold Le phone! #RacismEndedWhen another well intended ww just did me the gracious favor of telling me how amazingly "well spoken" I am. Thx!

Shannon ‏@cokecake 46m
#RacismEndedWhen white girls everywhere started bringing food to their black friends @RosalindCarey96

Levester Williams ‏@rakutheartist 1h
#RacismEndedWhen Disney created their first black princess. Bye bye Simba.

Jasmine J ‏@ravingimbecile 2h
#RacismEndedWhen it was seen acceptable use nigger casually, because the meaning has 'changed' and people don't mean it in 'that way'

Mondi Gris ‏@mondigris 3h
#RacismEndedWhen The Houston police accepted that a white girl could have a black dance instructor http://tinyurl.com/lulv6v8

Rob Mascola ‏@Rmascola 4h
Racism ended when Reagan kicked off his '80 campaign in Philadelphia, MS - talking about states rights #RacismEndedWhen

mondogarage ‏@mondogarage 4h
#RacismEndedWhen Cuba's human rights record became a worse thing than slavery, Jpn internment, or Am. Ind. genocide @JRubinBlogger #LOLGOP

[ismnotwasm]

3. I'm not good at twitter

But here is an excellent article

The Demolition of Black Boy Bodies and Learned Silences


Recently, a brilliant friend of mine offered me a powerful piece of insight regarding Black boys. While there is much talk about the consciousness and expression of Black boys, more attention must be given to the demolition of the Black boy body itself. What are we to make of the fact that the harsh realities of mass incarceration and gang violence are physically decimating and apprehending the bodies of Black males? Essentially, what are we to do when, in sheer numbers, the spatial, material, and therefore metaphorical presence of Black boys is being usurped?

If we can take the tragic stories of Trayvon Martin, the more recent shooting of 16 year-old Kimani Gray, and put them in conversation with similar historical narratives like Emmett Till, we will find that they share one thing particularly in common, namely, the conflict of stories. All three of these narratives are set against the backdrop of competing accounts set forth between the racist agents, and the counter appraisals by individuals who valued the boys in question. Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman, George Zimmeman was allegedly defending himself, and now Kimani allegedly pointed .38 revolver at the police. (Which still somehow warrants being shot 7 times). These disputes can never be settled to any satisfactory degree, because they will always be skewed by the lack of the Black boys’ perceptions. We will never hear Emmett’s side of the story, nor Trayvon’s, and now Kimani’s:

Murder is not the only means of silence. If more than 846,000 Black men are incarcerated, then more than 846,000 Black male narratives are suppressed, disenfranchised, and unaccounted for. The demolition of the Black boy body coincides with the erasure of the Black boy voice. Since this assault on Black boys is often the result of institutional racism, the Black boy voice becomes oppositional to institutional power. As a Black male, I don’t expect that my word, my story, my perception can have any weight against the silencing power of the broader criminal justice system. Furthermore, if my voice is neglected and downright absent against one institution, who is to say that my voice matters against any other?

This phenomenon is especially prevalent in schools, where Black boys first encounter institutional disenfranchisement. Where Black kids, and in particular Black boys, are subject to suspension more than any other race. The “zero-tolerance” policies many urban schools like to boast about are really silencing strategies, which tell Black boys that it doesn’t matter how you were hurt, how you felt, nor does your point of view matter. You will be removed, erased, and silenced. The sad reality of this example is that many of these schools are led by Black administrators, of course with outside pressures from whiter powers, but who still have considerable power to instill Black boys with the ability to voice their concerns, name the struggles of their existence, and articulate the perils of living in the Black boy body.

http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2013/03/the-demolition-of-black-boy-bodies-and-learned-silences/

[Coyotl]

7. You don't need a Twitter account to use the site.

Albeit, it makes some things easier.

http://twitter.com/ You can simply type in any keyword or #hashtag and follow what is going on w/o an account.

If you have an account you can Follow other accounts in your own, custom feed. Just pick the newsmakers you want to follow, anything/anyone from museums to Barack.

[ismnotwasm]

13. I have an account

I just use it to read.

But thanks

[ZombieHorde]

4. If people survive long enough,

we will probably end "races" by "mixed-racial" couples, and then racism will be no more. At least I hope so.

[Coyotl]

5. There are NO races. It is a mental perception only. Science is right on this one.

Anthropologists (I'm one) know this as does much of the world. Don't ask me why it escapes so many in our educational systems, but the fact are very straight-forward. There is no such thing as human races. Plain and simple, we are all one human family of closely-related people.

[ZombieHorde]

6. Hence my use of quotes around the word in each intance I used it. nt

[MFrohike]

8. On a serious note

It will be when people honestly wonder what racism was and are completely confused by it.

On a mocking note, it will be the day right-wingers also mean rich people when they talk about "law and order."

[Luminous Animal]

9. When white people decided it ended.

Similarly, feminism died when the patriarchy decided it died.

[Jamaal510]

10. *

-Racism ended when poverty became non-existent.
-Racism ended when people found other hobbies instead of trolling in the YouTube comments.
-Racism ended when there was no longer a need for Affirmative Action or the Voting Rights Act.
-Racism ended when FOX News went out of business and Rush Limbaugh retired.
-Racism ended when people who look like me could finally go into a shop without being stared at or asked "can I help you".
-Racism ended when everyone changed into gray blobs.
-Racism ended when "liberal" was no longer widely seen as a pejorative term.
-Racism ended when humans became extinct.

[Coyotl]

11. Indeed!

[ismnotwasm]

14. +1

[Coyotl]

12. Jon Stewart on this one.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-3-2013/parks-and-recognition