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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color Bi-Weekly Thread for the 18/05/2026 (thelemmy.club)
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Malcolm X, born on this day (May 18th) in 1925, was a revolutionary civil rights leader who advocated for black liberation by "any means necessary".

BiographyBorn Malcolm Little, he spent his youth living in a series of foster homes and engaging in petty crime, eventually serving six years in prison for larceny and breaking and entering.

While in prison, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) and adopted the surname "X" to acknowledge his unknown African ancestral name. Malcolm quickly became a leader with the NOI and was paroled in 1952, beginning a period of radical advocacy for black liberation.

In the 1960s, Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam, growing disillusioned with its leader Elijah Muhammed. During his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, he witnessed Muslims of "all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans" treat each other as equals in worship. Because of this, Malcolm X became convinced that Islam could be used as a means to achieve racial equality.

On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm was assassinated in New York City. Three Nation members were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences. Two of these men, Muhammed Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated in 2021 after a 22-month investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney found that evidence of their innocence, including FBI documents, was withheld at trial.

The Shabazz family are among those who have accused Louis Farrakhan of involvement in Malcolm X's assassination. In 1994, Betty Shabazz was asked if she thought Farrakhan had anything to do with her late husband's death. She replied "Of course, yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it, yes."

In the wake of his assassination, capitalist press vilified Malcolm X, while media in Africa, China, and Cuba lauded him as a hero and a martyr. The New York Times wrote that Malcolm X was "an extraordinary and twisted man" who "turn[ed] many true gifts to evil purpose", while Time magazine condemned him "an unashamed demagogue" whose "creed was violence."

In contrast, The Ghanaian Times identified Malcolm X as among "a host of Africans and Americans who were martyred in freedom's cause." In China, the People's Daily described him as a martyr killed by "ruling circles and racists" whose death illustrated that "in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence."

In 2023, The Guardian reported that the Shabazz family announced their plans to sue the FBI, New York Police, and other agencies over Malcom X's death. Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, announced that new information indicates federal and state agencies “conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate”. Ilyasah added "For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder and we’d like our father to receive the justice that he deserves."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

  • Malcolm X

I hope you nerds have a good month of April cuddle

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[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

My friend who previously got the large coastal port city we live in, to officially pass a resolution recognizing itself as a transgender sanctuary city via pressure campaigns (if you google it, you'll find our city) is running for city council and there is a high chance he's going to win.

He got the DSA endorsement and they sent in like 30+ people to canvas our district (in addition to the coalition of activists that he already had helping out) for his campaign. He's a fairly popular activist in our city, and I'm hoping he wins, and I don't wanna jinx it, but it really does feel like he's going to win.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago

Apparently a Kpop company decided to start a Latin boy band called Santos Bravos lmao

First off that name is so stereotypical it’s insulting. Because we’re all religious and full of machismo. Then they picked some of the whitest motherfuckers they could find. One of them is named Drew ffs. They’ve been shilling them at festivals all over the region and still haven’t had any success. Will probably try to buy their way to an award win.

Really wish corporations would try with us a little more and stop going off US Latino stereotypes.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

So tired of reactionary Black people and Black liberals.

🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Me with reactionary Chinese-Americans

They want to be white so bad. Soooooooo bad. They really think they'll get that honorary cracker status if they grovel hard enough. They love to mix themselves in with the "anti-white racism" crowd but can't seem to understand that they're being used as props to mask their white supremacy through some "Asians are discriminated against too" perfunctory language. They actually think they're part of the club.

Mainland Chinese have a word for these people: 高华, literally means "high-status Chinese" and it refers to exactly the kind of people I'm talking about. Particularly the ones who go on to write op-eds for the NYCrimes about how Mao confiscated their family's egg monopoly.

There's also a phrase I saw an weibo a while back that seems appropriate here: 没有白人的皮肤，但得了白人的病. It means, [they] don't have whitey's skin, but they've caught the whitey disease.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A few years ago my vile twisted ex engaged me in a struggle session.

The struggle? They detected a hint of anti-France bias within me. Discomfort and irreverence. This seemed weird to them because I'm obviously not doing the american chud "we saved France from Hitler, those cowards who just wave the white flag" bullshit, so whence came this derision? They thought it was problematic given how hard the French left goes at protests, the whole thing about the French revolution and the guillotine becoming a leftist symbol, etc.

Well I was a bit surprised too as I wasn't aware of it, but upon further inspection I saw they were right! I did have a bias there! Why? Very out of character for me. Then I remembered all the news I'd seen as a kid about essentially the French version of BLM riots when police murdered some Moroccan kids. And, you know, learning about Algerian liberation and its aftermath (colonizers whining that they couldn't keep oppressing people). Then Charlie Hedbo. Well my ex didn't find that a fully satisfactory explanation and we kind of had to leave it there. (Also they're not French but they liked this mutual friend whose family was)

Well, the YouTube Algorithm recently threw this video by Hakim my way and it was VERY VALIDATING (CWs: descriptions of brutal colonial violence)

https://youtu.be/yrmbCiGwO1g

The perception of any colonial power as "civilized" is genocide-denialist propaganda.

[-] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Having biases against any colonial superpower, past or present is good and healthy no matter the state of the left in said countries.

[-] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

colonial svway too much art that fetishizes the European colonialism of South America, way too much of it is allowed.

[-] BaggedEarful@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

askchapo rage slopono https://hexbear.net/post/8576102

spoiler screencaps

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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

:rofl:

All this because he got called a gringo lmao

[-] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

if you’re getting beat up while people yell gringo at you there’s a good chance you deserved it

[-] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

and Xijinpingist was still a moderator when they finally got banned for this shit lmao

[-] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

He has to be ragebait.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Just your average white boy with a username based on a POC.

[-] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

xinjipingist again

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

Funny how NATO leftists and Hasan Piker are quick to call that Galindo candidate “insane” and terrible for her takes on Zionists while platforming Graham Platner and other problematic white men.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

NATO leftists: "I can excuse war crimes but not non-civility" can-excuse-1

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

Smoking that Barney Frank pack packwatch

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Love to see white “leftists” goo off about sissypee mass surveillance after that Fox News dipshit caught a fine for parking in the bike lane. Most of them are also self-professed “urbanists” constantly complaining about car-centric infrastructure but then whining about authoritarianism 1984 when China does something about it. And they didn’t even bother to fact-check Fox News’ obvious bullshit to find out that you actually get a text to move your car within 15 minutes before you actually get fined, but I guess running interference for sinophobic propagandists is more important. Most Chinese citizens actually support what they call “mass surveillance” but the average cracker is incapable of comprehending the existence of cultural differences.

I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV but they always call me a sissypee shill before I get to that point. I guess it’s my bad though, not to have realized that John Oliver’s opinion on the Chinese government is far more important than what Chinese citizens think.

[-] MarxMadness@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV

Mind sharing here?

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is just one reason out of many but it is the most representative one. The 80s-90s-early 00s in China was absolutely chaotic. It was not safe to be outside. The most dangerous jobs in the country were taxi driver, long-haul bus driver, and truck driver.

Taxi drivers got robbed and/or killed all the time, and there was even an informal “peak season” for taxi driver killings. I know a cab driver in Beijing, the older model cabs had a barrier that could be activated by foot. The idea was that you would flip the switch if someone was holding a knife to your throat and it would slam up and break their wrist. There was an interview with a medical examiner I saw a while back where she said she hated working in a semi-rural area because that’s where all the bodies of the taxi drivers would get dumped during the aforementioned “peak season”. Homicides in general around this time we’re through the roof relative to today.

For any moderate-length road trip it was almost a coin-flip whether you would be robbed and/or extorted somewhere along the way, possibly multiple times over. There were entire tiny villages that had their economy essentially built on robbing people passing by.

Things reached the worst point in the 90s. There were quite a few bus drivers who refused to work during peak travel season because encountering armed thugs was basically guaranteed. If the long haul bus you were on got boarded and robbed it wouldn’t even make the news. If your entire family got killed on a road trip that wasn’t newsworthy either. If an entire bus full of people got killed it would get mentioned in a summary segment at the end of the evening news. Oh, and calling the cops (or, more realistically, walking overnight to the nearest government office after you get carjacked to report it) was basically a meaningless token gesture.

In the mid-90s the government implemented the “严打” scheme which can be loosely translated as “maximum enforcement”. You can look up pictures from this time; banners were placed all over cities and villages saying that robbers would be shot on sight. Sometimes an ambush would be arranged where they would drive around a fake cargo truck packed with soldiers. However strange it seems to today’s China they would sometimes get into gunfights with robbers.

Around 2002 the government issued a statement that there would be not only be no criminal consequences for killing anyone who tries to intercept or rob a vehicle, but there would also be a financial reward. And unlike FBI rewards they actually paid out. This statement was plastered on every form of public transportation. The official advice was to keep going no matter who or what you hit.

Ancillary to this, traffic in general was a total disaster and basically nobody followed traffic laws. Partially because it was an open secret that you could just bribe the cops to get your license. There was basically no enforcement, although sometimes fake traffic cops would extort money out of you for some made up violation.

This is all within very recent memory (anybody born before 1995). Public safety made a complete 180 from ~2005 to ~2015. Chinese true crime shows went from being about murder all the time to being about guys stealing cones from the road. Nowadays getting robbed on the road is practically unheard of and would be front page news for months on end.

Now, obviously the improvement of material conditions contributed in large part to this, but the proliferation of CCTV technology is credited with this also. Especially in terms of improving clearance rates for solving crimes and basically ending the concept of the police chase in China.

If you go to bilibili and look at the comments of people reacting to the Fox “mass surveillance” segment it’s split between people mocking them for inflating the amount of the fine by 25% (and lying about getting one in the first place) and people talking about what life used to be like.

There is a good bilibili documentary on this. If I have time I’ll sub it and upload it here.

Of course this is not to say what they have in China is what we should aspire to, even in a hypothetical communist utopia. However if this is what Chinese people want for China then I’m not really in any position to say they’re wrong.

Also a little addendum here. Basically every official and their mother was corrupt in the 90s. This is also when the vast majority of many infamous wrongful conviction cases occurred.

The sheer level of corruption and nepotism in 90s-00s China would have turned it into post-soviet Russia 2 had the Xi camp not prevailed and started locking everyone up.

All told there is a reason why most Chinese gangster flicks are set in the 90s. Probably most famously the show 征服 (“Conquer”). China in the 90s vs. today is almost completely unrecognizable.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Huh. Today I learned. Goes to show why the Chinese government is trusted over the US. Taxi drivers still have one of the most dangerous jobs here in the States for the same reason it was dangerous in China. The difference is night and day, however. The only reason taxi murders have declined is because of digital payment, so they aren't carrying as much cash on them compared to the '80s and '90s.

The government has done nothing to protect taxi drivers, especially in areas where they're often immigrants and working class. Statistically, it's more dangerous than being in the US military, yet they don't get any recognition for it.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

There is a good bilibili documentary on this. If I have time I’ll sub it and upload it here.

Can you upload it on tankie.tube ? You can upload via link.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Fascinating. China really has changed more in the last 50 years than the US has.

The part about the official advice being to keep driving even if you hit someone because it could be a setup for an ambush reminds me that I remember reading some garbage on Reddit years ago about "in Chiba they hit and run you because evil communists"

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The part about the official advice being to keep driving even if you hit someone because it could be a setup for an ambush reminds me that I remember reading some garbage on Reddit years ago about "in Chiba they hit and run you because evil communists"

Ahh... classic reddit-logo I'm not sure if it's related to officials telling drivers to run highway-robbers over, but in China if you hit a regular pedestrian and then deliberately run them over again you are going from an insurance payout to the death penalty. I cannot recall a single instance of this actually happening that didn't involve preexisting feuds between the people involved or extreme road rage. It's definitely not to save money. So pretty much the same reasons drivers in other countries run people over on purpose. I'm sure they are deliberately misrepresenting government communiques from the highway-robbery era too. The government obviously never recommended that drivers run people over to save money, and they didn't actually change anything in the law. Chinese highway-robbers had zero qualms about killing you even if you gave them everything they wanted. Most of the time they wouldn't, but I doubt any driver was willing to take that bet. The 2002 statement didn't change the law, it just emphasized that running armed thugs over was considered justified self defense. This was necessary because there was a lot of ambiguity about how far you could go before it was considered overboard.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV but they always call me a sissypee shill before I get to that point.

I'd love to hear about that reasoning. It sounds very different from how I'd feel, but I'm in an ameriKKKan context where I hate that there's recording all around which the genocidal government of the Fourth Reich can use

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

See my reply to MarxMadness; happy to take any questions

[-] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Seriously, fuck John Oliver. Any self-proclaimed "leftist" who props him up gets the gulag once the revolution comes.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

the song

I didn't want it to be terribly long... tried to keep it less than 5 minutes but was having a lot of fun with that bridge. Worked on it all night and was tired as fuck by the time I was done.

Ended up being exactly 5 minutes.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

>log on to hexbear.net

>cracker mod accusing POC user of faking their race

>log out of hexbear.net

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

LMAO This person went full mask-off, tone policing people over being called "gringo." You can see it in the modlog and my post history. We need to shut down white people talking about race until we can figure out what's going on. 😂

[-] puppygirlpets@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

https://hexbear.net/comment/7180926

extremely normal behaviour

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

Also at one point they basically said “you’re too literate to be Chinese”

Levels of racism that usually gets someone banned within the hour, but not surprising coming from a self-professed expat.

逆天，难道英语流利就不是中国人了？ 傻逼二百五

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yea that was weird, especially the "your english is too good for you to be chinese" he has been removed now

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

Yeah the whole “true Chinese only speak in mysterious bureaucratic terms” was wild(ly racist). Calipers moment.

I was half-expecting to see the word “inscrutable” pop up at some point.

At least action was taken quicker relative to the last problematic mod

[-] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

At least action was taken quicker relative to the last problematic mod

Eh...they'd posted weird race essentialist shit about China before and didn't catch a ban

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

Unfortunately response time is measured in years so having anything done within half a decade is surprising… And actually, it seems like they just banned from the community and not the site, so I have to take it back, the clock’s still ticking

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

cringe Judas Priest, Xijinpingist... And I thought crackerism was dead...

[-] gramxi@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

I'm starting to think that white basketball players getting praised for their defense is just a way of letting me know that they play dirty as shit

[-] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

no deadass, watching the game yesterday was wild seeing hartenstein play like that and not get fouls called and all the yt people are trying to say ”that’s just good physical defense” but the second a black player gets physical they start trying to call them violent and all that

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

So I met this couple younger than I am who is expecting a baby. The husband is still using gendered/misogynistic language in the year of our Lord 2026 abeanismo dominoes AD. Okay whatever. White dude says white dude things and otherwise isn't chuddy. The wife, however, is Asian. And I'm thinking: "Oh no. Oh nonononono...buddy...pal...sister...if he hasn't done the work of not disparaging your gender, he sure as shit hasn't done the work of not disparaging your ethnicity."

EMPoC chat you've given me Baader-Meinhof for interracial couples lmao

[-] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

"For the first time, China's Supreme People's Court has banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in judgments, including the written terms in legal protections against discrimination.

The ruling acknowledges that insults and humiliation for these reasons can lead to punishment and compensation, that companies cannot discriminate in hiring, firing, or work environment, and that schools can be punished for bullying LGBTQIA+ students.

The Court stated that it will continue to standardize decisions on the rights of these minorities and will include human dignity and personality rights in the training of judges."

Watch the absolute crickets on western media on this as it was a few years ago on the court that ruled a lesbian couple could both be legally their son's mothers lmao just as the west destroys lgbt+ rights in their own countries.

Link here but it's in portuguese I just translated: https://x.com/npomvtt/status/2056814160399511856

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I always like looking into the biographies of non-Americans who got big in the states. A lot of millennial and Gen-Z personalities have a similar story:

“I grew up worshipping the country and its liberal values after watching Hollywood slop and/or being terminally online and having US social media shoved down my throat. I realized how backwards my people are and immersed myself even more in the slop until I started to speak American English with an American accent. Now I live in the greatest country on earth reaping the benefits of bending over to them”

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

...and even when you murder other minority groups in a mass shooting, they still aren't going to see you as white/American.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Funny thing is that most of the people saying that stuff are white Europeans.

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