Zora Burden interviews SHARP founder Marcus Pacheco on reclaiming the skinhead subculture, confronting racism in the 1980s NYC, and pushing back against media myths about skinheads that are still prevalent even today.
Zora Burden interviews SHARP founder Marcus Pacheco on reclaiming the skinhead subculture, confronting racism in the 1980s NYC, and pushing back against media myths about skinheads that are still prevalent even today.
My latest Modern Library essay is now up. This one tackles C. Vann Woodward's great volume on Jim Crow and had me digging through a lot of digital archives, including a Black journalist in 1885 who reported that he was treated better in the South than the North. The upshot is this. Unjust laws and corrupt institutions encourage people to give into their worst instincts. History reminds us that we have a duty to fight both.
https://www.edrants.com/the-strange-career-of-jim-crow-modern-library-nonfiction-70/

The great C. Vann Woodward not only offered a vital and far more sophisticated view of Jim Crow and the South than most of the historians who became before, but he also demonstrated the dangers of how unjust laws and corrupt institutions can galvanize the most repugnant qualities within Americans when their natural instincts lean into the very reverse.
"Matter Is Generated From Life" Prabhupada quote applied to Digital Cameras and Eastman Kodak Brownie Cameras / NonDigital Cameras:
"Matter {Digital Cameras} Is Generated from Life {Eastman Kodak Brownie Cameras / NonDigital Cameras}"
💥Announcement! Wednesday 22.04.2026💥
🔥✊🏾Against racist attacks at Friedensburg Secondary School✊🏾🔥
Wednesday, 22.04.2026 | 11:30 am | Friedensburg Secondary School, Goethestraße 8, 10623 Berlin
Arrival: U2 Ernst-Reuter-Platz | Bus M45, 245 Steinplatz | Bus M49, X34 Savignyplatz
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16776 - @solidneukoelln
“Free Kurdistan – Free Rojava” appears one morning in March on a wall at Friedensburg Secondary School (FOS). The slogan is not out of place anywhere.
But for the teachers, it is. And without giving it much thought, they accuse a student of colour, one of our comrades, a Palestinian.
The graffiti looks “like his sort of thing”. They take away his worksheets, wanting to compare his handwriting. Simply because it somehow looks like him.
What does something “look like him”, anyway?
And what exactly is the crime here? The graffiti, or his background, his appearance?
The suspicion cast on our comrade is part of a long-standing pattern of racist harassment, which we condemn and will fight against.
We stand in solidarity with our comrade against any form of racist attack, whether by teachers, the police or anyone else!
Jamie Schearer-Udeh and Timo-Lia Galbenis-Kiesel in their April Newsletter:
3 Things to Consider Before Starting Anti-Racism Work
1. Ask who becomes vulnerable the moment you start
2. Honestly assess your leadership team's capacity to hold this work
3. Build protective structures first and ground them in accountability, not discipline
Full text of this newsletter and other highly recommended editions here:
https://www.relate-and-transform.org/newsletter
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