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In a 5-to-4 vote, the court gave President Donald Trump the power to secure the country’s borders with argument to secure the United States of the dangers that Muslims pose to the country.
Executive Order 13769 – Executive Order 13769, titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, often referred to as the Muslim ban or the travel ban, was an executive order issued by United States President Donald Trump.
This order is in every sense an act of Islamophobia. Through this act, there is a reinforcement of the mistaken idea that every Muslim represents a threat, as they could be associated with terrorist activity.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/trump-travel-ban-countries-intl/index.html
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The first image was taken during the Japanese internment period (1942-1946) in the United States (no name of photographer)
The second image is from 1932 in the Northeast of Brazil (unknown photographer)
As we can see, both images show concentration camps. When hearing the word “concentration camps”, we are immediately drawn into thinking about the concentration camps during the Nazi rule in Germany. However, the Japanese incarceration in the United States and the Flagelados incarceration in the Northeast of Brazil demonstrate how there have been many other situations where concentration camps have existed. I am certain that if we were to search for other examples of concentration camps around the world, we would find many other cases. With this photo share, I would like to highlight how concentration camps might be more common that we were to expect. To do this I decided to share the example of the Brazilian concentration camps. The great majority of Brazilians know very well about the Nazi concentration camps which incarcerated milions of jews. However, the number of people in Brazil that know about the concentration camps in the Northeast is minimal. The same can be applied to the Japanese concentration camps. Many people, including myself, had never heard about these camps in the United States. As can be seen in image number 1, the Japanese Concentration camps show a very different reality by the images by Ansel Adams show in class. The Japanese and the Flagelados were groups of society which were looked down by the government. As a result, they were incarcerated; the japanese because they represented a threat because of the war, and the flagelados were incarcerated to avoid migration to the urban areas. As they were very poor and needed to look for jobs during the period of drought in the rural areas of the Northeast, they would move to urban areas. This started bothering the rich population in the cities, so the government created concentrations camps for the flagelados, where they were kept incarcerated under terrible conditions. Many of these people died of illnesses and bad living conditions.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/imagenshistoria2/posts/campos-de-concentra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-no-cear%C3%A1-no-nordeste-do-brasilna-tentativa-de-manter-os-r/184011375654829/
http://www.ebc.com.br/especiais-agua/campos-de-concentracao/
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1992_Tupac’s speech at the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement banquet
In this picture, Tupac is giving a speech at the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement banquet. Malcolm has had a great influence on the hip hop culture. Malcolm is still kept alive nowadays from the continuation of his form of activism till the lyrics on rappers songs. Tupac is one of theses rappers who was highly influence by Malcolm’s ideas. During the speech, Tupac talks about how he was raised by his mother, who washed dishes to provide for him as men were usually not around because they were killed, in jail, or abandoned their families. However, his mother overcame the the structures imposed for black women at the time and became a Black Panther activist. This played a great role in Tupac’s upbringing, as him and his mother were Malcolm X followers and activists. Additionally , Tupac says in his speech that it’s not time to “chill out” because these issues are still on and something needs to be done about it, especially for the new youth. He mentions the idea of “Black first”, this is: even though there are differences in the black community, the focus should be that “we are black first”, and that all black people should fight together to improve their life conditions.
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Like Malcolm did, the real Malcolm, before the Nation of Islam. You gotta remember: this was a pimp, a pusher and all that. We forgot about all that. In our striving to be enlightened, we forgot about all our brothers in the street, about all our dope dealers, our pushers and our pimps, and that’s who’s teaching the next generation. Because y’all not doing it! I’m sorry, but it’s the pimps and the pushers who’s teaching us. So if you’ve got a problem with how we was raised, it’s because they was the only ones who could do it. They the only ones who did it. While everybody else just wanted to go to college, and, you know, “everything has changed,” they were the ones telling you, “The white man ain’t shit. Here you go, check this out, young blood: You take this product, you switch it, you make money, and <i>that’s</i> how you beat the white man. You get money, and you get the hell up outta here.” Nobody else did that. So I don’t want to hear shit about nobody telling me who I can’t love and respect until you start doing what they did.
https://genius.com/2pac-speech-to-malcolm-x-grassroots-movement-annotated
