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Part 1 – Importance of women in the Haitian Society honoring Prof. Bayyinah
Bello, Marcia (Marisol) Baez of MUDHA and Marie Danielle Bernadin

Part 2 – Importance of women in the Haitian Society honoring Bayyinah Bello,
Marcia (Marisol) Baez of MUDHA and Marie Danielle Bernadin

Forwarded by Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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Zimmerman and how whiteness maintains the global oligarhs’ minority rule
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Zimmerman and how white supremacy works
“…Here’s how George Zimmerman’s acquittal worked the white supremacist’s US
system. George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert, told Bill Maher that George is not
white, could “NEVER be white.”  He identifies their mother as Afro-Peruvian
and his father as a US-born white, “our father is from German descent” he
says. This, to somehow show George Zimmerman cannot be racist.

When Bill Maher noted isn’t “Zimmerman” a Jewish name?  http://bit.ly/1dTrOKE
Robert Zimmerman, the family spokesperson, said something a bit enlightening.
Zimmerman “clarifies” that his white German ancestors changed their names to a
Jewish sounding name, like Zimmerman, presumably to “pass” as Jewish, so that,
as Robert explains it,  “not to be oppressed.”

What he says verbatim is that “some Jews actually changed their names to
Zimmerman in an attempt to hide from the Natzi back when they where  being
persecuted, he’s one of those of that, but of German descent.”  (OK. I am not
clear on this. I am wondering if those German ancestors he speaks of moved to
Latin America “not to be oppressed.” Or, wherever it was they moved to or
didn’t move to, if they weren’t Jewish, a question that comes to mind is, who
would oppressed innocent Germans and for what? Helping Jews? So they took a
Jewish name and that helped? But I digress.)

The point that’s pivotal here is that whites can pass as Jewish, not Jewish or
just be Germans as Zimmerman explains it. Trayvon could only essentially be
Black in America no matter his parents’ blood ties, national origin, choice of
identifications or culture.

Later on, the family publicly dropped the identification with Afro-Peruvian
and their Hispanic roots.

On Fox News, Robert Zimmerman “passed” the family as white for the benefits
that that provides in America’s injustice system. The family dropped the
emphasis and identification with being part African-Peruvian they were holding
up to show common ground with traditionally oppressed groups. The Zimmerman
family specifically said that they : “…chose NOT to publicly identify with
their Hispanic roots since the fatal shooting in order to emphasize self-
defense.” http://bit.ly/17lvXFf

In white supremacy America, that strategy works. Especially notable is that
Zimmerman’s white US-born father is a judicial officer in the US who probably
knows well the legal privileges of being white to that of part “Afro-
Peruvian.”

For instance, for Afro-Peruvians in Peru “racism remains so deeply ingrained
in Peru that many don’t consider the practice discriminatory.” (See, Lima:
Where the pallbearers are black http://yhoo.it/15rUo2M .) But as George
Zimmerman’s acquittal shows, certain non-black people of color definitely do
reap the benefits of anti-black racism too, both in the US, in Peru, mostly
all over the world.

Trayvon Martin had no such choices. He was Black and dead. He had been born to
a world and in a society that generation after generation imposes a
presumption of criminality on Blacks. Born in a world that conflates Black
with being criminal. http://nyr.kr/1332nQO  Whiteness plus the unevenly
applied Stand Your Ground Laws helped make the Zimmerman defense strategy a
slam dunk.

Blaming the victim, Trayvon Martin, is not justice. But it sums up the
historical relationship that Blacks have had with people in the US who hold
power. Statistics show, http://bit.ly/12x321j – George Zimmerman’s use of
deadly force, on an unarmed child that he provoked, is a criminal act mostly
when the victim is white.

Zimmerman provoked the fight and is responsible at law -if racism wasn’t
involved – for the consequences, for the death of Trayvon Martin. The double
standards are clear. The white perpetrators of crimes, especially in killings
of Black people, are still, in 2013, under Obama, more likely to get an
acquittal.

“I still don’t understand what Trayvon Martin was supposed to do,” Amy
Davidson writes in the New Yorker Magazine.  “There is an echo, in what people
say Martin should and shouldn’t have done, of what people say to women when
bad things happen to them in dark places.”

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