#meme #politics #racism #police #usa #hero #batman #white #oldwhitemen #government #nonazis #problem #humanrights #mask #fascism #fail #scandal #equality #crime #justice

♲ diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋 - 2026-05-10 08:28:47 GMT

Report: Israeli soldiers said the army ordered troops to kill any man they encountered in Gaza from Oct 7 2023.

“A man, no matter what age, don’t play games with it; kill immediately," were the orders. "We need to kill him - yes, even if he is completely unarmed.”

“They even told us that if it’s a woman or a child, use your judgment, because things happen."

middleeasteye.net/news/israeli…

#USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Racism #GazaGenocide #israeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #news #palestine ..

“This is Israel – where they celebrate birthdays by wishing death upon others.”

Diana Buttu writes about Ben-Gvir, the right-wing fascist Israeli minister who represents how genocidal Israeli society has become.

Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/israel-ben-gvir-no…

#israel #zionism #genocide #racism #us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #fascism

#KemiBadenoch says that the #UK was built on #FossilFuels.

But #Ecotricity founder #DaleVince dismisses Bad Enoch's fantasy. He says that the UK was "built on slavery, on racism, on colonialism, on Empire. We abused the rest of the world to be a rich country"

Dale Vince is of course entirely right. So his comments should be commonplace and unworthy of sharing.

But the UK has never de-imperialised. So Dale is on his own. 😡

#ukpol #BritishEmpire #colonialism #slavery #racism #imperialism

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📖📐 Artist Colette Fu combines #photography and paper #engineering to build oversized and one-of-a-kind pop-up #books.

Her work documents cultural #traditions and overlooked histories from #Yunnan Province to #Philadelphia. This Craft In America video shares how she constructs these complex moving #sculptures by combining simple paper mechanisms.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/pop-up-books-a…

#history #art #artists #china #community #crafts #culture #family #food #handmade #immigration #pennsylvania #racism #travel #tksst #video

Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

State’s governor has ordered congressional primary halted until state can redraw districts and dilute Black vote

#Louisiana #Primaries #Racism #Gerrymandering #ACLU #WhiteSupremacy #NAACP

How did the Enlightenment fail to stop two world wars, two nuclear bombings, the Holocaust, new wars, Trump being elected twice, and the collapse of international law?

#question #evil #crime #war #terror #Genocide #holocaust #worldwar #terror #trump #law #justice #humanity #humanrights #destruction #education #philosophy #ethics #problem #moral #future #collapse #civilization #nuclearbomb #enlightenment #fail #military #finance #hunger #poverty #fascism #racism #warcrime #abuse #exploitation #capitalism #epstein #EpsteinFiles #Epsteinfallout #EpsteinGate #politics #government #world #worldorder #collapse #doomsday #apocalypse #disaster #pollution #waste #democracy #society #people

BUT BUT TECH AND UI/UX ARE APOLITICAL!!!

just came across a post with racist asshats complaining that Mastodon will finally turn into Blacktwitter with quoted posts and i want to burn all the things down.

fuck those people and fuck everybody catering to their racist, white supremacist asses by refusing to add features to the software lest the UI/UX becomes too Black and Proud to handle.

#tech #racism #fascism #Mastodon #UIUX

‚The European Union is expanding its powers to track, raid and deport migrants to " return hubs ″ in third countries in Africa and elsewhere, quietly adopting tactics of the Trump administration that have drawn public criticism across the 27-nation bloc….‘

apnews.com/article/eu-migratio…

#GEAS #EU #Deportation #ReturnHubs #Migration #Refugees #Trump #Racism

"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…

#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .

"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…

#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .

The Darkest Files, a serious game about bringing Nazis to justice.

"A game about responsibility, justice and the struggle to come to terms with the past."

"The Second World War is over, but the perpetrators continue to live undisturbed. Under the leadership of Hesse’s Attorney General Fritz Bauer, you set out to solve forgotten crimes: you inspect files, interview witnesses, reconstruct the course of events and bring charges. Yet the judiciary and administration are still filled with former Nazis who will do anything to sabotage the investigations."

"The game is based on real, historically documented cases. The letters, files and statements are fictional, but based on actual events and people." >>
paintbucket.de/en/projekte/the…
#SeriousGames #nazis #WarCriminals #NeoNazism #antisemitism #racism #war #justice #WarCrimes #judiciary

DEVO - Beautiful World

youtube.com/watch?v=E-gbYjLd93…

for you
not me

#DEVO #BeautifulWorld #AltPop #Music #Reflection #World #Homogenization #BoughtCulture #War #Racism #Violence #Suffering #Warning #SystemChange #Politics

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Not so delighted to have some nut shouting "Traitor!" at me in downtown Austin after I refused to agree with his racist ranting about immigrants in the UK.

#Racism #Xenophobia

Ernst Haeckel (ca. 1866).

Source: New York Public Library

pdimagearchive.org/images/b661…

#exploration #race #eugenics #biology #darwinism #ceylon #science #boots #beards #colonialism #hats #racism #art #publicdomain

Future Generation in Danger D:

What deliberately makes our children addicted and threatens democracy with its hatred, fascism, and racism cannot be good for adults either.

#future #generation #youth #children #protection #security #bigtech #criticism #democracy #education #school #politics #society #adults #danger #warning #criticism #fail #economy #internet #online #health #smartphone #happiness #system #matrix #bullshit #humanrights #ethics #capitalism #worldorder #propaganda #fake #manipulation #brain #drugs #racism #fascism #nonazis #wtf #omg #problem #finance #election #vote #customer #user #cybersecurity

“There is a social cohesion crisis going on..."

"Labor accused of ignoring anti-racism plan as documents reveal repeated pleas to take action. Federal Labor has been accused of dragging its feet on a plan to combat systemic racism in Australia, nearly 18 months after it received recommendations from the human rights commission." >>
theguardian.com/australia-news…
#cohesion #RoyalCommission #hate #racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #dehumanisation #violence #Australia #HumanRights

Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia

"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent."

"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."

"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."

"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>

theguardian.com/society/ng-int…
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation

I'm watching a PBS documentary that describes in detail ~60 years in the late 1800s-early 1900s when those of Chinese origin were legally excluded from becoming American citizens...

omg the #racism & hatred were despicable.
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Note the court case in the image (see video in link below), which has particular relevance w/ #Trump 's attempt to revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants 👀

pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc…
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_…
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#USA #immigration #MyThoughts

This is the world we live in ...

#fake #deepfakes #propaganda #manipulation #search #internet #problem #meme #memes #politics #fascism #racism #future #hate #media #society #altright #fail #omg #wtf #knowledge #wisdom #smart #question

UPDATE - Gnome account blocked me!

I guess they don't like their comfortable zionism being questioned.

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@gnome

Please can you reconsider why

1. People from Iran are prevented from taking part

BUT

2. People from Israel are welcome.

This is pretty serious - and shows you have your values very very wrong.

And no, you can't hide behind a choose-your-own-sanctions-regime.

#zionism #tech #bias #racism

The Empire’s Old Clothes – Publication Launch and Screening 29 May 2026
18:00 backlit.org.uk/whats-on/the-em… BACKLIT, near #Sneinton Market. #Nottingham #England #UK #Art #Event "a short, non-linear film by Priya Mistry #whatsthebigmistry , that confronts the enduring myths and propaganda of the so-called #British #Empire.

Moving through histories of #eugenics, the invention of the #gender binary, #enslavement and #exoticisation, and the role of #technology from early #film #photography to contemporary AI, the work exposes how these legacies persist today, shaping experiences of #racism and #ableism in post-Empire Brexit Britain.

Both a provocation and an invitation, The Empire’s Old Clothes asks us to rethink and rewrite inherited histories, and to consider what it means to take action against racism."

Gaza "has been a complete repudiation of international law, the genocide convention, the UN charter, everything."

And it's tied to the climate breakdown. As people flee devastated areas, the tools used on the Palestinians "are being used on migrants, whether in Lesbos or on the Mexican border."

"The genocide in Gaza is a message to the global south":

"We will build our climate fortresses & we will stop at nothing."

youtube.com/watch?v=vThLmEH-U8…

#USPol #EUPol #ClimateCatastrophe #Racism #fascism .

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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands.

Refuse to work-->no parole
Join a union-->no parole
Go on strike-->no parole
Ask for wages-->no parole

Frosted Flakes
Ball Park hot dogs
Gold Medal flour
Coca-Cola
Dominos Pizza
Burger King
Kroger
Target
Whole Foods
Cosco
Walmart
McDonalds
Cargill
Tyson
Louis Dreyfus
Archer Daniels Midland

Much of this constitutionally protected slave labor occurs on former slave plantations, like Louisiana's Angola Prison.

apnews.com/article/prison-to-p…

#workingclass #classwar #prison #slavery #abolition #racism #BlackMastodon

#NoKings #Boston #History #Vote👇🏾

🇺🇸 A few photos from the No Kings Rally in Boston. Rejecting hate, misogyny, and authoritarianism is patriotism.

If you do one thing after today, register to vote.🗳️

#patriotism #equality #photography #peace #USA #Votingrights #racism #misogny

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Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: Oscar Quest ’25 continues! Once again we see how many among the latest wave of Academy Award nominees I can catch before the big ABC ceremony. Every year it’s a lively ballroom dance between new voices and For Your Oscar Consideration familiarity. Sometimes it’s two for the price of one.

Academy Award Winner RaMell Ross won that honorific with the live-action short film Hale County This Morning, This Evening back in 2019. This year the director scored another shot at the trophies with his first full-length feature, Nickel Boys — a period-piece drama about a subject familiar to longtime Oscar fans, not to mention historians and other decent folks still working and/or waiting for social sciences to discover the cure for American racism. To differentiate the film from past exemplars, Ross conducts an extended experiment with the narrative vantage approach that’s seemed revolutionary to scores of film critics whose only pastime is movies.

Based on the Colson Whitehead novel The Nickel Boys (they dropped the “the”; it’s cleaner), the film follows a pair of Black teens in the 1960s Deep South, where things go exactly as well as one expects. Ethan Herrisse (When They See Us) is Elwood, a well-read student whose promise hasn’t gone unnoticed by goodly people, including his loving grandma played by the indefatigable Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King Richard, The Color Purple, et al.). An opportunity that might lead toward a bright future is yanked away like a Lucy Van Pelt football when a wrong place/wrong time incident lands him in Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school. The white juvie offenders bunk in a plantation-style mansion and get trained in racist middle-management, while the Blacks are run out to a sort of shanty town and schooled using a sub-Walnut Grove curriculum. (Their first half-Mexican inmate poses quite the sorting stumper.)

The “student” body have already acclimatized to quasi-prison life, alternately bullying and dismissive. One kinder soul is a bit more welcoming. Brandon Wilson (The Way Back) is Turner, whose street-smarts offset Elwood’s book-smarts. Friendship comes quickly, with bouts of nurtured optimism versus inured pessimism, the merit of planning to make changes versus helplessly enduring the institutional oppression, and so on. Herisse’s eyes reflect a more deliberate, introspective approach, which makes Elwood slower to act, and thus the easier prey to their scapegoating bunkmates as well as to the white toadies. Wilson, the somewhat slicker of the two, balances their pairing with a rueful smile and a willingness to share some hope with his new friend, but not all the hope.

The duo’s chemistry forms a solid core for the tale, but they aren’t the center of our attention per se. Ross and his co-adapter, Hale County collaborator Joslyn Barnes, designed the entire film to be shot and experienced in first-person perspective. Every scene, every moment, every abuse, every feeling is filtered through the eyes of either Elwood or Turner. The intent is logical enough — to create and foster empathy by inviting us to walk a mile in their shoes and witness the events and the world through them. More than a few critics have absolutely adored this approach and hailed it as a revolutionary new form of filmmaking. Some apparently forgot or willfully ignored all the precedents — 1947’s Lady in the Lake, the M*A*S*H episode “Point of View”, Doom, Hardcore Henry, or, most voluminously, the entire multi-billion-dollar industry of FPS video games going back to Wolfenstein and its obscure predecessors. This all has, in fact, been done before. Not always done well, but still.

Ross’s approach is more nuanced than many as Our Heroes take turns steering (so, co-op play, then) through this harsh environment. (Although as racist institutions go, Nickel Academy seems pretty low-key and not exactly Southern Full Metal Jacket, until we learn more about the Deep Dark Secret out back.) At times he captures glimpses of wooded natural beauty in the periphery with faintest Terrence Malick echoes. Pop culture emerges for context and parallels — news updates about Apollo 8 (science marches on even while the South stays regressed), a reading of Stan Lee and John Buscema’s Silver Surfer (a superhero imprisoned far from his home and loved ones), multiple screenings of The Defiant Ones, including two entire scenes for prison-escape patterning. (My wife and I just watched it a couple weeks prior, which felt like an amazing coincidence till I remembered we saw it on Prime Video, proprietors of the MGM/UA catalog and Nickel Boys‘ distributor. Homages are easy when the tribute and the honoree are in the same corporate pocket.)

But that uncommon design becomes our focus. I’m observing how that affects the framing of what each guy chooses to look at, how Steadicam calm compares to frantic handheld shaky-cam, and so on. I began counting how many times we spot the POV character’s reflection in assorted objects, and found four in the first half-hour before I let it go. Some scenes lose clarity whenever they don’t know what’s happening around them (intentionally muddying their interpretation, I guess?). One sequence involving corporal punishment and machinery noise might or might not cross the line into torture, but it’s impossible to tell because they can’t bear to look, which means we can’t look. We’re supposed to feel their fear, but I’m too puzzled by such bits of Blair Witchery — too preoccupied with evaluating the gimmick.

This shot is from an actual scene, and not even among the first four moments with trick reflections in them.

We’re afforded a broader scope later on, in a series of flash-forward interludes that reveal more details that were unknowable within the teenage memories of one character buckling under the weight of past trauma and driven to search for closure and maybe even justice. But then the camera retreats from first- to third-person, fixed firmly and immovably behind the back of their head and shoulders. I’m reminded of one of my son’s favorite game series, Ratchet and Clank, and thinking that, had the game been shown entirely through Clank’s perspective on Ratchet’s back, we players would’ve gotten killed a lot by forces unseen, and would have missed out on the artistic excellence around us, unless we spent the game spinning around in circles instead of defending ourselves.

Again, I note the empathy angle, especially as a fan of empathy, but I lament the experimental distraction and why this was the story that deserved to be its guinea pig. I can’t believe this implies a lack of confidence in Whitehead’s work or in the film’s own actors. To a minuscule extent it prohibits an easy slide into violent poverty-porn. But honestly: were they worried that without the gimmick, the film might’ve been merely a pedestrian Afterschool Special? It would’ve been great to see our two leads interacting onscreen physically at the same time rather than simply shooting one-sided coverage for each other’s halves, but what we do feel of Herrisse’s and Wilson’s performances assures us their buddy-duo could’ve handled that challenge. As it stands…well, if nothing else, now we know which film critics aren’t double-proficiency gamers.

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Meanwhile in the customary MCC film breakdowns:

Hey, look, it’s that one actor!: Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs enters partway with significance. Reform school racists include Hamish Linklater (Legion, The Big Short) as an instructor and Fred Hechinger (Kraven the Hunter, Gladiator II) as a crew chief

Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) is Elwood’s inspirational teacher before his world got flipped, turned upside down. Fortunately Elwood finds that source of encouragement before lockup so it could provide an invaluable guiding light later and for the rest of his life.

How about those end credits? No, there’s no scene after the Nickel Boys end credits, which confirm a handful of VFX artists were involved in pulling off the FPS conceit. So now I’m unsure which mirror images were nifty camera trickery and which were Photoshopped into those scenes.

The Oscar Quest ’22 Grand Finale: All the Other Nominees I Could Catch

It’s that time again! Longtime MCC readers know this time of year is my annual Oscar Quest, during which I venture out to see all Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, regardless of whether I th…

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Midlife Crisis Crossover!

2024-02-02 04:31:58

In a Field Somewhere, Noticing “The Color Purple”

Remember what happens when you walk past purple in a field and don’t notice it.

Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: Oscar Quest 2024 continues! I’m still seeing how many of this year’s Academy Award nominees I can watch before the big night on March 11th. Used to be, I’d only hold myself accountable for the Best Picture nominees, but this is my fourth year trying to track down all works from all categories, even those with a single nomination to their credit. If I left the house to catch them in an actual theater, they get their own entry. That’s the MCC rule, no matter how much I might end up rambling.

That brings us to The Color Purple, the movie based on the musical based on the novel, not a movie based on the musical based on the movie based on the novel, because that would just be silly. The 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, directed by Steven Spielberg and written for the screen by a white Dutchman (one of three guys credited for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), was nominated for 11 Oscars but left the ceremony statueless. The latest version, from first-time feature-length director Blitz Bazawule (one of the co-directors of Beyoncé’s Black Is King) and screenwriter Marcus Gardley (The Chi, Foundation), has only a single nomination, tying with several other wannabe-luminaries such as the fifteen short films and Flamin’ Hot. But it’s still in the running.

I didn’t watch Spielberg’s version till a few years ago, because his early attempts at non-genre drama fell during my teenage years and therefore off my young geek radar. Viewed three decades after the fact, his adaptation was…fine, I guess? At the time I faintly recall hearing its earnestness seemed quaint even for the ’80s. Driving Miss Daisy didn’t yet exist to lower the bar, but it lines up with other works I’ve seen from the era in recent times like, say, Places in the Heart, though it doesn’t hold a candle to others (say, A Soldier’s Story). If nothing else I appreciated learning firsthand why folks were so excited about the big-screen debut of the up-‘n’-comer Oprah Winfrey, whose career trajectory arced much higher into the exosphere than virtually any other Best Supporting Actress or Actor nominee ever. It would’ve been twice the crowd-pleaser if it’d just been two solid hours of her Sofie putting abusive men and racists in their places, but that isn’t how Walker went about it, lest someone need to invent the term “Mary Sue” for her 10-15 years early. Instead Sofie’s is but one among the several examples that poor Celie slowly learns from during her lifelong evolution from victim to independent woman.

Beyond a certain point I’m not sure how much detail I need to delve into here, especially after American Fiction pointed out the guardrails on, shall we say, white effusiveness over such matters. If I may anyway: from this humble internet hermit’s amateur perspective, taking the story down a Broadway-lighted path was a brilliant idea…well, setting aside a sizeable stretch in the middle where everyone’s too miserable to sing. The stage-to-screen recreation drops us right next to the performers who bring bigger-than-life emotional swells, grand gestures, unstoppable rhythm sections, compelling presences, and big finishes amid some southern Black gospel revival (which doesn’t go on for hours but I’m sure could’ve long after the cameras paused) and of course a declarative ballad near the end for our heroine Celie (American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino) to soar upon to the heavens. I’m sure out there somewhere is a viewer who prefers Spielberg’s vision to Bazawule’s; if so, I don’t get them.

Of course, all that’s in between the early-twentieth-century survival-horror, the panoply of tales from the non-monolithic tapestry that is The Black Experience, and the novel’s exploration of sexual identity, a fleeting fragment in Spielberg’s version that’s upgraded here from a single kiss to “this one time in college” yet with a higher text-to-subtext ratio than the original producers perceived socioeconomically feasible in the ’85 mainstream. 38 years on (ow ow ow), this version airs in much different times (he understated) and has the added advantage of a filmmaker at the helm who might have a better sense of how far things can be pushed — with the story, the actors, the domestic violence that’d be too quickly written off as “poverty porn” by inured satirists. All told, this Purple feels…less tense, less hesitant, and less worried about blowback, even when no one’s at the mic.

No two Purples appear to use all of Walker’s components. The various alt-timeline versions — novel, Movie 1, Musical, Movie 2 — keep most events, differ on some, reinterpret here, skip there — but one bell’s rung the same in every corner across the Celie-verse: Sofie is the best. Not to take away from Fantasia’s Celie at all if I can help it, but Danielle Brooks (Orange Is the New Black, Peacemaker) brings a unstoppable-force gusto to Sofie, the same role that nabbed Oprah her Oscar-nom. Lightning’s struck twice, as she’s this rendition’s only nod. Though Sofie’s years of tribulation are utterly heart-rending even if you know they’re coming, Celie and the audience need a bold fervor like hers to get us through this world with families torn asunder, home-wrecking abusers, the perpetuation of vicious cycles, the racism that’s foundational to so much of the above, and, on a different plane of reckoning, the tragic disconnections between relatives who escape their surroundings and those they leave behind.

My only petty quibble is with the final fifteen minutes or so, when Purple veers away from the looming cliffs of period-piece Importance toward a relentless happy-ending festival where God smiles upon those who’ve been noticing all those pretty colors He festooned around the fields and rewards them with all their hearts’ desires, passing out round-trip plane tickets to every last prodigal child and booming “YOU get a reunion! And YOU get a reunion! And YOU get a reunion!” Nothing short of divine intervention or an earthly author’s approximation could organize a nexus that uplifting in the face of all the preceding chaos. Then again, that can be His way when we least expect it. One could argue it’s also the Broadway way.

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Meanwhile in the customary MCC film breakdowns:

Hey, look, it’s that one actor!: I’d be remiss in failing to mention Celie’s sister Nettie, whose absence across the decades haunts her more than any other crime committed against her. In their youth, Young Nettie is Halle Bailey from The Little Mermaid; much later on, Ciara cameos as Final Form Nettie. Taraji P. Henson (Person of Interest, Empire) rocks the plum role of Shug Avery, the legendary chanteuse whose homecoming inspires everyone and shows how her escape didn’t solve all her problems. Fear the Walking Dead‘s Colman Domingo (nominated separately for Rustin) takes over for Danny Glover as the ogreish Mister, whose sins ultimately render him justly pathetic. Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Walking Dead) is his son Harpo, following a tad too closely in Dad’s misguiding footsteps.

While Sofia and Harpo are on the outs, he makes time for a new flame he keeps calling Squeak, played by Academy Award Winner H.E.R. (for Best Original Song from Judas and the Black Messiah). For too-brief moments, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (last nominated for King Richard, now in theaters starring in Origin) is but the warm memory of Celie and Nettie’s mama.

Among the least detestable men is In Living Color‘s David Alan Grier (fresh off his appearance as Santa Claus opposite Eddie Murphy in Candy Cane Lane) as the town’s right reverend, preaching that gospel but letting his heart turn hard toward his daughter Shug because of (*gasp*) The Devil’s Music. For a time she consoles herself with a husband (and beard?) named Grady, played by Academy Award Winner Jon Batiste (for Best Original Score for Pixar’s Soul, now also nominated for Best Original Song from his own documentary American Symphony). Far worse men include Deon Cole (Black-ish, The Harder They Fall) as Alfonso, who watches out for Young Celie and Nettie after their mother’s death, but I wouldn’t call what he does “fathering”; and Academy Award Winner Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman) as Mister’s dad, Ol’ Mister, who confirms what runs in the family and/or gender.

The white people all suck, but loudest among them is the mayor’s lily-whitest wife, played by Elizabeth Marvel (House of Cards, Netflix’s Unbelievable).

And! There’s a special cameo by OG Celie herself, Academy Award Winner Whoopi Goldberg (don’t forget Ghost!), as a midwife for young Celie, helping birth this entire Kelvin-timeline divergence from the previous Purples.

How about those end credits? No, there’s no scene after The Color Purple end credits, but as one would expect in a Broadway adaptation, the music-credits section goes on and on. It doesn’t distinguish between the tracks from the original production and the new tunes added For Your Oscar Consideration. Whichever ones they were, they sadly didn’t make the category’s final cut.

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Unleashing the racist underbelly of society by opening the floodgates of hate and violence

There has been "a shift in online rhetoric after the failed voice to parliament referendum in 2023. The campaign and its subsequent defeat unleashed a racist underbelly in society after a toxic debate, political divide and community harm coalesced in a way that has yet to be undone."

“Before the Nationals [and Liberals] decided to oppose the voice in late 2022, I didn’t experience much racism online...It exploded around the time that the Coalition started to ramp up a campaign against it. It was like they had not only given permission to racists to attack Aboriginal people, to try and intimidate us, and to try and make us cower and not pursue what we thought was just and right … It was like the floodgates were opened.”

theguardian.com/australia-news…
#hate #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #violence #racism #Australia #HateSpeech

For years the German Secret Service tried to identify the people behind the racist platform whitedate - and accused the wrong person, causing her to loose her job at a Berlin university:

zeit.de/2026/11/whitedate-rech…

#antifaBleibtHandarbeit #racism #verfassungsschutz #VSlol

“New reports that #ICE🚨is moving around 100 vehicles from Minneapolis to Washington Co, MD are alarming.

I’m pressing for answers & will continue to fight back🚨against Trump’s #lawless ICE & mass deportation operation in our communities. This is not what Marylanders want.”
-Sen Van Hollen

#DHS #ICE #Detention #DeathCamps #TrumpRegime #PoliceState #StateViolence #Sadism #Racism #Fascism #Protest #NoKings #USPol
projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/…

#meme #free #freedom #justice #law #democracy #humanrights #ice #kidnapping #trump #president #migration #immigration #usa #america #politics #government #whitehouse #fascism #racism #protest #resistance #bunnyhat #children #kids #security

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ✊✨ John Lewis was just 20 years old when he began using peaceful protest to challenge segregation, a commitment to "Good Trouble" that helped reshape the #USA.

This #video follows his life from a student activist in #Nashville and a Freedom Rider to the youngest speaker at the March on #Washington and a longtime leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/j…

#activism #alabama #history #blackhistory #biography #civics #civilrights #education #georgia #government #law #president #racism #selma #supremecourt #tv #tennessee #voting #tksst

✊✨ John Lewis was just 20 years old when he began using peaceful protest to challenge segregation, a commitment to "Good Trouble" that helped reshape the #USA.

This #video follows his life from a student activist in #Nashville and a Freedom Rider to the youngest speaker at the March on #Washington and a longtime leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/j…

#activism #alabama #history #blackhistory #biography #civics #civilrights #education #georgia #government #law #president #racism #selma #supremecourt #tv #tennessee #voting #tksst

Tourette syndrome is a deeply misunderstood condition. Rena Zito, an associate professor of sociology, writes for @TheConversationUS about coprolalia — the involuntary offensive speech tic that John Davidson displayed at the BAFTA Awards — and why the word he used doesn't necessarily mean he's racist. "It’s like my brain weaponizes my most polite intentions and turns them into the cruelest things," one interviewee told Zito.

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#BAFTAAWards #TouretteSyndrome #JohnDavidson #Disability #Racism

"To be clear, the understanding for the neurological explanation shouldn’t negate or minimize the racist act that was displayed.

And for some Black people online, they feel as if that’s being missed from the broader online conversations.

They also expressed exhaustion for Black people always having to stay gracious in moments where they’re blatantly wronged."

I don't really have anything too useful to add here, but I do want to say that I stand in solidarity with Black people. ✊

theroot.com/why-black-people-h…

#news #USNews #BAFTA #racism

"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.

In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."

✊

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#community #environment #AI #GenAI #DataCenters #technology #racism #EnvironmentalRacism

#meme #politics #art #artwork #question #society #USA #America #Maga #president #Trump #WhiteHouse #government #justice #politics #humanrights #crime #fascism #racism #abuse #epsteinfiles #epsteingate #epsteinfallout #protest #resistance #fail #evil

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20…

#gardening #racism

Retoot if you agree.

#Trump #TrumpIsARacist #Racism

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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The campaign against Francesca Albanese

"This is a fight we must win. If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age" where those who stand up for the rule of law are relentlessly persecuted, & genocide is just another tool in the arsenal to crush the vulnerable

youtube.com/watch?v=godS-0hPQd…

#USPol #EUPol #Albanese #racism .

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"The billionaires' eugenics project"

An Epstein-funded group "cloaked eugenics, race 'science' & sexual misconduct in Ivy-League respectability."

The group called 'Edge' had token female members, who were excluded from men-only schmoozing, conferences & "Billionaire dinners":

"The Epstein files tell us [that] the men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."

thenerve.news/p/epstein-billio…

#USPol #EUPol #Epstein #news #racism #sexism .

If 2026 were a shopping mall, it would probably look like this. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaa…

#fascism #racism #manosphere #tradwives #democracy

"Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’."

"The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people."

How many more proof do we need for people to admit White supremacy is the greatest global threat?

nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/chil…

#racism #whitesupremacy #health #healthcare #children #usa #privacy #news #media #blackhistorymonth

Racists, you say? OK then ... some selections high on my Favourites playlist.

Pakistan: _Bol Hu_ by Soch featuring 8 year old Hadia.
youtu.be/KmErtNSs5ak

India: _Gadaar_ by Bloodywood
youtu.be/7iKjSCTxke8

Ethiopia: _War Pigs_ (Ahramaic cover) by uKanDanZ
youtu.be/8kVYdLjoyPE

Mongolia: _Wolf Totem_ by The Hu
youtu.be/jM8dCGIm6yc

Africa: _Bohemian Rhapsody_ (isiZulu cover) by Ndlovu Youth Choir
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ

That should about cover it. 😁

#USPol #Racism #WorldMusic

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