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Forty-five years after American troops murdered men, women and children in a village in Vietnam, LIFE.com bears witness to the horror by republishing the story of My Lai as it ran in LIFE 20 months later
(Ronald L. Haeberle — Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The My Lai Massacre is an iconic 20th century event which reflects the USA’s attitude toward Asia and Asian people. On March 16, 1968, roughly 500 unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of Son My — mostly women, children, babies, and the elderly — were massacred by US troops. Many of the women were raped and some were gang-raped before being mutilated and dumped in ditches. Three US soldiers attempted to halt the massacre and were denounced in US Congress as traitors.
In my opinion, part of the contempt we see toward Asians from some US Americans (including from some other people of color who are supposedly anti-racist) is a manifestation of this political history, which also includes: (1) the invasion and colonization of the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa; (2) the internment of Japanese Americans; (3) dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; (4) the invasion and partition of Korea and the establishment of a permanent military base; (5) the destruction of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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Look I got right I got a plan
so I make a stupid ass self promotional website give up my government name and keep it pushing
and proceed to see how much i can make i nstitutions pay for me and WOC to eat good cake off and expand discourse ethically
Oh well YOLO
I want in.
Me daba miedo que te olvidaras de mí. Nunca pensé que debía de tenerle miedo a olvidarme de tí. Te estás borrando.
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illegal plum pudding: cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult”...
cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult” conversations between women of color where the Mean Hateful WOCs were told by the Civil and Constructive WOCs under no uncertain terms that they had no use of the Mean Hateful WOCs.
and many of those Civil and Constructive WOCs are…
Oh just to clarify , as the source of the love each harder line specifically, that is not what I personally meant at all. There are some WOC I will not fuck with at all because of what you wrote about.
oh, i KNOW mamita, i toTALLY didn’t mean to imply that you’re original thought was all, OMG we should just love each other! lololol—but i’ve seen it getting farther and farther from the grounding that you situated it in, so that certain construtive WOCs are using it, and nope, i don’t feel that shit, sorry.
TOTALLY sorry!!!!
Awww man I hate when my words get all appropriated and twisted. I’m not here to hold hands and sing with anyone. Pero need for you to be sorry. If people are twisting it to just love each other la la la then they are really missing the whole point.
You said it well.
Since I wrote the post, I want it to be clear when I used “love harder” I also meant it as Mala said it, used the quote with her permission, sent it to her and others before it hit the streets. I definitely don’t want anyone appropriating her shit at ALL and I don’t want anyone to think I used it without asking. And let me make it clear—I second everything written here by IPP. The loving I’m talking about is about anger and speaking back and also loving ourselves enough to sit back and to close the door on anyone (woc or not) who is not doing that and not about that life or doing us violence. And IPP is right—there is a problem when that post is seen as somehow more legitimate than the work by Black Amazon on Twitter which brought #FemFuture to most of our attention in the first place. That was seen as “angry” too as a way to de-legitimize it.
Yes yes and yes.
illegal plum pudding: cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult”...
iinventedeverything:
mamitamala:
iinventedeverything:
cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult” conversations between women of color where the Mean Hateful WOCs were told by the Civil and Constructive WOCs under no uncertain terms that they had no use of the Mean Hateful WOCs.
and many of those Civil and Constructive WOCs are…
Oh just to clarify , as the source of the love each harder line specifically, that is not what I personally meant at all. There are some WOC I will not fuck with at all because of what you wrote about.
oh, i KNOW mamita, i toTALLY didn’t mean to imply that you’re original thought was all, OMG we should just love each other! lololol—but i’ve seen it getting farther and farther from the grounding that you situated it in, so that certain construtive WOCs are using it, and nope, i don’t feel that shit, sorry.
TOTALLY sorry!!!!
Awww man I hate when my words get all appropriated and twisted. I’m not here to hold hands and sing with anyone. Pero no need for you to be sorry. I’m glad you’re calling shit out. If people are twisting it to mean just love each other la la la then they are really missing the whole point.
You said it well.
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illegal plum pudding: cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult”...
cuz i’m just gonna say it, yeah, we had those “difficult” conversations between women of color where the Mean Hateful WOCs were told by the Civil and Constructive WOCs under no uncertain terms that they had no use of the Mean Hateful WOCs.
and many of those Civil and Constructive WOCs are…
Oh just to clarify , as the source of the love each harder line specifically, that is not what I personally meant at all. There are some WOC I will not fuck with at all because of what you wrote about.
illegal plum pudding: and i want to be clear, i am *extremely* upset by certain discussions...
and i want to be clear, i am *extremely* upset by certain discussions being had by other women of color, but i am talking about how 1. our relationships with each other, that are messy and hurtful and long and (very often) loving and built on solidarity are being used against each other as they…
Reblogging for relevance. Click above to read the entire post.
Shelley Young on DAY 10 of her fast to protest the Made In Nova Scotia Process that will terminate all Treaty Rights for the Mi’kmaq people if passed through, we are currently fighting against the elected Chiefs and the Nova Scotia Government to opt out of the process.
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