the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

He knew that successful revolution against settler rule was a possibility, and that in a land governed by ex-slaves the fate of the former slave-masters would be hard. As he put it: ". . . a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events . . . ." That is why, as U.S. President in 1791, he viewed the great Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouverture as a monstrous danger. His Administration quickly appropriated relief funds to subsidize the French planters fleeing that island.

Jefferson's agile mind came up with a theoretical solution to their 'Negro problem"—gradual genocide. He estimated that returning all slaves to Afrika would cost Amerika $900 Million in lost capital and transportation expenses—a sum 45 times the annual export earnings of the settler economy at the time! This was an impossible cost, one that would have bankrupted not only the planters but the entire settler society as well.

President Jefferson's solution to this dilemma was to take all Afrikan children away from their parents for compact shipment to the West Indies and Afrika, while keeping the adults enslaved to support the Amerikan economy for the rest of their lives. This would theoretically generate the necessary profits to prop up the capitalist economy, while still moving towards an all-white Amerika. Jefferson mused: ". . . the old stock would die off in the ordinary course of nature . . . until its final disappearance." The President hought this Hitlerian fantasy both "practicable'" and "blessed".

It is easy to understand why this fantastic plan never became reality: the oppressor will never willingly remove his claws from the oppressed so long as there are still more profits to be wrung from them. Jefferson himself actively bought more and more slaves to maintain his pseudo-Grecian lifestyle. As President he signed the 1808 bill allegedly banning the importation of new slaves in part, we suspect, because this only raised the price he could obtain from his slave-breeding business.

Jefferson gloated over the increase in his wealth from the birth of new slaves: ". . . I consider the labor of a of new breeding woman as no object, and that a child raised every two years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring man." It sums matters up to note that President Jefferson, who believed that the planters should restrict and then wipe out entirely the Afrikan colony. ended his days owning more slaves than he started with.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

It's ultimately idiotic to whine over how many red cards were awarded in a match a or *squints eyes* whether Bellingham suffered from homophobia I guess??? When this is the picture that went around the world. This was the cover of multiple journals, it was plastered all over social media just yesterday. This scares Milei, scares the British government, scares FIFA, and it scares all fascists. I don't think we're appreciating it enough.

This visibilizes a cause we've been seeking justice over for the last 44 years while the world undermined it. This is one step towards making everyone aware of the dark bits of history that everyone is ignorant to. It's not just Malvinas. It's the U.S. backed military dictatorship that sent all those hungry teenagers to fight trained soldiers. It's the mourning that surrounds us every day. It's what makes us relentless and hungry for the fight. Both on and off the pitch.

I don't think we appreciate enough just how revolutionary the consequences of this will be.

This is what happens when famous people use a massive, international platform to speak out against injustice in the world.

FIFA, England, Trump, Javier Milei: the world is watching. And what they've seen cannot be unseen. And what they read cannot be unread. And this picture will live in the history books and the minds of football fans for ages.