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The following applies to this blog as a whole:
Advertising: I make no money from this blog. Whatever advertising appears was put there by WordPress.
Images: I am not a professional photographer or anything like that. Nearly all images come from Google Images. Pictures are removed upon request: email me at abagond at gmail dot com.
Sources: I am not a scholar or anything like that. Most of what I know anyone can know, which is why I rarely list sources.
Balance: This blog is not “balanced”. It is written in relation to US and British media. I feel little need to repeat what they have paid professionals saying all the time, in particular all the wonderful things they say about White people and all the terrible things they say about Black people.
Scope: The scope of a post is set by the title and first paragraph. I limit my posts to 500 words, so depth and background come from yet other posts, some yet unwritten, some listed at the bottom of the post under “See also”, some found by adding “abagond” to a Google search.
Opinion: This is a personal blog. It is full of personal opinions. But
they are just that: personal. I speak only for myself. Anyone is free to
disagree with me (within the bounds of the comment policy).
Audience: I do not write this blog for White people. I write this for myself first, Black people second, people of colour third, and White people fourth. I live in the US, as do most commenters and lurkers, so this blog will tend to be US-centric. But anyone of any race or any nation who knows enough English is free to read and comment (within the bounds of the comment policy, of course).
Not anti-White: This blog is not against White people. It is against
White racism.
My racism: I am racist, but hopefully a recovering racist.
Your racism: If I call you a racist, it is meant as a bit of friendly advice, not as fighting words.
Not all Whites: When I say “White people” I do not mean ALL White people. That is not, like, a rule of English. But if what I say upsets you, you are likely one of those White people I am talking about. “White people”, by the way, mainly means the English-speaking sort, especially those in the north-eastern US, the kind I know best.
White people are not uniquely evil. I do talk about their evil more, but that is because of the part of history I live in.
Talking about racism is not itself racism. Know the difference.
Names of people not in the public eye have been changed to protect the innocent.
No animals were harmed in the making of this blog, except maybe some bugs. And the chickens, turkeys, fish, shrimp, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and possibly horses, that were killed for my non-vegetarian diet.
– Abagond, 2016.
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@abagond
Watch out, you don’t want to make enemies with the hardcore vegetarians.
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I’m not from USA. I’m from England (Liverpool) Home of the Beatles. You don’t make money from this blog ? I think that’s true for pretty much all wordpress blogs. But I guess the advantage of using a wordpress blog is that they get indexed in the search engines pretty quick,
indeed that’s how stumbled across this blog and the thing is, it’s gonna be a mofo, if you decide to now switch to a standalone blog, like from abagond.wordpress.com to (something like) combatingracism.com, then your back to square 1, and you’d have to climb up the rankings again and take regular readers with you and redirect all traffic from the tons of posts you’ve done.
But then again stand alone blogs can be a pain the ass and should only be used for people who want to make a living through blogging.
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Great post but most whites will always read through the lens of “whiteness.”
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Wait…you eat horse?!
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@ Laura M. Sands
I say “possibly” horse because of the rumours of Burger King and such of sometimes using horse meat. I have not knowingly eaten horse meat.
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How about dog meat? I hear it is udderly delicious with mushrooms and onions, lightly seared in a frying pan.
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Abagond
With all the work you put in here, don’t you think you deserve an income??
1 – Ask for donations!
2 – Maybe you should put your best (most responsive/controversial) posts/ideas in a book.
3 – Take your best thoughts and work to a youtube channel subscription …
Or, none of the above… it’s YOUR thing.
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In Japan, they have horse flavored ice cream
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I’ve spent some time thinking how all this blogging activity by Abagond will … hum… ah… yes… end!
Yes, because our dear host is not eternal and at some point he’ll have to give up maintaining this blog. What will happen then?
In all fairness I must add that after my contact with the writings of Frantz Fanon* and Albert Memmi, in my youth, and later other authors, reading this blog is the most complete exposure of mine to a fully systematic way of seeing the world through the lens of a free black mind. And it’s more complete than anything I saw before. Maybe because it’s backed up by the most modern means of expression: using of the Web to put quickly the ideas out to the wild and to enable real time or delayed debates of those ideas as a response; using of blog- and web-links to enable the unearthing of connections between apparently different topics or sub-topics under the same umbrella.
I would suggest that Abagond, at some point, moves all the richness inside this blog to a disc** format like the once in paper format existent Encyclopedia Britannica was, where all the above referred main aspects could be preserved… for coming generations of Blacks in America and other places to see (hum…like… our ancestors have already thought about those topics – Black beauty, Black Intelligence, White racism, Colorism, etc -, let us see to what conclusions have they arrived and start ourselves from those conclusions onward instead of starting from scratch!).
In my life peregrinations if I could isolate one single aspect where Black people worldwide reveal a persistent weakness is in their unwillingness to pause a little bit and look squarely and as objectively as possible at how race impacts their lives. Blacks want desperately to believe that it’s not about race, that others don’t see or treat them the way they did because they are Blacks. Better assume that it is about class than race. It’s more digestible, less definitive. Blacks also don’t show a reasonable amount of curiosity about the affairs somehow connected to them through race (A Black American doesn’t ask him/herself what happens in Africa beyond of what the media occasionally feeds him/her? Therefore he/she shows little interest in visiting the continent! A Black South African could hardly answer a single question about other African societies up north; they aren’t considered relevant for him/her! Most educated Mozambicans don’t even took notice of the fact that a Black ruled and owned economy like Nigeria became recently the largest in Africa and, linked to that, the wealthiest individual in Africa now is Black – not White or Arab! The same disinterest reveals itself in the way most Blacks look at Black history!
This is what must change first. Blacks must understand that no matter what they like to think, their blackness is a burden they will have to carry their whole life, in one way or another, at least, when it comes to interactions with members of other races.
Abagond’s blog – or what will come next at some point in time – will remain a very valuable starting point of this Black re-awakening process.
*Frantz Fanon was the first black author I’ve read until then, who took a decidedly black point of view in examining social matters. This attitude of him provoked in me a fundamental change: he taught me that it was possible to articulate a all system of thought taking a point of view different of the white point of view. And once I was exposed to that attitude it was not possible to go back to the way I saw the world.
**Disc format can be CD, DVD or more modern media like flash memories.
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@munubantu
I have to agree with you on that analysis.
I have encountered other “free Black minds” in print and on the web. What separates Abagond’s blog is the systematic and wholistic nature of the information he shares. From discussions about daily micro-agressions in the US to the Namibian Genocide, there is a wide range of subjects that people unfettered by Eurocentric blinders would find worthy of reading and learning. Even when you don’t agree, you are still prodded to think….and thinking is very important.
As for making some ducats with the massive amount of information Abagond has produced over the years, I think a link to a landing page with a series of e-books would be a great way to preserve the posts for posterity. Perhaps some Kindle and Nook books could round out the offerings.
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I would love to see all the post in a book or E-book.
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I LOVE your blog!!!!!!!!
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I do not think you have ever been racist.
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its more becoming than no such thing as reverse racism in my estimation. stuff just pops in my head every day, it’s a real process to rise above all that, it’s just accepted, its been patterend in everyone’s heads for decades. im working a project now at a conference — there’s like two black males, one asian woman out of about 120 ppl, all white males, haven’t seen that for a long time! the ish is real that abagond talks about
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Anybody who mistakes this blog for anything other than a place for you to speak your mind isn’t observant. When are you going to write that piece on African Christianity before its introduction to Europe?
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@ gro jo
I have not forgotten, but thank you for the reminder.
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This will become a top-level page, like the Comment Policy page:
Did this every happen?
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@ jefe
This has not gone up yet.
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