New Haven Stands With Ukraine

Isn’t “glory to ukraine! Glory to its heros!” the fascist slogan from Stephen Bandera’s (nazi ally and holocaust collaborator) political party? The slogan controversially reused by the ukranian military a few years ago? Which def doesnt have a nazi problem?

How come no talk about this?

The invasion of Ukraine and the moral conflict of sympathizing while Black
If you see Black people question their support for Ukraine, ask yourself what you'd feel in our place

Even in times of crisis, sometimes the oppressed can also be the oppressor. In the immediate, chaotic aftermath of Russia's invasion, the United Nations admitted that non-Europeans living in Ukraine experienced "different treatment" by military officers, border guards, and groups of civilians while trying to flee the country, While Ukraine was certainly not a racial utopia before Russia's invasion, it's disheartening to know that even in the midst of devastation, anti-Black racism can remain strong.Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., shared similar sentiments in a now-deleted post describing what she called "sickening" treatment of Africans trying to flee Ukraine. One CNN producer even claimed his own sister, who is from Sierra Leon, was subject to racism while on a daring journey to escape Ukraine and enter Poland.While people scramble out of the country, the Ukrainian military divided people into groups of white and non-white, one Afro-Ukranian resident alleged. Grace Kass told Time that "she and other African women were forced to wait outside as snow was falling, while white women and children were allowed to board before them.

https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1010806/the-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-moral-conflict-of-sympathizing-while

New Haven for the most part is brainwashed and will stand with whatever they are told to stand with. Onto the next spotlight Ukraine. Covid is out and Ukraine is in. I guess Saudi Arabia and Yemen not so much interest in. Not shiny enough.

Governor Lamont must order DOT to light the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge blue and yellow, to show the state's solidarity with Ukraine, and to remind the public about this war. DOT currently says that doing so is not consistent with policy, and the governor's office parrots this. But don't buy it: a couple of years ago the bridge was lit green for St. Patrick's Day, and it was lit red during the pandemic to honor health care workers.
Please sign this petition: https://www.change.org/PearlHarborMemorialBridge_ForUkraine

More people would've shown up had this been publicized.

HH, I somewhat agree with you but through a different lens. Yemen and Syria aren't predominantly filled with white people and therefore don't garnish the attention of Republicans.

Well Robn, Ukraine has garnered more media in a couple weeks than 8+ years of slaughter in Yemen. The overwhelming majority of media isn't Republican but you had to toss that in there. Ukraine, Covid and whatever the next flavor of the month may be is all about the elite versus the masses. It isn't Blue/Red, Dem/Repub, Black/White it's all about control. Once you look at things from the perspective of being an average person versus that of the elite all this division subsides and clarity will come to you.

If Putin wins in destroying and annexing Ukraine, then he will come for other neighboring border countries they were once under the control of the Soviet Union. Then who knows where he will go on to next, once he is emboldened by victories that the world has permitted to happen.
The world can not allow that to happen.
World leaders are being far too hesitant and timid about taking action to help Ukraine, because they don’t want WW3, and they don’t want the political fallout of higher gas and oil prices, and therefore the rising prices of everything else that depends on fuel for transportation, if Europe and America stop buying Russian oil and gas.
But the price we pay in the loss of human life, the increased power of Russia, and the world’s instability caused by the fall of Ukraine are far too high a price to pay.
We also need to insist that all evacuees be treated equally. We must tell the president of Ukraine that if his country’s officials at trains stations and border crossings continue to discriminate against non-European refugees, that we will withhold some aid. They should prioritize children and the female relatives of those children, the elderly and disabled and their relatives who provide care for them, and then single women unaccompanied by children, and then men, regardless of nationality or race or religion. The most vulnerable and least able to fight should be the only consideration of priority, not prejudice and discrimination.

remarra: If we are to change the policy, surely we need to limit it to showing solidarity with fair Europeans, and leave out BAME people like those in Yemen, Tigray, the Sudan, Myanmar, etc. We need to approach this matter as we do child abductions: pay attention to abductions of fair girls like Smart and Ramsey, but pretty much ignore the darker girls from places like Bridgeport, whose names I have forgotten already, largely b/c they got so little press.
Robn; Yes, it's all Trump's fault. The media love him too much.

@MarkS

Yes, they used it, but it's been a popular Ukrainian nationalism slogan since WW1 and the provision Ukrainian states that existed back then. I'd also point out that Ukraine has a lesser percent of far-right parliament members than a good deal of European nations

When PBS NewsHour interviewed 'heroic' mayor of Konotop, Ukraine last week they had to blur the portrait of Bandera hanging in his office.

Haven't heard from Alder Brackeen once during COVID, unlike other Alders who send out weekly/monthly email updates. Yet, here he is again discussing world issues...

And, yes, MarkS, that is a line from a 19th-century poem that was used as a slogan for the Ukrainian Fascists that joined the Nazis in the assault on the USSR.

Thank you THREEFIFTHS! Watching the inhumanity at the trains, buses and borders was shocking!! In the middle of a crisis of that level to separate others to die!! Gov.Lamont has announced Connecticut will welcome Ukrainian refugees. WE DON'T WANT WHITE SUPREMICISTS HERE!!!! We are fighting our own racial battles.

Putin is bombing hospitals and apartment buildings. reminds us of when he did the same in Syria and Chechnya.

Let's do a little thought experiment... Imagine Russia, China and Mexico formed a military alliance in order to protect against U.S. aggression. (How many countries are we bombing and occupying? I can't keep up, seems we just started bombing Somalia again?) Russia and China then trained the Mexican military, and provided weapons and missile installations along the U.S./Mexico border to protect their ally. They are also in talks with Canada to join this alliance. What would the U.S. reaction be? If your answer is anything less than WWIII, you're not being honest with yourself.

This is what the western nations have been doing; Expanding NATO toward Russia's borders and requiring these new members to build up their military. Ukraine was one of, if not the last, neutral nation on Russia's western border. At the end of the "cold war" western leaders repeatedly assured Russia that they would not expand NATO "one inch to the east". It didn't take long for them to weasel out of that commitment.

Things are nowhere as simple as we are being told to believe. We never stop meddling where we don't belong because it is extremely profitable for a certain class of people.

I stand with all innocent victims of military aggression.

It's obvious Putin is only interested in the land to expand Russia, after losing it during the Soviet breakup! He has little regard for human life! However, it seems to be a world problem with the dominant Brown and Black people of the world with the various caucasoid ethnicities in Western and Eastern Europe.