people talking abt the juggalo shit aren’t woke enough to know about when the ICP were investigated for “gang activity” because they were mobilizing too many indigenous teenagers.. one of the dudes in the band is cherokee and they’ve been making what’s essentially violently antifa music this whole time………. like obviously they’re a weird band but just because something is weird or a lot of poor people like it doesn’t mean it’s a complete writeoff or a joke
like you’ve got a massive community full of people who are ready and willing to combat fascists and ur first response is “looooooooool” because….. idk they’re into very tame shock music edgy stuff and u can’t get over that?? like aside from being shallow and mean u all truly are normies …. smh
The whole reason they’re marching in Washington is because the F.B.I. and Department of Justice listed Juggalos as a “loosely organized hybrid gang” in their 2011 Gang Task Force report. They (the FBI and DOJ) have used this designation to target anyone with band affiliation, and a lot of people who got into being Juggalos were poor and already disenfranchised by the system (I don’t have numbers on queer or PoC members, but I’m willing to bet it’s higher than average because those categories tend to overlap). ICP’s legal team has testimony from thousands of people who have lost custody of their children, been fired from jobs, denied access into the armed forces, and the most common consequence — being officially labeled as a gang member by law enforcement agencies for wearing Juggalo related clothing or brandishing one or more Juggalo tattoos.
They’ve challenged this designation twice and twice it’s been thrown out before it even got to a court. So yo, support your local Juggalo, they’ve been fighting for you the whole time, and it’d be kind of nice to return the favor, ya?
In this time of pain and self-doubt, we must remember our legacies of resilience and uprising. We must remember our collective moments of triumph, to which I offer the power of indigenous resistance seen in Leith, North Dakota four years ago.
In 2013, notorious neo-nazi Craig Cobb began to buy up land plots in a desolate, rural North Dakota town in the center of indian country. Despite his wild and unsavory dreams to create an all-white utopia in the middle of nowhere where him and his neo-nazi klan could thrive in peace while subduing the local native populations with intimidation tactics, our relations proved that it would be a cold day in hell that natives simply roll over and take shit from white devils. Members of local reservations banded together, showing up in the hundreds to stare down these genocidal terrorists and chase them off their territory, thwarting attempts to build the “Village Of The Damned.”
It’s been hundreds of years and white nationalists, klansmen, neo-nazis, náápiikoaiksi, and white devils have never stopped attempting to smear our own red earth clean of our resilience and culture. But there is power in numbers, and when we lean in, hold each other tight, and bite back, we can chase these demons out. If you are alive today despite acts of genocide, colonialism, enslavement, abuse, degradation, conversion – you are acting in resilience. Your ancestors would be proud. I am proud. Do not lose hope.
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