Minneapolis-St. Paul transit police are especially hard on American Indians.
White Transit Riders Get Warnings, Black People Get Tickets | Huffington Post
Sigh… Of Course.
Category: Race,
Wrongfully convicted Brian Banks disgusted by Brock Turner ruling
“I would say it’s a case of privilege,” Banks said. “It seems like the judge based his decision on lifestyle. He’s lived such a good life and has never experienced anything serious in his life that would prepare him for prison. He was sheltered so much he wouldn’t be able to survive prison. What about the kid who has nothing, he struggles to eat, struggles to get a fair education? What about the kid who has no choice who he is born to and has drug-addicted parents or a non-parent household? Where is the consideration for them when they commit a crime?”
Wrongfully convicted Brian Banks disgusted by Brock Turner ruling – NY Daily News
Grrrrrrrrrrr
A Doctor Says Because She’s Black A Flight Attendant Didn’t Let Her Help A Sick Passenger
What useless little c*nt-rag waste of oxygen the Delta employee is.
How horrid! Her prejudice could have endangered the life of one of her passengers. Delta needs to not only ditch but the bitch but make a big ass example out of her so any other idiot bigots hiding among their employ know better than to act on how hateful and stupid they are in their tiny, trashy little minds.
Watch Nicola Sturgeon’s powerful rebuttal to anti-immigration rhetoric
The First Minister of Scotland told MSPs they were privileged to have “new Scots” among them.
Watch Nicola Sturgeon’s powerful rebuttal to anti-immigration rhetoric
nice.
makes people like Gov. Maggie Hassan look even more like racist, sell-out, Trump supporting, xenophobic assholes in comparison.
From ‘Locker Room Talk’ to ‘Muslims Report Stuff,’ the Internet Strikes BackYork Times
Another prominent thread began after Mr. Trump answered a debate question about Islamophobia from an audience member, Gorbah Hamed, by saying: “We have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on. When they see hatred going on they have to report it.”
From ‘Locker Room Talk’ to ‘Muslims Report Stuff,’ the Internet Strikes Back – The New York Times
I was watching the debate and when Trump said the bit about reporting things I turned to my Peanut Gallery co-conspirators and said,
“Yeah, I totally know what he means. Except, I think it is white mostly-Christian people who need to start doing that instead. I mean, I get nervous when I see a single white male walk into a movie theater. What is that bulge around his waist? Is it a gun or a spare tire? Those people can go crazy at the drop of a hat, man. We need to start reporting when white men act weird or do something to threaten our national security.
…Speaking of which. IS there a number I can call to report Trump?”
Donald Trump Says Central Park Five Are Guilty, Despite DNA Evidence – NBC News
Wading into a racially-charged case from his past, Donald Trump indicated that the “Central Park Five” were guilty, despite being officially exonerated by DNA evidence decades after a notorious 1989 rape case.
The five men were convicted as teenagers after implicating each other under intense questioning over a brutal sexual assault on a jogger that dominated the tabloids. Defenders said they were coerced into confessing and all five were later cleared by DNA evidence and a separate confession in 2002 from another criminal who took credit for the assault.
New York paid them $41 million in a settlement in 2014 over their ordeal.
Donald Trump Says Central Park Five Are Guilty, Despite DNA Evidence – NBC News
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with him???!
Donald Trump is normalizing bigotry
His campaign manager’s website publishes an anti-Semitic screed.
Donald Trump is normalizing bigotry – The Washington Post
Sigh…
Teachers Union Claims The ‘Trump Effect’ Is Warping Kids’ Minds
The National Education Association says Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant stance is emboldening schoolyard bullies.
Teachers Union Claims The ‘Trump Effect’ Is Warping Kids’ Minds | Huffington Post
And adult sized bullies too.
…Which makes it all the more important for our elected officials to display principled leadership on race and immigration. Anything else is fueling the fire that is the unruly mob.
Why Black Lives Matter
Systemic racism is the most defining civil rights and social justice issue of our time. We ask you to join us in not being complicit in the face of this injustice.
Why Black Lives Matter | Ben & Jerry’s
hmmm
Duckler: When taking a knee means you’re standing up tall
Duckler: When taking a knee means you’re standing up tall
The reactions this young man has endured because of his peaceful protest are a prime example of why we need better leadership than the kind who are willing to drape the flag of nationalism over their xenophobia and call it patriotism or acting in the interests of national security.
Ghana Will Remove ‘Racist’ Gandhi Statue From Its Oldest University
Professors and students at the University of Ghana called the statue “a slap in the face” because of Gandhi’s “racist identity.”
…The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Africa as evidence that he advocated for the superiority of Indians over black Africans. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory term kaffir to refer to native Africans and criticized the lack of statues of African heroes and heroines on campus.
Ghana Will Remove ‘Racist’ Gandhi Statue From Its Oldest University | TIME
hmmm
maybe white pushback against the African American History Museum is about something more
When we, as white people in this country, say a museum of African American history doesn’t tell our stories too, we’re lying. It does. It just tells stories that don’t put us in the best light, stories that show our ancestors on the wrong side of history, stories that we’re simply not proud of.
Maybe your story isn’t like mine. Maybe your ancestors weren’t here at the beginning of this nation. Maybe you want to shrug off our racist past as not being your own. If so, I get that. But I’d also challenge you to think about the privileges we – all white people – get when people who look like us have held the most power in politics and business and churches and education and more in this country. That history is why skin-colored bandaids are made to match us while I have to special order ones for my black children. It’s why shows that feature people who look like me are simply called shows but ones that feature a primarily black cast are called black entertainment. It’s why, out of the top 500 grossing companies in our country, only 5 have black CEOs while the vast majority look like me (or, more accurately, my husband). It’s why for the past 21 years, only 10% of children’s books included multicultural content while it’s easy for white children to see themselves reflected there. It’s why, even in 2003, the same resume from a stereotypically white-sounding name got 50% more callbacks than an identical resume from a stereotypically black-sounding names. I could go on – as this famous piece does – but I think I’ve made my point. Even if your ancestors didn’t engage in the racist acts that mine did, the benefits of white privilege afforded to me are also available to you.
African American history is American history. It is. But as white people have historically gotten to write the history books and control the biases there, we have been able to rewrite stories to favor us a bit more. (One reason black homeschooling is on the rise, in fact, is this failure for public schools to teach history through anything but a Euro-centric lens.) For example, one textbook recently raised eyebrows by referring to those brought by the slave trade as immigrant “workers” with the implication that they were paid or came by choice. Even the misunderstandings about slavery’s role in the Civil War can be traced back to textbooks whitewashing our history.
Damn girl, just dishing out truth and reality check left and right.
Good on ya, Sister!!!
John Walker rejects city apology for arrest during filming of police
State Rep. John Walker rejects the city’s apology for his arrest yesterday and complains at the city’s decision to pursue a charge against an associate in his law firm.
Cheers, Rep Walker!
At Debate, Hillary Clinton Spoke to Black Voters Using Language of a Movement
During the forum Monday night, she adopted a lexicon that has been embraced by a new generation of young black activists and liberal whites.
At Debate, Hillary Clinton Spoke to Black Voters Using Language of a Movement – The New York Times
hmmm
Culture Norms and Its Interaction With Race
Culture is how we pass information about our world across generations. It’s why our children speak our language, it’s how they learn from us. Culture is why some humans eat with a fork, and some eat with chopsticks. Culture explains why someone standing really close while they talk to you might feel threatening to a European, but comforting to a West African. Culture defines what acceptable volumes are when speaking, and how women are expected to act in social situations.
Culture defines all of our social expectations, but also our social prejudices. Every single thing we do and say, we do and say in the context of our culture.
Now, making a culture normative — that is, it defines what is “normal” — is quite useful. The French used it well in England. Another time it was used was when West Africans were brought to this country as chattel slaves.
The society here in America needed a way to justify the enslavement of a people for no other reason than they looked a bit different. Like the Normans, they used culture to do it. Slaves were made to speak English but were forbidden to read and write. In fact, the myth was promoted that they were slow and couldn’t even be taught.
White people saw slaves as animals, apes or at best, “lesser humans.” They expected slaves to work like animals too — long, hard, and without complaint. Naturally, slaves rebelled, slowing work or feigning sickness. Blacks were seen by everyone as inherently lazy, and lazy Blacks were beaten or killed.
White people expected slaves to be subservient — a particularly useful tactic since less than a quarter of whites actually owned slaves. Slaves had to do whatever any white person told them to do. This made all whites “better” than slaves, and supportive of the system.
And there were the sexual controls. White men objectified and raped Black women at will, while promoting the myth that white women’s purity was threatened merely by the gaze of a Black man. This was particularly useful as a means to control… [Black women,] Black men and white women.
I come at this subject from a different history of experience and a resulting point of view but [with the exception of my bracketed and non-italicized addition] the above passage was so close to my own thinking it was thinking it was like reading a much more organized and more eloquent version of my own thoughts.
Miss D.C. Rocked Her Natural Hair After Being Advised Not To in the Miss America Pageant
Miss District of Columbia, Cierra Jackson, in the Miss America pageant was urged to wear anything but her natural hair in this competition. Some thought that straightening her hair would increase her chances of winning the competition but Jackson had other plans. Instead of falling into mainstream media’s perception of beauty she proudly represented her beauty. Miss D.C. proudly rocked her natural kinky, curly hair and won the swimsuit portion of the competition.
Nice.
Slavery’s legacies | The Economist
American ideas cannot simply be transplanted to Brazil. Differences in how the two countries were colonised, and how the slave economy operated, led to distinct ideas of what it means to be “black”—and different attitudes to compensatory policies and whom they should target.
In Brazil, unlike America, race has never been black and white. The Portuguese population—700,000 settlers had arrived at the start of the 19th century—was dwarfed by the number of slaves: a total of 4.9m arrived. Portuguese men were encouraged to consort with African women. Since most came without wives, such unions gained some legitimacy. Their offspring, referred to as mulatto, enjoyed a social status above that of pretos. They worked as overseers or artisans, but also doctors, accountants and lawyers. A mulatto, Machado de Assis, was regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer even during his lifetime in the 19th century.
…Both black and white Brazilians have long considered “whiteness” something that can be striven towards. In 1912 João Baptista de Lacerda, a medic and advocate of “whitening” Brazil by encouraging European immigration, predicted that by 2012 the country would be 80% white, 3% mixed and 17% Amerindian; there would be no blacks. As Luciana Alves, who has researched race at the University of São Paulo, explains, an individual could “whiten his soul” by working hard or getting rich. Tomás Santa Rosa, a successful mid-20th-century painter, consoled a dark-skinned peer griping about discrimination, saying that he too “used to be black”.
Though only a few black and mixed-race Brazilians ever succeeded in “becoming white”, their existence, and the non-binary conception of race, allowed politicians to hold up Brazil as an exemplar of post-colonial harmony
Slavery’s legacies | The Economist
hmmmm
Charlotte is Drowning in Systematic Injustice
Some say we must condemn the unrest in Charlotte. As a pastor and as an organizer, I do not condone violence. I suspect that much of it has been instigated by provocateurs with their own agenda. But to condemn the uprising in Charlotte would be to condemn a man for thrashing when someone is trying to drown him.
Whatever righteous indignation the public can muster ought to be directed toward the systems that created a situation where a man can drive to the bus stop to pick up his son and end up dead before he gets there.
I am a pastor. I will not condemn grief. But I was trained as a lifeguard, and I learned a long time ago that when people are drowning, their instincts can kill them and anyone who tries to help them. If a lifeguard can get to a drowning person, the first thing the lifeguard says is, “Stop struggling. Let me hold you up in this water, and we can get to the shore together.”
The riots in Charlotte are the predictable response of human beings who are drowning in systemic injustice. We must all pray that no one else gets hurt. But we must understand why this is happening.
Ta-Nahisi Coates writes: “A society that protects some people through a system of schools, government-backed home loans, and ancestral wealth but can only protect you with the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its intentions or has succeeded at something much darker.” The unrest in Charlotte is not about black people hating police. It’s about black, white and brown people rising up against systems of injustice that shield officers who kill but leave millions defenseless.
Editorial: Charlotte is Drowning in Systematic Injustice – NBC News
Amen.
Mia Farrow’s adopted son Thaddeus’ friends share their heartbreak over his suicide
Yes, Mia Farrow kind of made an a circus out of international adoption. (Grrrrrrrrrrrr!) But can we just get one point right here? These are Mia’s “adopted children.” They are her “children.” Period. Adoption is the process through which these people became her children, it doesn’t make them any less her children. Can we, as a society, stop saying “adopted children” and start saying the more accurate (and not as fucking racist and ignorant) “children?”
Pretty please?
Tulsa teacher shares Facebook post about impact of Terence Crutcher’s death on students
A powerful Facebook post a Tulsa teacher wrote about her students’ feelings on the police shooting death of Terence Crutcher is going viral.
Sigh….
No racism before Obama? Top Trump volunteer resigns after that comment
Mahoning County [Trump] campaign chair Kathy Miller [said that] racism didn’t exist before President Obama, and that African-Americans were to blame for the problems in their communities.
“I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this. …Now, with the people with the guns and shooting up neighborhoods and not being responsible citizens, that’s a big change and I think that’s the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America,” Miller said in the Guardian interview.
“If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault,” she added in the video, which was filmed outside of a county Republican picnic.
…Miller also said African Americans have “all the advantages” when it comes to education and said they only have themselves to blame if they haven’t achieved success in America.
She said African Americans aren’t finishing high school and are having children out of wedlock.
…“If people have jobs and go to work and do what they’re supposed to do, there is no racism,” she said.
Told by the reporter that African Americans might disagree with her, she replied “that’s because they’re not going to work.”
When asked whether she thought people might find her remarks offensive, she said, “I don’t care, it’s the truth.”
No racism before Obama? Top Trump volunteer resigns after that comment- Boston Globe
What an ignorant twat-waffle.
She deserves nothing but scorn for backwards, hateful, illogical and outright stupid remarks. I hope she is shunned from politics for life and it crushes her spirit and ultimately causes her early demise. Humanity doesn’t need any more mouth breathers.
Trump Jr.’s Poisoned Skittles Tweet Goes Horrifically — And Hilariously — Awry
This probably is not the reaction he was hoping for…
Trump Jr.’s Poisoned Skittles Tweet Goes Horrifically — And Hilariously — Awry | Huffington Post
Yay, Twitter!
Kaepernick calls out his critics: “There’s a lot of racism in this country disguised as patriotism”
Colin Kaepernick speaks out after the recent police shooting of Terence Crutcher.
hmmmm
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