by Starlette McNeill

You can search through my hair to ensure airport security.

You can bar  and color- code my skin.

You can socially position my body, marginalize or center.

But, you cannot touch who is within.

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You can count me, number me: minority and majority.

You can in and out me, believe in and doubt me.

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Source: racelessgospel.com

by Xena

“Priscilla Perez was engaged to 22-year old Alex Alvarez. Alvarez was a police officer in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They are no longer engaged. Priscilla and Alex had an agreement to check each others cell phones to make sure that neither were behaving badly. Priscilla wanted out of the relationship and in October 2014, she called the police for a domestic disturbance. Alex put on his police uniform. Priscilla was afraid of retribution, so she acted first, sending an email to Police Chief Frank Adderly saying there were racists in his outfit.   That prompted an internal affairs investigation.

In late January, Alvarez resigned before the investigation was completed and before he had to make a sworn statement about the allegations. The investigation also involved 3 other officers who last week, were terminated from their positions.”

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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

#NotJustUVA

A guest post by Jefe:

Segregation academies (1955 – ) were set up by whites after Brown v. Board (1954) to circumvent desegregation. They proliferated in the 1960s-1970s in response to court desegregation orders. By the 1990s, following white flight and residential resegregation, many either shut down or were compelled to admit non-white students. Today, they remain a bastion of the “Black Belt”, particularly the Mississippi delta.

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

The comments by Trojan Pam are as good as the article.

Trojan Pam’s site digs into the Doctrine of White Supremacy to make sense of all this segregation.

Another thing happening in the world of segregation is that there are bilingual immersion schools and non-bilingual immersion schools. Some children receive the advantage of learning two languages and some do not. Interestingly, it’s the majority White schools that are usually left out of the advantage of bilingual education.