“The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its architecture is the architecture of violence.”
An eleven page article.
There is also a button to “View as a Single Page”
See on www.alternet.org
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“Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, gives us an update on the “Arctic 30″ held in Russia. Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the torture taskforce, terrorist labeling, and Edward Snowden’s denied clemency. And, a listener from Chicago takes Smiley and West to task for calling out the racist elements of the Tea Party.”
“Renisha McBride (1994-2013), a 19-year-old Black American woman from Detroit, was shot dead in the nearby White American suburb of Dearborn Heights at 2.30am on Saturday November 2nd 2013.”
“The state has a Stand Your Ground law, like Florida where Trayvon Martin was killed. As journalist Rania Khalek notes on her blog:
The problem with a law like Stand Your Ground is that it excuses and encourages deadly force against “perceived” threats. In the United States, where implicit and structural racism persists on a vast scale, is it wise to empower people who almost certainly have irrational and racist fears, to kill instead of call police who are trained (at least they’re supposed to be) to deal with potential threats?
Race also appears to play a significant role in whether a homicide is deemed justifiable. A recent study conducted by John Roman of the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center found, “the odds that a white-on-black homicide is ruled to have been justified is more than 11 times the odds a black-on-white shooting is ruled justified,” a reflection of the racial disparities that plague all aspects of the US criminal justice system.”
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Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a predominately white Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance.
See on jezebel.com
Some say we should just “get over” racism, but it’s not possible when so many condone it with their silence
See on www.salon.com
“A demographically weighted world history would cover times and places in proportion to the number of people who lived in them. The idea is that, as much as possible, every person who has ever lived would be equally represented in its pages.
For example, instead of spending 50% to 75% of its pages on the West, like most “world” histories written by Westerners seem to do, it would spend only 25%. The other 75% would be used to cover – the other 75% of the world. Western colonialism would be told from both sides.
“How many people did it affect?” would determine what got covered and what did not.”
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A Virginia mother responds to controversy over her son’s Ku Klux Klan Halloween costume.
See on www.cnn.com
From Sevly Snguon’s post: My Asian-American Awakening: Realizing that I am a Person of Color
In this diagram do you think the placement of each group is accuratly depicted?
Where would Native Americans and Xican@s/Latin@s be depicted?
Add the categories – physical superiority, mental superiority, family unity superiority and watch the graph change.
Although this diagram is an oversimplification, it’s useful to make useful points about stereotyping and discrimination. Combine this diagram with incarceration stastics and Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow and the dots connect and makes sense. This is a depiction of American’s distorted perception of our cultures.
See on sevlysnguon.wordpress.com
“At the beginning of this video, you hear a prison guard shouting, “”Get down! Just get down! Get down! Get down!” presumably to the other prisoners. That exclamation is followed by, “Oh (inaudible) guy over there with his hands hitting him … and a damn hammer!”
See on www.africanglobe.net
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“Activist Peter Gelderloos expands on his new book, “The Failure of Nonviolence”. Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the buzz over Barney’s and the $5 billion food stamps cut, and a listener from New Jersey takes them to task for their conversation with “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen.”
