“By the 1610s the plantation system in Virginia was in place – before Blacks arrived in numbers. Whites grew tobacco and other crops using forced gang labour.
Working conditions:
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Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old software designer, says he shot Jordan Davis, 17, in self-defense.
See on www.npr.org
A new report by the group, LatinasRepresent shines a light on the underrepresentation of Latinas in elected offices. The data show that Latinas represent just 1 percent of elected officials nationwide…
2014 – “No Latina has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate”
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“Below is a glimpse of data on the representation and diversity (or lack thereof) of university professors relative to student demographics in San Francisco Bay Area campuses. The article, White professors still dominate Bay Area colleges as student bodies grow more diverse, gives a bit more context to the issue. Unfortunately, this phenomena is not unique to the Bay Area. For a scholarly and feminist perspective consider checking out, Presumed incompetent: The intersections of race and class for Women in academia.
A very important issue as the representation of students of color generally, and Chicano/Latinos in particular, continue to rise.”
Notice how the hiring of faculty is way out of proportion to the demographics of the student population. What do you think accounts for that?
Structural, institutionalized and personal favoritism?
Another way to look at this chart – if you combine the Asian and White groups together in the pie charts those groupings are then a fairly close match between the two columns of Faculty & Students.
Steven Riley, and others have mentioned that Asians are the next group that may likely ‘become white’ – in the way that Italians, Irish, Jewish, Middle Easterners and Egyptians have become culturally ‘white’ in the U.S. and on the census.
If you group Black and Latino groups together in the pie chart, the numbers also somewhat match between the faculty and students columns.
It’s also interesting to note that UC Berkeley is the only university to successfully hire a matching percentage of Black faculty compared to their student population.
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“Chairperson Kirsten Sandberg discusses the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report outlining massive allegations of child abuse coverups and its demands The Vatican take action to hold guilty parties accountable.”
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“When economists talk about how a market “regulates itself,” what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand.
This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium will be a good thing for society. It simply states that if consumers choose what to buy and producers choose what to sell and how to produce it, the market settles on a product distribution and prices.
Lately, many people I know have argued that “free markets” mean something more. They see markets as ethically right or ethically moral, meaning pursuit of profit always somehow leads to a greater good.
Unfortunately, morality isn’t built into markets.”
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http://www.forksoverknives.com
The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
Eating plants is healthy and no animal will be incarcerated or oppressed from harvesting plants.
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“Retired state police captain Leigh Maddox says that decriminalization of marijuana is a step in the right direction, but that legalization and regulation are needed in order to seriously reduce drug-related violence and allow police to better serve the public.”
See on therealnews.com
Survival helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
Excellent video.
