U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is prepared to consider the proposal to place cameras on all Border Patrol agents with the aim of preventing or elucidating violent incidents, an activist with the Southern Border Communities Coalition said Tuesday.
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Predatory lending. A two-tiered justice system. The list of discriminatory practices goes on, and on, and on …
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“… public policy that should raise the most suspicion is trade policy, which fostered the offshoring of more than 2 million manufacturing jobs after Congress normalized trade relations with China in 2000. But an even more fundamental factor in the declining share of working Americans is the technological automation that has eliminated millions of jobs and is poised to eliminate millions more.
…47 percent of U.S. workers have a high probability of seeing their jobs automated over the next 20 years…”
I would prefer the author didn’t single out China. China continues to be blamed in the media because they have the worker capacity to do the jobs that are building the vast majority of consumer electronics and everything else.
On the one hand Americans love their low cost consumer electronics. On the other hand Americans complain about loosing jobs to China.
What ends up happening is that Americans start hating on all Asians (not knowing the difference between cultural groups), and next segregation, xenophobia, hate crimes, scapegoating, and maybe even immigration restrictions based on race again with the myopic thinking that Chinese people are taking all the jobs – at the low end in China and at the high end in the U.S.
There is an underlying injustice from the U.S. here:
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“If you opt for equal funding per school, racial gaps will remain, and you will not address existing racial inequities. If you opt for equitable funding, the outcome is that students in School B above now have the opportunity to perform along the lines of students in School A, which they would not have had if you had distributed funding equally. ”
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Two Florida teens allegedly shot a police officer to death before apparently killing themselves, authorities say.
This CNN story leaves more questions than answers.
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“NEW YORK — The nation’s most segregated schools aren’t in the deep south — they’re in New York, according to a report released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Civil Rights Project.
That means that in 2009, black and Latino students in New York “had the highest concentration in intensely-segregated public schools,” in which white students made up less than 10 percent of enrollment and “the lowest exposure to white students,” wrote John Kucsera, a UCLA researcher, and Gary Orfield, a UCLA professor and the project’s director. “For several decades, the state has been more segregated for blacks than any Southern state, though the South has a much higher percent of African American students,” the authors wrote. The report, “New York State’s Extreme School Segregation,” looked at 60 years of data up to 2010, from various demographics and other research.
There’s also a high level of “double segregation,” Orfield said in an interview, as students are increasingly isolated not only by race, but also by income: the typical black or Latino student in New York state attends a school with twice as many low-income students as their white peers. That concentration of poverty brings schools disadvantages that mixed-income schools often lack: health issues, mobile populations, entrenched violence and teachers who come from the least selective training programs. “They don’t train kids to work in a society that’s diverse by race and class,” he said. “There’s a systematically unequal set of demands on those schools.””
What are we going to do to fix it America?
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Across mobile, and especially in iOS, people use emojis to express deep and complicated emotions. But the lack of diversity in the human-related emojis makes it hard to accurately represent life through these pictograms. For the most part (see above), they either depict white people/disembodied white hands, or the traditional…
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“Lisa Bloom writes in her book,
“On a very dark, rainy night, Trayvon saw through Zimmerman’s body to a gun holstered behind him, concealed inside his pants? Did Trayvon have X-ray vision?”
“What shocked me most of all was that the prosecution had failed raise this point at trial. Not in the opening statement. Not in the questioning of any of their witnesses. Not in cross-examination of defense witnesses.”
Daniel Beaty – “Transforming Pain to Power” Daniel Beaty was brought up in a world of pain. The defining features of life in his Dayton, OH home were incarceration and drug addiction. But after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Beaty dared to dream himself—and came to realize that the pain he suffered was an avenue, not an obstacle, to his dreams. Today, he is an award-winning actor, writer, singer, and motivational speaker, and he shares his story of how he harnessed the power of pain in a new motivational memoir, “Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited…
Tim Padgett – “What My Talks With Hugo Taught Me About Chavismo in Venezuela” The oil-rich nation of Venezuela has been embroiled since mid-February in its worst turmoil in a decade, as angry citizens have taken to the streets to protest poor economic conditions. The chaos began nearly a year after former president Hugo Chavez died of cancer. Tim Padgett, Americas editor for WLRN in Miami, covered Chavez for more than 20 years. In his recent piece, “What My Talks With Hugo Taught Me About Chavismo in Venezuela”, Padgett reflects on his years covering the charismatic…
Emily Parker – “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are” In 2011, Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo to protest that country’s authoritarian government. It took just 18 days for Hosni Mubarak’s regime to fall, once ordinary Egyptians were mobilized, largely by connecting online and through social media. Emily Parker, a former State Department policy adviser, looks at how the Internet is transforming lives of regular citizens living in authoritarian regimes in her new book, “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet…
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