Month: July 2014

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Toward a Truly Multiracial Democracy

 

Note: This is another in my continuing series on Possible Racial Futures for the US. This one is based on the last chapter of “The White Racial Frame” (2010) by Joe R. Feagin, a White American sociologist.


The US is capable of becoming less racist and more democratic, as shown by Reconstruction in the 1800s, which freed slaves and made them citizens, and Civil Rights reforms in the 1900s, which overthrew Jim Crow.


But both Reconstruction and Civil Rights were later seriously weakened because they left two things in place:

  1. Ideological: The white racial frame (white racism).
  2. Economic: Huge racial inequalities in wealth, income and education.


Therefore you need:

  1. Ideological: The liberty-and-justice frame of the Founding Fathers along with an understanding of stereotyping and institutional racism.
  2. Economic: Reparations, especially for Black and Native Americans.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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Man brings assault rifle into Phoenix airport, then…

Police arrested a 54-year-old man after witnesses said they saw him displaying an AR-15 at Sky Harbor.

Source: www.azcentral.com

 

If he was Black or Brown and brought an assault weapon out in public what would happen?

 

Remember what happened ten seconds after seeing 13 year old Andy Lopez carrying a toy gun that looked like an assault rifle?

 

Andy was shot 7 times within 26 seconds. The eight bullet missed.

 

 

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An excessive force epidemic? – CNN Video

 

Susan Candiotti reports on what many perceive to be an alarming increase in the use of excessive force amongst police

Source: www.cnn.com

 

Have police always been like this, but now we are learning due to cell phone videos?

 

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Synagogue Vandalized In NE Miami-Dade – CBS Miami

For the second time in as many days, messages of hate targeted members of South Florida’s Jewish community. Early Monday morning, spray painted swastikas and the word

Source: miami.cbslocal.com

 

Thank you for sharing +Rishona Campbell

 

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VIDEO – A THUNDER-BEING NATION – The Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

 

The journey of the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, from their origins through to their contemporary life. The most comprehensive look at an Indian Reservation in a documentary made over 13 years by international award winning film-maker Steven Lewis Simpson director of Rez Bomb.


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Source: vimeo.com

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How Failure to Fix Immigration Affects a Young Girl — Again

Outside the chambers and hallways of the Capitol, the immigration reform debate isn’t political. It’s personal. When Washington, D.C. resident Cindy Monge saw the images of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border it hit home. Eight years ago she was one of them.

Source: abcnews.go.com

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ICE Detains Pregnant Women Against Its Own Policy

 

“According to its own policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, only detains pregnant women if they pose a public safety threat—but new evidence illustrates the practice is quite common.


Over at Fusion, Cristina Costantini found that at 559 pregnant women have been detained by ICE in just six facilities since 2012, and there’s no reason to believe they meet ICE’s own policy for holding expecting mothers. At least 14 women suffered miscarriages while in detention in 2012. According to Fusion’s estimate, up to 57 pregnant immigrant women are being detained per day.

Read more over at Fusion.”

 

Source: colorlines.com

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At least eight children killed at Gaza refugee camp

 

At a refugee camp near the beach in Gaza, parents took their children out to play. It’s Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Children need to be children, even during war.

A boy named Mohammed was happy for a moment playing in the street yards from his family’s front door.

Then an explosion, and the ground shook. Holes as large as fists pockmarked a nearby building, and 10 people — eight of them children — were killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

In the chaos, they were rushed to nearby Shifa Hospital A TV news outlet run by Hamas showed live footage of the hospital. The channel blamed the carnage on an Israeli drone.


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Source: www.cnn.com

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Hillary Clinton backs refugee screening abroad for Central American kids

 

Hillary Clinton thinks the U.S. should create a refugee screening process for Central American children in their home countries to help prevent more young people from undertaking a dangerous trek north.

 

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Source: fusion.net

 

Does Hillary Clinton know that Central American governments are likely to recruit to a drug gang or murder any child who asks for asylum?

 

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Social justice class removed as direct result of the systematic racism that it was teaching students about

 

“Yasab, the student of color, is NOT intended to be muted. If you cannot hear his audio, it is due to an issue with channels on certain systems. He has very important input and I am working on fixing it as fast as I can.”

A couple of articles on the removal:

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arch…

http://news.yahoo.com/popular-seattle…

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinion…

 

Source: ladysugatits.tumblr.com

 

This reminds me of when an Arizona school district canceled Mexican-American studies.