“PHOENIX – U.S. authorities will not bring charges against a Border Patrol agent in Arizona who shot dead a rock-throwing Mexican teenager two years ago because the fatal injury did not occur in the United States, the Justice Department said on Friday.”
horrific and racist
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“CBS News 11 in Dallas, Texas is reporting that an 8 year old African American boy was shot in the face while playing a game of ‘tag.'”
horrific
I was trying to find the name of the European-American who shot the African-American teen through the truck because his music was too loud; before I could find that I found that last month a 33-year-old Merritt Landry (European-American) shot a 14-year old unarmed Marshall Coulter (African-American) in the head. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/29/homeowner-charged-with-attempted-murder-in-new-orleans-after-shooting-teen-he-says-he-thought-was-breaking-into-his-home/
I follow @gundeaths on Twitter and most of the shootings don’t make the main stream news.
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“Take a quick look at the Texas Historical Commission’s plaque about the plantation again. There is no mention of enslaved African Americans. Credit for the plantation’s success is given to machines, horses, and Jackson himself. Likewise, none of the other signs recognized the constant, coerced labor African Americans faced. Additionally, we know black women were very likely to face all kinds of sexual abuse.
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Enslaved African-Americans in Brazoria County produced 3/4s of the entire state’s output.
In no way did anyone running Plantation Day try to recreate the cruel dynamics that existed under slave societies.
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In no way did anyone running Plantation Day try to recreate the cruel dynamics that existed under slave societies.”
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“Many of the heirs of those who profited from neo-slavery are captains of industry today. Their fortunes remain intact. No one was ever held financially accountable.”
Today’s prisons continue having people work in order to profit business owners.
The incarcerated are still disproportionately Black and Brown.
And field work, which makes agricultural companies richer, is still here, but has simply changed from Black to Brown.
See on www.racefiles.com
May 1 Rally in Newark to stop detention and deportation and to keep workers’ families together. Photo: Tony Heriza
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Police Brutality: F
In 2012 police officers, security guards and vigilantes killed at least 136 unarmed black people – unarmed! Trayvon Martin is just what made the news. The police still get away with murder. The civil rights reforms of the 1950s and 1960s left the police and the courts pretty much untouched. It is next to impossible to prove in court that a police officer or judge acted out of racism.
The rampant police brutality of African-Americans and Latinos came to light for me when I ran across a Scoop.it page that was run by @usaslumdog
He doesn’t run the Scoop.it page anymore but he does continue to tweet about African-American rights, similar to @normbond @ColorLines and @TimWise
I recently learned that in Germany the death penalty is illegal. Can you imagine if it was found that Germany was putting Jews to death, or that they were disproportionately putting Jews to death today?
That’s exactly what is happening to African-Americans in the U.S. today. After being oppressed through slavery and Jim Crow – they continue to be oppressed by a racist U.S. culture of violence and oppression.
In 2013 U.S. culture still targets Black and Brown communities via
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Confiscated by colonial police throughout the world since its 1957 publication, The Colonizer and the Colonized is an important document of our times, an invaluable warning for all future generations.–The Los Angeles Times
I found this book listed at decolonization.wordpress.com
Follow Decolonization on Twitter @dies_journal
See on www.amazon.com
This is the statement of purpose behind the launching of the Nican Tlaca University online project by the Mexica Movement.
This video is hella repetitive, but I love her idea and passion.
all power to the people!
PS – Kudos to YouTube, Facebook, WordPress, Scoop.it, and all other free media platforms!
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The Golden Book Encyclopedia was the best-selling children’s encyclopedia in America ever. The 1959 edition sold throughout the 1960s. It is the oldest encyclopedia in my possession – and it writes…
Above is an except from Abagond’s blog.
I didn’t know an encyclopedia actually used the word ‘savages’ to describe any group of people.
I knew the word ‘savage’ had been common in speech; but in ‘professional’ writing as well!?
Who wants to bet that when you turn to the page on Europeans – it does not describe them as savages even though Europeans have commited savage acts throughout history and up to today.
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