Abuse of Power

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TEDx – Jay Smooth – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race

 

“You will never bat 1000 when talking about race.” -Jay Smooth

 

“In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and humorous suggestions for expanding our perception of the subject.”

 

“Jay Smooth is host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This is the best advice I’ve heard on how to be conscious of personal biases.

 

Think of anti-racism work as a daily hygine routine – ’cause the media feeds you information daily with bias. It takes a conscious effort to see through to the truth.

 

PS – I didn’t hear him explain how he learned to stop worrying. Did you? Or why he loves discusing race?

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Police slice off woman’s hair

Security cameras show police cutting off a woman’s weave at a Michigan jail. WXYZ’s Heather Catallo has the story.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This police officer seems to think she has a right to do as she pleases with this person’s hair.

 

Our hair is part of our body and we have every right to not allow another person to touch or molest our body.

See on www.cnn.com

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Four Types of Racism

 

Two types of individual-level racism, and two types of systemic-level racism.

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Four Types of Racism

Four Types of Racism

Source Race Forward, Part 1

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U.S. Congressman attacks reporter on live TV

New York Rep. Michael Grimm is caught on camera threatening to throw a reporter off a “f-ing” balcony

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Sounds like New York Rep Michael Grimm has a case of male aggression. And what is this, “You’re not man enough”? Is this homophobia too?

 

Is he the best New York can elect? Or is this par for the course in the aggressive U.S.?

See on www.cnn.com

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Family members, activists demand answers in shooting of unarmed man by HPD officer

Community activists and family members want to know how HPD can justify the shooting death of an unarmed man last week.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

After reading “The Warmth of Other Suns” this kind of violence against Black people sounds like more of the same that has happened since the first Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619.

 

See on www.khou.com

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▶ Was This Execution Cruel And Unusual?

 

“An attorney for the family of a killer whose Ohio execution by lethal injection was marked by several minutes of unprecedented gasping and unusual sounds plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer John Paul Rion says Dennis McGuire’s family is deeply disturbed by his execution and believes it violated his constitutional rights. Rion is a member of a state Supreme Court panel examining possible changes to Ohio’s death penalty law. He said Thursday all citizens have a right to expect they won’t be punished in a cruel and unusual fashion…”.* Ben Mankiewicz (co-host, What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) breaks it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/nationa…
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