In states where gay marriage is legal, gays are still banned from openly marching in St Patrick’s Day parades in New York and Boston.
See on www.thedailybeast.com
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Border Patrol Agent Commits Atrocities While On Duty
“Texas Border Region: The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) expresses deep concern over recent events involving Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares who is reported to have assaulted three Honduran women immigrants, left two for dead, and then killed himself. We urge that the victims be protected, regardless of immigration status and receive fair treatment as survivors.
The following are statements from SBCC members in Texas.
Astrid Dominguez, ACLU of Texas:
This incident is one more in a pattern of CBP abuses in our border communities. Last September, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Border Patrol use of force, which identified key problems with training. This followed revelations by the Government Accountability Office of significant incidence of misconduct within CBP. We demand that DHS conduct a thorough and transparent investigation of this incident, in parallel to independent review by external investigators and determine what policy and training enhancements are necessary.”
See on soboco.org
LGBT victims of domestic abuse are rarely catered for – or acknowledged
Ally Fogg: While activists for heterosexual victims of domestic violence have ensured measures such as Clare’s law, LGBT people have fallen through the cracks
Community Village‘s insight:
This article is from the UK, but makes a good point about overlooked communities.
See on www.theguardian.com
Oil companies dumping radioactive waste in ND
Don Morrison, of the Dakota Resource Council, talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenge of holding oil companies responsible for pollution in North Dakota.
Community Village‘s insight:
Europeans invade Native land then dump radio active waste all over it.
See on www.msnbc.com
Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison
This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length: Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support…
Community Village‘s insight:
My question is, how can we get more students to go to college?
What do we as a culture (U.S. culture) need to provide to our children so they can attend college?
See on reappropriate.co
Your “Preference” is Not Preferable: The History and Harm of Asian Fetishism
**Disclaimer: In this article I focus on the fetishization of Asian females. I acknowledge that there are prevalent fetishes of other races and they are just as problematic. I acknowledge that I c…
Community Village‘s insight:
I love this article and I love it’s title.
Plus it’s an important topic for supporters of racial justice.
It covers:
- What fetishism is
- What about preferences? What if someone just happens to be attracted to a certain race?
- Why are racial fetishes, especially Asian fetishes, such a widespread thing?
- “I’m not sure if I have a racial fetish. How can I tell?”
- The problems and consequences of racial fetishization
- What can we do about racial fetishization?
The Origins of the Asian American Model Minority Myth
“Historian Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority just might be the best examination of the roots of the model minority stereotype in print.
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No doubt the enthusiasm among many Asian Americans to accept model minority stereotyping was a reflection of the fact that the menu of choices where stereotypes were concerned appeared to be restricted to either “model minority” or “yellow peril.” And the stakes were high. The “yellow peril” stereotype had been used to justify wars in Korea and Vietnam, the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, anti-communist persecution of Chinese Americans under the McCarran Act, and no small amount of racial exclusion and terrorism.”
Community Village‘s insight:
“As long as U.S immigration policy has a preference for the highly educated, the U.S. will continue to bring in ‘model minorities’.
The term ‘model minority’ is based on a bias for educated people.
Latinos are also ‘model minorities’ in that they are compliant workers who harvest the crops and work in the slaughter houses, but they are not ‘sold’ by the media in those terms because on average they are not the highly educated workforce.”
See on www.racefiles.com
Asian American Organizing: The Flipside of Conditional Privilege
Latinas vastly underrepresented in elected offices
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…
Community Village‘s insight:
2014 – “No Latina has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate”
See on ppclc.wordpress.com
“Proud to Be”: NCAI’s answer to the R-word mascot debate
I’ve been sent this video a bazillion times in the last few days, and I think it’s a powerful and important PSA to add to the mascot “debate”*. I’ve watched it a few t…
Community Village‘s insight:
Adrienne’s (from Native Appropriations) take on the National Congress of American Indians video against the R-word.
See on nativeappropriations.com