Discrimination

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Nugent apologizes for using term ‘subhuman mongrel’

 

“(CNN) — Conservative activist and rocker Ted Nugent apologized Friday for using the term “subhuman mongrel” to describe President Barack Obama.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

It amazes me that politicians think they can run their campaign on hate. Republicans think their base of racists will follow them as long as they dehumanizing, disrespecting and devalue Black people.

See on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

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Southern States Push Anti-Gay Jim Crow Laws

 

“Over the past few weeks, Republicans in various state legislatures have been advancing bills that target gay Americans for Jim Crow style discrimination. These laws represent an imminent and grave threat to not only the entire gay community but to the entire idea of a secular society.”
See on theprogressivecynic.com

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Psychosis of People Like Michael Dunn

Angry Giraffe

Angry Giraffe


Some people have a skill for finding ways to justify their insanity.

Here are six things that people like Michael Dunn do to get themselves into trouble and to justify their racist behavior.

        1. Demean other people’s culture
          Michael Dunn’s first response to hearing hip-hop music at the gas station was to say “I hate that rap crap.”


        2. Use their privilege to hassle those with different cultures or lifestyles
          Michael Dunn could have parked away from the music. Instead he parked next to the music and used his able bodied, white privilege to confront the teens, asking them to turn down the volume.


        3. Blame the victim
          Michael Dunn, after shooting three bullets into Jordan Davis and 6 more bullets into the Durango then tells his fiance that he was the victim.


        4. Don’t learn about the failings and oppressiveness of White culture. Always feel superior.
          If Michael Dunn had ever taken an African American history class, he might know that White people have been pushing Black people around since the first enslaved Africans were human trafficked to the Americas in 1526.


        5. See phantom weapons. Cell phones and wallets as guns.
          If Michael Dunn would have studied implicit bias, or systemic racism – he may have known that he should second guess his own fears and biases and not jump to conclusions.


        6. Acting as if in a war zone
          If Michael Dunn was level headed, he would only show his gun to scare away what he perceived as a threat. Apparently he thought he was in a war zone. He shot first and asked questions later.


          7. photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor via photopin cc

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Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession

The term “race riot” does not adequately describe the events of May 31 – June 1, 1921 in Greenwood, a black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The historical record documents a sustained and murderous assault on black lives and property.

 

“I want you to think about wealth in this country. Who has it? Who doesn’t? A study by the Pew Research Center found that, on average, whites have 20 times the wealth of blacks. Why is that? When there’s a question that puzzles you, you must investigate.”

“It’s a nontraditional curriculum for a language arts teacher, but I aim to teach students to connect the dots about big ideas that matter in their lives — and I use both history and literature to explore injustice.”

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“Forgetting about what happened and burying it without dealing with it is why we still have problems today.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Did you learn about this in high school, or college?

See on www.huffingtonpost.com

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The Destruction of Black Wall Street

 

“Greenwood, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, was the type of community that African Americans are still, today, attempting to reclaim and rebuild.  It was modern, majestic, sophisticated and unapologetically…”

 

Linda Christenson writes the following:

 

“The term “race riot” does not adequately describe the events of May 31—June 1, 1921 in Greenwood… In fact, the term itself implies that both blacks and whites might be equally to blame for the lawlessness and violence. The historical record documents a sustained and murderous assault on black lives and property. This assault was met by a brave but unsuccessful armed defense of their community by some black World War I veterans and others.

 

During the night and day of the riot, deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses. White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. Nine thousand African Americans were left homeless and lived in tents well into the winter of 1921.
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See on www.ebony.com

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The Effects of Ignoring Systemic Racism | The Nation

 

“Individual racism may be hurtful, but the systemic carries much more ruthless consequences.

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Ignoring the reality of racism only makes us more racist.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Part of the responsibility of living in the U.S. is to fight it’s own oppressive systems. Systems of imperialist white supremacist racist patriarchal vulture capitalism.

 

See on www.thenation.com

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The Sikh Coalition and South Asian Organizations Release Report on Racial Profiling

 

One young Sikh man recalls:

“There was a couple who started calling us names, referring to my turban, like ‘Osama bin Laden – I wouldn’t want to mess with you. God knows what you might be hiding in that…’ The staff of that cinema not only noted what he said but contacted the NYPD and said there was a possible terror alert. We were escorted out and detained by 12 cops and 3 undercover detectives.” – 23-year-old Sikh man

 
See on sikhcoalition.org