Racial Justice

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Smiley & West | Stanley Aronowitz, Norm Stamper, and Remembering Birmingham

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Former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper explains why he now speaks out against drones, stop-and-frisk, and the war on drugs. West speaks with one of his mentors, CUNY Graduate Center professor Stanley Aronowitz. Birmingham terrorism victim Carolyn McKinstry recalls the tragic day when Christian extremists from the KKK killed four little girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church. And, Theodore Debro tells us how he witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King react to the bombing during his sermon in Atlanta.

I was amazed to hear Norm Stamper say that even though he knew the police could be overly aggressive, that after he joined the police force – he was sucked into the culture and became a gleeful abuser of the people that he was hired to serve.

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Jay-Z vs. George Zimmerman

“Rapper Jay Z, who attended last weekend’s “Justice For Trayvon” rally in New York City, has spoken out for the first time on the George Zimmerman verdict wi…

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Migration is Beautiful

Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story. See on migrationisbeautiful.com

“Fences and borders can’t stop the flow of rivers, migration of butterflies, or the movement of people, and won’t stop the spirit of freedom.”
– Tania Willard, Indigenous Secwepemc artist

 

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King’s Dream at 50: A Report Card

 

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.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

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

 

  • The prison industrial complex
  • Stop-n-Frisk
  • War on drugs
  • Systemic Racism
  • Housing and school segregation

 

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Building a New Racial Justice Movement – COLORLINES

Creating a multiracial movement for justice requires more than slapping the word “new” in front of “civil rights movement.”

“…in the main, we don’t want to talk about race, much less about racism. Our societal silence makes room for inventive new forms of discrimination, while it blocks our efforts to change rules that disadvantage people of color. Unless we say what we mean, we cannot redefine how racism works or drive the debate toward equity.”

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by Rinku Sen

Community Village‘s insight:

In this article Rinku covers:

  • The Need for Plain Speech
  • Justice and Rights Aren’t the Same
  • Going Multiracial

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