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A Comic Points Out The Absurdity Of A Famous Fantasy Film For Not Including A Certain Kind Of Actor

The reality of Hollywood can be hilariously unreal when it comes to fantasy movies.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Hollywood does a lot of work in maintaining segregation and inequity. When they do not include people of color, they are keeping the jobs and the money from people of color.

 

Their movies often do not reflect the real mixture of races in today’s United States.

See on www.upworthy.com

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Fighting Against the New Jim Crow

 

“How mass incarceration affects communities of color.”

 

“When inner-city schools lack funding for books, when the cutting of federal food stamp programs force single mothers to take on more low-wage jobs and less of their child’s education, when programs like stop-and-frisk disproportionately incarcerate Black men and remove them from the household, it’s time to move past the idea that this is an accident. There is a systemic and long-seated set of economic and social conditions entrapping low-income communities and Black communities in an endless pattern of criminalization, incarceration and poverty. There is a glass ceiling holding down Black and brown youth on the ladder of American opportunity.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

For more on this topic check Michelle Alexander‘s book ‘The New Jim Crow‘

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Most dangerous body of water in the U.S.

See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily

 

The most dangerous body of water in the U.S. is a deep canal on the Mexican border with California where over 550 people, mostly immigrants, have drowned. Scott Pelley reports.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

75% of these deaths could be prevented. Check the video at about 9:00 minutes.

This news story would be better if they dropped the word ‘illegal’.

This is the first I’ve heard about these death canals. They seem like they are designed to kill people. 

See on www.cbsnews.com

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Asians in the Library

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“Asians in the Library” (2011) is a YouTube video, a three-minute racist rant against Asians made by Alexandra Wallace (pictured), a White American student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It came right after a tsunami had killed 10,000 people in Japan. Three years later it is still the top suggested completion for “Asians” on Google.

 
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U.S. Border Patrol’s Response To Violence In Question

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If an agent kills a Mexican across the border, what happens? Some argue not enough. It’s hard to sue in these cases, and reports show the Border Patrol is rarely holding its own people accountable.

See on www.npr.org