“Dr J. Marion Sims (1813-1883), a White American surgeon, is widely considered to be the father of American gynaecology. He founded Woman’s Hospital in New York, the first of its kind in the country…”
If you read this whole article, it will underscore Dr. Cornel West’s quote : “The notion that black people are human beings is a relatively new discovery in the modern west.”
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A California woman says she was asked to cover up while working out at her gym because she was intimidating people.
How is really harassing who here?
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“For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans.”
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“Breaking out the data this way provides an opportunity to explore the structural reasons for this gap, like employment and education opportunities or barriers and immigration history. ”
Asian data is missing before 1987 or so. That’s due to the U.S. Asian population not being large enough before then to be ‘statistically significant’. The reason for the low Asian population is due to the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Immigration policies are no longer based on race. They now prefer the highly educated, which explains the higher income.
If the U.S. would implement low cost public higher education it would level out this income gap over time.
The U.S. benefits from the educational infrastructure of other countries. The U.S. uses (im)migrant brains without making the investment in education for it’s own citizens.
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“Yasiin Bey—also known as Mos Def—is currently working with director Asif Kapadia and Human Rights organization Reprieve on a revealing project that debuted this morning. In the clip, Yassin participates in the standard force-feeding procedure conducted for detainees at Guantánamo Bay. s Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are experiencing this procedure.”
I had my stomach pumped out like this, minus the chains. It was painful.
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“A principal who allegedly prohibited students from speaking Spanish will lose her job, the Texas press reports.
Administrators voted Monday night to discontinue a job contract for Amy Lacey, principal of Hempstead Middle School, who had been on paid administrative leave since December after reportedly using the intercom to tell students that speaking Spanish is forbidden on school grounds.
“When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, it sends the message that the child is not wanted,” Augstin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18 told the Houston Chronicle. ”
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They are part of a sisterhood of sorts — spouses of software engineers and computer programmers. Many of them hold multiple advanced degrees but are not legally permitted to work in the U.S.
Freedom and Liberty – for some.
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AKA: Racism is not dead – in two charts: Black Americans use marijuana a bit more than Whites: Yet are way more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession: Also notice that the rise in arrest r…
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“So does that mean he’s had a change of heart, and in his new maturity has grown to accept that marriage equality is not, in fact, the doom of America? No. He just regrets saying it out loud, because money.”
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