Claire Jean Kim – Racial Triangulation

From Sevly Snguon’s post: My Asian-American Awakening: Realizing that I am a Person of Color

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

In this diagram do you think the placement of each group is accuratly depicted?

 

Where would Native Americans and Xican@s/Latin@s be depicted?

 

Add the categories – physical superiority, mental superiority, family unity superiority and watch the graph change.

 

Although this diagram is an oversimplification, it’s useful to make useful points about stereotyping and discrimination. Combine this diagram with incarceration stastics and Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow and the dots connect and makes sense. This is a depiction of American’s distorted perception of our cultures.

 

@getgln

See on sevlysnguon.wordpress.com

Video Released of Georgia Guards Beating Prisoners With Hammer

“At the beginning of this video, you hear a prison guard shouting, “”Get down! Just get down! Get down! Get down!” presumably to the other prisoners. That exclamation is followed by, “Oh (inaudible) guy over there with his hands hitting him … and a damn hammer!”
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Smiley and West – Peter Gelderloos on The Failure of Nonviolence

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“Activist Peter Gelderloos expands on his new book, “The Failure of Nonviolence”. Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the buzz over Barney’s and the $5 billion food stamps cut, and a listener from New Jersey takes them to task for their conversation with “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen.”

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Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (1808-1857?) was an American farmer, carpenter and canal worker from New York state. He was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 – not an uncommon thing for free blacks in those …

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Between this history made real on the big screen, and racist laws explained in crystal clarity in Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow – the U.S. has serious soul searching to do – especially European Americans (aka whites).

 

@getgln

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Police brutality increases in US

 

“Cops in America are heavily armed and trained to be bullies, routinely hurting people. After a number of mistakes committed by SWAT teams breaking into the wrong home of citizens and constant confrontations with people, are police overstepping their boundaries? Former Reagan Administration advisor Paul Craig Roberts says people who are attracted to police forces are bullies and sociopaths.”

 
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