By 2010, nearly a third of black male high school dropouts aged 25-29 were in prison or otherwise institutionalized.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
African Americans
Woman intentionally runs over two Black men
Source: www.cnn.com
This reminds me of the white teenager who ran over 49-year-old African American James Craig Anderson. VIDEO
We live in a sick country.
Study Reveals Police Are 10 Times More Likely To Shoot African Americans
It’s official: African American residents are 10 times more likely than Caucasians to be shot by police. At least that’s what one study found for residents of Chicago.
In an analysis of recent data from the City of Chicago Independent Police Review Authority, “In black and Latino, lower-income neighborhoods you will see police officers who are instructed to stop and frisk and aggressively search every day,” civil rights attorney Craig Futterman told the Chicago Reporter, which first crunched the data.
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Source: countercurrentnews.com
UPS Sued for Racial Discrimination
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UPS is being sued for racial discrimination against black employees in the United States and abroad. The most recent lawsuit has been filed in a Circuit Court in Lexington, Kentucky.
A group of eight current and former employees of United Parcel Service in Kentucky have sued the company saying they faced racial discrimination, poor treatment based on race and retaliation after they complained. The men also contend an effigy of a black UPS employee hung from the ceiling outside the manager’s office for four days.
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Race and Money: Blacks Seen as Darker During Tough Economic Times
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Tough economic times aren’t just hard on the wallet, they’re hard on race relations, too, a new study suggests.
Community Village‘s insight:
One of the statements in the experiment: “When Blacks make economic gains, Whites lose out economically”
The experiment indicates to me that when times are tough people become more xenophobic and less logical.
People who are against immigration also have views about loosing out economically, not realizing the fact that a larger population leads to economic gains for all.
See on blogs.discovermagazine.com
Malcolm X and James Baldwin debate on integration and Black rights
Click through for a great debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin.
HT Harsha Walia
Community Village‘s insight:
Today in 2014 there is STILL massive segregation in the U.S. and there is STILL systemic racism and oppression. Any who are unsure about this can check Michele Alexander’s research on The New Jim Crow.
Supervisor threatens to hang worker for drinking from ‘white people’ fountain
A white supervisor threatens to hang a black employee for drinking water from a “white people” fountain.
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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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Jonathan Fleming on his wrongful conviction: ‘I never gave up. I had faith’
Fleming spent nearly 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The Guardian spent an afternoon with Fleming as he saw Times Square for the first time in a quarter century
Community Village‘s insight:
How much money are we (U.S. citizens) going to compensate all of these wrongfully convicted people?
How much is 25 years of your life worth?
Why does the U.S. only give $93.00 to the formerly incarcerated once they are released from prison.
People need more than $93.00 to run their life. They need first and last month’s rent at a minimum. They need a job in order to keep their housing and feed themselves.
Not everyone has friends and family to help them. And some of our friends and family can not help or refuse to help.
See on www.theguardian.com
NBA team owner in hot water over racist comments attributed to him
Longtime NBA team owner Donald Sterling is being roundly criticized for remarks he allegedly made regarding African-Americans that some are calling “repugnant.”
See on www.cnn.com