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Healing Race Relations with Lee Mun Wah [VIDEO]
Since its founding in 1994, StirFry Seminars & Consulting has revolutionized the field of diversity through its internationally acclaimed documentary films and seminars. Millions of viewers worldwide have seen The Color of Fear, as well as many of the other groundbreaking films produced and directed by Lee Mun Wah, StirFry’s founder, CEO and Master Trainer. In 1995, Oprah Winfrey produced a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and the impact of The Color of Fear.
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Lee Mun Wah describes how dialogs are better than panel discussions and how to acknowledge the person in front of you and stop playing devil’s advocate.
Get your popcorn and drink. The video is about an hour.
Watch This Video Dispatch From the Center of McKinney Protest
Dallas-based filmmaker Ciara Boniface posted this video today of Monday’s community mobilization in the small Texas town.
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Racism in Grade School And Its Damaging Long-Term Effects – DiversityInc
By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio
According to a March 2014 report released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, more Black students are severely punished at school than white students – despite the fact that more white students are enrolled in schools.
The study reveals that this begins as early as preschool: “Black children represent 18% of preschool enrollment, but 48% of children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension; in comparison, white students represent 43% of preschool enrollment but 26% of preschool children receiving more than one out of school suspension.”
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Muslim chaplain claims discrimination on United flight
(CNN) A simple request for an unopened can of Diet Coke on a United Airlines flight left Tahera Ahmad in tears.
A Muslim chaplain and director of interfaith engagement at Northwestern University, Ahmad, 31, was traveling Friday from Chicago to Washington for a conference promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth. She was wearing a headscarf, or hijab.
For hygienic reasons, she asked for an unopened can of soda, she said. The flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.
“We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane,” she recalled the flight attendant telling her.
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Source: www.cnn.com
Coward Racists And Bikers Gather For Anti-Islam Stunt Outside Phoenix Mosque
Dozens of people have gathered for a provocative rally in front of the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona, staged during Friday prayers. Anti-Islam event organizers encouraged participant…
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The Real “Looting”: From Enslavement to Policing and Beyond
Recent US protests are part of a growing movement against systemic racism, including the looting of Black wealth and violence against Black people.
Source: www.truth-out.org
VIDEO: The Difference Between a Black Man and a White Man Open Carrying An AR-15 Legally
Two men carrying the same rifle down the street receive two entirely different reactions from police.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
I was scared-to-death just watching this video.
Ferguson’s history of racial divisions
CNN’s Randi Kaye looks at the racial injustices Ferguson residents say are occurring in their town.
Ferguson police profiled, arrested disproportionately black individuals – DOJ report
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Shocking catalogue of racist incidents on college campuses across the United States from 2011-2015
In isolation, incidents of racism often appear to be outliers from the norm, anomalies, a deviation from the way people really think and believe.
First off, the local or national news doesn’t cover issues of racism around the country with any degree of thoroughness or consistency unless it’s an enormous national story or if the story happened locally. Secondly, even when they do get covered, the chance of you happening to hear the story or see the tweet is small. Consequently, it’s easy to assume that if you don’t hear about it, it’s just not happening.
So, when students at Lincoln University in rural Pennsylvania found “NIGGER” spray painted on the entrance sign of the school last week, it was only covered by local media in Pennsylvania and a few very select outlets specializing in news for African Americans. Apparently, this is the pattern for incident after incident on college campuses all across the country.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, which I am guessing that 99.9 percent of you don’t read on a regular basis, has catalogued every documented and verified incident of racism on college campuses over from 2011 to 2015.
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Source: www.dailykos.com