Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active users of the leading racist website, Stormfront, according to a report released today by the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
See on www.splcenter.org
Racism
What I Learned From Tweeting With A Black Woman’s Avatar For #RaceSwapExp
“3. The level of hateful tweets went from zero to off the charts. With many of these trolls, I would respond once and then block them, or just block them. One such troll, @vincentBrook666, tweeted the following to me in all caps.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Thank you to Martha Wood for tweeting about this.
See on thoughtcatalog.com
GOP base includes racist ‘elements,’ congressman charges
“(CNN) – Over 50 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, the issue of race is back in the political headlines, after comments from Attorney General Eric Holder and events marking the anniversary of the law’s passage renewed the dialogue over race relations in the 21st century.”
Community Village‘s insight:
No surprise over this ‘news’.
When Your Kids Experience Racism
How do you teach your children to respond to racist remarks? Why don’t I know better comebacks to these childhood taunts?
Community Village‘s insight:
Any advice to add to HapaMama’s comment section?
See on hapamama.com
Student Sues California University For $5 Million, Alleges Horrifying Racial Abuse
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When there can be this level of bullying at San Jose State University, a bastion of progressive thought, that should be a bellwether for everyone nationwide,” Douglas told Reuters.
“I want there to be a conversation started by the filing of this claim… there are issues of racial intolerance, of bullying and of harassment running rampant in universities and colleges across this nation,” he said.
University spokeswoman Patricia Harris declined to comment on the claim, which named as defendants the university, its president Mohammad Qayoumi, a school housing adviser and others.
Authorities said four white roommates taunted and harassed the student, who was 17 at the time, by displaying Nazi imagery and a Confederate flag in their dormitory and attempting to hang a U-shape bicycle lock around his neck.
The roommates, also students, referred to him as “three-fifths” or “fraction,” the claim said, in an apparent slur relating to the fact African American slaves counted as only three fifths of a person under an 18th century agreement between U.S. states to determine state population sizes.
The roommates barricaded him in his room, and threatened him with a golf club when they tried to locate a missing pet goldfish, the claim said. The harassment lasted from at least September 23 to October 31, 2013, it said.
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See on www.businessinsider.com
The 7 kinds of American racism in the 2010s
Left to right: David Duke (Jim Crow), Charles Murray (race realist), Amy Chua (colour-blind), Barack Obama (Islamophobic), Clarence Thomas (internalized), Antonin Scalia (institutional). Not shown: historical racism.”
See on abagond.wordpress.com
Ole Miss student describes racial attack
An African-American student at Ole Miss talks about having racial slurs yelled at her and alcohol thrown at her.
See on www.cnn.com
Walker’s “Appeal”
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““Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America”(1829) by David Walker, a free Black American, was a forceful condemnation of slavery and racism. In America it was a guiding light for Blacks. It radicalized Whites. It was banned in the South.”
Community Village‘s insight:
I grew up going to majority White churches.
I never heard a mumbling word about racism or oppression.
@getgln
See on abagond.wordpress.com
The Destruction of Black Wall Street
“Greenwood, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, was the type of community that African Americans are still, today, attempting to reclaim and rebuild. It was modern, majestic, sophisticated and unapologetically…”
Linda Christenson writes the following:
“The term “race riot” does not adequately describe the events of May 31—June 1, 1921 in Greenwood… In fact, the term itself implies that both blacks and whites might be equally to blame for the lawlessness and violence. The historical record documents a sustained and murderous assault on black lives and property. This assault was met by a brave but unsuccessful armed defense of their community by some black World War I veterans and others.
During the night and day of the riot, deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses. White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. Nine thousand African Americans were left homeless and lived in tents well into the winter of 1921.
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-405#ixzz2ttGF3GVa
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The Effects of Ignoring Systemic Racism | The Nation
“Individual racism may be hurtful, but the systemic carries much more ruthless consequences.
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Ignoring the reality of racism only makes us more racist.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Part of the responsibility of living in the U.S. is to fight it’s own oppressive systems. Systems of imperialist white supremacist racist patriarchal vulture capitalism.
See on www.thenation.com