Police arrested a 54-year-old man after witnesses said they saw him displaying an AR-15 at Sky Harbor.
Source: www.azcentral.com
If he was Black or Brown and brought an assault weapon out in public what would happen?
Remember what happened ten seconds after seeing 13 year old Andy Lopez carrying a toy gun that looked like an assault rifle?
Andy was shot 7 times within 26 seconds. The eight bullet missed.
The whole article is worth reading, but if you don’t have time, here are some highlights:
“In this struggle we can’t give up on white people. I know this will disappoint some more militant (or maybe just sick and tired) readers, but unless we can move more whites onto our side, we will never end racism.
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But, whites’ relative proximity to power doesn’t make them evil, just more influential.
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The white middle class in the U.S. rose from the rubble of the Great Depression as a result of an economic stimulus package of programs and policies that was won by the Roosevelt administration. But winning that package of programs required cutting a deal with racially conservative Southern legislators that made Roosevelt’s stimulus racially exclusive.
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Those government programs that created the white middle class were paid for by every worker, including workers of color.
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Race is a cage that keeps all but the most powerful among us trapped in perpetual insecurity, fighting against one another for privileges rather than with one another for power. But the bars of that cage are tempered not just by privilege but by fear.
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We need to approach the project of winning racial justice as a struggle against fear.
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In order to win against racism, we need more than criticism of those who appear to be hoarding the goods. We need solutions that make room in our still far from complete democracy for all of us so that none of us need fear exclusion, exploitation, and the humiliation of being denied basic human dignity. And isn’t that what justice is all about anyway?”
See on www.racefiles.com
This article covers:
I love the straightforward honesty of Lee Mun Wah
See on www.stirfryseminars.com
“By the 1610s the plantation system in Virginia was in place – before Blacks arrived in numbers. Whites grew tobacco and other crops using forced gang labour.
Working conditions:
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“The professor grabbed my tablet and closed it on my hands while I was opening my document and then proceeded to try to take my tablet from me while one of my hands was sandwiched in between the tablet and the keyboard. In dismay I responded, …”
Have you ever had a professor grab something out of your hand?
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“…a big part of his privilege as a White person is the ability to decide what issues he chose to deal with. ”
© Josh Sager – September 2013
“…white Americans have a level of privilege when carrying their weapons which is simply not given to people of other races.”
See on theprogressivecynic.com
“Note: This post is based on “We Talk, You Listen” (1970) by Vine Deloria, Jr (pictured), a Native American (Sioux) writer. His ideas, my words:
By 1970 it was clear to most people that American history was too white as commonly taught at schools and universities. There were two main schools of thought about how to set it right:”
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“Here are some things White Americans say that seem odd, offensive, arrogant, ignorant and so on.
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Commenters can offer their own opinions and examples.”
illegal – no human is illegal
alien – dated and dehumanizing
undocumented – dated. Instead use RPI “Registered Provisional Immigrant”
Hispanic – Proceeded with caution. Most “Hispanics” prefer “Latino”; unless they have no European heritage. For example, indigenous Mexicans, indigenous Central Americans and indigenous South Americans are not Latino; in which case one could use Hispanic – but the word Hispanic ignores their indigenous identity to the Americas; in which case you can use American Native or the scientific term Amerindian.
Colored – dated. should be “People of Color”, not “colored people”
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