Still think those Confederate monuments are all about heritage and history? Here’s a Vox video by Carlos Waters that uses a timeline to show the relationship of spurts of monument erections and historical events. There’s definitely a pattern here … [Read more…]
Trump’s Suspension of Obama’s Desegregation Policy Impacts San Diego Housing Vouchers
On August 11, the Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended key components of an Obama Administration rule that addressed growing segregation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Only days later, the Trump Administration declared plans to target and dismantle affirmative action in universities.
By Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi / UrbDeZine
In an effort to address our nation’s increasing levels of segregation, the Obama Administration implemented a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Final Rule that changed the way 23 metropolitan areas issued vouchers to low-income tenants. The goal was simple: improve the health of low-income families by increasing access to areas of lower poverty and higher opportunity.
The Final Rule was an attempt by the Obama Administration to address the nation’s housing segregation crisis. Segregation levels today mirror those that existed in the 1960s. [Read more…]
White Supremacy – Our Culture and Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
Last night in Trump’s campaign rally speech (now think about that for a second—a campaign rally in the eighth month of his term; the event was paid for with campaign funds. And you think Christmas merchandise on shelves in September is premature!) we heard the code words “culture” and “heritage”. These are normally venerable words, now being pressed into service for ignoble purposes. When used to lament the loss of Confederate monuments, the culture and heritage being referenced is White Supremacy and slavery.
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Pillars of the Community: Seekers of Unity in a Climate of White Supremacy
I heard talk on TV about people being “stunned” that the president would say that both sides were at fault when he had “rebuked” (if you really want to call it that) the white nationalists’ stunningly violent and reckless behavior in Virginia just the day before.
Stunned about what? I would have been stunned if he hadn’t taken his words back. What happened was the dude desperately had to get back to his true self, back to speaking from the dark places in his mind. [Read more…]
Learning To Hate – the Brown Eyes / Blue Eyes Exercise | Video Worth Watching
A recent tweet from Barack Obama’s Twitter account featured a quote from Nelson Mandela: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion … People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love … For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” It now holds the record for the most “Liked” tweet of all time with 2.723 million times as of Tuesday evening (8/15/17).
For insight into how one might learn how to hate, here is a video that features highlights of the PBS documentary “A Class Divided” which describes an exercise conducted by Jane Elliott in 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. [Read more…]
California Hating by the Heroes of Populism
She likes the free fresh wind in her hair,
Life without care
She’s broke and it’s oke
Hates California, it’s cold and it’s damp
That’s why the lady is a tramp— “The Lady Is a Tramp”
For whatever reason, California envy has been rising lately.
Remember Rick Perry’s failed attempt to lure high tech and other of the state’s businesses (Elon Musk’s Tesla, included) to Texas in 2013 and 2014?
Did you know that a Utah state legislator has offered a bill to support California’s secession from the United States. [Read more…]
Farewell to Sea World Orca Kasatka
By Cara Wilson-Granat / OB Rag
Kasatka, the matriarch of SeaWorld’s orca family died on Tuesday, August 15, 2017. The news of this creature’s death appeared in the business pages of the U-T and was tagged as “tourism”. We think Kasatka deserved better in her life and better in her death. We are re-posting Wilson-Granat’s biography of Kasatka for our readers.
Confederates and a Copperhead Seize White House
Reality Trumps Dystopia
By Nat Krieger
Reality is morphing so fast that even dystopic entertainments are struggling to catch up.
Confederacy, a drama series green lighted in July by HBO, posits an alternate future where the Confederate States of America has triumphed in their bid for secession, and the Mason-Dixon Line continues to divide slave from free. In the actual Civil War Jubal Early’s II Corps got within six miles of Washington, but 21st century Confederates ruling from the White House? Not even the creators of Game of Thrones came up with that one. [Read more…]
Who Are These Defenders of Confederate Statues? – Charlottesville: Race and Terror | Video Worth Watching
“VICE News Tonight” correspondent Elle Reeve went behind the scenes with white nationalist leaders, including Christopher Cantwell, Robert Ray, David Duke, and Matthew Heimbach — as well as counter-protesters. VICE News Tonight also spoke with residents of Charlottesville, members of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Charlottesville Police.
From the neo-Nazi protests at Emancipation Park to Cantwell’s hideaway outside of Virginia, “VICE News Tonight” provides viewers with exclusive, up close and personal access inside the unrest. [Read more…]
Confederate Monuments – Grind the Stone Into Dust | Video Worth Watching
What is to be done with the monuments to Southern white supremacy? New Orleans has already begun the process of removing these symbols of white supremacy and New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, revealed to the Atlantic, some of the issues raised by this project.
Then there’s Daily Kos blogger, Hunter, who weighed in recently with a post titled “Tear Them Down”. Pointing out that nearly all of the monuments nationwide were erected long after the end of the Civil War, most were less an attempt to honor the exploits of those fighting to preserve slavery than a demonstration of the continued dominance of white power and privilege. Putting them in historical context he says: [Read more…]
I’m Not the Angry Racist You See In That Photo | Video Worth Watching
The Twitter image of Peter Cvjetanovic somehow belies his claim, as reported in a Raw Story post, that “I’m not the angry racist you see in that photo”.
What comes to mind for me is the “Cabaret” sequence ‘Tomorow belongs to me …’ and the question that the protagonist poses to his companion near the end of the sequence: “You still think you can control them?” [Read more…]
Making America Without-So-Many-Crises Again
I just hurriedly clicked off a discussion on TV concerning how Trump might do in the 2020 race for the presidency.
What little I heard was too much for me because with all I’ve seen of this man it’s idiocy just mentioning his name in regard to his being re-elected. That such a conversation can even take place in our democracy says to me that we are undoubtedly, in a bad place, in a state of social and political disgrace, a.k.a. crisis.
Just look at us. It’s like we’ve lost our way. I mean there’s an NFL quarterback who can’t find a job because he took a knee during the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” without us, for a moment, addressing the crippling racism in our country that he was protesting. No word in defense of his patriotism or against our national shame by the top dog in the Land of the Free. [Read more…]
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