Time for an inspirational video. Here’s one of my “Go To” people when I’m looking to be uplifted and motivated: the Rev. William J. Barber. Here he’s dealing with the events of Charlottesville and the issue of “Who Is a Racist?” and is somehow able to bring the idea of systemic racism into the conversation (“It’s not then just a statue. It’s the statutes.”) without being boring or pedantic. And what a way with words! How can we resist wanting to be “moral defibrillators that revive the heart of this country”? [Read more…]
Seeking Equality with a White-Supremacist-in-Chief in the White House
Some dude on television was trying to make a case that the president is not a white supremacist.
But, hey, I’ve dealt with white supremacists for 79 plus years and I have to say that Donald J. Trump is not only one, he’s the best example of such a being I have ever seen.
Take what he did with Jemele Hill, the ESPN sportscaster, my latest hero. She called him out on his white supremacism and he wants her fired and wants the network to apologize to him for her “untruth.” Scratch the prefix “un” and you see what he really wants her to apologize for. [Read more…]
Coates on Electing Trump: In 100 Years People Will Say We Lost Our Minds | Video Worth Watching
Chris Hayes of MSNBC’s “All In” interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates after his recent article in The Atlantic, “The First White President”. This is the article referenced on ESPN anchor Jemele Hill’s FaceBook page and which informed her controversial Tweet. [Read more…]
A Lament for Michael Brown Echoes On In St. Louis | Video Worth Watching
As trumpeter Keyon Harrold says on the YouTube page of this video:
In tribute to the many unarmed woman, men, and children killed tragically and unjustifiably before their time.
Now, from St. Louis, there are reports of unrest at the exoneration of former police officer Jason Stockley in the Dec. 20, 2011, shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Charles P. Pierce’s ruminations are insight into why this lament includes this latest injustice.
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Yes! There is Life After Hate! The Way to Fight Homegrown Domestic Terrorism | Video Worth Watching
SamBee is back! Here’s her in-depth investigative report on a counter-terrorism effort directed at the homegrown domestic kind. On hand to help are Fred and Carrie from Portland(ia)!
Don’t be stupid. Be a smarty. Undermine the Nazi party! [Read more…]
Is Calling the President a White Supremacist Out of Bounds? | Video Worth Watching
ESPN sportscaster Jemele Hill in a recent Tweet stated that “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” and “His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, when asked to comment on the Tweet, said that “I think that’s one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make and certainly something that I think is a fireable offense by ESPN.” All In’s Chris Hayes invites Brittney Cooper, Professor of Africana Studies, Rutgers University, and Jason Johnson, Professor of Political Science, Morgan State University, to discuss. [Read more…]
Why Black Pride Makes Sense
By Unknown
A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is, “Why can’t I be proud of my culture?”
Well, you can. Always have been able to.
We have Irish pride celebrations, we have German drinking festivals, we have Serbian food festivals. Any European culture you can think of has multiple organizations in North America dedicated to taking pride in their heritage and no one gives them shit for it.
But, you see, when you start talking “white pride,” that’s not a culture. That’s a skin color. There is no white culture; never was. There is no pan-European culture, never was. Europe is a continent, not a culture or ethnicity.
Now, some of you are probably about to go, “But wait! Black pride! How is that okay?“ [Read more…]
#BlackOutNFL: Pro Football Has Lost Me and I’m Good With That
On Sunday, I should have been watching football, but wasn’t. The Chargers leaving San Diego, the reports of brain damage to players, the banality of network coverage, and –above all–the racism has ruined what used to be one of my favorite pastimes.
Mid-afternoon on the first regular weekend day of play, I realized I just didn’t care anymore. I didn’t go to ESPN to check the scores. I didn’t watch any of the recaps on the evening news. And the few mentions I saw on social media had no impact.
My malaise concerning the NFL didn’t happen overnight. Back in the day, I worked at a sports bar in Washington DC. It didn’t matter who was playing, we were always packed on game days. Drinking was part of the fun. So was gambling–mostly through pools, though one of the bartenders was married to a bookie and I assumed he got some action.
Now things are different for me. The greed at the top is so blatant it’s no longer possible for a reasonably aware human to believe in ‘their’ team. [Read more…]
Dolores Huerta Calls Out Trump and Says the End of DACA Is ‘ A Step Above Slavery’
By Kelly Macias / Daily Kos
Dolores Huerta sees Donald Trump and the Republicans for the racists they are—and she’s not keeping quiet about it. At 87 years old, she’s been engaging in social and racial justice work since the 1950s.
Huerta wants us to know that what they are doing to actively marginalize immigrants and people of color is an old trick that is about economics and racism. She also wants us to know that we can do something about it. [Read more…]
I Didn’t Know I Was Racist Until My Sister Married a Black Man
Many white people who consider themselves decent, concerned citizens, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, look upon racism as a too-sensitive subject. It seems so, because it is super-charged by our history and because racial prejudice never seems to go away.
As white people, we never seem to reach a point where we can safely say we are not racist. Someone else always seems to remind us that no matter how much personal progress we’ve made in shedding our prejudice, we can never embrace people of color as our brothers and sisters, except in situations where we momentarily have summoned the virtue to love across the lines.
My husband, a physician, says that right down to the very particles of our atoms, human beings are always are engaged in a relentless process of self/non-self discrimination. Through evolutionary dictates over which we have no control at all, our bodies are constantly policed by microscopic agents always on the lookout to destroy that which is not “us.”
Can it be any surprise that our psyches might be constructed in similar ways? [Read more…]
Still Think Those Confederate Monuments Are All About Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
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…]
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