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Category Archives: racism
“Americans” Are Progressive
Great speech by Elizabeth Warren:
“The American people are progressive and our day is coming. Our values are America’s values, and America’s values are progressive values.”
Gryphon Blackswan, Another Colored Drag Queen
How lovely to encounter this video of Gryphon Blackswan, a faerie friend from the good old days.
How cool that there is a “Radical Faerie Ancestors” channel on youtube!
What Happens When a Black Man and a White Woman Speak for Each Other
More at Huffington Post
Facebook’s Lack of Integrity
“…there are many people who have been using Facebook for building up communities, for sharing important information, and for starting businesses based around their professional persona — and some don’t use their legal names. And many of these — including drag performers, trans people, Native Americans, and domestic violence survivors — have very good reasons for not using their legal or birth names on Facebook.”
More at East Bay Express and at #MyNameIs Campaign
Art Display Pulled From Maryland School After Complaints
“Honors students at Oxon Hill High School were given an assignment to create a display that shows what social justice means to them. The exhibit was in the school’s lobby for weeks. It was taken down on Monday.
The display featured a white police officer reading an obituary section. Next to that was a figure of a black man in a blood-stained shirt with his hands up.”
More at Fox 5
I’m a Black Ex-Cop, and This Is The Real Truth About Race and Policing
“Institutional racism runs throughout our criminal justice system. Its presence in police culture, though often flatly denied by the many police apologists that appear in the media now, has been central to the breakdown in police-community relationships for decades in spite of good people doing police work.”
More at Vox.com
Black vs White: Open Carry of Gun in Oregon
Quite enlightening to see the discriminatory treatment of the cops toward a black man vs. a white man open carrying a gun in Oregon (it’s legal to do so there, even though I think it shouldn’t be legal no matter what color you are).
The Most Racist Areas in the United States
“There are neighborhoods in Baltimore in which the life expectancy is 19 years less than other neighborhoods in the same city. Residents of the Downtown/Seaton Hill neighborhood have a life expectancy lower than 229 other nations, exceeded only by Yemen. According to the Washington Post, 15 neighborhoods in Baltimore have a lower life expectancy than North Korea.”
More at Daily Kos
Immigrants for Sale
An enlightening film about CCA and Geo, the for-profit prison corporations lobbying through ALEC to detain immigrants and continue the trend of overwhelming incarceration in the USA, which now has the highest per capita prison population in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SonJYh4yl2M
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