Showing posts with label ethnic relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethnic relations. Show all posts

Of Captives, Colonies And Compensation.

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This is what black people have to tolerate... This is what we have to tolerate... pic.twitter.com/db2vv6oD3U — chamonille (@chamonille) O...

Adventures In Double Standards: MOVE Edition.

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A few weeks ago, I wanted to make a compare/contrast between how authorities were handling the Oregon standoff led by Ammon Bundy and the...

White Mobs, Black Lives And You.

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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeaka...

Lessons Learned.

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Yours truly has learned something these past few months watching and reading up on current events, especially those affecting black Ameri...

Shades of Freddie Gray.

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Another day, another dead black American, another outrage. These days, black Americans are being murdered like clockwork by men and wom...

Required Reading.

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- Alternet's Sam Adler-Bell interviews Robin DiAngelo on the concept of " white fragility " and how terms like "white ...

Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

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There's a lot I could say about this. Like how racism is far from dead and will likely never die. Or how many corners of mainstream...

WWMLKD?

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In light of all that's happened in the past year, all the lives unnecessarily lost and the unhinged hatred put on display thus fa...

Michael Brown.

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In any case where a young person of color has been beaten, shot and/or killed at the hands of law enforcement, there are inevitably two c...

Black America And The Body Politic.

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Michael Brown's death and the subsequent protests in the city of Ferguson, Missouri have laid bare a few simple, troubling facts abou...

This Is What Domestic Terrorism Looks Like.

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It's been established throughout history that there's nothing scarier to many Americans than the sight of a black man with a gun...

Facing Uncomfortable Truths On The Fourth Of July.

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NOTE: The following was originally posted on July 7, 2012. For further food for thought, here's Dave Zirin's repost of Frederick...

Letting Ignorance Speak For Itself.

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I followed the Donald Sterling story, but I haven't had much of an inclination to blog about it as deeply as I'd like to. As I...

Never Having To Say You're Sorry.

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Ever since the ink dried on the idea that maybe, just maybe that America's non-majority members have been getting a bit of a raw deal...

Bamboozled.

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One of the many problems that come with dealing with the fallout from ingrained, institutionalized racism isn't just knowing who your...

Invisible Empires.

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You'd figure the Ku Klux Klan would be a nascent relic of the bad old days long gone. In spite of the sheer terror inspired by these ...

Compare And Contrast Once More: Amanda Knox vs. Richard Hinds.

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Last time on DDSS , yours truly brought to you a comparison between the criminal trial of Amanda Knox and that of Richard Hinds and James Bl...

Eviction, Annihilation And A Close To A Century Of Shame.

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Until recently, the heartbreaking tale of Malaga Island remained buried within the recesses of Maine's collective history, largely a...