Tagged: continuing racial discrimination

“A Long And Sordid History” by Slynstad

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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!!!

“Broadly speaking,…research [on the ‘malleability of merit’] demonstrates that people frequently engage in motivated reasoning in selection decisions that we justify by changing merit criteria on the fly, often without conscious awareness. In other words, as between two plausible candidates that have different strengths and weaknesses, we first choose the candidate we like — a decision that may well be influenced by implicit factors — and then justify that choice by molding our merit standards accordingly. We can make this point more concrete. In one experiment, Eric Luis Uhlmann and Geoffrey Cohen asked participants to evaluate two finalists for police chief —one male, the other female. One candidate’s profile signaled book smart, the other’s profile signaled streetwise, and the experimental design varied which profile attached to the woman and which to the man. Regardless of which attributes the male candidate featured, participants favored the male candidate and articulated their hiring criteria accordingly. For example, education (book smarts) was considered more important when the man had it. Surprisingly, even the attribute of being family oriented and having children was deemed more important when the man had it.”

Source: Hon. Mark W. Bennett, Devon Carbado, Pam Casey, Jerry Kang,  et al. “Implicit Bias In The Courtroom.” 56 UCLA L. Review 1124, 1156-1157. 2012.

“Bernie Sanders says he would not support reparations for African-Americans as president. ‘Its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil,’ he told Fusion in an interview. ‘Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.'”

Wait?!? Bernie thinks reparations are divisive but not global white supremacy (racism)?!?

I think Bernie by far is the best candidate to become the next President of the United States [due to the fact that majority of the candidates are pretty horrible], but his answer to this question — based on his knowledge of America’s history of white racism — shows that he’s not really serious about eradicating global white/”Jewish” supremacy and America’s racial caste system.

Basically, this means that no matter who is elected president this year, white racism is only going to worsen since the white elite and those in positions of power will continue to ignore the realities and effects of institutionalized white racism on people of African descent. Smdh.

Black people better wake up! You don’t have much time left!

“To those aware of this history, Charles Hamilton Houston has become known as the man who killed Jim Crow. The strategy that Charles Hamilton Houston devised was three-fold. First, he amassed a nationwide network of prominent African American lawyers to pick and cull possible test cases. Second, he attempted to build the precedential foundation necessary for a direct constitutional assault on segregation. Based on his extensive research on segregation in the American South, he developed the legal theory that the separate-but-equal doctrine put forth in Plessy v. Ferguson was fatally flawed. The evidence he gathered demonstrated that separate facilities for African Americans were not equal, and thus, he argued, separate facilities and benefits provided on the basis of racial classification can never be equal. Third, he sought to organize local black communities in broad, unified support of legal, political, and social action against ongoing discriminatory practices.”

Source: Charles J. Olgetree. From Dred Scott to Obama. pg. 16. 2009.

“After passing the ‘Right of Abode’ law, which grants African Americans an indefinite ‘right to stay,’ Ghana became the first to open its doors to people of African descent to settle in the country. African-Americans and some Caribbeans have slowly trickled back but the process of obtaining a permanent resident status is long and frustrating.”

Didn’t know about Ghana’s “Right of Abode” law…Did you?

America would be NOTHING without us! As the U.S. economy continues to take a nosedive and blatant forms of white racism rise in the U.S., black Americans need to seriously consider migrating back to the Motherland.

We could take what we’ve learned here over the last 400 years to help make Africa and the entire world a much better place.

No matter what, new solutions are needed to combat white racism. Collecting the reparations that are owed and leaving this sinking ship en masse sounds good idea to me.

Source: Efam Dovi. “Ghana, A Place For African-Americans To Resettle.” May 11, 2015. http://www.theafricareport.com/West-Africa/ghana-a-place-for-african-americans-to-resettle.html.

“Marshon Sanders was booted from class for dressing up like Jesus Christ on Halloween. Highland Park High School eventually let him wear his costume, but Sanders’ mom wonders whether seeing a ‘black Jesus’ was the problem.”

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Smdh! Of course seeing a “black Jesus” was the problem for the predominately white teachers and administrators because for hundreds of years, Europeans have deliberately tried to whiten all non-white religious figures throughout the world in order to perpetuate the myth of white racial superiority. The reaction of the school should actually happen whenever Jesus is portrayed as WHITE or when racist whites dress up in BLACKFACE!

Source: Carol Kuruvilla. “Boy Dressed Up Like Jesus Christ Temporarily Kicked Out Of School.” New York Daily News. November 1, 2015. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/illinois-teen-temporarily-booted-class-jesus-costume-article-1.1504137.

“McGraw Hill swiftly did its damage control. It announced that it was changing the caption in both the digital and print versions to characterize the migration accurately as a “forced” diaspora of slaves: “We conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves,” the company said in a statement. “We believe we can do better.” Catherine Mathis, the company’s spokeswoman, also emphasized that the textbook accurately referred to the slave trade and its brutality in more than a dozen other instances. And McGraw Hill has offered to provide various additional resources to any school that requests them, including supplemental materials on cultural competency, replacement textbooks, or stickers with a corrected caption to place over the erroneous one. But Texas school districts were already in possession of more than 100,000 copies of the book, while another 40,000, according to Mathis, are in schools in other states across the country.”

We are in 2015 and there are no fucking excuses! Also, I wonder how many African Americans sit on the editorial boards for these textbooks that are brainwashing our youth every year to believe in and perpetuate the myth of black inferiority?!

Source: Alia Wong. “History Class And The Fictions About Race In America.” The Atlantic. October 21, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-history-class-dilemma/411601/.

“Earlier this month, McGraw Hill found itself at the center of some rather embarrassing press after a photo showing a page from one of its high-school world-geography textbooks was disseminated on social media. The page features a seemingly innocuous polychromatic map of the United States, broken up into thousands of counties, as part of a lesson on the country’s immigration patterns: Different colors correspond with various ancestral groups, and the color assigned to each county indicates its largest ethnic representation. The page is scarce on words aside from an introductory summary and three text bubbles explaining specific trends…The recent blunder has to do with one bubble in particular. Pointing to a patch of purple grids extending throughout the country’s Southeast corridor, the one-sentence caption reads: ‘The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.’ The photo that spread through social media was taken by a black Texas student named Coby Burren, who subsequently texted it to his mom, Roni-Dean Burren. ‘Was real hard workers, wasn’t we,’ he wrote. Roni-Dean quickly took to Facebook, lambasting the blunder: the reference to the Africans as workers rather than slaves. A video she later posted has been viewed nearly 2 million times, and her indignation has renewed conversations around the Black Lives Matter movement while attracting coverage by almost every major news outlet. ‘It talked about the U.S.A. being a country of immigration, but mentioning the slave trade in terms of immigration was just off,’ she told The New York Times. ‘It’s that nuance of language. This is what erasure looks like.'”

Source: Alia Wong. “History Class And The Fictions About Race In America.” The Atlantic. October 21, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-history-class-dilemma/411601/.

“Let me assure you that there is no such thing as a black racist. There is no such thing. ‘Black racism’ and ‘reverse racism’ are terms that were developed by intellectual white thinktanks in political circles to get you as African young people to feel guilty about discussing what has happened to you as African people in America. So when you start to discuss slavery, or the effects of slavery, or the effects of 500 years of domination, what they do is say, “Oh, you’re a racist.” When you react to the ugly things that they do or say to us, they say, “Oh, you’re a racist.” That is to get you to feel guilty about discussing, or organizing, or taking issue with the condition of African people in this country.” — Sister Souljah

Source: From a lecture titled “We Are At War” at Cheney State University in 1994. http://www.blackpast.org/1994-sister-souljah-we-are-war.

“Our screens and feeds are filled with news and images of black Americans dying or being brutalized. A brief and yet still-too-long list: Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Renisha McBride. The image of a white police officer straddling a black teenager on a lawn in McKinney, Tex., had barely faded before we were forced to grapple with the racially motivated shooting in Charleston, S.C. I’ve had numerous conversations with friends and colleagues who are stressed out by the recent string of events; our anxiety and fear is palpable. A few days ago, a friend sent a text message that read, ‘I’m honestly terrified this will happen to us or someone we know.’ Twitter and Facebook are teeming with anguish, and within my own social network (which admittedly consists largely of writers, academics and activists), I’ve seen several ad hoc databases of clinics and counselors crop up to help those struggling to cope. Instagram and Twitter have become a means to circulate information about yoga, meditation and holistic treatment services for African-Americans worn down by the barrage of reports about black deaths and police brutality, and I’ve been invited to several small gatherings dedicated to discussing these events. A handful of friends recently took off for Morocco for a few months with the explicit goal of escaping the psychic weight of life in America.”

Source: Jenna Wortham. “Racism’s Psychological Toll.” New York Times Magazine. June 24, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/magazine/racisms-psychological-toll.html?_r=0.