Africans: See Why We Should Marry From Our Cultures; The Eboue Story. Dear White Women married to Black Men, we didn’t give you a Black Card. I should have written this a long time ago, but the idea of again stating the obvious is just exhausting.
Here goes anyway… Herneith. In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops. If you grew up in New York City in the 1970s, the number can be hard to get your head around: 291.
If you were a reporter in New York City in the early 1990s, the number can almost make your head explode: 291 murders in 2017, the lowest total since the 1950s. But the number is perhaps most striking when set not against the numbers of murders in other years, but against this figure: the roughly 10,000 police stops conducted in 2017. The longstanding rationale for the New York Police Department’s widespread use of what came to be known as stop-and-frisk — encounters between officers and people they suspected of suspicious behavior — had been that it was an essential crime-fighting tool.
Such stops got guns off the street, the theory went, and low-level enforcement helped sweep up criminals destined to commit more serious crimes. How segregation leads to racist voting by whites. Although there can be debate about the details, there’s little doubt that attitudes about race and immigration played a central role in the election of Donald Trump.
On survey after survey, white voters uneasy about the changing complexion of America or willing to endorse shockingly negative stereotypes about minorities went for Trump. To predict voting for Donald Trump, ask a white person how they feel about Mexican immigrants, or whether they agree with negative stereotypes about the work ethic of black Americans. Even in the face of other plausible explanations, a strong relationship remains.
But why was this ugly underbelly of American politics so prominent in 2016? Teaching White Supremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes On Race. This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported. By Ken Schwencke and Hannah Fresques, ProPublica, November 17, 2017 Population Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation Hate Crime Statistics, 2016 On Monday, the FBI released its latest tally of hate crimes in the U.S.
Walking While Black. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office issues hundreds of pedestrian citations a year, drawing on an array of 28 separate statutes governing how people get around on foot in Florida’s most populous city.
There is, of course, the straightforward jaywalking statute, barring people from crossing against a red light. But in Jacksonville, pedestrians can also be ticketed for crossing against a yellow light, for “failing to cross a street at a right angle,” for not walking on the left side of a road when there are no sidewalks, or alternatively for not walking on a sidewalk when one is available. The sheriff’s office says the enforcement of the full variety of pedestrian statutes is essential to keeping people alive in a city with one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the nation. The office also says the tickets are a useful crime-fighting tool, allowing officers to stop suspicious people and question them for guns and or drugs.
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Absurdity of Hope. How Obama and Trump destroyed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ faith in racial progress.
Coates rejects the likelihood of racial progress. White supremacy created America and is likely here to stay. Newrepublic. Chicago’s Bankruptcy Boom — ProPublica. This week we published a deep look at why bankruptcy frequently fails to provide relief to black Americans struggling with debt.
The story focused on Memphis, Tennessee — the bankruptcy capital of the nation — where black debtors have for generations been funneled into Chapter 13, which usually requires five years of payments most have no chance of making. Debt-laden consumers outside the South overwhelmingly file under Chapter 7, which wipes away most debts, our story and analysis shows. But in recent years, there’s been one big geographic exception: Chicago. In Northern Illinois, Chapter 13 Filing Rates Have Been Rising Steeply in Black Areas Chapter 13 filings per 1,000 residents - black census tracts vs. white census tracts. How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans. Novasha Miller pushed through the revolving doors of the black glass tower on Jefferson Avenue last December and felt a rush of déjà vu.
The building, conspicuous in Memphis’ modest skyline along the Mississippi River, looms over its neighbors. Then she remembered: Years ago, as a teenager, she’d accompanied her mother inside. Now she was 32, herself the mother of a teenager , and she was entering the same door, taking the same elevator. Can Detroit Save White People? By Aaron Foley OK, so, all you white people coming from Brooklyn (or L.A., or Portland, or Austin, or Chicago, or London, or whatever) to Detroit looking to “save” yourself: What, exactly, are you saving yourself from?
I’m curious! What is it like being born into the most spoiled classes on the planet and wanting to move to a city full of black folks who have been ruined by centuries of your tyrannical rule? Serious question here. Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville. “Racism is evil,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
OK, “declared” may be too strong a word for what we heard from the president. “Stated” is perhaps a better descriptor. Stonewall Jackson’s grandsons: “The monuments must go.” Photo by Billy Hathorn Dear Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and members of the Monument Avenue Commission, We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. The moving castle: How (not) to Read Racist Books to Your Kids. On Friday, the New York Times magazine section published a “Riff” piece titled “How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kid,” by Stephen Marche. The link has been passed around a bit on facebook and twitter, at least in the children’s lit/booknerd circles I move in (electronically, at any rate). I haven’t seen much discussion of the content of the piece, though, which surprises me; when I read it the first time, it set off all of skepticism sensors. Marche’s introductory example of an Asterix comic he’s reading to his six-year-old is, perhaps, a flawed one to begin with: Asterix is a comic and, in my admittedly limited knowledge of European comics (and comics in general), it’s a general audience series, not a specifically kid-oriented one.
But we’ll grant him that, and regardless of source, the question Marche’s six-year-old asks is a good one: “Why do the pirates have a gorilla?” The “gorilla” is, of course, a racist representation of an “African.” Dear Women Of Color Who Are Told To Be Nicer To White 'Allies' 10 Things I've Learned About Gaslighting As An Abuse Tactic - Everyday Feminism. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children. In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. How Gentrification Is Undermining the Notion of Black Community and Destroying Black Businesses. Lori Shepherd is an African-American small-business owner in Oakland, Calif.
Shepherd’s story is becoming an increasingly familiar one for urban Blacks. “Due to Uber’s decision to move within two blocks of my shared office space, and the construction and limited parking, I’ve had to change up significantly how I work,” Shepherd said. “Instead of always working at my shared space, I have switched to working at a local Black-owned cafe. Unfortunately, last month, they were given an eviction notice from outside contractors, and now even that space is gone. “The impact for me has been profound in terms of how I work and where.” For decades, Oakland has been the fount of Black culture in the West. The sum of this is the slow decay of the urban African-American community as it is known today. To Be Black in Iraq. Africa, Headlines, Human Rights, Middle East & North Africa. Racism, Justified: A Critical Look at Critical Race Theory. UCLA School of Public Affairs. The Theory. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and Reparations - The Atlantic. The Brain-Heart Dialogue Shows How Racism Hijacks Perception. Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness. Chicago Area Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums. Devil’s Punchbowl — U.S. Concentration Camp For African Americans So Horrific It Was Erased From History – Counter Current News. How racial bias could be hurting Silicon Valley’s bottom line. People take their seats ahead of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference presentation at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on June 13, 2016.
(Gabrielle Lurie/AFP/Getty Images) Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership — possibly by tying executives' compensation to racial diversity goals — in the industry's latest effort to grapple with a severe underrepresentation of blacks and Latinos in its ranks. The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.
White supremacists and other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies. A striking reference to that conclusion, notable for its confidence and the policy prescriptions that accompany it, appears in a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide from April 2015, obtained by The Intercept. The guide, which details the process by which the FBI enters individuals on a terrorism watchlist, the Known or Suspected Terrorist File, notes that “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers,” and explains in some detail how bureau policies have been crafted to take this infiltration into account.
Signal received: White nationalists ecstatic over Trump’s proposed policy change on terrorism. Uncovering the roots of racist ideas in America. White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them - The Racist Origins of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Let’s stop coddling white feelings – Medium. ‘As a White Nationalist, What Do You Do?’ A Reporter on the Hate Beat Finds 2 Very Local Stories. Does Race Matter When You’re Applying for a Job? Log In. KING: Democratic staffer exposes the soft bigotry of Senate Dems. Ben Shapiro on Steve Bannon, the alt-right, and why the left needs to turn down the outrage. The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard.
Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump’s America. Michael Moore: Morning-After To-Do List. Michael Moore: Morning-After To-Do List. 'When did Greeks become 'white'?' Dolezaled – Medium. A lynching in Georgia: the living memorial to America’s history of racist violence. When will Democrats realize that black Americans are more than just their votes? White Peoples Feelings. Does Race Matter When You’re Applying for a Job? Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race. Looking for Accountability in Police-Involved Deaths of Blacks. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism -
‘Black Lives Matter has a plantation mentality’ Businessinsider. Whiteness is a racial construct. It’s time to take it apart. White privilege wages jihad: Kansas “militia members” aren’t considered “terrorists” because they’re not Muslim. Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist. Nypost. We Went to Kellie Leitch’s Campaign Launch to Hear Her Immigrant Screening Pitch. Official Apologizes for Police Role in Mistrust by Minorities. U.S. police chiefs group apologizes for ‘historical mistreatment’ of minorities. The Parallels between International Adoption and Slavery. Canada's racial divide: Confronting racism in our own backyard. Bill C-31. Trauma and Poverty Alters the Brains of Black People, and It Will Take Black Institutions to Stop It. A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
Wage gap between white and black Americans is worse today than in 1979. It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people.