Earlier this week, Ken Smith wrote about redlining and segregation in South Bend, Indiana, where he lives. I have started reading a book about the history of the Black Panthers in Portland, Oregon. There is a section which describes the same practices, and how the Albina neighborhood and the former town of Vanport were the only places where Blacks could live.
Racism
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When I left the CIA, I no longer wanted to fight our "war on terror." For seven years after the 9/11 attacks, I served as an operations officer in the CIA counterterrorism center. My role in our effor
I’m now a cop in my hometown, Savannah, Georgia, and I don’t want to fight another war — our “war on crime.” But I’m not going anywhere. I’m just speaking up, to propose that we end what never was a war to begin with. We need to change our mind-set about what it means to “police” in America. At this moment of maximal national tension and outrage, when national leaders are calling the streets of America a “battlespace,” with police officers as warriors who should “dominate” and give “no quarter,” I am telling whoever will listen: Police are not warriors — because we are not and must not be at war with our neighbors.
CNN’s Sara Sidner retched as she watched the video of George Floyd’s last minutes. It was far from the first time she’d covered the death of an unarmed black man by police. And the vicious cycle made her wonder, when will it be enough? Will this be the time that the people, the Earth, and this country is moved?
Advocates suggest ways that white people can become allies for African Americans long after the street demonstrations end.
From Ella Baker to Septima Clark, history is rife with examples of Black women whose tremendous legacies in the world of political organizing are accompanied by a relative absence in the dominant narratives we tell ourselves about the times in which they lived. They say that fortune favors the bold
Produced by Chicago Public Schools, this is “a toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience.”
Twitter post from Chicago Public Schools announcing toolkit
The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.
Powerful statement on racism in his life…
Just hear me out.