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Atticus Finch is racist in Harper Lee’s new book and people are furious
According to the New York Times review of Go Set a Watchman, the man who once stood against the darkness of racism has attended a Klan meeting and talks about “Negroes” as second-class citizens. Expectedly, readers aren’t taking it well — but upon closer inspection this is actually a fascinating development.
Every 28 Hours (7.10.15): Last night, a black Mississippi farmer was choked to death by a police officer. Jonathan Sanders was exercising his horses, when a white cop approached him, pulled him off his horse, and choked him with a flashlight. Literally no explanation has been provided as to why this unarmed man was stopped, let alone murdered. At the time of this post, at least five other people today alone have been killed by the police. #staywoke #farfromover
You Don’t Say: Media Double Standards
About Black Protesters
“Wild animals burning buildings down”
“Who acts that way towards a police officer?”
About White Looters
“Young people danced on a flipped over car”
“It’s so tough to lose and unfortunately the ugly side that we sometimes see in sports”
At the beginning of 2013, former AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng made one of the biggest and defining moments against racism in professional football.
In a friendly match before the season resumed, the Ghana international was the subject of racist chants by the opposing team’s fans. Boateng became angry and frustrated with the chants, picked up the ball kicked it into the stands where the racist fans were seated and then walked off the pitch. After a moment of confusion, his AC Milan team mates decided to follow Boateng, leaving the pitch in support of the player against the racist fans. The match was then canceled.
This marks the first time in football history that a match was abandoned due to racist abuse.
This challenged the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) policy that players must stay on the pitch regardless of abusive or racist chants.
Rather than disciplining the player and the team for leaving the pitch in the middle of a match, the Italian club, AC Milan, supported the players decision by making personalised “AC Milan against racism” jerseys for the players to wear before their next league match.
If you’re not sure what’s going on in the Dominican Republic, here’s the 411:
Background information:
- In the Dominican Republic, there’s a huge difference in being ‘moreno’ (brown) and negro (black)
- If you’re Haitian, you’re considered black and being black in the DR means you’re a second class citizen. Meaning, denial of job opportunities, public education, job accounts and health care. (sounds familiar doesn’t it?)
- Dominican hatred of Haitians extends back to 1822, when Haiti invaded and conquered the Dominican Republic and promptly freed the slaves.
- In 1912, the Dominican government passed a law limiting the number of black-skinned people who could enter the country.
- In 1939, Dominican President Rafael Trujillo ordered the genocide of Haitians costing approximately 30 000 lives.
What’s happening today:
- About a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.
- According to a ruling by Constitutional Court; Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent.
- Many of the Dominican-born Haitians have never been, or even know anyone in Haiti.
- The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be deported out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”
In other words, Dominica has said: if you’re black, bye.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Controversy is swirling around one of the Spokane region’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members saying the local leader of the NAACP has falsely portrayed herself as black for years. (X)
Her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal says: “It’s very sad that Rachel has not just been herself,” Ruthanne Dolezal said. “Her effectiveness in the causes of the African-American community would have been so much more viable, and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody.
Ruthanne Dolezal said the family’s ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German. She said the family does have some “faint traces” of Native American heritage as well. She provided a copy of her daughter’s Montana birth certificate listing herself and Larry Dolezal as Rachel’s parents. (X)
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The ally role wasn’t enough, now she wants to be one of us.
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“Whether you like it or not, being Asian has a big impact on who you are as a person.”Natalie Tran is a wonderful human and I take so much joy in her existence.
This is from a talk she gave at Brown, the link above is to the YouTube video and the whole thing is great.
- Half of Cambodian, Hmong, and Lao Americans drop out of high school.
- Police can go in to a Cambodian house without warrant and assault the entire family.
- Southeast Asians are racially profiled by the police.
- Filipina domestic workers often suffer abuse in silence or face deportation.
- API trans people face higher rates of poverty.
- When Asian bi-national LGBTQ couple faces disproportional effects of DOMA.
- A third of Korean Americans lack health insurance.
- When Asian Americans can be killed just for being Asians, even by the police.
All these things and people still use the model minority myth to silence Asian Americans by saying “we have it good”.