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A Daughter’s Words Is Moving Millions: “Dear Dad, I Will Be Called A Whore.” ... Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person... Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was "Privileged. " "THE FUCK!?!? " I said. I came from the kind of Poor that people don't want to believe still exists in this country. Have you ever spent a frigid northern Illinois winter without heat or running water? I have. At twelve years old, were you making ramen noodles in a coffee maker with water you fetched from a public bathroom? I was. So when that feminist told me I had "white privilege," I told her that my white skin didn't do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty. After one reads McIntosh's powerful essay, it's impossible to deny that being born with white skin in America affords people certain unearned privileges in life that people of another skin color simple are not afforded.

"I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. "" I do understand McIntosh's essay may rub some people the wrong way. I know now that I AM Privileged in many ways. I’m Latino. I’m Hispanic. And they’re different, so I drew a comic to explain. By Terry Blas on August 12, 2016. Focus on KKK Ignores Otherl White Hate Groups. The 'hacktivist' group Anonymous on Thursday released of a list of at least 1,000 names of alleged Ku Klux Klan members, but experts who track hate group activity in the United States said the focus on the KKK ignores other, more powerful white supremacist groups operating around the country.

Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), says the KKK has been declining for decades, and now has only some 40,000 members nationwide in "divided" and "squabbling" groups. “Today the Klan members are almost universally rural, working-class or below. They tend to be very uneducated, and often the groups are made up of a man, his family, and his neighbors," Potok said. The SPLC tracks some 1,600 extremist groups in the U.S., from anti-immigrant to black separatist organizations. But among the most active and powerful white supremacist groups are Christian Identity, in addition to neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and white nationalist groups.

Christian Identity: Neo-Nazi groups: White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want ... Though perhaps overused, there are few statements that so thoroughly burrow to the heart of the nation's racial condition as the following, written fifty-three years ago by James Baldwin: ...this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it...but it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent.

It is the innocence which constitutes the crime Indeed, and in the wake of the Baltimore uprising that began last week, they are words worth remembering. It is bad enough that much of white America sees fit to lecture black people about the proper response to police brutality, economic devastation and perpetual marginality, having ourselves rarely been the targets of any of these. And all of that is violence too.

That son's name? Freddie Gray. Notes: (5) Ibid. Voter ID and driver's license office closures black-out Alabama's Black Belt. I still remember when the lady in the uniform giving me my driver's test asked me to do a three-point turn. Instead, I gave her a blank stare. I had no idea what a three-point turn was. It was a couple of days after my sixteenth birthday, and I knew right then that I wouldn't be getting a license that day, but the lady was nice about it. Politely, she explained what I was supposed to do. Next we drove back to the Clarke County courthouse, and she failed me.

A couple weeks later, I took the test again. That time, I passed, but my parents weren't all that happy that we had to make a second trip. And that trip was only 10 miles, each way. However, today a lot of folks will have to drive a lot farther just to be able to drive. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's website says their office at the Clarke County Courthouse is still open, but soon a lot of others nearby won't be. That's an inconvenience. But there's something bigger happening here. For most folks, that's a driver's license.

Islamophobia

Black Lives Matter. An Overreaction: Words On #BlackLivesMatter And MLK. Next time someone tells you "all lives matter," show them this cartoon. One of the most common responses to "Black Lives Matter" is "all lives matter. " But that response misses the point, as this great cartoon from Kris Straub at Chainsawsuit demonstrates: Kris Straub/Chainsawsuit The point of Black Lives Matter isn't to suggest that black lives should be or are more important than all other lives, but instead that black people's lives are relatively undervalued in the US (and more likely to be ended by police), and the country needs to recognize that inequity to bring an end to it.

Reddit user GeekAesthete made this point in a thread explaining why the phrase "all lives matter" is offensive: Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. Straub's cartoon echoes this point: If a house is burning down, you're obviously going to focus on putting out the fire instead of watering a house that's just fine. Vox Featured Video. How the Federal Government Built White Suburbia. Federal housing policies didn’t just deny opportunities to black residents. They subsidized and safeguarded whites-only neighborhoods. Just two minutes into the first address at the 2015 National Fair Housing Conference on Tuesday, the conversation turned to Show Me a Hero.

It was only a matter of time. Housing policy and Winona Ryder just don’t intersect that often. But the conversation got real just as quickly. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, gave a barn-burner of an address at the conference, a program convened by the U.S. “We’ve all forgotten how federal, state, and local governments consciously segregated our metropolitan areas by race,” Rothstein said. His speech is a potent reminder. The Federal Government Built Exclusively White Neighborhoods Federally funded public housing got its start in the New Deal. Government Policy Guided Segregation at the Neighborhood Level Way back in 1917, after the U.S. Ghettoes Are the Mirror of White Suburbs.

Check out this adorable cartoon that explains privilege in the most nonconfro... I have no idea what it's like to be a snail. Or a caterpillar. Or *you*. And you have no idea what it's like to be me. Funny how that works, huh? Do you have struggles? I definitely do. You could be: gay transgender living with a disability a different religion a different race wealthynot wealthya snail (?) [insert fact about your life here] The bottom line: You are you. At Upworthy, we tell stories for a better world.Like us on Facebook to get them first: It can be hard to see a different perspective or understand what someone else's life is like because you walk in your shoes — not theirs. But if you take time to listen and learn... And imagine what it's like to be in their position... It'll help you understand your privilege, and it'll show others some serious respect. What's not to like about that? Black poverty differs from white poverty. Image courtesy of Flickr user Jeffrey Smith under a Creative Commons license.

The poverty that poor African Americans experience is often different from the poverty of poor whites. It's more isolating and concentrated. It extends out the door of a family's home and occupies the entire neighborhood around it, touching the streets, the schools, the grocery stores. A poor black family, in short, is much more likely than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other families are poor, too, creating what sociologists call the "double burden" of poverty. In five-year American Community Survey data from 2009-2013, more than a third of all poor African Americans in metropolitan Chicago live in high-poverty census tracts (where the poverty rate is above 40 percent).

In St. This data point — the share of poor people living in deeply poor places — gets at an important element of poverty that's obscured by citywide poverty rates. Architecture of Segregation. 1. Paul A. Jargowsky, “Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s,” Living Cities Census Series (Washington D.C.: Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, May 2003). 2. Alemayehu Bishaw, “Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 2006-2010,” American Community Survey Reports (Washington, D.C.: U.S. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. If these words and images make you uncomfortable, good #BlackLivesMatter. DEEP Jesse Williams talks RACE & AmeriKKKan Double Standard. RACE BAITING 101.

Homophobia

Bree Newsome, Activist Who Took Down Confederate Flag, Says She Refuses 'To B... Black activist Bree Newsome says she refuses to be ruled by fear. Newsome’s intolerance to racial injustice and the horrific shooting that killed nine black lives are among the several reasons she said fueled her to take action. Saturday, Newsome climbed the flagpole outside of the South Carolina statehouse and removed the Confederate battle flag. “I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continues against black people globally in 2015, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic,” Newsome wrote on Tuesday in a statement exclusively obtained by The Blue Nation Review.

“I did it for all the fierce black women on the front lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I am free.” Newsome’s actions were documented through photos and videos that dominated social media feeds over the weekend. 11 Ways White America Avoids Taking Responsibility for its Racism. I am white. I write and teach about what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet remains deeply divided by race.

A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism—i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad—to a structural understanding. A structural understanding recognizes racism as a default system that institutionalizes an unequal distribution of resources and power between white people and people of color. This system is historic, taken for granted, deeply embedded, and it works to the benefit of whites.

The two most effective beliefs that prevent us (whites) from seeing racism as a system are: that racists are bad people andthat racism is conscious dislike; if we are well-intended and do not consciously dislike people of color, we cannot be racist. How dare you suggest that I could have said or done something racist! The Rules of Engagement 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Same-sex marriage isn't equality for all LGBT people. Our movement can't end ... It wasn’t that long ago – 4 November 2008 – that the US had an election that galvanized a generation of activists to change policies in this country that would have enshrined into law the continued marginalization of a large group of people. I’m not talking about who was elected president, or which political party took the most seats in Congress: rather, a ballot initiative in the state of California, called Proposition 8, passed by a four-point margin that night and successfully amended the state’s constitution by adding language that defined marriage as being between “one man and one woman”. Now, not fully eight years later, the US supreme court ruled in favor of full marriage equality across America. Transgender folks have been part of the push for LGBT equality from the beginning, and we’ve spoken with loud and intelligent voices, and have found political and personal success and advancement all over the world.

More Americans Killed By Non-Muslim Homegrown Terrorists Than By Radical Musl... Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.

But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center. If such numbers are new to the public, they are familiar to police officers.

John G. Read more: Share this article! Print This Story. Propaganda and Islam: What you're not Being Told. June 21, 2014 | Justin King (ANTIMEDIA) Propaganda is the wheel by which the government steers the bus of a nation; typically driving it into war or off the cliff of humanity. It is amazing to see how many people who are otherwise rational human beings will blindly follow the herd on the matter of how subhuman a perceived national enemy is. The western media wonderfully paints Islam as a death cult bent on world domination.

Over and over again the American populace is shown footage of the atrocities committed by fanatics or of Arab men burning American flags. Some general facts about Islam might help break the noose of wartime propaganda that rests around America’s neck. “All [or most] Muslims are terrorists.” There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. “Muslims want Sharia law.” While many Muslims believe in Sharia law, what is considered Sharia law is not universal. Some countries have higher rates of belief in using Sharia law, and some have lower. “They beat their women.” Conclusion: Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created The Ghettos. 9 Moving Reactions to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Assassination | TIME. Map of 73 Years of Lynchings. When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark hi... The Five Greatest Slave Rebellions In US History | bayareaintifada.

Racism Wednesday

Ahmed-aljumaili-killing-iraqi-immigrant-shot-dead-in-texas-as-he-watched-snow... Is America Islamophobic. Go to your country. Race riot. The woods. Rap. Christians & Muslims. Happens to one, happens to all. Crime. Violence Against Muslims and People of Color Is Terrorism Too. Marriage/diet. Stop being afraid. Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close. Christian terrorist. Two Americas. Delinquent. To survive. “Justifiable” White Violence And The History Of The Criminalization Of Blackness. Racism is so insidious, even black people underestimate it | Kali Holloway.

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