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Showing posts with label New Jim Crow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jim Crow. Show all posts
Monday, December 23, 2013
9 Ways You Can Stop Mass Incarceration
- Vote against the war on drugs. The war on drugs is actually a war on people. A war cannot be waged against an inanimate object.
- Vote for drug treatment - not punishment.
- Vote against mandatory minimum sentencing. Mandatory minimum sentencing takes the sentencing power away from the judge.
- Spread the word about mass incarceration and The New Jim Crow.
- Vote for better public schools - schools for everyone - not charter schools for a few.
- Tell everyone that we want to be a land of opportunities, not a land of oppression.
- Vote to have drugs controlled by pharmacies and taxed.
- Get angry.
- Stay angry.
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— The New Jim Crow (@thenewjimcrow) December 12, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Are Nationalists the new Segregationists?
by Glenn Robinson
For most of U.S. history there have been segregationists. Today you don't hear of them so much because times have changed - or have they?
PS - A nationalist is someone who thinks their country is better than any other country (a kind of national racism). Patriotic is the positive word to describe those who love their country.
For most of U.S. history there have been segregationists. Today you don't hear of them so much because times have changed - or have they?
Can it be that the those families who used to preach separate but equal, are now the families who are anti-immigrant? I say families because xenophobia is taught, and I feel sorry for any children born to racist or xenophobic parents.
Before the Civil Rights act of 1964 outlawed segregation, the white majority were open about their desire to keep the races separate. When the Supreme Court ruled that is no longer acceptable, what happened to the feelings of "us vs. them" that the segregationist had?
Those people are still prevalent in the U.S.
Here is where they re-focused their energy:
Here is where they re-focused their energy:
- Segregate by building more prisons (New Jim Crow)
- Fill the prisons by creating a "War on Drugs" - which is a war primarily on black and brown people. The stop-n-frisk statistics prove it.
- Continue defacto school segregation by limiting public school attendance based on residential zip codes.
- Segregate the U.S. from the brown "others" by building a wall at the U.S. Mexico border
- Increasing ICE raids to segregate Hispanic Latinos out of the U.S.
Friday, May 17, 2013
European Americans Want it Both Ways
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I was commenting on Yong Chan's post at CHANGELAB about Jason Richwine & the Asian American dilemma when I remembered I wanted to write this post which is also about how European Americans have some unusual logic.
European Americans often complain about the culture and presence of non-Europeans, although White policies are selective of the cultures and peoples allowed into the U.S.
European Americans trafficked in Africans for their labor, forbid them to read, then complain about their educational level; treat them worse than animals, then complain about their culture which is now a culture living with Post Traumatic Stress and ongoing stress from the New Jim Crow.
European Americans flood the Mexican market with low cost U.S. corn and other crops and meats, causing Mexican farmers to loose the ability to sell their own harvest and meats and in turn seek employment in the U.S., then Latinos are demonized for their presence in the U.S. while they try to feed their family and survive NAFTA.
European Americans complain that they can't get into universities because students of Asian heritage take up seats. But immigration policies are written by a majority White congress in favor of college educated families.
European Americans want privileges on top of their privileges.
European Americans want low cost labor, low cost products, easy access to excellent universities, no immigrants of color and no language spoken in the U.S. except English.
And European Americans would like to continue their history of cultural genocides by shaming new immigrants into not speaking their native language.
European Americans want privileges on top of their privileges on top of institutionalized racism.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Lincoln didn't free the slaves...
Lincoln didn't free the slaves; he ordered a cease & desist of enslavement. Oppression never stopped #NewJimCrow
— Glenn Robinson (@getgln) February 21, 2013
When one is enslaved, is one a slave?
— Glenn Robinson (@getgln) February 21, 2013
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