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exactly what did these kids do to deserve this treatment? Apparently, if there are too many black folks around, and white people get antsy and feel threatened, that is more than enough cause for arrest.
Swimming while black is a crime? Or having a black pool party? Maybe the police in Texas have lost their minds. Then again, maybe the Lone…
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The neo-liberal nightmare is not in a distant future. It is what we live, and only getting worse. And with it the category of citizen will become all the more important as delineating the relevant and irrelevant populations. It will become codified, dramatically different existences that will be reinforced through the strengthened ability of the neo-liberal authoritarian state playing upon popular fears of crime, the environmental crisis and Muslim terrorism.
I In a lecture at Harvard during my freshman year, a professor—who may have been Martin Peretz—offered an insight that left a profound impact upon me.…
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Models examining cause-specific Black mortality rates revealed significant associations with heart disease, cancer, and stroke. These findings are congruent with studies documenting the deleterious impact of racism on health among Blacks. The study contributes to evidence that racism shapes patterns in mortality and generates racial disparities in health.
A study published by plos.org says a growing body of evidence indicates that the unique constellation of environmental stressors and psychosocial challenges experienced by Blacks in…
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if impunity is so pervasive in our world, how will there be justice anywhere, if those who commit crimes, big and small, are protected by laws, by custom, by tradition, or by trickery?
If impunity is the absence of justice, then there are many in positions of power in the so-called developed as well as the developing world who…
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The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.
Frederick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852 at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester,…
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