The Latest in News for POC

MISS. FreeP: Brown v. Board (1954) theoretically ended segregation by race. It was ignored for over 10 years, and now seems to have no effect at all. 16 MAY 24
BBC.COM: The axe forgets; the tree remembers (African proverb). Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names 10 MAY 24
MISS. FreeP: Today’s news orgs suffer from both-side-ism out of fear of accusations of bias, partiality, etc. 19 APR 24
SNAPJUDGMENT.ORG: Melissa McFadden chose EDUCATION as her primary weapon against racism. AP Tureaud would be proud. 11 Apr 24
X.COM: Maine MAGA pol. asks “What did Nazis do that was illegal? What did they do that was wrong?” 4 APR 24
X.COM/REDDIT: Baltimore’s mayor says critics lack the courage to use the N-word; so they call him “DEI mayor”. 28 MAR 24
MissFreeP: NASA’s Hidden Figures are NOT the only blacks to have directly contributed to today’s technology. 28 Feb 24
X.COM: The man who deliberately poisoned the expression, “CRT” now targets “DEI”. They seek to disempower words themselves. NOW
RadicalMonarchs.org: CA/NY org. teaches young women of color their value and power. 23 Feb 24
WDAM: ELLISVILLE, Miss: Voters choose to keep the WHITE/COLORED water fountains still standing since 1930. 3 Nov 20
MSNBC: Smartphone app offers legal help DURING traffic stops. 30 May 21 Apple appstore
(continued from above) Google Play Store App. Company Website (Turnsignl.com)
MissFreeP: Miss. U. for Women was integrated 2 years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 6 are honored via a memorial plaque. 10 Oct 23
NBC: DEI = “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, and while the GOP is against it, they want your vote anyway. 12 Feb 24
MissFreeP: Charles Henry Turner used strawberry jam to study bees; they’re smarter than we thought. 15 Feb 24
CBSNEWS: Florida bill would make it defamation to accuse someone of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia 10 Jan 24
WWNO.org: LSU’s prez William Tate finds “reasons” to remove diversity and inclusion statements from LSU’s website.. 12 Jan 24
LSU Reveille: Group created to evaluate racism in campus monuments disbanded. Tate: I never would have approved this group. 17 Oct 22
Newsweek: Some evangelicals say Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is “liberal” and “doesn’t work anymore.” 9 Aug 23
Vox: Republicans issue death threats to each other. Equal opportunity terrorism? 2 Jan 24
MISS. FreeP: Little White Girls Like Me Need to Know Real History, Too. 31 Dec 23
MISS. FreeP: Conflict and difference encourage mental gymnastics which dehumanize ppl who are different, and enable “good people” to hate them. 7 Dec 23
DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG: Coates on Israel: “9,000 people dead… an ungodly number of them children… in service of Jim Crow…” 2 Nov 2023
SEMISSOURIAN.COM: Guy insults Ta-Nehisi Coates. Is this polemical fortitude, ad-hominem desperation, or just plain-old racism? 16 Nov 2023
WAPO: SC students and parents protest Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book… without reading it. 18 Sep 23
CNN: 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street” completely unacknowledged today.
DCist: Data strongly suggests racism at work in “Chocolate City”. 11 Sep 23
NPR: Gov. Huckabee-Sanders: AP African American studies no longer good for credit. 23 Aug 23
Miami Herald: Florida approves PragerU content for use in schools. 31 Jul. 2023
CNN: AL tries to end real voting power and return to Jim Crow. 22 Jul 23
DAILY BEAST: FL. BD. of ED. mandates distortions of history. 20 July 23
NPR: SCOTUS undoes Affirmative Action. Updated June 29, 2023
WIKIPEDIA: Leona Tate, one of the children who faced crowds of angry white people
TEPCENTER.ORG: The NEW New Orleans org. driven by Leona Tate
MISS. FreeP: Despite mountains of evidence, governor says systemic racism doesn’t exist; CRT=evil. 30 Apr 21

The World of Finance for POC

ANNUITY.ORG: the pursuit of equal treatment with financial institutions
ESSENCE.com: Five Steps Towards Financial Freedom For Black Women

“Bad” Words: Innocent expressions demonized for political reasons

TIKTOK via REDDIT: Academic speech VS EBONICS: Get ready for a takedown. MUST WATCH THE WHOLE THING.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY per WIRED.COM: “…those most opposed to critical race theory seem to know the least about it.”
REPARATIONS per Reparations4Slavery.com: If you think the USA is consistently against all reparations, please click here.
REPARATIONS per TheAtlantic: The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
REPARATIONS per Vox: “Six times victims have received reparations — including four in the US”
WOKE per SALON.COM: “The inability to define “woke” is a feature, not a bug.”
WOKE per THEGUARDIAN.com: “…has come to connote the opposite of what it means.”

White Privilege: Is it real or imagined?

WHITE PRIVILEGE per BUSTLE.com: 9 examples

Cross-Cultural Parallels / Intra-Cultural Parallels

YOUTUBE: Zarna Garg, India comedian asks “Are we really Asian?” and “How can we become Indian-Americans?
NPR.ORG: Chinese workers were “imported” to replace slave labor after the Civil War. New Orleans had TWO Chinatowns.
MELmagazine.com: “Pull up the ladder”: why immigrants who have “made it” may throw other immigrants “under the bus”
ALJAZEERA: Za’ev Jabotinsky: “We are going in Palestine… to sweep out thoroughly all traces of the Oriental soul.”
YOUTUBE: Dame Margaret Hodge: Concern for Palestinian children is an obsession. Israeli military: Palestinians are human animals.
AL-MONITOR.COM: “…claims of discrimination… from a Mizrahi politician… are usually met with suspicion and dismissed as whining.”
972Mag (“an independent…magazine run by… Palestinian and Israeli journalists”): The roots of anti-Mizrahi racism in Israel
YOUTUBE: A Filipina offers a different look at submission within the context of a marriage. Hint: It’s neither slavery nor blind acceptance.
IMDB: Rabbit-Proof Fence: True story of mixed-race Australians in 1931.
INMYBLOODITRUNS.COM: Australian indigenous child, Dujuan Turner, frustrated at misrepresentation of his people in education and Aus. policy.
BBC.COM: Separation of Australian indigenous children – as depicted in Rabbit-Proof Fence – CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.
BBC.COM: ALL six Australian states vote NO on formally recognizing First Nations’ people in gov. Modern-day disenfranchisement, nullification
REDDIT: /r/hapas: People discuss what it’s like to be half-Asian.
CREOLEGEN: FYI: CREOLE and MULATTO are two different things.
YOUTUBE: Kevin So shares an Asian perspective in his beautiful song, “Our America”.
PBS: Southern Europeans were not always “white”.
WIKI: list of ethnic slurs: Racism is a social, changing construct.
THE ATLANTIC: an American slave story not involving blacks
ADL.ORG: Learn the meaning of numbers as used by white supremacists.

History

BOREDPANDA.COM: Experience Integration in the 60s via Tom Floyd’s comic, “Integration Is A Bitch!” Dilbert for POC?
NPR.ORG: Are politicians capable of demanding reparations FROM descendants of slaves? It happened to Haiti. 5 Oct 21

Lynching

WITHOUTSANCTUARY.ORG: online lynching museum
WIKIPEDIA.ORG: the song, Strange Fruit
YOUTUBE.COM: Strange Fruit as performed by Nina Simone
YOUTUBE.COM: Strange Fruit as performed by Billie Holiday
GUTENBERG.ORG: MOB RULE IN NEW ORLEANS (1900): Ida B. Wells
PBS: IDA B. WELLS: Documented horrors to avoid being accused of spreading hearsay.
YOUTUBE.COM: Plantation in Wallace, LA transformed into a slavery museum

Civil War

WIKIPEDIA.ORG: Alexander Stephens infamous “Cornerstone Speech”
THEAGGIE.ORG: The left hand of Lady Liberty was originally blueprinted holding broken shackles and a chain.
UTNO.LA.AFT.ORG: Mega look at the history of blacks with a special focus on New Orleans

Jim Crow

CNN: “Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street” – a video on 1921 Tulsa
HISTORY.COM: 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
WIKIPEDIA.ORG: 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
USATODAY: 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
PBS: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME. A look at life between the Civil War and WW1
PBS: JIM CROW OF THE NORTH: REDLINING AND RACISM IN MINNESOTA

Blackface

REDDIT: What harm comes from blackface?

Medical

SCHOLARBLOGS.EMORY.EDU: Jim Crow era grave robbery
USATODAY.COM: Black distrust of vaccines is not the same as Q’ANON’s.
NPR.ORG: Troubling History In Medical Research Still Fresh For Black Americans
UMICH.EDU: Understanding Black Distrust of Medicine

etc.

YOUTUBE: 18th century European music remains the standard in the education of music theory in Western formal ed..
YOUTUBE: The Unequal Opportunity Race: perhaps the most banned video in “anti-CRT” states
YOUTUBE: “Ask A Slave”: “a satirical web series based on the actress’ time working as a living history character at the popular historic site”
YOUTUBE: NASA engineer embraces being his authentic self by keeping dreadlocks at work.
YOUTUBE: A. I. music perfect for congressional hearings. Ladies and Gents, the “Flowerettes”.

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