Saturday, February 23, 2019

Criminal Justice and Racism links 022319



“To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?” – Albert Camus

Cindy McCain casts suspicion on interracial families everywhere with bogus human trafficking claim

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges her cisgender privilege: 'no matter how poor my family was'

Kansas judge frames 13-, 14-year-old girls as aggressors in sex crime by 67-year-old man

Utah rep wants mostly white part of county to secede from mostly Navajo part after lost election

Red MAGA hats are actually the new Red Shirts, and their defenders the new Confederate revisionists

Why in the hell would anyone try to rationalize racism?

A photo of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell posing with confederate flag is circulating online again

Three African-American Men See Elderly Couple In Need. What They Do Next Comes As No Surprise To Us.

Ocasio-Cortez: Latinos Can’t Be Illegals Because They’re ‘Descendants of Native People’

High school seniors invited to visit New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and write reflective essays based on their experiences

EVERYONE MUST KNOW THIS before it is deleted, Why is the US government always hiding it

PREDATOR ON THE RESERVATION

Ralph Northam’s Racial Education: The Virginia Governor and Democrats owe an apology to Ed Gillespie.

Ralph Northam Is Just A Small Piece Of The Shift In Race Politics In The Trump Era

What If It Were Trump in Blackface?  A mental exercise for our times.

Ralph Northam’s Trumpian Lack of Shame: The Virginia governor's response to the revelations about his racist yearbook pages is as disqualifying as the scandal itself.

Black Lives Matter. Do Elections? Barbara Ransby profiles today’s Black freedom fighters, who are posing sophisticated new answers to old Left questions—like how to engage in electoral politics.

The Story Of How The First White Member Of Delta Sigma Theta Was A Segregationist’s Worst Nightmare

Chicago police locate 2 'persons of interest' in alleged racist attack on Jussie Smollett: Police used surveillance technology to locate the men.

Virginia Gov. Northam refuses to resign, calls slaves 'indentured servants from Africa' in interview

Black History Month: Gloria Hayes Richardson led a movement

A Letter to My Nephew: James Baldwin's thoughts on his nephew's future—in a country with a terrible history of racism— first appeared in The Progressive magazine in 1962. Over 50 years later his words are as powerful as ever.

A Letter to My Niece: As a baby, you knew nothing of the definitions the world was going to press onto you later in life—black, female, Southern. The world had not yet told you who you were, who you could or should be. You just were.

Comment: The Politics of Racism.  To say that Donald Trump is a racist is to state the obvious but miss the point.

Hate crimes jumped about 17 percent in 2017 from the year before, according to FBI stats released in November. More than 7,000 individual hate crimes were reported to the agency that year by local law enforcement. About 60 percent were prompted by bias over race, ethnicity, or ancestry; 21 percent by religion and 16 percent by sexual orientation.  It was the third consecutive year to see an increase in the number of hate crimes, going back to 2015, when Donald Trump declared his candidacy for President.  The stats for 2018 will not be available until next fall, but all signs point to it being another banner year for hate in America. Consider these headlines from 2018:

Striking Steel: “No matter how many centuries have been devoted to the official story that black people are shameful, we have been the grace note of American history. And yet if I am honest, shame is what I feel. Not in blackness though, in Americanness.”

Blending in as a Pakistani Muslim: A tale of defending an American identity.

The Progressive, February/March 2019

Don’t Label Me: An Unusual Conversation for Divided Times

Not-Her

Going Native: Keeping Alive the Memory of Wounded Knee.  The massacre serves as far more than a historical footnote for Indians.

Ralph Northam wants forgiveness. Virginia’s black activists want him to work for it.  The embattled governor’s fight for redemption is just beginning.

Municipal Equality Index: A Nationwide Evaluation of Municipal Law

WITH THE ADDITION OF NEW YORK, CONVERSION THERAPY IS NOW ILLEGAL IN 15 STATES: But there are still no conversion therapy laws in more than half of the United States.

FBI: reported hate crimes increased by 17 percent in 2017: But there’s a catch: The FBI report likely undercounts by hundreds of thousands.

With Equality Act on the Horizon, Polls Show Growing Majority of Americans Support LGBTQ Equality

HRC: Trump is the Real “National Emergency”

Trans People Say They #WontBeErased As Trump Administration Mulls Defining 'Sex'

Supreme Court Declines Transgender Military Ban Cases but Permits Enforcement of Ban for Now

Building A More Inclusive Child Welfare System for LGBTQ Youth

Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations

HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG BISEXUAL PEOPLE

He stopped selling Nike products because of Colin Kaepernick. Now his store is closing.  Sports merchandise store closing after Nike, Kaepernick boycott

Black History Month: Ephraim Slaughter went from slave to soldier to successful businessman

Bodycam records white Florida woman threatening black cop: ‘My KKK friends will burn your family'

Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. Settle Collusion Case

'John of God' faith healer 'kept teenagers as sex slaves and sold their babies for up to £40,000 before shipping them from Brazil to Europe'

KKK imperial wizard Frank Ancona is found dead in Missouri

Hepatitis C Fight Hinges on Prisons: Lawsuits across the country are seeking better but more expensive care for inmates with the infectious disease, who can spread it upon their release.

Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'.  The former vice president gave a speech Monday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents

The complicated, always racist history of blackface: Author John Strausbaugh on why blackface keeps coming back.

Lawyers for Nick Sandmann, high school junior who faced off with Native elder on Lincoln Memorial steps, sue Washington Post for $250 million

Teen in Lincoln Memorial protest sues Washington Post for $250 million

‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

Why the US Supreme Court’s new ruling on excessive fines is a big deal: The decision may make it harder for local and state police to seize and keep your stuff in the future.

Self Guided Tour: Black History of Arlington National Cemetery

Esther Jones

History Of - Betty Boop!

Betty Boop Boop Oop A Doop 1932 HD Fleischer Studios cartoon short

Sailor Who Failed to Disclose HIV Status Guilty of Sex Assault, Court Rules

Incarceration vs. education: America spends more on its prison system than it does on public schools – and California is the worst

Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren both support reparations for slavery

Texas woman guilty in scheme

Former Braking Point owner among 6 federally charged in health care fraud conspiracy: Investigators said they were involved in illegal activity at the rehab centers

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