Thursday, March 10, 2022

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 031022

 

The Republicans’ Thoroughly Vile, Perfectly Predictable Reaction to Biden’s Supreme Court Plan

They just can’t help themselves.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165236/gop-supreme-court-roger-wicker

 

White Supremacy Culture – Still Here, by Tema Okun | May 2021

https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/white_supremacy_culture_-_still_here.pdf

 

Adventures with Dead Jews

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-with-dead-jews/id1582119175

 

When, How Did the First Americans Arrive? It’s Complicated.  The first Americans weren't one group of people; they arrived at different times, and likely by different methods.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/when-and-how-did-the-first-americans-arrive--its-complicated-

 

Who’s Looking for Hawaii’s Missing Girls?  A new effort to investigate the crisis of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls also has to confront the role of law enforcement.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165155/hawaii-missing-indigenous-women-girls

 

What Is Othering?

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-othering-5084425

 

Why People Flocked to Hitler, and Why the Nazis Believed ‘Here There Is No Why’: Theodore Abel's 'Why Hitler Came Into Power' is a unique and frightening text from within the minds and consciousness of people who went on to become Nazis.

https://thewire.in/books/why-people-flocked-to-hitler-and-why-the-nazis-believed-here-there-is-no-why

 

We Are Still Here: The past and future of Native California.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/history-native-california/

 

Rejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparities

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/mail-voting-black-latino.html

 

Jim Crow 2.0

https://www.laprogressive.com/jim-crow-4/

 

Guess Who Donald Trump Says Is the Latest Victim of Racism? Yep. Donald Trump.  The former president has a critical race theory about the prosecutors investigating his various malfeasances.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165261/trump-james-bragg-racism-prosecutors

 

Could “Attica” Boost Prison Abolition Movement?  This is the human toll it took to break open the prisoners’ rights movement and simultaneously create the blueprint for the imminent prison industrial complex.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/attica

 

To Trump, the Law Is Always White: In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165270/donald-trump-black-politicians-texas-reconstruction

 

Desmond Tutu: Still Preaching

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Rollins.html

 

Dear rancid race-baiter: Show some respect for this holiday

https://www.dickpolman.net/2022/01/17/dear-rancid-race-baiter-show-some-respect-for-this-holiday/

 

Race in School: What Educators Know and Politicians Should Learn

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/mary-sanchez-race-in-school-what-educators-know-and-politicians-should-learn/article_f1b76936-796d-11ec-a67b-e71ccec23998.html

 

A Hate that Runs Deep

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Kalet.html

 

The work of Dr. King is still not done, by Jesse Jackson

https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2022/feb/03/work-dr-king-still-not-done-jesse-jackson/

 

Despite a Dramatic Drop, the “Other Pandemic” Continues Unabated

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Cintli.html

 

Sidney Poitier, tightrope walker: A look at the political highlights and meanings of the late actor's screen career.

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Rampell.html

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Checking My Privilege as an Adult and Removing Labels of My Childhood

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_checking_my_privilege_as_an_adult_20220124

 

Four people arrested in connection with overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-k-williams-overdose-death-four-arrests/

 

Voter Fraud Propagandists Are Recycling Jim Crow Rhetoric: The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165283/suppress-black-vote-jim-crow

Man's Inhumanity to Man, by Robert Burns, 1784

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/mans-inhumanity-man

 

Black Heritage in Racing Collection

https://www.derbymuseum.org/blackheritage.html

 

Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fq79yKGaQ

 

Sisterhood Sit-In: The Trolley Tour

https://www.wearemuchdifferent.com/sisterhood?fbclid=IwAR3jIeeBKqVs7rLB5n-T5TSe0m3PNmB-NBULeCdYY6yOTvi4no4Mo1wQBoE

 

Anti-BDS law in Texas violates free speech rights, federal judge rules

https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/us/antibds-law-in-texas-violates-free-speech-rights-federal-judge-rules/ar-AATo7cs

 

Cop Who Drank Fifth Of Vodka Then Drove To The Gun Range Is Back On The Force: Jacksonville Civil Service Board calls drunk SWAT officer's firing “manifestly unjust”

https://jalopnik.com/cop-who-drank-fifth-of-vodka-then-drove-to-the-gun-rang-1848482073

 

The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of Filippo Bernardini and the Stolen Book Manuscripts: His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165234/filippo-bernardini-literary-publishing-scammer

 

From John Chaney to Ala Stanford, Smith Playground’s Black History Month exhibit honors Philly’s ‘Leaders and Legends’.  “I know what it means to young Black children to see some of these role models and legends be honored in this way,” said honoree Marcel Pratt.  

https://www.inquirer.com/news/smith-playground-black-history-month-exhibit-20220205.html

 

Chicago Food Industry Shaped by Formerly Incarcerated-Led Cooperative

https://www.laprogressive.com/formerly-incarcerated-led-cooperative/

 

Once Oath Keeper, Now Sheriff

https://www.laprogressive.com/once-oath-keeper-now-sheriff/

 

Progress on head-coach diversity 'unacceptable', NFL commissioner tells teams

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/progress-head-coach-diversity-unacceptable-commissioner-goodell-tells-teams-2022-02-05/

 

Jewish 1940s Movie Stars Who Changed Their Name

https://solveisraelsproblems.com/jewish-1940s-movie-stars-who-changed-their-name/

 

The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans Are Losing Ground

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/crt-backlash-du-bois.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

The Supreme Court killing affirmative action would have devastating consequences: Affirmative action policies have been under attack since their inception.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/supreme-court-killing-affirmative-action-would-have-devastating-consequences-n1288043?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

Can Whoopi Goldberg’s public history lesson actually do some good?  Goldberg’s comments reflect a growing national ignorance about the Holocaust. What happened next could be a model for how we move forward.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22916147/whoopi-goldberg-the-view-suspension-holocaust-race

 

Shirley Cuban, mother of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, dies

https://www.wearecentralpa.com/entertainment-news/shirley-cuban-mother-of-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-dies/

 

A conservative law student took Mississippi’s only CRT class and ended up loving it

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/4/2078445/-What-happens-when-a-white-law-student-at-Ole-Miss-takes-a-CRT-class-She-learns-something-about-race?detail=emaildkre

 

Nazi Gatherings In Broad Daylight In Florida Spark Alarm - Feb 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onbdFVexKk

 

Why Students Need to Learn about Reconstruction: It’s difficult to understand today’s racial injustices without knowing about the radical decade that followed the Civil War.

https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/students-learn-about-reconstruction-miller-220129/

 

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31944798-assata-taught-me

 

Whoopi Goldberg ideology vs. Israel: Revisionism and support for revisionists triggers tensions among Jews about the past that bleeds into the present and causes a foreboding about the future.

https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/whoopi-goldberg-ideology-vs-israel/

 

School Boards Have Long Been a Tool of White Supremacy: Our history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in schools.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/school-boards-have-long-been-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/

 

Blazing Trails, Breaching Walls

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Rollins.html

 

Apartheid and The Great American Experiment

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Cintli.html

 

Seven Senators Who Go Back to Civil War Days

https://www.creators.com/read/jamie-stiehm/12/21/seven-senators-who-go-back-to-civil-war-days

 

Dave Chappelle, James Carville, and the Persons in the Sauna

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Friedman.html

 

Holding Change

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Seggel.html

 

The Year in Sports: Athletes Face Backlash but Refuse to Back Down

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sports-year-review-backlash/

 

Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01400

 

Louisville mayor candidate: Gunman aimed directly at me

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-louisville-mayoral-candidate-unharmed-182845926.html

 

How the USO Served a Racially Segregated Military Throughout World War II

https://www.uso.org/stories/3001-how-the-uso-served-a-racially-segregated-military-throughout-world-war-ii

 

‘What Took Us So Long?’: Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/02/11/what-took-us-so-long-black-caucus-members-propose-awarding-200000-black-civil-war-vets-congressional-gold-medal/

 

Fayetteville native: Attempt to change a tire leads to harrowing confrontation, gun shot

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2022/02/13/fayetteville-nc-native-attempt-confrontation-gun-shot/6753479001/

 

Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021

https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2021

 

New Swing-State Ads Try to Tell Black Voters: Yes, Biden’s Looking Out for You.  Enthusiasm is at dangerous lows among the constituency that made Joe Biden the Democratic nominee. One group is trying to do something about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165388/midterms-2022-black-vote-enthusiasm

 

The Police State Is Failing Officers Too: Alternatives to policing are critical to the health and safety of both overpoliced people, historically and predominantly Black and brown, and the police themselves.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyc-police-gun-violence/

 

The Black Migrant Trail of Tragedies: Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who make the dangerous trek across the Americas to the US face racist policies and practices everywhere they go.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-migration-racism/

 

Mexico Has Become a "Roofless Prison" for Haitian Refugees—With Biden's Help: Thousands of migrants are trapped at the border as the United States and Mexico crack down on deportations—under Biden’s policies, many will be expelled.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/haitian-refugees-monterrey-mexico-casa-indi-migrants

 

What's Next for the Defund Movement?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/future-of-defund-the-police-movement-minneapolis-abolitionists

 

Black Farmers Sow the Seeds for the Future: A century after the height of Black farming, young land stewards pick up the plow.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-farmers-collective-seattle-yes-farm-next-generation-ownership

 

Farmers Reject Nicor's Pipe Dream: Residents of the historic Black farming community of Pembroke, Illinois want an energy upgrade—but they want renewables, not fossil fuels.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/illinois-black-farmers-reject-nicor-natural-gas-pipeline-rural-pembroke

 

The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever: How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/judge-judy-justice-system-capitalist-tv-class-media-carceral-judy-justice-scandal

 

'Judas and the Black Messiah' Review: I Was a Panther for the FBI

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/movies/judas-and-the-black-messiah-review.html

 

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’: Shaka King’s Movie Wrestles With the History of Black Power.  This political film — starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya — shouldn’t be mistaken for history but it will most certainly educate a new cohort about the Black Panthers

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/judas-black-messiah-shaka-king-1122364/

 

She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/02/16/va-schoolhouse-dawn-preserve-enslaved/

 

Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Rosenwald

 

The Tip-Off From a Nazi That Saved My Grandparents

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents

 

Police Response To N.J. Mall Fight Sparks Outrage After Black Teen Cuffed As White Teen Watches

https://www.moorenews.net/articles/4/5/7325/Police-Response-To-N-J-Mall-Fight-Sparks-Outrage-After-Black-Teen-Cuffed-As-White-Teen-Watches.html

 

The Ali Summit Revisited

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Rollins.html

 

The Groups Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Want to Divide the LGBTQ Movement: The same people keep pushing bill after bill, developing their strategy as they go.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165403/groups-pushing-anti-trans-laws-want-divide-lgbtq-movement

 

Banned Books Should Be Required Reading: The people who want to ban ‘Maus’ or ‘The 1619 Project’ are the ones who need to read them

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Alperstein.html

 

On The High Court, Affirmative Action Isn't Only For Republicans

https://www.nationalmemo.com/biden-supreme-court

 

This Black History Month, Don’t Ban Our History — Teach It: As politicians ban books and courses, this Black History Month seems especially significant.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Rogers.html

 

How the "critical race theory" moral panic morphed into book-banning frenzy: The attack on CRT isn't about teaching history. It's about the right's desire to destroy public education

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/05/how-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic-morphed-into-book-banning-frenzy_partner/

 

Jesse Jackson: It is time for Congress to act to defend free elections

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-it-is-time-for-congress-to-act-to-defend-free-elections/

 

Highlighting the fight against restrictive voting laws

https://www.griffindailynews.com/news/highlighting-the-fight-against-restrictive-voting-laws/article_ba3ca23d-8ddc-547e-8d97-7c81c33f26be.html

 

Maya-Nahua Philosophy Banned in the USA Again

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Cintli.html

 

Banning Books is Never a Good Look

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Uretsky.html

 

Progressives Have More in Common with Censors of ‘Maus’ than We Think

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Schmidt.html

 

The Ghosts on the Walls

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Friedman.html

 

Talking About Cosby

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Patterson.html

 

Brian Flores Levels a Lawsuit Against the NFL for Discriminatory Practices: Everyone associated with the NFL should find the same courage as the former Miami Dolphins head coach—or the league will fall back into its racist sloth.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/brian-flores-lawsuit-nfl/

 

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Epidemic of book bannings must be read as a warning

https://www.times-standard.com/2022/02/06/amy-goodman-and-denis-moynihan-epidemic-of-book-bannings-must-be-read-as-a-warning/

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: The Making of a Reader Takes Vision and the Right Book

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_making_of_reader_takes_vision_and_right_book_20220207

 

'It's a real stab in the heart': Native American tribe's eviction plan raises civil rights concerns

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/us/nooksack-tribe-evictions-washington/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0MzZPbSFNsPD8uckgJxpF0E4lmD5uIlcYV3EHc3FHGhrAdi-Hae_VyaU8

 

Honoring the Memory of the Underground Railroad

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/honoring-the-memory-of-the-underground-railroad/

 

Has the Antiracist Movement Become a Counterproductive Religion?  John McWhorter takes aim at the fundamentalists on the far left—who are scaring away allies Democrats desperately need.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/has-the-antiracist-movement-become-a-counterproductive-religion/

 

“Do You Ever Fantasize About Older Men Jimmy?”

https://carbonbaselife.car.blog/2022/02/22/do-you-ever-fantasize-about-older-men-jimmy/

 

The Supreme Court Has Teed Up a Radical Reimagining of LGBTQ Rights: By taking a flier on a plaintiff whose First Amendment rights have only been hypothetically violated, the high court may avoid having to consider the rights of those who might face anti-gay discrimination.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165458/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights-discrimination

 

Blackbird (Remastered 2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Man4Xw8Xypo

 

Toronto middle school students give a Jewish teacher the Hitler salute

https://www.jta.org/2022/02/22/global/toronto-middle-school-students-give-a-jewish-teacher-the-hitler-salute

 

What Do Crime Writers Owe Their Subjects?  John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” probes the moral implications of investigating a cold case.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165471/crime-writers-owe-subjects-john-darnielle-devil-house-book-review

 

Witt: Alternatives to bigger jails aren’t a partisan issue

https://trib.com/opinion/columns/witt-alternatives-to-bigger-jails-aren-t-a-partisan-issue/article_3521ec45-f4ef-5db2-9d7c-2111b065d118.html

 

Social Justice Isn’t Microwavable

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Young.html

 

All the GOP Has Left is Racism & That’s a Lie, Too: White supremacy promoted as pseudo-science is a lie, and the racist politics that flow from it are poison in the bloodstream of our republic

https://hartmannreport.com/p/all-the-gop-has-left-is-racism-and?s=r

 

Eliminating Offensive Mascots, the Tomahawk Chop and Denigrating ‘War Cries’

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Cintli.html

 

The Republican Party is No Longer the Party of Abraham Lincoln

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Joseph.html

 

Have Gun Will Rattle

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Uretsky.html

 

The Promise

http://www.populist.com/28.05.OLeary.html

 

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Stop gun violence: A Valentine’s Day plea from the heart

https://www.times-standard.com/2022/02/20/amy-goodman-and-denis-moynihan-stop-gun-violence-a-valentines-day-plea-from-the-heart/

 

Feldkamp: How making bail determines your experience with our justice system

https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/02/20/feldkamp-how-making-bail-determines-your-experience-with-our-justice-system/

 

What, Exactly, Do Republicans Find So Troubling About Ketanji Brown Jackson? Sure, it’s ideology to some extent. But she’s impeccably qualified for a Supreme Court seat. Gee, what else could it be?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165589/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-republican-opposition

 

Fort Lauderdale police chief fired over minority-first practices in hiring and promotions, report says

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/us/fort-lauderdale-police-chief/index.html

 

Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land: From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-land-seneca-village/

 

Ukraine and Putin Remind Israel: You’re on your own

http://factsandlogic.org/hotline_archive/hotline_220308.html

 

Philly Police Fire—but Do Not Name—Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Boy: Cops have said the pre-teen was armed, but the picture is getting more complicated.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-siderio-philadelphia-cop-killer-fired-but-not-named

 

These Three Republicans Voted Against Making Lynching a Hate Crime

https://www.newsweek.com/emmet-till-antilynching-act-three-republicans-vote-1683518

 

‘A crisis that is hiding in plain sight’: Missing and murdered women of color

https://icmglt.org/a-crisis-that-is-hiding-in-plain-sight-missing-and-murdered-women-of-color/

 

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Hardcover – October 18, 2022

https://www.amazon.com/Half-American-African-Americans-Fighting/dp/198488039X/ref=sr_1_1

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