Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009
A couple weeks back I said that I was going to try to find ways to chat with my kids about racism. I haven’t had to ‘try’ at all. Somehow we’ve managed to have several out-of-the-blue conversations – none of which have I originated. Like last Thursday. We had our first really nice summer day. [...]
Posted in Education, Equity, Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Hispanics are center stage this week in the national theater with Justice Sonia Sotomayor being nominated for The Supreme Court. Let the debate begin! Will it be payback for the burning down in flames of Justice Robert Bork’s confirmation hearing? Will it be as controversial and contentious as Justice Clarence Thomas?
Posted in Law & Justice on May 28th, 2009
Death penalty statistics in North Carolina are fairly typical- black defendants twice as likely to get the death sentence, defendants whose victims are white get the big sleep three and a half times more than those with non-white victims. To their credit, the NC senate just passed The Racial Justice Act, which would prevent the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
That’s 14-year-old Emmit Till, beaten and lynched in 1955 Mississippi, and here lying in open casket back home in Chicago. Till’s body is bloated from being sunk in the Tallahatchie River. His right eye is missing. There is a hole in his temple. Till’s mother insisted on the open casket, viewed by perhaps 50,000 in [...]
Posted in Education on May 28th, 2009
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Differences in the conditions borne by Black and white Americans can be measured by all kinds of metrics—life expectancy, infant mortality, rates of incarceration, and many more. But according to Smart Money magazine, when it comes to quantifying the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, median net worth may be the most trenchant and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2009
A few days ago, Inside from the Inside writer Tom Worth posted a CNN story about the newly elected mayor on Philadelphia entitled “Mississippi Burning” Town Elects Black Mayor. Here is a video of that not-to-be-missed story. Embedded video from CNN Video This story reminded me that when officials are elected by a simple majority, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2009
Today, I’m wondering why, in a world where Perez Hilton and Obama Girl get so much mainstream airtime, why no one has bothered to give Maria Amelia Lopez any “shine” while she was LIVING?
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy on May 22nd, 2009
A friend found this postcard in an abandoned house a few miles west of our liberal little town. It is circa 1964 when Mr Jones was recruited to rejuvenate the moribund NC klan, which he did with apparent success. In researching him I found a white supremacist site which led to a series of charts [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009
Great CNN.com article about James Young, the newly elected Mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, sight of the slayings of 3 civil rights workers in 1964.
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