Disproportionate assets: Lokayukta conducts raids in 30 locations across K’taka #Disproportionate #Lokayukta #Ktaka #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2025/05/15/disproportionate-assets-lokayukta-conducts-raids-in-30-locations-across-ktaka/

Another #book on my reading wishlist.

White Burgers, Black Cash
Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate

The long and pernicious relationship between #FastFoodRestaurants and the #AfricanAmerican community.

Today, #FastFood is disproportionately located in #BlackNeighborhoods and marketed to #BlackAmericans through targeted #advertising. But throughout much of the 20th century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long #history of #RacistExclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban #BlackCommunities.

Fast food has historically been tied to the country’s self-image as the #LandOfOpportunity and is marketed as one of life’s simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry’s core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to #Whiteness to the #disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food’s racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of #Chicago, #NewYork City, and #WashingtonDC, in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including #WhiteCastle, #KFC, #BurgerKing, #McDonalds, and more.

#Bookstodon #ReadingList #Education #Racism #USBlackHistory #WhiteSupremacy #SystemicRacism #USRacism #Nonfiction

Related:

#Racism and #policing have gone hand and hand in the #Canadian context—from the historical #SettlerColonialViolence of the #RCMP through contemporary practices, from carding and surveillance to assaults upon #racialized people and communities. The settler colonial character of the Canadian state continues in the current context in the #disproportionate arrest and incarceration of #Indigenous people and the exertion of violence, often lethal violence, against them.

Not surprisingly, the Canadian state and its various institutions of criminal justice have stridently denied claims of racism. Commissioner Brenda Lucki—the head of the Canadian state’s ongoing colonial force, the RCMP—recently infamously denied the existence of #SystemicRacism in the RCMP, even suggesting at a federal hearing that she did not know quite what that meant.

https://mediacoop.ca/story/policing-violence-racism-and-colonialism-criminali/37140

#ACAB #CDNpoli #RCMPareCriminals #CriminalCops #KKKanada #Colonialism #Canada

I find myself looking at current state of our Global economy, with a particular regard to the #poor, both #countries and #people
We are living in an age of artificial scarcity.
Where the poorest bear #disproportionate #burden
We need #Altruism & #cooperation
#Fairness & #balance
A habits I developed in a past life was an affinity for statistics.
If you have an n big enough?
It will be a decent model, yet models never present the #human face of #scarcity and see a Pareto
Not gross #inequity

In 41 US States, Richest 1% Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Everyone Else
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#taxes #rich #wealthy #disproportionate

In response to the arrest, a group of #activists have #organised the #FreeSarahJaneBaker #campaign to #advocate for the #dismissal of the #charges. “It argues that the #response from #policeofficers and the #CrownProsecutionService is “#disproportionate” and represents “#systemic #transphobia” in the #UK.

@drmike @ChattJazz The true effectiveness of #Russian #Nuclear weapons is far lower than its gross numbers announce. If they ever use nuclear the damage will be very #Disproportionate.

In the #2022 #midterms, the 100 #largest #donors #collectively #spent #60percent more than every #smalldonor in the United States combined, according to a #BrennanCenter analysis of #publicly #available #data. (Small donors are those who give $200 or less.) The #wealthy have always #wielded #disproportionate #power over #American #government. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/4-takeaways-about-money-midterms

@drfilomena Meni je že dosedaj nekako uspevalo s podobnim adapterjem kot je omenjen zgoraj. Samo par tistih žic je pa tak mininalen napor v mojem življenju, da se ne splača niti govoriti o tem, tu pa cela nova direktiva za vso EU pa i šire. #disproportionate @dvladar @romunov @Shona