5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder
#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60
1/3 "Lone minority individuals lack the psychological safety of a larger ethnic group, leaving them vulnerable to isolation and marginalization."
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #systemicracism #equity #culturalcompetency #marginalized #BlackMastodon
#News #Endemic #SystemicRacism
Chris Van Hollen, a senator for Maryland, told an audience at the Center for American Progress thinktank in Washington: “To watch the Trump administration apply what I call their global apartheid policy by providing asylum or refugee status to some Afrikaners – white South Africans – while they shut everybody else out is just an outrageous insult to the whole idea of our country, and the whole idea of Dr King that at the end of the day it’s character that counts.”
“We have to call it out for what it is: it’s an application of the global apartheid policy by the Trump administration.”
Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, said in a statement: “It is baffling as to why the Trump administration is admitting Afrikaners for resettlement while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution, often because their lives were at risk.”
Last year, the UN found no South Africans were eligible for refugee status. The decision by this administration to put one group at the front of the line is clearly politically motivated and an effort to rewrite history.”
In Marronage Lies the Search of a World
by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316
#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice
“Hamer’s words did not fit easily into the language of patriotism that dominated public life. They pointed not toward a broken promise that could be redeemed, but toward a deeper foundation that had been rotten from the start.
A nation that could not—or would not—see what it had done would not be able to cure itself. It would continue, as she said, on the critical list.” #racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralRacism
https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/this-country-is-desperately-sick?r=krqm&utm_medium=ios
Forget the chimney excuse – Zwarte Piet's traditional blackface is raw, intentional racism used to directly insult Black people and inflict harm, especially on children. #Netherlands #SystemicRacism #Extremism
#RESIST! #NAACP Sues #DepartmentOfEducation Over #DEI Rollbacks: Here's What To Know
The nation's oldest #CivilRights group says the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity and inclusion programs is unconstitutional and disproportionately harms #BlackStudents.
April 19, 2025
"The NAACP is suing the U.S. Department of Education over recent efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in schools. In a federal complaint filed in Washington, D.C., the organization alleges that the Department of Education’s recent directives are unconstitutional and discriminatory—particularly for Black students.
"The complaint faults the administration for targeting programs that offer '#truthful, #inclusive curricula,' as well as policies that expand access to selective educational opportunities for #BlackAmericans and foster belonging while addressing #racism in schools.
"The NAACP argues that the Department’s recent actions 'advance a misinterpretation' of federal civil rights laws and Supreme Court precedent—actions that, according to the group, violate its members’ rights to equal protection and to be free from viewpoint discrimination under the #USConstitution.
"NAACP President Derrick Johnson criticized the move, stating that the administration is 'effectively sanctioning' the very discrimination that U.S. civil rights laws were designed to prevent
" 'The Department of Education, tasked with a responsibility to protect the civil rights of all children, has instead claimed #SystemicRacism doesn’t exist — effectively sanctioning the very discrimination that our civil rights laws were designed to prevent while children of color consistently attend #segregated, chronically underfunded schools where they receive less educational opportunities and more discipline,' said Johnson."
#BlackLivesMatter #USPol #Resistance #TrumpIsARacist #CharacteristicsOfFascism
New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review
In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.
https://boltsmag.org/cook-county-initiative-to-bypass-felony-review-chicago/
DEI rollbacks hit campus support systems for students of color - But that’s the whole point, isn’t it? #Racism #SystemicRacism #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #AcademicChatter #RevengePolitics #RepublicansDidThis https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-college-bbe09c081d8a47fcb5616c8fa3b23cee
TikToker Offers Wild Take on the ‘Truth’ Behind Desegregation: ‘It Was a Hostile Takeover of Black America’ https://shinemycrown.com/tiktokers-offers-wild-take-on-the-truth-behind-desegregation-it-was-a-hostile-takeover-of-black-america/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Desegregation #RaceRelations #BlackHistory #SystemicRacism #TikTokViral
Definitely not my best one, but I only had a couple of minutes to dedicate to it.
May revisit in future.
Critical lead contamination issues threaten Milwaukee Public Schools. Over 125 schools built before the 1978 lead paint ban have closed for remediation after the CDC denied assistance following major budget cuts. With tens of thousands of children, mainly from Black communities, at risk of lead poisoning, the systemic disparities in health policy and funding are glaring. To grasp the full context, [read more](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/orange-felon-milwaukee-children-eat-lead). #Milwaukee #LeadPoisoning #PublicHealth #Education #SystemicRacism
Kudos to Crooks and Liars for shedding light on this pressing issue.
The exhibit is a collection of artwork created after Chicago artists watched the body camera footage of the wrongful police raid at Anjanette Young’s home.
via #thetribe on #bluesky
#museum #exhibition #blackvoices #policeviolence #racism #blackwomen #poc #pocvoices #bipoc #bipocvoices #blackartists #violence #acab #blacktrauma #blackhistory #chicago #blackhistorymuseum #copviolence #institutionalracism #systemicracism #institutionalviolence #blm #blacklivesmatter
Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets
> Minority Lyft drivers were about 30 percent more likely to be pulled over and cited for speeding (the two analyses produced results of 24 and 33 percent). Once cited, they were also likely to receive higher fines, either 23 or 34 percent more than white drivers.
#SystemicRacism @arstechnica #drivingwhileblack #lyft #florida
Former US Army sergeant released from prison after Gov. Abbott pardons him for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting
So we have moved from not prosecuting, to juries not convicting, to Govenors releasing racist murders. Not making great progress here. 😡
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/daniel-perry-texas-pardon-recommendation/index.html
No one believes that a black man convicted of the same crime wouldn't be put to death
Furman University: Placing Furman project examines racist real estate practices of the past. “The president of the brokerage firm, The Furman Company, was Alester G. Furman Jr., a long-time trustee of Furman University and the great-grandson of the university’s first president…. The analysis is part of a research project by Ken Kolb, professor and chair of sociology, and other faculty and […]
