Racism

Wage Inequality Continues To Rise As Racial And Gender Disparities Persist

March 4, 2020 Staff , Epi.org Educate! Inequality, New Economy, Racism, Sexism, Wage

Wage growth was strongest for the highest-wage workers while median hourly wages grew just 1.0% last year, according to a new EPI report. State of Working America Wages 2019 details the most recent hourly wage trends through 2019, showing that large gaps by gender, race, wage, and education level remain—and some of these gaps are increasing.

Syracuse Students Lead A National Movement To End Oppressive Campus Environments

March 2, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Higher Education, Homophobia, Racism, Syracuse University

For a long time, students and faculty of predominately-white universities across the country have been experiencing oppressive environments where racism and homophobia are tolerated. This academic year, a group of Syracuse University students who call themselves Not Again SU has taken strong actions to confront this environment. They garnered significant attention last fall when they occupied the Barnes Center and issued 19 demands to the university. The administration agreed to address many of the demands but months later not much has been done and hate incidents continue to occur without consequences to deter them. They are currently occupying the administrative building to press for more action. This time the university responded aggressively by suspending students, denying them access to food and other necessities and unleashing a violent police force against them. We speak with one of the student organizers about what is happening on campus and how their actions have sparked a nationwide movement.

Police Torture In Chicago

March 1, 2020 Eve Ottenberg, Counterpunch. Educate! Chicago, Police abuse, Racism, Torture

The Chicago police department has a problem. They say it’s fixed, but local African American residents can’t be blamed for being skeptical. The problem is torture. And of course the Chicago PD is not one bad apple in the nation’s police departments, because when it comes to police brutality, the whole barrel is rotten. Chicago is just an extreme case. “Between 1972 and 1991, approximately 125 African American suspects were tortured by police officers in Chicago,” Princeton anthropology professor Laurence Ralph writes in his new book “The Torture Letters: Reckoning With Police Violence.” More than 400 cases currently await investigation by the Illinois torture inquiry and relief commission, “which also gets three to five new torture claims each week.” From 2004 to 2016, Chicago police paid $662 million in police misconduct settlements.

10 Resources On Black Liberation & Economic Democracy

February 27, 2020 Staff, Geo.coop Educate! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Racism

These are long-standing political movements and traditions that ground us. Our work and the work of our peers and partners around the US and across the Americas and the globe have long roots in generations and centuries of freedom and labor struggle. From reconstruction to the March for Jobs and Freedom a century later, we continue to live in the shadow of a system in which “something of slavery remains, and something of freedom is yet to come”.

The Rise In Racism On College Campuses

February 24, 2020 By Kyla L. Wright, Essence.com Educate! Higher Education, Racism

In 2018, the FBI reported that hate crimes on college campuses have risen 25 percent from 2015-16 and risen 17 percent from 2016-17. An additional 27.6 percent of the crimes dealt with intimidation tactics. Effecting the mental health of students of color on campuses, many of them have stated they have shifted their focus from their education to looking over their shoulders.

The Torture Machine, Racism And Violence In Chicago

February 22, 2020 Jeff Haas and Dennis Cunningham, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Chicago, Racism, Violence

The Torture Machine, Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, by People’s Law Office and longtime National Lawyers Guild attorney Flint Taylor, is a meticulously detailed and authentic, truly appalling story of shame and disgrace to the city of Chicago, its political and police administration establishments, and numerous judges of the Cook County criminal courts; an account of dozens of cases in which black men from the South Side...

Reducing White Supremecy

February 21, 2020 By Aaron Barlow, Onefleweast.net Strategize! Racism, White Nationalism

Back when I was a drunk, everything was always someone else’s fault. Eventually, I discovered, with Jimmy Buffett, that it was “my own damn fault.” Once I accepted that, I could get sober and build something out of the ruins. I no longer had to be destructive….Denial of responsibility, the flip side of bootstrap individualism, extends far beyond addicts. It’s the core attraction of the White Supremacy movement...

Students Continue Occupation Over University’s Failures To Address Racist Incidents

February 19, 2020 Popular Resistance. Resist! #NotAgainSU, Education, Racism, Students

Syracuse, NY - Students with #NotAgainSU, a movement that formed in response to racist and hate incidents on campus that the university has not adequately addressed, have been occupying the administrative building on campus since Monday afternoon. The University responded harshly, cutting off their access to food and supplies and suspending them Monday night. [Breaking: The University lifted the suspensions Wednesday evening] Campus police are also treating them harshly. CNN reports: A spate of bias incidents beginning in November 2019 helped spur #NotAgainSU's first protests. Following those protests, Syracuse administration released a list of commitments in response to the demands of protestors.

#NotAgainSU: Students Occupy Administrative Building, Threatened And Denied Food

February 18, 2020 Popular Resistance. Resist! #NotAgainSU, Education, Nonviolent Action, Racism

Syracuse, NY - Students with #NotAgainSU, who have been protesting racism and hate incidents on campus that are not being punished, are currently occupying the admissions building, Crouse-Hinds Hall. Their action began yesterday. Last night when the university ordered them to leave at closing time and move their action to the library, which is open twenty-four hours a day, the students refused. Today, the students remain in Crouse-Hinds Hall, but rather than listening to their concerns, the university is limiting access to the building to employees only and preventing anyone from bringing food inside. The students say they are hungry. They haven't eaten since Monday afternoon. They also report that the building is cold and that police are acting violently.

No Fascist USA! Lessons From A History Of Anti-Klan Organizing

February 18, 2020 Hilary Moore and James Tracy, Roarmag.org Strategize! Anti-Racism, Fascism, History, KKK, Racism

Ever since fascism first crawled out of the ideological sewer, anarchists and autonomists have been there to confront, antagonize and organize against it. You need not dig deep into past history to find evidence of this. After the mayhem of Charlottesville, Cornell West, reported to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!

A Look At All The Presidents Reveals The System Is Hostile To Black People

February 17, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Elections, President, Racism, White Supremacy

As the presidential races heat up, Margaret Kimberley has a new book, "Prejudential: Black America and The Presidents," that exposes how every one of the forty-five presidents in the United States has maintained a state of white supremacy. Her research cuts through the traditional narratives and myths of our presidents to show their support for chattel slavery until the Civil War and then the ongoing oppression of blacks in many forms after that and continuing today. Characterizing the presidents as bad to less bad, she discusses that our presidents reflect the reality of the founding principles of the country, which have not been successfully challenged. Kimberley argues that it has always been popular movements, not presidents, who have brought significant reforms and encourages black voters to break with the duopoly political parties.

The Democratic Party’s Theatrical Performances: Fooling Black Voters For Decades

February 16, 2020 Solomon Comissiong, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Black America, Democrats, Elections, Racism

The Democrats are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater. “The difference is that Republicans don’t pretend to be anything but white supremacists.” It is the time of the year in which the white-dominated, and historically white-biased, United States' film industry doles out awards. The Democratic Party should win an Academy Award each year for the outstanding job they do in convincing Black voters that they care about their plight. The Democratic establishment is riddled with fraudulent "snake-oil" politicians hellbent on extending their careers. It is a political party that unapologetically champions imperialist war after war. The Party is no more a peacemaker than their Republican Party counterparts.

Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America And The Presidents

February 7, 2020 Margaret Kimberly, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Black America, Electoral Politics, History, Racism

Ten of the first twelve presidents of the United States were slave holders. This is just one of many historical facts that this columnist discovered while researching and writing Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents . The newly published book is an exploration of black American history viewed through the prism of the presidency. Presidents appear on our currency, we live in cities named after them and attended schools called Washington...

How An African Cemetery Under A Parking Lot Galvanized A Community To Fight White Supremacy

January 20, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Development, Maryland, Racism, Slavery

The United States still has a long way to go to come to terms with its history of being founded on genocide and slavery. In recent years, we have heard about efforts to take down monuments to those who perpetrated these crimes. What we rarely hear are the stories of how that genocide and slavery have been covered up and how even today there are barriers to those who seek to expose them. One such effort is taking place right now in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo tells us the riveting story of her discovery of an African Cemetery under a parking lot. She has led a community effort to stop a building from being erected on the site, which has unearthed a horrific past experienced by former residents of that land and has become a struggle against gentrification and white supremacy.

MLK And The Black Misleadership Class

January 19, 2020 Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democratic Party, Martin Luther King, militarism, Poverty, Racism

The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated each year at thousands of events in literally every U.S. city, yet the martyred human rights leader’s political philosophy is totally absent from the agenda of today’s Black Misleadership Class, a grasping cabal of hustlers and opportunists that have grown fat and infinitely corrupt through their collaboration with “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” Their “freedom train” was the Democratic Party, the half of the corporate electoral duopoly that allowed colored folks to ride as first-class passengers – as long as they didn’t question the schedule or the destination. The budding Black misleaders hopped on board the Democratic Party express to the boardrooms of corporate power at about the same time that Dr. King was making his definitive break with the evil “triplets’” infernal machinery, including both corporate parties.

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