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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 8, 2015, 6:42 pm
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Sugary Drinks in Communities of Color: Recent Research and
Policy Options for Reducing Consumption
2015-03-17 at 11.07.03 AM
This policy brief investigates sugary drink consumption in
communities of color, focusing on the public health impact and
marketing of such products, and policy options to facilitate
healthy beverage consumption. It also discusses how decision
makers can work to prevent childhood obesity and related
illnesses by advancing policies to reduce the marketing and
appeal of sugary drinks—and increase the availability of healthy
alternatives—in communities of color.
Facts at a Glance:
•Consumption of sugary drinks is associated with poor health
outcomes,including excessive weight gain, childhood and adult
obesity, type 2 diabetes, and tooth decay.
•Children who drink a 12-ounce soda every day are 60 percent
more likely to become obese than those who do not.
•People of color are more likely to have limited access to
healthy beverages, more inclined to consume sugary beverages,
and more affected by preventable chronic diseases.
•Food and beverage companies disproportionately target marketing
efforts promoting sugary drinks toward people of color.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 11, 2015, 1:01 am
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“Being A Cop Showed Me Just How Racist And Violent Police Are.
There’s Only One Fix.”
By Redditt Hudson / Washington Post April 8th, 2015
Redditt Hudson, a former cop, works for the NAACP and chairs the
board of the Ethics Project. The views expressed here are his
own.
As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up
in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place
where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no
good reason.
I hated the way cops treated me.
But I knew police weren’t all bad. One of my father’s closest
friends was a cop. He became a mentor to me and encouraged me to
join the force. He told me that I could use the police’s power
and resources to help my community.
So in 1994, I joined the St. Louis Police Department. I quickly
realized how naive I’d been. I was floored by the dysfunctional
culture I encountered.
I won’t say all, but many of my peers were deeply racist.
One example: A couple of officers ran a Web site called St.
Louis Coptalk, where officers could post about their experience
and opinions. At some point during my career, it became so full
of racist rants that the site administrator temporarily shut it
down. Cops routinely called anyone of color a “thug,” whether
they were the victim or just a bystander.
This attitude corrodes the way policing is done.
As a cop, it shouldn’t surprise you that people will curse at
you, or be disappointed by your arrival. That’s part of the job.
But too many times, officers saw young black and brown men as
targets. They would respond with force to even minor offenses.
And because cops are rarely held accountable for their actions,
they didn’t think too hard about the consequences.
Once, I accompanied an officer on a call. At one home, a teenage
boy answered the door. That officer accused him of harboring a
robbery suspect, and demanded that he let her inside. When he
refused, the officer yanked him onto the porch by his throat and
began punching him.
Another officer met us and told the boy to stand. He replied
that he couldn’t. So the officer slammed him against the house
and cuffed him. When the boy again said he couldn’t walk, the
officer grabbed him by his ankles and dragged him to the car. It
turned out the boy had been on crutches when he answered the
door, and couldn’t walk.
Back at the department, I complained to the sergeant. I wanted
to report the misconduct. But my manager squashed the whole
thing and told me to get back to work.
I, too, have faced mortal danger. I’ve been shot at and
attacked. But I know it’s almost always possible to defuse a
situation.
Once, a sergeant and I got a call about someone wielding a
weapon in an apartment. When we showed up, we found someone
sitting on the bed with a very large butcher knife. Rather than
storming him and screaming “put the knife down” like my
colleagues would have done, we kept our distance. We talked to
him, tried to calm him down.
It became clear to us that he was dealing with mental illness.
So eventually, we convinced him to come to the hospital with us.
I’m certain many other officers in the department would have
escalated the situation fast. They would have screamed at him,
gotten close to him, threatened him. And then, any movement from
him, even an effort to drop the knife, would have been treated
as an excuse to shoot until their clips were empty.
* * *
I liked my job, and I was good at it.
But more and more, I felt like I couldn’t do the work I set out
to do. I was participating in a profoundly corrupt criminal
justice system. I could not, in good conscience, participate in
a system that was so intentionally unfair and racist. So after
five years on the job, I quit.
Since I left, I’ve thought a lot about how to change the system.
I’ve worked on police abuse, racial justice and criminal justice
reform at the Missouri ACLU and other organizations.
Unfortunately, I don’t think better training alone will reduce
police brutality. My fellow officers and I took plenty of
classes on racial sensitivity and on limiting the use of force.
The problem is that cops aren’t held accountable for their
actions, and they know it. These officers violate rights with
impunity.They know there’s a different criminal justice system
for civilians and police.
Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated
by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would
laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a
punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed
acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries. Prosecutors
are tight with law enforcement, and share the same values and
ideas.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 12, 2015, 8:16 pm
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UB,
I wish the "Mom and Pop" MYTH would JUST GO AWAY!
I have been subjected to SEVERE prejudice and treatment at those
"beloved bastions of free enterprise" you worship enough times
to AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE (which was their intention, of
course).
ALL those big box stores all over this country HELPED minority
NON-WHITES to get fair treatment and reasonable prices. All the
evils of those giant efficient store systems made a few people
horribly rich and have shafted many WHITE small town employees
and store owners along the way. That was, and is, WRONG. But
moaning and groaning about the "saintly" Mom and Pop stores
scares the shit out of minorities. WHY? Because it is CODE
SPEECH for nostalgia for the "good old" RACIST days!
MOM AND POP STORES were the bigotry and price gouging FRONT LINE
against people like me in this country before the big box stores
came along. THEY STILL ARE in Vermont and other places not
totally Walmartized. I KNOW what Mon and Pop restaurants and bed
and breakfasts I WANT TO AVOID (ALL of them) if I know what is
good for me.
I STOPPED going even to chain restaurants AND fast food outlets
several years ago, not for health reasons (although now that is
the main reason I don't eat out ANYWHERE). BECAUSE of the dirty
looks and delayed service. I was even treated to a caterpillar
in my lettuce at a Friendlies Restaurant. I said nothing. My
wife had her leg in a cast and I didn't want to ruin the meal
for her. So I casually covered the little fellow with my napkin.
At first, since the waitress was friendly, I thought it was just
one of those things. However, I noticed somebody from the
kitchen walked by and looked at me out of the corner of his eye
TWICE. I was NOT attracting any attention.
And Friendlies isn't even "Mom and Pop"! You DON'T want to know
about the looks I have received at other chain restaurants from
rather large, white and menacing looking Vermonters.
Forget venturing into one of those "Mom and Pop" places they
have here. At a "Mom and Pop" hardware store I waited a full 10
minutes while THREE attendants studiously avoided eye contact
with me while talking in a group. There were NO OTHER COSTUMERS
IN THE STORE. I never went back there (which was their plan, of
course).
I DO NOT BELIEVE in the "FREEDOM" of people to treat other
people like SHIT, GET IT!!? If you open a business for HUMAN
BEINGS TO EAT AT or SLEEP AT, you DO NOT have the "right" to
treat people poorly because you think they are LESS THAN YOU.
THAT is what those MOM AND POP assholes ACTUALLY BELIEVED WAS
(and IS) their "right".
BUL LS HIT!
I'm GLAD Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot and so on DESTROYED the
racist based profits of those Mom and Pop stores!
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And millions upon millions of blacks/Hispanics/orientals/brown
people FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!
FU CK the Mom and Pop ASS HOLES who nurtured, protected and
profited from a RACIST SYSTEM. Put that in your Libertarian pipe
and SMOKE IT!
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 13, 2015, 1:16 pm
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>
>
> [CAUTION - RACIST TERMS]
>
> I live right on the path of a marathon. A few weeks ago, my
neighbors and I were gathered in our courtyard, enjoying sun and
the runners whizzing past. We are a multi-culti group of
residents, Latinos, Asians, Whites and African-Americans. One
of the residents had friends over to watch the marathon, and as
we all chatted, one of the White male guests casually commented
to two others about what was happening in his old neighborhood,
yada yada, "wetbacks", yada yada. I froze for a second. There
were at least 4 Latinos standing in our midst, and my White
neighbors have always been extremely friendly. No one said
anything. The men kept discussing "ghetto people," crime,
guarding their cars, etc.
>
> It was like being in college again. I knew I would say
something, I knew the "Seven Steps of Denial" would come up, I
knew my neighbor, who'd invited this man, would never speak to
me again, etc. I let that all go, stepped over to the men, and
said, I'd heard what they said, that this was my home, and that
his language was not okay.
>
> The Seven Steps of Denial that next unfolded took less than 20
minutes (this sometimes happened over the course of days in
college):
>
> 1) "I didn't do it." Wide-eyed stare and shrug from one of the
listeners.
>
> 2) "It's not my problem." The other listener walks away.
>
> 3) "It was a fluke/out of character." The man I addressed
said, "I'm sorry, I never say things like that." (I reply, "It's
not my business if you say it, but you can't say it here where I
live.")
>
> 4) "I'm not guilty by association/One of my best friends
is___." The man I addressed said, "I'm sorry. My uncle is
Hispanic, I mean not one of THOSE Hispanics, he didn't come over
on a boat--" I cut him off, admittedly. I said, "You are sorry
you were overheard. And I'm guessing your uncle does not know
you call Latinos w***." I turn to the wide-eyed guy, who is
muscular, covered in tattoos and has short-cropped hair. "Can
you relate to this a little? I'm guessing people see you and
think you're an ex-con or just cross the street." The tattooed
man says, "Why are you making this about me?" I reply that
"it's everyone's responsibility to say something."
>
> [b] 5) "You're overreacting/hyper-sensitive."[/b] The tattooed
man says, "People are too hyper-sensitive to this stuff." I
reply, "No, people are under-sensitive." He walks away.
>
> 6) "I'll just assert my inherent
entitlement/dominance/superiority over you." The man I addressed
steps up and firmly says, "I said I'm sorry. You want to call
the police?" I say just as firmly, "Are you kidding? You're in
my home. You can go." Another resident comes over and asks who
invited him and whose fault he is (literally). I walk back to
watch the race.
> 6) "Your thinking I'm a racist, based on an actual thing I've
just said or done, cannot be allowed to stand." The man I
addressed does not leave. He keeps coming over to apologize, to
say he isn't a racist, to mention his Hispanic uncle again, etc.
Another resident, who is White and married to a Latina, tells
him he'd have punched him in the face if his wife had been
outside. I ignore the man I'd originally addressed and watch
the marathon.
>
> 7) "Your mentioning race is an affront to our sensibilities."
No one at the gathering speaks to me for the rest of the
marathon, and the resident who'd invited the man I addressed
stops speaking to me in passing.
>
> So decades after shaking my head about this with 20 year olds,
it was interesting to hear Dixon D. White, a
half-White/half-Cuban, self-identified Southern redneck and
former racist, sit in his Ford F-150 and talk so deeply about
something so few have tools to think about. I like that he said
it was everyone's responsibility (and agree). I like that he
said that the African-Americans who have reached out to him have
experienced "truth deprivation" from a world that denies and
reframes racism.
>
>
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>
> Dixon D. White: "I challenge all of you to post a video with
your smart phones about race and post it on social media! Let's
do the damn thing!"
>
> But I really like his call to action. I asked many times when
I used to engage regularly here for someone to explain what
happens when racism is mentioned, what is the chain of thoughts
that triggers such consistent and passionate resistance/denial?
I wanted to understand it then; I realized today, I still do.
>
> Maybe it's not the world - maybe it's just my life that will
change, one selfie-stick video at a time.
>
> P.S. it's been so long since I posted, I'm not sure what tags
to add.
>
> 2:15 PM PT: No selfie-stick, but here's another testimonial
from Dallas newscaster Dale Hansen:
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Read more and watch videos from honest white people who get it
at link: :coffee:
"Redneck's" viral video calls for "white racial responsibility"
videos
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 13, 2015, 1:32 pm
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TDOS,
The problem most humans have with reality is that they lack the
ability to put themselves in the shoes of other people due to
ingrained prejudices about "taking care of their own" against
whoever is out there that might try to bang their daughter or
take their stuff.
This egocentric attitude based on the primitive society "wisdom"
of taking care of number one and his or her offspring/tribe
worked okay when there weren't that many people around.
But now that there are many of us, the HYPOCRISY of documents
like the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are in plain
view. Yet people claim that everybody "gets what the deserve".
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No, since Thomas Jefferson and George Washington calmly planned
to starve, demonize, ostracize, marginalize ETC. the Native
Americans in order to steal their land while the African
Americans were "kept in their place", NOTHING HAS CHANGED in
this country.
Do you know what minorities think about all those "rights" we
supposedly have? They think it is all bul ls hit. Do you know
what many of them think of Socialism? They think it's a con game
to enslave them in a slightly different way that Capitalism
shafts them by being a "property rights" front for bigotry and
prejudice.
You might say that minorities EXPECT to be lied to and double
talked to from here to the moon because THAT is the way it has
ALWAYS been.
There has been a CONCERTED effort in this country since the end
of the Civil War to PREVENT minorities from owning property and
businesses. When a leader of said minorities appears, he or she
is either bought or bopped. THAT is how you can get GROSSLY
duplicitous, mendacious and perfidious crap spewed from the
mouth of bigots about those "rich" blacks taking the jobs away
from "Mom and Pop".
The hell of all this that whitey does not get is that by gaming
the minorities to fu ck them over per secula seculorum, the
INSTANT minorities are given a tiny bit of relief from being
under a 24/7 siege, they go for it, even if it is going to be
deleterious to their own well being eventually. They DON'T CARE.
All they see is that what they had was SH IT. All, they see is
their leaders getting bought off and then raised up by whitey as
examples of the rest of the minorities. They CANNOT catch a
break with whitey.
SO, they actually will embrace fascism and dictatorship if they
get more freedom in that society than they had in the "Mom and
Pop", small town friendly police (to whites), democratic towns
(for whites) era.
Justice really does require affirmative action and massive
reverse taxation reparations to minorities. That AIN'T GONNA
HAPPEN because whitey STILL thinks minorities are "free
loaders", thanks to centuries of demonization of said
minorities.
WHY do you think the big political parties in the US are going
after the latino vote? Because its EASY to sucker people that
are desperate for a break.
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington et al planted a twisted
racist seed. It is now almost full grown. The fruit of that tree
is not freedom; it is fascism.
Treating minorities like sh it has consequences. Everybody loses
because the bastards behind this racist system deliberately
fomented denigration, hatred, marginalization, cruelty and
suspicion of the other since long before 1776.
Now most of the minorities are every bit as "racist" as the
those who visited them with racism. THAT IS THE FAULT OF THE
DOMINANT GROUP, no matter what disingenuous claim to innocence
the dominant group (European descended land owning white males)
pis ses and moans about.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 13, 2015, 10:47 pm
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GO said,
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> Facts like the millions of immigrants coming to America with
hopes and dreams from another country and making it through hard
work in their own small business have no place here Unc.
>
> It's all about victim weeping Leftist BS here.
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MORE offensive, deliberate distortion of reality, in the service
of private property and racist privilege, by the sneering mocker
of all minorities and poor.
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Next you will show us another picture of some rich guy enjoying
some veal.
YOU HAVE NO SHAME, GO.
HERE are some FACTS to stick up your perspective challenged,
Libertarian ****:
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>
> May 12, 2014 - Minority businesses make up almost 15 percent
of the 28 million small businesses and employ 5.9 million
workers in the United States. Minorities include people in any
category other than non-Hispanic white, according to the U.S.
Census Bureau.
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THAT MEANS EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT PLUS IS OWNED by WHITES, MR.
BULL****!!! And most OF THE TINY percentage of minority owned
business ARE IN MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS because they will NOT
get community support (or get trashed) in pretty suburban places
like YOU like to live in. THEY ARE FORCED to limit WHERE they
open a business thanks to WHITE GREEDY BIGOTS. SPARE me the
"Chinese restaurants are everywhere", PAL!
And that is after 400 ****ing YEARS, you ignorant, bigoted
buffon! [b]Take your double talk to your pals at TBP where they
think JUST LIKE YOU.[/b]
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>
>
> In 2007, Asians owned 1.6 million businesses,
African-Americans owned 1.9 million, Hispanics owned 2.3
million, and Native American/Pacific Islander owned 0.3 million,
according to the most recent data from the Small Business
Administration.
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NO Surly, I AM NOT going to apologize. Delete this post if you
want. I am SICK AND TIRED of this bloated ****ANT GO playing the
part of the injured party. **** HIM, HIS GOLD, HIS GREED and HIS
DELIBERATE, PREJUDICED and MENDACIOUS DISTORTIONS OF REALITY!
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 21, 2015, 6:43 pm
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[move]Person steals property, resists arrest and insults police.
WATCH what happens. ;)[/move]
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>
> The officers attempting to detain her also declined to press
charges for resisting.
>
> Instead, Manhart was given a criminal trespass warning which
effectively bans her from any university activity, including
graduation and football games, said Andy Clark, vice president
for enrollment, marketing and communications.
>
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IOW she gave the authorities the finger and got off with a
restraining order.
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/>Remember folks, in this country the REAL religion is THIS:
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FLAG=God=M.I.C.
USA! USA! USA!
This is the PRIESTHOOD:
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DETAILS HERE
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>
> "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --
Aldous Huxley
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 7, 2015, 6:54 pm
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Sat May 02, 2015 at 05:23 AM PDT.
Shocking Facts for Anti-Blacks
by
TheLovingThinkingFighter
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>
> Has anyone visited the comment section of an MSN news story,
which involved police brutality of blacks, or just blacks? If
you have, you probably noticed an ill feeling in your gut as you
read the horrendous comments posted by anti-black racists. If it
was against all other races except for their own, they would
just be racists; but no, their particular gripe is against the
people with the darkest of dark skin tones. The article I
visited that had this latest batch of typed fecal was, "TIME
magazine asks how much has really changed in America since the
'60s". The cringe-worthy diatribes against blacks outnumbered
any commenters with brains... I know, because I posted a reply
myself. I know, it was a waste of time - but it felt to me as if
just leaving the comments section vacant of any reason and
logic, would've drawn in some poor young person to fall for
whatever terrible trash was posted without some rebuttal. I was
going to post another, but said post was longer than first
intended, and I felt it would have been wasted on a short-lived
news story's comments section. So instead, I decided to post it
here, so if you ever run into a poo-flinging mouth breather, you
can redirect them here or copy and paste parts to use as a quick
response to stupid comments. (If they learned how to read that
is.)
> [I'm mixed, (Hispanic & black,) but I wrote this in a way so
to make sound less like I'm being the representative of all
black people.].
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Here are a few things you might find a bit of a shock:
1.) Blacks don't want your pity and sympathy, they want
your respect, empathy, and equal opportunity. No matter how hard
blacks try, this country never gives all three. They are said to
be available, but it rarely is, if ever. Many blacks are held
responsible for the actions of the few, blamed for the breakdown
of society, and seen as the most inferior in many aspects
compared to other skin colors. As a result, blacks are excluded
from the inclusive, beaten without question, and killed without
remorse. The most peaceful are labeled cowards, the bravest are
labeled violent, adults are patronized like children, and
children are treated like adults. This is all while being
exploited for profit, have their successes ignored, failures
paraded, and berated for just existing. Blacks take such
mistreatment for years, and whenever they want to have a
dialogue about this, they are accused of being "race-baiters" or
"uppity troublemakers". Then when they finally react to their
mistreatment, it is somehow assumed that there is no reason to
act that way, so that must be just the way they are. All of this
makes it near impossible to achieve any cordial interracial
relationship, even with those considered as the "few good ones"
who "pull themselves up and become great citizens."
2.) Black culture IS American culture. Everything racists
despise blacks for, you see every other U.S. citizen do: Blacks
glorify crime? The Sopranos was a top-rated show across the
U.S., and pirates are beloved fantastical characters. Blacks are
always asking for handouts? Last I checked, so does the other
61.2% of recipients, with the majority of those being whites.
Blacks are so violent? In Walmart, you have the choice of
getting a copy of Dirty Harry or GTA, before heading for your
next NRA meeting. Am I saying blacks don’t have their own
culture? Yes and no; but hey, that happens when your ancestors
are kidnapped and stripped of much of their old ways. Over time
however, blacks adapted to their new home and contributed with
their own innovations, but they were only well incorporated into
America’s culture after racism tried to remove any black
identity.
3.) Other minorities did go through hard times, and they
did react violently to injustice too, despite how passive you
thought they were to get to where they are now. Remember all of
the Indian Wars and AIM during the 1960's and 70's? Remember the
Jewish uprisings in Europe, and the people like Meyer Lansky in
the States during WWII? I doubt many remember the Manzanar Riot.
Yeah, people without black skin managed to fair better in
American society than those with, in spite of being just as
qualified for the same treatment. Why? Here are two major
reasons: a.) lighter skin meant an easier time blending in with
whites, than someone with darker skin, (especially if they could
pass themselves off as white,) and b.) except for Native
Americans, many minorities made the choice to come to America.
They may not have had a lot of money or familiar faces with
them, but they came and kept much of what they brought with
them. Blacks…not so much.
4.) When a community is stricken with poverty and abuse,
it’s much less likely anybody living there will feel as if they
are a part of it. If when you move into a neighborhood, and the
area’s residents are prejudice against you, they will
intentionally make things hard for you. When the wealthier
residents let their prejudice get the best of them and move
away, taking their personal funds and investments with them,
there is going to be poverty. When corrupt elected officials,
(both left and right,) defund education and social services,
there is going to be a lack of education and fewer avenues to
receive aid. If you work long hours at multiple minimum-wage
jobs just to make a living, and still not able to afford certain
needs and amenities, you are going to hate those establishments.
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>
> Poverty + Inadequate Education and Services + High Effort, Low
Paying Jobs = Desperation, Depression, Frustration.
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This leads to more crime, more drug usage, and less stable
families. Anyone in a situation like this would feel trapped in
a community where they feel unappreciated, unsafe, and unlikely
to move up the social ladder; it feels more like a penal colony
than something worth living in. You feel like the community is
not your own. Yet despite that, you try to make the best out of
this situation, and then here come the cops. The ones who are
supposed to protect and serve you, instead victimize you.
[glow=red,2,300]If you run, you die! If you startle the officer,
you die! If you give up, dead! If you even sneeze, dead!
[/glow]Is it racism? Classism? Both? Whichever the case, only so
much can be piled on any human being before they break. It
doesn't matter if the next individual was innocent or a
small-time crook, if they die unarmed while complying,
surrendering, in custody, running away in fear, or just minding
their own business, it all will boil over. When that break
finally happens, don't be surprised that you find yourself
targeting police cars, minimum-wage work places, stores with
unaffordable needs and wants, and homes with shoddy upkeep. Is
this a good idea? To anyone not living there, of course not…but
if you look under the surface, it becomes a little more
understandable.
5.) “Black Lives Matter”, means black lives matter AS MUCH
as everyone else’s. People with brains get the message, which is
why you see people of many colors march together against police
brutality and racism. Meanwhile, racists somehow see the term
“Black Lives Matter” as a challenge; as blacks are worth more
than everyone else, or that blacks are the only victims to
brutality. With that, racists are offended by the term, and
accuse blacks of being bigots with victim complexes.
Blacks have been in America since the Spanish. Blacks are not
going anywhere and are not going to stop demanding a fair shake.
If you still have some humility left, stop ignoring and
demonizing an entire people for the sake of secretly making
yourself feel better than others. We are all human; we are all
more complex than just good and evil, and skin certainly doesn't
dictate who a person is. Don't like that truth? Get used to it!
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Addressing environmental racism to ensure rights for everyone in
Canada
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May 20, 2015 | By Katie Perfitt, Blue Dot Community Organizer
By Katie Perfitt, Blue Dot Community Organizer
5/20/2015
In April, the conversation about environmental rights took a
significant step forward with a private member’s bill introduced
in the Nova Scotia legislature. Bill 111 is called An Act to
Address Environmental Racism. Although it wasn’t passed before
the legislature adjourned for the summer, it shines a light on a
fundamental concept in our work.
We cannot talk about environmental rights unless we also
acknowledge historical and continuing injustice. Unfortunately,
we have plenty in Canada. Environmental racism and the broader
concept of environmental injustice and inequity describe
situations in which disadvantaged and vulnerable communities
bear a disproportionate burden of preventable environmental
health hazards, such as pollution, environmental degradation and
the effects of climate change.
In Nova Scotia and elsewhere, many serious issues that come up
when we’re talking about environmental rights — lack of fresh
air and clean water, lack of access to unspoiled nature, health
impacts — are disproportionately experienced by people who have
been historically marginalized.
The disproportionate location of polluting industry sites and
other environmental hazards close to racially marginalized
communities is just one reason the connection between
environmental rights and environmental racism cannot be
understated.
That’s why we consistently say we want to ensure fresh air,
clean water and healthy food for all. We’re not just talking
about a majority of people who live in Canada; we’re talking
about every person who lives here. No matter where you live, how
much money you earn or what colour your skin is, you shouldn’t
have to live in an area where dumping or industrial processes
put your health at risk.
Many of us are fortunate to live in a healthy environment. But
in Nova Scotia — similar to many parts of Canada — when you see
pulp mill or a dump, you’ll often see a First Nations band, or
an Acadian or African Nova Scotian community nearby.
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These are serious issues that challenge us to confront who we
are and who we want to be as a people. As Martin Luther King Jr.
stated,
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People in communities that experience the worst impacts must be
given a chance to tell their stories and to be involved in
creating solutions for problems they did not create. Until that
happens, we can’t as a collective be healthy. By confronting
environmental racism we can begin to look for solutions so we
can find environmental justice for all people in Canada.
Just a few months ago, the Nova Scotia government passed Bill
89, to clean up Boat Harbour (a pulp mill effluent site on First
Nations’ land). While this is an important step for the
province, and long overdue for the community, Boat Harbour is
only one Nova Scotia community that has experienced
environmental racism. Other notable examples include Africville,
East Preston and Lincolnville. Bill 111, also known as the
Environmental Racism Prevention Act, is the first step in
acknowledging and accepting responsibility for widespread
environmental racism in the province.
Although the bill is profound in its intent, it’s modest in its
aims. Introduced by NDP MLA Lenore Zann, Bill 111 proposes to
establish an independent panel to consult the public on
environmental racism in Nova Scotia and make recommendations to
government. The legislature adjourned for the summer before a
vote could be held, but we hope the issue will be back on the
political agenda during the fall sitting.
It’s a conversation that’s long overdue, and this bill starts us
down a path of seeing the environment, social justice, racism
and our shared future in a new light: holistic, with integrity
and improved health for everyone.
Read more about Bill 111
Bill 111 – Legislative text
David Suzuki Foundation proposal for an environmental health
equity agenda for Canada (page 44 in the Green Budget Coalition
Recommendations for Budget 2015)
Canadian Centre for Environmental Health Equity
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