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Author Topic: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden  (Read 18058 times)

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Thousands without Pay: The Consequences of an Indifferent President (2019)


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Published on Jan 9, 2019

The Government Shutdown over Donald Trump's wall is leaving thousands without paychecks, and the president and the republican Party, simply don't care.

Are we seeing the consequences of an Indifferent President?

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Could a National Legal Pot Law Finally Happen?

March 4, 2019

With Cory Booker’s proposal to legalize marijuana on a federal level, TRNN looks at the current politics surrounding legalization in the nation’s capital and statehouses across the country to see if the time has finally come for a federal law to decriminalize pot


https://therealnews.com/stories/could-a-national-legal-pot-law-finally-happen
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019

In Condemning Ilhan Omar, Democrats 👹 Have Proved Her Right

SHILPA JINDIA, TRUTHOUT

At a time of heightened anti-Muslim discrimination and hatred, the Democratic establishment has singled out a Muslim representative for her criticisms of the outsized influence of the Israel lobby in the U.S. government. The rush to reprimand Rep. Ilhan Omar ✨ further exposes Democrats' close ties to pro-Israel groups 🦍 and, more alarmingly, gives tacit approval to the Islamophobia and racism of the Trump administration and its 😈 supporters. >:(

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Ilhan Omar in Her Own Words: I Know What Hate Feels Like

AMY GOODMAN, DEMOCRACY NOW!

PUBLISHED March 8, 2019

In her speech last week, Rep. Ilan Omar said, "When people 😈 say, 'You are bringing hate,' I know what their intention is. Their intention is to make sure that our lights ✨ are dimmed , that we walk around with our heads bowed, that we lower our face and our voice.  But ... we're here to stay and represent the voices of people who have been silenced for many decades and generations."

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Sorry, John Kelly, nice try
Robert Harrington 👍 | 4:00 pm EST March 7, 2019

Palmer Report » Analysis

“The least enjoyable job I’ve ever had,” is how former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly described his time working for Donald Trump. The now ousted Marine General has used his first public comments since his inglorious dismissal January 2nd to distance himself from Trump’s positions on immigration and the border wall, and claims he would also have worked for Hillary Clinton, if asked.

John Kelly, in short, has been born again, a la Michael Cohen. The prodigal son has seen the error of his ways and returned to the embrace of the human family for redemption and forgiveness.

Not so fast, General. We have the right to remember certain things. For example, we have the right to recall your disgraceful treatment of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who was present in the car when your idiot, hamfisted boss phoned the grieving widow of a slain US soldier and made hideously inappropriate remarks of misfired “condolences.”

We have the right to recall the lie you invented about a perfectly innocent speech made by the Congresswoman – an African American woman whom you characterized as “the empty barrel that makes the most noise” – in which you lied and said she inappropriately claimed credit for securing federal funding for an FBI building in her district, a lie that is directly and immediately contradicted by a video of that event.

We have the right to remember when you said the American Civil War was caused by “the lack of ability to compromise,” and when you described Robert E Lee as an “honorable man.” We have the right to remember when you disparaged potential DACA signatories, some of whom were too frightened to sign up, as “too lazy to get off their asses.”

We have the right to remember when you promoted serial wife abuser Rob Porter despite knowing full well Porter had a protection orders from both ex-wives for domestic abuse. We have the right to remember when you illegally used the Situation Room to fire White House staffer Omarosa Manigault, and that you threatened her with reprisals both legal and reputational should she make trouble.

As to the idea that you could have worked for Hillary Clinton? What makes you think you qualify, you arrogant son of a B I T C H? No, General John Kelly, you chose to work for Donald Trump, and you permitted him to corrupt your soul. It’s time to accept the consequences – like a Marine.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/sorry-john-kelly-nice-try/16527/
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​Eddie Conway: 5-Year Anniversary of His Release From Prison ​- RAI (11/12)

March 22, 2019

We continue our Reality Asserts Itself series with TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway, who spent 44 years as a political prisoner and is now in the leadership of TRNN


https://therealnews.com/stories/%E2%80%8Beddie-conway-5-year-anniversary-of-his-release-from-prison-%E2%80%8B-rai-11-12
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Homicide ☠️ and Baltimore’s Black Butterfly – RAI with Eddie Conway (12/12)

March 26, 2019

Murders take place in Baltimore at a rate that compares with New York, thirteen times the size; Eddie Conway says deep poverty, unemployment, and brutal 🦍 policing are contributing factors to the murder epidemic – on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay


https://therealnews.com/stories/homicide-and-baltimores-black-butterfly-rai-with-eddie-conway-12-12

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019

In Condemning Ilhan Omar, Democrats 👹 Have Proved Her Right


Someone smarter than me once said, "if you want to know who REALLY holds the power, figure out who you're not allowed to criticize."

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019

In Condemning Ilhan Omar, Democrats 👹 Have Proved Her Right


Someone smarter than me once said, "if you want to know who REALLY holds the power, figure out who you're not allowed to criticize."

True.
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Eddie Conway : ‘It’s Not Mass Incarceration, It’s Targeted’  >:(

March 1, 2018

Prisons aren’t “correctional” facilities, because they 🦍have no interest in correcting anything; the multibillion-dollar prison industry is interested in profits 😈, and institutional racism keeps the money flowing, says TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway


Excellent series of Eddie Conway videos ✨ from THE REAL NEWS NETWORK:

https://therealnews.com/stories/eddie-conway-its-not-mass-incarceration-its-targeted


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Rattling the Bars: The Strange Case of Merle Unger

December 26, 2017

TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway examines the landmark case of Unger v. State of Maryland, which was responsible for the release of over 200 prisoners in 2014. However, Merle Unger, who won the case, remains locked up after 42 years of incarceration


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JENNY PIPER:   Our brother, Merle Unger, was convicted of felony murder in Washington County, Maryland in 1976 and was given life and 15 years. During this incident, an off-duty police officer was shot and killed. In 2012, Merle has his case overturned, which opened the door for anyone convicted by a jury before 1980. Merle was quickly retried, found guilty, and given the same life sentence.


EDDIE CONWAY:   There has been a strange case in the State of Maryland in which almost 230 some prisoners have gained their eligibility for freedom. 160 some have actually been released. The person that fought the longest and the hardest for the release of these prisoners is a prisoner named Merle Unger. And the strangeness of that case is that Merle Unger is one of the few people that is not being released.

JENNY PIPER:   Since 2012, over 160 lifers has been released off of our brother’s case. Our brother is 68 years old and has spent almost 42 years in prison. He hasn’t been involved in any violence while in prison. He has learned many skills, gets along very with staff, and helps others. Washington County has reduced the sentences of others convicted of felony murder and/or r a p e, which led to their release. So they are obviously biased against our brother.

The question we asked is: Is it fair that close to 200 have been released because of our brother’s issue, while he can’t get equal justice? Mr. Charles Strong, the head District Attorney in Hagerstown, Maryland refuses to treat our brother the same as anyone else, perhaps for a personal or political reason. In over four years, not a single one of those released have went back to prison, which is proof that people change as they get older. It costs taxpayers billions each year to keep people 50 and older in prison, while studies shows they are very low risk to commit another crime.

ROBERTA UNGER:   The key thing was, we didn’t have TV when we were a child growing up, and we didn’t know anything different than just the things that our parents taught us and stuff. But today it’s out there. But we lived very poorly. We came from a family of 12, and he went through so much verbal and mental abuse and physical abuse. And we all had low self-esteem, and it took us years to go out. You know, the people in prison amaze me. The people that I know here, every one of these lifers it’s left out. There all like brothers to me and stuff, and sisters, and they’re the most loving and giving back to the community people that I ever heard. So we all make mistakes, and when you’re young and don’t know any better, and if people out here that grow up with the low self-esteem and the abuse that he and a lot of these other people, and that’s why they pick on the people, because they’re so poor. Most of your people in prison are poor and can’t fight the justice. But there’s wrong justice done to everyone in the prison system today. And if I can do anything to help anybody out, no one deserves to die in prison.

EDDIE CONWAY:   What can people do to maybe help support the effort to win his release? Because obviously there’s hundreds of people that has a vested interest in him gaining his freedom since they gained theirs. So what can people do? Not just those people, but the people’s families and so on, so what can people do?

JENNY PIPER:   They can write letters to help him.

EDDIE CONWAY:   To who?

JENNY PIPER:   I don’t know who you would write them to, probably the governor, or I don’t know who you would write them to.

ROBERTA UNGER:   You mean petitions?

EDDIE CONWAY:   Well, if he has a lawyer, I would assume that if some kind of way y’all could make that known people could write letters to the lawyer.

JENNY PIPER:   To the lawyer.

EDDIE CONWAY:   And for the governor. In other words, so that there will always be a copy. The lawyer will have a copy, but then it can be a letter to the governor. I think. I don’t know. Is there anything else you think?

ROBERTA UNGER:   Yes. This is for off duty or police officers and things like that, that get killed in the line of duty or lose their life trying to help others, and it’s called Duty Calls, is the poem, and from your family in blue. And he’s doing this from prison too, so he sent these cards to me, and then I make copies. He sends these for free out to people to try to ease their pain from what they’re going through. And then this one, he made up that’s for … It’s called The Life of Roses, another poem that he made. And this is for battered women, r a p e victims and stuff like that, so when we see anything going on like that, we try to Google it and get to where someone could send these.

JENNY PIPER:   An organization, a support group.

EDDIE CONWAY:   Does anybody in the family have a website or anything for him?

ROBERTA UNGER:   We’re working on that. We’re trying to get that set up, but I don’t know nothing about computers, and I was paying a girl to do it. But she went back to college and I don’t know how far she is on it, but I’m trying to work on that to get a website to put this artwork out. He does a lot of artwork. This is a painting he did. We’ve got lots of them. Yeah. And so we’re trying to get a website set up for him and a podcast as well to try to get out to help reach more people.

https://therealnews.com/stories/rattling-the-bars-the-strange-case-of-merle-unger
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Puerto Rico Climate Change caused Infrastructure damage

April 4, 2019

Trump's 🦀 Disdain for Puerto Rico Should Be His Undoing

By Sonali Kolhatkar —  His “otherizing” of the U.S. colony should not obscure the fact he has failed Americans suffering through the aftermath of hurricanes.

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In 1992, Stevens was sentenced to 15-years-to-life for a nonviolent drug offense. He served 10 years before receiving clemency from former New York Governor George Pataki in 2001.

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“To incarcerate someone in my condition, who poses absolutely no physical threat to society and is unable even to wipe his own behind, shows the complete and utter failure of the criminal justice system." - Terrence Stevens

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Should Reparations Pay Convicts Who Endured Prison Slavery?   
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The 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery in the United States but actually codified it into law though the use of prison slavery. 

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Racism Rampant in Denierland, But Enviro Community Has Work To Do, Too

Yesterday, we talked about how WUWT seems to be finding some new life by exemplifying how denial can operate across issue areas. And that wasn’t the first time we’ve explored the sexist and racist dimensions of organized denial.

It’s important to understand, though, that there’s a larger cultural aspect to the warm welcome climate denial has received among the political right. In Megan Mayhew’s latest column at the Guardian, she travels to Natchez, Mississippi to see how the small town full of racist history is faring in the era of climate change. The piece opens, as you might expect, with Mayhew being told climate change is not “polite” conversation, a nod to how the concept of “civility” is used selectively to protect the status quo.

While some Natchez residents may be slowly coming around on climate change, it’s all too easy to look down at them and see the climate action community as the opposite: a shining beacon of diversity, tolerance and goodness. But that, too, would be denial.

The green world still has plenty of work to do when it comes to welcoming non-white communities. The growth of the environmental justice movement is encouraging, but the fact that it was ever divorced from the rest of the environmental community in the first place is a problem. Because that didn’t happen accidentally, and the community has yet to heal the damage it caused.

As Mary Annaïse Heglar wrote in Dame this week, despite the movement’s best efforts, black faces are all too rare in public venues like climate marches. Stories from black voices who were made uncomfortable by both micro- and macro-aggressions from their fellow marchers, meanwhile, are all too common. 


Framed around the exclusive nature of Woody Guthrie’s protest song “This land is your land,” Heglar exposes not only the current shortcomings of the community, but also its past, which is sadly, she writes, “steeped in oh-sh-it racism.”

That tragic history is the focus of another piece this week by Matt Mildenberger. Writing in Scientific American, Mildenberger explores the racist past of environmental thought and the hate behind the Tragedy of the Commons. The famous 1968 piece has become something of a cornerstone of environmental thought: if left unregulated, everyone exploits natural resources to their own benefit, leading to overconsumption.

The problem, Mildenberger explains, is not just that the author, Garrett Hardin, was a white nationalist who espoused virulent racist, islamophobic and eugenic ideology, but more importantly, that he’s wrong. Historians have shown that early common areas were informally regulated by local customs and institutions--turns out people aren’t quite as stupid or greedy as Hardin suggested. And so environmental concerns should not, as Hardin 😈 proposed, be used to justify eugenics or xenophobia or whatever other racist nonsense arises out of the perception of scarce resources.

So if Hardin’s overpopulation and overconsumption claims aren’t the root of the climate challenge, what is? Decades ago, Mildenberger argues, we had the chance to start taking the slow and steady steps necessary to transition to clean energy, and  had we done so, the “costs to most Americans would have been imperceptible.”

“But that future was stolen from us,” Mildenberger continues, “by powerful, carbon-polluting interests who blocked policy reforms at every turn to preserve their short-term profits.” To overcome that well-funded political power, we need to drop Hardin’s idea that individual consumption is to blame, and instead turn our attention toward bringing more people into the fold, “a commitment at the heart of proposals like the Green New Deal.”

So while it's important to acknowledge the racist roots in the environmental tree, as the climate community knows well, simply recognizing a problem without taking action to remedy it, isn’t enough.

https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/gnd-in-nyc-clean-jobs-pay-well?e=0fd17c5b57#Denier%20Roundup

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