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For years, First Nations communities in Canada and their supporters, including members of the Wet’suwet’an nation, have fought the construction of TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink pipeline. The proposed pipeline would cross over traditional lands in British Columbia in order to ship oil to Asia.

Several elected Indigenous councils along the route have approved the construction of the pipeline, but Wet’suwet’an hereditary chiefs say they actually have the final say over the control of these traditional lands, and the elected Indigenous councils have no jurisdiction over them.

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Canada’s railways, highways, & ports have been occupied by demonstrators, with the aim of causing travel & economic disruption. However, an anti-Native sentiment is reportedly increasing as the acts of civil disobedience continue.

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But what really seared into my memory were the multiple collections of jars of soil from lynching sites. Here’s my photo of one such wall in the building housing the meeting room and gift shop at the National Memorial:


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It frosts my balls that this article calls him an "ethicist." No surprise that he is Rahmbo's brother. Proof that not just Rs are members of the Death Cult. If you're not helping to raise stock prices, you're a useless eater.

A doctor and medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth living
Ezekiel Emanuel questions “whether our consumption is worth our contribution” in old age.


In October 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Because Emanuel is a medical doctor and chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well as a chief architect of Obamacare, the article stirred enormous controversy.

Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations. His argument: older Americans live too long in a diminished state, raising the question of, as he put it, “whether our consumption is worth our contribution.”

Emanuel was born into a combative clan. One brother, Rahm, recently completed two terms as the controversial mayor of Chicago; another brother, Ari, is a high-profile Hollywood agent. But even given his DNA, Emanuel’s death wish was a provocative argument from a medical ethicist and health-care expert.

Emanuel, now 62, talked with me about the social implications of longevity research and why he isn’t a fan of extending life spans. I was particularly curious to get his reaction to several promising new anti-aging drugs.

Q: It’s five years since you published the essay. Any second thoughts as you near the deadline?

A: Not really! [Laughing]

Q: You announced that you wouldn’t take any measures to prolong your life after 75. Isn’t that an extreme position?

A: First of all, it’s not an extreme position. I’m not going to die at 75. I’m not committing suicide. I’m not asking for euthanasia. I’m going to stop taking medications with the sole justification that the medication or intervention is to prolong my life.

Q. But it’s called “Why I hope to die …”

"The world will exist fine if you happen to die. Great people, maybe even people greater than you, like Newton and Shakespeare and Euler—they died."

A. As you probably know better than everyone else, it’s editors that choose titles and not authors.

I often get, from the people who want to dismiss me, “You know, my Aunt Nellie, she was clear as a bell at 94, and blah-blah-blah …” But as I said in the article, there are outliers. There are not that many people who continue to be active and engaged and actually creative past 75. It’s a very small number.

Q: You suggest that one effect of our obsession with longevity is that it diverts attention from the health and well-being of children.

A: Lots of presidents and lots of politicians say, “Children are our most valuable resource.” But we as a country don’t behave like that. We don’t invest in children the way we invest in adults, especially older adults. One of the statistics I like to point out is if you look at the federal budget, $7 goes to people over 65 for every dollar for people under 18.

Q: The buzzword in longevity research is “health span”living a maximum life with a minimal amount of disability or ill health. Isn’t that a worthwhile goal?

A: If you ask anyone, “All right, design out the life you want,” I think people initially say, “Oh, I want to keep going as fast as I can, and then just fall off a cliff.” And then they reconsider: “Well, maybe I don’t want to die of a heart attack or a stroke in the middle of the night. I want to say goodbye to my family. So I want some gentle decline, but a very short amount of time. You know, months, not years.”

It makes perfect sense. I’m no different. I would like to maintain my vigor, my intellectual capacity, my productivity, all the way through to the end. But I think we also need to be realistic—that’s not the way most of us are going to live.

Q: Does that mean you’re skeptical about the health-span idea?

A: In the early 1980s, we had a theory that as we live longer, we’re going to stay in better health. You know, at 70, we’re going to be like our parents were when they were 50. Well, if you look at the data, maybe not. We’re having more disabilities. We have people with more problems. And even more important, for most people, is the biological decline in cognitive function. If you look at really smart people, there aren’t that many writing brand-new books after 75, and really developing new areas where they are leading thinkers. They tend to be re-tilling familiar areas that they’ve worked on for a long time.

Q: What’s wrong with simply enjoying an extended life?

A: These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age—when I look at what those people “do,” almost all of it is what I classify as play. It’s not meaningful work. They’re riding motorcycles; they’re hiking. Which can all have value—don’t get me wrong. But if it’s the main thing in your life? Ummm, that’s not probably a meaningful life.

Q: Are the anti-aging drugs in development just a bid for immortality by the back door?

A: Certainly. You listen to these people and their lingo is not “We’re just trying to get rid of problems.” Right? It’s “We want to live longer.” I notice that almost all of these things—not all of them, but many of them—are based out in California, because God forbid the world should continue to exist and I’m not part of it!

The world will exist fine if you happen to die. Great people, maybe even people greater than you, like Newton and Shakespeare and Euler—they died. And guess what? The world’s still there.

Q: What message do you think it sends when iconic innovators in Silicon Valleypeople like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellisonare clearly fascinated by life extension and …

A: No, no—they’re fascinated by their life extension! This idea that they’re fascinated with life extension [in general]? Naw, they’re fascinated by their life extension. They find it hard to even contemplate the idea that they are going to die and the world is going to be fine without them.

Q: You have described the “American immortal”people interested in life extension and immortality.

A: There is this view that longevity, living forever—and if not forever, 250 or 1,000 years—is really what we ought to be aiming at. And once you’ve got cultural leaders, or opinion leaders, saying this, people glom onto it. And it feeds into a whole situation of “Yes, dying is a bad thing.”

I do fear death. But I think I fear being sort of decrepit and falling apart more.

Q: Is it really a problem if one of these drugs like metformin shows a modest life-extending effect?

A: I think it would be, especially if what ends up happening is it adds a few years of life. Then the question is: What are the downsides of that? There may be a cognitive downside, maybe a little more mental confusion.

It’s very funny—every time I talk to people, it’s like, “Oh, yeah, definitely quality of life over quantity of life.” But when push comes to shove, it’s really quantity of life. “I might be a little more confused, but I’ll take that extra year!”


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« Reply #367 on: April 27, 2020, 01:14:51 pm »
It frosts my balls that this article calls him an "ethicist." No surprise that he is Rahmbo's brother. Proof that not just Rs are members of the Death Cult. If you're not helping to raise stock prices, you're a useless eater.

A doctor and medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth living
😈 Ezekiel Emanuel questions “whether our consumption is worth our contribution” in old age.


In October 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Because Emanuel is a medical doctor and chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well as a chief architect of Obamacare, the article stirred enormous controversy.

Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations. His argument: older Americans live too long in a diminished state, raising the question of, as he put it, “whether our consumption is worth our contribution.”

Emanuel was born into a combative clan. One brother, Rahm, recently completed two terms as the controversial mayor of Chicago; another brother, Ari, is a high-profile Hollywood agent. But even given his DNA, Emanuel’s death wish was a provocative argument from a medical ethicist and health-care expert.

Emanuel, now 62, talked with me about the social implications of longevity research and why he isn’t a fan of extending life spans. I was particularly curious to get his reaction to several promising new anti-aging drugs.

Q: It’s five years since you published the essay. Any second thoughts as you near the deadline?

A: Not really! [Laughing]

Q: You announced that you wouldn’t take any measures to prolong your life after 75. Isn’t that an extreme position?

A: First of all, it’s not an extreme position. I’m not going to die at 75. I’m not committing suicide. I’m not asking for euthanasia. I’m going to stop taking medications with the sole justification that the medication or intervention is to prolong my life.

Q. But it’s called “Why I hope to die …”

"The world will exist fine if you happen to die. Great people, maybe even people greater than you, like Newton and Shakespeare and Euler—they died."

A. As you probably know better than everyone else, it’s editors that choose titles and not authors.

I often get, from the people who want to dismiss me, “You know, my Aunt Nellie, she was clear as a bell at 94, and blah-blah-blah …” But as I said in the article, there are outliers. There are not that many people who continue to be active and engaged and actually creative past 75. It’s a very small number.

Q: You suggest that one effect of our obsession with longevity is that it diverts attention from the health and well-being of children.

A: Lots of presidents and lots of politicians say, “Children are our most valuable resource.” But we as a country don’t behave like that. We don’t invest in children the way we invest in adults, especially older adults. One of the statistics I like to point out is if you look at the federal budget, $7 goes to people over 65 for every dollar for people under 18.

Q: The buzzword in longevity research is “health span”living a maximum life with a minimal amount of disability or ill health. Isn’t that a worthwhile goal?

A: If you ask anyone, “All right, design out the life you want,” I think people initially say, “Oh, I want to keep going as fast as I can, and then just fall off a cliff.” And then they reconsider: “Well, maybe I don’t want to die of a heart attack or a stroke in the middle of the night. I want to say goodbye to my family. So I want some gentle decline, but a very short amount of time. You know, months, not years.”

It makes perfect sense. I’m no different. I would like to maintain my vigor, my intellectual capacity, my productivity, all the way through to the end. But I think we also need to be realistic—that’s not the way most of us are going to live.

Q: Does that mean you’re skeptical about the health-span idea?

A: In the early 1980s, we had a theory that as we live longer, we’re going to stay in better health. You know, at 70, we’re going to be like our parents were when they were 50. Well, if you look at the data, maybe not. We’re having more disabilities. We have people with more problems. And even more important, for most people, is the biological decline in cognitive function. If you look at really smart people, there aren’t that many writing brand-new books after 75, and really developing new areas where they are leading thinkers. They tend to be re-tilling familiar areas that they’ve worked on for a long time.

Q: What’s wrong with simply enjoying an extended life?

A: These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age—when I look at what those people “do,” almost all of it is what I classify as play. It’s not meaningful work. They’re riding motorcycles; they’re hiking. Which can all have value—don’t get me wrong. But if it’s the main thing in your life? Ummm, that’s not probably a meaningful life.

Q: Are the anti-aging drugs in development just a bid for immortality by the back door?

A: Certainly. You listen to these people and their lingo is not “We’re just trying to get rid of problems.” Right? It’s “We want to live longer.” I notice that almost all of these things—not all of them, but many of them—are based out in California, because God forbid the world should continue to exist and I’m not part of it!

The world will exist fine if you happen to die. Great people, maybe even people greater than you, like Newton and Shakespeare and Euler—they died. And guess what? The world’s still there.

Q: What message do you think it sends when iconic innovators in Silicon Valleypeople like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellisonare clearly fascinated by life extension and …

A: No, no—they’re fascinated by their life extension! This idea that they’re fascinated with life extension [in general]? Naw, they’re fascinated by their life extension. They find it hard to even contemplate the idea that they are going to die and the world is going to be fine without them.

Q: You have described the “American immortal”people interested in life extension and immortality.

A: There is this view that longevity, living forever—and if not forever, 250 or 1,000 years—is really what we ought to be aiming at. And once you’ve got cultural leaders, or opinion leaders, saying this, people glom onto it. And it feeds into a whole situation of “Yes, dying is a bad thing.”

I do fear death. But I think I fear being sort of decrepit and falling apart more.

Q: Is it really a problem if one of these drugs like metformin shows a modest life-extending effect?

A: I think it would be, especially if what ends up happening is it adds a few years of life. Then the question is: What are the downsides of that? There may be a cognitive downside, maybe a little more mental confusion.

It’s very funny—every time I talk to people, it’s like, “Oh, yeah, definitely quality of life over quantity of life.” But when push comes to shove, it’s really quantity of life. “I might be a little more confused, but I’ll take that extra year!”


This is the problem with materialists. This is the problem with the ideology of Social Darwinists. This is the problem with humans who deliberately choose to lack empathy. This is the problem with people who reject the most elementary concept of right versus wrong in a "random" universe where the only "right" is selfish caloric intake "might". 

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How Diverse Are State Supreme Courts?
« Reply #368 on: April 28, 2020, 04:35:11 pm »

How Diverse Are State Supreme Courts?

People of color make up about 40 percent of the population of the United States. And yet, when you look at the judges who make up each state’s supreme court, the amount of diversity is sorely lacking. According to analysis conducted earlier this year by the Brennan Center for Justice, 23 states have an all-white state supreme court bench, including 12 states in which people of color make up at least 20 percent of the population. Nationwide, only 15.5 percent of state supreme court seats are held by people of color.

And justice for all: 🗽

► Conversely, there are six U.S. states with a supreme court bench where the percentage of non-white judges is higher than the proportion of the state’s non-white population. Those states are California, Connecticut, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington.

► Gender diversity is also somewhat lacking on these courts. Nationally, women hold 37 percent of state supreme court seats, although 15 states have one or fewer female justices. Currently, in April 2020, Florida does not have any female supreme court justices, although there are two vacancies to fill on the bench.

► The Brennan Center says that ”a diverse bench is crucial to achieving a fair system of justice and promoting public trust in our courts.” The report added that sate supreme courts do not reflect an increasingly diverse U.S. population.

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To whom it may concern: It was the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY that PUSHED ALL THIS BULLSHIT to JUSTIFY THEIR CRUEL AND STUPID BLIND PREJUDICE! A significant percentage of Americans, many of them scientists, STILL cling to this "White Evolutionary Superiority" CRAP. If you think that IRRATIONAL SELF-SERVING PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC LEGERDEMAIN was "just about blacks", and did not spill over into other areas of "scientific" inquiry, but has "all gone away" and our "science" is really, honestly "completely objective" now, you are willfully ignorant of reality, guilty of bowing like a gutless herd following coward at the atheist altar of the scientific priesthood which is still pushing all sorts of UNSCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FREE CONJECTURE as "Science" you must believe in or fail your studies, as well as an instrument of pseudo-scientific LIES.   

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Agelbert NOTE: If you are a person of color, REMEMBER the Vermont State 😈 POLICE MENS REA MODUS OPERANDI detailed in this story if you are ever anywhere near Williston, Vermont.


CRIME AND JUSTICE

Panel: 👿 Troopers discriminated against Clemmons Family Farm director

By Anne Galloway and Alan J. Keays

Jun 23 2021

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“This case illustrates why people of color and women fear turning to the police, and distrust government agencies of all kinds,” Campbell wrote in her conclusion. “The power that law enforcement has to manipulate the facts through its exercise of 😈 discretion in the delivery of services is significant.

“The Vermont State 🦍 Police allowed Gregory Barreda to prey on Dr. Clemmons and terrorize her and her family and destroy a building on one of the few African American farms left in Vermont.” ... ...

Physical damages to the Barn House building, unpaid leave, legal fees, moving fees and private security totaled in excess of $100,000, according to Clemmons. As a result of the harassment and damage, the family business was forced to close from October 2017 to May 2018.

In the report, Clemmons said it would be “impossible to attach a financial value” to her family’s experience, and she found the state police’s conduct to be “far more painful, more humiliating and more haunting to us than anything Barreda ever did to us.”

Barreda did not swear a duty to protect her family, she said, but the state police did.

“I cannot begin to describe to you how it felt for our family to be treated the way we were treated by the VSP. As if our lives, our property, our business, and our longstanding position in this state and in our local community meant less than nothing,” Clemmons said in the report. “We will never forget this, and we will never, ever get over this.”

Read the full story evidencing rampant racial prejudice by Vermont State Police against people of color: 🤦‍♂️
https://vtdigger.org/2021/06/23/panel-troopers-discriminated-against-clemmons-family-farm-director/
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LDF issues statement on the sentencing of Derek 👿 Chauvin

Fri, Jun 25, 5:53 PM

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced today to 22.5 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020. In response, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement:

“While the sentencing of Derek Chauvin brings a measure of accountability for the murder of George Floyd, our hearts go out to the Floyd family and the friends of Mr. Floyd who will continue to grieve his loss long after today, and for whom justice would mean George Floyd would still be alive today.

“The circumstances in this case are extremely rare. For a measure of accountability, it took a courageous teenager putting herself at risk to record the slow torture of an unarmed Black man; harrowing and traumatic eyewitness testimony; the rare instance of a police chief and officers willing to testify against Chauvin; and so much more.

“Even now, we await the three upcoming trials for former police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao — all of whom have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for their role in failing to intervene as Chauvin murdered Mr. Floyd. Across the country, police brutality and the violent deaths of Black and Brown people at the hands of law enforcement have persisted in spite of last summer’s unified call from protestors and communities across the country for true accountability and an overhaul of our public safety system.

“Much more must be done to bring about the transformational change required to end police violence against communities of color and establish accountability and justice in public safety. To that end, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act must be passed with the provisions that would end qualified immunity for law enforcement officers, which has too often been used by officers to evade accountability for egregious misconduct. True justice for George Floyd — and the many more killed at the hands of law enforcement — calls for a public safety system that invests in its communities and holds those who do them harm truly accountable in every instance.” 
 

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Bob Stannard ✨: Why all those 👿 parents hated Ruby Bridges

Jul 25 2021

This commentary is by Bob Stannard of Manchester , an author, musician and former state legislator and lobbyist.

The year was 1960. The school was the William Frantz elementary school in New Orleans, an all-white school. The little girl, Ruby Bridges, only 6 years old (the same age as my granddaughter), was Black. Thanks to the elimination of segregation, this little girl was able to go to a presumably better school.

When I was 6 years old, I attended the school at the foot of Danby Mountain Road. It had a potbelly stove for heat and a boys and girls “in-house” for bathrooms (and in-house is an outhouse, only indoors. You get the picture). I did not need an armed escort to allow me into my humble little school. Ruby did.

In 1960, I was 9 years old and living in the whitest state in the country. Had it not been for the Equinox Hotel bringing in Black help from Mississippi, I may never have seen a Black person until I went off to college. By 1960, we were wrapping up the age of innocence. Racial tensions in the South were heating up. Kids in Vermont had no clue what was happening down South.

Did Ruby Bridges’ parents decide to send their child to this all-white school to make a point or so their child would get a better education? Who knows, but there’s no argument that this little girl who suffered racial verbal attacks every day she attended this school must have received quite an education. The parents of the white kids relentlessly shouted and taunted this poor little girl for one and only one reason: the color of her skin.

By the time I entered Burr and Burton high school, other kids of color were being brought into our community to attend then-BBS along with me through what was known as the “Links Program.” BBS reached out to schools that were predominantly Black or Hispanic and chose a handful of kids to come to Vermont.

I don’t recall ever experiencing any racial problems with these kids, but there may very well have been some isolated episodes. What I can say is that there never was a time when the parents of students at my all-white school stood on the sidewalk with placards bearing hateful, racist words or small, handmade coffins with a Black doll inside. Yet, that is what the 6-year-old Ruby Bridges had to endure each and every day she went to school.

For the kids of today who may be reading this, 1960 may feel like a long time ago, but for me it doesn’t. Although I lived through the civil rights era in America, it didn’t have a huge impact on me, primarily because I was living in a nearly all-white state. We didn’t have any race issues, because we only had one race.

By the time non-white kids began arriving at BBS. our community didn’t seem to care all that much about the color of their skin. Maybe it’s a Vermont thing. Who knows. Perhaps if my parents had sent the 6-year-old me to an all-Black school in Harlem, things would have been very different for me.

How would I have reacted if an angry mob of Black people were shouting racial slurs at me just because I was white? I’ll never know, but the Ruby Bridges of today sure does.

Now 66 years old and a grandmother, she’s had a lifetime to reflect on her school days of 1960. She could not imagine putting her kids or her grandchildren in the same position as she had been placed. It was terrifying for her and her family. Both of her parents lost their jobs. Their commitment to having their little girl get a better education cost Ruby’s parents their marriage. We could only try to imagine how hard this decision must have been, but never having been in those tiny shoes, we’ll never truly know.

What was Ruby’s response to those people with hate in their hearts and horrible words spewing from their mouths? She prayed for them. The more empathy this child showed, the more vile hatred was thrust upon her.

Today we hear white politicians from red states try to tell us that there is no systemic racism in America. They want us to believe that the hatred exhibited by their grandparents was never handed down from generation to generation. They want us to believe that everything is just fine, while simultaneously working overtime to disenfranchise Blacks and other minorities from their constitutional right to vote.

Babies are not born hating or loving anything. Hating, loving, narcissism, empathy are all things that are learned from their parents. Parents who have 👿 hate and rage in their hearts will undoubtedly hand that hate and rage down to their kids. Sometimes the kids will ignore what’s being fed to them. Other times they lick the spoon.


America has been a racist nation since its inception and we’ve never come to grips with that reality.

Congress has a voting rights bill ready to be voted on. Passing it would be another step forward to counter our racism. Will it pass? I doubt it.
https://vtdigger.org/2021/07/25/bob-stannard-why-all-those-parents-hated-ruby-bridges/

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #373 on: August 02, 2021, 12:56:16 pm »

Jul 31 2021

Victim of racist road-rage incident in Winooski questions low-level charges

By Grace Elletson

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The man, Michael Gosselin, 50, has been charged with four misdemeanors: aggravated disorderly conduct, stalking, negligent driving and disorderly conduct with a hate crime attached, according to court documents obtained by VTDigger through records requests.

But Gibbs and others are questioning why Gosselin hasn’t been charged with felony aggravated assault — a crime with a steeper jail sentence and one that was recommended by the first police officer to arrive at the scene of the incident. ... ...

While $15,000 bail was initially set by Judge Thomas Devine, the request was not imposed by the court, and 👿 Gosselin was released on condition that he not be allowed to drive, contact Gibbs or come within 300 feet of her home. Gosselin pleaded not guilty to all charges. ... ...

“As far as I’m concerned, he tried to kill me,” Gibbs told VTDigger about the encounter with Gosselin.

“It feels like there’s this really shitty trend where white people do really horrible, racist things, and then the 😈 state’s attorneys just kind of give them a slap on the wrist, and nothing really happens, and there’s not really any consequences,” she said. “And it doesn’t make me feel safe in the community. At all.” 

Full article:

https://vtdigger.org/2021/07/31/victim-of-racist-road-rage-incident-in-winooski-questions-low-level-charges/
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Does a Wild Bear Poop in the Woods?
« Reply #374 on: August 19, 2021, 11:13:33 pm »

Vermont Conversation: Is Vermont fertile ground for white extremists?


By David Goodman

Aug 18 2021

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Shank 👍 writes that white extremists have “bullied countless people of color in Vermont, who had to flee their communities because it became increasingly hostile and unsafe for them. And now it’s pushing me out, too.”

Shank tells The Vermont Conversation, “Not only are people unsafe in our communities … but they are unsafe in terms of who they turn to for protection…. The very people who are supposed to protect them aren’t protecting them.” He cites recent reports about racial disparities in policing in Vermont that show that Black and Hispanic drivers are three to four times more likely to be searched by police during traffic stops — despite having a lower “hit rate” for contraband.

The bias that pervades policing has created a permissive environment for racial harassment and white extremism to flourish, says Shank. “Vermont has a leadership problem on this issue,” he asserts. “We are allowing the racism to metastasize.”

🔊 Podcast and article: 🤦‍♂️
https://vtdigger.org/2021/08/18/vermont-conversation-is-vermont-fertile-ground-for-white-extremists/
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