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Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing - what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family.Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap... more
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The MSNBC documentary series Lock Up ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa County Jail inmate charged with identity theft named Cecil Kunkel. The 29-year-old Kunkel has a swastika tattooed on top of his "skinhead."The MSNBC documentary series Lock Up ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa... more
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A new study shows African Americans are tumbling out of the nation's economic orbit on a tragic trajectory that will never let them achieve parity with whites.
May 21, 2010 |
The gap between Black and white household [accumulated] wealth quadrupled from 1984 to 2007, totally discrediting the conventional wisdom that the U.S. is slowly and fitfully moving towards racial equality, or some rough economic parity between the races. Like most American myths, it’s the direct opposite of the truth. When measured over decades, Blacks are being propelled economically downward relative to whites at quickening speed, according to a new study by Brandeis University.
The gap between Black and white households ballooned during the 23-year study period, as white families went from a median of about $22,000 in wealth to $100,000 – a gain of $78,000. In the same period, Black household wealth inched up from a base of $2,000 per family to only $5,000. The sweat and toil of an entire generation had netted Black families only $3,000 additional dollars, while white families emerged from the period with a net worth of 100 grand that can be used to send a couple of kids to college, make investments, help out other family members, or contribute to the larger (white) community. The typical Black family has no such options. [The study did not take property ownership into account. If property were included, the disparity would be larger.]
Viewed another way, the median white family was 11 times richer than the median Black family in 1984 ($2,000 vs. $22,000). By 2007, the white household had become 20 times richer than its Black counterpart ($5,000 vs. $100,000).
Any way one measures it, the numbers show African Americans are tumbling out of the nation’s economic orbit, wealth-wise, on a trajectory that can never achieve parity with whites. I repeat: never.
On the campaign trail in 2007, Barack Obama flippantly declared that African Americans had “already come 90 percent of the way” to equality, with only 10 percent more to go. Whatever the future president was thinking, it wasn’t economics. The meter of progress is running backwards on Black America, toward greater inequality and relative poverty. Everything else you’ve heard is propaganda.
The Brandeis study, conducted by the university’s Institute on Assets and Social Policy, showed that upper income Blacks fell even farther behind their white peers than lower income Blacks. During the survey period, higher income Blacks saw their wealth drop from $25,000 to just $18,000, while their white counterparts wealth soared to $240,000.
Black folks have been integrated long enough to know that the white family didn’t get richer by a quarter million dollars because they were smarter than the Black family. Privilege, especially cumulative privilege over generations, works wonders, like compound interest only better. Whites are both collectively privileged and capable of bestowing an endless stream of privileges on each other, while Blacks are deliberately positioned outside of the stream, and are preyed upon as a group by powerful (white) financial forces that profit from the wealth differential.
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Dear Obama Administration, instead of having our Drug Czar focus on addiction recovery and prevention programs, how about changing the policy of our racialized criminal justice system that has used the “War on Drugs” policy to put more Black males in the criminal justice system than slavery in 1850?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamaal-bell/mass-incarceration-a-dest_b_578854.htmlDear Obama Administration, instead of having our Drug Czar focus on addiction recovery... more
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Why would minority communities get fewer mortgages than white communities since the financial crisis? What did you say? That couldn’t be true in our post-racial America. Well think again my white friends because that isn’t what Reuters is reporting this morning:
According to the study, prime lending in communities of color from 2006 when the foreclosure crisis began to 2008 — the most recent year for which data are available — decreased 60.3 percent compared to 28.4 percent in largely white areas.”The financial crisis has led to significantly reduced access to mortgage credit for all borrowers and communities,” the report states. “In neighborhoods of color, however, where the foreclosure crisis has taken an especially severe toll, access to prime, conventional mortgage loans has declined precipitously — to a much greater degree than in predominantly white neighborhoods.”
The report also examines the lending patterns of America’s four top banks: Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Wells Fargo.
While all four banking groups increased their prime refinance lending to white neighborhoods from 2006 to 2008, the report found that only Citigroup increased lending to minority communities — though by far less than to white areas.
The study conducted by a collaboration among seven non-profit advocacy groups looked at the housing markets in “Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, North Carolina, Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, New York” for the years 2006-2008 (ie., from the beginnings of the housing crisis through the last year, 2008,for which data is available). Isn’t it interesting that new mortgages in white communities declined by 28.4% but new mortgages in minority communities declined by more than twice as much: 60.3%. Gee, I wonder why?
What was even more striking was the fact that the four largest banks in the country and the largest recipients of the Federal Government’s bail out funds (Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo) actually increased their re-financing of mortgages in white communities during this time while decreasing refinancing to minority communities:
Between 2006 and 2008 the share of prime refinance loans made in communities of color dropped 35% whereas the share of these loans made in predominantly white communities increased 11%.
So there was a significant gap between refinanced mortgage loans if you were white versus non-white in these seven cities. The color of your skin clearly made a huge difference as to whether one of these “Too Big To Fail” banking institutions to which our Government in the waning days of the Bush administration handed out billions of dollars “no questions asked” to keep them from going under.
Let’s consider the implications of those statistics, shall we? When these big banks started cutting back on their loans for residential mortgages they cut off the “colored people” first, but kept lending to white folks.
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By Tim Padgett / Miami
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1975883,00.html?hpt=T2#ixzz0jb4TX5XM
Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. Seeing the family's caramel complexion, the Census taker asks which race he should put down for them — white or black. To which the family answers: "Puerto Rican."
The story could substitute a Mexican-American family — or Colombian- or Nicaraguan-American ones for that matter — but the gist would be the same. Many, if not most, Hispanics in the U.S. think of their ethnicity (also known as Latino) not just in cultural terms but in a racial context as well. It's why more than 40% of Hispanics, when asked on the Census form in 2000 to register white or black as their race, wrote in "Other" — and they represented 95% of all the 15.3 million people in the U.S. who did so. (See the 25 most influential Hispanics in America.)
An even larger share of Hispanics, including my Venezuelan-American wife, is expected to report "Other," "Hispanic" or "Latino" in the race section of the 2010 census forms being mailed to U.S. homes this month. What makes it all the more confusing if not frustrating to them is that Washington continues to insist on those forms that "Hispanic origins are not races." If the Census Bureau lists Filipino and even Samoan as distinct races, Hispanics wonder why they — the product of half a millennium of New World miscegenation — aren't considered a race too. "It's a very big issue," says Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy in New York City and a community adviser to the Census. "A lot of Hispanics find the black-white option offensive, and they're asserting their own racial uniqueness." (See the making of Sonia Sotomayor.)
Nor are they alone. Arabs, who would seem to have an even stronger race claim than Hispanics do, are trumpeting their own write-in campaign because the Census by default counts them as white — and the bureau announced this week that it has no intention of changing that policy in 2010. Incredibly, the term Arab doesn't even appear on the census form, though other Asian ethnicities, like Indian, are listed as races. (Ironically, part of the problem is that Arab immigrants a century ago petitioned the Federal Government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination. Today, Arab-American leaders realize how much that move has cost their community in terms of federal aid and legal clout.)
It's not easy being the Census agency for America's baroque melting pot. And to be fair, Falcón notes, the Census hasn't slighted Hispanics in this year's count. On the contrary, as if acknowledging that Hispanics are now the nation's largest minority, the bureau has given the group its own "Hispanic Origins" section. It even precedes the general race section on the questionnaire and, advocates say, promises to yield a more comprehensive tally of Hispanics for purposes of federal aid and civil rights protections. But many Hispanics are nonetheless irked when they go to the next section and find, yet again, that they're asked to identify themselves racially as white or black. (The other racial designations are Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander.)
Census officials say they're simply adhering to race-category standards laid out for all federal agencies in 1997 by the White House Office of Management and Budget, criteria they confirm will be re-evaluated before the 2020 census. (The Census that year will also be unlikely to retain Negro as a designation for African Americans; it is still on the 2010 form, a fact that has led to repeated apologies from the Census chief.) And Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group in Washington, D.C., says the Hispanic race question so far "has been hard to reconcile scientifically."
Still, Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director of Voto Latino, a Hispanic civic organization based in Washington, D.C., worries because most Hispanics who do choose between white and black select white. That "risks leaving a mistaken impression that they enjoy certain socioeconomic opportunities we associate with whites in this country," says Kumar, "when in reality [Hispanics] are near the bottom in areas like education and upward mobility." As a result, groups like Voto Latino are encouraging Hispanics to write Hispanic or Latino in the "Other" space for race.
While Kumar, like Falcón, applauds the Census Bureau for the 2010 form's prominent Hispanic-origins feature, she feels the feds still fail to understand "how layered the Latino self-identity is" beyond just language. North Americans call Oct. 12 Columbus Day, but Latin Americans call it Dia de la Raza — Day of the Race — a recognition that 1492 began a commingling of primarily Iberian, native American and African blood that in turn produced a new race, sometimes called mestizo. That process was perhaps deepest in Mexico — and because Mexico is the origin country of almost two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics, that's a big reason why Washington needs to rethink its definition of race. (Comment on this story.)
Many feel the Census also needs to fine-tune its idea of what is and isn't Hispanic. It tends to define Latin America as just the Spanish-speaking countries of the western hemisphere, when the term also encompasses Portuguese-speaking Brazil. It also includes Spaniards in the "Hispanic Origins" box, when in fact a Spaniard is a European, not a Hispanic.
All of this should prod the Census Bureau to simplify things for future counts. The Hispanic-origins and race sections should be combined into one, less confusing section that asks folks what ethnic and/or racial group they belong to: white, black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander or Hispanic. It should (as it already does for some groups on the form) provide space for designating subgroups — like Arabs, for example. (Many Jamaican- and Bahamian-Americans also feel the Census should list their Caribbean origins as a black subgroup.) And it should make clear that respondents can check more than one group. That matters in cases like that of blacks from Hispanic countries. Those Afro-Latinos have produced a video urging each other to check the black entry and not "Other" in the race section to ensure that Washington logs that reality as well as their Hispanic status.
Accommodating, if not promoting, multiple ethnic identification seems especially important at a time when a growing number of Americans — including their President — have mixed-race parentage. For our children's race, my wife and I simply write in Mixed for want of any better option on the census form. But in the 2020 census, we'd like them to be counted more precisely as progeny of both the Anglo race and the Latino raza.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1975883,00.html?hpt=T2#ixzz0jb4bPzwXBy Tim Padgett / Miami
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
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A new professional basketball league, planned for launch in twelve cities, will only include white males who are born in the U.S. Don "Moose" Lewis announced the All-American Basketball Alliance just a day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league," a press release distributed Sunday said.
Lewis denies that he a racist but he wants to get away from "street ball" played by "people of color" that dominate the NBA. "Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?" he said.
The Augusta Chronicle talked to Lewis Monday.
"There's nothing hatred about what we're doing," he said. "I don't hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now. Here's a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like."
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A racially-tinged advertising decision has gone awry for the movie "Couples Retreat."
Marketers of the Vince Vaughn comedy, which stars four couples in a tropical paradise, removed black actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk from the promotional poster used in the United Kingdom after the U.S. version used all four couples. In response to outrage over the move, a Universal spokesman said the altered poster aimed "to simplify the poster to actors who are most [recognizable] in international markets."
Not saying there was profiling,....BUT----
-----------uhm,....like,...dude,.....wasn't there a big beefy black guy here, and a HOTTIE hangin with? (and later a more "seasoned" woman,....see film)
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-couples-retreat-posters.htmlA racially-tinged advertising decision has gone awry for the movie "Couples... more
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The conservative pundit thinks white people have suffered enough already.
In his latest article, Pat Buchanan whines about white-working class voters losing "their" country:
"In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. . . .They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates. . . .
They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.
They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.
America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right."
Excuse me, Pat, but the country belongs to all of us.
More @ linkThe conservative pundit thinks white people have suffered enough already.
In his... more
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While race is usually thought of as dividing Americans, immigration and income are among the issues that divides them the most.
The Pew Research Center, in a study taken in the summer of 2009, found their were fewer conflicts perceived by Americans between blacks and whites than those between immigrants and the native born, or between rich and poor people. The study was conducted between July 20 and August 2, shortly after the Harvard incident but before President Carter's remarks.While race is usually thought of as dividing Americans, immigration and income are... more
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A new report by Berkeley Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity reveals that Hispanics in Irving, Texas were unjustly targeted as part of an effort to enforce federal immigration laws.
From January 2006 through November 2007, Irving’s police department worked with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as part of the federal Criminal Alien Program to deport serious criminal offenders. During the program’s most intense phase, the number of Hispanic arrests for minor crimes increased by nearly 150 percent.
The report, from data first obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, provides the first analysis of the effect of local police involvement in immigration enforcement—historically a federal function. More information about the report is available here.
Although the Criminal Alien Program purportedly sought to target serious criminals for deportation, just 2 percent of those detained by immigration authorities over a 14-month period were charged with felonies. Irving police arrested Hispanics for misdemeanors in far greater numbers than Whites and African-Americans, and in July 2007 the number of Hispanic traffic arrests went up 223 percent compared to just three months earlier.
The Criminal Alien Program in Irving was scaled back in November 2007 amid complaints of racial profiling—and that Hispanics were being arrested for minor charges as a pretext to examining their citizenship and immigration status.
The Warren Institute’s report issued several recommendations to improve the program before it expands nationwide: examine the impact of local partnerships with immigration enforcement, bar criminal alien screenings of individuals arrested for petty offenses, and mandate that local police partnering with federal immigration authorities record arrest data by race, ethnicity, and level of offense.
Full Report: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/policybrief_irving_FINAL.pdfA new report by Berkeley Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race,... more
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Philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as they conducted experiments.
Vivisectionists silenced the animal and therefore did not acknowledge it’s a tortured being.
Right of passage into the scientific way of being centers on the ability to apply the knife to the vocal cords - not just of the dog on the table - but to life itself. It’s about silencing voice then - and reflects the silencing of voices today.
“We are on the tip of an iceberg and the iceberg runs deep and the ship is running right into it. Industrial civilization is not sustainable. We all know that. It cannot be sustainable.”
“We could have solved these problems 50 years ago, but we are not going to solve these problems in the next 20 years. We can start, maybe. But I think we are in for a very, very difficult time. ”
“Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. And Dorothy is not coming back to Kansas. This is not going to be easy. And like that Great Oz asked Dorothy and her friends - so are the politicians of our day - they ask us. Pay no attention the Great Oz says ‘to the man behind the curtain.’ Because the great deception is alive and well.”
Hubbard compares yellow brick road to gold & Emerald City to the green of money.
Oz is “this old white guy doing his thing, pulling hi levers, lying to the people to maintain is power. This is what we have been doing as a culture for how many years – ignoring the man behind the curtain. And now the chickens are going to come home to roost.”
A failed businessman/store owner, L. Frank Baum edited the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper before writing the Wizard of Oz..
After 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, Baum targets Native Americans in editorial for Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer on death of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.
Hubbard: That was act one. The great Wizard silencing nature.
Baum editorial
Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring. He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies. The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.
Author Neil Evernden
http://www.derrickjensen.org/essay.html
http://haydon4.tripod.com/id20.htm
http://www.derrickjensen.org/books01.html
Vivisection
http://www.infonature.org/english/world_news/eng-nature_news_animal_torture.htm
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection.htm
Baum on Sitting Bull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum
http://www.put.com/oz/ozdi/199712.TXT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
Baum fans apology
http://www.dickshovel.com/roeschbaum.htmlPhilosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they... more
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