Posts tagged Racism
As much I’m on the internet, how have I never heard of The Gregory Bros.??!
Related:
- Slate on The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor
- NPR: Does It Matter That ‘Hero’ Charles Ramsey Has A Criminal Past?
Are there really more Black Men in jail than college? An infographic.
via weloveblackgirls:
I so want this VIRAL
(via kembaking)
Going to see an advance screening of this next week. Based on the trailer it looks somewhat predictable but really well-done still. The one sheet above looks amazing though!
Brooklyn we go hard….
To be honest, I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about this photo, personally….
From c. 1956! As MOU put it: “Same sh-t, different day….”
wbez:
This is what structural racism looks like.
Chicago, we have to do better.
Media criticism done on a napkin.
(via kembaking)
At the moment the Supreme Court is hearing arguments for and against the Voting Rights Act. The Act, passed in 1964, gives the federal government supervisory authority over elections in places where there has been a long pattern of disfranchisement, e.g. “the South.”
Scalia made this comment about the Voting Rights Act:
I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. It’s been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.
It’s difficult to be a historian of the US and not be flabbergasted by this comment. Because Scalia is right–for nearly all of its history, the US has perpetuated racial entitlements with the greatest enthusiasm. Those entitlements have been for entirely and overwhelmingly for white people.
Click the post title for the full article. Smdh….
