WALKING OUT: Mississippi's Black Senators walked out of legislature to protest a bill that would ban critical race theory. https://t.co/BgRYSlTEPz pic.twitter.com/ulRck3UtRy
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Category: racism
Critical Race Theory Is Dangerous. That’s Why It Should Be Mandatory in American Schools.
Dan Siegel gives an overview of why it is more important than ever for all Americans to learn about the country’s systemic racism.
How Scholars Are Countering Well-Funded Attacks on Critical Race Theory – YES! Magazine
There is a long history of right-wing forces fighting against progressive educational curricula. Now, scholars like Robin D. G. Kelley are working to level the playing field against the moneyed political interests behind the attacks.
Source: How Scholars Are Countering Well-Funded Attacks on Critical Race Theory – YES! Magazine
Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Moderate
King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.”
Source: Opinion | Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Moderate | Peter Dreier
How the US Government Segregated America
For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of residents, community organizations, public housing staff and other professors on reducing and removing the many asthma triggers that caused the highest rates of asthma and asthma attacks in the city. Living and working in the heart of the city neighborhoods, I was keenly aware of the apartheid nature of public and residential housing (black Roxbury, white South Boston, white gentrification overtaking Boston’s mixed-income interracial neighborhoods, and white suburbs)
‘Saddening, Infuriating, and Utterly Unsurprising’: Rittenhouse Acquitted |
Racial justice advocates reacted with outrage and a complete lack of surprise Friday after a Kenosha, Wisconsin jury found Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges for killing two men and wounding a third during a 2020 protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake, with some observers asserting that the verdict encourages vigilante attacks on protestors.
Source: ‘Saddening, Infuriating, and Utterly Unsurprising’: Rittenhouse Acquitted | Portside
The 1619 Project book turns history into politics
From magazine to book, the authors are rethinking their message.
Source: The 1619 Project book turns history into politics – The Washington Post
Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker – The Gurdjieff Con
This is a key text with a post I put first up at the Gurdjieff Con where the issue has a new age/occult/hindu dimension.
I have one criticism in a very general way beyond this book: the world of Gandhi is not quite what we think: the world of the Gita as ‘Hindu Bible’, and Gandhi’s object of devotion is not about liberal democracy, freedom, equality and the rejection of caste. Gandhi as Arjuna seems oblivious to the Gita’s preposterous status as a sacred book.
By comparing white supremacy in the U.S. to the caste system in India, her new book at once illuminates and collapses a complex history. Source: Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race a…
Source: Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker – The Gurdjieff Con
The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk | Portside
Forces on the political right—Donald Trump and his epigones, Fox News, the Manhattan Institute, The Wall Street Journal, among others—have engaged in a fierce, concerted, and effective effort to vilify dissident thinkers who are trying to deepen, sharpen, and reframe ways in which racial matters are portrayed and discussed. Their strategy is sly. They have repurposed “critical race theory” and related thinking to demonize anyone who would challenge the right’s whitewashed fable of American exceptionalism.
Source: The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk | Portside
1848+: The End(s) of History 