This was very good. The more people hear and understand the impact of redlining, the better: "The Federal Housing Administration institutionalized the...
With due respect for your post, there are two things that worry me about what you've said. First, that prejudice is the main thing to address. It is s...
White grievance populism is identity politics at its worst. It abstracts whiteness as a cultural identity in a vaccum, disconnected from economic and ...
While it's an appreciated sentiment, unity is not a goal unto itself. There's little point in unity if no change happens, and things go back to where ...
I just want to add that this is a basic Marxist point, and a reason why, among socialists, you will always hear the refrain that race issues and gende...
I’m sorry to hear about your experience. I think it’s tragic, and you are undoubtably a victim of racism - but not only in the way you imagine. Among ...
Oh and I forgot one more one more permutation. I mentioned what COVID and the protests have thought us about the intellectual depravity of the America...
My grim vision of where things are headed is roughly in line with Jodi Dean, who offers a delightful conceptualization of what she calls neo-feudalism...
A rising tide can raise all boats while those on the bottom remain on the bottom. Remember: this is about disproportionate social distributions of soc...
They already are :( Even Australia is getting worse. I love the opening line: "Australia is now in line with the United States, Ghana and Botswana in ...
Mm. What been worrying me somewhat is that this fiction can also no longer be used to play the 'moral high ground' card in international politics. In ...
Absolutely agreed. COVID (re)thought us that about the economy ('every life is sacred'? Not if 'the economy' is in trouble; 'we can't afford that' - t...
I agree things have, in broad outline, 'gotten better' for some people. But they have done so because of the kind of active, political intervention of...
This is wrong, because the effects of those origins work to entrench racial inequality at the present day. You said it yourself: poor black people are...
:up: King was dangerous. And he's all the more a hero for it. The whitewashed fantasy of a kum-bay-yah peace loving King is just that - a whitewashed ...
Right, but because poverty disproportionally affects black people, this means that class issues are directly race issues. It means, for instance, that...
Because I don't believe the drive to high achievement is specific to white people at all (which would mean what? Other people don't have that drive?)....
I don't think this is true at all. 'White trash', is, curiously, more about class than race, although it's obviously a racial concept. It's far more s...
This is a nice sentiment but it partakes of the trope of the 'model minority' which is, at it's core, a racist one (to be as clear as possible, I'm no...
A proposal: tie federal funding of police departments to incidences of use-of-force complaints, as assessed by a third party civil rights (i.e. non po...
Mariana Mazzucato - The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public v...
More reform responses to the protests dripping through: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-da-to-prohibit-officers-with-history-of-misc...
Ah we've decended into parody now. Some easy arithmetic that's been doing the rounds: if you have 10 bad cops, and 1000 cops who don't speak out, you ...
You're exactly right. Not just reform. Straight up defunding: "In 2018 the city issued a report outlining all the procedural justice reforms it has em...
"Since May 29, at least 125 press freedom violations have been reported nationwide by journalists covering the demonstrations against the death of a b...
That Tweet's been doing the rounds. And it's true - not only do cops have a domestic abuse problem, they have a white supremecy problem as well: "In 2...
More on following the money - state prosecutors can accept money from police unions in the US, which some places are only just trying to curb, thanks ...
https://www.gq.com/story/cops-cost-billions "New York City spends more on policing than it does on the Departments of Health, Homeless Services, Housi...
They are. Only to teargas protestors as soon as the news vans turn off. This is Philly one moment: https://twitter.com/sbcmw/status/126753837064693761...
Yeah I read about this. Apparently the protestors travelled back in time to ensure Floyd would die and then kick off the good stuff. When police union...
Ahhh so much good literature being published right now: "American liberalism has a distinctly contradictory relationship with black protest. On the on...
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