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odinsblog · 10 months

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“The worst thing about Affirmative Action is that it created a Clarence Thomas."

—NAACP President, Derrick Johnson

#politics #scotus #republicans #affirmative action #clarence thomas #education #derrick johnson

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harveyguillensource · 1 year

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Pretty in Pink 💖

Harvey looking stunning in a pink tux and black sheer top at the NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon!

#harvey guillén #harvey guillen #naacp image awards #guillermo de la cruz #wwdits #pink #sheer shirts #pink tux #february 2023 #red carpets #derrick johnson #januel mercado #karen boykin-towns #puss in boots: the last wish

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cozyaliensuperstar7 · 1 month

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Beautiful Black People 👑

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.”

After the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for African American history on Wednesday, high school students will be taught an equally distorted message: that a deadly white mob attack against Black residents of Ocoee, Florida, in 1920 included “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

Dozens of Black residents were killed in the massacre, which was perpetrated to stop them from voting.

According to members of the board, that distorted portrayal of the racist massacre is factually accurate. MaryLynn Magar, a member of the board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, said at the board’s meeting in Orlando on Wednesday that “everything is there” in the new history standards and “the darkest parts of our history are addressed,” the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

The majority of the speakers who provided public testimony on the planned curriculum were vehemently opposed to it, warning that crucial context is omitted, atrocities are glossed over, and in some cases students will be taught to “blame the victim.”

“I am very concerned by these standards, especially some of the notion that enslaved people benefited from being enslaved,” state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said, per Action News Jax.

“When I see the standards, I’m very concerned,” state Sen. Geraldine Thompson said at the board meeting. “If I were still a professor, I would do what I did very infrequently; I’d have to give this a grade of ‘I’ for incomplete. It recognizes that we have made an effort, we’ve taken a step. However, this history needs to be comprehensive. It needs to be authentic, and it needs additional work.”

“When you look at the history currently, it suggests that the [Ocoee] massacre was sparked by violence from African Americans. That’s blaming the victim,” the Democrat warned.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history, our history, is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” community member Kevin Parker said.

Approval of the new standards is a win for the DeSantis administration, which has effectively sought to create a new educational agenda that shields white students from feeling any sense of guilt for wrongs perpetrated against people of color. The Florida Governor signed the “Stop WOKE Act” last year to do just that, restricting how issues of race are taught in public schools and workplaces.

In keeping with the administration’s crusade against “wokeness,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz defended the new standards against criticism, saying, “This is an in-depth, deep dive into African American history, which is clearly American history as Governor DeSantis has said, and what Florida has done is expand it,” Action News Jax reported.

Paul Burns, the Florida Department of Education’s chancellor of K-12 public schools, also insisted the new standards provide an exhaustive representation of African American history.

“Our standards are factual, objective standards that really teach the good, the bad and the ugly,” he was quoted as saying Wednesday by Florida Phoenix. He denied the new standards portray slavery as beneficial.

Although education officials say teachers are meant to expand upon the new curriculum in the classroom, critics say teachers are unlikely to do that for fear of being singled out and possibly punished for being too “woke.”

The Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, called the new standards “a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994” in a statement after Wednesday’s vote.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, also condemned the new curriculum, saying in a statement: “Our children deserve nothing less than truth, justice, and the equity our ancestors shed blood, sweat, and tears for.”

“Today’s actions by the Florida state government are an attempt to bring our country back to a 19th century America where Black life was not valued, nor our rights protected. It is imperative that we understand that the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow were a violation of human rights and represent the darkest period in American history. We refuse to go back,” he said.

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africanamericanreports · 2 years

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#jayland walker #merrick garland #derrick johnson #naacp #DOJ #akron police #akron #african american

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thenewsbeat · 10 months

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NAACP President Name-Drops Clarence Thomas In Brutal Dig Over Affirmative Action 2023-06-30 16:46:08

NAACP President Derrick Johnson named Justice Clarence Thomas as “the worst thing” that affirmative action created as he condemned the Supreme Court decision striking down racial preferences in college admissions. Johnson excoriated Thomas in an MSNBC interview Thursday and called the decision an “unfortunate footnote” in this right-wing Supreme Court’s legacy. “The worst thing about…

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#affirmative action #Clarence Thomas #Derrick Johnson #naacp #Supreme Court

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caleebw · 11 months

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Pastor D. Goes to Chester

#delaware #brotherx #caleebwatson #vimeo #tumblr milestone #youtube #drdotsilvesterbeaman #PASTOR DERRICK JOHNSON #DERRICK JOHNSON #Vimeo

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reportwire · 2 years

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Man charged with hate crimes after allegedly attacking women of Korean descent in New York subway station

A man was indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly attacking two women of Korean descent inside the Rockefeller Center subway station while yelling anti-Asian slurs, the Manhattan district attorney announced Wednesday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a release that Derrick Johnson, 40, was charged with two counts of assault in the third degree as a hate crime and two counts of…

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#Alvin Bragg #anti-Asian hate crimes #Derrick Johnson #Indictment #Manhattan District Attorney #New York City #subway

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minnesotafollower · 2 years

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President Biden’s Executive Order on Policing

On May 25, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.[1] This lengthy Order calls for the creation of national standards for the accreditation of police departments and a national database of federal officers with substantiated complaints and disciplinary records,…

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odinsblog · 11 months

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"Congress must pass the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) in order to prevent a cataclysmic default that would disproportionately harm Black communities. At the same time, it is critical that Congress reject specific provisions before final passage. The FRA would end the student loan payment pause, which provides a vital economic stimulus to millions of students. Black women bear the highest comparative levels of student debt relief because they invest in education at a significant cost. They also pay taxes. To argue, therefore, that the current student debt relief is a giveaway from taxpayers is to use a racist talking point.

The FRA would also hobble the ability of Black communities to combat environmental racism by foreclosing, under the guise of permitting reform, a key use of National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) provisions to ensure projects have factored in foreseeable community harms. Such harms would result from the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would be fast-tracked by overriding community concerns in the current FRA. Congress must reject these provisions as well as a new PAYGO requirement that would block agencies from addressing pressing social needs. Finally, Congress must reject the amoral barter that cuts IRS funds intended to protect wealthy tax cheats while imposing onerous new work requirements on certain TANF and SNAP recipients.

Let's be clear: while the original intent of the debt ceiling was to solve a practical challenge of paying the nation's bills during World War I, it has become a weapon used by conservative extremists to hold the lives and livelihoods of Black America – and countless others – hostage. The NAACP calls on Congress and the Administration to end this practice before it can again be used to inflict more harm on Black America."

—NAACP President & CEO, Derrick Johnson; Republicans routinely use their manufactured “debt crisis” to weaken the social safety net because of the (correct) perception it disproportionately harms Black people and other marginalized communities

#politics #republicans #manufactured crisis #debt ceiling #derrick johnson #naacp #debtrelief #snap #tanf #food assistance

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diabolikdiabolik · 5 months

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Final Girl Series 2

More about the game and Series 1 here.

#final girl #board game #van ryder games #horror #cover #art #tyler johnson #roland mcdonald #evan derrick #a.j. porfirio

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scenesandscreens · 10 months

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Daredevil (2003)

Director - Mark Steven Johnson, Cinematography - Ericson Core

"Violence doesn't discriminate. It hits all of us... the rich, the poor, the healthy, the sick. It comes as cold and bracing as a winter breeze off the Hudson. Until it sinks into your bones... leaving you with a chill you can't shake. They say there's not rest for the wicked. But what about the good? The battle of Good vs. Evil is never-ending... because evil always survives... with the help of evil men. As for Daredevil, well... soon the world will know the truth. That this is a city born of heroes, that one man CAN make a difference."

#scenesandscreens #daredevil #Mark Steven Johnson #stan lee #kevin smith #frank miller #Erick Avari #ellen pompeo #Derrick O'Connor #david keith #leland orser #Lennie Loftin #colin farrell #jon favreau #joe pantoliano #ben affleck #jennifer garner #Michael Clarke Duncan #Ericson Core

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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The Environmental Protection Agency is launching an investigation into whether the Republican-controlled state of Mississippi violated the Civil Rights Act by depriving the predominantly Black city of Jackson of federal funds to repair its beleaguered water system.

The probe comes in response to a complaint filed by the NAACP alleging a pattern of discrimination by the state against the city, where residents have faced more than 300 boil water orders in the past two years and were left without running water for days at the end of the summer after flooding overwhelmed the city-run water plant.

Despite the well-documented problems, Mississippi allocated none of the nearly $75 million in water funding it is receiving from the bipartisan infrastructure law this year toward fixing the plant’s fundamental problems, and it added an additional layer of review for any application Jackson submitted for a water infrastructure funding from earlier federal coronavirus relief legislation.

Mississippi’s Governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

THE DETAILS: EPA will investigate whether the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Health “discriminated against the majority Black population of Jackson, Mississippi, on the basis of race and color, by intent or effect, in funding water infrastructure and treatment programs and activities, in violation of Title VI and EPA’s implementing regulation at 40 C.F.R. Part 7,” according to a letter from Anhthu Hoang, the acting head of EPA’s new Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, to the NAACP’s attorneys.

The agency will also investigate whether the two state departments have procedural safeguards in place to prevent discrimination, according to the letter.

EPA tries to resolve complaints “informally,” under its regulations, but failing that it would have 180 days to complete it’s investigation. If the agency were to find that the state agencies discriminated in violation of the law, the agency could refer the matter to the Department of Justice, or could threaten to withhold future federal funding until the state comes into compliance.

REACTION: “This action is only the first step. We encourage EPA to move expeditiously to conduct its investigation and to require comprehensive remedies to help resolve this crisis,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson, who is also a resident of Jackson, said in a statement.

The probe could represent the first big test of the Biden administration’s promises to ensure that the deluge of federal funds from the bipartisan infrastructure law is distributed equitably. Two congressional committees have also opened their own investigation into Mississippi’s handling of federal funds.

#us politics #news #politico #biden administration #2023 #Mississippi #jackson #environmental protection agency #Civil Rights Act #Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality #Mississippi Department of Health #Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights #National Association for the Advancement of Colored People #gov. Tate Reeves #Anhthu Hoang #Derrick Johnson

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cherienymphe · 11 months

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NOT THE NAACP ISSUING A TRAVEL WARNING FOR FLORIDA FOR MINORITIES AND BLACK PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME HERE