#institutional racism

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#black woman #black women #homicide #violence #domestic violence #cdc #data #black men #white women #shocking #misogynoir #anti blackness #institutional racism #police brutality #strong black woman stereotype #poverty #housing #article #nbc news #sbrown82

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something happened recently in my small town that i think is a microcosm of white “liberalism”. it’s not a secret that since a new juvenile detention center was built a few years ago, the high and middle schools have been targeting young black men, particularly young black men with special needs/mental illness/disabilities to fill it with. the school administrators and our local judge, a corrupt, nasty, crooked white woman, are rumoured to be making a ton of money as a part of this conspiracy. my grandmother, an advocate for special needs children, and my dad and aunt(teachers), have watched the school to prison pipeline with their own eyes, and my grandmother and several others in town have been trying to build a case for years against the judge and other corrupt individuals. recently however, an old white widow who has been a teacher at the high school for almost 50 years, and beloved by all, was fired for saying the n-word. she heard some students saying it and took a few minutes to educate them on why it’s racist to say it, but in doing so, she said it several times. some students videoed her and cut it up to make it seem like she was the racist one. the school promptly fired her. i think that’s a perfect representation of white “liberalism”. actively participating in systemic racism but robbing an old widow of her livelihood to maintain the superficial image of being politically correct.

#black lives matter #black liberation #leftism #black anarchy #anarchism and the black revolution #anarchocommunist #anarchy #fuck white supremacy #systemic racism #institutional racism #school to prison pipeline

[berniesrevolution]

MSNBC | “You cannot ignore the racial dynamic of what happened today”: Tennessee Republicans expel two Black lawmakers from state legislature for participating in anti-gun violence protests. Justin Pearson remarks after expulsion.

#politics #the left #progressive #progressive movement #tennessee #racism #institutional racism #gun violence #video

[alwaysbewoke]

#racism #racial discrimination #lawsuit #horry county school district #green c. floyds high school #south carolina #bullying #target practice #racial injustice #school officials #institutional racism #trauma #justice

[readyforevolution]

#blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history #racism #institutional racism

[reverseracism]

#school to prison pipeline #institutional racism

[crazycatsiren]

#actually autistic #autistic people of color #autism community #autism support #autism advocacy #racism #systemic racism #institutional racism #racial stereotypes #autism diagnosis

[larrywilmore]

Institutional racism & its deep effect on mental health in the black community

Journalist Antonia Hylton & I talk about the history of institutional racism and the twisted way black people's health and well-being was, and to some degree still is, deeply impacted by those views.

Listen to our full conversation on @spotify

#larry wilmore #black on the air #the ringer #spotify #antonia hylton #Institutional racism #mental health #jim crow

[mindblowingscience]

In 2022, Latinos, as a group, comprised more than 19% of the U.S. population or nearly 64 million individuals. People of Mexican ancestry make up almost 12% of the US population and 62.3% of Latinos. Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Central American Ancestry (MPRCA) individuals represent 4 of 5 of US Latinos but continue to be underrepresented across the board in every job profession in the United States, including STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. The disparity is even greater for Latinas in academia. To help gain a better understanding of the underrepresentation, an intergenerational group of 16 MPRCA Latinas and allies met to identify major challenges to hiring, persistence, and success faced by early career MPRCA Latinas. Their research, titled "Early Career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and Solutions," was released in Cell. The group identified multi-level challenges that present barriers to MPRCA Latinas (and others) and solutions for Institutions, Departments and Mentors, and Individuals that would benefit MPRCA and the entire academic community. The challenges include financial concerns, caregiver and other family responsibilities, academic inclusion, evaluation of service, especially involving community outreach and mentoring, mentoring needs, and safe environments.

Continue Reading.

#Science #Academia #STEM #Social Sciences #Institutional Racism #Institutional Sexism

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A white supermajority of the Mississippi House voted after an intense, four-plus hour debate to create a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that would be appointed completely by white state officials.

If House Bill 1020 becomes law later this session, the white Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would appoint two judges to oversee a new district within the city — one that includes all of the city’s majority-white neighborhoods, among other areas. The white state Attorney General would appoint four prosecutors, a court clerk, and four public defenders for the new district. The white state Public Safety Commissioner would oversee an expanded Capitol Police force, run currently by a white chief.

The appointments by state officials would occur in lieu of judges and prosecutors being elected by the local residents of Jackson and Hinds County — as is the case in every other municipality and county in the state.

Mississippi’s capital city is 80% Black and home to a higher percentage of Black residents than any major American city. Mississippi’s Legislature is thoroughly controlled by white Republicans, who have redrawn districts over the past 30 years to ensure they can pass any bill without a single Democratic vote. Every legislative Republican is white, and most Democrats are Black.

After thorough and passionate dissent from Black members of the House, the bill passed 76-38 Tuesday primarily along party lines. Two Black member of the House — Rep. Cedric Burnett, a Democrat from Tunica, and Angela Cockerham, an independent from Magnolia — voted for the measure. All but one lawmaker representing the city of Jackson — Rep. Shanda Yates, a white independent — opposed the bill.

“Only in Mississippi would we have a bill like this … where we say solving the problem requires removing the vote from Black people,” Rep. Ed Blackmon, a Democrat from Canton, said while pleading with his colleagues to oppose the measure.

For most of the debate, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba — who has been publicly chided by the white Republicans who lead the Legislature — looked down on the House chamber from the gallery. Lumumba accused the Legislature earlier this year of practicing “plantation politics” in terms of its treatment of Jackson, and of the bill that passed Tuesday, he said: “It reminds me of apartheid.”

Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten, who served in the House before being elected judge and would be one of the existing judges to lose jurisdiction under this House proposal, also watched the debate.

Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell, who oversees the Capitol Police, watched a portion of the debate from the House gallery, chuckling at times when Democrats made impassioned points about the bill. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, the only statewide elected official who owns a house in Jackson, walked onto the House floor shortly before the final vote.

Rep. Blackmon, a civil rights leader who has a decades-long history of championing voting issues, equated the current legislation to the Jim Crow-era 1890 Constitution that was written to strip voting rights from Black Mississippians.

“This is just like the 1890 Constitution all over again,” Blackmon said from the floor. “We are doing exactly what they said they were doing back then: ‘Helping those people because they can’t govern themselves.'”

The bill was authored by Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican whose hometown of Senatobia is 172 miles north of Jackson. It was sent to Lamar’s committee by Speaker Philip Gunn instead of a House Judiciary Committee, where similar legislation normally would be heard.

“This bill is designed to make our capital city of Jackson, Mississippi, a safer place,” Lamar said, citing numerous news sources who have covered Jackson’s high crime rates. Dwelling on a long backlog of Hinds County court cases, Lamar said the bill was designed to “help not hinder the (Hinds County) court system.”

“My constituents want to feel safe when they come here,” Lamar said, adding the capital city belonged to all the citizens of the state. “Where I am coming from with this bill is to help the citizens of Jackson and Hinds County.”

Opponents of the legislation, dozens of whom have protested at the Capitol several days this year, accused the authors of carving out mostly white, affluent areas of the city to be put in the new district.

In earlier sessions, the Legislature created the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which covers much of the downtown, including the state government office complex and other areas of Jackson. The bill would extend the existing district south to Highway 80, north to County Line Road, west to State Street and east to the Pearl River. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people live within the area.

The bill would double the funding for the district to $20 million in order to increase the size of the existing Capitol Police force, which has received broad criticism from Jacksonians for shooting several people in recent months with little accountability. The new court system laid out in House Bill 1020 is estimated to cost $1.6 million annually.

Many House members who represent Jackson on Tuesday said they were never consulted by House leadership about the bill. Several times during the debate, they pointed out that Republican leaders have never proposed increasing the number of elected judges to address a backlog of cases or increasing state funding to assist an overloaded Jackson Police Department.

Democratic members of the House said if they wanted to help with the crime problem, the Legislature could increase the number of elected judges in Hinds County. Blackmon said Hinds County was provided four judges in 1992 when a major redistricting occurred, and that number has not increased since then even as the caseload for the four judges has exploded.

In addition, Blackmon said the number of assistant prosecuting attorneys could be increased within Hinds County. In Lamar’s bill, the prosecuting of cases within the district would be conducted by attorneys in the office of Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is white. Blackmon said the bill was “about a land grab,” not about fighting crime. He said other municipalities in the state had higher crime rates than Jackson. Blackmon asked why the bill would give the appointed judges the authority to hear civil cases that had nothing to do with crime.

“When Jackson becomes the No. 1 place for murder, we have a problem,” Lamar responded, highlighting the city’s long backlog of court cases. Several Democrats, during the debate, pointed out that the state of Mississippi’s crime lab has a lengthy backlog, as well, adding to the difficult in closing cases in Hinds County.

Lamar said the Mississippi Constitution gives the Legislature the authority to create “inferior courts,” as the Capitol Complex system would be. The decisions of the appointed judges can be appealed to Hinds County Circuit Court.

“We are not incompetent,” said Rep. Chris Bell, D-Jackson. “Our judges are not incompetent.”

Democrats offered seven amendments, including one to make the judges elected. All were defeated primarily along partisan and racial lines. An amendment offered by Rep. Cheikh Taylor, D-Starkville, to require the Capitol Police to wear body cameras was approved. Lamar voiced support for the amendment.

Much of the debate centered around the issue of creating a court where the Black majority in Hinds County would not be allowed to vote on judges.

One amendment that was defeated would require the appointed judges to come from Hinds County. Lamar said by allowing the judges to come from areas other than Hinds County would ensure “the best and brightest” could serve. Black legislators said the comment implied that the judges and other court staff could not be found within the Black majority population of Hinds County. When asked why he could not add more elected judges to Hinds County rather than appointing judges to the new district, Lamar said, “This is the bill that is before the body.”

#us politics #news #2023 #Mississippi today #Mississippi #conservatives #republicans #gop #institutional racism #end institutional racism #Mississippi Supreme Court #House Bill 1020 #jackson #Mississippi Legislature #Rep. Ed Blackmon #Chokwe Antar Lumumba #1890 Constitution #jim crow #Rep. Trey Lamar #Jackson Police Department #Mississippi Capitol Police #Hinds County #Lynn Fitch #Mississippi Constitution #racism #racists

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#talkin #tik tok #racism #circusfaery33 #systemic inequality #systemic oppression #systemic racism #institutional racism

[enbycrip]

Fucking Steinbeck 🤬 Fucking institutional misogyny. And I cannot *believe* racism wasn’t involved in that decision too.

#institutional racism #institutional misogyny #john steinbeck #intersectional social justice #whose names are unknown #the grapes of wrath

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Right wingers be like "slavery was benefitial to slaves and gave them skills, here's my proof! with incredible figures such as *check notes* people who aren't slaves and the sister of George Washington*

Right wingers will do this abysmal and embarrassing level of disinformation and lack of research and dare to be mad after inventing in their heads that they are persecuted in universities and academia.

And here's a summary made by the thread author of just how inept DeSantis administration gets when making state wide regulation

#discourse #politics #racism #institutional racism #right wingers being racist #conservatives being racist #right wing racism #conservative racism #ron desantis #conservative lies #right wing lies #sources #information

[porterdavis]

#scotus #institutional racism

[readyforevolution]

#blacktumblr #black history #institutional racism #systemic racism #racism #black liberation #african history

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hello and welcome back to kais blog is just more awful english politics news (:

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Fines during Covid pandemic three times more likely to be given to black people in England and Wales

Exclusive: research is most detailed yet of who got fined and fairness of use of police power to enforce rules

Vikram Dodd, 31/05/2023

Fines during the pandemic were three times more likely to be given to black people and seven times more likely to be issued in the poorest areas, research commissioned for Britain’s police chiefs has revealed.

The study covering England and Wales showed racial disparity for every single force. In one area, ethnic minorities were up to eight times more likely to be fined. It presents further evidence of ethnic disparity in the use of police powers. Most forces deny they are institutionally racist, as does the government.

The report was commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and conducted by academics at the University of Edinburgh. The NPPC did not publish the findings, to the surprise of those who produced it.

The report’s co-author Prof Susan McVie said: “There was not a single force area that did not have a higher disparity rate for ethnic minority groups.”

Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, said: “The research highlights yet again that policing has a systemic issue with racism which needs to be admitted and dealt with.”

The study also found people living in the poorest areas were more likely to experience fines than those in the wealthiest areas.

Policing claims it is committed to a race action plan, triggered by the mass protests after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the US in May 2020. Critics say three years on policing in the UK has achieved little or nothing.

full article here

so like tl/dr: this is a water is wet article and study. as soon as they began fining people during lockdown, we knew that poc were going to be targeted more than white folks.

weve known the police system in england and wales has systemic racism issues for decades. at least since the murder of stephen lawrence in 93.

and obviously, water is wet studies are still important because we can then point to them as empirical evidence when discussing politics and public policy, etc.

but whats very important to mention is that despite commissioning this study, the national police chief's council decided to not publish it. the npcc is the representative body for police chiefs in britain, and unsurprisingly, they decided to just not release the evidence of systemic racism that they found.

dont you love living in this "democratic" country where peaceful protest is illegal, politicians tell poor people to just not eat if they cant afford food, and the police specifically hide clear evidence of institutional racism?

#ukpol #uk police #uk politics #british politics #britpol #british police #systemic racism #institutional racism #covid fines #covid #lockdown #npcc #stephen lawrence #the guardian #vikram dodd #susan mcvie #andy george #england #english politics #english police #acab #england and wales #national black police association #covid inquiry #if im missing any tags please let me know and ill add them