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"Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects."
~ Gloria Oladipo
Yes. And unfortunately, many of us do not want to hear or think about this important perspective on the Mangione story and why he has been embraced with such alacrity by folks on both right and left — while a man of color or a woman doing what Mangione did would not be similarly embraced.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media
Toby Buckle offers (to my way of thinking) stellar analysis of what's going on politically as large numbers of Americans, our media, and corporate leaders jump with alacrity on the Trump bandwagon: it's not the old "economic anxiety" canard.
Rather,
"Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil."
#Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood
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Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/02/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo #Colonialism #Worldnews #Belgium #Europe #Africa #Race
Gwen Ifill's commentary on how – and why – race and gender have been excised from analysis of the recent election is must-read analysis.
As she says, the "cohort of political experts" who dissect election results in the media may have particular knowledge and expertise, but "they also very particular blind-spots."
#Harris #Trump #race #gender #media
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https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased
"The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change some advocates of the process say will allow people to choose identities that more closely reflect how they see themselves."
https://stateline.org/2024/11/26/the-next-census-will-gather-more-racial-ethnic-information/
#PublicHealth #census #DataDisaggregation #race #ethnicity #aapi #aanhpi #latino #hispanic #Indigenous #BlackMastodon
Segregation Academies in #Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
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ProPublica identified 20 #schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s #tax credit donation program.
#News #Education #School #Students #PublicSchools #SchoolVouchers #Vouchers #Government #Race
https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-segregation-academies-taxpayer-dollars-1960s
#HigherEducation #CollegeAdmissions #race #diversity
'Critics of affirmative action in higher education have argued that the policy deprives more qualified students of a spot at a university or college. A new study by Cornell researchers finds that ignoring race leads to an admitted class that is much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials.'
"KFF Health News undertook a yearlong examination of how government decisions undermine Black health — reviewing court and inspection records and government reports, and interviewing dozens of academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, grieving moms, and patients."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/watch-racial-inequities-us-policies-systemic-sickness/
#PublicHealth #RuralHealth #government #race #racism #healthdisparities #video #BlackMastodon
Time now to re-read Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields on the long game the Republican party has played for years now to win voters:
“In its quest to win over white voters in the American South, the GOP played a full house of racial cards, but these were not the only cards they played."
#Republicans #race #gender #SouthernStrategy
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~ Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics (NY: Oxford UP, 2019), p. 125
"Over a recent two-decade span, mounting research shows, the United States has made almost no progress in eliminating racial disparities in key health indicators, even as political and public health leaders vowed to do so.
And that’s not an accident, according to academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, and dozens of other people KFF Health News interviewed."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/racist-policies-black-health-south-carolina/
#healthcare #race #disparities #Medicaid #insurance #PublicHealth #RuralHealth
Hurra, gedruckt isses: Walter Rodneys »Dekolonialer Marxismus. Schriften aus der panafrikanischen Revolution«. Jetzt letzte Kontrolle der Abfolge, dann wird die Auflage gebunden! Die Druckerei hinkt mit der Produktion etwas nach, daher Anfang November da. Freut euch, wird gut 💎
#walterrodney #decolonial #marx #karlmarx #marxismus #antikolonial #blackpower #blackhistory #race #class #panafricanism #dekolonialisierung #marxism
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss | #Race | The Guardian
"In 2023, nearly a third of high school students across the U.S. said they'd experienced racism in school...Students of color reported they'd had two to three times more racist experiences than white students who said they'd had.
These experiences resulted in students having more mental health issues and a greater risk of suicide and substance use than students who'd never had them."
#PublicHealth #MentalHealth #schools #adolescents #teenagers #race #aapi #aanhpi
Extremist who trained GOP poll workers will speak at Washington event with two rightwingers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/steve-sailer-far-right-event #TuckerCarlson #Farright(US) #WashingtonDC #Republicans #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #JDVance #USnews #Books #Race
Black Working Class Power! Geht heute in Druck, erstmals auf Deutsch zu lesen: »Dekolonialer Marxismus« des 1980 ermordeten Historikers und Aktivisten Walter Rodney, der bahnbrechende Forschung zum Zusammenhang von Kolonialismus, Sklaverei, Rassismus in Afrika und in der Karibik und dem globalen Kapitalismus schuf.
#walterrodney #kolonialismus #sklaverei #rassismus #kapitalismus #race #class #blackpower #marxismus
