Showing posts with label Racial Equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racial Equality. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Monday, November 10, 2014
New York Post: Playing Racial Games
Michael Goodwin, Nov. 9, 2014
After New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton chose a black man to replace another black man as his deputy, a reporter asked Mayor de Blasio if the replacement “had to be a person of color.”
“No,” the mayor claimed.
That’s not a little white lie. This is a case where whites need not apply.
Across the land, racially charged disputes are grabbing headlines. Broad swaths of life, including school admissions, crime statistics, income and poverty levels, hiring and firing, are seen increasingly through the prism of skin color and ethnicity.
Read more: www.nypost.com
After New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton chose a black man to replace another black man as his deputy, a reporter asked Mayor de Blasio if the replacement “had to be a person of color.”
“No,” the mayor claimed.
That’s not a little white lie. This is a case where whites need not apply.
Across the land, racially charged disputes are grabbing headlines. Broad swaths of life, including school admissions, crime statistics, income and poverty levels, hiring and firing, are seen increasingly through the prism of skin color and ethnicity.
Read more: www.nypost.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Beltway Democrat Wonders Why There are So Many White Elected Officials in Ferguson
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| Rep. Eleanor Homes Norton |
By Michael Hausam, Aug. 19, 2014, Dailycaller.com
Eleanor Homes Norton, the Democratic representative in Congress for the non-voting District of Columbia, is quite adept at providing the entertaining sound bite. Most recently she asserted that Congress doesn’t have the right to know about everything going on in government.
Today’s comments on MSNBC might even top that. Speaking with host Jose Diaz Balart, she called the racial mix of elected officials in Ferguson, MO, “troublesome”:
Here you have the mostly white police force in a mostly black community. But I’m perplexed about why most of the elected officials are white as well. Is there something about the way elections are done in Missouri or in the county? That’s troublesome.
Usually when you get a minority community or a community that becomes mostly minority, you get some diversity of representation. So you may have an elected leadership, as well as a police force, that does not feel that they are truly representative of the community and that’s poison.
Hey, black community. You see what happens when you don’t have your own elected officials out there, people who have had experiences similar to your own. I don’t understand that. Again, there may be something about the way the election are conducted in that county. But if I were in that community, the first thing I would be doing is organize voters to go to the polls in November.Read the full story: www.ijreview.com
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Michelle O: USA Has Not Achieved 'Anywhere Near Full' Equality
First Lady Michelle Obama created buzz with her remark at the recent Summit of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders that "the blood of Africa runs through my veins." But later in her speech, she had some observations about the country of her birth as well. Mrs. Obama cited the progress made by and for women in the United States, particularly over the last century:
Read the full story: www.weeklystandard.com
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| First Lady Michelle Obama |
Jeryl Bier, Aug. 4, 2014, Weeklystandard.com
First Lady Michelle Obama created buzz with her remark at the recent Summit of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders that "the blood of Africa runs through my veins." But later in her speech, she had some observations about the country of her birth as well. Mrs. Obama cited the progress made by and for women in the United States, particularly over the last century:
A century ago, women in America weren’t allowed to vote. Decades ago, it was perfectly legal for employers to refuse to hire women. Domestic violence was viewed not as a crime, but as a private family matter between a man and his wife.
But in each generation, people of conscience stood up and rejected these unjust practices. They chained themselves to the White House gates, waged hunger strikes in prison to win the right to vote. They took their bosses to court. They spoke out about rape and fought to prosecute rapists, despite the stigma and shame. They left their abusive husbands, even when that meant winding up on the streets with their children. (Applause.)
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, officially banning discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It also ended racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and in general public facilities.
Fifty years removed from that milestone, it's apparently easy to think that we're over racism.
Here are 15 facts that prove that's not the case.
1) Affluent blacks and Hispanics still live in poorer neighborhoods than whites with working class incomes.
2) There's a big disparity in wealth between white Americans and non-white Americans.
3) The racial wealth gap kept widening well after the Civil Rights era.
4) The Great Recession didn't hit everyone equally.
5) In the years before the financial crisis, people of color were much more likely to be targeted for subprime loans than their white counterparts, even when they had similar credit scores.
6) Minority borrowers are still more likely to get turned down for conventional mortgage loans than white people with similar credit scores.
7) Black and Latino students are more likely to attend poorly funded schools.
8) School segregation is still widespread.
9) As early as preschool, black students are punished more frequently, and more harshly, for misbehaving than their white counterparts.
10) Perceptions of the innocence of children are still often racially skewed.
11) White Americans use drugs more than black Americans, but black people are arrested for drug possession more than three times as often as whites.
12) Black men receive prison sentences 19.5 percent longer than those of white men who committed similar crimes, a 2013 report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.
13) A clean record doesn't protect young black men from discrimination when they're looking for work.
14) Black job seekers are often turned away by U.S. companies on the assumption that they do drugs.
15) Employers are more likely to turn away job seekers if they have African-American-sounding names.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
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| Attorney General Eric Holder |
(Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday while public utterances of bigotry are roundly condemned in the United States racial discrimination persists in more subtle ways.
Speaking on the 60th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, Holder said that public outrage over recent instances of bigoted remarks by well-known people did not mean the struggle for civil rights is over.
"These outbursts of bigotry, while deplorable, are not the true markers of the struggle that still must be waged, or the work that still needs to be done - because the greatest threats do not announce themselves in screaming headlines. They are more subtle. They cut deeper," he said in a prepared commencement address at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
"... We ought not find contentment in the fact that these high-profile expressions of outright bigotry seem atypical and were met with such swift condemnation."
Holder, the nation's first African-American attorney general, didn't mention a specific case but racist comments by the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, that were made public last month received substantial media attention and were widely condemned by the league, players, public officials and on social media.
Since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Holder said laws that are overtly discriminatory no longer survive the "strict scrutiny" legal standard.
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