'The Resistance Mapping website functions as a living, digital archive that documents the history of racist housing and other place-based policies in Rochester and the surrounding region. The materials explore how Rochester’s current segregation emerges from that history and confronts these realities through stories of past and present activism, along with creative imagined possibilities for our community’s future.'
According to the Government Accountability Office, in the school year 2018–19, one in four students experienced bullying related to their race, national origin, religion, disability, gender, or sexual orientation.
—Charles Estacious White
I really haven't seen any solid policy which causes the system itself to become better at keeping kids safe, rather it seems to always rely on the school's staff caring.
It’s infuriating. I’ve not been on the payout receiving end of one of those deals. I have to wonder do people get enough money to start over? Enough to pay for new home and accoutrements and increased taxes, etc.?
I'm a 54-year-old White guy in the USA and I have to infer that there must have been -- at one time not too long ago -- racist codes for "let the White person go first". I was never taught them, but I have to infer this from a few decades now of observing the following:
When I am standing in a small family-run store checkout line, and elderly Black people are in front of me, if I have a cough or need to clear my throat, something very strange happens. All eyes swivel backwards to look at me, and the elderly Black people in front of me all but fall over themselves to waive me to the FRONT OF THE LINE. Sometimes if I lock eyes with the shop keeper at the register, HE waives me forwards. At this point, there is NO POLITE GETTING OUT OF IT. I can try saying "I'm so sorry, I have a cold", or "you are clearly in front of me, please proceed", and none of it will work. Instead, I am given excuses to help ME feel better about myself. "Oh, no, I'm in no hurry", or "I have not quite decided if I have everything yet", or "the shopkeeper and I were just talking, we will be awhile, so please checkout first".
To be clear, I'm not the one being hurt (they are), but I AM mortified and embarrassed.
I've had to develop special procedures to combat this. I always stand a little further back in line, NEVER make eye contact with anyone, look intently at merchandise while waiting to checkout, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ever clear my throat no matter how much I may need to.
I was reminded of this today when I (with plenty of room) passed an older Black woman in an aisle and merely nodded hello. She said "excuse me" and stepped backwards to give me more space. Huh.
Younger Black people don't do this (happily). Older Black people sometimes seem startled, like they have not encountered a White person coughing behind them in a long time -- but then their automatic training kicks in...
When I think about racism, I usually think about the more egregious examples (lynchings, denial of voting rights) but I have to wonder -- what was it like to just go on a mundane daily shopping trip in 1960?
QUESTION: Older folks reading this. Did/does this cough/throat-clear signal actually exist??
@admin@EqualRightsAdvocates@blackmastodon I’ve never noticed this happening to me, but I’m not sure whether that’s because I’m a woman, or that I’m about a decade younger, if it’s locale dependent. Or some intersection of those identities.
It could be a White Male thing... As I think about it, it's every few years -- but over 30 years that is long enough to pick-up on the pattern... I used to be kind of antsy and lost in my own thoughts, but that does not totally explain it -- who gives up their spot to the guy behind them just because he presents as in a hurry? Don't really know, but it's happened in Washington, DC in my twenties and early 30s; and in the Catonsville area on the Baltimore City/Baltimore County line the last 12 or so years (Frederick Avenue and Route 40). Hmmm... both are areas that used to be wealthy White, now mixed race, with a wealthy White population still living near by... Don't know.
African Americans have chosen to be aspirational in pursuit of freedom from oppression and injustice, as opposed to terrorism and deconstructionist thinking.
—R Wayne Branch, PhD
💛 “Gun Violence Comes from Mob Rule, Not Thug Life”
Gun violence and mass casualties are acceptable in the U.S. due to the country’s tolerance of mob rule and the hypocrisy of its disdain for thug life.
–R. Wayne Branch, PhD
💛 “Gun Violence Comes from Mob Rule, Not Thug Life”
Gun violence and mass casualties are acceptable in the U.S. due to the country’s tolerance of mob rule and the hypocrisy of its disdain for thug life.
–R. Wayne Branch, PhD
@Free_Press Love the alt text here. In addition to being disgusting scum anti-semite, racist, pro Putin traitor, he's also a dweeb. Cowboy hat on backwards. Stupid fuckwad
It’s a terrible realization to find that people you’ve invested in, supported, stood with through thick and thin, truly don’t hold you in the same regard … and most likely never will. I believe deeply in loving one another but at the same time I practice healthy boundaries.
@BigAngBlack@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon wow it only 106 years but the US will claim credit for 'progress'. In another 106 years will they apologize for supporting the Klan in South Africa, the bombing of civilians in the ME? One wonders
They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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It's less about what they believe (that's up to them) than about being able to explain why they believe it, citing their evidence; learning why others may read that evidence differently. It's what we do.
Today in Labor History October 26, 1892: Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” which led to threats against her life, and the burning down of her newspaper’s headquarters in Memphis. Wells, who was born into slavery, was a journalist, educator, feminist, and early Civil Rights leader who helped found the NAACP.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.