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blackfemlens: March 2015
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, March 23, 2015. Backdraft: Affirmative Action for White Men in the LAFD. When conservatives condemn affirmative action they typically focus on mythical assumptions of merit, level playing fields and unlimited opportunity. Affirmative action, as the cliché goes, is a road littered with white male victims cheated of their rightful place atop the hiring food chain by unqualified minorities. Around illegal access to hiring and promotional exams. Company emails alert...
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blackfemlens: Policing Our Girls
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, February 9, 2015. 8220;Let them haul the little monster out of school and into jail”. These were the words of a commenter on CNN.com’s site responding to an article on the handcuffing of a six year-old black girl named Salecia Johnson. At a Georgia elementary school in 2012. Disproportionately targeted by zero tolerance discipline policies, black preschool and elementary school children have the highest rates. Of suspension and expulsion in the U.S. Images of ch...
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blackfemlens: Dissing DuVernay and the Lessons of Selma
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 19, 2015. Dissing DuVernay and the Lessons of Selma. Every child in the U.S. should be required to see Selma. Is an important antidote to mainstream portrayals that fixate on Martin Luther King as the sole impetus for the movement. A cabal of older white men like the Tea Party, give a brilliant fierce black woman like DuVernay its imprimatur for disrupting one of white supremacy’s most sacred preserves? Underscored the divide between ending Jim Crow voti...
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blackfemlens: November 2014
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There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. No Rights Which a White Man Was Bound to Respect" - Slavocracy 2014. In 1857 Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney uttered these defining words in the Dred Scott decision which further embedded black dehumanization and non-citizenship into U.S. slavocracy. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. No More White Saviors: Jonestown and Peoples Temple in the Black Feminist Imagination. Faced with this mythologizing I began my novel,. White Nights, Black Paradise.
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blackfemlens: December 2014
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There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. White Wealth and the Cult of White Victimhood. When President Obama and other corporate Democrats approved the recent spending bill they thumbed their collective noses at working class communities of color. Brought to us by Citigroup, JP Morgan and other robber baron banks who plunged thousands of homeowners of color into crippling debt, the new budget will phase out. 8220;Between 2004 and 2010 blacks and Latinos lost nearly a quarter of th...
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blackfemlens: Marco Rubio's Flat Earth Minstrelsy
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, April 20, 2015. Marco Rubio's Flat Earth Minstrelsy. Ever since misbegotten Republican retread Alan Keyes burst onto the scene as the anti-Obama in 2008 it seems as if every. Presidential race demands at least one hyper-assimilationist alpha male of color who embraces the Christian fascist God, Guns n’ Gays shtick more zealously than his overseers. In a recent interview. Failed by segregated high stakes test-happy public schools, Millennials who already struggle...
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blackfemlens: May 2015
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There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Women 'Equal' in STEM Hiring? Bridging the STEM Divide conference, USC 2014. By Sikivu Hutchinson, from TheHumanist.com. To all the white scientists reading this, raise your hand high if you’ve ever been mistaken for “the help” in your university or government-funded lab. A study conducted last year at the UC Hastings College of Law, “ Double Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science. 8221; conference at the University of Southern ...
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blackfemlens: April 2015
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There was an error in this gadget. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Of the shipping and manufacturing industries in Baltimore has gutted black incomes. Despite being in the majority, African Americans in Baltimore make approximately half the income of whites and the unemployment rates of black males are over three times that of white males. Poor black youth in the city have high rates. The dire poverty and segregation of Baltimore may be in the national spotlight now but the real question is what will condition...
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blackfemlens: May 2014
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There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The Obamas' Race to the Bottom. During her commencement speech. Some cheered her stance as a welcome acknowledgment of racial politics in a terminally gutless administration. Yet the loving pass many in black America continue to give the Obamas—especially Michelle, one of the most powerful black women on the planet—on the race/gender disparities of economic apartheid smacks of complicity. Clinging to the bromides and symbolic allure of a Talented ...
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Speakers | Secular Social Justice
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Confirmed speakers include (with more to come):. Musings on a Limb. Religious Studies, Rice University. Development Director, American Humanist Association. Amanda R. Hernandez. Black Skeptics Los Angeles. African Americans for Humanism. Black Skeptics Los Angeless. Black Skeptics Los Angeles. Political scientist and Author of the 2010 U.S. Latino Religious Identification survey. Sincere T. Kirabo. Regional Director for American Atheists. Writer, The Huffington Post & Alternet. Designed by MageeWP Themes.
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