STFU, Sexists.: TW: Non-graphic discussion of Aurora shootingsThe first ingredient...
TW: Non-graphic discussion of Aurora shootings
The first ingredient for [the Colorado shooting] that seems to have been swept under the rug is that in order to be able to plan out and prepare for such an attack, one must be above suspicion, at least to some degree. James Holmes, the Colorado…
Deconstructing Western Privilege: Are Foreigners in Africa Benefiting At the Expense of Natives
Ugandans do not see me as an African-American or a black American. Yes, they recognize the pigmentation of my skin and can clearly see that I am a black woman; however, I am still referred to as mzungu (a Luganda term meaning foreigner or ‘white person’).
No matter how “African” my features, Ugandans perceive me as an American – no hyphens needed. Ugandans I meet do not take my complex history as a black woman from America into consideration. To them, I am a Westerner. A native English speaker.
I hold the coveted American passport. I was educated at one of the United States’ most prominent private universities. I hail from the land of the free and the home of the brave.
This translates to my own version of ‘white privilege’ which I will refer to as ‘Western privilege’ – it just has a better ring to it. While this article comes from my perspective as a Westerner living in Uganda, I am going out on a limb to say that this ‘Western Privilege’ phenomenon is prevalent throughout the African continent.
(via thisisnotafrica)
Source: redlightpolitics
Media Ignore Report on Extrajudicial Killings of U.S. Blacks
An exhaustive report on the deaths of 110 Blacks in the United States at the hands of police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes during the 6-month period ending June 30 “clearly indicates there is a human rights crisis in the U.S.,” said Ajamu Baraka, of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. “If these numbers were coming from somewhere else, indicating that a particular population was being subjected to militarized violence from the state…many people around the world would agree that there was, in fact, a human rights issue.” Yet, even so-called progressive media “aren’t picking up on the report,” said Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 vice-presidential candidate.
(via oldenough2burmom)
Source: disciplineandrubbish
Latinos, we’re kind of a big deal!
ORIGINAL: By Latino Branding Power.Share if you agree - ¡Cuéntame!
Wells Fargo To Pay At Least $175 Million To Black, Latino Families Targeted With Risky Loans
WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest home mortgage lender, has agreed to pay at least $175 million to settle accusations that its independent brokers discriminated against black and Hispanic borrowers during the housing boom, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. If approved by a federal judge, it would be the second largest residential fair-lending settlement in the department’s history.
An investigation by the department’s civil rights division found that mortgage brokers working with Wells Fargo had charged higher fees and rates to more than 30,000 minority borrowers across the country than they had to white borrowers who posed the same credit risk, according to a complaint filed on Thursday along with the proposed settlement.
Wells Fargo brokers also steered more than 4,000 minority borrowers into costlier subprime mortgages when white borrowers with similar credit risk profiles had received regular loans, a Justice Department complaint found. The deal covers the subprime bubble years of 2004 to 2009.
Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, said the practices amounted to a “racial surtax,” adding: “All too frequently, Wells Fargo’s African-American and Latino borrowers had no idea they could have gotten a better deal — no idea that white borrowers with similar credit would pay less.”
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Cuéntame: Will California Pass the "anti-SB1070" TRUST Act?
The new proposed legislation looks to limit the reach of the federal deportation program “Secure Communities.” It would do so by prohibiting law enforcement officials from booking someone on the basis of immigration status.
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via LA WEEKLY
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can’t verify the origins of this image, but it appears to be from this artist: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/
‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman
[watched this for the first time last night… then found this article by googling “racism” and “candyman”]
Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992) marks the introduction of an African-American monster to the horror mainstream. As well as combining a threatening physical presence and gruesome method of attack, Candyman (Tony Todd) seemingly offers an embodiment of divided racial stereotypes based on fears of miscegenation through his attention to the film’s blonde heroine Helen (Virginia Madsen). Elspeth Kydd maintains that ‘Candyman takes the fear of miscegenation to an extended monstrous form when the black male body becomes the grotesque site for the eruption of these racial/sexual fears and the white woman’s body the site where these fears are played out’.
