I think white people arent aware that racism isnt just wearing white hoods and burning crosses. Its also fixing the system so that black votes dont get counted. Its refusing to open the polling places in precincts where most of the eligible voters are people of color. Its outlawing affirmative action at the state level even though it has proven successful. Its building more prisons than we build schools and guaranteeing that they will be filled by targeting young men of color with things like the three strikes legislation in California, and the DWB -- driving while black. These are problems encountered by young black men all over this country. Its the fact that there are more children attending segregated schools in the U.S. today than there were previous to Brown vs. Board of Education. Its white flight and red-lining by financial institutions. Its television programming that portrays people of color as villains and white people as their victims. Its ballot-security systems, which are used to intimidate minority voters and so result in the very activities which they are supposedly designed to prevent.- Jane Elliot
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:26:04 +0000
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