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Posts Tagged ‘racism’
July 17th, 2017 - 4:33 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
While The Seattle Public Schools Drive High Achievers Out, Lakeside Comes to Seattle
» Lakeside School opening The Downtown School on Lower Queen Anne This while the SPS is threatening to cut back on Garfield’s gifted programs and has already cut back on the highly successful IPP program! race to the bottom This is a race to the bottom. [...]
June 20th, 2017 - 8:43 am § in The Ave Scene
Pregnant Woman Killed by Police As They Repond To Her 911 Report of a Theft
AFTER A KILLING BY POLICE, FAMILY AND FRIENDS MOURN THE LOSS OF CHARLEENA LYLES[...]
And yet, 6 decades after the Democratic party abandoned the Dixiecrats, and Republican party adopted its “southern strategy” the unholy alliance of the Trump party with holy racism continues.
Baptist Convention Meeting Refuses to Renounce White Nationalism A few weeks after Jimmy Carter announced his resignation from the Baptist Church. a resolution condemning white supremacy and the growing white nationalist alt-right movement was initially rejected at the Southern Baptist Conventio[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 6:00 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Black and Jew, Then and Now
As we see angst over a Jewish professor caught in the poisonous mix of white guilt and racism at Evergreen College, it is useful too look back a hundred years when the progressive Jewish newspaper, The Forward, introcuced WEB DuBois to what was then the Jewish left. “When the immigrant from [...]
June 1st, 2017 - 7:21 am § in UW
Does The UW Also Offer Separate Graduation to All Ethnic Groups?
UW Black Graduation Ceremony Date: June 9, 2017 Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Location: University Presbyterian Church (Non-denominational event) Address: 4540 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 Ethnic graduation is not is unique to the UW. Harvard has its Black graduation and Latinoes student[...]
May 31st, 2017 - 7:13 am § in Misc.
Black is Beautiful
Chinazor Onianwah This is a snippet of a documentary in production – Africa: Where black is still beautiful. It was inspired by a BBC news report of January 2013 – Africa: Where black is not really beautiful. I didn’t quarrel with the report dealing with high occurrence of bleachin[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 11:32 am § in Misc.
Cleveland PD fires Tamir Rice’s killer
The Cleveland Police Department has fired 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killer for errors in his job application, and suspended his partner for lousy driving. Read story here. Everyone in government knows how these things work. You can’t prosecute cops for shooting kids, and there’s no [...]
May 30th, 2017 - 1:52 am § in Misc.
Burning an Enemy Flag on Memorial Day
Last Memorial Day a Black artist burned and buried the Confederate flag across the South. Artist John Sims (Facebook) right Confederate flag burning (Fotolia © michaklootwijk) Can you think of a better way for any American to spend Memorial Day than to burn a Confederate flag? John Sims, a Bla[...]
BLEACHING SKIN
· Imagine my shock when i woke up on New Year day January 1, 2013 to read this. So I chose not to get upset and I embarked on a project to correct the notion – Africa: where black is not really beautiful towww.vimeo.com/ondemand/blackisbeautiful. Some say its quite drastic situations call f[...]