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They're truly the pits. A cynical, cruel, pitiless party who will happily drag desperate people into detention and then force them out of the country (at great expense, for those concerned about such things) for nothing more than political advantage.
#BlackMastodon #UKPol #asylum #Rwanda
Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation
Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local electionsSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
It’s been 1 year since Seattle’s Mayor signed a racial and social justice law, placing its existing Race and Social Justice Initiative under the city’s office of civil rights and charging the whole city government with ‘implementing change toward ending institutional racism.’
Lessons for other cities from the first year:
https://theconversation.com/what-cities-can-learn-from-seattles-racial-and-social-justice-law-225765
#Seattle #Cities #USPolitics @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
What cities can learn from Seattle’s racial and social justice law
Ending institutional racism is a long-term goal and requires well-informed and engaged people to remake systems and structuresThe Conversation
From the same state that celebrates Robert E. Lee's birthday on MLK Jr. Day. And the same state that refuses to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
Fuck him. And his racist state.
#BlackMastodon
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Mississippi’s Good Ole Boy GOP Governor Declares April As Confederate Heritage Month - NewsBreak
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April will be celebrated as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping a 31-year-old tradition alive. The proclamation came from Beauvoir, the museum and home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.NewsBreak
This is how unrest happens. Disinvestment. Poverty. Addiction. Gentrification forcing generations of Black and Latino residents out of their neighborhood and into areas across town.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Philadelphia has had four major uprisings since 2020.
What's happening in Kensington; particularly at K & A; will soon trigger more unrest.
#BlackMastodon. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/kensington-philadelphia-drug-issues-solutions-20240425.html
Current plans to ‘fix’ Kensington won’t work. Here is what will.
The city must learn from past mistakes, have the courage to tackle the root causes of Kensington's problems, and co-create solutions with the community. Otherwise, we could be facing another danger.Bill McKinney (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Don’t you dare say that voting doesn’t matter. In late 2022 in a recount Kris Mayes (who announced indictments of Rudy Giuliani and co today) won her election race for #Arizona atty general by 280 VOTES.
VOTING MATTERS. Everywhere. In every type of election. State. Local. Federal. https://tinyurl.com/3muy3eze
#Mastodon #BlackMastodon #usa #politics #vote #votingmatters
Flint’s Warning to America
The city’s residents did everything right, but 10 years later they still don’t have clean water.Adam Mahoney (Capital B News)
Is being ‘woke’ a badge of honor?
Historically, the word was used as a warning to be aware of racial injustices.
https://theconversation.com/back-in-the-day-being-woke-meant-being-smart-215635
#racialinjustice #equality #USPolitics #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Back in the day, being woke meant being smart
Conservative politicians have launched attacks against the use of the word “woke.” If they knew the history of the word, they might stop wasting their time.The Conversation
Because they have an agenda against LGBTQIA+. And against women in general.
Especially Black women.
They also hyped up Caitlin Clark.
#BlackMastodon
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WNBA Draft Refuses To Give Credential To Conservative Media Site
The media outlet that asked South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley about transgender athletes in women's basketball applied for a credential for the 2024 WNBA Draft....Andrew Holleran (The Spun)
On this day 61 years ago (April 16, 1963) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the legendary “Letter From Birmingham Jail”. Here is the letter in its entirety.
#LetterFromBirminghamJail #MLKJr #usa #Mastodon #BlackMastodon
Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.letterfromjail.com
https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-republican-until-the-gop-became-the-white-mans-party-181014
#JackieRobinsonDay #Baseball #History #Histodons @histodons #BlackMastodon
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
Like millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was a republican. That changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks.The Conversation
After Jackie Robinson hung up his cleats in 1957, he became a constant presence on picket lines and at #civilrights rallies.
https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-radical-dont-listen-to-the-sanitized-version-of-history-179732
#JackieRobinsonDay #Baseball #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history
Years before Colin Kaepernick was born, Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’The Conversation
What we've been saying all along.
Most Black folks are Democrats and despise Trump.
Though in the media,all you hear about is Candace Owens,Lil Wayne,Ice Cube,50 Cent, Charlemagne Tha God and whomever pastor they can find,telling us to vote for Trump because "he helps Black people".
He'd send us on the boat to Sudan,Congo,Burkina Faso or whatever African country whose dictator is BFF's with him and Putin.
Pay attention.
#BlackMastodon
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645
Pew report pokes a hole in the ‘Blacks are backing Trump’ narrative
A new Pew report underscores how the claims that there has been a seismic shift toward Republicans and Trump among nonwhite voters have been wrong all along.Ja'han Jones (MSNBC)
O.J. Simpson may never have said the words Jay-Z put in his mouth, but they capture something interesting about O.J.’s place in America’s ongoing discussion about race.
#news #breakingnews #ojsimpson #BlackMastodon
‘I’m not black, I’m O.J.’: What O.J. Simpson’s life showed about transcending race and being trapped by it
The death of O.J. Simpson rekindled memories of the racial divisions of his domestic violence case involving the murder of his former wife and her friend.The Conversation
According to a working paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, job applicants with names that suggest they are Black are getting fewer callbacks from employers than those with names that suggest they are white. The typical employer called back the presumed-white applicants around 9% more than Black ones. That rose to around 24% for the worst offenders. The research team has now named the 97 companies they studied and assigned them grades. "Putting the names out there in the public domain is to move away from a lot of the performative allyship that you see with these companies, saying, 'Oh, we value inclusivity and diversity,'" Pat Kline, an economics professor who worked on the study told NPR.
#Employment #Research #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #HumanResources #Discrimination
Got just one Twitch stream this week, but it's an interesting one!
Join me on Saturday at 1pm UK time @ https://twitch.tv/airadam13 for my guest appearance on the Coffee & Donuts raid train, which will be an hour set of strictly 7" vinyl - always amusing when your hands are as large as mine 😆 I've shortlisted some Hip-Hop, dancehall, 80s, and more - and it'll be a radio-friendly mix too!
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackMusic #dj #twitch #vinyl #recordcollector
AirAdam13 - Twitch
Hip-Hop fiend, DJ, photographer, occasional beatmaker, computer programmer, squeezing in the odd bit of recreational gaming in around the edges!Twitch
Two tracks on Beyoncé’s new album feature the voice of Linda Martell, the first commercially successful Black female country music artist, who faced exclusion in #countrymusic throughout her career
https://theconversation.com/the-most-important-voice-on-beyonces-new-album-226907
@blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
The most important voice on Beyoncé’s new album
Confinement was the essence of Linda Martell’s brief career as a country star in the 1970s – and it’s the exact sort of fate that Beyoncé has sought to avoid.The Conversation
“For 300 years, we’ve given them time. And I’ve been tired so long, now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we want a change.”
Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s with her courageous and heartfelt resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi, and her pressure on the Democratic Party to change
Know her story: https://theconversation.com/why-civil-rights-icon-fannie-lou-hamer-was-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-214527
@blackmastodon #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday
Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part because of her resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi.The Conversation
https://www.sankofa.com/events/money-freedom-a-story-of-the-french-cfa-with-director-katy-lena-ndiaye
Stop it, Shapiro – rap is and has always been a form of music.
https://theconversation.com/ben-shapiros-hip-hop-hypocrisy-and-white-male-grievance-lands-him-on-top-of-pop-music-charts-for-a-brief-moment-222545
#Music #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Ben Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and white male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment
Since its birth 50 years ago, hip-hop music has embraced artists of every race and ethnic background. An avowed hip-hop hater might be a step too far.The Conversation
“The problem is not a general lack of historical knowledge but its disparity along racial lines. Black students do know this history, or at least more of it than their white peers.”
https://theconversation.com/the-black-history-knowledge-gap-is-widening-and-gop-politicians-are-making-it-worse-223605
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #History #Histodons #USPolitics
The Black history knowledge gap is widening – and GOP politicians are making it worse
Unlike some GOP politicians, a college professor who teaches Black history to mostly white students was excited that the Black national anthem was being played at the Super Bowl.The Conversation
Author and activist Don Winslow rightly says that “Donald Trump should have been taken out of the White House in handcuffs before the sunset on January Sixth. And if he had been—if people had done the jobs they were supposed to have done, we wouldn’t be where we are now.”
#The11thHour #vote #November5 #Mastodon
#BlackMastodon #politics
