Saturday, June 16, 2018
Not New
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color
The disturbing practice is as old as slavery.
By Sara Boboltz
But as shocking as it is to see nearly 1,500 Latino children housed in a former Walmart adorned with a sketch of President Donald Trump, it’s not the first time American leadership has endorsed the separation of families of color.
America has been a place where children are torn from the arms of their parents since the time of slavery. (Alarmingly, the Bible verse cited by Sessions, Romans 13, was also used to justify enslavement.) As soon as they were old enough to work, young black children could be sold off. In many cases, these children never saw their families again.
Later, the U.S. decided to pursue a similar approach with Native American children, sending them to government-run boarding schools en masse in the late 19th century. Col. Richard Pratt, who founded the first such school, believed the establishments would help Native Americans assimilate into Eurocentric American culture. He lived by a motto: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The boarding schools lasted into the 20th century.
Trump’s policy, it seems, is just the latest iteration of American leaders invoking government authority to keep families of color physically apart.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-separating-families-of-color_us_5b241a78e4b0f9178a9d1866
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color
The disturbing practice is as old as slavery.
By Sara Boboltz
But as shocking as it is to see nearly 1,500 Latino children housed in a former Walmart adorned with a sketch of President Donald Trump, it’s not the first time American leadership has endorsed the separation of families of color.
America has been a place where children are torn from the arms of their parents since the time of slavery. (Alarmingly, the Bible verse cited by Sessions, Romans 13, was also used to justify enslavement.) As soon as they were old enough to work, young black children could be sold off. In many cases, these children never saw their families again.
Later, the U.S. decided to pursue a similar approach with Native American children, sending them to government-run boarding schools en masse in the late 19th century. Col. Richard Pratt, who founded the first such school, believed the establishments would help Native Americans assimilate into Eurocentric American culture. He lived by a motto: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The boarding schools lasted into the 20th century.
Trump’s policy, it seems, is just the latest iteration of American leaders invoking government authority to keep families of color physically apart.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-separating-families-of-color_us_5b241a78e4b0f9178a9d1866
Friday, June 15, 2018
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
Lynchings in the Media
An excerpt from the NY Times -
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings
By Charles Seguin
From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, thousands of people, mostly black and poor, were murdered by lynch mobs that sometimes burned their victims alive, castrated them or cut their bodies up into little pieces that were passed around as souvenirs.
Southern newspapers justified these horrors by calling lynching victims “fiends,” “brutes” or “ravishers,” leaving their guilt unquestioned. Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.
In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching. But many Northern papers were just as complicit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings
By Charles Seguin
From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, thousands of people, mostly black and poor, were murdered by lynch mobs that sometimes burned their victims alive, castrated them or cut their bodies up into little pieces that were passed around as souvenirs.
Southern newspapers justified these horrors by calling lynching victims “fiends,” “brutes” or “ravishers,” leaving their guilt unquestioned. Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.
In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching. But many Northern papers were just as complicit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Honored When Dead
An excerpt from the NY Times -
Earlier this year in the White House, Trump signed a proclamation for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and lauded him for his choice to “courageously stand up for civil rights of African-Americans.”
That is precisely what Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. players are doing, and they are condemned for it just like King was. In 1966, Gallup found that nearly two-thirds of Americans held an unfavorable view of him.
King wrote in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail”:
“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
Again, this is what the players are doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Earlier this year in the White House, Trump signed a proclamation for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and lauded him for his choice to “courageously stand up for civil rights of African-Americans.”
That is precisely what Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. players are doing, and they are condemned for it just like King was. In 1966, Gallup found that nearly two-thirds of Americans held an unfavorable view of him.
King wrote in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail”:
“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
Again, this is what the players are doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Brilliant
From Buzzfeed -
People Who Have Kids Will 100% Appreciate The Following 21 Inventions / Ideas
Just brilliant.
By Krista Torres
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/xx-things-only-people-with-kids-will-truly-appreciate?utm_term=.xn2L3maW7k#.pkrymv8QG4
People Who Have Kids Will 100% Appreciate The Following 21 Inventions / Ideas
Just brilliant.
By Krista Torres
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/xx-things-only-people-with-kids-will-truly-appreciate?utm_term=.xn2L3maW7k#.pkrymv8QG4
Sunday, June 10, 2018
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