> I was interested about this too so I looked it up and was surprised at how lacking the research was.
Consider checking out Invisible Women, a great book discussing this topic in depth.
It also happens to mention that Viagra may be effective at treating period cramps.
> people get thrown in jail for unpaid fines/fees and other minor violations in 13 states,
So is this a space where we can discuss the excellent book The New Jim Crow because it seems highly relevant.
For a deeper understanding of the War on Drugs as it pertains to the U.S. putting more of its citizens in prison than any other nation: The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander.
I’ve got politics, and almost only politics, on my mind. This is the last weekend before midterm elections on Tuesday. I am feeling a little freaked out.
I think many people are placing all of their hope on a blue wave. I know I am! But I’m worried we’ve been lulled into this false sense of security about how realistic a blue wave is. When in reality, voter suppression and gerrymandering and general lack of political involvement is going to make it REALLY hard for progressive candidates to actually win.
I think it’s really important to spread the word about voting, but merely telling people to vote can quickly turn into gaslighting for minorities (see: voter suppression, gerrymandering). A lot of people are touting the old sentiment that if you don’t vote you can’t complain, which totally glosses over the fact that for a lot of people, it’s really hard to vote. Progressive candidates are often working for those minority groups that face high levels of voter suppression, so I’m worried... We need the votes of the people that have a difficult time voting.
I really encourage everyone to take some active steps this weekend to engage in the election. I signed up to phonebank. I hate talking on the phone but it’s too important to sit back and let others do the work, so I’m making calls on behalf of Beto all day Saturday. If anyone else wants to take action, I suggest connecting with indivisible. I’m a person who posts political articles and memes on social media but is otherwise kind of quiet about politics... but moving into the last few days of the election, that feels like it is nowhere near enough.
Also I am currently reading this book and omg, I want every white person I know to read it. I am learning so much.
Read up on your history before making assumptions
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618001905/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_aB8TBbCQ7Q6M1
A reply to the down-votes you are getting for stating a fact:
It is distressing in particular that many people refuse to acknowledge that over 50% of murders in the US are committed by the black minority (around 13%), as if it were some kind of embarrassing chronic racial failing instead of a consequence of lack of education and the breakdown of the family dynamic - and other issues. On a related note, how ironic is it that black Americans were growing richer as a group from the 1930's until momentum slowed dramatically in the 1960's - after the civil rights era? (Am reading black scholar Thomas Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals")
We cannot fix the problem by pretending that our reality is only racist hate-speak. This willful ignorance I find rather terrifying because it is being manifested with such vehement, unreasoning anger.
I spent this last January in the Dominican Republic which is largely black and mixed race. Was great to be around black people who felt free to just be people and without all the silent undercurrents of fear, resentment and blame that we have in the states. The Dominicans I met live in the now, take you at face value, and were just wonderful people: cheerful, kind, hugely family oriented and as a group, amazingly good looking. But they are incredibly poor. I really don't know how they do it; they were inspiring.
Edit: Excellent series of essays on origins and ramifications of southern and northern, black and white cultures, plus more:Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
>Indulge me in the systemic injustices of the black community from the last 40-50 years after the civil rights movement ?
There are entire books you can read about this. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431
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And then the rest of your post is just taking your incorrect premise and running with it.
This is pretty much exactly what Caroline Criado-Perez says in her recent book "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men".
It's good to see that the awareness of this is spreading.
I don't know if this will help, but I just finished reading Invisible Women. It is an excellent read and it's absolutely appalling and infuriating to see all the places where women are just...not considered, and what the fallout of that is on a societal level. I don't think the word "feminism" occurs in the book, but it is very much a strong feminist statement with an absolute shitload of data to back it up.
Or just throw the whole boyfriend out, up to you.
There's actually a decent amount of Academia dedicated to figuring out how the Irish transitioned from identifiable ethnic minority to other white people. The most famous example is about how the Irish came to become oppressors, which is oF cOuRsE synonymous with white.
But the most profound way in which they became what was... they assimilated.
The Color of Law is a great book that covers all the strategies used to keep neighborhoods segregated after discriminating based on race was no longer legal, including how HOAs were used.
i didn't know this until i read The Color of Law, but back in the early 20th century the popularity of personal automobiles skyrocketed to such a size that cities simply weren't able to keep up with the congestion they caused. the number of people who owned cars essentially doubled every year for a while and traffic was a plague. it's one of the reasons why cities embraced the idea of widening roads and eventually building highways so much in the first place, even back then they thought doing so would solve congestion
What Taison says here is almost a pretty direct quote from the beginning of the latest book by Ibram Kendi. The book, called How to Be an Antiracist does a pretty nice job of clearly describing some of the issues with structural racism that we see today.
If you think Antiracism is a topic that is really interesting to you, I would recommend that book and also White Fragility by Robin Diangelo.
(Source: I work on a Structural Racism task force in my city in America and have done a lot of work in the field of Antiracism for the last 5 years or so.)
He read a book on critical race theory to see what all his conservative coworkers were freaking out over, and he found that he actually agreed with it.
> Colton said he didn't view it racially
Using racially charged terms and then saying, "No, I didn't mean it in a racist way," is the hallmark of racists (SEE: Donald Trump). No one self-identifies as a racist. They see their views as justified because they aren't against a particular race; they're against crime, poverty, drugs, etc. The main problem is, they overlook that behavior in the majority groups they belong to. White frat boys doing coke at a college party are just kids having fun, but black people doing crack in a poor neighborhood are violent criminals. Colton wouldn't have labeled a struggling white stand-up comedian as ghetto, so let's stop pretending like him calling Bill ghetto isn't racist.
tl;dr Colton is a racist.
EDIT: If anyone's interested in looking into this topic more, The New Jim Crow is a great book about how racism has evolved since the days of "Whites Only" water fountains and segregated schools.
Recently I got a very interesting book called White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo. Now I do not live in the US, but I was horribly surprised how many points this book raises applied directly to me.
> Still wondering why anyone really cares where people choose to live.
Actually, where people live is one of the biggest drivers of life outcomes. If you're born in KCK instead of Leawood - your probable life outcomes is much worse.
At one time, segregation was official city/state/fed policy, which subsidized the development of all-white suburbs (like Prairie Village was one of the first) and movement of people from urban areas to the suburbs - aka 'white flight'. Today, we're still living with white flight. If there were a middle to upper income suburb of Kansas City that were 88% black, do you think many white people would choose to move there? Me neither.
Check out Richard Rothstein's book "The Color of Law", or his lectures on YouTube. Great history and info about the relationship between housing segregation and life outcomes in the US.
As the Vox illustrates, segregation is still going on today (it's actually getting worse) due to policies like zoning laws and drive to prevent low-income housing and apartment complexes from being improved in middle-upper income cities, resulting in low income minorities living in a small number of areas in the metro (as illustrated by the original Vox piece map).
There is a seedy underbelly within the federal prison system and this is one of the major issues. For starters I highly encourage people to read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Amazon)
States and private state contractors rake in loads of money on prison labor, often at the expense of normal citizens who would both work these jobs, and contribute financially from their income.
[edit: careful, if you don't pay attention and type posts they'll come out retarded, like mine was - fixed]
Highly recommend reading "King Leopold's Ghost" to anyone interested in the history of Belgian colonialist atrocities in Africa. Warning: it makes for grim reading.
sometimes I wonder, its literally physically embedded in our society. if you have heard of "red lining", basically on the basis of discriminatory law and practice, colored folks sequestered into poor housing. There is a book about it apparently too, the Law of Color:
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853
(read the first review there, its just nuts how jacked up an affect it all has)
on top of this, struggling to even go to a college because of one's skin color, and all the other historical challenges. How will we change embedded physical geographical areas built upon oppression and prejudice? I have no idea.
There is a short clip on youtube about it basically:
'Only' is a bit strong, but there were numerous programs which encouraged the development of suburban, single family homes - specifically for whites. The Color of Law offers a thorough, policy based exploration of the racialization and segregation of housing in the US, and also deals with those policies which tended to encourage home ownership and low density zoning.
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853
This is an excellent summary. White Americans got success by making sure the lowest rungs of the economic ladder were full of black people. It was done intentionally with laws and descrimination at all levels of society, city, state and federal.
Yeah but he's black. The US criminal justice system was literally made for black men.
> What schools are teaching white privilege?
Here's a video of an elementary girl who was traumatized by CTR training.
https://twitter.com/theREALbenORR/status/1408041591567224839
> Why is teaching white privilege a racist idea, and can you prove that it is?
To judge people based on the color of their skin is racist. Consult a dictionary.
> What part of CRT teaches white privilege?
Buy a copy of Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction by Richard Delgado https://www.amazon.ca/dp/147980276X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_8ZC7RYRCPY00HFTRPN13 and read it.
> Do you not think that privilege exists for every culture under the context of different variables, and if so why wouldn't white privilege be relevant to teaching US history?
Because it's racist, and also, bogus. I've never seen a coherent description of white privilege that withstood any scrutiny.
The Irish weren't always considered white. I haven't read the whole thing, but this book, How the Irish Became White, is pretty interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
Also worth googling is women’s second shift. It focuses on how labor isn’t divided equally in a marriage. Women take on not only more chores, but daily chores (dinner, cleaning, child care), while men tend to take weekly chores (mowing the lawn, taking out the trash). Not to mention they wind up maintaining their husband and children’s social calendar in addition to their own. Career wise, women are in danger of losing their careers and not doing well in interviews when they reveal to be engaged/married. Men get pay boosts when engaged married. Women are expected to abandon/sacrifice their careers for their family while men aren’t. The list goes on. But that book and that term second shift are a great place to start
Prisons are needed but yeah all our current prison system does is provide slave labor, maintain segregation and class divides, and make better/more fucked up criminals
But that's like... a whole discussion worthy of a book
..."The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate and legal scholar, is an amazing resource if you want to see how much of the American law system is based around maintaining class divides and segregation.
> it coudl be argued much of africa has a better life and opportunity under colonialism
Read King Leopold’s Ghost from cover to cover before you ever make this claim again.
>Anti-racism is a talking point invented by the right recently
That's not true. Ibram X Kendi released a book on anti racism in 2019, and who knows how long the concept had been making its academic rounds prior to that?
Read his fantastic book: Black Rednecks & White Liberals.
How many 500+reviewed books on Amazon do you see which have a full FIVE STAR RATING?!
After those ~250 pages, his world is your oyster.
One of my favorite positions of Dr. Sowell's is his lengthy discussion on how "minimum wage increase" theories predominantly affect minorities (particularly blacks) most. In a bad way.
ref: Dr. Thomas Sowell is black — inb4 "racist"