Inequality: The American Ethos
The US has historically been a place where âfairness is adjudicated unevenly, itâs based on inequalityâ in which âcertain people deserve more than others,â said Ampson Hagan, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina who has made a study of âdeservingness.â American political discourse has been centered around the idea that âBlacks and minorities have been agitating for things that they donât actually deserve,â said Hagan. âThis actually limits the horizons for everyoneâ and holds back acceptance of ideas like Medicare for All.â
Blacks Need to Rethink âPositiveâ Images in z Racist Country
A segment of African Americans has long been obsessed with promoting images that are positive representations of The Race, but recurring police atrocities show the necessity to âexpose the regime of ârepresentationâ that further marginalizes us, as opposed to trying to conform to that regime.â said Brenna Greer, a professor of Social Sciences and History at Wellesley College. Greer is author of âRepresented: The Black Imagemakers That Reimagined African American Citizenship.â
Reading During âPerfect Stormâ of Crisis
Medical, economic and political crises have combined to create a âperfect storm for reading, because of the ways that the ideology of whiteness has come to its limits,â said Aparna Mistra Tarc, professor of Education at York University, in Toronto, Canada. People are seeing more clearly âwhat the consumptive, neoliberal American dream is doing to the world,â said Tarc.
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Palestinian people and African/Black people share more than a common struggle. They share a history dating back thousands of years.
The Black Alliance for Peace lays out the reality of the ongoing crisis in Haiti, rejecting the mainstream narrative of a crisis of "gangs".
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The end of the Second Imperialist War (World War II) did not usher in the end of colonialism and oppression for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The resistance of Pan-African movementsâŚ
