South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
āSouth African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,ā said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has done extensive research on labor, policing and privatization in South Africa. However, āitās difficult to tellā if the Black majority regime kills more of its citizens than its apartheid predecessor, ābecause so many killings by police were covered upā during white rule, said Clarke. South Africa is also the biggest incarcerator on the continent.
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
āThe US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the peopleā in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writer anthology āCapitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China and the US.ā The US accounts for a quarter of the worldās infections and a third of deaths, a catastrophe due to āthe cost of health care for profit, of no national health care, and no national coordination,ā said Flounders, who notes that the US ādoes not lack infrastructure in police, in the military, and in prisons.ā
Corporate Baseballās āFeebleā Gesture to Negro Leagues
Major League Baseballās recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only āthe beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldnāt even come close to restoringā the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. āBaseball was not just a pastime for Black people,ā said Myers. āIt was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came togetherā during American apartheid.
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The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to ārecaptureā and then expel the human cargo.
Bernie Sanders is slightly more popular among black Democratic voters than white ones.
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelledāand won.
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
Air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by blacks and Hispanics.
