One black friend tells me that he freaked out when his white fiancée purchased an item in a store and promptly threw the receipt away. “What are you doing?” he protested to her. He is a highly successful and well-educated professional but would never dream of tossing a receipt for fear of being accused of shoplifting.
Man Arrested While Picking Up His Kids: ‘The Problem Is I’m Black’
A controversial video documents the St. Paul resident being harassed and tased.
The latest example of abusive, atrocious police work posted to YouTube comes from St. Paul, Minnesota, where a black father, Chris Lollie, reportedly got off work at Cossetta, an upscale Italian eatery, walked to the downtown building that houses New Horizon Academy, where he was to to pick up his kids, and killed the ten minutes until they’d be released sitting down on a chair in a skyway between buildings. Those details come from the Minneapolis City Pages, where commenters describe the area he inhabited as a public thoroughfare between commercial buildings. If you’re 27 and black with dreadlocks, sometimes you’re waiting to pick up your kids and someone calls the cops to get rid of you.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: the Vox conversation
John McCain and Sarah Palin had a cap and trade plank in their platform. (~47 min)
Recommended Books:
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Family Properties: history of redlining
- Kenneth Jackson: crabgrass fronteir
- Arnold Hersh, Making the Second Ghetto: the housing riots
- Tony Judt: Postwar Europe
- Timothy Snyder: Blood Lines
- Ira Katz Nelson: History of New Deal
- Robert Samuelson: Great American City
Pro Wrestling Is Fake, but Its Race Problem Isn’t
In its 62 year history, WWE has never chosen a black wrestler to hold its world championship.
.. WWE’s response to allegations of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and ableism have always been the same: It’s fictional. But that excuse wears thin when the fictional racism lines up perfectly with the real-life racism.