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Redlining was made formally illegal in 1968.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES NEW INITIATIVE TO COMBAT REDLINING - DOJ
The Justice Department announced the launch of the department’s new Combatting Redlining Initiative today. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race or national origin of the people who live in those communities. The new Initiative represents the department’s most aggressive and coordinated enforcement effort to address redlining, which is prohibited by the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
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carmenjonze wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:05 pm Redlining was made formally illegal in 1968.
These six things were made formally illegal the day Moses came down from the mount:

1) You shall not kill.
2) You shall not commit adultery.
3) You shall not steal.
4) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
5) You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
6) You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

Folks have been combating those six crimes ever since. It's a good thing that they are trying, but as with 1 through 6 redlining will be with us always.

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sam lefthand wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:19 pm
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Auburn University's first Black student receives a historic marker - NBC News
Auburn University will honor Harold A. Franklin, the university’s first African American student, with a desegregation marker dedication ceremony.

The ceremony will be held on Thursday at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library where a plaza was recently created to accompany the marker, WSFA-TV reported.
Franklin integrated Auburn as the university’s first Black student on Jan. 4, 1964. He was a Graduate School enrollee who went on to a successful 27-year career as an educator in higher education after leaving Auburn in 1965. He earned a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Denver and taught history at Alabama State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Tuskegee Institute and Talladega College before retiring in 1992.

Franklin initially was not allowed to defend his thesis at Auburn, a wrong that was righted last February and he participated in fall 2020 commencement exercises.
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El Milagro workers, supporters hold Day of the Dead vigil to honor employees who died of COVID-19 - Chicago Tribune
On Roberto Escobar’s last day of work before he fell ill with COVID-19, Guillermo Romero shared food with him during their lunch break at the El Milagro tortilla factory.

That was the last time Romero saw his co-worker, who died from the virus in April 2020, Romero said. Escobar was one of five El Milagro workers who have died of COVID-19.

On Tuesday night, employees who have since been organizing and raising concerns about working conditions gathered outside the El Milagro location on West 26th Street and South Albany Avenue in Little Village. They held a community vigil and news conference to honor those five employees as well as workers’ family members who have died in the last two years.

Lit candles, tall and narrow with images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and sugar skulls, decorated an altar outside the doors to the taqueria and tortilla factory. Four girls stood behind the table, holding up sugar skull cardboard cutouts.

“We will never forget our co-workers who lost their life during this pandemic. We miss them, we yearn for them, because we shared a lot of time with them,” Romero said, adding that they were like family. “But we continue in this fight, for ourselves, for our dignity and to get respect.”
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Chris Hayes
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This has me howling, THE PRESIDENT'S HAND DISAPPEARS MIDWAY THROUGH HIS SENTENCE

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Aaron Rupar
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Then this morning Fox & Friends opted for full-frontal dishonesty, deceptively editing Biden's remarks to exclude his mention of the negro leagues and make what he said seem racially insensitive. Shameless lying.

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carmenjonze wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:28 pm Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes

This has me howling, THE PRESIDENT'S HAND DISAPPEARS MIDWAY THROUGH HIS SENTENCE

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Aaron Rupar
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Then this morning Fox & Friends opted for full-frontal dishonesty, deceptively editing Biden's remarks to exclude his mention of the negro leagues and make what he said seem racially insensitive. Shameless lying.

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https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/ ... 1258144771
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And the MSM will say nothing, 74 million people will believe it and when they start the civil unrest it will be done. Dammit I wanted to be wrong one year ago and two years ago and 3 years ago and 4 years ago and 5 years ago when I said this would happen, I still want to be wrong.

There are no options for cons like those here, they either support trump when he takes over with violent fascism or they dont, as he will attempt that. Right now they are with trump, 100%.
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Libertas wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:32 pm And the MSM will say nothing, 74 million people will believe it and when they start the civil unrest it will be done. Dammit I wanted to be wrong one year ago and two years ago and 3 years ago and 4 years ago and 5 years ago when I said this would happen, I still want to be wrong.

There are no options for cons like those here, they either support trump when he takes over with violent fascism or they dont, as he will attempt that. Right now they are with trump, 100%.
They are being propagandized, exploited, and used, and they don't even care.
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El Paso officials want to bulldoze a historic barrio. This 92-year-old woman is in the way - LA Times
Politicians and developers in El Paso have big plans for the downtown barrio known as Duranguito.
They want to turn the two-block area, a collection of century-old buildings ringed by bus depots, just south of the city’s convention center, into a 15,000-seat arena to host big concerts and — hopefully — a minor-league sports team.

Standing in their way is Antonia Morales, who measures just under 5 feet tall and is 92 years old.

She has lived in the historic neighborhood since 1965 and sees no reason to leave now. Until she and a few other holdouts depart, demolition cannot begin.
She looked more the part of a Mexican doña as she dawdled around her tiny apartment on a chilly Friday morning not long before coronavirus became a national crisis. Her well-coiffed white hair was as puffy as a cotton ball. Fake flowers, small porcelain dolls and crucifixes prettied the living room. Outside, laundry dried on a clothesline.

But the Mexican-born Morales has become a powerful symbol of the cause and something of a folk hero.
Good on her.
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yes
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carmenjonze wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:05 pm Redlining was made formally illegal in 1968.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES NEW INITIATIVE TO COMBAT REDLINING - DOJ
I wonder what they will do or if they will do anything about the new ways of achieving the same thing because there is all this money held back from workers and called profit that otherwise would be things like groceries and rent and medical care and housing, but instead it is idle money and these big real estate corporations are going around with a lot of this idle money and inflating the prices that houses are being sold for by buying them up, so that to move into this or that neighborhood instead of competing with other peers you have to pay a premium price that will also inflate your assessment and therefore taxes. It seems at some point the false or added value will be reckoned and perhaps the differences in communities will be stark as ever.
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A thread

https://twitter.com/Allie_Elisabeth/sta ... 9908055041
The financialization of housing hasn't even hit its stride yet. "There's an arms race rn of who will become the Amazon of real-estate"
idle money swallowing up properties and withholding them from the market can have an effect on elections, even if they lose money they get to manipulate and control regions gerry and racialmander them. eviction and poverty mandering born from those as well.

https://twitter.com/Allie_Elisabeth/sta ... 9451039744
Just wanted to update everyone, at ~12:30 on a Saturday, that this husk-of-a-house sold for $90K last week.
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This really belongs in Cops Lying, but it's nominally "civil rights progress," kind of, since it's related to a civil rights assassination.

These men spent almost 60 years in jail for something they didn't do, while a 17 year old WN murderer is going to walk.

2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later - NYT
The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.

Two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X are expected to have their convictions thrown out on Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney and lawyers for the two men said, rewriting the official history of one of the most notorious murders of the civil rights era.

The exoneration of the two men, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, represents a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in a case of towering importance: the 1965 murder of one of America’s most influential Black leaders in the fight against racism.

A 22-month investigation conducted jointly by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and lawyers for the two men found that prosecutors and two of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department — had withheld key evidence that, had it been turned over, would likely have led to the men’s acquittal.

The two men, known at the time of the killing as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, spent decades in prison for the murder, which took place on Feb. 21, 1965, when three men opened fire inside the crowded Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan as Malcolm X was starting to speak.

But the case against them was questionable from the outset, and in the decades since, historians and hobbyists have raised doubts about the official story.
More in link.
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Ruby Bridges today <3

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word 'squaw' from federal lands - NPR
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term Friday and ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that use the word.

The order, which takes effect immediately, stands to affect more than 650 place names that use the term, according to figures from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

"Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation's lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage — not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression," Haaland said in a news release about the change.

The origin of the word "squaw" has been traced to the Algonquian language, in which it meant simply "woman." But its meaning was skewed by centuries of use by white people, including colonists in the 1600s.

"The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women," the Interior Department said.
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An astonishing verdict in Kansas City:
A Kansas City police detective was found guilty of manslaughter in the 2019 killing of a Black man who was fatally shot in his own backyard.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge J. Dale Youngs announced his decision Friday afternoon.
For some reason, no idea why, it was a Bench Trial, no jury for the defense to pack. But it was certainly a no-brainer. A flat-out murder:
Lamb, 26, was shot after officers investigating a crash reported a red pickup chasing a purple Ford Mustang. Officers in a police helicopter spotted the truck driven by Lamb and followed the vehicle.

Prosecutors said there was no evidence that anyone had dialed 911, that anyone was hurt or that a crime had taken place when DeValkenaere and another detective arrived at Lamb’s home at 4154 College Ave.

Lamb was fatally wounded as he was backing a pickup into his garage, prosecutors alleged, saying it took DeValkenaere nine seconds from the time he walked from the front of the residence to the back of the house before he opened fire on Lamb.

DeValkenaere’s conduct was “reckless,” action prosecutors said, and violated the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.

“The state of Missouri finds it absolutely unreasonable that he did this with a loaded gun,” said assistant prosecutor Dion Sankar. “We find it unreasonable because there was no reason to enter the private residence with a gun, because there was no pressing reason pressing him to move. That was his choice.”

During the trial, prosecutors also alleged the crime scene was staged and evidence was planted.

At the time that DeValkenaere shot Lamb, he was not armed and the gun that police said he had with him was actually inside of a staircase near the garage, prosecutors said.
This was the FIRST TIME in 80 YEARS that a Kansas City Police officer was charged with killing a black man.

Well, THAT'S enough said!
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Good.

For years we drove by a place called that word and "rock" and the story that was even on a placard was about the Woman jumping to her death out of love for her lover. All bullshit I assume. I remember feeling uncomfortable with that word decades before white people like myself had it pointed out to us that it is racist.

Same with the "N" word, I can remember being small and having an uncomfortable reaction to it each of the hundreds of times those older than me told jokes with the word.
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SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism - Boston Review
Movements are made when people in motion outpace existing organizations and tactical urgency remakes the existing landscape.

That’s what happened on February 1, 1960, when four college students staging a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina spurred dozens of sit-ins throughout the South by the end of the month. By the middle of April that year, leading agitators of these sit-ins gathered at Shaw University to formalize a new vehicle to sync their efforts: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Pronounced “snick,” the organization’s members became known as the shock troops of the civil rights movement—people of unparalleled courage and creativity in the fight against white supremacy.

Though some SNCC veterans made their way to political office—most famously John Lewis, James Clyburn, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Marion Barry—SNCC’s greatest triumph was the emphasis it placed on grassroots organizing. It empowered a generation of largely unheralded organizers. Its members braved racist terror to challenge segregation, demonstrate multiracial democracy, and forge transnational coalitions. Since its collapse, SNCC veterans have been the most conscientious of the ’60s-era activists to ground their individual and collective legacies in the world-making pursuit of justice.

Today, even in commemoration, SNCC exemplifies the organized chaos of social change. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its sixtieth anniversary conference was postponed from an in-person gathering in April 2020 to a virtual gathering in October 2021, over sixty-one years after its initial founding. With an eye on history, the conference foregrounded the pervasive threats facing the prospect of multiracial democracy today. In 1964 Mississippi was widely seen as the most virulently racist state in the country when SNCC expanded an ambitious plan to organize voter registration efforts there.

Now, as several conference participants noted with restrained optimism, Mississippi has the largest number of Black elected officials in the country—a sure sign of SNCC’s legacy. Yet it also has rampant voter suppression and remains one of the poorest states in the country in terms of education, health care, and infrastructure—signs of institutional problems SNCC could not overcome.
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The Day the Native Americans Drove the KKK Out of Town - Narratively
“They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them,” Lillie McKoy, who grew up watching the KKK drive by and later became the mayor of Maxton, a small town in Robeson County, told The Fayetteville Observer in 2008.

The county had been split in three since the 1880s, after the Lumbees resisted North Carolina’s post–Civil War efforts to segregate its citizens into two racial categories. The county had three sets of buses, three separate water fountains and three school systems.

But in the 1950s, things were starting to change in Robeson County, and the Klan wasn’t happy about it. Brown v. Board of Education had recently outlawed school segregation throughout the United States. More locally, the Lumbee Tribe had been formally recognized by the state of North Carolina, and Solicitor Malcolm B. Seawell, a local law officer who would later become North Carolina’s attorney general, had given a speech addressing 15 arrested Klansmen, warning them that Robeson County “would not tolerate” the Klan.

“Your society is neither invisible nor invincible,” Seawell said in his speech to the Klansmen. “You may discover that the easy way or the hard way. Take your choice.”
F. them, and f. today's WSs and WNs.
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gounion wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:40 pm Colvin is a true American hero. Hopefully her record will quickly be cleared. Of course, I wouldn't count on it. Still pretty ugly in Birmingham.
There you go with your racist stereotyping again. Birmingham is about 65pct African American 6 of its 9 council members are African Americans and I believe all 9 are Democrats but might be off by 1 or 2 on that last fact.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 4:02 pm There you go with your racist stereotyping again. Birmingham is about 65pct African American 6 of its 9 council members are African Americans and I believe all 9 are Democrats but might be off by 1 or 2 on that last fact.
How is it stereotyping to tell the truth about a City that very strong history of racism in a state known for racism. Georgia has passed very strict Voter I.D. Laws aimed Minorities Glenn. GoU is not lying, just speaking the truth and that is what you do not want to know.
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USC Building Stripped of Eugenicist Name Will Instead Native American Alumus.

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ng-renamed.

One of the most prominent buildings at USC — stripped last year of the name of a leading eugenicist and former university president — will instead honor Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American alumnus who authored influential works about Indigenous history and culture, served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian recognition.

In a move to reconcile with a racist chapter in its history, USC banished the name of Rufus B. von KleinSmid from the Center for International and Public Affairs in the heart of campus. Von KleinSmid held a leadership role in the California eugenics movement.
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marindem01 wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 4:38 pm How is it stereotyping to tell the truth about a City that very strong history of racism in a state known for racism. Georgia has passed very strict Voter I.D. Laws aimed Minorities Glenn. GoU is not lying, just speaking the truth and that is what you do not want to know.
No he stated that things are pretty ugly in Birmingham based on zero facts. Birmingham is an African American city ran primarily by African American Democrats.
He made a racist statement based on Birmingham of 60 years ago.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 4:53 pm No he stated that things are pretty ugly in Birmingham based on zero facts. Birmingham is an African American city ran primarily by African American Democrats.
He made a racist statement based on Birmingham of 60 years ago.
Cops aren't democrats. I know black people in Birmingham. It's pretty damned ugly there if you're black.
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