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Black Children 6x More Likely to be Shot by Police

Law enforcement in America – presumably hired to ‘protect and serve’ civilians – are 6 times more likely to shoot Black children than White children. Hispanic children are 3 times as likely to be shot as White children. These sad yet expected results are according to a study done over a 16 year period that…
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Burnt Alive: The Torture Death of Suzanne Capper
One of the most disturbing cases I have come across this year – so far at least – is the horrific torture & murder of Suzanne Jane Capper, who at the time of her death in 1992, was 16 years old and naive for her age – she was described as ‘gentle’ and ‘easily influenced’. Suzanne…
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The Lillelid Murders
On 6 April 1997, three of the four Lillelid family members were murdered in Greene County, Tennessee, by a group of misfits from Pikeville, Kentucky, who were on their way to New Orleans, Louisiana, and needed a more trustworthy vehicle in order to make the trip. Vidar (34), Delfina (28), their daughter Tabitha (6) and…
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The Disappearance of Connie Converse
Elizabeth Eaton “Connie” Converse (born August 3, 1924) was an American musician active in New York City in the 1950s. Her work is among the earliest known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. Converse left her family home in 1974 in search of a new life and was never heard from again. Her music was largely unknown until it was…
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The Brutal Rape of Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama, US. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. Taylor’s refusal to remain silent about a brutal rape she suffered, perpetrated by white men, led to organizing in the African-American community on behalf of justice and civil rights.On September…
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Whites Do Not Understand Racism

I don’t care how many books, articles, interviews, studies, and research are posted on the subject, White people will never – and I mean, never – understand racism. By this, I mean that they will never understand how it feels to be broken by the system, how it feels to constantly battle against systemic racism,…
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The Privileges of Being Male

Men are a privileged species. Even non White men are more privileged than women – and some are more privileged even than White women (though not Black or Latino men, except White Hispanics). Men are comfortable with their privileges, and they – especially White men – do not want to give them up. This is…
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The Mistreatment of Black People in America Continues

In Trumplandia 1, just outside of the city of Dallas, a hate crime recently occurred. Shortly after midnight last Wednesday, Trump-loving racists spray painted ‘Trump 20‘ and set ablaze the cars belonging to Jayla Gipson and Charles Crawford, Ms. Gipson’s son woke up to use the bathroom during the night and smelled smoke; this is…
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American Policing & Race 2

Only a month before George Floyd’s untimely and very well-known death, Pew Research Center had conducted a study that revealed how just 56% of Blacks in America have a fair amount of confidence in their local police. This compares with 84% of Whites and 74% of Hispanics. Why do Blacks have such low confidence in…
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American Policing & Race

According to studies conducted by the Pew Research Center, Blacks and Whites are noticeably divided in their perceptions on how law enforcement behaves towards the members of Black and White communities, as well as how differently the two races are treated within the criminal justice system. For example, Blacks believed that they are treated less…