Photo by Danielle Miles: Moderator Maria Hinojosa (center) with panelists Williams, Godsil, Goff and powell Racism Not Necessarily Perpetrated By Racists NEW ORLEANS–W.K. Kellogg‘s (WKKF) 2012 conference kicked off with what is now familiar news regarding racial inequity: Racial inequity exists, and it’s not decreasing. In the conference’s first plenary session titled “Unconscious Bias and Race,” [...]
To lay any fears to rest it seems that the recent police shooting in Kings Cross will see the beginning of comments from various sources confirming just how racist this country is. We here in Australia have at least one commentator who thinks that the public is more concerned about violent indigenous [...]
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy’s complaint is the 10th case involving alleged racism known to have been referred to the police watchdog in three weeks. Photograph: Casey Moore Metropolitan police accused of racism against off-duty firefighter Edric Kennedy-Macfoy says he was abused, assaulted and shot with a stun gun when he tried to help officers Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk, Thursday [...]
The Matrix of Four Forms of Racism By Ethan Indi (about the author) According to the Hopi, there are red, yellow, purple and white people synonymous with the colors of corn. Each color is related to an element and anyone can potentially lose their way and become two-hearted. The term two-hearted comes from the Hopi [...]
Mass incarceration in US prisons is one of the main channels through which racism is perpetuated [GALLO/GETTY] Washington, DC - Trayvon Martin was just beginning his life. Trayvon Martin was a son. He was a high school junior, with college to look forward to, a career and perhaps a family of his own. Trayvon Martin was [...]
The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism The latest atrocities in Afghanistan are just par for the course. by Glen Ford The American atrocities in Afghanistan roll on like a drumbeat from hell. With every affront to the human and national dignity of the Afghan people, the corporate media [...]
Australia has always been a truly racist nation. The level of hatred in this country for people of different races or ethnicity or whatever name you wish to use is extreme. Despite attempts to promote what is referred to as multiculturalism there has always been a steady, unrelenting stream of race hatred in this country, [...]
Being a son of migrant parents and making no bones about my own position on asylum seekers as the only just position to adopt when dealing with the human rights of others I am appalled at the stupid parliamentary pretend fights that are there to preserve racist attitudes in this Country. Being a one party [...]
Racism plays a major role in Australian life. As the colony settled into becoming a profitable venture for the privileged classes; what became ne cessary was a comon enemy. This type of process has been occuring al over the so called educated world for well over a few hundred years. In this process the oppressed are [...]
There is an excellent video called, ” Australian Aboriginal Genocide It is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eubc-Yk3M What is proposed is that there will be regular material on indigenous sites in Australia. It is a fairly sad event to see that the above video ceased comments owing the the “huge amount of racism“. Just another indication of the [...]
