This University Uprooted a Black Neighborhood. Then Its Policies Reduced the Black Presence on Campus.
Black enrollment at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University fell by more than half under longtime president Paul Trible, a former Republican senator who wanted to “offer a private school experience.”
By 2021, only 2.4% of full-time professors were Black.
One way to make sure you ignore gender and race issues: don't ask about them. Good going!
Stack Overflow removed #gender and #race questions from its 2023 user survey, citing privacy concerns, after its 2022 survey found that 92% of its users were men.
Bottom line: The majority and dissent differ fundamentally about the meaning of the #14thAmendment; the meaning of #race in the U.S.; and the importance of #precedent in constitutional decisions from the #SupremeCourt. Plus, Justice #Sotomayor absolutely eviscerates #ClarenceThomas concurrence. 1/ #LawFedi
Today is the 102nd anniversary of a horror that took place in my hometown, the #TulsaRaceMassacre, in which several thousand White citizens and authorities attacked and murdered a still-unknown number of Black residents and destroyed 35 square blocks of "Black Wall Street." Never forget. #Tulsa#History#Race#Greenwood#BlackWallStreet
Charles Blow, a @nytimes columnist, has written a poignant reflection on the Alabama brawl. He compares it to historical events where Blacks were unable to come to the aid of those being tormented.
Task Force to Consider “Restorative Justice” for Black Families Uprooted by #Virginia University’s Expansion
Spurred by our “Uprooted” series, a task force created by the city of Newport News and Christopher Newport University will reexamine decades of city and university records shedding light on a Black neighborhood’s destruction.
Student in AP English class gets award-winning memoir of famous Black author banned from curriculum on grounds that it "made me feel uncomfortable" and "ashamed to be a Caucasian."
Vagueness of South Carolina’s new laws governing teaching about race are what made this possible.
"From the department of You Just Can’t Make Up Stuff Like This, the new Oklahoma superintendent of schools spoke to a group in Norman, Okla., last night and said it’s fine to teach about the Tulsa Race Massacre so long as you don’t say it had anything to do with skin color."
~ Mark Wingfield
Just don't call a race massacre a race massacre. Just don't note that all the people killed are Black, and those doing the killing are white.
"There are three chief reasons for the right’s relentless bashing of Kamala Harris. Those reasons do not include her laugh, or her 'scant experience on the world stage,' or the way she pronounces the word 'the.'
The three reasons are:
She’s a Democrat.
And a person of color.
And a woman."
~ Mark Jacob
And as M. Jacob says, to their great discredit, the corporate media are willing to play along with this racist misogyny.
You know when then-Governor Reagan became a gun control advocate? When the Black Panthers showed up at the California Capitol openly carrying weapons. CA was an open carry state at the time.
READ: “I’ve always cringed when the accusations fly about someone allegedly “playing the race card” -usually a proxy for “You’re making me uncomfortable” -stop talking. I flipped the script, printed postcards: Race, Your thoughts. 6 words. Please send. I left them in bookstores, restaurants… rec. >500K of these stories -often shocking in their candor & intimacy, & grace or triumph, eg “I am tired of explaining myself.” #Race
"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor in Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump was a familiar scene for many Black women."
Amelia Mavis Christnot explains how men like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and Brock Turner are made — and why they're allowed for so long by so many people to evade responsibility for their actions.
Heterosexual white male entitlement combined with overweening privilege due to wealth and social status: a formula for imagining that the world is there for your taking — as well as the women you assault.
Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples.
CNN reports: "Despite the many promises of generative AI’s future potential emanating from the tech industry, the gaffes from Meta’s AI image generator are the latest in a spate of incidents that show how generative AI tools still struggle immensely with the concept of race."
“The most challenged books in the United States in 2023 continued to focus on the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore themes of race…”
Time to buy these books, and/or request your public library purchase if they don’t have them. #bookstodon#books#libraries#censorship#race#lgbtq@bookstodon