October 2011
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Black and White Twins
From The Guardian
On the left is James: he’s black, he’s gay, he’s gregarious, and he’s academic. He’s taking three A-levels next summer, and wants to go to university. Daniel, sitting beside him, is white. He’s straight, he’s shy, and he didn’t enjoy school at all. He left after taking GCSEs, and hopes that his next move will be an apprenticeship...
September 2011
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"Now, Latinos are the majority of those who are...
“Where once people who were caught trying to enter the country without papers were allowed to opt for voluntary removal and kicked back across the border, today the federal government is choosing to file charges against people and incarcerate people before deporting them. It’s a profound enough change in policy that it’s changing the demographics of incarceration rates.” -Colorlines
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Anonymous asked: What does "heteronormativity" mean?
Anonymous asked: I am doing a project against prejudice. It will have myth busters and it will contain every argument I can think of to convince people that prejudice is wrong. Have you got any advice for me?
Labor Day Thoughts: " the top 10 percent of...
-Chicago Sun Times editorial: “Shrink wage gap by raising tax on rich”
This Labor Day is an ideal time to spend a few minutes thinking about, well, labor. Like many holidays, Labor Day’s meaning has changed over time: from workers—their rights, their health and safety, their struggle against an economic system that favors the already rich—to Labor Day Cookouts and...
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Watchshaaaaaaawn:
Jon Stewart on “not defending DOMA” as opposed to “still enforcing DOMA.” :I
July 2011
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UPDATE: Citgo Petroleum Corp. interested in...
FIGHTprejudice Executive Director Shawn Meerkamper received a call this morning from CITGO Petroleum Corporation’s Public Relations division. The CITGO representative was eager to work with FIGHTprejudice to identify specific CITGO locations that sell the Confederate flag so that CITGO Corporate can contact those stores directly. As FIGHTprejudice continues to work on this issue with...
Open letter to CITGO CEO Alejandro Granado RE...
FROM: Shawn Meerkamper, Founder, Executive Director, FIGHTprejudice, Inc.
TO: Alejandro Granado, Chairman, President, and CEO, CITGO Petroleum Corporation
CC: CITGO Board of Directors; Gustavo Velásquez, Vice President for Supply and Marketing; Daniel Cortez, Vice President for Government and Public Affairs
DATE: Monday, July 25, 2011
RE: Open letter concerning CITGO’s sale and display of...
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Open Letter to Michael DelGiorno of Supertalk 99-7...
Mr. DelGiorno:
I am writing you from the East Nashville offices of a newly formed nonprofit community organization, FIGHTprejudice, Inc. I personally listen to 99.7 every time I’m in the car, and I hear your show often. Today I was extremely interested by your “Obama voice.” The thing is, it doesn’t sound anything like him. If you recall, earlier in his term the...
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““African-American students and those with particular educational...”
– Claudio Sanchez, NPR.
<3[FIGHT(!)racism]
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WatchSteven Colbert had formed a “Super PAC,” it seems, in order to ridicule and expose the terrible Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FCC.
This conversation is ripe with classism, as the SCOTUS decision makes it even harder for the voices of the poor to be heard in US politics, that is, the politics of a democracy.
<3[FIGHT(!)classism]
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Everything except English is gibberish.
notracistbut:
When people are irritated because a language barrier keeps them from getting a problem solved, fine. It doesn’t excuse racism, but at least there’s an issue to be complaining about. But saying everything except English hurts your ears? Really? ¬_¬
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Major credit agency investigates downgrading USA's... →
Dear GOP,
Stop being irresponsible. This whold defaulting thing is bad for you politically, bad for your CEO friends, and bad for the poor whom you seek to blame and punish for our financial troubles. STOP IT.
<3,
FIGHTprejudice
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WatchNashville City Councilperson calls fellow councilpeople bigots after they defeated his resolution to recognize high school students who protested TN’s “Don’t say gay” bill.
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WatchNashville City Councilperson calls fellow councilpeople bigots after they defeated his resolution to recognize high school students who protested TN’s “Don’t say gay” bill.
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Protest for Mercedes Gonzales, a Nashville teen...
Demonstration organized together by TIRRC, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
The Tennessean: Crowd protests Mexican teen’s potential deportation: Protesters fight for Mexican teen caught speeding.
Nashville Public Radio: TIRRC Challenges Teenager’s Deportation and 287(g) Program.
Planning.
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In front of the county...
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HEY, GEORGIA, YOU'RE REALLY FUCKING DUMB: "Georgia... →
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farmworkers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday.
And the state’s farms could lose up to $1 billion if crops continue to go unpicked and rot, the president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council warned.
In...
““I can’t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we’re...”
– “Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws,” Darren Samuelsohn, Politico.
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'The Contributor' sues Brentwood over alleged...
The Contributor: ACLU Defends The Contributor and First Amendment
AP: Homeless newspaper sues city over right to sell
The Tennessean: Homeless paper sues Brentwood
News Channel 5: ‘Contributor’ Files Federal Lawsuit Against Brentwood
Nashville Public Radio: ACLU and The Contributor Sue City of Brentwood
The Nashville Scene: The Contributor Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against...
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“Everyone: We know you mean well, but stop giving these idiots your money. Stop...”
– —an LBGT radical group calling itself “The Right Honorable Wicked Stepmothers’ Traveling, Drinking and Debating Society and Men’s Auxiliary” after vandalizing the Dupont Circle Human Rights Campaign retail store.
troglodyte: unacquainted with worldly affairs:
Politicalprof: Alabama, the Police State, and... →
rbmm:
I’ve never been a fan of Alabama. What I don’t get is how this is in any way considered legitimate legislation in this country. I get increasingly convinced that some people really want a police state to protect ‘their’ way of life. Be careful what you wish for.
politicalprof:
So Alabama, a state I lived in for two years (and found generally quite pleasant, at least in Huntsville),...
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Watchvizualize:
Demos: The Power Gap by Airside
Fun “videographic” on elements of power.
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“The [Supreme Court] ruling affirmed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling...”
– “Supreme Court demands California release 30,000 inmates,” Julianne Hing at Colorlines.
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“The suit charges district officials allowed Gideons International to hand out...”
– “Sumner school district defends religious ‘interactions,’” Brandon Gee, The Tennessean.
Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness... →
FIGHTprejudice used to check Drudge like at least ten times a day. Glad we don’t anymore!
“Winograd and Michael D. Hais, co-authors of the upcoming book Millennial...”
– Let’s certainly hope so!
“Class of ‘11: ‘mosaic of a new America’ Large, diverse group may bring major shifts in government, society,” Chuck Raasch and Elizabeth Bewle, The Tennessean.
Washington Post: What will future generations... →
This is pretty much how FIGHTprejudice thinks (or tries to think) about everything …
Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father’s duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was approved — in fact, invented — by the Catholic Church. Through the middle of the 19th century, the United States and other...
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Missing white woman syndrome →
The Republican governor of Tennessee is offering $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of a kidnapped woman, who happens to be the cute, blonde cousin of a country singer.
In Tennessee there are at least 8 missing Black women and at least 14 missing Black men. Where is the governor’s reward for them? 65% of all people abducted by a non-family members are minorities. 85% of all...
“President Obama is the leader of a nation in which justice is but a distant...”
– Kai Wright, “The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great,” Colorlines.
“Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires...”
– Proposed amendment to the Tennessee State Constitution, to be on the ballot in 2012. At once a useless assertion of state power (as the Federal Constitution guarantees a right to privacy large enough to encompass the right to an abortion) and a smart political move to bring out more...
Tennessee State Government is Literally Backwards
1. The state senate just passed the “Don’t say gay” bill, which prohibits school teachers and students from mentioning or referring to anything that is not heterosexual. Clearly, this is a problem for free speech reasons, as well as for teaching our kids to be unprejudiced and for combatting bullying.
1.1 This bill is in part a response to California’s recent...
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Response to a response to a response on AZ SB1070
The word criminal has a much deeper meaning than merely its denotation. To call someone “a criminal,” rather than simply saying someone has broken the law, is to make a character judgment. For example, I think you would be hard pressed to find a person who would label as “criminals” the GW students who habitually break the law through underaged drinking (or, for that matter, American tourists...
Disturbing →
In an article on the NAACP’s claims that the tea party is racist, The Washington Post references some disturbing polls conducted by the University of Washington.
Only 35% of tea party activists feel that blacks are “hard working”
This compares to only 55% of whites who disapprove of the tea party who rated blacks as “hard working”
Only 45% of tea party activists...