20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a slate of new documentaries take a look at how things are today. @IndieWire reviews the films, including Spike Lee's "God Takes Care of Fools and Babies,” which is part of a three-part Netflix series, Traci A. Curry and Ryan Coogler's "Race Against Time," and Peacock's "Hope in High Water." "'Race Against Time' really starts cooking when it tackles the racial bias evident in the disaster response and the way it was covered," writes Ben Travers. "One neighbor talks about how a nursing home full of stranded residents was ignored until they replaced the Black people on the roof, crying for help, with white people."

https://flip.it/v_IzTn

https://youtu.be/6XU1f5tJm4Y?feature=shared

"Decades after the camps closed, and after Japanese Americans had returned to their homes on the West Coast, Manzanar was established as a historic site. Replicas of camp buildings were erected to memorialize what had happened there." Interview Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-field-of-dreams-built-in-an-unlikely-place-a-japanese-american-internment-camp-180986360/
#USPolitics #History #RacismInAmerica

#News #NaziAmerica #NaziUSA #Shame #RacismInAmerica
https://apnews.com/video/tuskegee-airman-101-laments-prejudice-as-trump-tries-to-end-dei-d31983daad1c4b689118ab91ae7bf165

indie scrambles into the notifications tower and starts ringing the bell loudly;

a large and horizontal NY "Times Square" -sized digital billboard appears there, and people look up.

:
HELLO HUMANS, WHO ELSE IS GETTING SO %^!&^#@ FURIOUS AND MORE FURIOUS THAT THE MMIW EPIDEMIC HAS BEEN ACCELERATING? NEW STATS IN FROM KKKANADA. :

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These are Arctic, cold water, cold climate peoples

When was the last time you saw an "Amber Alert" (US-Govt' sponsored notifications for a NONWHITE as the recently kidnapped / missing?)

#RacismInAmerica #KKKanada #Canada #MMIW #fascistbook
#Indigenous #Women #AmberAlert

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64gYf0cqIEC0d7gAAg9tfuhM_YxarHzb

Oh look, @deadonasunday #deadonasunday picture flashing the #whitesupremacists ok hand signal

When called out, denied. Accused of #mentalhealth issues. And blocked without addressing the fundamental issue at hand.

Another band on my never listening or spinning in my DJ sets ever again.

#whitesilenceisviolence #whitesupremacyisterrorism #whitesupremacists #whitesupremecy #goth #gothgoth #gothic #gothgothgoth #gothlife #gothsofinstagram #gothmusic #goths
#racism #racisminamerica #racismsucks #racismisavirus #fuckracism #fuckracism
#fuckracism @adl_national #adl #antidefimationleague
#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsitgma #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthisimportant #logicalfallacies

So, Ruby Bridges - yes, the six-year-old Black kid from Mississippi in the Norman Rockwell painting - is all grown up and writing books.

Her latest has her slogan on the back: "Racism is a grown-up disease. Let's stop using our kids to spread it."

Here she is on Colbert from last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7tbMF1Wto

Here's the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dear-ruby-hear-our-hearts-ruby-bridges/19972144?ean=9781338753912

#RacismInAmerica #racism #RubyBridges #activism #censorship #books @bookstodon

Nikki in lala-land
#RacismInAmerica

"What would you like to do?
Start over
Continue
Listen to people of color on the subject"

This image is powerful.

Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know https://wapo.st/3NBV7vA

A gift article from Washington Post. Anyone interested in the US Civil War can read.
It is about Alabama Unionists, largely written out of history.
#CivilWarHistory #RacismInAmerica#TheLostCause

FOR F****** REAL!

This story moves me what he must have felt I can't fathom. His courage was amazing.

#ChristopherBailey mighta been awarded a settlement but WHERE'S THE JUSTICE? Law enforcement individuals aren't being held accountable for what they did!

#CopsCommittingCrimes
#RacismInAmerica #SayTheirNames

https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/09/15/los-angeles-county-awards-nearly-5m-to-black-man/

About the whole #Gannett situation and situations like it.

Saying "we should hire more people of color to achieve diversity goals" = good.

Saying "we need to hire more of X group to hear more from X group" = diversity.

Saying "diversity means stop hiring white people" is counterproductive, misses the ENTIRE point & misunderstands what diversity IS, and what it accomplishes.

New post: https://yitz.me/misunderstanding-what-diversity-means/

WATCH THIS!! It's about the #OcoeeMassacre concerning #votingrights

#StayWoke #RacismInAmerica #AmericanHorrorStories
#DeSantisIsAFascist #DeSantisIsUnfitForOffice #DeSantisIsARacist #DontSayDeSantis
https://youtu.be/NnaLaTGZ5Jo

#AmericanHorrorStories #RacismInAmerica #slavery

https://blackthen.com/branding-of-slaves-brutal-act-used-for-identification-purposes-and-severe-punishment/

I DIDN'T KNOW this! #RacismInAmerica

https://afropunk.com/2017/06/amazing-grace-is-about-redeeming-its-white-writer-for-his-role-in-slavery-maybe-its-time-for-a-new-fave/

Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say - #police #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #Racism #RacismInAmerica #policing #LawEnforcement #Mississippi https://apnews.com/article/1feb54483e62bef53efe1a1a16be29f1

Both expelled members of ‘Tennessee Three’ win back their state House seats - to paraphrase Napoleon, if you’re going to march on Vienna, you’d better take Vienna. Or, if you’re going to attack two popular politicians, you’d better take them out. So in some delicious irony, the racist #Republicans in the #Tennessee legislature that ‘expelled’ these two duly elected legislators have ended up making them much more popular and powerful. How perfect is that? #racism #RacismInAmerica #politics #TennesseeLegislature #Fail https://apnews.com/article/1ae19a1bd5f042624568e94b30c8fc1b