DoomsdaysCW<p>What Is A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PollTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PollTax</span></a>? Definition and Examples</p><p>By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022</p><p>Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPeople</span></a> and often <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoorWhitePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoorWhitePeople</span></a>, unable to afford the tax, were denied the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToVote</span></a>. </p><p>"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> from voting. Although the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/14thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>14thAmendment</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/15thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15thAmendment</span></a> [s] gave Black men full <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a>, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernStates</span></a> quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892. </p><p>"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.</p><p>"The southern states also enacted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowLaws</span></a> intended to reinforce <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialSegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialSegregation</span></a> and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.</p><p>"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/24thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>24thAmendment</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections. </p><p>"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:</p><p> 'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'</p><p>"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent. </p><p>"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."</p><p><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definit</span><span class="invisible">ion-and-examples-5443130</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwentyFourthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwentyFourthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FifteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FifteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USElections</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p>…The order is the latest move by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to quash recognition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a>’ contributions to the nation & to gloss over the legal, political, social & economic obstacles they have faced.</p><p>Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmerica</span></a> itself,”Ibram X. Kendi, race historian & bestselling author, said. “The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackSmithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSmithsonian</span></a>, as it is affectionately called, is indeed one of the heartbeats of Black America…&…also one of the heartbeats”of the nation at large.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> advocates, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historians</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> political leaders sharply rebuked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> targeting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithsonian</span></a> Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> themselves have shaped the nation’s story.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitewashing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RacialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialViolence</span></a></p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Gerald Sombright came up through kitchens where white European chefs were presented as the paradigm, but no one looked like him. See, Sombright is Black. “In 1999 when I was 19, I started my kitchen career working prep and washing dishes. I didn't know a brunoise from a baseball, yet I was intrigued.” Sombright would go on to become the first Black man in America to earn a Michelin star. He writes about his rise for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@foodandwine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>foodandwine</span></a></span>, and how he wants more Black men to follow his tracks. </p><p><a href="https://flip.it/fjwkCh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/fjwkCh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Foodstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foodstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Dining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dining</span></a></p>
FID Anglo-American Culture<p>February is <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> so this week we honour the history of <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> with this bookstack. Stay tuned for posts today, tomorrow and the day after to see each of these new & featured books on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BHM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BHM</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The War on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Masks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masks</span></a> Has Taken on a New Meaning</p><p>This time, the masks have nothing to do with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a>.</p><p>By Henry Grabar<br>Feb 05, 20254:57 PM </p><p>"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'</p><p>"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'</p><p>"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.</p><p>"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> advocates, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalJustice</span></a> reformers, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCareWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCareWorkers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.</p><p>"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a> Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanPublicFaceCoverings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanPublicFaceCoverings</span></a>, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/felonies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felonies</span></a>. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unmask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmask</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> this year.</p><p>"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthDirectives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthDirectives</span></a> and make it easier to arrest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/demonstrators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demonstrators</span></a> at the same time.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KuKluxKlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KuKluxKlan</span></a>, but had been ignored or suspended during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFloydProtests</span></a>. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADL</span></a>] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKK</span></a> tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.</p><p>"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a> banning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkiMasks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkiMasks</span></a> in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrianThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianThompson</span></a> by a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskedAssassin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaskedAssassin</span></a>, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoFaceNoCase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoFaceNoCase</span></a>.</p><p>"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.</p><p>"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceReformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceReformers</span></a> observed that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaskBans</span></a> have often been used for pretextual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> and racial profiling against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a>. (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a> tabled a mask ban for that reason.)</p><p>"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a>, streaming video, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doxing</span></a>. Last year, the anonymous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> website the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.</p><p>"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be <br>'targets' for their alleged involvement in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> initiatives at work.</p><p>"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/business/2025/02/mas</span><span class="invisible">k-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthoritarianRule</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AIF_Massachusetts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AIF_Massachusetts</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> is within the 100-mile "border zone" as well!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineACLU</span></a> Joins Lawsuit Against Trump Executive Order</p><p>January 21, 2025</p><p>"The ACLU of Maine is joining its New England counterparts to sue President Donald Trump over his order to end birthright citizenship.</p><p>"His order says the federal government won’t recognize the birthright of children born to parents who are in the country illegally.</p><p>"A statement from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACLU</span></a> of Maine says birthright citizenship is guaranteed in the 14th Amendment.</p><p>"'If you’re born here, you are a citizen – period,' said the statement. 'No politician can decide who is American and who is not. The 14th Amendment guarantees the citizenship of all children born in the United States regardless of race, color, or ancestry. It was ratified in 1868, overturning the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DredScott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DredScott</span></a> decision that denied <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> the rights and protections of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCitizenship</span></a>.'</p><p>"The order from President Trump was expected to receive immediate legal challenges from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> activist groups."</p><p><a href="https://wgan.com/news/074470-maine-aclu-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-executive-order/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wgan.com/news/074470-maine-acl</span><span class="invisible">u-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-executive-order/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImmigrationRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckICE</span></a></p>
JdeB<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Minorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minorities</span></a>? <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Asian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asian</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a></p><p>"Asian Man Says His People Would Not Be Successful If It Were Not For Black Americans" [3:32 min]<br>by African Diaspora News Channel</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qXIypv7h4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=j1qXIypv7h</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a> </p><p>Quote by ADNC:<br>"Jan 4, 2025<br>Demetra Kaye reports on an Asian man saying that his people would not be successful here in America if it were not for Black Americans."</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USbeware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USbeware</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CapitalismIsFailingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalismIsFailingYou</span></a></p>
gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭<p>On the subject of any possible payment of <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/reparations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reparations</span></a> by the government of the United States to people who suffered past injustices at the hands of that government, I am in no position to determine for others what is fair, equitable, or just.</p><p>I do believe that reparations are warranted, and I do believe that there are definite groups of people who have cause to claim them, and that among those people are <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a>; however, they are not the only legitimate claims.</p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Prominent <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> leaders and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> would come out against the US war on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> as the decade wore on. In 1967, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MartinLutherKingJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MartinLutherKingJr</span></a>. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation that:</p><p>“It would be very inconsistent for me to teach and preach nonviolence in this situation and then applaud violence when thousands of thousands of people, both adults and children, are being maimed and mutilated and many killed in this way.”</p><p>Fewer than two weeks later, King would lead a 125,000-person <a href="https://beige.party/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> against the war.</p><p>Photo from Getty Images.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmericanDissenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanDissenters</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiUSImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiUSImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PeopleForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleForPeace</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/60s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>60s</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Humanitarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanitarians</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmericansAgainstWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericansAgainstWar</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/protestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protestors</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWarOnVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackActivism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VoicesOfDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoicesOfDissent</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Countless <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> had openly opposed the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."</p><p>Still, thanks to the draft's implicit <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMen</span></a>. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.</p><p>Photo from Life Magazine archives.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SystematicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhitePrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhitePrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KKKAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKKAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MilitaryDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDraft</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistUSA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopAllWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopAllWars</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarIsHell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarIsHell</span></a></p>
RTE News Headlines<p>[05:52] Rights group condemn 'racist' text targeting Black people</p><p> US rights group NAACP condemned "racist text messages" reported to have been sent to Black Americans across the country after Donald Trump's victory in this week's presidential election.</p><p> <a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2024/1108/1479768-text-message/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rte.ie/news/us/2024/1108/14797</span><span class="invisible">68-text-message/</span></a><br> <br> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/NAACP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAACP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/week" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>week</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Widespread reports of racist text messages sent 2 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> r spreading across <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a>. Texts, some of which were labeled as coming frm "A TRUMP SUPPORTER," tell recipients they've been selected 2 B enslaved & assigned 2 pick cotton on plantation.</p><p>While many individuals & grps have received them, many seem 2 B targeting Black college & university students, [as] in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClemsonUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClemsonUniversity</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> State. the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UniversityOfAlabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfAlabama</span></a> & other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> schools, among others</p><p><a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2024/11/07/racist-text-messages-black-students-cotton-plantations-florida/76112615007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tallahassee.com/story/news/202</span><span class="invisible">4/11/07/racist-text-messages-black-students-cotton-plantations-florida/76112615007/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OcasioCortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OcasioCortez</span></a> Warns <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYCRally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYCRally</span></a> Was Primer for Taking Power 'by Force'</p><p>"That's what they're doing when they're inciting violence and hatred against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Latinos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latinos</span></a>, against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a>, against Americans who don't have children." </p><p>Brett Wilkins<br>Oct 28, 2024</p><p>"U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned Monday that the hate-filled campaign rally held by former Republican President Donald Trump at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadisonSquareGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MadisonSquareGarden</span></a> in New York City was meant to further prime supporters for another <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/January" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>January</span></a> 6 - style attempt to seize power by force if Democratic Vice President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> wins next month's election.</p><p>"Sunday's event—which drew comparisons to a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1939NaziRally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1939NaziRally</span></a> that packed the iconic Midtown Manhattan arena—featured speakers including billionaire <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and comedian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TonyHinchcliffe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyHinchcliffe</span></a>, who called the U.S. territory of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PuertoRico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuertoRico</span></a> a 'floating island of garbage.'</p><p>"Although the Trump campaign has attempted to distance the GOP presidential candidate from Hinchcliffe's bigoted remarks, Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said during a Monday interview on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' that Sunday's event was 'not just a presidential rally,' it was 'a hate rally.' "</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-trump-fascism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/aoc-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-fascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HateRally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HateRally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlexandriaOcasioCortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlexandriaOcasioCortez</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/glorification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glorification</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/1890s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1890s</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> displays his <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dangerous</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. </p><p>The 1890s were a period of entrenched <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a>, marked by the rise of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a>, widespread <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RacialSegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialSegregation</span></a>, and violent <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lynchings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lynchings</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> dominated society, marginalizing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> and reinforcing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WhiteDominance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteDominance</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> and daily life, contradicting any Trump-glorified vision of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NationalGreatness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGreatness</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-01/column-trumps-glorification-of-the-1890s-in-america-displays-his-dangerous-ignorance-of-economics-and-history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/business/story/202</span><span class="invisible">4-10-01/column-trumps-glorification-of-the-1890s-in-america-displays-his-dangerous-ignorance-of-economics-and-history</span></a></p>
Shine My Crown<p>ICYMI: 6 Key Points from Kamala Harris’s Economic Plan for Black Americans Revealed in Housing, Healthcare, and Business <a href="https://shinemycrown.com/6-key-points-from-kamala-harriss-economic-plan-for-black-americans-revealed-in-housing-healthcare-and-business/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shinemycrown.com/6-key-points-</span><span class="invisible">from-kamala-harriss-economic-plan-for-black-americans-revealed-in-housing-healthcare-and-business/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Affordablehousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Affordablehousing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChildTaxCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildTaxCredit</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TyreekHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TyreekHill</span></a>’s traffic stop revives discussion about ‘driving while Black’<br> <br>Nation Sep 10, 2024 </p><p>Dolphins safety Jevon Holland: “Excessive force on a Black man, that’s not uncommon. It’s a very common thing in America. So I think that needs to be addressed at a countrywide level.”</p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tyreek-hills-traffic-stop-revives-discussion-about-driving-while-black" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/nation/tyreek</span><span class="invisible">-hills-traffic-stop-revives-discussion-about-driving-while-black</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrivingWhileBlack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrivingWhileBlack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrafficStops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrafficStops</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialProfiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialProfiling</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> Were Used To Stop <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> From Voting </p><p>By Katie Serena | Edited By John Kuroski </p><p>Published December 22, 2023<br>Updated January 18, 2024</p><p>"Presented as a means for assessing whether voters were educated enough to vote, literacy tests and other methods were designed for a single purpose: to stop Black Americans from voting."</p><p><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthatsinteresting.com/voting</span><span class="invisible">-literacy-test</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowLaws</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisinfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisinfranchisement</span></a></p>
JdeB<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BidenHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BidenHarris</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a></p><p>Mind you... this was on FOX ! But after she [Jessica Tarlov] said this on 'the Five' all racist hell broke loose.</p><p>"The Biden-Harris Admin Is Delivering for Black Americans" [ < 1 min]<br>by nowthisimpact</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5jL4amhdEc8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/5jL4amhdEc8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlue</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UpAndDownTheBallot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UpAndDownTheBallot</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ImWithHer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImWithHer</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Another <a href="https://beige.party/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> on my reading wishlist.</p><p>White Burgers, Black Cash<br>Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation<br>By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate</p><p>The long and pernicious relationship between <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FastFoodRestaurants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FastFoodRestaurants</span></a> and the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> community.</p><p>Today, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FastFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FastFood</span></a> is disproportionately located in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackNeighborhoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackNeighborhoods</span></a> and marketed to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> through targeted <a href="https://beige.party/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a>. But throughout much of the 20th century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long <a href="https://beige.party/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacistExclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistExclusion</span></a> to its current damaging embrace of urban <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackCommunities</span></a>.</p><p>Fast food has historically been tied to the country’s self-image as the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LandOfOpportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandOfOpportunity</span></a> and is marketed as one of life’s simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry’s core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Whiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whiteness</span></a> to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/disproportionate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disproportionate</span></a> densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food’s racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> City, and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a>, in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhiteCastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteCastle</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KFC</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BurgerKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurgerKing</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/McDonalds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McDonalds</span></a>, and more.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReadingList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingList</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USBlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SystemicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a></p>
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