The idea for This Week in White Supremacy came from this list generated on Twitter by Amy Siskind. Each week she lists things that we should NOT get comfortable experiencing. I urge you to find her online. Her posts are very disturbing. Our democracy is in peril. Being knowledgeable is one tool for fighting back.
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- In my white coat, I’m more Black than ever.
- Tweet by Joy Reid.
- Trooper that choked an ambulance driver and got to keep job, in hot water again.
- Rotten Tomatoes condemns plan to flood ‘Black Panther’ with negative reviews.
- A Black History Month FBI file reader.
- The nativist blueprint for Trump’s immigration plan.
- The 16 Black Panthers still behind bars.
- White poverty, the Black middle class, the Southern strategy, and other well kept American secrets.
- ICE arrests Kansas man, father of 3, in U.S. for 30 years.
- Survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau out against ICE.
- SC Republican candidate for Governor announces she’s “Proud of the Confederacy.”
- Half of Prince George’s County residents can’t take transit to jury duty.
- The system was a steroid: race, performance enhancement and the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- ICE and Border Patrol may be Trump’s worst legacy.
- Internet lambastes ‘tone deaf as hell’ Dodge Ram ad that uses MLK’s legacy to sell trucks.
- Only 8% of students know that the South seceded because of slavery.
- Tweet by Tomthunkit™.
- Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for Congress.
- The women behind white power.
- The Confederate flag resurged. The KKK burned a cross. Racial tensions flared in a Southern town.
- Ryan renews welfare reform.
- White supremacist propaganda on US campuses ‘staggering.’
- ‘Collateral arrests’ by ICE amount to racial profiling, violate immigrants’ rights.
MORE GOOD NEWS, VICTORIES & HEROES
- Democrats’ State of the Union plus-ones included DACA recipients, spouses of deportees, Salvadoran immigrants, and Puerto Ricans who were displaced by Hurricane Maria. Mother Jones
- In protest of Trump’s racism and to stand in solidarity with Africans and people of African descent, members of the Congressional Black Caucus wore Kente cloth to Tuesday’s SOTU address. Vogue
- On Tuesday, Congress passed the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act — the bill was introduced last March by lead sponsor Senator Dianne Feinstein. ThinkProgress
- San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday that prosecutors will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases — expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions for thousands. San Francisco Chronicle
- “Democratic” Congressman Dan Lipinski’s primary challenger, Marie Newman, exposed Lipinski’s anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ voting history in a new TV ad. Daily Kos
- For the first time in its 1,000-year history, the University of Oxford will admit more women than men. Bustle
- East Los Angeles College free safety Antoinette Harris received a scholarship offer from Bethany College — she will become one of the first female non-kickers on a college football roster. ESPN
- The Clinton Foundation is organizing an action network to help mobilize aid and coordinate efforts to rebuild the islands most devastated by Hurricanes Maria and Irma. AP News
- In an effort to eradicate polio in Nigeria, the Gates Foundation paid off the country’s $76 million debt. Fast Company
- Some people, including Octavia Spencer, are buying out screenings of “Blank Panther” in underserved neighborhoods to give kids a chance to see the superhero movie for free. IndieWire
- A 14-year-old coder created an app to help Alzheimer’s patients recognize their loved ones. Fast Company
To read more from Susie Tompkins Buell’s The Rising, click here.
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