Eva Paterson, President of the Equal Justice Society and Co-Chair of the Opportunity For All Coalition behind ACA 5, said, “I am thrilled by this historic vote. For the past generation, many of us have dreamed of the day when we could reinstate affirmative action in California by overturning Proposition 209. Strangely enough the twin disastersContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #130: ACA 5, Ballot Question on Affirmative Action, Passes Calif. Legislature”
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This Week in White Supremacy #129: ‘An Insatiable Rage’ – It is an everyday struggle to neither fall into despair nor explode in anger
Charles M. Blow, The New York Times – People are marching as a way of screaming, a way of exhaling pain, as an enormous group catharsis. This isn’t only about the pain of police brutality, it’s about all the pain. This is about all the injustice and disrespect and oppression. This is about ancestry andContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #129: ‘An Insatiable Rage’ – It is an everyday struggle to neither fall into despair nor explode in anger”
Thank You, Mr. George Floyd
I am writing this at 8:44 Wednesday evening after one of the most remarkable days I have experienced. For two weeks, I periodically just broke down sobbing. I think what sets me off is thinking that Mr. Floyd called for his dead mother as he knew he was being murdered.