In November of 2007, the Connecticut Law Review had a symposium commemorating the 20th anniversary of Professor Charles Lawrence's trailblazing work “The Id, the Ego, and the Equal Protection Clause: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism.” This article was a brilliant mashup of jurisprudence and psychology. The Equal Justice Society has used its analysis in our efforts … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 21
Author: Eva Paterson
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20
A new historical marker will "tell the whole story" about Nathan Bedford Forrest and the antebellum slave trade in Memphis. Commercial Appeal Black children will be the victims of armed teachers. Time During a four-day operation last week, federal officials said they arrested 232 undocumented immigrants in a Northern California sweep aimed at countering local … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20
How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
Last Friday was a trying day. My friend Bob Demmons, one of the plaintiffs in the SF Fire Department desegregation case from the 1980s and former Chief of the SFFD, buried his 50-year-old son that day. The funeral was beyond sad. As we know, burying one’s child is not the natural order of life. It … Continue reading How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 19
“By ‘white supremacy’ I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 19
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 18
From the Washington Post: Top U.S. officials tell the world to ignore Trump’s tweets "One (foreign) diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid provoking Trump, asked whether policymakers like McMaster who adhere largely to traditional U.S. foreign policy positions were falling into the same trap as Germany’s elite during Hitler’s rise, when they … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 18
Trumpism and ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’
Katy Tur was on MSNBC last week talking about the fact that many people in the White House knew that a wife batterer was in their midst in a position of authority. Many in the White House stayed silent. We have all read tales of Donald J. Trump’s misogyny. “Grab them by the ……” In … Continue reading Trumpism and ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 17
These are difficult times. Our government has run amuck. It is clear that Trump, et al., are beholden to the Russians and have no compunctions about avoiding the imposition of sanctions. In addition, the Trump appointed heads of the various intelligence agencies in our government testified that Trump has taken NO ACTIONS to protect the … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 17
Our 2018 elections are still vulnerable
We're seeing lots of headlines on election cybersecurity this week after Rex Tillerson, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and this morning, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper continued to raise the alarm about the vulnerability of the 2018 elections to outside influence and hacking. Unfortunately when it comes to … Continue reading Our 2018 elections are still vulnerable