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Facing the Kool-Aid Recovery with Columbia U. Prof. Dorian Warren
October 15, 2009
The AP reports that "more than 80 percent of economists believe the recession is over." But they don't face up to the much higher unemployment and poverty in communities of color across the US. "The last full employment program was slavery and sharecropping," says Dorian Warren, Columbia University professor of Political Science. You can believe recovery has come to people of color, he goes on, "only if you drink the same Kool-aid of the same economists that brought us the recession in the ...
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"Care": Word Means the Public's Health Isn't Optional
September 30, 2009
With Max Baucus sinking the public option in committee, and debate still raging about our national health crisis, let's take a step back from the discussion and look at the fundamentals of our conversation. When we say 'health care,' whose health do we really care about? How can we talk about a 'public option' when racial disparities are killing members of our public every day, while costing us hundreds of billions over the next ten years? When undocumented members of our public pay daily ...
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Rinku Sen: "Illegal" Word is a Gateway to Racism and Exploitation
September 09, 2009
Perhaps the most talked-about moment of President Obama's address to Congress last night followed the dismissal of rumors that the new health care plan would cover 'illegal immigrants.' Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was so outraged that he yelled, from the floor, "You lie!" Wilson was willing to undermine his party — because he was so infuriated by the idea that Obama's plan might provide care to a certain group of people. Why is our conversation around immigration so often driven to extremes, both ...
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Chinatown's Superlong Recession: Interview with CPASF's Shaw San Liu
August 25, 2009
Shaw San Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco. cpasf.org For communities of color, 'recovery' can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions. Meanwhile, people of color in the labor market are pulling in wages of 60 cents for every dollar that white people earn. If this is what recovery is going to look like, we've got a problem. It's time we take seriously that some people are ...
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Schwarzenegger's Blockbuster Budget Cuts Terminate the Safety Net
August 13, 2009
When financial crisis hit, the California legislature didn't raise taxes, end tax giveaways, or cut corporate welfare Instead, they cut services to the people made most vulnerable by the recession -- children, the elderly, the sick, victims of domestic violence, and people just trying to get back to work. Now -- where could our legislature have learned their priorities? Too many movies? colorlines' Darlene Pagano takes on the Governator. Former California State Senator Sheila Kuehl has ...
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Reverse Racism: Word Distracts from the Big White Elephant of Systemic Racism
July 16, 2009
As posted to racewire: www.racewire.org Ever since Sonia Sotomayor, a Latina woman, was first mentioned as a contender for the Supreme Court, weve heard a lot from some quarters about how her success has been nothing more than the result of reverse racism. arcs Terry Keleher digs into the term and explains that reverse racism is nothing more than a way for those in power to change the subject away from systemic racism, a system that puts people of color at a disadvantage from birth until ...
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Michael Jackson's Mark on a Black-or-White World
June 25, 2009
He tipped his hat and moonwalked across the stage like no one had ever before. Even Fred Astaire had to give Michael his props. But today, Thursday, June 25, the King of Pop is dead. Michael Jackson's made his mark on the world, body and soul. But what we must not forget is that world marked Jackson as well. In his last days, assimilation and denial were sadly written all over his face. In death, we pray that peace finally finds the music man. as posted to racewire.org
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"Merit": Word Hijacks the Conversation around Racial Disparities
June 18, 2009
Welcome to the second installment of our new video series, WORD!, in which we take a look at the language that controls the discourse around race. Todays WORD! is: "Merit" In a meritocracy, perfection is realized. It has to be. Right? Every day we run into those undeniable virtuous people (our family, our friends, ourselves) who never needed a helping hand and purely through hard work and high moral character have earned their high social status. So those who dont excel in life (incidentally ...
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"Colorblind" Word Twists Good Intentions
June 11, 2009
WORD! "Colorblind" Word Twists Good Intentions, with Tammy Johnson. People who claim to be colorblind must lead a charmed life. Constantly numbing their senses with a self-congratulatory grey blob of vagueness, ignorance and neglect, the colorblind have it made. Turning a blind eye to the racism that people experience everyday may salve their conscience, but it wont end racism. about the WORD! series: Words. You cant escape them. They headline the evening news, buzz around the water cooler ...
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Sotomayor 'Gotchas' Would Clear the Bench
June 04, 2009
Tammy Johnson teases the criticisms of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayors statement on Latina empathy and the role of the courts. By the same gotcha logic, Tammy would fire Alito and Scalia and shes just getting started. As posted to racewire www.racewire.org quotes: www.huffingtonpost.com
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  • childcare.jpg Released April 2009. Report on low-income children at risk. Double standards in childcare endanger…
  • California School Vouchers Will Increase Racial Inequality. by Tammy Johnson, Libero Della Piana and Phyllida Burlingamea. October, 2000. Executive Summary.

  • Expanding the Constituency for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
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  • Despite a surge in discrimination, the crisis for immigrant and refugee communities remains relatively invisible to the general public.
  • Dramatic demographic changes in the U.S. population, evidenced by the 2000 census, have generated a lot of excitement about the…

  • In the ongoing battle over immigration, conservative rhetoric continues to escalate. It's racist, and it gets results.  Here, then, are…
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  • Assessing our Options in the Aftermath of the September 11th Tragedy. A Curriculum from the Applied Research Center available as…

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