Tag: Racism

• September 20, 2019

  Reagan and those Damn “Monkeys” from Africa

  In October of 1971, the day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States. Reagan said: Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing…
• November 8, 2017

  The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

  From The Real News: JAISAL NOOR: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was widely condemned for recently saying, “The lack of compromise led to the Civil War.” JOHN KELLY: Now it’s different today but the lack of an ability to compromise led to…
• October 17, 2017

  Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal

  At the height of the Detroit rebellion, on July 28, 1967, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to answer three basic questions about the riots: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? Mounting civil unrest since 1965 had spawned riots…
• September 18, 2015

  The Case for Reparations

  The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic: Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Clyde Ross was born in 1923, the seventh of…