Friday, June 12, 2020
White House didn't receive heads up about Milley apology
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/11/politics/white-house-milley-apology/index.html
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley did not give the White House a heads up before he released a recorded a video on Thursday admitting
it was a "mistake" to appear in a photo-op last week with President
Donald Trump, two administration officials told CNN.
Milley's
apology -- in which he declared unequivocally "I should not have been
there" -- was a remarkable admission for the four-star general, let
alone from a top official in an administration led by a President known
for his refusal to apologize.
Far-right extremists spreading antisemitic conspiracies about COVID-19
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/far-right-extremists-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracies-about-covid-19-631209
The most common conspiracy of the five which studied in the report claims that “The ‘Jewish-controlled government’ is exploiting the virus to serve Jewish interests."
Time for Pence to jump ship?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/11/opinions/time-pence-jump-ship-opinion-dantonio/index.html
At this point, as President Trump's support weakens,
Pence should weigh the merits of declaring he won't be vice president
for a possible second term. There's an argument that Pence's status in
Trumpworld might be endangered anyway. If the President continues to
trail Joe Biden by double digits in the polls this summer and if the
Democratic contender picks a woman of color for his running mate, he
could be tempted to shake up his ticket by selecting Nikki Haley or
another candidate for VP. Such a move could bring back some of the white
suburban women Trump needs to win re-election and remind everyone that
he's not a typical politician.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Criminal stereotype of African Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_stereotype_of_African_Americans
The criminal stereotype of African Americans in the United States is an ethnic stereotype according to which African Americans, and African American males in particular, are dangerous criminals.[1][2]
The origin of this stereotype is that as a demographic they are
proportionally over-represented in the numbers of those that are
arrested for committing crimes: For example, according to official FBI
statistics,[3]
in 2015 51.1% of people arrested for homicide were African American;
even though African American people account only for 13.4% of the total
United States population.[4] The figure of the African-American man as a criminal has appeared frequently in American popular culture,[5][6][7] further reinforcing this image in the collective unconscious (in the form of this negative stereotype).
The US national security adviser says there's no systemic racism in policing. Studies suggest otherwise
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/systemic-racism-in-policing/index.html
When a Trump administration official said he doesn't think systemic racism exists in policing, many were stunned -- especially after studies have shown different races are often treated differently.
"No, I don't think there's systemic racism," national security adviser Robert O'Brien told CNN. "I think 99.9% of our law enforcement officers are great Americans. Many of them are African American, Hispanic, Asian."
There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system/
Of particular concern to some on
the right is the term “systemic racism,” often wrongly interpreted as an
accusation that everyone in the system is racist. In fact, systemic
racism means almost the opposite. It means that we have systems and
institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes,
regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them. When
you consider that much of the criminal justice system was built, honed
and firmly established during the Jim Crow era — an era almost everyone,
conservatives included, will concede rife with racism — this is pretty
intuitive. The modern criminal justice system helped preserve racial
order — it kept black people in their place. For much of the early 20th
century, in some parts of the country, that was its primary function.
That it might retain some of those proclivities today shouldn’t be all
that surprising.
How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21280643/police-brutality-violence-protests-racism-khalil-muhammad
Social science played a huge role. What we’d call today
“academic experts,” of one kind or another, were part of the effort to
define black people as a particular criminal class in the American
population. And what they essentially did was they used the evidence
coming out of the South, beginning in the first decades after slavery.
They used the census data to point to the disproportionate incarceration
of African Americans. They were almost three times overrepresented in
the 1890 census in Southern prisons.
So that evidence became part of a national discussion
that essentially said, “Well, now that black people have their freedom,
what are they doing with it? They’re committing crimes. In the South and
in the North, and the census data is the proof.”
Data | How badly are African-Americans affected by police brutality in the U.S.?
https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-how-badly-are-african-americans-affected-by-police-brutality-in-the-us/article31734968.ece
African-Americans are three times more likely to be killed in police
shootings than white people. Close to 42 per million population of
African-Americans were killed in such shootings in the period, the
highest among all races.
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