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callingoutsexists:

A collection of racists who thought it was appropriate to refer to Martin Luther King Day as “n-word day”

David James Majors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Justin Parker from Monongah, West Virginia

Jerry Hartzog from Mishawaka, Indiana

Steven McCulloch from Somerset, Colorado

Tyler Brown from Wister, Oklahoma (he gets bonus racism points for having a Swastika tattoo)

Dillan Troxel from Stockton, California

Cory B. Gill from Norco, California

Jeremy Wilson from Rocky Grove, Pennsylvania

Branden Glass from Mansfield, Ohio

Jon Shuman from Erie, Pennsylvania

Jonathan Batten from Nashville, Tennessee 

(Source: callingoutbigotry)

odinsblog:

Disturbing Truths on Structural Racism In Our “Justice” System

*White Defendant / Black Victim (19)

*Black Defendant / White Victim (257)

note: these figures represent the number of trial cases that resulted in the death sentence and not necessarily all interracial murders (such as incidents resulting in death, but designated accidental, “self defense” or Stand Your Ground), thus even the decision to try an individual for murder seems highly race dependent. Stated differently, only 19 cases resulted with capital punishment where a white defendant was actually charged with killing a black victim.

“In 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.”

- United States General Accounting Office, Death Penalty Sentencing, February 1990

(via anarcho-queer)

phroyd:

Today in History: Dec 1, 1955

In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience.

“The mother of the civil rights movement,” She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

According to a Montgomery city ordinance in 1955, African Americans were required to sit at the back of public buses and were also obligated to give up those seats to white riders if the front of the bus filled up. Parks was in the first row of the black section when the white driver demanded that she give up her seat to a white man. Parks’ refusal was spontaneous but was not merely brought on by her tired feet, as is the popular legend. In fact, local civil rights leaders had been planning a challenge to Montgomery’s racist bus laws for several months, and Parks had been privy to this discussion.

Learning of Parks’ arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by black citizens on Monday, December 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest. The first day of the bus boycott was a great success, and that night the 26-year-old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., told a large crowd gathered at a church, “The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.” King emerged as the leader of the bus boycott and received numerous death threats from opponents of integration. At one point, his home was bombed, but he and his family escaped bodily harm.

The boycott stretched on for more than a year, participants carpooled or walked miles to work and school when no other means were possible. African Americans previously constituted 70% of the Montgomery bus ridership, the municipal transit system suffered gravely during the boycott. On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On December 20, King issued the following statement: “The year old protest against city buses is officially called off, and the Negro citizens of Montgomery are urged to return to the buses tomorrow morning on a non-segregated basis.” The boycott ended the next day. Rosa Parks was among the first to ride the newly desegregated buses.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and his nonviolent civil rights movement had won its first great victory. There would be many more to come.

Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005. Three days later the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to honor Parks by allowing her body to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

If you’ve a longtime New Yorker, you likely remember the case of the Central Park 5, 1 just fourteen, 3 fifteen, and one 16, who in 1989 were accused of the rape of a female Wall Street banker. The boys were Black and Latino; the woman, white.

The younger boys — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam — were sentenced to 5-10 years and each served 7. Sixteen-year old Kharey Wise was sentenced to 5-15 years and had served 13 when Matias Reyes confessed in 2002.

Neither the police who questioned some of these children without their parents nor the prosecutors who obtained convictions have been held to account for the 41 cumulative stolen years or the irreversible harm done by incarceration during their coming of age.

Rather than lift the sexual offender label and offer some financial recompense, the City of New York has spent the last 7 years fighting the Five’s efforts to get some measure of cure.

These men go back to court on Monday, September 24 at 3:30 PM. Please stand with them. They are our sons, brothers, fathers, neighbors, friends.They are you. Tell the city to, finally, do the right thing.

Monday 9/24/12; NEW TIME 3:30 PM
Federal Court House
500 Pearl Street - Room 18 D
Magistrate Judge Ellis

Travel: 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall; “J” to Chambers Street
http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/serviceinthearea/results.aspx

Come prepared for the usual scan and security check. Be early.

In solidarity,
WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign

(via mochente)

retrocampaigns:

Shirley Chisholm for President 1972: Unbought and Unbossed

In 1969, Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. She advocated for minority rights, strongly opposed the Vietnam War and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. She would serve seven terms in office.

In 1972, Chisholm became the first African-American to make a run for a major party’s presidential nomination. Later, in her book, The Good Fight, she wrote, “I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.”

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)