You’d think this was out of some movie but no, it happened in North Dakota. Terrorism. Plain & simple. It’s a disgrace before God how citizens of #StandingRock are treated by law enforcement. Police are abusing the Native people with attack dogs, high pitch sound devices, tear gas and shooting their horses. Natives arrested were kept in dog kennels. Who does that to another human being? The wicked evil in America. A racist hell-hole!
https://twitter.com/gloed_up/status/793578373025005568
Get out of there and stay out!
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Professor Carol Anderson on Police Killings, Trump, the Clintons & Her New Book “White Rage”
NOVEMBER 01, 2016
Carol Anderson
professor of African American studies at Emory University. She is the author, most recently, of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
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AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the white rage that you’re witnessing today.
CAROL ANDERSON: That rage covers itself. So, when I talk about white rage, I don’t actually mean the Klan and the cross burning, because that’s simple. In this society, we know how to identify that. This is the much more subtle, the much more destructive type of racial violence. And it emanates out of Congress, out of the Supreme Court, out of state legislatures. And it’s designed to, in fact, undercut black achievement, black aspirations and black advancement.
So we see that, for instance, with—when Trump, at the presidential debate, and they said, “Well, how would you handle issues of racial healing and the racial divide?” and he said, “I’ve got words that somebody refuses to say, and that’s ‘law and order,’ and that’s ‘stop and frisk.'” That is a dog whistle. That is—those are policies that, in fact, undermined the Civil Rights Act of ’64 and the Voting Rights Act of ’65, has led to mass disfranchisement, so that you’ve got almost 8 percent of the black population unable to vote.
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AMY GOODMAN: What were you most surprised by as you researched White Rage?
CAROL ANDERSON: I was surprised by how consistent and supple white rage was, how it consistently used the language of democracy, the language of freedom, the language of protecting the integrity of the ballot box, as a means to undermine and undercut. So, we get not only the Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the Voting Rights Act, but we also get, for instance, in the Brown decision, where the Supreme Court has said “separate but equal” cannot be the law of the land, and watching these people who say that they are inherently about democracy, in fact, undermining that democracy by violating court orders consistently, over and over again, kind of like what we’re seeing right now as the Fourth Circuit, for instance, has told North Carolina, you know, “Your voter suppression laws can’t stand,” and they keep doing it.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about other developments this week. Jury selection began on Monday in two high-profile murder trials: white police officers who killed unarmed black man. In Ohio, the former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing shot and killed 43-year-old Sam DuBose last year after stopping him for not having a front license plate. And then there’s the case in North Charleston, South Carolina, officer Michael Slager facing a murder charge after a bystander filmed Slager shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he ran away. In that case, Walter Scott was stopped by the police officer as he was driving into the AutoZone shop right nearby for, I think it was, a broken taillight. He was stopped for the taillight, and he ends up being shot by the police officer.
CAROL ANDERSON: Yes, yes, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: The trials come as a Justice Department investigation into the choking death of unarmed African American Eric Garner by New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo is in disarray. The New York Times reported last week that the New York-based FBI agents and federal prosecutors are no longer assigned to the investigation. They did not feel Pantaleo should be charged. The shake-up leaves prosecutors with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in charge, making it far more likely officers will face criminal charges.
CAROL ANDERSON: And part of what we’re seeing right here is the policy of stop and frisk, which came after the advances of the civil rights movement. And so, stop and frisk is based on the broken windows theory of policing. And it says, what we have to do—if we stop these little minor crimes, then we can really stop the big ones form happening. But that’s not what really goes on. In fact, you get the criminalization of blackness. In New York City, for instance, although blacks and Latinos made up 50 percent of the population, they accounted for 84 percent of those stopped, although twice as many weapons were found on the handful of whites that were stopped as opposed to blacks and Latinos. And so, if this was really about law enforcement, you would see greater policing of the white population. This is about something else. And so, what we’re seeing in the case of the broken taillight, in terms of the expired tag, that’s that hyperpolicing that’s going on because of stop and frisk, and it leads to the death of black people.
AMY GOODMAN: You have linked the problem with policing today to education.
CAROL ANDERSON: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: You say we wouldn’t face anything like this today, if what?
CAROL ANDERSON: If Brown had really been implemented. Because part of what we know is that what a solid, quality education does, in terms of employment, in terms of health, in terms of voting rights—all of those things are really linked to education. But Brown—after Brown, the states fought back so intensely, even to the point where they shut down a public school system for five years. And so, it’s like you were in school at the fifth grade, and your school doesn’t open again until you’re in the 10th? And the states fought back so hard that we’re ending up with large numbers of African Americans who do not have the quality education that they have a constitutional right to. And so, now we’re asking the police force to then deal with those issues emanating out of poverty, emanating out of the lack of quality education.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you see—how do you assess President Bill Clinton’s administration when it comes to issues of white rage, black disempowerment, black empowerment, and then Hillary Clinton?
CAROL ANDERSON: So, for Bill Clinton, part of what I see is that he went the route of the Southern strategy, which was to play to the blacks as criminals. And this is where you see—and blacks as welfare cheats. And so, this is where you see his workforce legislation. This is where you see the kind of hyperpolicing with superpredators and all of that. And this led—again, it fed into the mass incarceration of the black population. Now, what Bill Clinton would do is he would try to play culturally black—so that was, you know, the saxophone on Arsenio or all that—but the way that his policies worked were in fact very anti-black. Now, with Hillary, what I see is that she was there with him in the ’90s.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, let’s go back to that moment in 1996 when she was first lady, when she described some African-American youth as superpredators.
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CAROL ANDERSON: My comments are that when I see that, it’s like Hillary was, in that moment in 1996, right along with Bill, and now that she realizes that the demographics in the Democratic Party have changed, that that coding doesn’t work as well, it doesn’t play as well, and so you see her stepping back. And I think part of what I’m also seeing, frankly, has been the pushing on that from the Black Lives Matter activists, who are helping her—and the Bernie folks, who are helping her begin to see what structural racism actually does in this society. So, in fact, when she mentioned—I think it was in the—one of the presidential debates, that we have to deal with structural racism, that was a major leap forward. But that requires then consistent pressure consistently be put on her to deal with what that really means policywise, so it can’t just be a slogan that gets dropped during the presidential campaign.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/1/professor_carol_anderson_on_police_killings
All kinds of TRUTH up in here. The fact that folks like the Clintons have to constantly be PRESSURED to deal with structural racism they helped to construct and maintain..
I.CAN’T
AMEN!
Exactly my first reaction too. Wouldn’t it have been easier for the Democratic party to promote better candidates and let the people decide? Apparently not, that would be TOO democratic for the oligarchs and their flunkies.
Uh huh!
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https://twitter.com/Michaela/status/793459581171236866
Security and law enforcement in America is designed mainly & especially for POC.
HA! Apparently, the Hillster still can’t RUN HER OWN HOUSE, yet wants to roll back in the WH and run our country.
What they are doing is outrageous. These are peaceful protestors. 😣😣😣😣
Good Morning 😃, Everyone 😉
The audacity. It’s heartbreaking and disgusting. Good morning and find something beautiful in life this morning there’s us to too much ugliness.
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Good morning, beautiful people!