Since the incident that occurred in Jena, LA, the number of nooses that have been cropping up across the country has increased. The latest noose sighting has occurred at an Exxon Mobil facility in Baytown, TX, a town located along the Gulf Coast.
According to CBS local affiliate KHOU-TV, a noose was found hanging from scaffolding [...]
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Duane “Dog” Chapman the bounty hunter bail bondsman who lives in Honolulu, HI was captured spewing racist slurs during a taped phone conversation with son, Tucker. During the conversation, Chapman used the word “n****r” to refer to his son’s African-American girlfriend, Monique Shinnery. The National Enquirer, a tabloid newspaper, published the audio tape on it’s [...]
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In the United States today, under a distorted capitalistic system, our education system has worsened. In Texas, 185 high schools can be considered “dropout factories” according to a national report from Johns Hopkins University, who conducted the study for The Associated Press.
The study found that half or more of high school students do not graduate, [...]
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Mychal Bell, one of the Black students known as the Jena 6, is back in jail. Bell, was ordered to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge determined he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions.
According to CNN, the decision to send Bell to the juvenile facility came at the [...]
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More racist theme parties, here we go again. I received an email informing that a UT Austin fraternity is planning to have a “Cholo/Ghetto Mexican” Rush Event where participants are to dress up and act as “Cholos” or “Ghetto Mexicans.” (h/t to Luissana Santibanez)
Attn Compas/os –
A UT Austin fraternity is planning to have a “Cholo/Ghetto [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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