Racial Justice and Transformation
Here is a near-verbatim transcript of Hugh Taft-Morales’ Platform address at AEU Assembly on June 11, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. View... Read More →
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"As a white, taxpaying, home owner, I believe it’s his duty to protect me and my interests rather than the other way around. I also believe that my friend, who is a Black, taxpaying, homeowner ought to be perceived as a boss of the police chief in her town – but she didn’t see it that way and was surprised that I saw myself in the position of power vis a vis the chief."
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Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a group, an individual or an object into the role of the ‘other’ and establishing one’s own identity through opposition to and, frequently, vili...1 ·
"I felt that my dignity was taken away," Gilliam says of his arrest and the subsequent hours he spent sitting in the police station. "I felt like less of a human. I felt inferior to the white officers who were there."
The duty and burden of the black police officer
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David J. Thomas grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, two blocks from the headquarters of the 10th Precinct. Nighttime echoed with .50-caliber machine guns. Mornings dawned over neighborhood rubble. Thomas remembers being 11 years old, approaching a squad car outside the corner store and asking a police....2 ·
America doesn't just have a police problem: It has a morality problem
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I fear that until the persistence of racism and hatred in the American fabric is radically mitigated, police killings will inevitably continue.3 ·
What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker
What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker
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WARNING: The following video contains scenes of a disturbing nature, including police brutality, racist and profane language, and extreme violence against pe...6 ·
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