At the Dallas Police Department/Korean American Safety Town Hall Meeting on Monday night, you didn’t have to speak the language to know the feelings that were dominating the room. These citizens gathered in the wake of three racially motivated shootings at Korean-owned and operated businesses and they wanted answers.
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Clinical psychologist Dr. Brenda Wall said having to see media reports of horrendous devastation in Ukraine dredges up thoughts about similar violence to various cultures in history – the Holocaust, enslavement of African people, crisis at the Southern border, indigenous native Americans, Haitian migrants.
I was disgusted when I read the article about the Detroit teacher using our 44th President to compare primates. Detroit area TV station WDIV reported this screw up in education. Don, it turns out this biology teacher used a worksheet with pictures of a chimp, ape, orangutan and Obama, then asked the students to identify the primates!
The Buffalo mass murderer’s targeted killing of ten Black people was motivated by white supremacists’ unadulterated hatred and systemic racist ideology. History reveals that Black people have been targeted not only for killings but for slavery, rape, lynching, segregation, discrimination, injustices, and deadly experiments. The United States Constitution once allowed Black people to be targeted for despicable injustices. And it has continued to not fully protect their inalienable rights.
The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt I love women. Let me repeat that. I love women. I love women but it’s not be-cause I’m a designated…
While the rabid right wing of this country is foaming at the mouth over what they are misidentifying as critical race theory, claiming that it will make little white children ashamed of their heritage, they are blissfully ignorant of the fact that their dirty drawers are showing from the backsides of their britches.
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Bullying? Really?
Replacement rhetoric is meant to tap into a very old fear: that the survival and dominance of White Americans is threatened by others—whether by the freedom and empowerment of Black people or immigration by people of color.
Many of us may already be aware that when it comes to heart disease in the U.S., Black, African American, and Afro-Caribbean communities are disproportionately affected compared to other racial and ethnic groups.* But did you know about three to four percent of African Americans carry a mutation in the TTR gene (V122I) that makes it more likely that they may develop ATTR-CM; however, not all carriers develop the disease. ATTR-CM gets worse over time, which is why early diagnosis and management are so important.