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!
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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.
Racial Hatred
As Democrats held a sit-in at the Capitol in Florida, the Legislature approved DeSantis’ map. Governor DeSantis map drawer, Deputy Chief of Staff Alex Kelly, did not look at partisan results, and only considered things like compactness, county and state splits and honoring roadways and waterways. The new map is “race neutral” and it did not make sense for Democrats to protest, when the Legislature was trying to conduct business.