WFAA’s Dale Hansen shares his thoughts after an ambush in downtown Dallas left five police officers dead and seven others wounded.
PSYCHOLOGY: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: “Hansen Unplugged: ‘An Attack on Our Basic Humanity'” / Dale Hansen ☮
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Category Archives: White Privilege
WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN RACISM: “Sarah Palin Doesn’t Understand What Black Lives Matter Means” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur ☮
Sarah Palin is on the warpath against Black Lives Matter. She’s sure they’re not peaceful, but rather violent thugs and rioters. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin once again took aim at Black Lives Matters protesters Sunday, calling them “thugs” and demanding the media “quit claiming that these rioters are people.”
In an interview on radio show “Breitbart News Sunday,” the former Alaska governor argued that the Black Lives Matter movement is in part responsible for the actions of a lone sniper (who was not affiliated with the peaceful movement) who fatally shot five police officers in Dallas last week.
“They’re not protesters,” she said. “These are thugs. They’re rioters. And yeah, I’m calling out the media, saying quit claiming that these rioters are people. They’re stomping on our flag, figuratively and literally, shouting death to cops, celebrating violence.”
Her use of “thug” isn’t without racial connotations. Many argue that it’s merely thesocially acceptable version of the N-word, and some members of the media have vowed not to use it.
EXCECUTION BY COP: “Today’s Violence Started with Nixon’s War on Drugs!” / Thom Hartman ☮
Thom shares the history of President Nixon’s War on Drugs and how it led up to the current state of violence between police and the African American community.
EXCECUTION BY COP: “Maniac Cop Executes Black Man Who Was Following Orders” / Jimmy Dore☮
A police officer shot Philandro Castile four times after instructing him to pull out his ID during a traffic stop. His girlfriend filmed the aftermath with Facebook Live.
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EXCECUTION BY COP: “What You Need to Know About the Shooting of Alton Sterling” / Thom Hartmann ☮
Thom shares the points of an article about the facts surrounding the Alton Sterling shooting.
EXCECUTION BY COP: “Another Day, Another Black Man Murdered by Cop” / Thom Hartmann ☮
Thom speaks with Benjamin Dixon, host of the Benjamin Dixon Show, about the latest police shooting of an African-American man, North Carolina’s new ‘Blue Lives Matter’ law, and the court of public opinion.
U.S. HISTORY: “What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?” / Frederick Douglass / Read by Morgan Freeman
MISOGYNISTIC REGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS: “What Trump Means by ‘Make America White Again'” ☮
SOUTHERN WHITE-WING BIGOTRY: “Tennessee Republican Candidate Wants to ‘Make American White Again'” / John Iadarola ☮
Racists rejoice! With Donald Trump paving the way, bigots can now campaign to “Make American White Again” openly by appealing to a fictional American golden age where the damn minorities knew their place. Today’s example is Rick Tyler, candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district.
SOCIAL HISTORY: “The Revolutionary Origins of Memorial Day and its Political Hijacking” / Ben Becker
The way the Civil War became officially remembered — through Memorial Day celebrations— was based on the erasure of the Black veteran and the liberated slave.
A day celebrating Black liberation utilized for white supremacy
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause.
These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers and veterans, regardless of the nature of the wars in which they participated. This is the opposite of how the day emerged, with explicitly partisan motivations, to celebrate those who fought for justice and liberation.
The concept that the population must “remember the sacrifice” of U.S. service members, without a critical reflection on the wars themselves, did not emerge by accident. It came about in the Jim Crow period as the Northern and Southern ruling classes sought to reunite the country around apolitical mourning, which required erasing the “divisive” issues of slavery and Black citizenship. These issues had been at the heart of the struggles of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
To truly honor Memorial Day means putting the politics back in. It means reviving the visions of emancipation and liberation that animated the first Decoration Days. It means celebrating those who have fought for justice, while exposing the cruel manipulation of hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members who have been sent to fight and die in wars for conquest and empire.
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