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ND school investigating fans in KKK-style hoods

Sun, 02/24/2013 - 09:56 — Dave Culver
  • A North Dakota high school principal says appropriate action is being taken after three students briefly donned Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods Friday night during a state hockey semifinal game.
  • Obama, racial inequality, and national oppression

Dirk Lammers, Associated Press / Duluth (MN) News Tribune

 

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Three people in the Red River High School student section wear Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods during a semifinal game in the North Dakota Boys Hockey Tournament at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D. (AP Photo - Shane Schuster)

 

February 23, 2013 | A North Dakota high school principal says appropriate action is being taken after three students briefly donned Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods Friday night during a state hockey semifinal game.

The photo caused an uproar on Twitter when it was posted by 19-year-old Shane Schuster, who was seated with some friends at Ralph Engelstad Arena when something in the student section across the rink caught his eye.

 

"I thought, 'Are those KKK hoods?' I couldn't believe it," Schuster said. "I was shocked."

 

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Obama, racial inequality, and national oppression, Party for Socialism and Liberation, LiberationNews.org

  • The fight against race prejudice is central for people who want revolutionary change in the United States. Racist ideologies have played a central role in weakening potentially revolutionary movements of poor and working people. The only way to build trust among workers of all nationalities is to make central the fight against racism and white supremacy.
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New film tells story of unsung civil rights leader

Sat, 02/23/2013 - 09:43 — Dave Culver
  • Young was not as visible on the front lines of civil rights protests, but he could say with humor and partly in earnest to members of the white establishment that if they didn’t deal with him, they would have to deal with Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael, who espoused more radical agendas than King
  • The definitive response to jerks asking, "But what about White History Month?"

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President Kennedy (in rocking chair) meeting with National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young, center, and president Henry Steeger in the president's Living Room of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 23, 1962.

 

February 23, 2013 | Just before the March on Washington in 1963, President John F. Kennedy summoned six top civil rights leaders to the White House to talk about his fears that civil rights legislation he was moving through Congress might be undermined if the march turned violent.

 

Whitney Young Jr. cut through the president's uncertainty with three questions: "President Kennedy, which side are you on? Are you on the side of George Wallace of Alabama? Or are you on the side of justice?"

 

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The definitive response to jerks asking, "But what about White History Month?" Rebecca Eisenberg, Upworthy 

  • The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee

 

 
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J.D. Crowe | Strong Children, Frederick Douglass / media.cagle.com

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 16:03 — Dave Culver

 

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The definitive response to jerks asking, "But what about White History Month?"

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 16:12 — Dave Culver

Rebecca Eisenberg, Upworthy

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Next time your racist family member (everyone's got one of 'em, right?) tries to get clever and asks "But what about WHITE History Month?" on Facebook, just drop this gem of a video into the comments section. It'll shut them right up. 


 

Don't miss it around 4:44 when he explains why reverse racism isn't a thing and how he tries to keep his own privilege in check.

 

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The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee, Johnny Barber, CounterPunch

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  • From the Lakota to Gaza
  • Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
  • Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation's 150th Anniversary

 

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The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee

Tue, 01/01/2013 - 19:38 — Dave Culver

  • From the Lakota to Gaza
  • Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
  • Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation's 150th Anniversary

Johnny Barber, CounterPunch

 

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December 28, 2012 | December 29 marks the 122 anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It is a story that remains fresh in the lives of many indigenous peoples across America. Each generation is taught to never forget.

 

In 1891, reviewing the history leading up to the massacre, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas Morgan said,

“It is hard to overestimate the magnitude of the calamity which happened to the Sioux people by the sudden disappearance of the buffalo. The boundless range was to be abandoned for the circumscribed reservation, and abundance of plenty to be supplanted by limited and decreasing government subsistence and supplies. Under these circumstances it is not in human nature not to be discontented and restless, even turbulent and violent.”

 

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Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question, James Petras, Global Research

  • The parallels between the pronouncements and actions of Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel are overwhelming.  The bloodlust in Israel goes far beyond psychopathic raving of a few deranged rabbis and marginal politicians:  it extends from the top Cabinet members to the average citizen.
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A Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Dee Brown, Google Books

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

 

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation's 150th Anniversary, Bret Zongker, Associated Press / London (UK) Daily Mail

'Forever free': Watch Nights to mark 150th anniversary of Lincoln's revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation with readings, songs, and bell ringing

 

 
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Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation's 150th Anniversary

Tue, 01/01/2013 - 15:19 — Dave Culver

'Forever free': Watch Nights to mark 150th anniversary of Lincoln's revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation with readings, songs, and bell ringing.

 

Bret Zongker, Associated Press / London (UK) Daily Mail

 

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This Feb. 18, 2005 file photo shows the original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. . (AP Photo - Evan Vucci)

 

December 30, 2012 | As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."

 

A tradition began Dec. 31, 1862, as many black churches held Watch Night services, awaiting word that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation would take effect amid a bloody Civil War. Later, congregations listened as the president's historic words were read aloud.

 

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