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“The Racial Wealth Gap: Two Reports on Income and Asset Disparity”
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“The Racial Wealth Gap: Two Reports on Income and Asset Disparity”
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“Slave-based Economy: Slavery Was the Source of White Real Estate and Power“
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“Segregation Policies, Redlining and the Present Racial Housing Disparity”
Posted in African Americans, Civil Rights, GreatDepression, History US, Housing, Migrate, Politics, Racism, Supreme Court, US Politics
Tagged African Americans, City Planning, Fair Housing Act, FHA, ghettos, history, Inner Cities, New Deal, Racial Discrimination, Raciall Zoning, Racially Restrictive Covenants, Racism, Redlining, segregated Housing
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“Racial disparity: Institutional Racism from Black Codes to the Present”
Posted in Civil Rights, Housing, Jim Crow Era, Poverty, Racism
Tagged 14th Amendment, African Americans, Black Code, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Discrimination, Jim Crow, Opinion, Racism, Reconstruction, Segregation, Slavery
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“Revisionist History and Slavery as Entertainment at The Black America Show”
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So let me get this straight:
Sinterklaas can still be Sinterklaas.
He and his Pieten can still arrive in Amsterdam on the steamboat.
They can still have all the processions through cities and towns.
People can still come out to welcome them.
Kids can still wave at Sinterklaas and give the Pieten their drawings.
The Pieten can still wear the same costumes.
They can still hand out candy.
Everyone can still eat pepernoten,
and taai-taai,
and marzipan,
and kruidnoten,
and suikerbeesten,
and amandelstaven,
and chocolate letters,
and speculaas poppen
and drink hot chocolate.
Everyone can still sing Sinterklaas songs.
You can still have Book Piet, Organizer Piet, Grumpy Piet and what have you Piet (a relatively new phenomenon).
Everyone can still buy Sinterklaas and Piet dolls at Xenos (also relatively new).
Kids and adults can still place their shoes at home on Sinterklaas Eve.
Kids and adults can even place their shoes at school, at work, on the street and in the bars (again, new).
People can still exchange gifts.
Children can still make surprises.
A good time can still be had by all.
The only thing that would change is the color of Piet’s face and hair.
And this is how you react?
(Welcome to the Netherlands, where all cultures are accepted except our own.)
Have you all lost your mother-loving minds?
My original series on the whole Zwarte Piet issue starts here.
Posted in black pete, Cultural Differences, Holland, Language, Racism, Sinterklaas, Slavery
Tagged black pete, Dutch blackface, Holidays, Netherlands, racial stereotypes, Racism, racisme, Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet
In her book Daring Greatly, self-help guru Brené Brown talks about gremlins as being the voices in our heads that tell us we must do this, we must behave so, we should have done that, etc. The gremlins are the critics–our parents, society, or our own (unrealistic) expectations for ourselves. The idea is to identify those gremlins and then basically tell them to shut up. There’s a little more to it than that, but that’ll do for the purpose of this post. Continue reading
Okay, it’s the end of November and that means that Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) is arriving in the Netherlands, with his helpers, who have traditionally been all called Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). The Zwarte Pieten are traditionally white people with blackface. People of color in the Netherlands have gradually become vocal about not liking that and the Dutch reaction is incredibly embarrassing to me. Continue reading
Posted in American flag, black pete, Books, Cultural Differences, Education, Emigration / Immigration, Employment, Holland, Language, Montessori Schools, National Anthem, Nationalism, Pledge of Allegiance, Racism, School Libraries, Sinterklaas, Slavery, University, Violence
Tagged culture, cultuur, immigratie, immigration, Nederland, Netherlands, politics, politiek, Racism, racisme, Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas, tolerance, toleratie, Zwarte Piet
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“American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerously Naive Form of Nationalism”
Posted in American exceptionalism, Fascism, Government, Government US, History US, Migrate, Proportional Representation, Racist Groups, Society, Trump supporters, US Politics, Violence
Tagged American exceptionalism, constitution, Democracy, Fascism, fascism in America, Government, Indoctrination, kneeling NFL players, National Anthem, Nationalism, Opinion, politics, Trump
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“Charlottesville: From Patriotism to Nationalism to Malignant Nationalism”
Posted in Education, Government, History, Language, Media, Migrate, Psychology, Slavery, Society, US Politics, World War Two
Tagged Charlottesville, education, Fascism, group psychology, Indoctrination, Nationalism, Opinion, Patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance, politics, society, Trump, white supremacy, writing prompt education, writing prompts
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“The Blurry Lines Between White Responsibility, White Privilege and Racism”
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“Recognizing Fascism: Introducing History Education in Post-Trump America”
Posted in Education, Emigration / Immigration, Government, History, Language, Media, Psychology, Religion, Slavery, Society, US Politics, Violence, World War Two
Tagged Charlottesville, Civil War, Confederate statues, critical thinking, education, Fascism, history, KKK, Nationalism, neo-nazis, Opinion, Patriotism, Trump, white supremacists, World War Two
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Posted in Education, Government, High School, History, Migrate, Religion, Science, Slavery, Society, US Politics, World War Two
Tagged Charlottesville, critical thinking, culture, education, Fascism, geography, history, KKK, moral compass, Opinion, politics, re-education, religion, Trump, white supremacists
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“Collective Stockholm Syndrome, Battered Wife Syndrome and Trump’s Base”
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“What Passes for American History Education is Pathetic, and Now I Know Why”
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“Don’t Blame the Koch Brothers — American Education Was Always Awful”
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“The Confederate Flag Will No Longer Fly at the South Carolina State Capitol”
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“The Confederate Flag Will No Longer Fly at the South Carolina State Capitol”
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“What Would Black History Look Like if the Reconstruction Had Continued?”
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“The Meridian Race Riot of 1871: The Failure of the Rickety Reconstruction”
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“The Reconstruction: Federal Army, Carpetbaggers, and Blacks in Office”
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“Slaveholders, Militant Immediatists and Others on the Abolition Spectrum”
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“Free People of Color: Before Abolition It Was a Freedom with Qualifications”
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Posted in Slavery
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Abolitionists, American Civil War, Black History, Civil War, history, North vs South, Slavery
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“Laura Plantation: A Sugar Plantation Tour With Barely a Mention of Slavery”
Well, I’ll probably be banned from ever entering Utah for this, but here goes.
I just read The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. It tells the somewhat parallel stories of two nineteenth wives: Ann Eliza Webb, wife of Brigham Young, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints’ second leader in the 1870s, Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Religion, Slavery, Society, University
Tagged Ann Eliza Webb, Ann Eliza Young, boeken, books, Brigham Young, Briham Young University, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, David Ebershoff, godsdienst, Joseph Smith, LDS church, Mormonen, Mormons, opinie, Opinion, polygamy, religie, religion, The 19th Wife
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