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American Government in Black and White Paula D. McClain, Steven C. Tauber
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers

3 days ago - The American Legion says the VA scandal is leaving a “black eye” for veterans as Memorial Day approaches. Racism in the United States is more than just the bad attitudes of certain white individuals toward black people. Mar 23, 2010 - North American police cars traditionally are known for their black and white colors. Find hard to come to terms with. 19 hours ago - For the fourth consecutive year the NAACP will conduct Operation Bike Week Justice to monitor activities in the resort town during Black Bike Week, the annual Memorial Day weekend gathering of African American motorcycle enthusiasts. There are five branches of the military, in case you didn't get that training, and if young white men would rather fight on the lines, then work on airplanes in a hangar, that's their issue. The counterpoint to the litany of government mistreatment of black people since 1900 is the government mistreatment of Japanese Americans - who are and always have been model citizens. There's a show here in North America called 'Dirty Jobs' and it addresses the issue of how people believe that certain jobs are simply 'beneath them' and flat out refuse to do them, even though they are 'needed'. Lawsuits against the City of Myrtle Beach and areas businesses for unequal treatment of Black Bike Week visitors compared to those who attend Harley Week, traditionally held one week earlier and a predominately white event. It is the history of government action t0 enslave black people, to deny black the rights of citizenship after slavery was abolished in law, and to exclude them from full participation in society. 2 days ago - Clark Stoeckley's new book sheds a bright light on the case of Private Manning, whose trial the US government has tried so hard to shroud in secrecy. Laughing my ass off, we have a bankrupt federal government gonna bail out a bankrupt city ( through JP Morgan of course so it looks legit) full of bankrupt individuals who won't even pay their fucking utility bills. May 5, 2014 - We Americans love to send our armed forces, often recruited from black and Hispanic neighborhoods devoid of real economic opportunity, to fight in exotic foreign conflicts while we relax at home and consume things, unconcerned about the impact all that combat has on those citizens' .. 12 hours ago - Does this trip down Detroit's demographic change from a majority white city to a majority black city help explain which group is responsible for the blight (hint: not the group that built the infrastructure the black population displaced, which they inherited and . 6 days ago - Thus, Ta-Nehisi Coates has become the go-to guy for Glenn Beck-like deep dives into old books to explain why History demonstrates that white people are at fault for black people being poor. For many decades, car doors and roofs of most police units were painted white, while the trunk, hood, front fenders, and rear quarter panels were painted black. One example in my world : our Black community is up in arms about high number of their kids being stopped by the police for routine questions and car searches for no reason vs. You talk about “them and us”. May 14, 2014 - Yes, this Friday, a group called Operation American Spring (OAS) plans to converge on Washington, DC and to overthrow both the Democratic and Republican political leadership, including President Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid, . We Americans have not yet come to terms with our nation's history of slavery and white supremacy. Of sending out 'threatening' tweets the evening before the sentencing — Stoeckley rendered with haunting perspective in black and white one of the best and only visual records we will ever have of what Julian Assange describes, quite accurately, in the book's foreword as, “America's foremost political prisoner”.