Not groundbreaking – but a solid talk about race in America in view of the recent Ricci New Jim Crow, justifying racial discrimination, by the Supreme Court 5 – Thugs in Robes. Professor Robert Jensen on The color of the race problem is white.
If one was looking to hire a History Teacher, you could indeed design a test asking questions about certain events or figures in History. If such test included a requirement to name 5 Emperors of the Han Dynasty, or 5 Shoguns in feudal Japan – it would indeed test the knowledge of history beyond the standard Western European History taught in the US. A well studied American college graduate could answer the question – however, so could a Chinese born or Japanese born individual who had studied grade school or high school equivalent national history as part of their primary education in their native country. Ergo, if one were to pick a random group of 50 American born college graduates with History Degrees, and 50 Chinese or Japanese born people who had completed High school equivalent education in their birth countries – it is likely the Chinese or Japanese born applicants would test as more “qualified” than their higher educated American competitors. Despite the lack of college degrees.
An ability to dance requirement would eliminate old white male Republicans from office (and their "Uncle" surrogates), while favoring young white hipsters. Perfectly legal under Ricci.
This is exactly how the New Jim Crow works, as given the Good Hateration Seal of Approval by the 5 Thugs in Robes. You are free to discriminate – as long as you claim you didn’t intend to. Creating requirements – no matter how tenuously associated with the job requirement, which have the effect of selecting by race, is the new Poll Tax…
Legislated from the Bench, just as an earlier conservative court wrought Plessy vs. Ferguson…
And overturned the 14th Amendment in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 – where the Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which provided that “all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude” was unconstitutional.
Same conservative racist shit – different century.
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Listening to that video was time well spent. I’d like to come back to this from time to time. I realize this is not about you, but it is intriguing that you still embrace the struggle with race, if that is a valid representation. Notwithstanding of course, that race is a problem, but resources generally present buffers for affluent blacks more so than for those with fewer.
Not really. Bought a luxury car a few years ago. The dealer tried to put me into a high-risk finance situation 3 points higher than prime – simply because that’s what they did for black buyers.
Dealing with financial discrimination is still an issue, whether buying a $14,000 Toyota or a $100,000 Mercedes (and no – I didn’t buy one of those).
It’s an issue in buying a house, where some lenders try and play games with the rates. I usually hire a separate independent Mortgage Broker – but a lot of folks aren’t in the position to defend themselves that way. And, for me it’s an additional black tax.
I’m in a business which requires raising capital. That is really tough for a black person, even if your record is 100% success due to continuing latent discrimination in the Venture Capital industry. It is very frustrating, because I see the same VCs rushing to invest in companies run by white boys which have massively fatal flaws – that predicatively will fail due to market or technical conditions.
So no – you don’t get away from it.
Well, it’s probably true that one does not get away from it. But in a world where there is a constant threat of physical violence, is there a lesser evil?
Some how I believe that the level of violence in this society is somehow relative to the mores that helped create this imperfect union.
You’ve never read my theory that slavery and Jim Crow inflicted a post traumatic stress on our society which it hasn’t overcome?