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Monday, March 25, 2013

FIGHTING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

The pen is a powerful thing; however, it will take more than the pen to break the back of Institutional (systemic) Racism in this country.   It will take political, economic, and legal empowerment of minorities to break its back.
 
 
At every level of government, but expecially at the local and state levels across this country, minorities are facing Institutional/Systemic Racism.
 
 
Michelle Alexander talks about it, Shirley Sherrod talked about it; and it's the reason why there is an NAACP, an Urban League, and advocacy groups.
 
 
We are seeing enormous push back to maintain the status quo (a lack of diversity). There are mayors and governors who resist ethnic diversity and fairness. There are legal  (justice) departments (city, state, federal),  that resist racial/ethnic diversity and fairness and will do everything they can to prevent minorities access to political, economic and legal empowerment. 
 
 
From time to time  we're going to focus on Institutional Racism, it's history,  ... and solutions in overcoming that kind of racism; and we're especially  going to talk about organizations that resist racial/ethnic diversity and are the most heinous and dangerous, and  therefore have made it  extremely difficult to root out systemic racism.
 
 
 

Ethnic Diversity

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a priority ... to break the back of Institutional Racism.

No question

Anonymous said...

There are 9 departments in Maple Heights. We should have a picture of all department heads so we could see that a. the outsourced building dept is headed by a white male b. the economic development department is headed by a white female c. the finance department is headed by a white male d. the fire department is headed by a white male e. the human resources department is headed by a black female f. the law department is headed by a white male g. parks and recreation department is headed by a white h. services department is headed by a white i. police department is headed by a white male