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This history of racist ideas in America shows how they were deliberately created and how we can combat them

«Beginning in 1970, Betye Saar began frequenting swap meets and flea markets in search of racist «black collectibles,» which she integrated into her assemblage works.

The backlash — and legal actions — in response to YouTube star PewDiePie's use of racist language has prompted him to issue an apology, because he likes money and fame and would like to keep both.

I don't care who you are, the whole practice of whitewashing is fucked up and if you participate in any way, you are an active participant in the perpetuation of racist fuckery.

Then again the studio making it wasn't full of racist hatemongers trying desperately to clean up getting busted out.

Lincoln Clay's race plays a huge factor in Mafia III; while most of the major and minor characters exhibit overt racism through cutscenes and dialogue, there is a litany of racist instances from even the nameless pedestrians.

Why not, you journalist have been spending all this time insisting that games are turning us into a bunch of racist misogynist, it was only a matter of time we went full circle with the whole games are turning people into murderers again.

Today on NPR: Michigan's new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is using the ugliness of racism to teach a lesson of acceptance.

Comics Johan Palme talks to Nathan Hamelberg of The Betweenship Group about the continuing controversy over a Swedish library's decision to re-shelve some Tintin comics because of racist caricatures...

NONFICTION Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

After the seemingly unprovoked murder of an elderly farm couple is linked to foreigners, an ugly wave of racist hate grips the region.

NONFICTION Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

She reconstructs an era of domestic terrorism not seen since the Civil War, and untangles the threads of racist fears, anti-Semitism, and social change surrounding the bombing and its aftermath.

Excerpts from Lincoln's speeches and other writings reflect his deep understanding of the racist undercurrents of his time and the strong tensions between and among various political groups.

The educational inequalities that I observe as an education researcher are not the result of racist individuals but rather racist systems that were put in place by our predecessors.

William Bennett, who by the 2000s had become a right - wing talk show host, served as the chairman of K12 Inc.'s board of directors until he resigned in 2005 following a series of racist comments that he made about African - Americans.

For example, just since September 1st he has used his twitter account to call someone a racist or a supporter of racist policies on nearly 50 occasions.

His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation, 2016), won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

As a scholar, as an educator, and as a member of a community still seeking racial justice, it is my obligation to passionately denounce not merely Roof's act of racist terrorism, but also to denounce those who want to strip it of its historical and social contexts and leave it «merely» as the act of one, lone, troubled young man for which none of the rest of us have any responsibility.

The problem is not that we have a bunch of racist teachers and administrators.

By far the most common form of this failure to intervene at the middle level is when teachers, who would most often confront instances of racist, ethnic, or sexist name calling, make little to no effort to intervene when they hear anti-gay name calling or jokes, including «That's so gay.»

... A first step in the program to end the existing system of racist education is to demand that the 10 percent of the schools... be turned over to and run by the Afro - American community itself.

The National Union of Students says it receives reports of racist incidents from students every day.

Housing ghettos are born of racist housing policies that rob the black community of opportunities to amass wealth.

They only think of the elite and push agendas but then tell me my choice is indicative of racist agreement.

The NSN highlighted there had been 4,000 cases of racist abuse in England's schools that led to a fixed or permanent exclusion in the 2014 - 15 academic year.

Are our children anywhere safe given the outpouring of racist rhetoric being spewed from the White House in DC to the outhouses of VA and all over the U.S.?

In total, there were 4,000 cases of racist abuse in England's schools which were serious enough to warrant a fixed or permanent exclusion in the 2014 - 15 academic year.

Those worried about maintaining safe schools are dismissed as defenders of a racist disciplinary regime.

By June 1965, a heavily Democratic Congress had either enacted or was about to enact a host of ambitious Great Society programs — an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Medicare, Medicaid, a Voting Rights Act, reform of racist immigration law — that Johnson, a relentless advocate, had been urging upon it.

Weyman Bennett, the joint secretary of the Unite against Fascism campaign group, suggested the rise of racist attacks in schools is due to the EU referendum vote on June 23 last year, which led to Brexit.

He is cocky and brilliant, but is forced to rely on an untested partner (Josh Gad) to present his case in court in front of a racist judge (James Cromwell).

Detroit is very difficult to watch, since it's basically a searing snuff flick which forces the audience to witness the deliberate persecution of innocent civilians at the behest of a racist redneck with a badge.

Considering the subject matter, it's easy to feel distressed at just how funny this movie about the rape and murder of a young girl, the ostracism of her mother as she seeks justice and revenge, a cop dying of cancer and his powder keg of a racist underling stirring up trouble, but the humor is undeniable.

Some shots will never be rid of their overexposed softness, but others look as good as any classic western, with detail so fine you can see the contrast of real dirt caked over fake blood, or the excessive bronzer applied to white actors playing Native Americans (a sadly ubiquitous sight in the genre and a compromise to standards in the otherwise full - throated subversion of racist Hollywood tradition).

«Get Hard» was screened at the SXSW Film Festival, and Etan Cohen (the writer of «Tropic Thunder» and «Men in Black 3», who makes his feature film directorial debut here) was blasted in a Q&A for all of the racist and homophobic jokes, stereotypes and profiling in the film.

Peele humorously exposed the toxicity of a racist White American household.

A scene involving a hooded gang of racist raiders complaining about the poor job that was done on the cutting out of eye holes in their bags is particularly funny in its absurdity.

Even without a deeper interest in answering the questions that it asks (in sharp contrast to the introspective, almost silent WALL · E), it's still light years ahead of Disney's spate of racist, misanthropic entertainments and / or direct - to - video sequels that cynically transform their Vault ™ into a McDonald's franchise.

The film has come under fire for what some perceive to be the redemption of a racist cop.

President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is given predictably surface - level treatment as a self - serving suit, while Alabama governor George Wallace (Tim Roth) is little more than a caricature of a racist.

I missed the kooky, at times cryptically obsessive quality that Joss Whedon brought to «The Age of Ultron,» but this is a smoother, more consistent film with its own oddball moments, such as Paul Bettany's Vision making paprikash for Scarlet Witch while listening to Chet Baker, and Falcon's startling name - check of racist police officer Mark Furhman.

The failures of the film are not in the performances of the actors, but rather in the script, which presents a conclusion that left me frustrated, given the way it turns a portion of its focus from a grieving and determined mother to the redemption of a racist and abusive police officer.

Maggie Smith goes completely against type to play a working - class woman who spouts the sort of racist comments that would cost a highly rated American comedian his career.

I imagine, then, that perhaps the problem of Three Billboards is one of who it is being made for: the type of people who might laugh at an extended gag about nigger torturing in the first act while looking forward to the redemption of a racist and abusive police officer in the third.

After winning the first award of the evening, Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of the racist cop Dixon who butts head with McDormand's equally volatile heroine, Mildred, Rockwell admitted that in real life, both of their characters would've likely been sent to prison.

City folk Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) start a new life on a cotton farm in 1946, where Laura feels far from at home, struggling to raise two young children in an isolated shack under the eye of her racist father - in - law.

The play centers on a dangerous city street corner encumbered with gun violence and «simplistic, wholly generic characterization of a racist white cop,» according to Weiss.

But, convenient to the story (yet never satisfactorily explained), the once - proud chief has been mellowed by cancer and seven years in an Army prison, and now, he's fit to serve as the exception who challenges Blocker's stereotypes — «the good Indian» whose company will bring Blocker and his band of racist cavalry officers around (as if there's any sacrifice that can absolve them of the part they played in the battle of Wounded Knee).

In a film full of so many incredibly bad elements, the fact that they were able to cast an African - American willing to make a mockery of the legitimate pleas of actual victims of racist police brutality is beyond comprehension, especially a comedian held in such high regard.