Black Lives Matter - A History of Structural and Institutional Racism in the United States of America

2020-06-09

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” –Bishop Desmond Tutu Choosing Neutrality you have chosen the side of the oppressor. In this episode our host will relay some of the tools to better understand and ways to better address the systemic and structural racism that plagues this country: let us all become active in the struggle for equity and equality for all.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” –Bishop Desmond Tutu

Choosing Neutrality you have chosen the side of the oppressor. In this episode our host will relay some of the tools to better understand and ways to better address the systemic and structural racism that plagues this country: let us all become active in the struggle for equity and equality for all.

Resources for Re-Education:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SmqjTqfo3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLQLUpNGsc

https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/

http://www.justicepolicy.org/news/8775

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/unknown-date/party-rules.htm

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

https://www.libertyhill.org/agenda-for-a-just-future?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_ez2BRCyARIsAJfg-kt0V6ijBpuL0ZFx2jCutvp-GqEAX1-48gAEKKt13ne3G8HPXAoQDZQaAnUpEALw_wcB

https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_cointelpro.html

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/angela-davis

https://www.biography.com/activist/web-du-bois

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass

https://www.cypherleague.com/cypherleague/uniform-reporting-law-enforcement-improvement-act-a-new-method-to-improve-policing-and-prevent-brutality

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Colors-History-Aboriginal-African/dp/B004X4O988

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-baldwin

https://www.malcolmx.com/

https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

https://www.amazon.com/If-They-Come-Morning-Resistance/dp/1784787698

https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776

https://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0060838671