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Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile: From sea to shining sea [1]
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Date: 2022-11-01
Yes, Black Americans celebrate too, such as on a certain night in November 2008
From Sea to Shining Sea
Commentary by Chitown Kev
I’m tired today.
From the Supreme Court of the United States to Los Angeles, California to Ann Arbor and East Lansing, Michigan to Cedar City, Utah and even into the interwebs.
From sea to shining sea, indeed. And all points in between.
Given that it is election season, it’s really bad.
People don’t understand: I...and we (meaning Black people) get tired of racism too.
Myself, I find the the very idea of using a concept like race to be an unbelievably stupid method by which to order a society.
What makes me angry about the existence of racism is that Black people fall for this conditioning in so many ways.
Black people, it seems, can never be human.
We’re either superhuman or subhuman or (to borrow a phrase from Marvel Comics) inhuman; sometimes we’re all of that at the same time but rarely without a prefix to the word “human.”
Tim Wise had a whole thread about a valuable lesson that he learned...I only point here to the what I consider to be the essence of his tweetstorm.
x 5/ At this point the Black woman who had previously spoken reached out, touched her leg, and with a cutting snark too brilliant for the white woman to get it, said, “Is it hard, dear?” The white woman cried more and insisted it was, yes… — Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 31, 2022
x 7/ But Black people cannot, by and large, do this. They have never been able to do this. They have to stay and fight no matter the cost. Now, back to the “Twexodus”… — Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 31, 2022
Yes, it gets “hard” for me, too… and all Black people.
Yes, we get tired but we have to solder on because we must.
But I do take the liberty of saying that “I’m tired,” nowadays, at the very least.
I can’t stay there, of course, and besides, people have gone through much worse...but at least I have the freedom to actually utter that phrase now, if only for a moment.
And now I’m going out to enjoy the rest of this day.
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News round up by dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
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The Democratic nominee says former President Barack Obama inspired his political career and slams Republican opponent Sen. Ron Johnson. The Grio: Mandela Barnes talks Obama campaigning for him in Wisconsin and wanting to bring change to the Senate
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Mandela Barnes likely owes his political career to former President Barack Obama. The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin — and the state’s current lieutenant governor — was inspired in 2004 by then-Senator Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
“That’s what prompted me to get engaged. I felt encouraged when I heard his words because they were words that I hadn’t necessarily heard before,” Barnes told theGrio during a recent sit-down interview. “The way that he made his story so relatable to people all across the country and how, you know, he led with his story being a uniquely American story. It was inspiring.”
Barnes, 35, said Obama’s speech about the American dream and his hope for a “brighter day” led him to become an organizer and, eventually, embark on a career in public service. “I wouldn’t be on this path if I didn’t hear that speech in 2004,” he said.
Now, Obama, America’s first Black president, is [came] to Barnes’ hometown of Milwaukee on Saturday to campaign for the young politician he inspired nearly two decades ago.
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Congregants and neighbors remembered a pastor who they said was determined to fight racism and lift up the Black community. NPR: The Rev. Calvin Butts left behind a legacy of prayer and political activism
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The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor and powerbroker, died on Friday at home in New York City. He was 73. His son Calvin O. Butts IV, says the cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
For more than 30 years, Butts was senior pastor at Harlem's legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church, a more than 200-year-old institution founded in 1808, which itself was a center of Harlem's spiritual and political life. Butts inherited the pulpit from a long line of charismatic ministers, including Adam Clayton Powell Sr., his son Adam Jr., and Samuel Proctor. The church was declared a New York City landmark in 1993.
With his erudite, sometimes pointed sermons, Butts ministered to Abyssinian's thousands of members and to visitors from around the globe.
Congregants crowded into the ornate Gothic church on 138th Street to hear Butts expound on social justice, economic parity and the need for neighbors to "love one another."
In a statement Friday, New York Mayor Eric Adams said Butts mentored him during some of the city's most difficult moments. "The City has lost a real giant," Adams said.
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US embassy identified Sandton district as potential target, but event went ahead after South African authorities insisted it was safe. The Guardian: Thousands attend South Africa Pride march despite terror warning
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Thousands of people gathered for the Pride march in South Africa’s largest city Johannesburg on Saturday despite a warning from the US embassy of a possible terror attack.
The event took place under heavy security in the upmarket district of Sandton, identified by the US embassy as a potential target.
South African authorities had assured organisers it was safe to proceed with the march, returning after a two-year break because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The US warning angered Pretoria. President Cyril Ramaphosa called it “unfortunate” and said it was causing “panic” in the country.
“We are always fighting for visibility and we are always in danger, so me hearing of the terrorist attack [warning], it didn’t even bother me,” said Anold Mulaisho, an LGBTQ activist, told AFP. “Either way, if I die my family already rejected me anyway, so no one is gonna get to miss me.”
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Their work puts to rights centuries of hackneyed images. The Economist: A new generation of black UK artists are changing fashion photography
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As a teenager growing up in Peckham, an ethnically diverse area of London, the photographer Nadine Ijewere observed the way that the women around her dressed. The neighbourhood “aunties”, as all older women were known, paired Nigerian patterns with Gucci handbags and Burberry motifs; they would style their afro hair in a way that was almost sculptural. Ijewere was interested in fashion photography, but she began to notice that the prints and hairstyles she saw everyday didn’t appear in magazines. She didn’t understand why these “pieces of art in themselves” were not more visible. At weekends, she would take photographs of her friends, many of whom were of mixed heritage like her, in the local park.
In 2018, at the age of 26, Ijewere became the first black woman to shoot a Vogue magazine cover, featuring the singer Dua Lipa draped in white feathers. Ijewere soon became known for her ethereal backdrops, her work with mixed-race models and her meticulous attention to black hair. In 2020, she did another photoshoot with Vogue, which accompanied a piece praising Nigerian “aunties”. The women in the shoot wore traditional head wraps and metallic floral and chequered prints in clashing colours. “I looked at those photographs and saw the women I grew up with,” Ijewere said. “I saw my heritage. And it was special.”
Almost 50 years before Ijewere’s “auntie” shoot, another black photographer, Armet Francis, took a photograph in Brixton, a neighbourhood not far from Peckham. In the picture, a stylish young black woman wearing a lilac suit leans back on a wooden chair in the middle of a road, an umbrella in hand. She looks aloof and carries herself with confidence, seemingly oblivious to the dreary weather and the workaday setting. Francis had been commissioned by a fashion magazine, but wanted to be subversive: instead of shooting in a studio, he went to Brixton Market, in an attempt to record the “proper reality of everyday black life”.
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Everything you need to know about two Supreme Court cases that could have sweeping implications for race-based admissions and beyond. VOX: Affirmative action is facing its most difficult test
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This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two related cases that are likely to drastically transform how admissions officers consider race as a factor in college applications, and possibly ban its consideration altogether.
The Court has supported the use of race in admissions for nearly 50 years, but what’s different now is its new conservative supermajority. Out of nine justices, six are now conservative, and with Chief Justice John Roberts’s acknowledgment of his preference for race-neutral admissions policies, a sweeping ban on affirmative action may be on the horizon.
The immediate question in the two lawsuits now pending before the Supreme Court — Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students For Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina — is whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, the 2003 case that held that race may play a limited role in college admissions. In practice, race often functions as a tiebreaker when universities are deciding among many well-qualified students.
The overarching stakes in these cases, however, are much broader. The plaintiffs advocate a “colorblind” theory of the Constitution that would prohibit the government from considering race in virtually any context, including efforts to voluntarily integrate racially segregated grade schools and other institutions. Decisions such as Grutter have given the government limited authority to foster racial diversity. Though decisions in each case most likely won’t be released until the end of the court’s term in spring 2023, the Harvard and UNC cases are likely to eliminate that authority altogether.
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