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I never said that. I'm saying there are fundamental legislational problems with how we police impoverished districts and drug addiction, and how we fail to publicly fund solutions for treating drug addiction and mental illness, and these issues are especially prevalent and specifically aggravated by the individual being a person of color and/or living in poverty, which themselves are linked and aggravate each other.

 

This is why police reform is impossible:


"In order to fulfill its legal obligation, Seattle attempted to reach a compromise with the police union this summer, offering a new contract that mixed the requisite reforms with wage hikes. The union overwhelmingly rejected the contract on the grounds that it did not sufficiently reward officers with more money and benefits in exchange for engaging in constitutional policing. According to the Seattle Times, it was this repudiation that pushed Robart to speak out so forcefully. In particular, the union appears resistant to adopt new standards and procedures regarding officer discipline and internal investigations, which Robart insists are vital to any sufficient reform."

Federal Judge to Police Union in Court: “Black Lives Matter”

 

In what ways would you change the substance abuse treatment system? I feel like it's extremely accessible; there are free treatment centers (both inpatient and outpatient) that will go as far as sending somebody to pick you up if you don't have a car, there are substance abuse meetings throughout the day that are everywhere (Seriously, name a zip code that has over 10,000 people living there and I'll give you a list of meetings nearby), there are dozens of online support groups running 24/7, since addiction is classified as a mental illness most states can't legally fire you for missing work if you are seeking help, there are meetings catered to gender, first language and sexuality. The only thing I can think of is requiring paid time off if somebody is seeking help.

 

Anyone have a good study or data that refutes the Model Minority myth as it pertains to this: Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites

Basically, this study seems to be claiming that even poor asian students out perform white students, but I know I'v definitely seen data to the contrary on that.

 

NewsCenter | SDSU | Asian ‘Model Minority’ Myth Debunked

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/970627StudyRefutes

 

NewsCenter | SDSU | Asian ‘Model Minority’ Myth Debunked

STUDY REFUTES MYTH OF MODEL MINORITY

 

I grew up poor Asian and I was terrible at Math.

 

That explains literally everything.

 

Okay, Doc.

 

Not to be too needy, but do you have anything better? The first one is very undetailed and the study is behind a paywall unfortunately. The second one doesn't have a link to anything and very little info.

My googling skills are letting me down on this one. I know, i KNOw I've seen somewhere stats on poor asian immigrants and their achievements in school

 

Socioeconomic Statistics & Demographics : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues

 

Fed Chair To Jobless African-Americans: You're On Your Own

 

Anyone here offended by that Ellen DeGeneres shoop tweet?

 

It's definitely weird and shouldn't have been done. I have seen more than my share of mouth breathers on twitter upset that people find it offensive.

 

I don't think it was explicitly racist and certainly not intentionally, but it is a little weird.

 

Can't say it's a smart thing to do. It also isn't funny really.

 

I immediately knew what she was going for but should have thought about it before posting it.

 

just watched it and i'm just supremely confused. ellen is a lesbian.

the issue is the use of "chocolate" or just the whole thing or what?

edit: nvm i think i am talking about the wrong tweet lmao

 

Black people in Britain are more than twice as likely to be murdered as white people

 

First time I've posted in this thread and just thought I would share my experience. This happened about a month ago.

I live in a small town in northern Indiana, about 11,000 people. We have the typical rednecks and our county is the highest for meth in the state, again your average small town. I had just got done in doing a car wash for my school and was going to walk home with one of my close friends, who is black, to play Pokemon Go because the game had just came out. It didn't even take 5 minutes of us walking for someone to pull up and yell something at him (the n word). He said he's used to it by now but this is the first time I had witnissed it. We walked around uptown and everything went fine. But as I neared my house yet another car pulled up and did the same. We weren't out for more than an hour and and he had the n word yelled at him twice. I knew racism still existed and was a problem but seeing this first hand was an eye opening experience.

 

I'm sorry your friend had to go through this. It is not surprising, given that Indiana was a stronghold for the Klan. At one point, they had around a quarter of a million members and occupied a number of positions of power, including the governorship and the state assembly. It was only after the leader raped and murdered a woman that there was a precipitous drop on membership. So, it wasn't that they ceased being racist, they simply stopped affiliating with an organization that was embroiled in scandal.

 

This is a really interesting read, which pretty much reflects my position on a lot of things:


"...what historically defines the slave’s position in society is ultimately not the phenomena of forced labour. Although frequent, forced labour occurs only contingently or incidentally, and not everywhere slaves are found. The slave relation, Patterson argued, is rather defined by a threefold condition: a) general dishonourment (or social death), b) natal alienation (i.e. the systematic rupture of familial and genealogical continuities), c) gratuitous or limitless violence. This threefold combination gives rise to a
being experientially and socially devoid of relationality: the slave relation is a type of social relation whose product is a relationless object. 4
In the late 1990s Saidiya Hartman, following on the work of cultural theorist Hortense Spillers, added to Patterson’s criteria an ontological dimension: the slave, she argues, is one who finds themselves positioned in their very existence, their being-as-such, as a non-Human – a captured, owned, and traded object for another. The ontological abjection of slave existence is not primarily defined by alienation and
exploitation (a suffering due to the perceived loss of one’s humanity) but by accumulation and fungibility: the condition of being owned and traded, of having one’s being reduced to a being-for-the-captor.5
Far from disappearing with the 13th amendment, or even in the post-Civil Rights period, afropessimists argue that the formal traits of the slave relation were reproduced and kept alive through the perpetuation of a form of social and civil death6 that continues to materially and symbolically locate the Black body ‘outside Humanity’.....the slave relation now marks itself within the being-as-such of Blackness. 7 Black folk today continue to be constitutively denied symbolic membership within White civil society (both culturally and politically), in such a way that no analogical bridge to White culture exists through which Blacks could conceivably wage a ‘war of position’ or sue for the sort of junior partner status otherwise accorded to White women, non-Black people of colour, or ‘dutiful’ immigrants."

https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2016/03/Aarons-No-selves-to-abolish-REVISED-READ.pdf

 

This thing at work keeps happening where I think people are trying to be open minded and consider someone's culture but just end up stereotyping them. Like yes keep in mind that their culture informs what they do, but idk maybe talk to the family or person first about their values and beliefs because otherwise it's just making assumptions based off stereotypes. We're taught to consider cultural factors so I think that's what they try to do, but instead they're like "oh, the dad is strict and abusive? It's cause they're a Mexican family" or "the mom let's her husband walk all over her and thinks it's normal and okay? It's cause they're chinese" like omg no gtfo! It happened last year too and I tried to sorta say something but this year I'm gonna push harder. When they say to take culture into account that's not what they mean!!!

 

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