policy
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What Are Reparations and Why Are They a Hot Ticket Item in 2020? | Unpack That
Reparations for slavery is one of the hottest political topics on the 2020 campaign trail. But, who wants them? Who gets them? And why are they important? First things first: Reparations for slavery isn’t all about getting that bag. It’s part of it, for sure, but it’s also about acknowledging and reconciling a wrong. In…
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Schools Ban ‘Memorial Attire,’ Showing More Interest in Policing Black Students Than Teaching Them
Students at a Jacksonville, Fla., high school say they’ve been banned from wearing “memorial attire”—that is, clothes or jewelry honoring a deceased love one—because local officials believe the commemorations are tied to “gang activity.” According to News4Jax, students at Robert E. Lee High School (of course) were reminded on Wednesday that they couldn’t wear anything…
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White Women Wore Hoodies to a Tennessee Mall to Prove Its Hoodie Policy Only Targets Black Men
After footage of four black men being escorted out of a mall in Tennessee for wearing hoodies inside, four white women wore hoodies to the same mall to see if the policy was meant for everyone. And, yep, you guessed it, the women were able to walk freely around the mall with their hoodies—both up…
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White House Pushing New Policy That Would Punish Legal Immigrants Who've Received Public Benefits: Report
The White House is at again, this time, President Trump’s advisor and resident white supremacist weasel, Stephen Miller, has reportedly proposed a new policy that would make it harder for legal immigrants whose families received public benefits such as subsidies for Obamacare or food stamps to get citizenship. According to CNN, The White House (emphasis…
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Arming Teachers Is Probably One of the Worst Policy Suggestions of All Time
When I was in ninth grade, I had a classmate named Chris. Chris was your typical badass: a little older than the rest of us, a little less interested in shit than the rest of us, basically coming to school because what the fuck else did he have to do while the rest of us…
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Ben Carson: Donald Trump’s New Deal for Black America Begins With a Good Education
Donald Trump often says things that many people believe to be true but dare not say. He did it again recently by saying that nobody needs to tell African Americans in this country that the old New Deal from the Democratic Party isn’t working for them. Trump made the simple but accurate observation that in…
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American Racism: From the Hood to the Precinct
Depending on whom you ask, 2 a.m. is counted among the small hours of the day—when the world’s respectable are tucked into the sleepy fold where night meets morning. But for others, 2 a.m. is when the air falls heaviest on the shoulders, thick with the threat of chaos. A threat known to anyone who’s…