Implicit bias in our preferences, thinking & feeling have become ingrained or institutionalized in all the systems of our society, codified into laws & regulations. Possibly we’re not even fully-conscious of the deep-rooted, learned responses we’ve assimilated. These systems disproportionately disenfranchise, oppress, criminalize & incarcerate minorities, causing great harm to our society. Bigotry is a cancer raging through our systems, but we’re empowered to excision & healing. Racism starts early; Black infant-mortality rates are twice as high as for Whites; Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to suffer pregnancy-related deaths. We need equal access to affordable, premium healthcare for all Americans, Head-start & daycare-subsidies for working parents.
Statistics show that K-12 schools punish Black children (near 16 percent of student-body) at higher-rates than Whites, comprising near 51 percent of students nationwide. This “suspicion of guilt” follows them throughout their school years; “some schools have a troubling-practice of calling law-enforcement to discipline Black students on schoolgrounds”, creating the “school-to-prison-pipeline”, channeling students into the ‘criminal-justice’ system early, while teaching people-of-color they can expect unfair treatment. Repeated suspensions/expulsions cause spotty-learning, dropouts, lower graduation-rates, ‘unreadiness’ for college; and with the system of racial-profiling, more inclination toward arrest. Black students tend to incur more student-loan debt, and are hired at a lesser-rate.
Racist housing-policies further ‘climate-segregation’ in cities. Housing must be indexed to wages, and workers must receive a living-wage! There’s huge systemic-racism in lending, excluding Blacks from property-ownership & wealth-building. Follow the money, look at the big bankers, willing to build private FOR-PROFIT-prisons to incarcerate millions of Black-Americans. The legacies of slavery & racism more apparent in our legal-penal-system than anywhere else. “Big banks fund police foundations, and Wall Street directly profits from police brutality. We must STOP the extraction of wealth from workers” & extracting people from our communities, by over-incarceration. Whites created these systems and WE ALL need to change them NOW! We must STOP police brutality; STOP police from murdering unarmed-Blacks in our streets, by holding police fully-accountable for their recklessness & extreme-force!
Illinois’ Governor Pritzker set a progressive-example by signing the criminal justice reform bill on 2/22/21, saying “this is going to make policing safer and the public safer”. LOVE looks like JUSTICE! The change begins with ‘US’, a change in consciousness, in our hearts & minds, our speech & actions. We’re amidst a racial-reckoning; we must STOP & Self-reflect …. then act, turning things around for minority-youth, their families, our communities, for ALL OUR SAKES! Responsibility means the ability to respond, appropriately. “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!”
Trish Forsyth Voss
“You didn’t have to be a slave-owner to have benefitted from the results of slaves building up an economy & structure that mainly whites benefitted from. It’s way past time to begin in earnest the reparations for the actions of our ancestors & the structures set in place by the slavers, the slaveholders & all the generations that benefitted” since ’emancipation’ — that should have been set-right long ago. “Advocate, advocate, advocate! Power concedes nothing without a demand”, said Frederick Douglass. IT’S TIME TO CHANGE!
Feb 27 2021
Love looks like Justice!
Implicit bias in our preferences, thinking & feeling have become ingrained or institutionalized in all the systems of our society, codified into laws & regulations. Possibly we’re not even fully-conscious of the deep-rooted, learned responses we’ve assimilated. These systems disproportionately disenfranchise, oppress, criminalize & incarcerate minorities, causing great harm to our society. Bigotry is a cancer raging through our systems, but we’re empowered to excision & healing. Racism starts early; Black infant-mortality rates are twice as high as for Whites; Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to suffer pregnancy-related deaths. We need equal access to affordable, premium healthcare for all Americans, Head-start & daycare-subsidies for working parents.
Statistics show that K-12 schools punish Black children (near 16 percent of student-body) at higher-rates than Whites, comprising near 51 percent of students nationwide. This “suspicion of guilt” follows them throughout their school years; “some schools have a troubling-practice of calling law-enforcement to discipline Black students on schoolgrounds”, creating the “school-to-prison-pipeline”, channeling students into the ‘criminal-justice’ system early, while teaching people-of-color they can expect unfair treatment. Repeated suspensions/expulsions cause spotty-learning, dropouts, lower graduation-rates, ‘unreadiness’ for college; and with the system of racial-profiling, more inclination toward arrest. Black students tend to incur more student-loan debt, and are hired at a lesser-rate.
Racist housing-policies further ‘climate-segregation’ in cities. Housing must be indexed to wages, and workers must receive a living-wage! There’s huge systemic-racism in lending, excluding Blacks from property-ownership & wealth-building. Follow the money, look at the big bankers, willing to build private FOR-PROFIT-prisons to incarcerate millions of Black-Americans. The legacies of slavery & racism more apparent in our legal-penal-system than anywhere else. “Big banks fund police foundations, and Wall Street directly profits from police brutality. We must STOP the extraction of wealth from workers” & extracting people from our communities, by over-incarceration. Whites created these systems and WE ALL need to change them NOW! We must STOP police brutality; STOP police from murdering unarmed-Blacks in our streets, by holding police fully-accountable for their recklessness & extreme-force!
Illinois’ Governor Pritzker set a progressive-example by signing the criminal justice reform bill on 2/22/21, saying “this is going to make policing safer and the public safer”. LOVE looks like JUSTICE! The change begins with ‘US’, a change in consciousness, in our hearts & minds, our speech & actions. We’re amidst a racial-reckoning; we must STOP & Self-reflect …. then act, turning things around for minority-youth, their families, our communities, for ALL OUR SAKES! Responsibility means the ability to respond, appropriately. “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!”
Trish Forsyth Voss
“You didn’t have to be a slave-owner to have benefitted from the results of slaves building up an economy & structure that mainly whites benefitted from. It’s way past time to begin in earnest the reparations for the actions of our ancestors & the structures set in place by the slavers, the slaveholders & all the generations that benefitted” since ’emancipation’ — that should have been set-right long ago. “Advocate, advocate, advocate! Power concedes nothing without a demand”, said Frederick Douglass. IT’S TIME TO CHANGE!
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