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Thursday, April 24, 2014

White Suprmacy: Alive and Well | Bill Ayers

White Suprmacy: Alive and Well | Bill Ayers:



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You can read Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s  dissent text here.



White Suprmacy: Alive and Well

The Supreme Court continued its long backward march yesterday, ruling 6-2 that Michigan could ban race as a factor in college admissions. Affirmative action is alive and well for white people, for the children of wealthy donors and alumni, but dead for people who suffered centuries of slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, lynching and organized terror, mass incarceration and more. Fifty years on, “state’s


Who Made That?

A year ago today 1,133 garment workers died in Dhaka, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, when an 8-story factory making clothes for national brands like Gap and Benetton, collapsed; 2,500 other workers were pulled from the wreckage. Several companies hastily signed an “accord” requiring stricter safety standards, but Target and Walmart, e.g., refused, saying they would conduct their own safety i