Tag: race

"Because it is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept."

We speak to Nathan Phillips about what happened. He is a Vietnam-era veteran and previous director of the Native Youth Alliance.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.

This initiative, connected by the Twitter hashtag #BlackFridays, has resulted in a number of symbolic walkouts across the country led by a network of women of color.

“If you look for instance at the surges in Ku Klux Klan membership, they align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat and the aftermath of war than they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."

As we stay engaged to make sure all the votes are counted, we also begin to shift toward reflection, recalibration and recommitment.

Republicans can only win by racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. And Trump can only win by using fear and racism.

"We are the Many, and they are Few – and if we decide to stand together, to make our voices heard, no one and nothing will stop us."

Politicians and media moguls have long understood that fear and hate sell better than hope and compassion, no matter how much we might wish it otherwise.