*Democrats need to shi*t or get off the pot when it comes to standing up for civil rights issues for Blacks in 2014. Now I specifically said civil rights for Blacks because we already know that Democrats have no reservations about raising their voices on civil rights for illegal immigrants and gays. But I have […]
Fifty-eight years ago today, Rosa Parks, then 43-years-old, became a lightening rod for the Civil Rights Movement when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Apparently, that singular act ended racism. Yes, the Civil Rights Movement that followed Parks’ courageous act — which itself followed the courageous act of Claudette Colvin[1] — ended racism, according to a tweet by the Republican National Committee: The murders of Four Little Girls in Birmingham and Wharlest Jackson in Natchez, Mississippi weren’t racist. The assassinations of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Medgar Evers and El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) were apparently not race related, at all. The contemporary effects of slavery: School-to-Prison pipelines, disparities in prison sentencing, Stop-and-Frisk, just to name a few, have nothing to do with racism because racism is over, according to the GOP. It ended here: Maybe Black America didn’t get the memo. The RNC tried to explain ...
Home[1] » NewsOne Now[2] » Phillip Agnew On Young People Assuming Their Position In The Fight For Civil Rights Civil rights during the ’60s and civil rights of today might be considered two completely different things. Phillip Agnew[3] of the Dream Defenders[4] explained that there is still room for young people to make a difference if they want to make change. ”For young people who are looking for people that look like them and talk like them, and then are engaging them in a way that say, ‘Hey, there’s room for us here,’ and that’s all that it’s about.” View Gallery September 25, 2013 | 30 items Tags: 2013 CBC » CBC » Congressional Black Caucus » newsone now » Phillip Agnew » Videos[5][6][7][8][9][10] '); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src = 'https://widget.crowdignite.com/widgets/2660?_ci_wid=_CI_widget_'+_CI.counter; script.async = true; // Ensure td elements align properly in two column rows script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function() ...
