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Dear Leftist, What happened to all the African Americans? I'm going to talk about the disadvantaged position of African Americans in our society, how it happened, and what can be done about it in a relatively parallel fashion. I'm doing this because of a comment that our listeners sent me, and I will read to you that comment: “I think your analysis is on point,
but it's missing a massive intersection. The intersection of race goes hand in hand with class and capitalism. When we ignore that, we miss a huge connection into the behavior of modern American men”—I think of women too but—"Black men have had some of the lowest wages and employment for decades, and black women have always had to work unlike white women before the 1970s. WATCH NOW
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It’s Time To Retire The ‘Guns Don’t Kill People — People Kill People’ Argument. Guns DO Kill People. As sociologist Ding Xueliang told CNN: “The huge difference between this case and the U.S. is not the suspect, nor the situation, but the simple fact he did not have an effective weapon.”
Anyone debating gun control has inevitably run into those broken-record fundamentalists who—pulling out that tired, logic-deficient “trump card”— declare: “Guns don’t kill people ― people kill people!” I concede the obvious and irrelevant point: People do kill people. So do nukes, machetes, grenades, knives and fists. The fact that, like guns, all of those tools require some sort of human action to function isn’t an argument against restrictions on their use. This is especially so for guns, which—unlike fists and knives—enable one person to slaughter others with a brutal efficiency that the Founding Fathers couldn’t even begin to comprehend in 1791. The “guns don’t kill people” argument is flawed because it sidesteps the debate. The issue is not whether guns can spontaneously kill people on their own. The issue involves how incredibly easy a modern weapon makes killing. If you can’t see this point, I hope the anecdotes and statistics below illustrate it. Let’s leave Las Vegas aside for now. Instead, consider what happened in China just hours before the 2013 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting: A deranged man walked into a school and started indiscriminately stabbing everyone in his vicinity. Before his rampage ended, 22 children had been hit. The child killer in Newtown, Connecticut killed 20 children and six adults before his rampage ended; by contrast, because the Chinese murderer used a knife, none of the 22 children he stabbed died. The distinguishing factor was gun control. Effective gun laws prevented the Chinese man from obtaining a gun—with which he would have inflicted much more damage.
Unlike knives, guns allow relatively untrained individuals to inflict damage quickly and from a distance. Imagine the level of damage Stephen Paddock would have inflicted in Las Vegas if he’d only had access to a knife. The Las Vegas massacre simply wouldn’t have been possible. And Adam Lanza’s 2013 rampage would have ended with a rate of survival more akin to the Chinese incident. People kill people, and guns make that killing easier. While knives often wound and sometimes kill, guns often kill. Efficiently. Stop the inane word games. Enough obfuscating. Still don’t believe me? Profit-driven interest groups like the NRA try to stifle the statistics because they reveal how effective gun control is in lowering overall death rates, but the statistics exist nonetheless. Here are only a few: The United States rate of about 3.12 deaths per 100,000 people is the highest among industrialized nations. At the same time, we have the highest rate of gun ownership, with 88.8 guns per 100 people. The next country, Serbia, only has a rate of 58.2, and from there it declines dramatically. In 2012, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, eight in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada— and 10,728 in the United States. The main difference is simply that the U.S. lacks effective gun control. Guns are tools that make killing more efficient. Limiting that efficiency is a legitimate goal. Purveyors of the “guns don’t kill people” argument should remember that, by their inane logic, F16s don’t kill people and nuclear missiles don’t kill people. http://www.sdmonitornews.com
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Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census You can use the map to: •
Prioritize hard-to-count communities for your Get Out the Count campaign • You can zoom to any area in the country and the map will highlight the local hard-to-count tracts and provide details about how much of the area's population may be at risk of an undercount. You can also view local resources in hard-to-count areas such as public library branches. • Search by census tract, address, ZIP Code, landmark, county, state, or legislative district • The map color-codes the hardest-to-count tracts in the country. You can click on or tap any tract (or search by address) to find out important population information, such as: o How many households mailed back their census questionnaire in 2010 (i.e., how much of the tract may require more costly in-person follow up by the Census Bureau in 2020); and o How much of the tract is populated by groups that are at risk of being undercounted, such as children under 5, households with poor internet access, recent immigrants, and more. • Enhance your educational campaign supporting an adequate Census budget • When you search for a district, the information panel to the left of the map provides contacts for each congressional & state representative and US Senator.
HARD-TO-COUNT POPULATIONS One of the major challenges of any U.S. census is ensuring that everyone gets counted. Sometimes individuals are excluded or "undercounted" from the census. These individuals, sometimes referred to as hard-to-count populations, include children, rural residents, individuals of color, immigrants, homeless, and others. Why are hard-to-count populations undercounted? According to Dr. William O'Hare, there are multiple reasons why individuals are undercounted. These include:
home address not included in census address roster, a fear of government and privacy, language issues, complex What was the Census 2010 undercount? The census undercount varies by race/ethnicity, age, housing tenure, immigrant status, and for urban and rural communities. To provide some context, U.S. Census Bureau reported the following undercounts in Census 2010: Read Full Story www.sdmonitornews.com
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SDMNEWS Must READ Liberated It's doubtful Rozier got much help. Stephen Spencer Hill's escape was no fluke, but a plan concocted by his white neighbors to free him. Known as the Gold Spring Boys, Hill's neighbors didn't believe he was Rozier's property. They had spent months trying to extricate Hill from the white man's clutches. Court Ruled against Hill California was a free state, but under state and federal laws a fugitive slave could be captured and returned to his owner. Rozier claimed he was the agent for Wood Tucker, of Arkansas, who had brought Hill to California. Hill didn't have the paperwork to prove he was a free man and a judge ruled in Rozier's favor. Slavery in the Gold Rush White southerners brought black slaves into the California mines as early as the summer of 1849. Slave owners and slaves came primarily from western U.S. states -- Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas. Among them were Stephen Spencer Hill and Wood Tucker, who mined near Columbia. Slavery wasn't popular in the mines, but there were no laws barring it in the early days of the gold rush. Statehood In Washington, Congress was embroiled in a rancorous debate over whether the land acquired during the war with Mexico, including California, would be admitted to the union as free or slave states. The nation was evenly divided, with 15 states free and 15 states slaveholding. California would tip the balance in one direction or the other. Delegates Declared California a Free State By September of 1849 Californians were tired of waiting for the federal government to act on the matter of their statehood. Forty-eight state delegates gathered in Monterey and voted to join the Union. Many of California's delegates were from slave states, but they were also miners. They had experienced the hard-physical toil of digging for gold and the majority thought slavery an unfair advantage in the mines. They declared California a free state, writing into the constitution, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State." Watch and Learn more about Black in California Here Read More www.sdmonitornews.com
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Jamaica’s first National Hero, was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest Black empowerment movement of the twentieth century. Founded on August 1914 in Kingston, Jamaica, with only a few members, Garvey oversaw the growth of the UNIA, which by August 1925 with headquarters in Harlem, New York, had over eight million followers with 900 branches in 40 different countries.
3. In his seminal work, Race First, Tony Martin asserts, “practically every aspect of the organization [UNIA] was designed to bolster the black man’s self-esteem and to foster pride in self.” Indeed, Garvey often criticized his audiences for their reliance on other races for solutions that could have been found within the Black community: “Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.” (Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey)
1. Fortified by his readings of Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Garvey vowed that the Black man “would not continue to be kicked about, as I had seen in Central America, and as I read of it in America.”
4. This sense of purpose Garvey claimed began from the personal, “We must know beforehand the progress of our existence,” and extended to the collective, “Our racial program of today is a united, emancipated and improved people.”
2. To that end, he founded a newspaper, The Negro World, which could be argued was not a newspaper in the traditional sense. For besides reporting on current events, the newspaper also ran articles by Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, W. A. Domingo, T. Thomas Fortune, Arthur Schomburg, John E. H. Harrison and Carter Woodson.
The UNIA, Garvey insisted was “organized for the absolute purpose of bettering our condition, industrially, commercially, socially, religiously and politically.” READ MORE www.sdmonitornews.com
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SDMNEWS WATCH OF THE WEEK An All Black TOWN Oklahoma 1920
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