#Trump’s rhetoric about #DC echoes a history of #racist narratives about urban crime

By MATT BROWN
Updated 11:30 AM EDT, August 12, 2025

Excerpt: "As D.C. the #NationalGuard arrived at their headquarters Tuesday, for many residents, the prospect of federal troops surging into #neighborhoods represented an alarming violation of local agency. To some, it echoes uncomfortable historical chapters when politicians used language to paint historically or predominantly #BlackCities and [#BlackNeighborhoods] with racist narratives to shape public opinion and justify aggressive police action."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b

#Racism #WashingtonDC #TrumpTakeover #Authoritarianism
#FascismInTheUSA #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#USPol #TrumpIsARacist #TrumpIsAWhiteNationalist #BlackLivesMatter #BlackCitiesMatter #ACAB

Another #book on my reading wishlist.

White Burgers, Black Cash
Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate

The long and pernicious relationship between #FastFoodRestaurants and the #AfricanAmerican community.

Today, #FastFood is disproportionately located in #BlackNeighborhoods and marketed to #BlackAmericans through targeted #advertising. But throughout much of the 20th century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long #history of #RacistExclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban #BlackCommunities.

Fast food has historically been tied to the country’s self-image as the #LandOfOpportunity and is marketed as one of life’s simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry’s core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to #Whiteness to the #disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food’s racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of #Chicago, #NewYork City, and #WashingtonDC, in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including #WhiteCastle, #KFC, #BurgerKing, #McDonalds, and more.

#Bookstodon #ReadingList #Education #Racism #USBlackHistory #WhiteSupremacy #SystemicRacism #USRacism #Nonfiction

#CorruptRobertsCourt will hear #redistricting to prevent #OnePersonOneVote: decades of #development and #gentrification on the island have nearly obliterated #Blackneighborhoods and #native owned #businesses.

#GentrificationWithoutRepresentation

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-hears-case-alleged-bleaching-exclude-black/story?id=103863016

“A federal judge ruled that a robocall operation led by 2 conspiracy theorists ahead of the #2020election violated Section 11(b) of the #VotingRightsAct , the #KuKluxKlanAct of 1870, the #CivilRightsAct & #NewYork civil rights laws. The right-wing activists sent over 85,000 robocalls to discourage voters in predominantly #Blackneighborhoods from #votingbymail in 2020.”

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-rules-right-wing-conspiracy-theorists-illegally-intimidated-voters-in-2020/