Melissa Barrera dropped from ‘Scream VII’ after pro-Palestinian posts https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-11-21/melissa-barrera-dropped-from-scream-vii
#ExceptForPalestine- #McCartyism in the #NewJimCrow: “At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.”
Adam Serwer writing in *The Atlantic* on the recent 8th circuit appeals decision gutting the Voting Right Act. The decision prevents citizens and groups from filing lawsuits seeking relief under the act, limiting it to the Justice Department. A government action. Which, as Sewer notes, is at odds with the intent of congress and longstanding application.
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#VotingRightAct #CivilRights #gerrymandering #racism #gop #Republicans #voting #newjimcrow
"A state attorney in #Florida has apologized for a “racist” memo produced by staff in a rural county office of all-white prosecutors, advocating more severe punishments for defendants who are Hispanic.
The document covering plea deals was exposed by a whistleblower former employee who worked briefly for [the] state attorney ... based in Tallahassee."
Absolutely horrid.
"An #Atlanta man died in a local jail after being eaten alive by #bedbugs, alleges a lawyer representing the man’s family.
The family of Lashawn Thompson, 35, is calling for a criminal investigation ... and for the closure and replacement of a local jail after alleging that Thompson died in custody from bed bugs in a squalid #jail cell."
"The cell was so filthy that an employee wore a hazmat suit upon entering...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/15/atlanta-jail-man-dead-eaten-bed-bugs
So much for the sweet release of death: #Alabama is so prison-happy, it recently denied #parole to a man who had died a week earlier.
Sadly, he was in good company -- the state granted parole in just 6% of cases in the last fiscal year, down from 50% five years earlier.
And let's not even get started on how he joins a growing number of in-custody deaths in the state's barbaric prisons.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackHistoryMatters
#BlackHistory
#NewJimCrow
#Erasure
#Segregation
#WhiteFragility
@gratefuldread They also didn't block individual AP culture classes for #AsianAmerican studies or for cultural studies classes for a wide variety of #European countries.
Screw #AfricanAmerican students. After all, Ron Deathsentence told us in so many words that #woke in #Florida means #Black and mixed people, and he said Florida is where the woke go to die. I take that statement LITERALLY. I must.
#education #antiracism #bigotry #stopwokeact #amerikkka #plantationnation #schools #newjimcrow
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