Spoke to the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee at the City of Toronto, whereupon I discovered that the City NEVER EVEN CONSULTED its own, very obviously relevant Committee on the development of the protest bubbles bylaw.

Mind, they ignored the overwhelming wishes of the people they DID consult, so it wouldn't have much mattered, I suspect.

The City HAS however decided that they will be useful in cramming it down Black people's throats.

This is how systemic racism works.
#Toronto #TorontoActivists #topoli #SystemicRacism

We stand for a revolution of values.
We stand for policies that allow all to thrive, not stuggle to survive.
We are a resurrection, not an insurrection.

Join us!

#MDPPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SystemicRacism #SystemicPoverty

5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder

#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60

1/3 "Lone minority individuals lack the psychological safety of a larger ethnic group, leaving them vulnerable to isolation and marginalization."

https://medium.com/an-injustice/how-britain-creates-mental-illness-racism-misdiagnosis-and-a-system-that-wont-change-d92476b8441f

#mentalhealth #mentalillness #systemicracism #equity #culturalcompetency #marginalized #BlackMastodon

#News #Endemic #SystemicRacism

#USA

Chris Van Hollen, a senator for Maryland, told an audience at the Center for American Progress thinktank in Washington: “To watch the Trump administration apply what I call their global apartheid policy by providing asylum or refugee status to some Afrikaners – white South Africans – while they shut everybody else out is just an outrageous insult to the whole idea of our country, and the whole idea of Dr King that at the end of the day it’s character that counts.”

“We have to call it out for what it is: it’s an application of the global apartheid policy by the Trump administration.”

Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, said in a statement: “It is baffling as to why the Trump administration is admitting Afrikaners for resettlement while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution, often because their lives were at risk.”

Last year, the UN found no South Africans were eligible for refugee status. The decision by this administration to put one group at the front of the line is clearly politically motivated and an effort to rewrite history.”

#RESIST! #NAACP Sues #DepartmentOfEducation Over #DEI Rollbacks: Here's What To Know

The nation's oldest #CivilRights group says the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity and inclusion programs is unconstitutional and disproportionately harms #BlackStudents.

April 19, 2025

"The NAACP is suing the U.S. Department of Education over recent efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in schools. In a federal complaint filed in Washington, D.C., the organization alleges that the Department of Education’s recent directives are unconstitutional and discriminatory—particularly for Black students.

"The complaint faults the administration for targeting programs that offer '#truthful, #inclusive curricula,' as well as policies that expand access to selective educational opportunities for #BlackAmericans and foster belonging while addressing #racism in schools.

"The NAACP argues that the Department’s recent actions 'advance a misinterpretation' of federal civil rights laws and Supreme Court precedent—actions that, according to the group, violate its members’ rights to equal protection and to be free from viewpoint discrimination under the #USConstitution.

"NAACP President Derrick Johnson criticized the move, stating that the administration is 'effectively sanctioning' the very discrimination that U.S. civil rights laws were designed to prevent

" 'The Department of Education, tasked with a responsibility to protect the civil rights of all children, has instead claimed #SystemicRacism doesn’t exist — effectively sanctioning the very discrimination that our civil rights laws were designed to prevent while children of color consistently attend #segregated, chronically underfunded schools where they receive less educational opportunities and more discipline,' said Johnson."

Read more:
https://www.essence.com/news/naacp-sues-department-of-education-over-dei/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#BlackLivesMatter #USPol #Resistance #TrumpIsARacist #CharacteristicsOfFascism

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review

In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

https://boltsmag.org/cook-county-initiative-to-bypass-felony-review-chicago/

#SystemicRacism #chicago #civilrighrs