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The person selling loose cigarettes on the corner, or the one selling DVDs and incense on the subway, are just the tip of an enormous and perhaps immeasurable iceberg of informal work. A 2011 study estimated that $2 trillion in underground income goes unreported. Immigrants from Latin America working day-labor construction. Mothers on public assistance braiding hair or cleaning houses on the side. Sex work. Selling drugs. Collecting cans and bottles. Homeless people making money by asking for it on the street. Laid-off workers doing odd jobs while collecting unemployment—and then, given the horrible state of things, never looking back.
“This unreported income is being earned, for the most part, not by drug dealers or Mob bosses but by tens of millions of people with run-of-the-mill jobs—nannies, barbers, Web-site designers, and construction workers—who are getting paid off the books,” James Surowiecki wrote in the New Yorker. “Ordinary Americans have gone underground, and, as the recovery continues to limp along, they seem to be doing it more and more.”
The contemporary era of policing and mass incarceration emerged precisely to confront black people with limited or no access to formal work. As the sociologist Loïc Wacquant puts it, “in the wake of the race riots of the 1960s, the police, courts, and prison have been deployed to contain the urban dislocations wrought by economic deregulation and the implosion of the ghetto as ethnoracial container, and to impose the discipline of insecure employment at the bottom of the polarizing class structure.”
In other words, prisons supplanted social aid and the criminal justice system became the state’s main tool to discipline the black poor, locked into segregated neighborhoods and locked out of good jobs.
Please read it all.
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If you are a black driver in USA, you should immediately install a dash cam facing the interior of your car.
I’m about to do that
abbiehollowdays
This is one that has a built in mic and films both inside and outside the car with a rotating lens with night vision and saves footage on an SD card.
It’s fairly low profile too (fits over your rear-view mirror) so even if a cop tries to take your phone, they may not notice it. If the shit goes down with iPhone blocking people taking video, it wouldn’t affect this.
It’s good for car insurance claims as well.
yeah. Definitely doing this
I already have one (a different model than the one in this post). You can flip it around to record the road or the inside of your car
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tsunamiwavesurfing
Honor Her Excellency Queen Serena of Wimbledon.
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africa-will-unite
Just to summarize... for those whom haven't understood yet.
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I deadass just want Black people to all come together buy an island or some shit and just disappear. The only White person allowed on our island is Jane Elliott. If you a Black boy who worships White girls, you gotta stay in the states. I wish this could really happen. A land just for Black people. Could you imagine?
I’d pick somewhere tropical, where it’s always warm. We’d have fresh mangos and papayas. Fresh fruit and veggies. We’d all have natural hair and tans. We’d have our culture all to ourselves. No one stealing our fashion or baby hairs. The island would be filled with Black love, Black businesses, Black schools, Black everything. Man oh man. Only in my wildest dreams. The U.S. would crash.
jennysayshello
I been with this shit
jaiking
Follow me at http://jaiking.tumblr.com/ You’ll be glad you did.
Forget an island because there’s this continent called Africa…*raise one eyebrow and looks like “What’s up?”
ilikethat81
You said just what I was thinking😑 @jaiking
One more time because y'all really think Africa is some Utopia for Black people…A LOT OF AFRICANS DO NOT LIKE BLACK AMERICANS. If you really researched Africa and their attitudes towards Black people, you’d know this. Stop speaking before you think. You and him don’t know what you’re talking about.
@jaiking I speak for everyone, we tired of seeing your weak ass URL on our post. It’s 2016, if you haven’t gotten followers, they not coming. Stop.
Back t the Roots! Mama Africa, there is plenty of wonderfulLandawiting for you ALL, no kidding, you don't need NO INVITATION cause it's YOUR FIRSTHOME!!!! Always Remember!
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for real. reading the history of the laws (the many laws) written to keep blacks away from anything empowering is quite dizzying and housing discrimination was a big one. laws keeping and taking land from blacks go way back (for example) and as society progressed, it morphed to fit the times. nowadays it’s housing discrimination and it’s rampant.
random-alias
Shonda Rhimes needs to make a show for Black kids and let him star.
How ironic. I was just talking about this.
This shit is serious. Gentrification is an issue. Housing discrimination is real.
amyleona
True stories: -A Black family moving into a suburban neighborhood actually would lower the prices of homes. Because all the White people would try to move out as soon as possible. -If the new suburb was next to a non-White neighborhood, a fence could be put up “for safety” to instantly raise property values. -Have you heard the term redline/-ing? It refers to the practice of corporations color coding a region and not investing in or refusing service to those from certain (red) areas. These were usually poor Black neighborhoods. This included refusing those in redlined areas access to jobs, loans, medical care, etc. -Many older developments that were predominately home to poor PoC were destroyed with the promise of a new development or a suburb. This almost never happened and left the country with a shortage of affordable housing that still exists today. -“Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government backed $120 billion of home loans. More than 98% went to whites. Of the 350,000 new homes built with federal support in northern California between 1946 and 1960, fewer than 100 went to African Americans.” http://newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm
White people whose family has owned homes since the mid 20th century: The financial success and safety of our families and ourselves is completely based on racism. Never forget that.
Read more: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_discrimination_in_the_United_States_housing_market http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Housing_Administration http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kramer http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act
This needs more notes. People need to know just how this society made it a point at every turn to hold (and still hold today) Black people down for the benefit of whites.
A huge part of white wealth was created through real estate. A sector that Black people were systematically kept out of. A sector now where Black people are still preyed upon.
White real estate agents also took advantage of racist white homeowners with a practice called blockbusting, where they would encourage them to sell their homes at a loss with just the hint or promise that a black family (or sometimes Jewish or nonblack PoC family, depending on the region) was going to move in.
There were also footnotes on the actual deeds for many houses in white neighborhoods, stipulating that the house was never allowed to be sold or rented to a nonwhite occupant (Jewish people were nearly always considered nonwhite for these purposes). Called restrictive covenants, these were demanded and upheld by white homeowners associations, often with the real threat of violence.
Racist housing discrimination is as American as apple pie at a baseball game.
and this brings us to the current situation where the supreme court is going to take a look at the “Disparate Impact” rule of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. What disparate impact rule does is keep people from trying to discriminate against protected groups in America though subtle means. In our society, racism is very subtle especially when it’s corporate. So instead of putting out a sign that says “whites only” in front of building, a landlord can simply refuse to entertain people with a “Black” sounding name. In doing so they can say that their screening process has nothing to do with race but yet their process negatively impacts Black people and under this rule would be considered illegal. Another example would be banks deciding to issue loans at a higher interest rate to people in a certain part of town and claiming that doing so has nothing to do with race when in fact they are well aware that said part of town is populated by mostly Black people. So again, not blatant, quite subtle but under the disparate impact rule illegal. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the legality of this rule and, given their history of gutting civil right protections, could very well strike it down. If that happens, the flood gates of housing discrimination will be wide open and Black people, above all, are going to get hammered.
The case the Supreme Court will here is actually a great example of the subtle racial discrimination and racist practices the rule was made to fight. A Texas state agency awards low-income-housing tax credits to certain developers; a high percentage of this housing winds up being occupied by minorities. The agency, without giving a legitimate reason, granted the tax credits disproportionately to developers who own properties in impoverished, minority-majority neighborhoods. A fair housing group sued, insisting that the agency’s practices had the effect of keeping minorities trapped in minority communities while helping white communities keep minorities out. Simple. A subtle action was taken that had huge negative affect on minorities because where you live is everything in this country. From access to public transportation, healthy foods, clean air, emergency services, well resourced schools, playgrounds, cleanliness and etc are all affect by where you live and if an action is creating a circumstance that keeps a group of people locked in areas where those elements are below average, there’s a problem. Racism and discrimination in this country is subtle as fuck but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be fought. What the SCOTUS is going to do is anyone’s guess but I’m not optimistic. We could very well be looking at a long period where Blacks (as well as other minority groups) are going to be preyed upon more viciously than we’ve seen in a very long time.
bloomsofjubilance
In the late 90s, my parents were looking to rent in Park Slope and so they went to see an apartment, once the lady showing it found out there were black she wouldn’t let them in, real estate agent was embarrassed as hell
Wow
My God
A lot to be remembered! Or some conscious minds start reorganizing and set a Real Plan, to prevent this!
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We will fight for justice We will fight against racism We will fight against police brutality
RIP Delrawn Small
RIP Alton Sterling
RIP Philando Castile
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Police on video, Black men in prison, and what white people should be doing.
I had an idea for a blog I wanted to write about Alton Sterling, and then Philando Castile was murdered. I had a new idea for a blog I wanted to write, but Selma sent me some texts this morning about the murders and the videos and what we should be doing, and I can’t get my mind to focus. This is what I keep coming back to:
A lot of us know someone or know someone who knows someone (and so forth) who has been beaten up or murdered by the police. Or our parents do. Or we heard stories growing up. The further removed from this current generation, the more those stories were just word of mouth and neighborhood gossip, but with cellphones, there’s evidence. The rage I feel (we feel) right now isn’t just the product of seeing another dead Black body. It’s never just about the murder. It’s the realization that our grandparents’ police officers got off for these murders because it was our word against the police. Now, so many of these cases are video against the police, and there’s still no justice. Los Angeles didn’t riot in 1992 because Rodney King was beaten half to death. They rioted because it was on video and his attackers in uniform weren’t punished.
What do we have to do in order to win these cases? What do we have to do to feel safe in our own bodies against an institution that hates and fears us in equal parts? Video is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t lead directly to convictions: it leads to support from white people.
Deep Ultra-Facts!
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Wishing I wasn’t working so I could participate in this powerful march down 5th ave!! In tears in my agency! We need change! Stand together and make a difference! #BlackLivesMatter #NYC #WakeUp (at 5th Ave, New York City, NY)
Wish we all were there.