Jim Crow is rapidly returning in the South - Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, North/South Carolina, Texas, Alabama
- Thread starter ☑︎#VoteDemocrat
- Start date
King_Kamala61
TheColi's Favorite Artist
not until you give me what I want. I told you Imma be picking pennies out ya ass til I get me a damn dollar. You don't like it then give me wtf I want.Post ya bytch ass photos of examples of what you think my art looks like.
I got time...you dont
King_Kamala61
TheColi's Favorite Artist
Yea yea yea....STAND ON YA shyt HO....SHOW ME WHO MAKING ART THAT LOOK LIKE MINE
King_Kamala61
TheColi's Favorite Artist
Stand on ya shyt ho! Stand on ya shyt!
King_Kamala61
TheColi's Favorite Artist
Stand on your shyt bytch! Show me these artists you speak of. Stand 10 toes hoe
A Tallahassee student group for Black men might have to change its name
The Black Male Achievers at Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing state and federal funding under a new Florida law.
news.wfsu.org
A Tallahassee student group for Black men might have to change its name
Patrick Sternad
/
WFSU Public Media
Exterior of Computer Technology and Workplace Development buildings at Tallahassee Community College.
A student organization that serves African-American men who attend Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing funding under a new Florida law.
Tyler Soto, a student at TCC, is a member of Black Male Achievers. He says they're working out possible new names, such as "Male Achievers" or "Scholar Male Achievers."
"We’re going to have to change the name of our organization or they’re going to defund it because it has 'Black' in front of it."
A new law prohibits student-led organizations that “advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion” and other social and political causes from receiving state or federal funding. While those organizations aren’t banned outright, they may only receive funding from student-activity fees under the new law.
That has him and his classmates concerned as they get ready to return to campus this month, Soto said.
Soto, who's also a member of TCC’s Student Government Association, says changes like these only encourage him to get more involved in the political process.
“It has made me want to step up and be the change.”
Soto’s classmate Denzel Wiggins is also a member of SGA and the Black Male Achievers.
“I don’t think we should have to change our name because obviously it’s for the Black community, so I’m not a fan.”
Wiggins says he’s also not happy about the Stop Woke Act, which restricts the way race is taught in college and university classrooms. That law is the driver behind the state’s controversial new African American history standards in K-12 schools.
“Trying to erase things that we’ve been through that we had to deal with to get to where we are now is just trying to water down the things that we’ve done," Wiggins said. "I think our history is very important."
Clarification: WFSU News reached out to TCC by phone and email before the story published on Friday.
TCC says that it had no conversations with members of the Black Male Achievers about having to change the organization's name.
A spokesperson emailed WFSU News the following statement on Wednesday:
"BMA provides academic support and student services to help underrepresented populations, like minority males, persist and graduate. As with all TCC clubs, orgs and programs, membership into BMA is open to any and all currently-registered students."
North Carolina Legislature Sends Anti-Voting Election Bill to Governor
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
North Carolina Legislature Sends Anti-Voting Election Bill to Governor
August 17, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, Aug. 16, the North Carolina Legislature, along party lines, approved omnibus voter suppression bill Senate Bill 747, sending it to Gov. Roy Cooper (D) for his signature or veto.
S.B. 747 would enact numerous new voting restrictions in the state and represents the most significant move North Carolina Republicans have taken to meddle with elections this year. Drafted with input from election-denying Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, the bill would impose a variety of election restrictions, including:
- Banning private funding for election administration,
- Shortening the timeline to return absentee ballots from three days after Election Day to 7:30 p.m. on Election Day,
- Transferring election crime investigations to the State Bureau of Investigation,
- Excluding any missing witness information from the categories of “curable deficiencies,”
- Allowing poll observers to freely move around polling locations, listen to conversations between voters and election officials and take photographs,
- Extending the deadline for challenging to mail-in ballots from Election Day to five business days after Election Day and
- Requiring same-day registrants during the early voting period to vote on a “retrievable” ballot after providing required documentation at the polls. These votes will only be counted if the U.S. Postal Service is able to verify the voter’s address via a deliverable notice prior to the start of county canvass, which begins 10 business days after Election Day.
- The bill will also launch a pilot program during the primary held in 2024 for signature verification on mail-in ballots. The State Board of Elections will select 10 counties of varying size, regional location and demographics. As part of the pilot program, ballots that fail the signature verification won’t be rejected for that reason.
Software will be used to verify that a voter’s signature on their mail-in ballot matches what the state has on record. Other states have found the verification to be finicky and the practice is highly litigated.
Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has expressed opposition to the bill that suggests he will veto it. However, state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who ran as a Democrat in the Democratic-stronghold of Mecklenburg County, switched party membership earlier this year. This alarming switch has given North Carolina Republicans the requisite numbers to override Cooper’s veto.
All of these restrictive changes to North Carolina’s election law come as voters and election officials begin to navigate a new photo ID requirement ahead of municipal elections this fall. The photo ID requirement, previously found to be unconstitutional by the state’s highest court, was allowed to be implemented this spring after the newly conservative North Carolina Supreme Court redecided Holmes v. Moore in a highly unprecedented and concerning reversal.
Read S.B. 747 here.
Track the status of S.B. 747 here.
Voice of Reason
Veteran
A Tallahassee student group for Black men might have to change its name
The Black Male Achievers at Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing state and federal funding under a new Florida law.
A Tallahassee student group for Black men might have to change its name
Patrick Sternad
/
WFSU Public Media
Exterior of Computer Technology and Workplace Development buildings at Tallahassee Community College.
A student organization that serves African-American men who attend Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing funding under a new Florida law.
Tyler Soto, a student at TCC, is a member of Black Male Achievers. He says they're working out possible new names, such as "Male Achievers" or "Scholar Male Achievers."
"We’re going to have to change the name of our organization or they’re going to defund it because it has 'Black' in front of it."
A new law prohibits student-led organizations that “advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion” and other social and political causes from receiving state or federal funding. While those organizations aren’t banned outright, they may only receive funding from student-activity fees under the new law.
That has him and his classmates concerned as they get ready to return to campus this month, Soto said.
Soto, who's also a member of TCC’s Student Government Association, says changes like these only encourage him to get more involved in the political process.
“It has made me want to step up and be the change.”
Soto’s classmate Denzel Wiggins is also a member of SGA and the Black Male Achievers.
“I don’t think we should have to change our name because obviously it’s for the Black community, so I’m not a fan.”
Wiggins says he’s also not happy about the Stop Woke Act, which restricts the way race is taught in college and university classrooms. That law is the driver behind the state’s controversial new African American history standards in K-12 schools.
“Trying to erase things that we’ve been through that we had to deal with to get to where we are now is just trying to water down the things that we’ve done," Wiggins said. "I think our history is very important."
Clarification: WFSU News reached out to TCC by phone and email before the story published on Friday.
TCC says that it had no conversations with members of the Black Male Achievers about having to change the organization's name.
A spokesperson emailed WFSU News the following statement on Wednesday:
"BMA provides academic support and student services to help underrepresented populations, like minority males, persist and graduate. As with all TCC clubs, orgs and programs, membership into BMA is open to any and all currently-registered students."
And we have idiots on social media talking about 50/50 and gender wars when these folks are waging war.
This isn't even med school. This is literally a high school enrichment program
www.dailymail.co.uk
Columbia, NYU, and other top med schools hit with civil rights complaints for discriminating against white and Asian teens by making it easier for blacks and others to join introductory classes
Asian and white students have an extra hurdle: proving that they're poor
Blacks and Latinos are under-represented at America's medical schools
READ MORE: California profs sue colleges over 'totalitarian' anti-racism rules
By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
UPDATED: 13:50 EDT, 22 August 2023
Six New York medical schools have been hit with civil rights complaints for discriminating against white and Asian teens by making it easier for blacks and others to join their introductory courses.
Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and other prestigious institutions face probes by the federal Department of Education.
The complaints, filed by the nonprofit Equal Protection Project (EPP), say the state's Science and Technology Entry Program (NY-STEP) makes it easier for some 7-12th graders to get a spot than others.
Under the scheme, students who are black, Latino, Alaskan native or American Indian can seek a place. Others — including whites and Asians — have to also show they're 'economically disadvantaged' to apply.
Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ¿ one of the schools facing a civil rights complaint
+3
View gallery
Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — one of the schools facing a civil rights complaint
www.dailymail.co.uk
William Jacobson, EPP's founder, said this 'additional barrier to eligibility' was illegal.
'Erecting additional barriers for some races and ethnic groups in and of itself is unlawful discrimination,' Jacobson told DailyMail.com.
'Imagine if the roles were reversed, and these programs explicitly favored Asians and whites — there would be universal outrage and these medical schools would never accept such funding.'
William Jacobson says the extra barrier for whites and Asians is illegal
William Jacobson says the extra barrier for whites and Asians is illegal
DailyMail.com reached out to NYU, Columbia University and the other schools that were subject to complaints.
They were the Albany Medical College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and The University of Rochester Medical Center.
None of them replied to our emails.
The schemes are designed to give 'highly motivated' secondary school students who are interested in healthcare careers to visit the state's top medical schools, learn key skills and get a mentor.
They aim to 'increase the number of historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students' in the medical field, according to Columbia University's website.
Still, Jacobson says, the policy unfairly assumes that all white and Asian kids have it easy.
'The eligibility guidelines engage in the types of crude stereotypes that presume students of certain racial and ethnic groups are disadvantaged and in need of preference,' he said.
The six letters of complaint were filed with the federal Department of Education's civil rights office in New York.
Albany Medical College's website features details of the NY-STEP scheme
+3
View gallery
Albany Medical College's website features details of the NY-STEP scheme
Students at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, which also faces a probe
Students at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, which also faces a probe
EPP says the schools should face fines or lose out on federal funding.
The civil rights office is a 'neutral fact-finder' that aims to investigate complaints and propose resolutions, according to its website.
The letters refer to the US Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down affirmative action in college admissions.
The justices declared that race cannot be a factor in the process, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
EPP says it is against racial discrimination in college admissions.
Most of its cases and complaints involve discrimination against whites.
The number of blacks and Latinos enrolled at US medical schools is rising, but they are still underrepresented, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
One of EPP's complaint letters against New York's top medical schools
One of EPP's complaint letters against New York's top medical schools
African American students made up a tenth of those enrolled in the 2022-23 year, while Latinos made up 12 percent.
Meanwhile, the share of American Indian and Alaskan natives enrolled has dropped.
They only made up 1 percent of this year's cohort.
For some, diversity schemes are important and necessary, as they can help to overcome historical racism and sexism and make it easier for people of all backgrounds to get ahead in education and work.
Critics, however, say they're a form of reverse racism that unfairly blows back on white men.
Others still say they may be well-intentioned, but seldom achieve their desired outcomes and often make things worse by stirring up divisions in offices and classrooms.
Columbia, NYU, and other medical schools hit with 'racism' complaints
Under the scheme, students who are black, Latino, Alaska native or American Indian, can seek a place. Whites, Asians, and others have to also show they're 'economically disadvantaged' to apply.
Columbia, NYU, and other top med schools hit with civil rights complaints for discriminating against white and Asian teens by making it easier for blacks and others to join introductory classes
Asian and white students have an extra hurdle: proving that they're poor
Blacks and Latinos are under-represented at America's medical schools
READ MORE: California profs sue colleges over 'totalitarian' anti-racism rules
By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
UPDATED: 13:50 EDT, 22 August 2023
Six New York medical schools have been hit with civil rights complaints for discriminating against white and Asian teens by making it easier for blacks and others to join their introductory courses.
Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and other prestigious institutions face probes by the federal Department of Education.
The complaints, filed by the nonprofit Equal Protection Project (EPP), say the state's Science and Technology Entry Program (NY-STEP) makes it easier for some 7-12th graders to get a spot than others.
Under the scheme, students who are black, Latino, Alaskan native or American Indian can seek a place. Others — including whites and Asians — have to also show they're 'economically disadvantaged' to apply.
Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ¿ one of the schools facing a civil rights complaint
+3
View gallery
Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — one of the schools facing a civil rights complaint
MCCAIN: Blond-bouffant egomaniac Trump is running scared from a debate
MCCAIN: Governor Chris Christie says Trump lacks 'the guts to show up.' He's right. A debate exposes weakness. Trump is 77 years old and not immune to the issues that dog sleepy, stumbly Joe.
'Erecting additional barriers for some races and ethnic groups in and of itself is unlawful discrimination,' Jacobson told DailyMail.com.
'Imagine if the roles were reversed, and these programs explicitly favored Asians and whites — there would be universal outrage and these medical schools would never accept such funding.'
William Jacobson says the extra barrier for whites and Asians is illegal
William Jacobson says the extra barrier for whites and Asians is illegal
DailyMail.com reached out to NYU, Columbia University and the other schools that were subject to complaints.
They were the Albany Medical College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and The University of Rochester Medical Center.
None of them replied to our emails.
The schemes are designed to give 'highly motivated' secondary school students who are interested in healthcare careers to visit the state's top medical schools, learn key skills and get a mentor.
They aim to 'increase the number of historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students' in the medical field, according to Columbia University's website.
Still, Jacobson says, the policy unfairly assumes that all white and Asian kids have it easy.
'The eligibility guidelines engage in the types of crude stereotypes that presume students of certain racial and ethnic groups are disadvantaged and in need of preference,' he said.
The six letters of complaint were filed with the federal Department of Education's civil rights office in New York.
Albany Medical College's website features details of the NY-STEP scheme
+3
View gallery
Albany Medical College's website features details of the NY-STEP scheme
Students at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, which also faces a probe
Students at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, which also faces a probe
EPP says the schools should face fines or lose out on federal funding.
The civil rights office is a 'neutral fact-finder' that aims to investigate complaints and propose resolutions, according to its website.
The letters refer to the US Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down affirmative action in college admissions.
The justices declared that race cannot be a factor in the process, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
EPP says it is against racial discrimination in college admissions.
Most of its cases and complaints involve discrimination against whites.
The number of blacks and Latinos enrolled at US medical schools is rising, but they are still underrepresented, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
One of EPP's complaint letters against New York's top medical schools
One of EPP's complaint letters against New York's top medical schools
African American students made up a tenth of those enrolled in the 2022-23 year, while Latinos made up 12 percent.
Meanwhile, the share of American Indian and Alaskan natives enrolled has dropped.
They only made up 1 percent of this year's cohort.
For some, diversity schemes are important and necessary, as they can help to overcome historical racism and sexism and make it easier for people of all backgrounds to get ahead in education and work.
Critics, however, say they're a form of reverse racism that unfairly blows back on white men.
Others still say they may be well-intentioned, but seldom achieve their desired outcomes and often make things worse by stirring up divisions in offices and classrooms.
