Oppression and Privilege

Issue Of The Week XXXV: Do You Believe Your Actions Can Help Stop Social Injustices?

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Kimberlee McWhirter

 

I cannot change that I’m white, heterosexual, able-bodied, American, middle class, English speaking, educated; I was born with these privileges. I did not ask for them, nor did I earn them, but with them comes a responsibility to recognize that these privileges exist, to educate myself about the system of social inequality, and to work towards social justice and equity.

Conversation Of The Week XXXV: The Election Aftermath

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D. A. Barber

If there was any doubt of a racial component during the past election after the coordinated attempts at targeted voter ID laws to disenfranchise racial minority voters, a number of events following the election have shown that racism seems to run deeper than thought and that a post-racial change in our cultural-political society has a long way to go.

Mississippi Legislature, Blacks, NAACP & Redistricting: All About Voting

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Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges say they won't redraw Mississippi's legislative districts or order the state to hold a new round of elections in 2013.

The order came Monday in a lawsuit that the state chapter of the NAACP had filed earlier to challenge state House and Senate redistricting.

Kobach's Influence On Kansas And Immigration

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The Hays Daily News, Nov. 18

The Kansas Secretary of State Office usually is low profile. Statutes guide the rather perfunctory roles it performs.

Not so with Kris Kobach, whose national and state moonlighting has made him the face of Kansas for outsiders.

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