Oppression and Privilege

Blacks And Same Sex Marriage

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D. A. Barber

On Feb. 21, 2013 over 200 Black LGBT celebrated in the nation's capital during the annual Black LGBT Emerging Leaders Day - an event highlighted on the White House website during African American History Month. The politics of African American opposition to gays and same-sex marriage has come a long way and the longtime assumption that blacks are against gay rights seems to be experiencing a sea change.

Most Hate Crimes Go Unreported

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Pete Yost - Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks express doubt that police can or will help.

Nearly 2 of 3 hate crimes go unreported to police, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Thursday. For the years 2003-06, 46 percent of hate crimes were reported to police. But more recently, for 2007-11, just 35 percent were reported.

Is NYPD Brass Promoting Racial Profiling?

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Colleen Long - Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials were not concerned with whether patrol officers were saving lives or helping people under a policy that required them to detain and sometimes search anyone they deemed suspicious. They were focused on one thing: numbers, according to a New York City police officer testifying in a federal challenge to some street stops.

Adhyl Polanco said his superiors told him that he needed 20 summonses, five street stops and one arrest per month. It didn't matter whether the stops were done properly, he said.

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