Eddie Blue-Eyes – Madness & Reality http://www.rippdemup.com Politics, Race, & Culture Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:44:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 Colin Kaepernick and the Denial of Racism http://www.rippdemup.com/race-article/colin-kaepernick-and-the-denial-of-racism/ http://www.rippdemup.com/race-article/colin-kaepernick-and-the-denial-of-racism/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:31:08 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=24592 There ain’t no white man in this room that will change places with me — and I’m rich. That’s how good it is to be white. There’s a one-legged busboy in here right now that’s going: ‘I don’t want to change. I’m gonna ride this white thing out and see where it takes me.’ — Chris

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]]> http://www.rippdemup.com/justice/police-have-already-killed-561-people/feed/ 1 Affirmative Action: The Curious History of Race Preferences http://www.rippdemup.com/education-article/affirmative-action-the-curious-history-of-race-preferences/ http://www.rippdemup.com/education-article/affirmative-action-the-curious-history-of-race-preferences/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:48:48 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=24203 Their leaders seem more intent on vying with blacks for permanent victim status than on seeking recognition for genuine progress by Hispanics over the last three decades.  — Linda Chavez on Latin@s Anti-affirmative action darling, Abigail Fisher (aka Becky with the bad grades), and other conservatives would have us think that Blacks, Latin@s, and other

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]]> En Memoriam: Muhammad Ali – The Greatest http://www.rippdemup.com/justice/en-memoriam-muhammad-ali-the-greatest/ Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:52:28 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=23986 Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?  — Muhammad Ali   The first time I ever saw Ali was during a

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]]> The Death of Scalia and the State of Criminal Justice http://www.rippdemup.com/justice/the-death-of-scalia-and-the-state-of-criminal-justice/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:31:13 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=23403 Before I move on to the significance (or lack thereof) of Scalia’s demise, I would like to share an anecdote. If you bear with me a moment, I think you will be able to see the connection I am trying to make. Years ago, I stood in front of a judge, the future of my

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]]> Black America, Brown America, & the Clintons http://www.rippdemup.com/politics/black-america-brown-america-the-clintons/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:15:24 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=23398 For the life of me, I do not understand Hillary Clinton’s popularity with African-Americans and Latin@s. Her positions (which apparently change according to the dictates of focus groups) and her husband’s presidency was, when you examine the numbers, not very good for us. Let us put aside the bullshit concerns regarding “realism” and “electability” aside

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]]> Martin Luther King Jr, Conservatives, & Misquoting the Dream http://www.rippdemup.com/politics/martin-luther-king-conservatives-misquoting-the-dream/ http://www.rippdemup.com/politics/martin-luther-king-conservatives-misquoting-the-dream/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:22 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=23198 Hola mi Gente! The exploitation of King’s name, the distortion of his teachings by conservatives, is one of the uglier developments in contemporary American life. I agree with Michael Eric Dyson that the “I have a Dream” speech should be put to rest– in my opinion for at least ten years. Misquoting the Dream A

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]]> http://www.rippdemup.com/politics/moral-reasoning-and-fundamentalism/feed/ 1 Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice: From the Plantation to the Bing http://www.rippdemup.com/justice/mass-incarceration-and-criminal-justice-from-the-plantation-to-the-bing/ http://www.rippdemup.com/justice/mass-incarceration-and-criminal-justice-from-the-plantation-to-the-bing/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:31:42 +0000 http://www.rippdemup.com/?p=10482 You ain’t gotta be locked up to be in prison / Look how we livin’ / 30,000 niggas a day up in the bing, standin routine / They put us in a box, just like our life on the block. — Dead Prez, Behind Enemy Lines Some of the poorest Brooklyn city blocks are also

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