Reparations and Anti-Police Torture Demands Produced Results in Chicago
The young Black people that charged the US government with genocide at a UN conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 2014 helped set the stage for local legislation āfor some form of apology and reparations for the long legacy of police torture in Chicago,ā said Toussaint Losier, professor of African American Studies at the University of Virginia. Losier is author of an article titled āA Human Right to Reparations: Black People and Police Torture and the Roots of the 2015 Chicago Reparations Ordinance,ā a bill that granted some monetary compensation for victims of police torture and required public schools to include police torture in the curriculum.
Black Lesbian Intellectuals Shined Light on HIV/AIDS Epidemic
In the wake of the HIV-AIDS epidemic of a generation ago, Black intellectuals argued that āuntil we eliminate structural inequalities, weāre not going to eliminate the health disparities in medicine, particularly for Black people,ā said Darius Bost, a professor of Ethic Studies at the University of Utah. Bost authored an article titled, āBlack Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle Against HIV/AIDS.ā Just as Blacks are dying from Covid-19 at twice the rate of whites, Black mortality rates from HIV/AIDS soared amidst silence, ignorance, deep prejudice and government neglect. Black lesbians brought intellectual and political clarity to the fight against the epidemic and its underlying causes, said Bost.
Blacks Should Aim for ā and Understand -- the Stars
āWe all have the right to know the universe,ā said Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a Theoretical Physicist and Feminist Theorist at the University of New Hampshire and author of the soon to be released book, āThe Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.ā Prescod-Weinstein does draw ethical lines in her scholarship. āI donāt particularly support people going off and doing weapons development. Thatās not my ministry,ā she said.
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Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- itās time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movementās social penetration.
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account.
The protests in Hong Kong are led by an assortment of US-backed proxies who have separation from China as their principle goal.
Without justification, Louisville cops snuffed out the lives of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, drawing that city into the national vortex of protest.
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