Posts by Jenna Dehn
A Practical Guide to Defunding the Police
Police are supposed to protect and serve communities? For the Black Community and other POC, the police’s job seems to be keeping the community in line.
Read MoreWhite Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
White Christians have used the Bible to support racial discrimination in all areas of life and the continuation of White supremacy.
Read More‘The worshipping of whiteness’: why racist symbols persist in America
Symbols drive the stock market and wall street. Businesses and government agencies are rethinking some racial stereotypes and are making changes. Rebranding without policy changes is mere “window dressing.”
Read MoreWhat each of us can do to end racism
By Diana Diaz-Granados, La Crosse Tribune The recent killings of black Americans that have sparked protests around the country are not anomalies: Before George Floyd was Eric Garner; before Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by three white men, James Byrd Jr was beaten, chained and dragged behind a pick-up truck by three white men; and…
Read MoreThe day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?
Eleven people, including five children, died and a Philadelphia neighborhood burned down in the airstrike against a black liberation group. Now an effort at reconciliation is under way By Ed Pilkington, the guardian.com Frank Powell, a Philadelphia police officer who in 1985 was chief of the city’s bomb disposal squad, remembers vividly the moment he was given…
Read MoreTrump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election
Are you only allowed to vote if you are a Black republican?
Read MoreREGGIE JACKSON: WHEN WHITE PRIVILEGE COMES UP AGAINST A PANDEMIC
During the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, does the demand for a haircut and a bowling lane outweigh the need for social distancing? Some governors and protestors say it’s time to be liberated from lock-down.
Read MoreWhy the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’
The COVID-19 infection and death rates in the Black community reflect systemic racism in all aspects of American society: healthcare, employment, education, VA benefits, home mortgages/credit, etc.
Read MoreWhy I don’t feel safe wearing a face mask
Black men are feeling conflicted about wearing masks in the time of COVID-19. Wear a mask and risk being mistaken for a thief and possibly killed. Not wearing a mask and risk contracting and dying from the virus.
Read MoreRepublicans tried to suppress the vote in Wisconsin. It backfired
Despite a US Supreme Court decision not to postpone elections, Wisconsin voters braved the cold and coronavirus to elect a democratic supreme court justice.
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