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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> can’t tell you if it’s music for the movement, music for “the moment,” or just music to make money. But I can tell you artists have been working. And I’ve been listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. Malcolm Martin” features a sample of Stevie Wonder’s “Visions”—and I was sold on it from the first note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/2VM99IYLF-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NettaBrielle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netta Brielle\u003c/a> shifted the tempo with her new release, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-3Uea4PyI\">Get To You\u003c/a>,” a song that’s more about embracing love than protesting hate—a needed sentiment in these times. Another track using R&B to express emotion during tumult came from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TalyaPatrick\">Tai Marie\u003c/a>, who recently put out a soulful R&B single titled “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ttaimarie/war-zone\">Warzone\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dipping her toes in the classical-piano realm is San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ImtheJournalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angélica Ekeke\u003c/a>, who just put out the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CByayJUh8qs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern War\u003c/a>.” She says the track is inspired by her upcoming film on African American contributions during WWII at one of the nation’s largest shipyards, right here in Marin. But the words she sings, in her trademark soprano tone, are eerily relevant to today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Sacramento, Rob Woods’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/therealrobwoods/sets/the-black-tape/s-7dyuknyLjtr\">The Black Tape\u003c/a>\u003c/em> mixes rap lyrics about hope and oppression over R&B vibes, and an undertone of that church feeling throughout the project. (He even incorporates a cold saxophone on the song “Stuck.”) And Pittsburg’s Hotboikal shot the video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands Up, Man Down\u003c/a>” in the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">middle of a protest march\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, with lyrics about racial profiling and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing that sentiment is Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WallahUmoja\">Wallah Umoja\u003c/a>, who dropped a new video for an older track, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7vbwGIkNzDs2PKryN9BFZ0?highlight=spotify:track:3ZPM9hdhw42oKotLM4Zc2N\">Senses\u003c/a>, delivered in a boom-bap cadence. Following that flow is Dom Shalom’s “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7HmoIXj4Z0GQhNXdqqrj19?si=FgqfUqSgRDiZnmo79Tx-FA\">The Next\u003c/a>,” a chill vibe that I’d also describe as boom-bap rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you like music that bends genres, Oakland’s Dom Jones came through with soulful jazz-rock for the spirit. Her latest track “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/sayin-nothin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sayin’ Nothin’\u003c/a>” is the stuff movie soundtracks are made of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of movies, the content in Nicholas Easter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDyDBIOjhs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1AhAh620HVoEkRP5kgQAgHRIl67PQlv0gQ-B_58KHGMhC-ZvWfjerpwog\">Native Tongue\u003c/a>” video isn’t a song as much as it is a compilation of speeches and interviews from the civil rights era to today’s Black Lives Matter movement—featuring the likes of Maya Angelou, Ryan Coogler and Tupac, all layered on top of modern-day footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want more spoken-word quotes? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClifSoulo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clif Soulo\u003c/a> offers a new release titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/clifsoulo/sets/bunchy-carter-grooves/s-YAJYJ0GJAOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bunchy Carter Grooves\u003c/a> \u003c/em>that’s full of clips from interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something more militant? Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BeastellaAllDat\">Beastella\u003c/a> got a verse from Jay Jonah, and dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snbr-qCpxjY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PK1zW-v_0moh9V2MUE6rTuIIze6fyTQ15NGdcdCzHgb-QacprRGPR1gs\">1825\u003c/a>.” The track is up there with the most aggressive songs I’ve heard all month, and I’m here for it. As Jay Jonah says on the track: “She Harriet and I’m Nat,” comparing the duo to well-known abolitionist Harriet Tubman and rebellion leader Nat Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Snbr-qCpxjY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o yeah, I’ve been listening. I caught the a capella \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caseycopesodope/status/1270886631994613762?s=20\">Twitter\u003c/a> post from San Leandro’s Casey Cope about being a Black man in these times, and I slapped Oaktownsoul’s trippy-hop bass-heavy joint “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/oaktownsoul/maskup\">Mask Up\u003c/a>.” I soaked in Gina Madrid’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2NYtB9g8VrE&feature=emb_title\">Dame La Mano\u003c/a>” and was reminded the need for unity across different demographics. And through Coco Peila’s track “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cocopeilamusic/coco-peila-whose-world-greennewdeal-prod-hawk-beatz/s-N5s69FMW0Gj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whose World?\u003c/a>” I was reminded that in the midst of everything, global warming is still an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I listened to Redtone Records’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQuiigys6I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Gf4iyMU8EYVPksCnr7TP84x8d8WBh-MMVKR3AiiMe4a3mVaVg5QUoWIs\">Right Now\u003c/a>!,” a bouncy jazz track with some New Orleans flavor, out of East Palo Alto. 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And I’ve been listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TgItkJCm09c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TgItkJCm09c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. Malcolm Martin” features a sample of Stevie Wonder’s “Visions”—and I was sold on it from the first note.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2VM99IYLF-I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2VM99IYLF-I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NettaBrielle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netta Brielle\u003c/a> shifted the tempo with her new release, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-3Uea4PyI\">Get To You\u003c/a>,” a song that’s more about embracing love than protesting hate—a needed sentiment in these times. Another track using R&B to express emotion during tumult came from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TalyaPatrick\">Tai Marie\u003c/a>, who recently put out a soulful R&B single titled “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ttaimarie/war-zone\">Warzone\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dipping her toes in the classical-piano realm is San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ImtheJournalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angélica Ekeke\u003c/a>, who just put out the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CByayJUh8qs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern War\u003c/a>.” She says the track is inspired by her upcoming film on African American contributions during WWII at one of the nation’s largest shipyards, right here in Marin. But the words she sings, in her trademark soprano tone, are eerily relevant to today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Sacramento, Rob Woods’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/therealrobwoods/sets/the-black-tape/s-7dyuknyLjtr\">The Black Tape\u003c/a>\u003c/em> mixes rap lyrics about hope and oppression over R&B vibes, and an undertone of that church feeling throughout the project. (He even incorporates a cold saxophone on the song “Stuck.”) And Pittsburg’s Hotboikal shot the video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands Up, Man Down\u003c/a>” in the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">middle of a protest march\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, with lyrics about racial profiling and police brutality.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VO1dP7CMy78'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VO1dP7CMy78'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Sharing that sentiment is Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WallahUmoja\">Wallah Umoja\u003c/a>, who dropped a new video for an older track, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7vbwGIkNzDs2PKryN9BFZ0?highlight=spotify:track:3ZPM9hdhw42oKotLM4Zc2N\">Senses\u003c/a>, delivered in a boom-bap cadence. Following that flow is Dom Shalom’s “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7HmoIXj4Z0GQhNXdqqrj19?si=FgqfUqSgRDiZnmo79Tx-FA\">The Next\u003c/a>,” a chill vibe that I’d also describe as boom-bap rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you like music that bends genres, Oakland’s Dom Jones came through with soulful jazz-rock for the spirit. Her latest track “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/sayin-nothin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sayin’ Nothin’\u003c/a>” is the stuff movie soundtracks are made of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of movies, the content in Nicholas Easter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDyDBIOjhs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1AhAh620HVoEkRP5kgQAgHRIl67PQlv0gQ-B_58KHGMhC-ZvWfjerpwog\">Native Tongue\u003c/a>” video isn’t a song as much as it is a compilation of speeches and interviews from the civil rights era to today’s Black Lives Matter movement—featuring the likes of Maya Angelou, Ryan Coogler and Tupac, all layered on top of modern-day footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want more spoken-word quotes? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClifSoulo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clif Soulo\u003c/a> offers a new release titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/clifsoulo/sets/bunchy-carter-grooves/s-YAJYJ0GJAOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bunchy Carter Grooves\u003c/a> \u003c/em>that’s full of clips from interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something more militant? Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BeastellaAllDat\">Beastella\u003c/a> got a verse from Jay Jonah, and dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snbr-qCpxjY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PK1zW-v_0moh9V2MUE6rTuIIze6fyTQ15NGdcdCzHgb-QacprRGPR1gs\">1825\u003c/a>.” The track is up there with the most aggressive songs I’ve heard all month, and I’m here for it. As Jay Jonah says on the track: “She Harriet and I’m Nat,” comparing the duo to well-known abolitionist Harriet Tubman and rebellion leader Nat Turner.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Snbr-qCpxjY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Snbr-qCpxjY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o yeah, I’ve been listening. I caught the a capella \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caseycopesodope/status/1270886631994613762?s=20\">Twitter\u003c/a> post from San Leandro’s Casey Cope about being a Black man in these times, and I slapped Oaktownsoul’s trippy-hop bass-heavy joint “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/oaktownsoul/maskup\">Mask Up\u003c/a>.” I soaked in Gina Madrid’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2NYtB9g8VrE&feature=emb_title\">Dame La Mano\u003c/a>” and was reminded the need for unity across different demographics. And through Coco Peila’s track “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cocopeilamusic/coco-peila-whose-world-greennewdeal-prod-hawk-beatz/s-N5s69FMW0Gj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whose World?\u003c/a>” I was reminded that in the midst of everything, global warming is still an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I listened to Redtone Records’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQuiigys6I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Gf4iyMU8EYVPksCnr7TP84x8d8WBh-MMVKR3AiiMe4a3mVaVg5QUoWIs\">Right Now\u003c/a>!,” a bouncy jazz track with some New Orleans flavor, out of East Palo Alto. Man, I even listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGk8jZQfQ8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1EBRQ0yc2ZFzL-vonhWVVnsEaITwp8eQtrZ-pkDCnY0fKhu0w-Upn_ZlQ\">We Will Break Free, \u003c/a>written by Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis and performed by an acoustic ensemble over videoconferencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A body isn’t made for a jail, or a box.\u003cbr>\nA body will defy all the fences, all the locks.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the walls that lock us into cells.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the laws that keep us from ourselves.\u003cbr>\nWe will break free.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Taking in all these songs was like reading reports from a classroom full of students who all got the same assignment. There was no wrong answer. In fact, the only wrong would be \u003cem>not\u003c/em> saying something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are, the real “song of the summer”—dubbed so by the music industry itself—will probably be a pop hit. (I’ve got $10 on something that incorporates that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_gfaiStm0&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hip Hop Harry remix\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It likely won’t be a protest song, or a song of Black celebration, and for sure not Black liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of that, there are many artists, all across this nation, making music that documents what it means to be living right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hear ya’ll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last weekend, Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell skin-lightening products. The company will be axing Neutrogena’s Fine Fairness line and Clean & Clear’s Clear Fairness creams in Asia, the Middle East and India. “Some product names or claims on our dark spot reducer products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone,” the company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-whitening/johnson-johnson-drops-skin-whitening-creams-idUSKBN23Q2BZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a>. “This was never our intention—healthy skin is beautiful skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson & Johnson’s commitment to discontinuing these products sets a much-needed precedent for the beauty industry. It comes just weeks after social media users called out Indian celebrities who had created social media posts in support of Black Lives Matter, but also previously endorsed skin-lightening creams. The actresses included \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maXes_MB/status/1268311171691503617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Priyanka Chopra\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aluminiummaiden/status/1267060974810550272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonam Kapoor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Man_isssh/status/1266963455736786945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disha Patani\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DoctorLFC/status/1267902864606875655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiara Advani\u003c/a>. All of them were advertising the creams of brands that are household names in America—L’Oréal, Ponds and Garnier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nivea—a company that came under fire in 2017 for a British ad campaign that featured the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/business/media/nivea-ad-online-uproar-racism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White is purity\u003c/a>”—is also a major player when it comes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Nivea-Extra-Whitening-Lotion-200ml/dp/B00HRSRG9G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skin-lightening products\u003c/a>. As is Unilever, the parent company of Dove—a brand known for pushing a message of inclusivity in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_102572']Unilever has been historically unrepentant about its Fair & Lovely brand and the accompanying marketing campaigns that have often equated romantic and professional success with lighter skin. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/doves-gaffe-is-part-of-a-history-of-racist-beauty-marketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> from Unilever defended its stance by saying: “Even-toned and lighter skin remains the most sought-after beauty desire across Asia and parts of Africa and Latin America.” Fair & Lovely remains one of the most commonly available skin-lightening brands in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few weeks, some of these same companies have paid lip service to America’s racial justice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/garnierUSA/status/1267815470192668672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_Ph89HIWn/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LOrealParisUSA/status/1267449907880824832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(That last post from L’Oréal prompted a response from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MunroeBergdorf/status/1267460238678069249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">model Munroe Bergdorf\u003c/a> who claimed that in 2017, the company “dropped me from a campaign and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the beauty industry, promoting and selling lighter skin tones is a multi-billion dollar business—specifically, $8.3 billion in 2018. In 2009, Indian consumers alone spent $432 million in pursuit of lighter skin. And while America does not see the types of mainstream marketing used in other parts of the world, these kinds of products aren’t hard to find in local pharmacies and beauty shops. What’s more, the internet has made available a mind-boggling array of skin-lightening products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search sent me almost immediately to an Amazon page unabashedly titled “Skin Bleaching.” And while many of the items on the page are dressed up as dark spot correctors, scar reducers or “brightening” products, there are numerous other creams, serums and supplements that are more brazen about their raison d’être.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13882343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some products are undoubtedly safer than others, America has known for decades that skin-lightening products can be dangerous. In 2010, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/health/16skin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that: “Dermatologists nationwide are seeing women of Hispanic and African descent, among others, with severe side effects … from the misuse of skin-lightening creams, many with prescription-strength ingredients,” including steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same article, one dermatologist, Dr. Eliot F. Battle Jr, stated: “It’s happening more because the internet has been a great source for these patients to get physician-strength or prescription-strength products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight against skin-lightening products has already started in other countries. In 2015, they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/ivory-coast-bans-potentially-deadly-skin-whitening-creams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned\u003c/a> on the Ivory Coast. In 2019, they were banned in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. However, despite a Europe-wide ban on skin-lightening products containing dangerous ingredients (such as hydroquinone and mercury), consumers there are still seeking them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881748']Last year, Britain’s Local Government Association issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49851669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a warning\u003c/a> after seizing thousands of illegal skin-lightening products. 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But if a Black man walks into your living room, or wants to date—God forbid, marry—your daughter? You’d call the cops! Do you know what we call Black people? We call them ‘Kala.’ It means black—not in a good way. If someone in your family is dark skinned, we clown them. We call them ‘Kallu.’ Our Bollywood stars do skin whitening commercials, so we don’t look Black. It is bad to be Black in Desi culture, even though we all wish we were Black. You don’t think that affects how we view Black people?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There are signs that skin-lightening fatigue amongst consumers is on the rise. Just this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shaadi.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaadi\u003c/a>—a dating site popular with the Indian diaspora—\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53146969?fbclid=IwAR3KTDTrBaO04-EwxzPaTgRR2TRHbhUyPJ9x_nCDt0e9eCq1RHP_r8iXlbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed a feature\u003c/a> that asked its users to specify the lightness of their skin tone, using descriptors including ‘Fair,’ ‘Wheatish,’ and ‘Dark.’ The decision was made just two weeks after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/shaadi-com-remove-the-colour-filter-from-matrimonial-website?recruiter=1114601771&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> was set up, demanding the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this moment of trying to exact systemic change at the highest levels, worrying about what the cosmetics industry is doing can seem somewhat inconsequential. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>(That last post from L’Oréal prompted a response from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MunroeBergdorf/status/1267460238678069249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">model Munroe Bergdorf\u003c/a> who claimed that in 2017, the company “dropped me from a campaign and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the beauty industry, promoting and selling lighter skin tones is a multi-billion dollar business—specifically, $8.3 billion in 2018. In 2009, Indian consumers alone spent $432 million in pursuit of lighter skin. And while America does not see the types of mainstream marketing used in other parts of the world, these kinds of products aren’t hard to find in local pharmacies and beauty shops. What’s more, the internet has made available a mind-boggling array of skin-lightening products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search sent me almost immediately to an Amazon page unabashedly titled “Skin Bleaching.” And while many of the items on the page are dressed up as dark spot correctors, scar reducers or “brightening” products, there are numerous other creams, serums and supplements that are more brazen about their raison d’être.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13882343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some products are undoubtedly safer than others, America has known for decades that skin-lightening products can be dangerous. In 2010, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/health/16skin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that: “Dermatologists nationwide are seeing women of Hispanic and African descent, among others, with severe side effects … from the misuse of skin-lightening creams, many with prescription-strength ingredients,” including steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same article, one dermatologist, Dr. Eliot F. Battle Jr, stated: “It’s happening more because the internet has been a great source for these patients to get physician-strength or prescription-strength products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight against skin-lightening products has already started in other countries. In 2015, they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/ivory-coast-bans-potentially-deadly-skin-whitening-creams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned\u003c/a> on the Ivory Coast. In 2019, they were banned in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. However, despite a Europe-wide ban on skin-lightening products containing dangerous ingredients (such as hydroquinone and mercury), consumers there are still seeking them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’m enjoying the show. The marches. The statements of solidarity. The toppling of statues. And the alterations to legislation. But it’s kind of hard to differentiate real change from performance art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even seemingly altruistic efforts come off as oversimplified and off the mark, and dilute the message. Last week, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kobxVp4Xynw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elmo (of \u003ci>Sesame Street\u003c/i>) appeared on CNN\u003c/a> alongside his father, Louie, to help children understand why people are protesting, his father said it was to “end racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that’s not real, because one: it’s a puppet talking. And two: you can’t get rid of an idea. You \u003cem>can\u003c/em> work to remove it from American institutions and strive to hold racist individuals accountable, which I’m pretty sure is the goal of activists and organizers right now. But we’re never going to end racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t mean to split hairs about word choice, but it’s best to be clear when describing why people are protesting during this pivotal moment in our country’s history. That way, we don’t get sidetracked by the performative nature of some of the protests, social media posts and messages of solidarity that threaten to overshadow that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although there are a few bright lights that have come out of this dark time, causing many to be hopeful about coming change, I think the majority of what we’re seeing in this moment is a sideshow. We’ll go back to our regularly scheduled program soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Brand.Tweet_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Brand.Tweet_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Brand.Tweet_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Brand.Tweet_-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit to Twitter user \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1267183124582215680\">@Campster\u003c/a> for capturing the quintessential performative brand tweet. \u003ccite>(Chris Franklin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c/a> held a discussion on where this moment falls in the long scope of American history, and what might come of it. Coates noted that current events make him believe concrete change is here, because it’s not a reenactment of the uprisings of the late 1960s—when Black people took to the streets to combat police brutality in black neighborhoods across America. He’s right in one sense: this movement has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881650/santa-rosa-protests-george-floyd-andy-lopez-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reached the suburbs\u003c/a>, and white folks are showing “solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, people led protests in the East Bay towns of Walnut Creek (pop. 70,000, less than 2% African American) and Livermore (pop. 90,000, also less than 2% African American). And a friend sent me an image of a Black Lives Matter poster on the ground in front of the gates of the extremely affluent East Bay community of Blackhawk. Mind-blowing. I went to high school out that way, and the only things black are the power lines overhead and the smooth, uncracked asphalt in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder how much time it’ll take for Walnut Creek and Livermore to go back to business as usual? I wonder how long that sign stayed up before it was removed? Long enough for someone to pose in front of it for the ’gram?[aside postid='arts_13881199']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On last week’s episode of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/479/protesting-for-the-soul-of-america-the-new-civil-rights-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Truth Be Told\u003c/i> podcast\u003c/a>, host Tonya Mosley sat down with the chair of Princeton’s African American Studies Department, Dr. Eddie Glaude. When Mosley asked Dr. Glaude if he’s optimistic about this moment, he replied, “I’m neither optimistic or pessimistic, I’m a meliorist.” Dr. Glaude elaborated: “What that means is, it’s up to us. The world can either go to hell or it could be saved, all depending on what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finished his point by recognizing that historically, we fail in these moments. But nonetheless, he holds faith that change is on the near horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that exchange I learned a new word, and heard a point of view similar to mine: an even-keeled mindset that says, “Yes, this moment is significant. But this is America, we know how it operates. If we really want change, there’s some real work to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this past Sunday’s \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/george-floyd-protests-race.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">author Michelle Alexander\u003c/a> laid out how people can educate themselves on the pervasiveness of institutional racism in America, with links to resources that serve as a clear introduction to the work. There’s more, much more, but that’s a good place to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you do, don’t believe that the work is being done by your company simply offering up a statement of solidarity. Or that posting a blank black square on social media is going to create a more equitable society. And lastly, don’t be like the Democratic members of Congress, posing for photo ops while wearing Kente cloth stoles. Just don’t. (A friend’s Instagram post described it as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/melancholera_23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">woke theatre\u003c/a>,” a term which she credits \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bad_dominicana3.0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zahira Kelly- Cabrera\u003c/a> for coining—for the second time this week, my vocabulary expanded.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/calebsaysthings/status/1269443711621947394\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of theatre, the show \u003ci>COPS\u003c/i> finally got pulled from the air. Getting rid of that long-running propaganda program, that so often shows people of color as “the bad guy,” is a step toward changing the racist mindset that’s pervasive in American institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Know what’s even better than ending a TV show? Ending a shitshow. To many, disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department is a step in the right direction, albeit one that comes with questions about what type of law enforcement would take its place, and what would be done about other officers in the region like county deputies and state troopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBG04u-BpSU/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anti Police-Terrorism Project\u003c/a> is pushing to partially defund the Oakland Police Department, starting with halving its budget and redirecting the funds toward community initiatives. And just this week Oakland school board members and superintendent backed an initiative to \u003ca href=\"https://t.e2ma.net/message/p2fk4c/xwswsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remove police from school campuses\u003c/a>. These are steps to take power away from institutions that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.wvxu.org/post/throughline-american-police#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">built on racist principles\u003c/a>. We need more of this. Lots more.[aside postid='arts_13880973']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we need more not just in policing, but in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/10/racial-gap-vc-firms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2020/06/four_ways_schools_can_support_teachers_to_become_actively_anti-racist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">schools\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5851864/institutional-racism-america/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health care\u003c/a>. Even—especially—in professional sports. It’s great to see NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the same dude who previously came down on Colin Kaepernick for kneeling in protest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSS5lQJ_68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">change course and now say that he should’ve listened\u003c/a>. And it’s cool that NASCAR has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/us/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-spt-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned confederate flags\u003c/a> at their races, and that the only African American driver, Bubba Wallace, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/06/10/nascar-bubba-wallace-black-lives-matter-car-paint-martinsville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new paint job\u003c/a> that reads Black Lives Matter. But that’s surface level change—woke theatre. A good start, but it doesn’t really change the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many NFL owners are African American? How many NASCAR owners are African American?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, racism is pervasive. It’s deeper than a car’s paint job, or some lettering on a street, or a new ice cream flavor, or writing a dying man’s last words on your face in makeup, or writing every name of every victim of police brutality you can think of on your bare chest and recording a video of you delivering an awkward monologue. The list goes on and on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gushers/status/1269110304086114304\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s part of my podcast listening rounds from last week, I tapped into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellablackpod.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Hella Black\u003c/i> podcast\u003c/a>, hosted by Delency Parham and Blake Simons. Their latest episode discusses protests, intelligent militancy when combating the police state and the fact that racism, more specifically white supremacy, is ingrained in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About halfway through the episode, the duo opens up about having to check their own isms and phobias—such as sexism, transphobia, fatphobia and more. And they note that these self-checks need to be continuous to rid themselves of the mindset instilled in them while living in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine if America and its institutions had these periodic check-ins about isms, and actual systems of accountability. Well, then I’d be a little more optimistic. But take the events of this past weekend: for all the cuteness that was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/08/oakland-children-march-for-black-lives-i-just-really-want-to-spark-a-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">children’s march\u003c/a> in Oakland on Sunday afternoon, and the beauty that was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKo0h2grfi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Bike Party’s ride of solidarity\u003c/a> that evening, there were other stories that proved America is operating under business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 10 days, a Black man was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OpecFIdhNs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accosted by police\u003c/a> in Alameda for “dancing in the street”—a part of his normal exercise routine. In Vallejo, Sean Monterrosa was killed when an officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823146/state-attorney-general-to-review-and-reform-vallejo-police-department-following-fatal-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot him from inside an unmarked police car\u003c/a>. And in East Oakland, Erik Salgado was killed after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823531/protesters-demand-answers-in-chp-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot 40 times\u003c/a> when officers stopped him for driving a stolen car. His pregnant girlfriend, Brianna Colombo, was shot too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long way to go. And again, no knock to Elmo’s dad, but we’re never going to end racism. 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"content": "\u003cp>This past weekend, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling brought a lot of criticism on herself with a series of tweets that many read as transphobic. She seemed to have been set off by an article on access to menstrual hygiene supplies during a global pandemic that referenced “people who menstruate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who menstruate,” she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a> alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-creating-a-more-equal-post-covid-19-world-for-people-who-menstruate-97312#.XtwLnv0aEeR.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to the article\u003c/a>, “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed up \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few minutes later\u003c/a>: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269406094595588096\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me get this out of the way: It feels odd for me to be writing this essay right now. Not only are we in the middle of a global pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States alone, disproportionately affecting black and brown communities, but black people in the United States—and all over the world—are protesting for basic equality in the face of police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. But here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here I am, a person who once revered Rowling, a person who is also in the community that she invalidated with a few careless tweets. I’m nonbinary, meaning that my gender identity doesn’t categorize neatly as man or woman. Trans men also don’t fit into the woman category. We are, quite literally, people who menstruate, and it’s more than a little disappointing that the woman who created a wizarding world that meant everything to me doesn’t care to include me or my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m of the generation that grew up with Harry Potter and his friends. I can chart my adolescence through the series—I was 8 when I read \u003cem>Sorcerer’s Stone\u003c/em>, 17 and a fresh high school graduate when \u003cem>Deathly Hallows \u003c/em>published. My friends and I dressed up to attend midnight release parties at our local bookstores, midnight premieres at the movie theater. At my loneliest, Hogwarts was my refuge. I identified with Harry’s unease in the Muggle world, identified with the idea of needing to wear Muggle clothes in order to blend in, identified with Harry’s relief at finally finding his people. Maybe the reason I don’t fit in anywhere is that I’m a wizard, I’d think at night. Maybe I just haven’t discovered my magic yet, but when I do, I’ll find \u003cem>my\u003c/em> people. [aside postid='arts_13858877']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, there was something I hadn’t discovered back then: My queer self. I was unable or unwilling to examine that queer self, the way Muggles either couldn’t or didn’t want to see Diagon Alley, hidden in plain sight. Once I had the language to describe myself, it was as if a new world revealed itself to me. Discovering the queer community and queer culture felt, to me, a lot like Harry felt walking into Diagon Alley for the first time: A riot of color and noise and wonder. Finally, a place I belonged. Finally, magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you’ll excuse me if it hurts personally, maybe a little too personally, that Rowling so casually mocks language that seeks to include me and other trans people. But I’m not shocked. This isn’t the first time that Rowling has expressed views like this. As recently as December of 2019, she was tweeting support for Maya Forstater, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a researcher who lost her job\u003c/a> over “offensive and exclusionary” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1209914794347835392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets in which she repeatedly misgendered a genderfluid person\u003c/a> as “a part-time cross dresser” and stated that “men cannot change into women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dress however you please,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowling tweeted\u003c/a>, “but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya” This view, that biological sex—simply the way your body is built—makes you immutably one thing or the other and, therefore, trans women aren’t “real” women, is a basic tenet of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. As trans people and issues have gained more visibility in recent years, so has the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same series of tweets, Rowling \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>, “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If. This tiny, two-letter word has stuck in my brain. If. [aside postid='arts_13845330']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that LGBTQ people face \u003ca href=\"http://avp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NCAVP-HV-IPV-2017-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately high rates\u003c/a> of intimate partner and sexual violence; the Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 12 violent deaths of a transgender or gender nonconforming individual in 2020 alone. In addition, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality, \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/housing-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 1 in 10 transgender people\u003c/a> have been evicted because of their gender identity. The group’s \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS)\u003c/a> found that in the year prior to completing the survey, 30% of respondents who had a job reported being fired or experiencing some other form of discrimination because of their gender identity or expression. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/housing_discrimination_and_persons_identifying_lgbtq#_State%20and%20Local%20Laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 states and the District of Columbia\u003c/a> have laws that prohibit housing discrimination specifically on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity; in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/north-carolina-transgender-bathrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bathroom bills\u003c/a> that sought to limit access to public restrooms on the basis of sex have been proposed and debated in some states. And in Rowling’s U.K., British newspapers run \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">editorials\u003c/a> warning of the menace of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/a-system-of-gender-self-identification-would-put-women-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender ideology\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s less a question of if a trans person has been discriminated against, and more a question of how, especially for black trans people. Living the way that feels authentic and comfortable for any trans or gender-nonconforming person has historically been, and continues to be, dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making room for trans women or nonbinary people doesn’t crowd women out. My gender identity should have no bearing on another person’s. Rowling is right that saying or examining the ways her “life has been shaped by being female” isn’t hateful on its own. What \u003cem>is \u003c/em>hateful and unwelcome, however, is her assertion that “sex is real” and that someone’s gender identity can—and should—be boiled down to their sexual organs. What is hateful is the erasure of trans and nonbinary relationships. What is hateful is the insistence upon acknowledging “the lived reality of women globally” as if it’s a zero-sum game, and all women have the same reality and the same understanding of their womanhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a response\u003c/a> to Rowling’s tweets through the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. In it, he asserts trans women’s womanhood, points to trans-centric educational resources and writes: “To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you.” [aside postid='arts_13879063']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I valued in these stories was what a lot of fans valued: The depictions of fierce loyalty among friends, the idea that love is stronger (and more mysterious) than any magic, that strength comes not just from inside yourself but from the people beside you, that evil isn’t limited to genocide but also to prejudice and oppression. Voldemort wasn’t the only villain Harry faced; The Ministry of Magic, which upheld and refused to change a system rooted on prejudice, was an enemy too. I valued the idea that a person isn’t defined by the circumstances of their lives—Lupin isn’t just a werewolf to Harry, and Hagrid isn’t just a half-giant, despite how badly others might perceive them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll end with one of my favorite exchanges in the series, which takes place in \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u003c/em>. Harry emerges from his second battle with Voldemort worried over the similarities he seems to share with the evil wizard. Professor Dumbledore tells him: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” It’s unfortunate what Rowling’s choices have revealed about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mallory Yu is an associate producer for \u003c/em>All Things Considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This past weekend, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling brought a lot of criticism on herself with a series of tweets that many read as transphobic. She seemed to have been set off by an article on access to menstrual hygiene supplies during a global pandemic that referenced “people who menstruate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who menstruate,” she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a> alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-creating-a-more-equal-post-covid-19-world-for-people-who-menstruate-97312#.XtwLnv0aEeR.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to the article\u003c/a>, “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed up \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few minutes later\u003c/a>: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Let me get this out of the way: It feels odd for me to be writing this essay right now. Not only are we in the middle of a global pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States alone, disproportionately affecting black and brown communities, but black people in the United States—and all over the world—are protesting for basic equality in the face of police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. But here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here I am, a person who once revered Rowling, a person who is also in the community that she invalidated with a few careless tweets. I’m nonbinary, meaning that my gender identity doesn’t categorize neatly as man or woman. Trans men also don’t fit into the woman category. We are, quite literally, people who menstruate, and it’s more than a little disappointing that the woman who created a wizarding world that meant everything to me doesn’t care to include me or my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m of the generation that grew up with Harry Potter and his friends. I can chart my adolescence through the series—I was 8 when I read \u003cem>Sorcerer’s Stone\u003c/em>, 17 and a fresh high school graduate when \u003cem>Deathly Hallows \u003c/em>published. My friends and I dressed up to attend midnight release parties at our local bookstores, midnight premieres at the movie theater. At my loneliest, Hogwarts was my refuge. I identified with Harry’s unease in the Muggle world, identified with the idea of needing to wear Muggle clothes in order to blend in, identified with Harry’s relief at finally finding his people. Maybe the reason I don’t fit in anywhere is that I’m a wizard, I’d think at night. Maybe I just haven’t discovered my magic yet, but when I do, I’ll find \u003cem>my\u003c/em> people. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, there was something I hadn’t discovered back then: My queer self. I was unable or unwilling to examine that queer self, the way Muggles either couldn’t or didn’t want to see Diagon Alley, hidden in plain sight. Once I had the language to describe myself, it was as if a new world revealed itself to me. Discovering the queer community and queer culture felt, to me, a lot like Harry felt walking into Diagon Alley for the first time: A riot of color and noise and wonder. Finally, a place I belonged. Finally, magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you’ll excuse me if it hurts personally, maybe a little too personally, that Rowling so casually mocks language that seeks to include me and other trans people. But I’m not shocked. This isn’t the first time that Rowling has expressed views like this. As recently as December of 2019, she was tweeting support for Maya Forstater, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a researcher who lost her job\u003c/a> over “offensive and exclusionary” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1209914794347835392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets in which she repeatedly misgendered a genderfluid person\u003c/a> as “a part-time cross dresser” and stated that “men cannot change into women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dress however you please,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowling tweeted\u003c/a>, “but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya” This view, that biological sex—simply the way your body is built—makes you immutably one thing or the other and, therefore, trans women aren’t “real” women, is a basic tenet of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. As trans people and issues have gained more visibility in recent years, so has the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same series of tweets, Rowling \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>, “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If. This tiny, two-letter word has stuck in my brain. If. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that LGBTQ people face \u003ca href=\"http://avp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NCAVP-HV-IPV-2017-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately high rates\u003c/a> of intimate partner and sexual violence; the Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 12 violent deaths of a transgender or gender nonconforming individual in 2020 alone. In addition, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality, \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/housing-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 1 in 10 transgender people\u003c/a> have been evicted because of their gender identity. The group’s \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS)\u003c/a> found that in the year prior to completing the survey, 30% of respondents who had a job reported being fired or experiencing some other form of discrimination because of their gender identity or expression. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/housing_discrimination_and_persons_identifying_lgbtq#_State%20and%20Local%20Laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 states and the District of Columbia\u003c/a> have laws that prohibit housing discrimination specifically on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity; in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/north-carolina-transgender-bathrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bathroom bills\u003c/a> that sought to limit access to public restrooms on the basis of sex have been proposed and debated in some states. And in Rowling’s U.K., British newspapers run \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">editorials\u003c/a> warning of the menace of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/a-system-of-gender-self-identification-would-put-women-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender ideology\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s less a question of if a trans person has been discriminated against, and more a question of how, especially for black trans people. Living the way that feels authentic and comfortable for any trans or gender-nonconforming person has historically been, and continues to be, dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making room for trans women or nonbinary people doesn’t crowd women out. My gender identity should have no bearing on another person’s. Rowling is right that saying or examining the ways her “life has been shaped by being female” isn’t hateful on its own. What \u003cem>is \u003c/em>hateful and unwelcome, however, is her assertion that “sex is real” and that someone’s gender identity can—and should—be boiled down to their sexual organs. What is hateful is the erasure of trans and nonbinary relationships. What is hateful is the insistence upon acknowledging “the lived reality of women globally” as if it’s a zero-sum game, and all women have the same reality and the same understanding of their womanhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a response\u003c/a> to Rowling’s tweets through the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. In it, he asserts trans women’s womanhood, points to trans-centric educational resources and writes: “To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I valued in these stories was what a lot of fans valued: The depictions of fierce loyalty among friends, the idea that love is stronger (and more mysterious) than any magic, that strength comes not just from inside yourself but from the people beside you, that evil isn’t limited to genocide but also to prejudice and oppression. Voldemort wasn’t the only villain Harry faced; The Ministry of Magic, which upheld and refused to change a system rooted on prejudice, was an enemy too. I valued the idea that a person isn’t defined by the circumstances of their lives—Lupin isn’t just a werewolf to Harry, and Hagrid isn’t just a half-giant, despite how badly others might perceive them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll end with one of my favorite exchanges in the series, which takes place in \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u003c/em>. Harry emerges from his second battle with Voldemort worried over the similarities he seems to share with the evil wizard. Professor Dumbledore tells him: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” It’s unfortunate what Rowling’s choices have revealed about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>anta Rosa, my hometown, is a relatively serene place. You may know it as the home to \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pliny-the-younger_n_1525647\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pliny the Younger\u003c/a>, and a tourist-friendly food and wine scene. When Alfred Hitchcock needed an all-American small town in which to set \u003cem>Shadow of a Doubt\u003c/em>, he chose Santa Rosa, quiet and idyllic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most cities across America, Santa Rosa has looked and sounded a little different these past 10 days. I’ve been out in the streets until after midnight on almost all of those nights, walking and talking with an incredible uprising of people, mostly young, demanding an end to systemic racism and police brutality in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I’ve lived in Santa Rosa my entire life and I have never seen anything like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happening here is remarkable, not just on an aesthetic level—Santa Rosa can always use a little more chaos, in my humble opinion—but for the important, deeper work of necessary change. Racial oppression and acute injustice that’s long simmered under the surface here has now boiled over into public view. Ideas previously dismissed as unfeasible are being taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the kids—of course, it’s always the kids—are leading the way. And I’ve been following them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters face off with police near a downtown freeway offramp in Santa Rosa on Saturday, May 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway-160x150.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway-768x722.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters face off with police near a downtown freeway offramp in Santa Rosa on Saturday, May 30. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ere are a few things I’ve seen and heard while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822946/in-santa-rosa-a-week-of-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-and-over-150-arrests\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reporting\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live-tweeting\u003c/a> from the front lines of the protests in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266966367753785344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tear gassed\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267357917172252673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twice\u003c/a>. I’ve had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267727761491124226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rubber bullets\u003c/a> fired in my direction. I’ve watched a young woman of color \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268060389100490752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrestled to the ground by four officers\u003c/a> and pinned to the asphalt, screaming, with a knee in her back. I’ve seen an 11-year old girl in zip ties, being led away by an officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266951227117465600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tumble down a hill\u003c/a>, their scrapes bleeding, when the police chased them away for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266949481158725632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocking the freeway\u003c/a>. I’ve heard from a small business owner whose window was broken from a rubber bullet fired by police, which the police denied doing until shown video evidence. I’ve talked to a building manager whose roof was commandeered without his permission by police, who cut open the fence around the roof, and who left it that way without telling him, leaving it exposed to trespassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267357917172252673\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen the police chief \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267557883341795328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a knee\u003c/a> with young demonstrators and, later that same night, seen his officers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267727761491124226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting tear gas\u003c/a> into a crowd, in addition to rubber bullets that hit a local tribal leader in the mouth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/11005880-181/anger-concern-mount-over-santa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smashed his teeth out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve talked with a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268045630863114242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporter wearing clearly visible credentials, just after he was detained\u003c/a>, during which police ordered him to put his arms up, zip-tied his wrists, asked for his Facebook page and if he’d been engaged in the perfectly legal practice of livestreaming the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve also seen people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268022926177009664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hurl bottles toward police\u003c/a>, both plastic and glass. I’ve seen people warn police “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266940332421246977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You saw Minneapolis burn up, you may be next\u003c/a>.” I’ve seen people shout all sorts of threats, insults and provably false accusations at police. I’ve heard of people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kingbuzzo2/status/1270203489751232514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting fireworks toward police\u003c/a>. I’ve seen \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267338554394345472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">department store windows smashed\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267350679447728130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">large brawls\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266936331105525761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graffiti galore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters blocks the intersection of College and Mendocino Avenues in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881697\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of protesters blocks the intersection of College and Mendocino Avenues in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here’s what I want to say, and after eight nights in the streets I can say it with authority: The ones doing these things constitute a very small number, relative to a larger, focused group that cares passionately about dismantling systemic racism, and which by and large polices itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time I’ve seen something thrown at police, the majority of the crowd castigates them. When a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267343402946854913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sideshow turned rowdy\u003c/a> with fighting on the periphery, protesters pushed the few troublemakers away while others \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267347481190264834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took over the intersection and knelt\u003c/a>, reclaiming their space and refocusing the protest on the issues at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267341570140827648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">single case I witnessed of someone stealing store merchandise\u003c/a>, through the broken windows of an athletic store in the mall? The man who \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267489053198303235\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ran past me\u003c/a> with an handful of clothes was swiftly intercepted by a group of young women, who took the clothes away from him and actually \u003cem>walked back to the store to return them\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267489053198303235\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, I have seen joy and determination. I’ve watched people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267666299796123648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dancing in the streets\u003c/a>. I’ve witnessed a rap video against police brutality \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filmed in the middle of an intersection\u003c/a>. I’ve seen kids \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267583800344637440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popping wheelies\u003c/a> on bikes. I’ve walked alongside people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269114467289202688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carrying heavy stereo systems\u003c/a> on their backs to play \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268847582744211456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YG, Biggie, Boosie, E-40, Nipsey, Tupac, Mozzy and so much Mac Dre\u003c/a>. I’ve met \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269134943684198400\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a five-year-old boy\u003c/a> who keeps encouraging his mother to bring him out to march. I’ve seen neighbors \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268030076727091200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cheer on marchers\u003c/a> from their porches, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268040537258381312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marchers hug neighbors\u003c/a> who are scared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last night I was out, I met a guy who’d had a rubber bullet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269104239235624961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot into his forehead\u003c/a> by police, piercing his skin. Did it stop him? No. There he was, a few days later in a downtown intersection, cooking hamburgers and hot dogs and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269133801667432448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serving them to protesters off the back of his truck\u003c/a>, free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"A car of protesters drives beneath the downtown mall in Santa Rosa on Saturday, June 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-800x615.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-768x590.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-1020x784.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car of protesters drives beneath the downtown mall in Santa Rosa on Saturday, June 2. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t age 44, I’ve learned a lot about political action from these young protesters. I’m really into this feeling that political action doesn’t have to be traditional political action, standing around and carrying earnest signs. Political action doesn’t have to hold you by the hand and constantly tell you how political it’s being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political action can be blocking freeways, smoking blunts, dancing to “Get Stupid,” hanging off open car doors and lighting fireworks. The kids I’ve walked with and gotten to know aren’t fighting for the right to do those specific things, but they \u003cem>are\u003c/em> creating a tangible energy. Doing these things creates the space in which they can feel freedom, in a society that constantly stifles them, and tells them they’re too young to understand the way things work. That space, that energy, that freedom created by their chaos is undeniably a political act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you spend time with younger people and understand their language, these things come into focus. I may not understand why one would get in their car and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267343402946854913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spin donuts in circles\u003c/a> dangerously close to a bunch of strangers. But in my own experience, freedom through chaos has come from hardcore shows, in the pit, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2010/06/05/live-review-filth-reunion-at-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flailing dangerously\u003c/a>, enmeshed with a bunch of other strangers, around and around in a circle. How is a sideshow much different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267343402946854913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A swarm of lefty progressives standing around and holding signs that say “This is what democracy looks like”—that doesn’t make me feel free. If anything, it makes me feel trapped, by the chains of tradition, by the drudgery of the way it’s always been done. And after 30 years of watching protests I can tell you it doesn’t work. It’s why the police allow you to stand around and hold signs: it doesn’t change a system which benefits them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other things the kids are teaching us. How donations can be made via Venmo and CashApp directly to individuals, instead of 501(c)(3) charities with salaries and overhead. How mutual aid can replace traditional fundraising. How you don’t have to hold endless meetings to plan a protest, and can simply post a notice on Instagram stories and watch people come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to believe young people could learn something from my generation, too. But they’ve already learned a lot, because of something that happened in Santa Rosa in 2013. It shows up in graffiti and signs at protests here, and in moments like last Tuesday’s march, when the crowd stopped at an intersection and sang “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268035512184369152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy Birthday\u003c/a>” to a 13-year-old kid who should have had the chance to live, named Andy Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kamari Houston, 5, helps serve food in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. He’s talked his mother Onjelle into coming out each night: "He seen it on the news and told me ‘Mama, I have to go out there, I have to be a part of that.'"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamari Houston, 5, helps serve food in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. He’s talked his mother Onjelle into coming out each night: “He seen it on the news and told me ‘Mama, I have to go out there, I have to be a part of that.'” \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n 2013, Lopez was walking with an airsoft gun made to look like an AK-47, with the orange tip indicating it as a replica removed. Two sheriff’s deputies spotted him and stopped their car, and one, Erick Gelhaus, got out and told Andy to put down his gun. As Andy moved to turn around and face the deputy, Gelhaus fired at him and struck him seven times, killing him on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the SRPD’s admission, Andy hadn’t fully turned around to see who might be calling to him before he was filled with bullets. According to the autopsy, he was struck, among other places, in the right hip and right buttock—from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters I’ve walked with in Santa Rosa this past week are largely between the ages of 18 and 25. These are the kids who went to school with Andy. They haven’t forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Lopez’s killing, and its aftermath, is an object lesson in things that are fundamentally wrong within law enforcement. A deputy knows he only has to say he \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/gun-crazy/Content?oid=2502580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feared for his life\u003c/a> to get away with a fatal shooting. The department will put him \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2477642-181/deputy-who-shot-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on paid leave\u003c/a> while an investigation gets underway—not by an independent oversight committee, but by the local police. The district attorney will \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2355212-181/ravitch-no-criminal-charges-warranted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report that the boy had smoked marijuana and that the deputy acted within the law\u003c/a>. The grand jury, made up primarily of older white people, will \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2364903-181/grand-jury-may-not-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decline to review\u003c/a> the report. Somewhere in all the aftermath, the deputy will return to work, and be \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gmeline/posts/10204895880894352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">given an award\u003c/a>, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/news/5934083-182/sonoma-county-sheriff-promotes-deputy?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promotion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the way the system works. The kids in Santa Rosa know this. The cops are now \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268075386321027072\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">arresting them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268060389100490752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a policing problem in this country. That’s not a radical idea anymore, and neither is the notion of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1270062570691534851\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reducing police budgets and redistributing funds\u003c/a> to other departments. In Santa Rosa, where our mayor is the former police chief who routinely votes in favor of police funding, the police budget currently accounts for 32% of the \u003ca href=\"https://srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25591/FY-2019-20-Operations-and-Maintenance-Documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city’s general fund expenditures\u003c/a>. Fire receives 24%; transportation and public works 15%; community engagement and recreation 6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing, in dire shortage here \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/up-from-the-ashes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">since the 2017 wildfires\u003c/a>, receives 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current protests in Santa Rosa and across the county aren’t just about law enforcement and inequity. They’re about hundreds of years of sick, systemic racism. In Santa Rosa, that stain goes back over 100 years, to an influx of early settlers from Missouri, and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8980330-181/gaye-lebaron-based-on-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">town’s support of the Confederacy\u003c/a> during the Civil War, and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2171735-181/clarence-h-barney-barnard-anonymously\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-to-last known lynching\u003c/a> in the West. It goes back to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7335296-181/lebaron-the-day-the-nazis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nazi rally in 1978\u003c/a>. It goes back to the 1920s, when a giant sign spanned the corner of Fourth and Mendocino, above the intersection in the heart of Santa Rosa, that read “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2317072-181/lebaron-citys-rich-painful-chinese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chinese Must Go\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think of the kids protesting in the middle of that very same intersection now—kneeling, dancing, hanging off car doors, blaring music, chanting, fighting for a better future—and I hope to God they never stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>anta Rosa, my hometown, is a relatively serene place. You may know it as the home to \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pliny-the-younger_n_1525647\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pliny the Younger\u003c/a>, and a tourist-friendly food and wine scene. When Alfred Hitchcock needed an all-American small town in which to set \u003cem>Shadow of a Doubt\u003c/em>, he chose Santa Rosa, quiet and idyllic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most cities across America, Santa Rosa has looked and sounded a little different these past 10 days. I’ve been out in the streets until after midnight on almost all of those nights, walking and talking with an incredible uprising of people, mostly young, demanding an end to systemic racism and police brutality in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I’ve lived in Santa Rosa my entire life and I have never seen anything like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happening here is remarkable, not just on an aesthetic level—Santa Rosa can always use a little more chaos, in my humble opinion—but for the important, deeper work of necessary change. Racial oppression and acute injustice that’s long simmered under the surface here has now boiled over into public view. Ideas previously dismissed as unfeasible are being taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the kids—of course, it’s always the kids—are leading the way. And I’ve been following them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters face off with police near a downtown freeway offramp in Santa Rosa on Saturday, May 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway-160x150.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Freeway-768x722.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters face off with police near a downtown freeway offramp in Santa Rosa on Saturday, May 30. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ere are a few things I’ve seen and heard while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822946/in-santa-rosa-a-week-of-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-and-over-150-arrests\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reporting\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live-tweeting\u003c/a> from the front lines of the protests in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266966367753785344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tear gassed\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267357917172252673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twice\u003c/a>. I’ve had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267727761491124226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rubber bullets\u003c/a> fired in my direction. I’ve watched a young woman of color \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268060389100490752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrestled to the ground by four officers\u003c/a> and pinned to the asphalt, screaming, with a knee in her back. I’ve seen an 11-year old girl in zip ties, being led away by an officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266951227117465600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tumble down a hill\u003c/a>, their scrapes bleeding, when the police chased them away for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266949481158725632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocking the freeway\u003c/a>. I’ve heard from a small business owner whose window was broken from a rubber bullet fired by police, which the police denied doing until shown video evidence. I’ve talked to a building manager whose roof was commandeered without his permission by police, who cut open the fence around the roof, and who left it that way without telling him, leaving it exposed to trespassers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen the police chief \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267557883341795328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a knee\u003c/a> with young demonstrators and, later that same night, seen his officers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267727761491124226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting tear gas\u003c/a> into a crowd, in addition to rubber bullets that hit a local tribal leader in the mouth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/11005880-181/anger-concern-mount-over-santa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smashed his teeth out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve talked with a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268045630863114242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporter wearing clearly visible credentials, just after he was detained\u003c/a>, during which police ordered him to put his arms up, zip-tied his wrists, asked for his Facebook page and if he’d been engaged in the perfectly legal practice of livestreaming the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve also seen people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268022926177009664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hurl bottles toward police\u003c/a>, both plastic and glass. I’ve seen people warn police “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266940332421246977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You saw Minneapolis burn up, you may be next\u003c/a>.” I’ve seen people shout all sorts of threats, insults and provably false accusations at police. I’ve heard of people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kingbuzzo2/status/1270203489751232514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting fireworks toward police\u003c/a>. I’ve seen \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267338554394345472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">department store windows smashed\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267350679447728130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">large brawls\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1266936331105525761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graffiti galore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters blocks the intersection of College and Mendocino Avenues in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881697\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.BadBrains-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of protesters blocks the intersection of College and Mendocino Avenues in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here’s what I want to say, and after eight nights in the streets I can say it with authority: The ones doing these things constitute a very small number, relative to a larger, focused group that cares passionately about dismantling systemic racism, and which by and large polices itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time I’ve seen something thrown at police, the majority of the crowd castigates them. When a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267343402946854913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sideshow turned rowdy\u003c/a> with fighting on the periphery, protesters pushed the few troublemakers away while others \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267347481190264834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took over the intersection and knelt\u003c/a>, reclaiming their space and refocusing the protest on the issues at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267341570140827648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">single case I witnessed of someone stealing store merchandise\u003c/a>, through the broken windows of an athletic store in the mall? The man who \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267489053198303235\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ran past me\u003c/a> with an handful of clothes was swiftly intercepted by a group of young women, who took the clothes away from him and actually \u003cem>walked back to the store to return them\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>For the most part, I have seen joy and determination. I’ve watched people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267666299796123648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dancing in the streets\u003c/a>. I’ve witnessed a rap video against police brutality \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filmed in the middle of an intersection\u003c/a>. I’ve seen kids \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267583800344637440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popping wheelies\u003c/a> on bikes. I’ve walked alongside people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269114467289202688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carrying heavy stereo systems\u003c/a> on their backs to play \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268847582744211456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YG, Biggie, Boosie, E-40, Nipsey, Tupac, Mozzy and so much Mac Dre\u003c/a>. I’ve met \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269134943684198400\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a five-year-old boy\u003c/a> who keeps encouraging his mother to bring him out to march. I’ve seen neighbors \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268030076727091200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cheer on marchers\u003c/a> from their porches, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268040537258381312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marchers hug neighbors\u003c/a> who are scared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last night I was out, I met a guy who’d had a rubber bullet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269104239235624961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot into his forehead\u003c/a> by police, piercing his skin. Did it stop him? No. There he was, a few days later in a downtown intersection, cooking hamburgers and hot dogs and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269133801667432448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serving them to protesters off the back of his truck\u003c/a>, free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"A car of protesters drives beneath the downtown mall in Santa Rosa on Saturday, June 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-800x615.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-768x590.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors-1020x784.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.CarDoors.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car of protesters drives beneath the downtown mall in Santa Rosa on Saturday, June 2. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t age 44, I’ve learned a lot about political action from these young protesters. I’m really into this feeling that political action doesn’t have to be traditional political action, standing around and carrying earnest signs. Political action doesn’t have to hold you by the hand and constantly tell you how political it’s being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political action can be blocking freeways, smoking blunts, dancing to “Get Stupid,” hanging off open car doors and lighting fireworks. The kids I’ve walked with and gotten to know aren’t fighting for the right to do those specific things, but they \u003cem>are\u003c/em> creating a tangible energy. Doing these things creates the space in which they can feel freedom, in a society that constantly stifles them, and tells them they’re too young to understand the way things work. That space, that energy, that freedom created by their chaos is undeniably a political act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you spend time with younger people and understand their language, these things come into focus. I may not understand why one would get in their car and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1267343402946854913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spin donuts in circles\u003c/a> dangerously close to a bunch of strangers. But in my own experience, freedom through chaos has come from hardcore shows, in the pit, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2010/06/05/live-review-filth-reunion-at-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flailing dangerously\u003c/a>, enmeshed with a bunch of other strangers, around and around in a circle. How is a sideshow much different?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A swarm of lefty progressives standing around and holding signs that say “This is what democracy looks like”—that doesn’t make me feel free. If anything, it makes me feel trapped, by the chains of tradition, by the drudgery of the way it’s always been done. And after 30 years of watching protests I can tell you it doesn’t work. It’s why the police allow you to stand around and hold signs: it doesn’t change a system which benefits them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other things the kids are teaching us. How donations can be made via Venmo and CashApp directly to individuals, instead of 501(c)(3) charities with salaries and overhead. How mutual aid can replace traditional fundraising. How you don’t have to hold endless meetings to plan a protest, and can simply post a notice on Instagram stories and watch people come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to believe young people could learn something from my generation, too. But they’ve already learned a lot, because of something that happened in Santa Rosa in 2013. It shows up in graffiti and signs at protests here, and in moments like last Tuesday’s march, when the crowd stopped at an intersection and sang “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268035512184369152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy Birthday\u003c/a>” to a 13-year-old kid who should have had the chance to live, named Andy Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kamari Houston, 5, helps serve food in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. He’s talked his mother Onjelle into coming out each night: "He seen it on the news and told me ‘Mama, I have to go out there, I have to be a part of that.'"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Protest.Kamari.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamari Houston, 5, helps serve food in Santa Rosa on Friday, June 5. He’s talked his mother Onjelle into coming out each night: “He seen it on the news and told me ‘Mama, I have to go out there, I have to be a part of that.'” \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n 2013, Lopez was walking with an airsoft gun made to look like an AK-47, with the orange tip indicating it as a replica removed. Two sheriff’s deputies spotted him and stopped their car, and one, Erick Gelhaus, got out and told Andy to put down his gun. As Andy moved to turn around and face the deputy, Gelhaus fired at him and struck him seven times, killing him on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the SRPD’s admission, Andy hadn’t fully turned around to see who might be calling to him before he was filled with bullets. According to the autopsy, he was struck, among other places, in the right hip and right buttock—from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters I’ve walked with in Santa Rosa this past week are largely between the ages of 18 and 25. These are the kids who went to school with Andy. They haven’t forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Lopez’s killing, and its aftermath, is an object lesson in things that are fundamentally wrong within law enforcement. A deputy knows he only has to say he \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/gun-crazy/Content?oid=2502580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feared for his life\u003c/a> to get away with a fatal shooting. The department will put him \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2477642-181/deputy-who-shot-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on paid leave\u003c/a> while an investigation gets underway—not by an independent oversight committee, but by the local police. The district attorney will \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2355212-181/ravitch-no-criminal-charges-warranted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report that the boy had smoked marijuana and that the deputy acted within the law\u003c/a>. The grand jury, made up primarily of older white people, will \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2364903-181/grand-jury-may-not-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decline to review\u003c/a> the report. Somewhere in all the aftermath, the deputy will return to work, and be \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gmeline/posts/10204895880894352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">given an award\u003c/a>, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/news/5934083-182/sonoma-county-sheriff-promotes-deputy?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promotion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the way the system works. The kids in Santa Rosa know this. The cops are now \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1268075386321027072\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">arresting them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>We have a policing problem in this country. That’s not a radical idea anymore, and neither is the notion of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1270062570691534851\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reducing police budgets and redistributing funds\u003c/a> to other departments. In Santa Rosa, where our mayor is the former police chief who routinely votes in favor of police funding, the police budget currently accounts for 32% of the \u003ca href=\"https://srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25591/FY-2019-20-Operations-and-Maintenance-Documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city’s general fund expenditures\u003c/a>. Fire receives 24%; transportation and public works 15%; community engagement and recreation 6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing, in dire shortage here \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/up-from-the-ashes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">since the 2017 wildfires\u003c/a>, receives 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current protests in Santa Rosa and across the county aren’t just about law enforcement and inequity. They’re about hundreds of years of sick, systemic racism. In Santa Rosa, that stain goes back over 100 years, to an influx of early settlers from Missouri, and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8980330-181/gaye-lebaron-based-on-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">town’s support of the Confederacy\u003c/a> during the Civil War, and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2171735-181/clarence-h-barney-barnard-anonymously\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-to-last known lynching\u003c/a> in the West. It goes back to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7335296-181/lebaron-the-day-the-nazis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nazi rally in 1978\u003c/a>. It goes back to the 1920s, when a giant sign spanned the corner of Fourth and Mendocino, above the intersection in the heart of Santa Rosa, that read “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2317072-181/lebaron-citys-rich-painful-chinese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chinese Must Go\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think of the kids protesting in the middle of that very same intersection now—kneeling, dancing, hanging off car doors, blaring music, chanting, fighting for a better future—and I hope to God they never stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last week, in the aftermath of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/06/03/map-protests-wake-george-floyds-death/5310149002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unprecedented number of protests\u003c/a> against police brutality, cities around the country started to take steps towards dismantling systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minneapolis committed to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52960227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end the current policing system.\u003c/a>” In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/nyregion/deblasio-nypd-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reroute funding\u003c/a> away from the NYPD and towards youth programs and social services. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-05/eric-garcetti-lapd-budget-cuts-10000-officers-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandon plans\u003c/a> to give the LAPD a massive budget increase. And the Democrats just introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justice in Policing Act\u003c/a>, a police reform bill that would, among other things, ban chokeholds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These actions felt simultaneously swift and long overdue; a direct result of both the scale and intersectionality of the protests. But some cultural critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/02/white-people-black-protests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised questions\u003c/a> about whether or not allies are in this for the long haul.[aside postid='arts_13881529']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, in a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> opinion piece titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/opinion/white-privilege-civil-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allies, Don’t Fail Us Again\u003c/a>,” Charles M. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Aug. 22, 1964, voting rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fannie Lou Hamer\u003c/a> spoke before a live televised audience at the Democratic National Convention. Her \u003ca href=\"http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing account\u003c/a> of police brutality was so powerful that President Lyndon B. Johnson interrupted the broadcast for an impromptu press conference. Still, she could not be silenced. Hamer would go on to become an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, once calling America “home of the grave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Hamer died of breast cancer and hypertension 15 years after dedicating her life to organizing. Perhaps most recognized for the phrase “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” Hamer’s brave fight for justice is both a testament to the kind of exhaustion that can spark uprisings and the urgent need for intentional, radical healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6GC2JhtUB/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is true, the national and global movement for Black lives has many (Black folks, non-Black people of color and white allies alike) energized to take action. But this year has already stretched our collective emotional, spiritual and physical capacities. We remain in the midst of a pandemic hitting Black and brown communities the hardest. And many organizers, especially locally, have been marching since the police killing of Oscar Grant more than a decade ago. [aside postid='arts_13881229']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, as new folks enter the fold, some of us become weary from the lack of awareness of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interlocking systems of oppression\u003c/a> that include gender and sexuality as well as race. These systems make it difficult for all Black lives to matter. We find ourselves repeating, like a broken record, that we must care as much about the killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/03/no-knock-warrant-breonna-taylor-was-illegal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breonna Taylor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/29/black-trans-man-tony-mcdade-killed-police-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony McDade\u003c/a> as much as we do about George Floyd. We are weary because we can’t bear repeating the traumas of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B5sospaAVPn/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racism, in particular, is complex in its assault because it functions in four main ways: ideologically, institutionally, interpersonally and internally. We are often taught to react only to interpersonal anti-Blackness and racism, as we definitely should. A white guy saying the n-word, a white woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/27/this-invokes-history-terror-central-park-incident-between-white-woman-black-man-is-part-fraught-legacy/\">calling the cops\u003c/a> on a Black man for bird watching—these can all escalate to heinous violence such as Ahmaud Arbery’s death at the hands of white vigilantes. [aside postid='arts_13881227']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are layers to this stuff. Anti-Blackness is prevalent within this nation’s institutions, which dictate where we do or do not place value. Ideologies have a kind of invisible power, and oppression also festers within our hearts and minds. Sometimes we internalize oppressive frameworks, adopting notions of overworking ourselves to burnout and holding onto harmful concepts like shaming ourselves or one another for not doing more. Often we engage in unhealthy coping mechanisms to mask our grief, forgetting that exploiting substance addiction was often used as a tool of warfare against Black resistance. We normalize being cloudy when we should be clearheaded. We feel off balance when we need to keep ten toes down to run in the right direction towards significant change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of mine recently observed that spirit and strategy often get pitted against each other. This thinking should shift. Fortunately, many people are embracing intergenerational healing, often examining their personal histories in order to bring that understanding back to the collective. This can help us get free. Taking care of our bodies as well as going to therapy, embracing ancestral spiritual practices and unlearning harmful notions should continue to be more common. [aside postid='arts_13876619']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s support organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nap Ministry\u003c/a> for promoting much-needed rest. Or \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackhealersconnect.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Healers Connect\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kindredmedicine.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindred Medicine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thegoddesscommune.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Goddess Commune\u003c/a> as they promote healing-centered approaches to daily life. Black women, especially those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, are also expanding on what it means to live shame-free, sexually liberated lives as evidenced in the amazing work of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKEnvcRmMs\">adrienne maree brown\u003c/a>, whose book \u003cem>Pleasure Activism\u003c/em> advocates for centering joy in social justice work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtc7ToJiPr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, in photos, I see trauma trapped behind the eyes of Fannie Lou Hamer. But I have seen her smile also. I know she would \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnfcofde5vw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sing often\u003c/a>. I’m sure her laugh could fill a whole room. What she reminds me is that the fight for freedom is no joke. She was unafraid of her rage. She named her sorrow and refused to bypass the agonizing feelings. Anger, for one, is a map. It tells us where to look, it demands attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black women, like the struggle, are intricately beautiful. Audre Lorde said “self preservation” is also an “act of political warfare.” In the days, months and years ahead there will be a lot of work to do. We must remember to also prioritize our wellbeing so that we can have difficult conversations about equity. We must live healing-centered lives, the opposite of what we may see on television, on social media and even within some of our homes. Many are remarking that we need more than a moment—we need a movement for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, we do. And we deserve to heal along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maddy Clifford, aka \u003ca href=\"http://madlinesinfo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADlines\u003c/a>, is a musician, educator and activist in Oakland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he United States is a machine fueled by energy extracted from African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police brutality is the most visceral example of the state taking our life force. Cellphone footage of this country’s first line of defense, its imperial team of overseers, taking the life from black folks works twofold: it not only documents the victim’s life being ended, but it deducts from the value of life of African American viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started the confrontation that led to an officer taking George Floyd’s life? Floyd’s attempt to exchange a counterfeit bill. A minor crime that ended in horrific fashion, and gives further evidence that capitalism and racism are a married couple of mosquitoes, pulling blood from black folks, everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is only the most newsworthy and sensational of the long list of more covert extractions that happen to black folks everyday in America. Look at data around health disparities, incarceration rates, wealth, child mortality, education levels and life expectancy. These numbers show that life is pulled from us from the cradle to the grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want qualitative evidence? Let’s talk about how passive comments in the classroom plant seeds of self-destruction in little boys and girls, which manifest for the rest of our lives. Let’s discuss how microagressions in the workplace chip away from the souls of black folks. Let’s focus on the stories of the overwhelming amount of unhoused African American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re talking about changing the way America has had its knee on our neck in just about every facet of life, I don’t want to hear it this week. I don’t have the energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I’m not out protesting. I’m not social media posting. I’m not making guest appearances on public radio specials about how the black community is feeling right now. I’m not staying up at 2am sending emails for nonprofits who want to save “at-risk youth,” or whatever term they use for black folks, but don’t have an exit strategy for when black folks are “saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciate the gesture, but I don’t really care for the “how are you feeling” texts. I’ll respond when the spirits moves me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, I’m not doing a damn thing that would take energy from me. America has taken enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m drawing a line in this stolen soil, because I know: If the system doesn’t kill you, you’ll die fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/HowardYearbook-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook. \u003ccite>(Howard University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> spent a large part of this past weekend talking with my great-grandfather. He died over 60 years ago, but we still had a conversation that was right on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on me last week, when I learned that digital versions of \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/\">Howard University\u003c/a>’s yearbooks were made public. There he was, on page 27 of the 1942 edition, my mother’s paternal grandfather. Front, center and dapper—check out the kicks. He shares space on the page with the famous philosopher and theologian Howard Thurman. And he’s surrounded by images of Lewis K. Downing, E. Franklin Frazier and A.J. Blackburn—all of whom have buildings or centers named in their honor at the Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My great-grandfather, Dr. Leon A. Ransom, was a high-ranking graduate of Ohio State’s law school. He also earned a post-grad degree from Harvard. He went on to be a member of Howard University faculty for over a decade, serving as the acting dean of its law school from 1941 to 1946, during the war years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: 'I work.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: ‘I work.’ \u003ccite>(Dr. Leon A. Ransom Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of academia, he was a part of the NAACP Legal Defense team; he worked closely with a number of top African American lawyers of the time, including Thurgood Marshall. My great-grandfather’s work focused on “educational and salary discrimination, jury exclusion, and race riots,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=finaid_manu\">Howard’s records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more notable cases he worked was the 1946 “\u003ca href=\"https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/columbia-race-riot-1946/\">Columbia Race Riots\u003c/a>.” He helped clear the names of 23 of the 25 African American men who were charged with attempted murder after multiple officers were shot during a riot in which a white mob ravaged and fired guns throughout Mink Slide, the black business district in Columbia, Tennessee. During the case, Dr. Ransom spoke in front of known Ku Klux Klansmen, and was threatened by the opposing legal team; the defense attorney at one point told him that if he kept talking he’d “wrap this chair around his goddamn head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003cem>Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961\u003c/em>, it’s noted that during the Columbia Race Riot case, my great-grandfather’s “mental conditions began to deteriorate.” He had recently survived a physical attack by a former police officer after one of his court cases in Nashville. Prior to that, he’d endured written threats from a white woman who wanted to keep schools segregated. He even disappeared for a short spell, causing a stir—family rumor has it that he skipped town to attend a baseball game, in order to take a mental break from his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a folder of clippings about my great-grandfather’s work that I keep near my bed. One article asks a handful of well-known figures of the era how they deal with stress. My great-grandfather said, “I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leon A. Ransom died at age 55 of a stroke, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13361137/leon-a-ransom-obituary/\">obituary\u003c/a>. He wasn’t killed by police during a protest or traffic stop. But his effort to combat America’s racist system obviously impacted his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a black man fighting against injustice during his life, and it’s clear that the fight for freedom hastened his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his system is tricky. It’ll either squash you for existing, or let you get close enough to think you’re doing something to change it—just to kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In knowing that, it’s on me to prioritize my physical and mental health in a country that’s inherently unhealthy for me and my people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I not combat oppression? You’re a damn fool if you think I’d be passive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I turn into a martyr for the cause, or some sort of kamikaze fighter for black liberation? No. Because my death won’t change anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll take a bit of my great-grandfather’s advice for navigating times of stress, and I’ll continue to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same time, I’ll be mindful that many of the frontline protesters in Ferguson have \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mysteriously died\u003c/a>. And police brutality, as seen in the past week’s nationwide protests, is still an issue. And the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (also known as the Civil Rights Act) was signed just after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, yet we’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-the-fair-housing-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just as divided today\u003c/a>. And, I’ll keep in mind that my great-grandfather died a young age, largely due to stress caused by the hard work he did as a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I’ll draw the line on how much I work. I’ll fulfill my personal responsibilities, and do my 40 hours each week—I have to work, my daughter’s tummy demands it—but not a minute more. It’s the only action that’s within my power to ensure that the capitalist system driving this racist country doesn’t take any more of my life.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he United States is a machine fueled by energy extracted from African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police brutality is the most visceral example of the state taking our life force. Cellphone footage of this country’s first line of defense, its imperial team of overseers, taking the life from black folks works twofold: it not only documents the victim’s life being ended, but it deducts from the value of life of African American viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started the confrontation that led to an officer taking George Floyd’s life? Floyd’s attempt to exchange a counterfeit bill. A minor crime that ended in horrific fashion, and gives further evidence that capitalism and racism are a married couple of mosquitoes, pulling blood from black folks, everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is only the most newsworthy and sensational of the long list of more covert extractions that happen to black folks everyday in America. Look at data around health disparities, incarceration rates, wealth, child mortality, education levels and life expectancy. These numbers show that life is pulled from us from the cradle to the grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want qualitative evidence? Let’s talk about how passive comments in the classroom plant seeds of self-destruction in little boys and girls, which manifest for the rest of our lives. Let’s discuss how microagressions in the workplace chip away from the souls of black folks. Let’s focus on the stories of the overwhelming amount of unhoused African American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re talking about changing the way America has had its knee on our neck in just about every facet of life, I don’t want to hear it this week. I don’t have the energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I’m not out protesting. I’m not social media posting. I’m not making guest appearances on public radio specials about how the black community is feeling right now. I’m not staying up at 2am sending emails for nonprofits who want to save “at-risk youth,” or whatever term they use for black folks, but don’t have an exit strategy for when black folks are “saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciate the gesture, but I don’t really care for the “how are you feeling” texts. I’ll respond when the spirits moves me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, I’m not doing a damn thing that would take energy from me. America has taken enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m drawing a line in this stolen soil, because I know: If the system doesn’t kill you, you’ll die fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/HowardYearbook-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook. \u003ccite>(Howard University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> spent a large part of this past weekend talking with my great-grandfather. He died over 60 years ago, but we still had a conversation that was right on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on me last week, when I learned that digital versions of \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/\">Howard University\u003c/a>’s yearbooks were made public. There he was, on page 27 of the 1942 edition, my mother’s paternal grandfather. Front, center and dapper—check out the kicks. He shares space on the page with the famous philosopher and theologian Howard Thurman. And he’s surrounded by images of Lewis K. Downing, E. Franklin Frazier and A.J. Blackburn—all of whom have buildings or centers named in their honor at the Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My great-grandfather, Dr. Leon A. Ransom, was a high-ranking graduate of Ohio State’s law school. He also earned a post-grad degree from Harvard. He went on to be a member of Howard University faculty for over a decade, serving as the acting dean of its law school from 1941 to 1946, during the war years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: 'I work.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: ‘I work.’ \u003ccite>(Dr. Leon A. Ransom Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of academia, he was a part of the NAACP Legal Defense team; he worked closely with a number of top African American lawyers of the time, including Thurgood Marshall. My great-grandfather’s work focused on “educational and salary discrimination, jury exclusion, and race riots,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=finaid_manu\">Howard’s records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more notable cases he worked was the 1946 “\u003ca href=\"https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/columbia-race-riot-1946/\">Columbia Race Riots\u003c/a>.” He helped clear the names of 23 of the 25 African American men who were charged with attempted murder after multiple officers were shot during a riot in which a white mob ravaged and fired guns throughout Mink Slide, the black business district in Columbia, Tennessee. During the case, Dr. Ransom spoke in front of known Ku Klux Klansmen, and was threatened by the opposing legal team; the defense attorney at one point told him that if he kept talking he’d “wrap this chair around his goddamn head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003cem>Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961\u003c/em>, it’s noted that during the Columbia Race Riot case, my great-grandfather’s “mental conditions began to deteriorate.” He had recently survived a physical attack by a former police officer after one of his court cases in Nashville. Prior to that, he’d endured written threats from a white woman who wanted to keep schools segregated. He even disappeared for a short spell, causing a stir—family rumor has it that he skipped town to attend a baseball game, in order to take a mental break from his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a folder of clippings about my great-grandfather’s work that I keep near my bed. One article asks a handful of well-known figures of the era how they deal with stress. My great-grandfather said, “I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leon A. Ransom died at age 55 of a stroke, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13361137/leon-a-ransom-obituary/\">obituary\u003c/a>. He wasn’t killed by police during a protest or traffic stop. But his effort to combat America’s racist system obviously impacted his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a black man fighting against injustice during his life, and it’s clear that the fight for freedom hastened his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his system is tricky. It’ll either squash you for existing, or let you get close enough to think you’re doing something to change it—just to kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In knowing that, it’s on me to prioritize my physical and mental health in a country that’s inherently unhealthy for me and my people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I not combat oppression? You’re a damn fool if you think I’d be passive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I turn into a martyr for the cause, or some sort of kamikaze fighter for black liberation? No. Because my death won’t change anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll take a bit of my great-grandfather’s advice for navigating times of stress, and I’ll continue to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same time, I’ll be mindful that many of the frontline protesters in Ferguson have \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mysteriously died\u003c/a>. And police brutality, as seen in the past week’s nationwide protests, is still an issue. And the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (also known as the Civil Rights Act) was signed just after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, yet we’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-the-fair-housing-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just as divided today\u003c/a>. And, I’ll keep in mind that my great-grandfather died a young age, largely due to stress caused by the hard work he did as a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And, of course, your likelihood of being harassed, arrested or killed by police, who, in the vast majority of cases, walk away with impunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, anti-police brutality protests have reignited across the country, \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/blog-entire/emergency-communique-george-floyds-murder?fbclid=IwAR3VoHqhzluWXpYMw1JOK4HPGTbVOn1P2L-jXNOwNg9g6QTUegsFLI-Kj_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including in Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/05/28/demonstrators-protest-hayward-police-shooting-man-driveway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hayward\u003c/a>, the latter of which had two police shootings this month. Meanwhile, many people are struggling with ways to contribute to the fight for racial justice at a time when health authorities advise that the best way to help the world right now is to stay at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s you, then here are some concrete ways to be helpful while sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Donate to On-the-Ground Activists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Activists attending physical protests during the pandemic are putting themselves on the line in numerous ways, especially if they are people of color who are likelier to be taken to jail, where the risk of COVID-19 transmission is incredibly high. In Kenosha, the \u003ca href=\"https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milwaukee Freedom Fund\u003c/a> is organizing legal support for protestors demanding justice for Jacob Blake. \u003ca href=\"https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Minnesota Freedom Fund\u003c/a> is bailing people out of jail who were arrested in the ongoing Minneapolis street protests with the help of the National Lawyers Guild and Legal Rights Center. In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6gKKKh8_2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://rally.org/ARCbailfund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee\u003c/a> are bailing out protestors. The Anti-Repression Committee, formed out of the Occupy protests of 2011, is collaborating with the \u003ca href=\"https://nlgsf.org/ways-to-contribute/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter\u003c/a>, which is also supported by donations. [aside postid='news_11821950']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Help When It’s Not an Emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A police killing is an extreme example of the ways racism manifests in America, but there are ways to support Black and brown communities even when it’s not a state of emergency. Equal access to housing, food, medical care and education are also crucial in the fight for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, where Black people make up 11% of the total population, 47% of homeless people are Black. The grassroots organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/peoplesbreakfastoakland/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Collective\u003c/a> are working directly to provide meals and hygienic supplies to our unhoused neighbors, going out into the field even during the pandemic. [aside postid='arts_13883580']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://plantingjustice.org/about-70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planting Justice\u003c/a> employs formerly incarcerated people and gives low-income communities of color access to fresh fruits and vegetables. \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a> offers health services to those impacted by systemic poverty—including COVID-19 testing, which we know low-income Black and brown need people most. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.tgijp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a> assists and advocates for gender non-conforming people, especially trans women of color, in California’s jails and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating directly to individuals is also a solid option when you see them crowdfunding on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CAwYUXzHqTS/\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Educate Yourself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Reading, watching documentaries and joining an anti-racist educational program are all good ways to learn the facts of how deeply racism permeates all facets of American life. \u003ca href=\"https://www.surjbayarea.org/community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Showing Up for Racial Justice\u003c/a> (SURJ) is a national network that seeks to foster anti-racist solidarity among white people through education and actions. Author Ibram X. 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[aside postid='arts_13880973']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Call Lawmakers and Vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although some people feel uninspired to vote in the presidential election, local ballot measures and officials impact our communities directly. Earlier this year in San Francisco, for instance, voters elected Chesa Boudin as district attorney, and he quickly moved to eliminate cash bail and stop prosecuting a variety of non-violent offenses. (For context, in San Francisco, 56% of jail inmates are Black, while Black people make up less that 6% of the city’s population.) This November, several California State Senate and Assembly seats are up for grabs, as well as Alameda County Board of Supervisors seats. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]U[/dropcap]ntil fairly recently, I believed all women lived in a state of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875149/amie-harwicks-death-is-a-confirmation-of-womens-worst-fears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perpetual fear\u003c/a>. It’s how we’re raised. Don’t wear that, don’t talk back, don’t get in that car, don’t walk there, don’t walk \u003cem>then\u003c/em>. We might not all be scared to the same degree—it’s common knowledge that women of color and trans women experience disproportionate levels of violence—but we \u003cem>are\u003c/em> all scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Or so I thought. In the last couple years, it has become abundantly clear that there is a subsection of white women in America who act as if they are positively invincible. And an awful lot of them are willing to exploit womankind’s victimhood for their own racist ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women are all over the country. I’m talking about Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Schulte\u003c/a> (aka BBQ Becky). \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/hilary-brooke-apartment-patty-st-louis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hilary Brooke Mueller\u003c/a> in St. Louis who called the cops on D’Arreion Toles for trying to access his own apartment. Washington, D.C.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.indy100.com/article/white-woman-calls-police-black-library-juan-pablo-gonzalez-8608381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brittany McNurlin\u003c/a>, who called the cops on a Black student for trying to go to the library. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/starbucks-manager-called-cops-minutes-black-men-arrive-article-1.3942931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">That Starbucks manager\u003c/a> in Philadelphia who called the cops on two Black men who were waiting for a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been so many incidents like these in the last two years, I simply don’t have space to list them. And now, as of Memorial Day, we have Amy Cooper, the woman in Central Park who called the police because a man named Christian Cooper, who was birdwatching while Black, had the audacity to ask her to leash her dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the police on Black folks for no reason is definitely not a female-specific activity. Just this week, footage emerged of a white \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/video-minnesota-police-black-entrepreneurs-gym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minneapolis man\u003c/a> calling the cops because he didn’t think the Black men in his gym “appear[ed] to be part of the” building. That’s certainly not an isolated incident either. But there is something about the way these women feign fear in the middle of their racist interactions that is particularly deplorable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When women experience actual threats from men in public, we tend to do one or more of the following: cross the street, walk (or run) faster, go inside the nearest store, jump into the first bus or cab we see (whether we need one or not), and get out our keys and/or pepper spray. We usually stay completely silent, sometimes politely ask to be left alone, or, in the most urgent of cases, we just start screaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we don’t typically do is block the path of the person we’re scared of. What we don’t do is get closer to them. What we don’t do is lecture them about what they’re doing wrong, or question why they’re standing where they’re standing. What we don’t do is tell them that we’re going to call the cops. Because if you’re truly scared to the point of calling 911, you’re going to try and do that as surreptitiously as possible, lest you agitate your assailant. (It’s one of the reasons 911 dispatchers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbo.com/content/the-secret-way-to-call-the-police-if-it-isnt-safe-to-speak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">silent call procedures\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will state this plainly: None of the women who have gone viral for racially profiling bystanders in public were actually scared—but they sure were pretending to be. 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(“They’re shoving me!” “They’re threatening me!” “They’re following me.”) The 911 operator was so perplexed as to why someone claiming to be in danger would fail to move away from the alleged perpetrators, she asked: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgaU1h0QiLo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are you living in the park or something?\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women definitely understand their own white privilege. That’s why “BBQ Becky” had no problem telling the 911 dispatcher that the man she was complaining about was African American, but declined to provide her own race, despite repeated requests to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women also understand that, because of the very real physical threats that millions of other women deal with on a daily basis, pretending to be a victim might be advantageous. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">U\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ntil fairly recently, I believed all women lived in a state of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875149/amie-harwicks-death-is-a-confirmation-of-womens-worst-fears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perpetual fear\u003c/a>. It’s how we’re raised. Don’t wear that, don’t talk back, don’t get in that car, don’t walk there, don’t walk \u003cem>then\u003c/em>. We might not all be scared to the same degree—it’s common knowledge that women of color and trans women experience disproportionate levels of violence—but we \u003cem>are\u003c/em> all scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Or so I thought. In the last couple years, it has become abundantly clear that there is a subsection of white women in America who act as if they are positively invincible. And an awful lot of them are willing to exploit womankind’s victimhood for their own racist ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women are all over the country. I’m talking about Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Schulte\u003c/a> (aka BBQ Becky). \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/hilary-brooke-apartment-patty-st-louis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hilary Brooke Mueller\u003c/a> in St. Louis who called the cops on D’Arreion Toles for trying to access his own apartment. Washington, D.C.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.indy100.com/article/white-woman-calls-police-black-library-juan-pablo-gonzalez-8608381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brittany McNurlin\u003c/a>, who called the cops on a Black student for trying to go to the library. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/starbucks-manager-called-cops-minutes-black-men-arrive-article-1.3942931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">That Starbucks manager\u003c/a> in Philadelphia who called the cops on two Black men who were waiting for a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been so many incidents like these in the last two years, I simply don’t have space to list them. And now, as of Memorial Day, we have Amy Cooper, the woman in Central Park who called the police because a man named Christian Cooper, who was birdwatching while Black, had the audacity to ask her to leash her dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the police on Black folks for no reason is definitely not a female-specific activity. Just this week, footage emerged of a white \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/video-minnesota-police-black-entrepreneurs-gym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minneapolis man\u003c/a> calling the cops because he didn’t think the Black men in his gym “appear[ed] to be part of the” building. That’s certainly not an isolated incident either. But there is something about the way these women feign fear in the middle of their racist interactions that is particularly deplorable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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