LACS 280Z Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American'S Creed, Institutional Racism, Intersectionality
25 Apr 2017
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Manifesto is much more broad and adept than the blm manifesto. Stemmed from a critique of white feminism who didn"t include poor white women and black women. They are exploited through labor, first through slavery, and now through the criminal/prison system. Demand an end to the named and unnamed wars on black people. Poc are criminalized more for drug use than whites even though usage is equally proportionate. Fbi infiltrated black power movements to undermine them. More black people used and were caught with crack which held harsher punishments than possession of cocaine. Trayvon martin like many young black men was depicted in the media as a criminal and a threat, instead of a innocent young man. Black youth are more often than not seen and regarded as adults than white youth. Black youth are punished in most aspects, especially schools, much harsher and more often than whites much harsher and more often than whites.
