Ch-ch-check this out y'all. 

From: http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/this-your-nation-white-privilege-updated

Author: Tim Wise 

 Ya gotta use some strategery.

I was speaking to a friend the other day about a particularly heated moment in a presentation. During her presentation, a white peer I'll call Nancy spoke about the "limited cognitive abilities" of lower-income populations as a basis for excluding populations from her sample group in Los Angeles.

Jeremy Bearer-Friend, a YP4 Leadership Academy fellow currently with Justice Now, just posted to Feministing:

Prisons are bad for everyone--not just for the people in cages within them, not just for the children who have lost their parents to them, or the social programs who have their budgets cut because of them.

Prisons distract us from the root causes of violence and ultimately exacerbate the deeply entrenched challenges of racism, sexism and transphobia facing our communities.

This piece is dedicated to the women of color who found themselves left out of the mainstream feminist movements of the 20th centry. These women bold and bravely moved on, organizing themselves in response and despite the blatant and unjust racism and sexism that was thrown their way.

Driving political wedges between different minority populations - who often share similar political interests - is hopefully something that will become harder and harder to do, and something that just won't fly at all with the younger generation. But that probably won't stop some from trying it.

Ma And Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man

During Bill Clinton's first run for President, I appeared on a New
York radio panel with some of his black supporters, including Paul
Robeson, Jr., son of the actor and singer.

Laughing liberally. Sure, I laughed. But there was one teensy thing that bothered me, upset me, and degraded the very principles of why we are here. Let me make myself clear here and tell you where I am coming from.

Earlier this month, Megan Williams, a 20-year-old black woman, was sexually abused, stabbed and tortured by six white people while repeatedly being called a racial slur.

Not In Our Town is working to facilitate an organized community response.

Here's what you can do to help.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Jena Six case, please read this earlier post by Angie on the blog last month.

Over the course of the summer, there has been much interest about this issue on the grassroots level and continues to garner more national attention. Color of Change has been at the forefront of creating opportunities for activism, advocacy, and organizing for justice in the case of the Jena Six.