The gentrification of the Mission District brought a "gang list" that affected young people in a 60-block radius, limiting their freedom of movement and association. Vicente Garcia used his 2007 Young People For fellowship to organize the community to stop the gang list.
Native Americans, Blacks, and Latinos - The Effects of Environmental Racism on People of Color in the US
Since the end of state sponsored segregation in the 1954
with Brown v. Board of Education decision,
the prevailing myth of American prosperity has convinced the people that there
are no structural racial barriers to keep minorities from reaching the American
dream. Fancy cars, stately houses prestigious educations, high powered jobs,
and a life of material wealth is available to all who work hard enough to
achieve it. According to this mindset, it is thought that all individuals have
the freedom of social mobility. These individuals, despite race or class, are
believed to have the ability to live anywhere they please, working their way up
from low income areas to the suburbs if they so desire. In light of this claim,
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ENOUGH ALREADY - Mr. Obama (and seemingly the rest of the world), can we PLEASE talk about race constructively?
See my comments after the follwing article.
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"Obama rebukes preacher, urges race healing"
Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:48pm EDT
By Caren Bohan
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama on Tuesday criticized his preacher's racially charged sermons but
said he could not disown him in a speech urging Americans to move past
their "racial stalemate."
Obama sought to quell a political firestorm ignited when news
outlets called attention to sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at
Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, which the Illinois senator
attended for two decades.