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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle

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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle

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This ted talk talked about the plight of modern native american tribes in america today. The stories told by Matika show problems that are unique to members of native tribes. These problems are interesting, in that they would probably not have them if they assimilated with mainstream america. Many choose not to, but to hold onto their cultural roots, in spite of the hardships that come with them. It raises questions about where individualism ends and assimilation begins. It shows that, thought things have gotten better for the native american, they still have problems in need of fixing.

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This beautiful poem gives insight into how people are misunderstood. Often, there is no malevolence in misunderstanding, simply something standing in the way of two people, like a language barrier, or drastically different life experiences. At the end of the day, most people don't want to hurt each other, they simply misunderstand one another. This poem helped me see people as individuals, instead of faceless instruments of destruction. Though I always try to see people as individuals, this has given me yet more reasoning for why this is a good idea.

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Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too

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Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too

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This list provides counterarguments to the often proposed idea of reparations for the decedents of slavery. Now at face value, this might seem rather malevolent, but if you stop to consider what the proposal for reparations entails, his argument makes more sense. Perhaps directly after the Civil War, when there were still ex-slaves, reparations would have made sense, but today, the war began and ended over 150 years ago. Anyone who was a slave, or who owned slaves is dead, and their children are probably dead as well. We have missed the window when this would have made scene.Besides, there were a fair few black slave owners.  Should their decedents also be expected to pay? This list has made me wonder if continued talk of reparations is simply a way to try to turn ethnic groups against each other.

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Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?
for Blacks - and Racist Too
The claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only whites have benefited from slavery. If slave labor created wealth for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black Americans as well, including the descendants of slaves. The GNP of black America is so large that it makes the African-American community the 10th most prosperous "nation" in the world. American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of twenty to fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from which they were kidnapped.

There Is No One Group That Benefited Exclusively From Its Fruits

Only a tiny minority of Americans ever owned slaves. This is true even for those who lived in the ante-bellum South where only one white in five was a slaveholder. Why should their descendants owe a debt? What about the descendants of the 350,000 Union soldiers who died to free the slaves? They gave their lives. What possible moral principle would ask them to pay (through their descendants) again?

Only A Tiny Minority Of White Americans Ever Owned Slaves, And Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them

The two great waves of American immigration occurred after 1880 and then after 1960. What rationale would require Vietnamese boat people, Russian refuseniks, Iranian refugees, and Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution, Jews, Mexicans Greeks, or Polish, Hungarian, Cambodian and Korean victims of Communism, to pay reparations to American blacks?

America Today Is A Multi-Ethnic Nation and Most Americans Have No Connection (Direct Or Indirect) To Slavery
The Debt, which is the manifesto of the reparations movement is pointedly sub-titled "What America Owes To Blacks." If this is not racism, what is?

No evidence-based attempt has been made to prove that living individuals have been adversely affected by a slave system that was ended over 150 years ago. But there is plenty of evidence the hardships that occurred were hardships that individuals could and did overcome. The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? West Indian blacks in America are also descended from slaves but their average incomes are equivalent to the average incomes of whites (and nearly 25% higher than the average incomes of American born blacks). How is it that slavery adversely affected one large group of descendants but not the other? How can government be expected to decide an issue that is so subjective - and yet so critical - to the case?

The Historical Precedents Used To Justify The Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, And The Claim Itself Is Based On Race Not Injury

The renewed sense of grievance -- which is what the claim for reparations will inevitably create -- is neither a constructive nor a helpful message for black leaders to be sending to their communities and to others. To focus the social passions of African-Americans on what some Americans may have done to their ancestors fifty or a hundred and fifty years ago is to burden them with a crippling sense of victim-hood. How are the millions of refugees from tyranny and genocide who are now living in America going to receive these claims, moreover, except as demands for special treatment, an extravagant new handout that is only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others -- many less privileged than themselves?

The Reparations Argument Is Based On The Unfounded Claim That All African-American Descendants of Slaves Suffer From The Economic Consequences Of Slavery And Discrimination

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts and the advent of the Great Society in 1965, trillions of dollars in transfer payments have been made to African-Americans in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences (in contracts, job placements and educational admissions) - all under the rationale of redressing historic racial grievances. It is said that reparations are necessary to achieve a healing between African-Americans and other Americans. If trillion dollar restitutions and a wholesale rewriting of American law (in order to accommodate racial preferences) for African-Americans is not enough to achieve a "healing," what will?

The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt To Turn African-Americans Into Victims. It Sends A Damaging Message To The African-American Community.

Slavery existed for thousands of years before the Atlantic slave trade was born, and in all societies. But in the thousand years of its existence, there never was an anti-slavery movement until white Christians - Englishmen and Americans -- created one. If not for the anti-slavery attitudes and military power of white Englishmen and Americans, the slave trade would not have been brought to an end. If not for the sacrifices of white soldiers and a white American president who gave his life to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks in America would still be slaves. If not for the dedication of Americans of all ethnicities and colors to a society based on the principle that all men are created equal, blacks in America would not enjoy the highest standard of living of blacks anywhere in the world, and indeed one of the highest standards of living of any people in the world. They would not enjoy the greatest freedoms and the most thoroughly protected individual rights anywhere. Where is the gratitude of black America and its leaders for those gifts?

Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid

What About The Debt Blacks Owe To America?

The Reparations Claim Is A Separatist Idea That Sets African-Americans Against The Nation That Gave Them Freedom

Blacks were here before the Mayflower. Who is more American than the descendants of African slaves? For the African-American community to isolate itself even further from America is to embark on a course whose implications are troubling. Yet the African-American community has had a long-running flirtation with separatists, nationalists and the political left, who want African-Americans to be no part of America's social contract. African Americans should reject this temptation.

For all America's faults, African-Americans have an enormous stake in their country and its heritage. It is this heritage that is really under attack by the reparations movement. The reparations claim is one more assault on America, conducted by racial separatists and the political left. It is an attack not only on white Americans, but on all Americans -- especially African-Americans.

America's African-American citizens are the richest and most privileged black people alive -- a bounty that is a direct result of the heritage that is under assault. The American idea needs the support of its African-American citizens. But African-Americans also need the support of the American idea. For it is this idea that led to the principles and institutions that have set African-Americans - and all of us -- free.

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Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks

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Bad IdeaBlack Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too? for Blacks - and Racist TooThe claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only whites have benefited from slavery.

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This article by the National Review brings up a surprising statistic. A majority of members of the black community, don't care whether confederate monuments are taken down or not. I found this both surprising and interesting. Apparently the effort to whitewash our history is unpopular. This raises the question, if the majority of Americans Don't support the removal of confederate statues, and monuments, why are they getting removed? I am personally of the belief that we shouldn't try to hide our history. We must know what we as a country did, so that we won't do it in the future. Even so, I find the argument that these monuments are symbols of southern pride to be disingenuous. The confederacy was a treasonous, slave holding alliance, with no real redeeming aspects. There is so much more for the south to be proud of, besides the confederacy. This article, and the events that have inspired it have left me very torn.

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In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the historian Edward Gibbon notes that in its latter stages, Roman citizens were fond of vandalizing or removing monuments to an unpopular leader. Historians called the practice "damnatio memoriae," or condemnation of memory. In today's America, the tragic events in Charlottesville have led to a Roman-like effort to erase history. Just a quick overview of events in New York, where I live:

New York mayor Bill de Blasio says he will look into removing the statue of Christopher Columbus that has stood near Central Park since 1892. The City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, already supports removal of the "invader" Columbus. Separately, Jewish groups are calling for the removal of a statue of Peter Stuyvesant, the first mayor of New York City, but an anti-Semite. Governor Andrew Cuomo has called on the U.S. Army to rename two streets at New York's Fort Hamilton that honored West Point graduates Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Cities all over the country - from Baltimore to Los Angeles - are removing statues to Confederate leaders or soldiers. But it has gone beyond the Boys in Gray. Vandals defaced a statue of Abraham Lincoln, of all people, last week in Chicago. A local Chicago pastor wants to remove George Washington's name from a park because he was a slaveholder. Ditto for Thomas Jefferson. Al Sharpton, the shakedown artist, is against the Jefferson Memorial.

I understand the sentiments involved, but this is government as performance art. Before this goes any further, perhaps we should ask ourselves if the audiences calling for performing these ritual acts of historical removal are that large.

Two new polls by liberal media outlets cast doubt on just how much support for a statue culture war there is. The polling gives reason for skepticism. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last week found that 62 percent of respondents thought statues honoring leaders of the Confederacy should "remain as a historical symbol." Only 27 percent of those polled wanted the statues removed. It is noteworthy that, by 44 percent to 40 percent, African Americans did not support removing Confederate statues.

Then there is the poll taken by the Huffington Post in association with YouGov. Only 29 percent of Americans want to change the name of streets or buildings commemorating Confederate leaders, and only a third want to remove statues of them. The public is divided on what the Confederate flag means - with 35 percent viewing it as a symbol of Southern pride and 35 percent seeing it as racist.

Part of the reason for the public's lack of support or even interest in the Confederate symbol is practical. Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta who served President Jimmy Carter as his U.N. ambassador and was a confidant of Martin Luther King, made clear where he stood at a forum this month when asked about removing Confederate statutes:

I think it is too costly to refight the Civil War. We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together. . . . I personally feel that we made a mistake in fighting over the Confederate flag here in Georgia. Or that that was an answer to the problem of the death of nine people - to take down the Confederate flag in South Carolina. I am always interested in substance over symbols. If the truth be known, we've had as much agony - but also glory - under the United States flag. That flew over segregated America. It flew over slavery.

Young is also a savvy politician. He and other Democrats realize that a full-blown culture war over Confederate monuments may end up the same way as similar battles over gun control, politically correct speech, and other hot-button issues - with liberals losing as much or more than conservatives do.

Paul Begala, a top Democratic strategist for President Bill Clinton, told the New York Times that Democrats were "driving straight into a trap Trump has set," because the president seeks to shift the focus away from Charlottesville to attempts by liberals to "take away our history."

"While I understand the pain those monuments cause," said Begala, "I just think it in some ways dishonors the debate to allow Trump to hijack it."

No one doubts the sincerity of many of the people who are calling for the removal of monuments. But in a free society, censorship and the sandblasting of history carries a price. The slope between caring for the feelings and sensibilities of some and enshrining a form of cultural authoritarianism is both slippery and sloping steeply downward.

READ MORE:
The Unbearable Lightness of Confederate-Statue Removal
Mothball the Confederate Monuments
A Plea for Preserving Historical Monuments

- John Fund is NRO 's national-affairs correspondent.

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An interesting look at our history, and how we have changed as a people, this article by Salem Press Encyclopedia is very thought provoking. Apparently in the late 1800's Darwin's theories about natural selection were applied to humans. They served to reinforce people's pre existing biases about race. These same ideas would inspire the Nazis to try to "purify" the German people . They only truly lost sway after the 1940s. It shows us how much we have progressed in the last century. Our concept of race, as a society has totally changed, and it is no longer socially acceptable to hold these views.

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Racism in Maine schools or just 'kids being kids'?

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Racism in Maine schools or just 'kids being kids'?

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This article by Bangor Daily News raises an interesting question. Maine, remains the second whitest state in the union, behind Vermont. This sheds conflicts with a racial slant in a new light. If children from Maine consistently use racial slurs, like the n-word, are they truly racist, or are they simply under educated? In my opinion, once someone hits their teenage years, they have the ability to be racist, because they have a higher capacity to think for themselves. In the case expressed in the article, the children's ages were below 13, so I would judge that they don't know the history behind the words that they are using. Children aren't truly capable of racism, because they don't have a developed world view. That's not to say that what these children did is ok, but that it should be a learning experience for them.

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Wage Gap Between Races, Genders Persist as Asian Men Top Average Earnings: Report

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Wage Gap Between Races, Genders Persist as Asian Men Top Average Earnings: Report

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NBC put out an article about the highest earning ethnic group in the United States. Surprisingly it's not white men, but Asian men. This raises many questions for me, like, if our country was built by and for white men, why are Asian men outperforming them? Is the theory of white privilege flawed? How do people who wholeheartedly believe it to be true explain this disparity? Is America perhaps not as racist as many believe it to be?

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White men earn a median $21 an hour, making more money than women across all races, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. They also earn more than black and Hispanic men, who make a respective $15 and $14 median hourly wage. The only group that out-earns white men is Asian men, who earn $24, according to the report.

On average, women's hourly earnings were lower than those of white men and men in their own racial or ethnic group. Black and Hispanic women respectively made $13 and $12 an hour. Asian and white women made $18 and $17 an hour - lower than white men - but higher than those of black and Hispanic men.

Women rally for equal pay. The Asahi Shimbun / Getty Images

Even controlling for education, white men still out-earned most groups, according to the report, except for Asian men. Pew Research did not break out data for specific Asian-American sub-groups.

White women have gone from earning, on average, 60 cents for every dollar earned by a white man in 1980 to 82 cents in 2015, narrowing the wage gap by 22 cents, according to the report. Asian women roughly followed the same trajectory, but make 87 cents per dollar earned by a white man in 2015. Wages made by black men made no growths over this 35-year period, and Hispanic men only improved their median hourly income by two percent compared to white men's earnings. Black women and Hispanic women improved the gap by nine and five cents, respectively.
RELATED: Asian Americans Set to Surpass Whites in Median Family Wealth
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, education and workforce experience accounted for eight percent of the gender wage gap in 2010, with industry and occupation accounting for 51 percent of the difference. With regards to race, sociologists Eric Grodsky and Devah Pager concluded that 52 percent of the wage gap between black and white men was explained by education and workforce experience, while occupational differences explained another 20 percent. The remaining gaps are often attributed to discrimination, they said.

Workers protest growing wage inequality. Boston Globe / Getty Images

Sixty percent of Americans say black and white adults are treated more or less equally. However, about 21 percent of black adults and 16 percent of Hispanics say they've been treated unfairly in hiring, pay, or promotion because of their ethnicity or race, while only 4 percent of white adults commented similarly. Twenty-seven percent of women say their gender has made it more difficult to succeed in life, while only seven percent of men say the same.
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Wage Gap Between Races, Genders Persist as Asian Men Top Average Earnings: Report

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Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language

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Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language

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I found this article by the New Your Times to be interesting. It basically profiled hate groups like Antifa and the Alt-Right. However, where it fell short for me, was when it didn't give any background into how the groups themselves grew in popularity. I'll fill in from my perspective. Antifa is an anarco-Marxist group that believes that communities have the right to limit free speech, if it contradicts what they believe. This "limiting" of free speech, entails violence against "Nazis". Their definition of Nazi, however, is basically anyone to the right of center. In spite of the fact that they claim to be anarchists who are opposed to fascism, they exhibit many behaviors reminiscent of fascism. They also believe in a kind of hierarchy of not being privileged. The less privileged you are, the more important you are to them, and your ideas have more merit among them. The people they consider to be non-privileged, include all ethnicitys except for European, all genders except male, and all sexualitys except for heterosexual. The Alt-right right, on the other hand is an answer to extreme leftism. This group probably arose from far left classes on college campuses, where only one perspective is shown. Where Antifa values all people who aren't white men, the Alt-Right only values white men. They aren't even truly conservative, because they believe that the government should have an enormous amount of power. They wish to rid the country of everyone who isn't white, and return things to the way they were when white people were the vast majority. They are absolutely a racist group, but so is Antifa. What we must do as a society is see that these people hold no merit. They simply wish to divide good and honest people of all backgrounds, against each other. If we could move on from this obsession with race, these groups would loose much of the power that they now hold, so that we may progress as a society.

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The movement's self-professed goal is the creation of a white state and the destruction of "leftism," which it calls "an ideology of death." Richard B. Spencer, a leader in the movement, has described the movement as "identity politics for white people."

It is also anti-immigrant, anti-feminist and opposed to homosexuality and gay and transgender rights. It is highly decentralized but has a wide online presence, where its ideology is spread via racist or sexist memes with a satirical edge.

It believes that higher education is "only appropriate for a cognitive elite" and that most citizens should be educated in trade schools or apprenticeships.

Alt-Left

Researchers who study extremist groups in the United States say there is no such thing as the "alt-left." Mark Pitcavage, an analyst at the Anti-Defamation League, said the word had been made up to create a false equivalence between the far right and "anything vaguely left-seeming that they didn't like."

Some centrist liberals have taken to using this term.

"It did not arise organically, and it refers to no actual group or movement or network," Mr. Pitcavage said in an email. "It's just a made-up epithet, similar to certain people calling any news they don't like 'fake news.'"

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said the "alt-left" was partly to blame for the Charlottesville violence, during which a counterprotester, Heather D. Heyer, was killed.

Alt-Light

The "alt-light" comprises members of the far right who once fell under the "alt-right" umbrella but have since split from the group because, by and large, racism and anti-Semitism are not central to its far-right nationalist views, according to Ryan Lenz, the editor of Hatewatch, a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Members of the alt-right mocked these dissidents as "the alt-light."

"The alt-light is the alt-right without the racist overtones, but it is hard to differentiate it sometimes because you're looking at people who sometimes dance between both camps," he said.

The two groups often feud online over "the Jewish Question," or whether Jews profit by secretly manipulating the government and the news media.

Antifa

"Antifa" is a contraction of the word "anti-fascist." It was coined in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s by a network of groups that spread across Europe to confront right-wing extremists, according to Mr. Pitcavage. A similar movement was seen in the 1980s in the United States and has re-emerged recently as the "alt-right" has risen to prominence.

For some so-called a ntifa members, the goal is to physically confront white supremacists. "If they can get at them, to assault them and engage in street fighting," Mr. Pitcavage said. Mr. Lenz, at the Southern Poverty Law Center, called the group "an old left-wing extremist movement."

Members of the "alt-right" broadly portray protesters who oppose them as "antifa," or the "alt-left," and say they bear some responsibility for any violence that ensues - a claim made by Mr. Trump on Tuesday.

But analysts said comparing antifa with neo-Nazi or white supremacist protesters was a false equivalence.

Cuck

"Cuck" is an insult used by the "alt-right" to attack the masculinity of an opponent, originally other conservatives, whom the movement deemed insufficiently committed to racism and anti-Semitism.

It is short for "cuckold," a word dating back to the Middle Ages that describes a man who knows his wife is sleeping with other men and does not object. Mr. Lenz said the use of the word by the "alt-right" often had racial overtones.

S.J.W.

S.J.W. is short for "social justice warrior" and is used by the right as an epithet for someone who advocates liberal causes like feminism, racial justice or gay and transgender rights. It is also sometimes used to imply that a person's online advocacy of a cause is insincere or done for appearances. It became widely used during "GamerGate," a controversy that began in 2014 over sexism in video game subcultures.

Mr. Lenz, whose organization has specific criteria for which groups it classifies as Nazi organizations, said the right used the phrase "to rhetorically address the fact that the left sometimes calls anyone who disagrees with it Nazis." He said the alt-right had created the term so its followers had a similar blanket term to deride the left.

Blood and Soil

Video taken at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday showed marchers chanting "blood and soil." The phrase is a 19th-century German nationalist term that connotes a mystical bond between the blood of an ethnic group and the soil of their country.

It was used as a Nazi slogan in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s and since then "has been transported to neo-Nazi groups and other white supremacists around the world," Mr. Pitcavage said. It is one of several Nazi symbols that have been adopted as a slogan by some members of the "alt-right."

Globalism

Globalism is sometimes used as a synonym for globalization, the network of economic interconnection that became the dominant international system after the Cold War. The word has become more commonly used since Mr. Trump railed against globalism frequently on the campaign trail.

Hillary says things can't change. I say they have to change. It's a choice between Americanism and her corrupt globalism. #Imwithyou
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2016

For the far right, globalism has long had distinct xenophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic overtones. It refers to a conspiratorial worldview: a cabal that likes open borders, diversity and weak nation states, and that dislikes white people, Christianity and the traditional culture of their own country.

White Genocide

White genocide is a white nationalist belief that white people, as a race, are endangered and face extinction as a result of nonwhite immigration and marriage between the races, a process being manipulated by Jews, according to Mr. Lenz. It is the underlying concept behind far-right, anti-immigration arguments, especially those aimed at immigrants who are not white Christians.

The concept was popularized by Bob Whitaker, a former economics professor and Reagan appointee to the Office of Personnel Management, who wrote a 221-word "mantra" on the subject that ended with the rallying cry: "Anti-racist is code word for anti-white."

Mr. Pitcavage said the concept of white genocide was often communicated online through a white supremacist saying called the Fourteen Words: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

Tomorrow we make history at #UniteTheRight pic.twitter.com/pRJu2PHyeN
- Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) Aug. 11, 2017

The saying was created by David Lane, a white supremacist sentenced to 190 years in prison in connection with the 1984 murder of the Jewish radio host Alan Berg.

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Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language

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American's Worries About Race Relations at a Record High

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American's Worries About Race Relations at a Record High

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According to this article by Gallup News, the number of Americans who are worried about the relations between different racial groups has been steadily increasing since 2014. Why would this be? This is around the time that Black Lives Matter began to pick up steam. No one can argue that racism isn't still alive in america, but one must ask if focusing on it, the way that Cable news has done consistently, is making the relations between races worse. I'm sure that the people who focus on the things that divide us, have good intentions at heart, but you have to ask yourself, is it smart to divide ourselves along our respective ethnicities, or would the most forward thinking strategy be to highlight the many things that we as Americans hold in common. This worrying about race relations makes me wonder if we have been pushed backwards by a biased media, only interested in boosting ratings.

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42% in U.S. worry a "great deal" about race relations

Worries about this issue up from 17% in 2014

59% of Democrats, 29% of Republicans say they worry a "great deal"

​WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-two percent of Americans say they personally worry a "great deal" about race relations in the United States, up seven percentage points from 2016 and a record high in Gallup's 17-year trend. This is the third straight year worries about this issue have increased by a significant margin.

In 2010, early in Barack Obama's presidency, the percentage who expressed a "great deal" of worry about race relations hit an all-time low of 13%. This represented a continued decline in worry that began near the end of the George W. Bush presidency. The level of worry about this issue stayed in the teens until 2015.

Americans' worries about race relations have risen sharply over the past three years. In 2014, 17% said they worried a "great deal" about this issue; this climbed to 28% in 2015 and 35% in 2016.

This surge in worry about race relations likely stems from the racial tensions and public discourse sparked by high-profile incidents of police shooting unarmed black men and of black men shooting police in retaliation. Shootings in Dallas, Baton Rouge and Minnesota all occurred after Gallup last asked this question in March 2016.

The political success of President Donald Trump -- whose comments on racial matters, including his recent feud with Rep. John Lewis, have sparked outrage among some black leaders -- could also be a factor in Americans' heightened concern about race relations.
Democrats More Worried Than Independents, Republicans
Democrats' worries about race relations have risen by 33 percentage points over the past three years, now at 59%. Independents and Republicans are more worried now than they were in 2014, but their increases (26 points and 17 points, respectively) are smaller than that of Democrats.

Republicans' worries about race relations doubled between 2014 and 2015, from 12% to 26%, and have since leveled off at 29%. Democrats' worries about this issue have always exceeded Republicans', but the gap between parties is more sizable this year than it was in recent years.
Bottom Line
Race relations, one of the top concerns in the 1950s and 1960s, has returned as a major issue this decade. The Black Lives Matter movement sprang up in 2013 to combat allegedly racist police shootings and attracted national attention in 2014 after police shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have highlighted the precarious nature of black-white relations in the U.S.

Race relations or racism has emerged as one of the top issues on Gallup's most important problem list, rising from 1% to 3% of Americans mentioning the issue throughout much of 2014 to 18% doing so in July 2016 after incidents of violence between police and black men, making it the most important problem that month. Mentions of this issue have stayed at a monthly average of 9% since then.

Democrats remain more worried than Republicans about race relations, and Republicans' worries have not increased significantly this year, even after high-profile shootings by police and of police in 2016. Whether the overall amount of worry about this issue goes up or down in the coming year will likely depend on how many high-profile incidents occur and how Americans react to Trump's comments and actions related to race.

Historical data are available in Gallup Analytics.

Survey Methods

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted March 1-5, 2017, with a random sample of 1,018 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
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Americans' Worries About Race Relations at Record High

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Story Highlights 42% in U.S. worry a "great deal" about race relations Worries about this issue up from 17% in 2014 59% of Democrats, 29% of Republicans say they worry a "great deal" ​WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination: NPR

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Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination: NPR

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I found this article to be very interesting. It deals with how every ethnic group has a place where they feel that they aren't treated fairly. Whether these complaints are valid or not is irrelevant to the fact that they are universal to all groups. It gives us insight into how people in groups perceive themselves, others, and different groups. In my opinion, we have to stop seeing ourselves as members of groups, and start seeing ourselves as individuals.

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans experience discrimination - from the workplace to the doctor's office - and people's perception of it. The groups polled include whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and LGBTQ adults.

White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today.

These results are part of a large national statistically representative survey of 3,453 adults from Jan. 26 to Apr. 9.

We will be releasing the full results of the poll over the next several weeks, starting Tuesday with results from the survey of African-Americans. We will highlight and analyze the particular acts of discrimination that each group experiences.

The African-American results, in 802 adults, provide insight into the historically high levels of discrimination blacks have faced since arriving in America. These experiences happen across a broad range of situations: interacting with police; applying for jobs or seeking promotions; trying to rent an apartment or buy a home; or going to a doctor or health clinic.

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The findings on African-Americans have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

The perceptions of discrimination are not primarily based in actions by institutions, as some might expect. "Most African-Americans believe that discrimination is due to the attitudes of individuals that they interact with," says Robert Blendon, the poll's director and professor of policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School. "A smaller share believes it's actually government or institutional policies."

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Fear of discrimination, possibly triggered by past encounters, plays out in different ways. We found that this fear significantly influences people's decisions whether to seek medical care, to call the police when in need, and even whether to drive or attend social events. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of African-Americans polled said they have personally experienced racial discrimination when going to the doctor or a health clinic, with 22 percent avoiding care out of fear of discrimination.

"If someone is avoiding seeking medical care out of fear of discrimination, they're at risk of going undiagnosed for serious conditions," says Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We know that repeated stress from discrimination and racism can actually make some of those conditions more likely in the first place and shorten lives."

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And repeated stress comes from many kinds of discrimination and the fear it engenders. Numerous studies have shown that African-Americans are more likely to be stopped by police compared with other racial groups. In the poll, 60 percent of people told us that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or mistreated by police because they are black.

That has consequences for them personally and across society - 31 percent of poll respondents say fear of discrimination has led them to avoid calling the police when in need. And 61 percent say police are more likely to use force on a person who is African-American than on a white person in the same situation.

Where people live can make a big difference, too. Our survey found that 64 percent of blacks live in non-majority-black areas. For these people, perceptions of local discrimination, opportunity, police and government and community environment were generally better when compared with majority-black areas, sometimes by wide margins.

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Our poll found substantial numbers of African-Americans who say they have been slurred or have been the target of insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions. A story later in our series will explore the split by income and gender in the chart below.

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Persistently higher premature death rates in blacks compared with whites was one of the issues that inspired this poll and series. The most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that gap at 16 percent, even though it has narrowed since 1999, when death rates for blacks from all causes were 33 percent higher than whites.

Many factors play into the gap, including a considerable drop in crime rates involving African-Americans over that period and improved access to medical care for many people. What we're trying to explore with our "You, Me and Them" series and poll is how the stress-inducing experiences of discrimination in everyday life affect health.

"Over 200 black people die prematurely every single day in America, in part because of racism in society," says David Williams, a professor of public health at the Harvard Chan School who has pioneered work in the field of racial disparities in health care. "This poll helps us see where we need to take action to address the problem."

The poll was conducted in the first quarter of 2017. A final report discussing major highlights from the series will be released in December.

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Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Although there were many viewpoints that I disagreed with on this interactive article by the Washington post, it did an excellent job in showing the multitude of different opinions about the subject. In my opinion, the continued use of the word by all persons serves to turn us against each other. Whether they are hip hop artists or Klansman, no one should be allowed to say it. We can't treat people differently based on their skin color. Black people shouldn't get to say it, and neither should white people or Asians, Hispanics, Ashkenazi Jews, Native Americans, or anyone else. It must be cultural poison for everyone. When it comes to race, equal treatment is just treatment. I found it strange that this opinion didn't come up more, but I suppose different life experiences cause differences in opinion. I feel we would move forward if we tried to leave race behind.

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The n-word: An interactive project exploring a singular word

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.

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This Amazing, Troubling Book: Article by Toni Morrison 

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This Amazing, Troubling Book: Article by Toni Morrison 

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I found this article interesting, because it introduced me to a different perspective to viewing Huckleberry Finn. The article deals with the author's thoughts while reading The Great American Novel, as well as her analysis of it. What I found interesting was the reoccurring uncomfortable feeling that she got while reading the book. I myself have never read a book which has the volume of slurs about my race, as this book has about black people, so it was hard for me to relate. This gives me insight into how different her life is to mine.