Archive For The “Physical Racism” Category
FollowThis week I am focused on the Occupiers demonstrations. I am struck by how many Americans again feel ignored and disrespected in their own country by “the powers that be, which is now identified as Corporate America.” I am frightened again by the physical force that is being displayed against Americans protesting for their own […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed”(disrespected.) Below is an excerpt from my memoir where I recount the physical racism I encountered when my family moved into an all- white community in Chicago in 1955. It […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed”(disrespected.) Emmitt Till (excerpt from my memoir) When I was very young my grandmother took me on a long bus ride from her house in the Woodlawn […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear/hate toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed” disrespected.) Physical racism is probably one of the easiest and most obvious forms of racism to detect. It is a physical attack with the ominous threat of harm and […]