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Melissa Harris-Perry on The Colbert Report
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Dallas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported
News 8 learned that Jakadrien somehow ended up in Houston, where she was arrested by Houston police for theft. She gave Houston police a fake name. When police in Houston ran that name, it belonged to a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Columbia, who had warrants for her arrest.
So ICE officials stepped in.
News 8 has learned ICE took the girl’s fingerprints, but somehow didn’t confirm her identity and deported her to Colombia, where the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her.
“She talked about how they had her working in this big house cleaning all day, and how tired she was,” Turner said.
Through her granddaughter’s Facebook messages, Turner says she tracked Jakadrian down.
U.S. Federal authorities got an address. U.S. Embassy officials in Colombia asked police to pick her up.
But that was a month ago, and the Colombian government now has her in a detention facility and won’t release her, despite her family’s request.I don’t even know what to say. This is real. This poor girl and her poor family.
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A white dude in Minnesota thinks that his daughter being a lesbian would be like “Katrina hitting New Orleans”.
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College Republicans Express White Men’s Oppression Through Bake Sale
“College Republicans at the University of California-Berkeley are making waves in the shape of a million eyes simultaneously rolled by charging customers at their bake sale based on their race and gender.
The club plans to hold a bake sale Tuesday wherein white men are charged $2 per item, Asian men pay $1.50, Latino men pay $1, black men pay $.50, and Native American men pay $.25. Women get a 25 cent discount from those prices. Native American women eat free.
Do you know the Muffin Man? He’s kind of racist!
The protest is designed to draw attention to the fact that the state of California may allow its state university system to consider race and gender in admissions and that, my friends, is unfair to whites, and especially to white men, who for thousands of years have suffered at the hands of cruel women and minorities.”
Really guys?
I feel like logical people would be like “Oh! I get it. Cause white men make the most money right? And you guys are pointing out how unfair it is that hispanic women make half as much as white dudes? Man. What a brilliant way to showcase the wage gap including both race and gender!”.
But apparently not these guys.
(Source: ancientbruises)
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Let’s talk about how it is 2011 and not a single person of color won an Emmy.
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The typical Hispanic woman who worked full-time, year-round in 2010 earned just over half of what her white, non-Hispanic male counterpart did – she made only 54 cents for every dollar he made.
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Saturday Morning Links
- 10 Reasons Schools Should be Teaching Financial Literacy to our Kids -YES. I know there are so many things that people say kids should learn at home, but would it be so bad to have someone well educated in a critical life skill teaching it to kids?
- 10 historic people from the GLBTQ community to add to the textbooks.
- Who did the recession hit the hardest? Hint: It’s not white people.
- How much does the average woman spend on health care?
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Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai - “Black, White, Whatever”
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Texas Sen. Chris Harris Tells Spanish Speaker He ‘Should Be Speaking English’ During Committee Hearing
Antolin Aguirre has been a naturalized citizen since 2001, but as Spanish is his first language, he chose to speak through an interpreter to make sure his opinion was communicated as clearly as possible.
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Plessy and Ferguson
The decedents of the namesakes of the Plessy vs Ferguson supreme court ruling have come together to start a foundation to highlight the historical struggle for racial equality in New Orleans.
Plessy vs Ferguson upheld the Jim Crow laws under the idea of “separate but equal”.
