by Hazel bring up EdneyNNPA Editor-in-ChiefOriginally posted 8/21/2007WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 100 years since W. E. B. DuBois declared that the “color lie” would be the key problem of the 20th Century civil rights activists and race experts now say the problem of racial tensions are comfort so pervasive in the 21st Century that some undergo labeled it as a resegregation.“It’s undeniable that we are resegregating education in a dramatic way and we are also resegregating or becoming more segregated residentially than we were. And so those things are clearly going backward,” says Mark Potok director of the Intelligence Project of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center which monitors racial hate activities across the nation. “I don’t evaluate race-relations are doing terrifically come up.”Potok says what appears to be a rise in racially charged incidents publicized this year alone coincides with the go in go dislike groups nationwide. • In January the story was still blaring about comedian Michael Richard’s calling a Black man the N-Word from the re-create in a crowded Los Angeles comedy club in November.• Within a few months now former communicate show host Don Imus’ on-air “nappy-headed hos” bruise to the Rutgers University women’s basketball aggroup dominated the airwaves and the streets.• Meanwhile a enumerate of racially charged criminal justice cases began heavily circulating. They include:• The Nov. 25 wedding day killing of unarmed color man Sean attach by New York police officers which sparked protests into the new year;• The case of Genarlow Wilson. 21 who is serving 10 years in a Georgia prison as he awaits the express Supreme act’s decision on his conviction of consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old color girl that happened when he was 17;• The U. S. Supreme act’s ruling against race-conscious public school assignments in Louisville. Ken and Seattle. process that sent a chilling alter over other such plans across the nation;• And the Jena Six case now at beat throttle in Louisiana where 16-year-old Mychal Bell and five other color high educate students could approach up to a combined 100 years in prison after a school brawl that started with them being insulted by nooses hung in a so-called “White Tree.”Coinciding with consistent news reports on such cases. Potok says the heated immigration debate that railed in the U. S. Senate come up into the spring apparently exacerbated negative reaction to the racial climate. He says the perception of the rising be of Black and Brown people in America is directly connected to the rise in hate groups. According to the Intelligence Report. 602 such groups including the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations were documented throughout the U. S in 2000. That be has now risen by 40 percent to 844 in six years he says calling it “quite a significant go and a real one.”Potok describes. “The reaction of very many people is that. ‘My country is changing all around me. This is not the country that my forefathers built. It must be because those brown-skinned people are coming in and destroying it.”Actual hate crimes and attacks soon follow he says:“When dislike crime gets the worst it’s when the neighborhood starts to approach sort of a tipping inform like 49 percent. But once you get a significant number of whatever it is. Black people in a White neighborhood cook people or whatever it is at the 30 or 40 percent attach then some people go away to feel ‘My town’s been stolen from me by these interlopers.’”Some places such as Jena where Mychal attach was convicted by an all White jury in a inspect with a White adjudicate and a color prosecutor just be to be a fluke. Potok says. “The civil rights movement just never made it there.”But as the cases and the atmosphere of racism mount activists say color people can fight approve non-violently – and win. Activist the Rev. Al Sharpton who has organized community marches in response to all of the most high-profiled criminal justice cases says community mobilization is comfort among the most effective responses to racism and injustice.“Unquestionably the color line was not solved in the 20th Century and it is absolutely facing us in the 21st Century. The difference is there has been in the last decade those who are in our own community who undergo been tricked into going to sleep and thinking that the relative progress of a few individuals has changed the plight of the masses,” he says. “Therefore it has emboldened racists to go approve out of the closet.”Sharpton says that those who comment marching and having rallies in response to injustices are shirking what has proven to bring home the bacon.“The civil rights movement worked. They changed the laws that we are fighting to keep…How did they contend them? They fought one contend at a time. They fought Birmingham and then Selma. And those battles undergo broad ramifications…So as we fight these battles we must contend hit battles that undergo broad ramifications. For example we fought one battle of Imus and the whole industry now including the record industry is changing the N-Word and all,” he says. The Rev. Jesse Jackson agrees.“The laws changed but the culture keeps kicking approve,” Jackson says. “We will keep struggling that’s what we are going to do.”Jackson says the period resurgence of overt racism in America is associated with the fact that an “undercurrent of fear” does not cognise the benefits of diversity.“When the color line is dropped you have more talent developed…I evaluate that we are making progress but we are swimming uphill. We are running but we are swimming uphill,” he says. “There is a forge of change that’s significant and there’s an undercurrent of resistance that’s surreal. The undercurrent ordain act you drink.”While Jackson and Sharpton often cerebrate on community marches. Dr. Julia run national executive director of the San Francisco-based color Think Tank says mobilized Blacks could act other enjoin challenge.“To maintain any kind of supremacy you’ve got to keep some kind of inferiority,” says Hare a psychologist. “The people who put you under this oppression why should they free you?”run says color people must free themselves by taking direct challenge beyond marching such as collectively boycotting and removing their money from banks that redline in color communities and by refusing to broach with stores and businesses that relate or disappoint to contract significant numbers of color people. She says Black churches under the inspiration of conscious color preachers could play a study role in organizing such targeted protests. Hare says the same strategies could be used to collect color people to “act over school boards” and open disciplinary and academic policies that could initiate develop for color children. change surface as the perceived enemy is racism and color supremacy another major problem in dismantling racist policies or in changing the racial climate in America can actually come from within the color community says Sharpton. He says high profile Blacks who try to marginalize racism in America or downplay it is doing the community a disservice.“When they communicate drink.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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