NAACP IN HAWAII - YAKITY, YAK

Posted on: Saturday, November 3, 2007
Hawaii NAACP sets forum on Chapman racial slurs

Linda Lingle - Let's Talk About Discrimination In Hawaii

This indulgence over local fopahs and incidents,
that granted, require some address, is what leaves leadership
impotent, when it comes to the truly destructive elements and
machinations by entities that will effect black people in ways
that have final, long lasting, and residual effects.

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Indian Leaders Offer to Settle Largest Class Action Lawsuit Against Federal Government in U.S. History


Indian tribes expel members
Story Highlights
Tribal leadership examines blood ties more closely

Questions frequently surround gambling revenue distribution

Those who are kicked out have few avenues for appeal
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP)


Cherokee Nation Ousts Blacks


What makes the Seminoles unique is that this tribe, unlike any other, has existed for nearly three centuries as a mixture of Indians and blacks, runaway slaves who joined the Indians as warriors in Florida.

(CBS) Indian tribes across the country are reaping windfall profits these days, usually from gambling operations. But some, like the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, are getting rich from from belated government payouts for lands taken hundreds of years ago.

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Cocaine sentence disparity just adds pain

OVER 20 YEARS OF THE "UNJUST" FEDERAL CRACK COCAINE LAW!!!The federal crack cocaine sentencing policy has devastated many African American families and communities, sending mothers and fathers away to prison to ...
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The disparity became a racial concern because crack cocaine was considered a "black" drug in that most users and sellers were African-American, while powder cocaine was thought to be used mainly by whites. An unlikely coalition of lawyers, activists and even members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission - an independent agency within the federal judiciary - has urged Congress to reform the laws, citing the toll of long prison terms on African-American families in drug-infested neighborhoods.

Experts say the crack/powder laws grew out of the belief by many officials in the 1980s that a wave of violent crimes committed by out-of-control crack addicts (usually depicted in the media as black males) needed to be addressed with the toughest methods possible.

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Gangs are a Minority ProblemStereotype 1. Gangs are a Black and Hispanic Problem ... Most gang members today are Black or Hispanic, not white. It certainly hasn't always been that way. ...
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In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."


President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

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FILM
What's Race Got to Do With It?
A new PBS documentary series explores the complicated and controversial connection between social inequality and health.


By Raina Kelley | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Apr 11, 2008

From the Editors (2) Can Racism Make You Sick?
Class, Race and Cancer Care
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In "Unnatural Causes," the filmmakers raise other disturbing conundrums. For example, the United States spends more than twice the average of other industrialized countries on health care and yet does worse than 28 other countries in life expectancy and 29 other countries in infant mortality. Why are children living in poverty about seven times as likely to be in poor or fair health than children living in high-income households? And why has HIV infection doubled in the African-American population but remained stable among whites? According to the film, the answers are at least in part related to economic conditions, "a continuous health gradient tied to wealth. At each step down the socioeconomic ladder—from the rich to the middle class to the poor—people tend to be sicker and die sooner," the narrator says.

But that's not the whole story. African-Americans, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders at all income levels fare worse than their white counterparts

AND THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT DUANE " DOG " CHAPMAN