The Sound of Black and Brown

The Bridge Is Over

From an almost government shut down, to Trump even being considered for speaker of the house while white saviorism gets applauded and Black and Brown movements get whitewashed all due to ‘wokeness’, what is really going on? We called this episode "The Bridge is Over'' for a reason. Right here in Connecticut the most gentrified towns are being represented by white mayors. We cared about taking down the Columbus statues for a few minutes and even knelt, but it’s all still happening and for whatever reason Black and Brown people have lost the zest to recognize or demand true representation. Why are we so quick to sell off our own? How has bipartisanship benefited Black and Brown people, if ever? "Our ten point program is in the midst of being changed right now, because we used the word 'white' when we should have used the word 'capitalist.'"- Fred Hampton, Chicago Black Panthers.
 
#PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #AntiFacism #AntiConservatism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #VoterRights #Civics #CivilRights #BlackVotesMatter #BrownVotesMatter #Reconstruction
 
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Conservative Politicians, Commentators Recirculate Old Falsehood on Aid for Immigrants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservative-politicians-commentators-recirculate-old-falsehood-on-aid-for-immigrants/ar-AA1hHUIb?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ab03a7ebef014f568b7e022ed54d7ca8&ei=10 
Letitia James' New Warning to Donald Trump https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/letitia-james-new-warning-to-donald-trump/ar-AA1hHW8n?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ab03a7ebef014f568b7e022ed54d7ca8&ei=8 

Politricks in the Politics

A few nights ago, Manny Camacho and CJ talked about how more and more Black and Brown people are registered as unaffiliated voters for various reasons, including not finding democracy in the electoral process. President Joe Biden said America will soon be “a minority-white European country,’ but encouraged his fellow Democrats to be “respectful.” at least that’s the story in the American Insider today. We unpacked some "Politricks in the Politics'' on this episode. Ramon Garcia, (Conncan) joined the conversation to share more about what is happening in New Britain CT, the lack of accountability by the mayor and shares more about the police brutality and racism happening there - would you be surprised to know that is a heavy RepubiKKKan area. Ramon will also be sharing more about an important event happening in New Britain this Sunday 8th October at 2pm at Central Park (across from New Britain City Hall), this event is for the young Latinx mother killed by New Britain Police. According to the Associated Press, conservatives are not able to speak freely on college campuses. What do you think about that? We have a lot to say about that and more on this episode. “The U.S. has the largest, most complex, most expensive, and most punitive system of justice in the world -- and the most insecurity about crime in the West, with no relief in sight. "Public safety" is an illusion: it is every individual woman, man, and child to his or her own defense. Even the police advise everybody to learn techniques of "target-hardening" and "defensible space" -- organize neighborhood watches, look out for suspicious characters, and, if you are a woman, carry a whistle and mace, take classes in martial arts, and stay off the streets after dark. In other words, take personal responsibility and good luck! How did we arrive at this conjuncture of pervasive institutional security and social insecurity?” - Anthony M. Platt, ‘Social Insecurity: The Transformation of American Criminal Justice’, 1965-2000
 
#PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #AntiFacism #AntiConservatism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #VoterRights #Civics #CivilRights #BlackVotesMatter #BrownVotesMatter #Reconstruction
 
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Joe Biden Says America Will Soon Be ‘Minority White Country’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-says-america-will-soon-be-minority-white-country/ar-AA1hDQ29?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e08117201c0a42f0a453f6bb6309dea2&ei=8#image=1 
Democracy, Democrats, and Young People Will Save This Country https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democracy-democrats-and-young-people-will-save-this-country-opinion/ar-AA1hEhOp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=61aa83af195c43b0a3d4cba5fa8b9653&ei=9 
Few Americans say conservatives can speak freely on college campuses, poll shows https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/few-americans-say-conservatives-can-speak-freely-on-college-campuses-poll-shows/ar-AA1hB9ry?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4084114cbc1445e80738a924822605f&ei=11#image=1 
5 Egregious Voter Suppression Laws from 2021 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/5-egregious-voter-suppression-laws-2021 
How Early Suffragists Left Black Women Out of Their Fight  https://www.history.com/news/suffragists-vote-black-women 
How Jim Crow-Era Laws Suppressed the African American Vote for Generations https://www.history.com/news/jim-crow-laws-black-vote  
Stacking the deck: How the GOP works to suppress minority voting https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/29/stacking-the-deck-how-the-gop-works-to-suppress-minority-voting/ 
Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the Ballot Box https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020 
A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/black-voter-suppression/index.html 
Check out some info on voting and other resources here https://civiccitizens.org/elections 
 

Local elections matter

In this episode of the Sound of Black and Brown "Local Elections Matter'' Representing our cause is one thing, but is that really happening? Miles Thompson, founder of Civic Citizens. We will learn more about their work and why every Black and Brown vote counts. Democrats are worried about the Black and Brown vote for 2024, facism is on the rise and Conservatives are on both sides, we break bread on that and more. Just in case you didn't know, there is a lot that goes into our ballot, you make a big difference every time you vote.“If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it”- Medgar Evers. 
#PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #AntiFacism #AntiConservatism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #VoterRights #Civics #CivilRights #BlackVotesMatter #BrownVotesMatter 
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Learn more about Civic Citizens using this link https://civiccitizens.org/ 
Find out three reasons Biden is struggling with Black and Latino voters https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23873568/biden-polling-black-latino-voters-2024-election-trump 
Black male votes are powerful find out more here https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23873568/biden-polling-black-latino-voters-2024-election-trump 
What impact will the Latino vote have in 2024, find out more here https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/what-impact-will-the-latino-vote-have-in-the-2024-us-elections/ 

We’re Stronger as Ourselves

Representing our cause is one thing, but is that really happening? Emory was built on racism. It literally formed the University’s foundations; enslaved people helped build the original campus in the 1830s and 1840s. John Emory, the Methodist bishop for whom the University is named, owned enslaved people, as did most of the University’s antebellum presidents, founders and faculty members. To this day, the Atlanta campus stands on land originally stolen from the Muscogee Creek Nation. And from the University’s very first lecture in the 1830s until 1962, Black students were barred entry. But Emory is not the only institution which had to make such changes, the question is, how much has improved? Are we well represented in leadership in nonprofit, educational and government spaces? Or, are we made to feel welcomed but in fact tokenized? In 2023, why aren’t there more Black and Brown leaders, especially in places and spaces which provide services and resources to our communities. What does solidarity mean and look like when we ask for this representation? Is our lived experience a budget line item, or a foundation to break the chains that have held us back for too long.  #PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #RacismInAmerica #SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism 
 
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Check these links out
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/nonprofit-leadership-out-step-americas-changing-demographics 
https://kaboom.org/stories/importance-of-black-nonprofit-leadership 
https://rrapp.hks.harvard.edu/structural-racism-is-a-barrier-to-leadership-advancement-in-nonprofit-organizations/ 
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/leaders-of-color-at-the-forefront-of-the-nonprofit-sectors-challenges/ 

Strange Fruit

There’s "Strange Fruit '' everywhere because Black and Brown people and groups are underrepresented and supported. Black and Brown people are not happy about it, and have a lot to say about it all. Earlier this week we spoke about why Black and Brown people could care less about the Ukraine drama and why we should be focused on what is happening right here right now and instead of criticizing and stigmatizing the immigrants we should figure out why they are fleeing and how to resolve that. We know that what is happening in Florida, including the attack on the climate movement, is wrong, but did they know we are tired of being whitewashed and tokenized? We are talking about that and more in this episode. Black people are more likely to live in low-income communities that are closer to industrial facilities that release toxic emissions. According to a report conducted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Clean Air Task Force, “Blacks are 38% more likely to be exposed to air pollutants than whites.” Latinos in the U.S. are more likely than non-Latinx whites to experience heat waves, powerful hurricanes, sea level rise and floods, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And let’s not forget that Latinx workers represent a large part of the outdoor occupation workforce working in agriculture and construction jobs. Black people breathe in “particulate matter” which includes diesel exhaust chemicals 56% more than other communities due to where they live. Air pollution has been linked to changes in the brain which could lead to people exhibiting more aggressive and violent behavior, as noted by the University of Minnesota. According to data from a 2021 Pew Research Center survey for the Latinx community, climate change is not just a global, distant concern. 
 
About seven-in-ten Latinx adults (71%) say climate change is affecting their local community at least some, a higher share than among non-Latinx adults (54%), the April survey of U.S. adults found.Environmental factors can displace millions of students preventing them from attending school. What we should have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, from watching students being forced to switch over to online courses in order to continue their studies, many Black and Brown communities, the technology leap wasn’t so easy. Some households did not have access or could not afford digital tools such as computers or portable devices to maintain their children’s studies. Another noteworthy point is that a lot of times schools are turned into shelters, leading to schools being slammed with unprecedented damage, causing children to temporarily miss out on school. And check this out, the US knows this and does nothing, according to a report published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, climate change affects employment statuses significantly regardless of one’s racial background. But because Black people disproportionately work blue-collar jobs outdoors and in hot indoor environments, they “are at increased risk of heat stress and other heat-related disorders, occupational injuries, and reduced productivity at work”. 
 
#ClimateChange #WeCantBreathe #KwameTure #Sustainability #HueyPNewton #FidelCastro #JamesBaldwin #WangariMaathai #RobertBullard #JohnFrancis #Dr.WarrenWashington #AngelouEzeilo #ElizabethYeampierre #XiyeBastida #DoloresHuerta #SylviaMendez #XiuhtezcatlMartinez #HelenaGualinga
Check out this video from 100 Days In Appalachia, Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director at NC Field, talks about the impacts of storms https://vimeo.com/344121838 
Learn more about how climate change impacts marginalized people https://hellobeautiful.com/3953767/arsema-thomas-climate-change/ 
See how Gen Z is using social media to advocate for climate change https://www.allsides.com/news/2021-05-26-1657/gen-z-millennials-stand-out-climate-change-activism-social-media-engagement 
 
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What should white people do?

Should we still care about what is happening in Florida? And what does anything happening in Florida have to do with climate change? Speaking at an oil rig site on Wednesday in Midland, Texas, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled his energy plan for the U.S. if he is elected president, saying he would focus on building up American "dominance" while seeking to undo the policies of President Joe Biden's administration.According to the Time magazine “Florida is a bellwether for the rest of the nation; the surge water rise that besets Miami today will, soon enough, beset states ranging from California to New York. The state, of necessity, should be a leader in U.S. climate resiliency. But rather than acknowledge a crisis and build out a holistic approach to climate change, Florida, led by Governor Ron DeSantis, denies the urgency and applies a hodge-podge of contradictory initiatives designed for short-term applause.” #PoorPeopleFedUp #Racism#SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism
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Get involved in climate action, check these out:
Petition to key legislators to move the CT Environmental Rights Amendment forward in the 2024 legislative session: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-want-our-right-to-a-healthy-environment-in-the-ct-constitution
Oct. 4, 3:00 pm. National Zoom with distinguished legal panel: "Securing Climate Justice Through Green Amendments: the Held v. Montana victory & what it means for the nationwide movement” Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ErwDsWYlSiK_MLzVP6Dc7Q#/registration
Oct. 22, 7 pm. Zoom Forum: “The Farm Bill Affects All of Us and the Issues We Care About” Confirmed guest panelists Robert Chang, Policy Director of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust and an organic farmer at Echo Farm in Woodstock, CT and MC Whelan, coordinator of New CT Farmers Alliance.
Build intersectional and international solidarity with auto workers (some UAW locals are now on strike) and activists fighting environmental racism on September 28 at 7 p.m.: Marcie Pedraza, Environmental Activist and UAW auto worker will be speaking with Luiz Carlos Prates, a union leader and auto worker from Brazil and others about the international struggle of auto workers in factories and in our communities.Hear her story alongside the dynamic struggles of auto workers in Brazil! Hear how industrial workers are taking on the bosses, climate change, and other social issues. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tuOr2lGsQJi457B5Q44Ezw#/registration

What should white people do?

More than 660,000 people have left Ukraine for Europe since the Russian invasion began but yet there’s very little talk about Racism. Let’s not ignore that, Ukrainian nationalist groups’ were heavily involved in the Holocaust and mass ethnic cleansing of Poles during World War II.Though a majority-white country, Ukraine has a diverse, multiethnic population including Tatars, Jews and Roma, as well as small communities of Black and Asian Ukrainians. In recent decades, the country earned a good reputation among the mostly African and Asian nations who send some 80,000 of their citizens there to study. And while Ukraine provided them with a relatively comfortable life, it was not an easy one to attain. Reporters have documented dehumanizing treatment against international students from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East in Ukraine. This treatment also extended to racialized permanent residents of Ukraine, including a long-time practicing Nigerian doctor. While white women and children were given priority on vehicles departing the country, African women were barred from trains leaving Kyiv even though there were empty seats. Now the question is, why should Black and Brown people care about what is happening there? And what about what’s happening in the Ukraine are white people empathizing with? What is the cost of the war and who pays? #PoorPeopleFedUp #Racism#SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace  #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism 
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White is NOT the New Black

While white people continually make attempts to control the narrative, with new terms, labels and definitions, where does that leave ours? Did we even ever get to be in our identity? As Black and Brown people grapple with economy as it unfolds, holding on to what little of their basic needs can be met - food, water, warmth, rest - as well as the rise of conservatism, it should be that Black and Brown people are represented in the demand for basic need provision, but is that really happening? Is ‘grassroots’ the new term used by white people as a mask? Is being ‘grassroots’ the new ‘woke’ thing to do? “I have never been interested in what people say, I am interested in what they do” ~ Shirley Chisholm  #PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #RacismInAmerica #SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace  #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism Please continue to like and share and check us out here https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿!

A Tale of Two White Men

Just like you we have been dealing with climate change, and maybe you saw the back and forth between New Haven’s current Democratic Mayor and his RepubliKKKan opponent. Does it really pay to switch sides? From New Haven to the Capital of the United States, white men are battling for ‘democracy’, who pays in this fight? Where is democracy when someone switches sides? Does that impact voting or does it distract from progress? Why does this country, from the city, to the state, struggle with progress? What will it take for Black and Brown people to have confidence, represent and support themselves? Can we restore hope in the vote? “Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck” (‘A People's History of The United States’, Howard Zinn).
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What’s in your ballot? Pt. 2

We are talking about representation in the midst of RepubliKKKan extremism and Conservatism, what does all mean? Do we need to ask Beyonce where the left is? Can we really say in 2023, surviving COVID and all that goes with that, that the needs and concerns of the Black and Brown people are being represented and acted upon by elected lawmakers? What’s really preventing Black and Brown people from getting to the poll booth? Thank you for continuing to like and share the podcast and check out what we got going on here >>> https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏿✊🏾!
Find out more about the white supremacist propaganda happening in Connecticut here https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map 
Look up Anti Government groups and more in your state here https://www.splcenter.org/states/connecticut 
Learn more about the Nazi Squatters in Maine here https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone 
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