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Civic Justice

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Wed May 2, 2018, 08:47 PM May 2018

Black Dignity --- Stands yet again....

Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the world's biggest coffee-shop chain Wednesday for an undisclosed sum and an offer of a free college education.

Separately, they reached a deal with the city for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-men-arrested-starbucks-settle-162233584.html

These two black men are moving the bar forward for a better society, "Under the deal with the city, the men's arrest records will be expunged, and a program will be created to offer counseling and mentoring to entrepreneurs from Philadelphia high schools." The company said they will also be given the opportunity to complete their bachelor's degrees, their tuition fully covered, through a Starbucks partnership with Arizona State University.

While young right wing white men are playing some Incel's Madness, because they can't abuse women and get women to submit to their sadistic lusting's. https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=489622

We see it over and over with black people moving us forward, if one looks at the work of Dr. MLK... and what he did to save the soul of the nation from the vile of its past. We saw it with the black church members, after the young white male went in and killed Church members who had welcomed him, and all he could do was lust to the point of salivating to kill black people.
We see it the long history of black people moving to advance society even in the face of every form and manner of push back, omission from opportunity and historical economic disenfranchisement. Yet, black people are open and willing to work with open minded whites in any array of areas.

Long ago, How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism
The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science

Einstein saw racism as a fundamental stumbling block to freedom. In both his science and his politics, Einstein believed in the need for individual liberty: the ability to follow ideas and life paths without fear of oppression. Einstein decried American racism in no uncertain terms.

“There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States,” said the renowned physicist, using the common term in the day. “That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”

So in 1931, Einstein accepted an invitation from the great African-American sociologist and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois to submit a piece to his magazine The Crisis. Einstein took the opportunity to applaud civil rights efforts, but also to encourage African-Americans not to let racists drag down their self-worth. “This ... more important aspect of the evil can be met through closer union and conscious educational enlightenment among the minority,” he wrote, “and so emancipation of the soul of the minority can be attained.”
Einstein saw racism as a fundamental stumbling block to freedom. In both his science and his politics, Einstein believed in the need for individual liberty: the ability to follow ideas and life paths without fear of oppression.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-celebrity-scientist-albert-einstein-used-fame-denounce-american-racism-180962356/#WllrebgZL6FixZFL.99


Time is fast coming that the Right Wing Ideology and the embrace of the bias, bigotry and racism within it ranks... is continuing to bust up and shatter the fiction of white superiority and white privilege, and showing the real vile that has led this nation into the centuries and decades of malice and madness of the most vile forms. As time moves, it will meet the equality spectrum, and among white people it will be the liberal minded who respect equality who will bond with the multicultural reality of what was and is the design of American Democracy... the Right Wing bigot and racist will find as the world is finding.. every vile thing they promoted of negativity and degradation upon and against black people is really a demonstration of what they themselves are.
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