Search Results for “Martha R. Bireda”

31/03/2022

The Perpetuation of White Supremacy

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

A bill that will limit discussions teachers and businesses can have about race

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The Florida Republican-dominated State Legislature most recently passed a bill applied to K-12 public schools | Image fromWall Street International.
26 March 2022 (Wall Street International)* The Florida Republican-dominated State Legislature most recently passed a bill that will limit discussions teachers and businesses can have about race.
27/02/2022

The Fear Returns

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

By 2050, minorities would make up more than 50 percent of the American population

There is anxiety and sense of fear of white loss of control and domination of America
There is anxiety and sense of fear of white loss of control and domination of America | Image from Wall Street International.

26 February 2022 (Wall Street International)* White Supremacy ideology is based upon the mythology that those designated and perceived as “white” in America are inherently superior to those of other races, especially black people, and should rightfully be the dominant and controlling group in the society.

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28/01/2022

2022 Intentional: Human Completeness

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

Now is the time for Americans to recognize the crucial need to treat and act more “human” to each other

Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail
Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail | Image from Wall Street International.

28 January 2022 (Wall Street International)* — Between the Covid-19 pandemic, racist actions, and the beginning of the racial reckoning, we thought we had confronted our worst societal issues in 2020. However, 2021 proved to be even more chaotic and scary.

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29/09/2021

Racially Divided America: White Supremacy Ideology

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

Why the fear of teaching true American history?

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The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy
The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy | Image from Wall Street International Magazine.

28 September 2021 (Wall Street International)*The fear of teaching accurate American history and having honest discussions about race have seized many white parents across the nation. The mechanism employed by those promoting white supremacy ideology has been utilized for centuries.

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28/07/2021

We Have Been Deprived of Learning the True History

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

Why the fear of teaching true American history?

The Tulsa Massacre (1921)
The Tulsa Massacre (1921) | Image from Wall Street International.

28 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — The “racial reckoning” that is now occurring in the nation, especially as a result of the public murder of George Floyd, has race and racism at the forefront of many of our minds.

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31/03/2021

Inequality: America’s Pre-Morbidity

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

We must enter into a time of reflection

The pandemic has revealed the gross inequality in American culture and society
The pandemic has revealed the gross inequality in American culture and society | Image from Wall Street International.

30 March 2021 (Wall Street International)* — It has been a year since the Covid-19 virus interrupted and changed our lives forever. The virus attacked not only our bodies but every aspect of our lives, our livelihoods, our children’s care and education, our ability to gather, to even kiss our grandparents.

A virus attacks the bodies of those who are most vulnerable, who have the least strong and healthy immune systems, but most critically those with “pre-morbidity.”

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28/10/2020

2020: America’s Déjà Vu?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

Will we as a nation remain submerged in the racism that characterized 1920 America?

Protester against racism
Protester against racism | Image from Wall Street International.

26 October 2020 (Wall Street International)*There are amazing and almost eerie parallels between where America finds itself in 2020 and where the nation was a century ago. In 1920, one hundred years ago, America was in the midst of a pandemic, racial conflict, and a contentious presidential election.

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27/09/2020

Racism in America

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

A tool for the maintenance of classism

Racism in America
Racism in America | Image from Wall Street International.

26 September 2020 (Wall Street International)*America proclaims itself to be the land of ultimate freedom and opportunity. The ability to rise above one’s condition of birth, not inhibited by social class – this is the essence of the American myth of a classless society.

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27/11/2019

Facing the Dark Past – A True History of America

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

26 November 2019 (Wall Street International)*The young German guide’s eyes beamed and a broad smile covered his face as he described how the student movement in West Germany during the 1960s forced the German people to face their past. Students inspired by protests in the United States, protested against what they considered to be the “perpetrator generation”.

Auswitchtz

Auswitchtz | Image from Wall Street international.

28/10/2019

Reparations – A Very Hot Topic in American Politics

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

26 October 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Several Democratic contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination have come out in favor of reparations for Native Americans and African Americans in one form or another. These candidates spoke of the need for the United States government to reckon with and make up for centuries of stolen labor and legal oppression.

Native Americans
Native Americans | Image from Wall Street International.