2020-6-9 Structural Racism: Diabetic Amputations
Racial Health Injustice: Diabetic Amputations Deedspeakout covers four fields, the first on the list being “health/healthcare,” followed by the environment, the justice system, and education. What...
View Article2020-6-10: Structural Racism, Alabama Schools Edition
A re-posting (with edits) of an earlier post. One of the most intractable issues related to structural racism in the U.S. is that of public schools and who attends them. When the issue discussed here...
View Article2020-6-11 Structural Racism: Covid-19 and the George Floyd Protests
Structural Racism: Covid-19 and the George Floyd Protests “All of it comes together. What happened with George Floyd publicized to the world the experience that we live,” he said. “It’s a...
View Article2020-6-13 Stamp Scrip
Stamp Scrip and the Coming Liquidity Trap The mainstream media is having trouble – or maybe just insisting on burying its collective head in the sand – coming to grips with the fact that around 44...
View Article2020-6-18 Structural Racism: Structural Racism Version
Thinking about the “Structural” in Racism When we talk about structural racism, we’re talking about policies, practices and their outcomes which, while identifiable, are often deemed so intractable,...
View Article2020-6-20 The Tulsa Rally: Not an Accident
This Is Not a Game “If it were an accident then you could correct that. If you didn’t intend it, then don’t come on this weekend and interrupt one of the most sacred holidays for black people in this...
View Article2020-6-21 Winds of Change?
Structural Racism in Banking: Chicago Home Lending Summary Background [June 4] On June 4, WBEZ and City Bureau published an outstanding piece of research on home lending loans in Chicago neighborhoods...
View Article2020-6-23 We’re All in This Together
“We’re All on this Death-Cruise Ship Together” John Oliver’s latest “Last Week Tonight” devoted nearly 20 minutes to the coronavirus pandemic in prisons and jails. Summary: The segment was broken down...
View Article2020-6-25 Oh, Chicago
Chicago: On the Wrong Side of History On Wednesday evening (6-24-20), Chicago’s seven-person Board of Education voted to keep the Chicago Police Department in Chicago Public Schools. The vote was...
View Article2020-6-26 A GND Post-Pandemic
The future of a Green New Deal, post-pandemic We’re pondering a piece by Marshall Auerback of the Independent Media Institute; it discusses some of the ways in which thinking about a Green New Deal...
View Article2020-6-30: K-12 in a Time of Pandemic
Opening K-12 Schools: Basically, Nobody Knows* Michelle Goldberg outlines some of the issues facing the country’s biggest school district (NYC) in September (or maybe, August). We’ll address some of...
View Article2020-7-6 A Day for Somber Reckoning
A Day for Somber Reckoning “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every...
View Article2020-7-7 Florida & NYC K-12 Reopening Plans
“Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave” Various states and school districts are starting to publish their “reopening plans,” such as they are, for August/September. As was entirely predictable, they’re all...
View Article2020-7-11 Does the 1% Care?
Does Wall Street Care about Main Street? Deedspeakout follows a lot of online news sites and old-fashioned blogs. One of the latter that we visit regularly is authored by a Canadian writer, Ian Welsh....
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2020-7-13 Which Side Are You On?
Which Side (of the Fence) Are You On? This – admittedly, clever – list of positions supposedly held by the typical Republican v. the typical Democrat came up in our Facebook posts. We’re going to...
View Article2020-7-16 Postmortem Structural Racism
Even After Death … Many of you will recall George Floyd’s funeral on June 9, two weeks after his murder in Minneapolis (May 25). There were in fact two funerals in Houston (plus another service in his...
View Article2020-7-19 Education for Mine but not for Thine
2020-7-19: Increasing Educational Inequality in a Eime of Pandemic The Washington Post has a story up about how well-heeled parents are very busy on various FB groups these days, lining up in-home...
View Article2020-7-21 What Day Is Today?
Dear Senator McConnell: What Day is Today? In late March, the CARES Act was signed into law by the President to provide short-term federal relief to businesses (wide array of financial “instruments”...
View Article2020-7-24 The Dark Side
A Walk on the Dark Side The Senate is embroiled in internecine war – both among its own members and with the White House – on the specifics of the fifth coronavirus relief bill, the HEROES Act (=...
View Article2020-7-25 Caregiving & Humanity
Caregiving: the Measure of our Humanity We had originally intended this post to deal with the caregiving crisis America is experiencing with its children, ranging from the youngest who were attending...
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