[njamc] Fw: Fwd: The NAME letter Opposing Violence (please share)

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Letter from Pamela, please share....our schools and colleges to need to be in
the forefront.  Sending love to all.Roberto


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Subject: Fwd: The NAME letter Opposing Violence (please share)

A strong statement from NAME.
Pamela

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Subject: The NAME letter Opposing Violence (please share)
Date: July 12, 2016 at 10:18:27 AM EDT
To: Pamela Chambers <pchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Letter Opposing Violence from NAME: The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando
Castille and Delrawn Small serve as yet another round of reminders that the
criminal justice system was born out of American racism, that our police are
born in a colonial settler-state country that enforces racism in every way.
Whether it is fear or hate that drives our rage and violence against each
other, underneath this violence rests an impossible commitment to maintain
racism. The hateful attack on Dallas police, during what had been a peaceful
protest, further reinforces the violence of our nation. This settler-state
enforced, media-encouraged violence is not limited by our racism, as the mass
shooting in Orlando attests. Yet racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence
is not limited to national borders. In South Africa, Black lesbians and
transgender communities are regularly violently targeted, while corporal
punishment is the norm in Black and Coloured schools. Recent extrajudicial
killings in Kenya, persecution of people with albinism in Tanzania, the
maintenance of apartheid-like conditions in Palestine, and anti-immigrant
violence across Europe reminds the world of a settler-state enforced – or at
least silently tolerated – violence against those we frame as “the other.”
While not everyone embodies what we are taught as children, and certainly many
educators fight against these notions every day, NAME reminds us that our
schools do frame such racism as normal, and the everyday operation of schools
fosters a context that allows violence against particular groups of people to
be seen as normal. While we must continue the long-term struggle to transform
schools and society, we must also respond today. Schools and colleges must be
at the forefront of addressing the context that justifies the dehumanizing that
encourages the killing of particular people. We cannot continue as normal, when
our normal justifies the violence we see around us.

http://www.nameorg.org/docs/2016_Letter_from_NAME_opposing_violence_final-7-10-2016.pdf

http://www.nameorg.org/index.php

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