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Understanding systematic racism is one of the essential gateways of comprehending how our country runs

Whether you can agree or not, this country was built upon the backs of both immigrant and slave labour. These marginalised individuals who have contributed so much to the country as a whole are still chained to inequality, oppression, and injustice, whether done deliberately or discreetly. The very same people who have bled for this country, whether by serving in the military, or taking to the streets to fight for their rights as well as others, continue to remain on an unequal standing with the majority. Even those who are privileged enough to find success in their lives are compelled to abandon their core beliefs in order to "fully" integrate into a society structured to hegemonise them. Ever since America was founded, it was, in the words of Stephen A. Douglass, "Made by white men for white men." This quote makes significant reflections of the main tenets of White supremacy, rooted in the belief that the goverment was established to benefit white men. Not black men, not brown men, but white men exclusively. His quote, however, has more to it than just reflections of white supremacy. He also emphasises that citizenship must only be granted to white men of European descent. This was an incredibly powerful view during the 19th century, where systemic racism was especially rampant. Nativists teamed with government officials in order to curb the legal rights of immigrants as well as other marginalised groups at the time, such as Catholics, the Irish, Chinese immigrants, freed Blacks, and anyone that did not fit into their universal criteria for so-called "whiteness". With the one drop rule, which declared any person with just one drop of black ancestry to be considered entirely black, as well as the prevalence of scientific racism (Social Darwinism, which has been debunked more times than the whole "The South engaged in the Civil War because they wanted States rights! argument) and Rudyard Kipling's "White Men's Burden" poem, used to justify colonisation and…  Read more

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Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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