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A justice department program of research fellowships in the civil rights leaders name has been twisted to suit the attorney generals agenda.
Since 2002, the US Department of Justices WEB Du Bois program has sponsored research fellowships on issues of race and criminal justice. During Republican and Democratic administrations, a diverse group of academics have carried the spirit of the noted sociologist and civil rights leader to the race challenges of the 21st century. Given the racial disparity endemic at every stage of the justice system the DoJs investigation of these issues has been praiseworthy.
But with Jeff Sessions as attorney general exploring the roots of this injustice may now be compromised. In the recently released solicitation for the Du Bois fellowships the DoJ invited scholars to engage in research on five issues arising out of the tough on crime era that would make a student of the Du Bois legacy shudder.
Whereas Du Bois is widely known for promoting the idea that the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line, the DoJ solicitation displays no interest in such high-profile issues as police killings of unarmed black men or the impact of mass incarceration on the African American community. Instead, protecting police officers is the only area of law enforcement prioritized by the DoJ.
Another research priority, enhancing immigration enforcement, coming at a moment when barely disguised racist imagery accompanies those policies, seems particularly jarring when upheld in the name of a civil rights legend.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/jeff-sessions-is-shamefully-undermining-web-du-boiss-legacy
I think that a racists enabling asshole should be presently under indictment for LYING to a member(s) of a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing and should be in fucking jail for treason for falsifying his Form 85 and lying to the FBI during his interview process and committing perjury.
And this fucking snowflake, yes, he is a snowflake, likes to fucking talk to Russian spies and LIES about it.......................he's a fucking TRAITOR and has no business being the top law enforcement officer, when it comes to administrating the law..................none................and whoever voted to confirm this fucking snowflake are also enabling Traitors......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)It's funny how seldom I hear from the "HILLARY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME OR WORSE" -crowd these days...
marble falls
(57,900 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,552 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)so, under George W Bush?
Interesting.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Previously, the topics addressed race and justice. Now they focus on protecting the police - just what W.E.B. DuBois was all about.
Docreed2003
(16,917 posts)That leopard hasn't changed his spots, no matter how much he might try and camouflage them. We must be vigilant in exposing these types of subtle and, in this case, not so subtle attempts to roll back efforts of equality.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for research, a much, much, much smaller matter.
If it comes to it, in addition to the usual, we have a lot of black millionaires, centimillionaires, and even several black billionaires. Also a huge pack of black authors, intellectuals, documentarians and institutions devoted to black history.
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