Srinivas Kuchibhotla shooter: “Get out of my country!”
Mark Berman and Samantha Schmidt, “He Yelled ‘Get Out of My Country,’ Witnesses Say, and Then Shot 2 Men from India, Killing One,” New York Times, February 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?morning-mix/?wp/?2017/?02/?24/?get-out-of-my-country-kansan-reportedly-yelled-before-shooting-2-men-from-india-killing-one/??utm_term=.82ab1af99de8.
First two months of 2017, seven transgender people were murdered
Bill Morlin, “Four Transgender Murders in a Week ‘Alarming Trend,’?” SPLCenter.org, March 1, 2017, https://www.splcenter.org/?hatewatch/?2017/?03/?01/?four-transgender-murders-week-alarming-trend.
The Identity Blame Game
Mark Lilla: “calling out explicitly…”
Mark Lilla, “The End of Identity Liberalism,” New York Times, November 20, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/?2016/?11/?20/?opinion/?sunday/?the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html.
2007–2010: average wealth of white families fell by 11 percent, Black families by 31 percent
Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, C. Eugene Steuerle, and Sisi Zhang, “Less Than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation,” Urban Institute website, April 25, 2013, http://www.urban.org/?research/?publication/?less-equal-racial-disparities-wealth-accumulation/?view/?full_report.
Young Black men shot and killed by police at a rate five times higher than white men of the same age bracket
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey, and Ciara McCarthy, “Young Black Men Killed by US Police at Highest Rate in Year of 1,134 Deaths,” Guardian, December 31, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2015/?dec/?31/?the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: “The Black political establishment…”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), 152.
Two-thirds of minimum-wage workers in the States are women
National Women’s Law Center, “Women and the Minimum Wage, State by State,” NWLC.org, January 2017, https://nwlc.org/?resources/?women-and-minimum-wage-state-state/.
World Economic Forum’s annual global rankings on the economic gender gap
World Economic Forum, “The Global Gender Gap Report 2016,” World Economic Forum website, 2016, http://reports.weforum.org/?global-gender-gap-report-2016/?results-and-analysis/.
World Economic Forum, “The Global Gender Gap Report 2015,” World Economic Forum website, 2015, http://reports.weforum.org/?global-gender-gap-report-2015/?pressreleases/.
Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin: 15 to 20 percent fewer Democratic voters for Clinton
Calculations based on:
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections—2016, 2012, and 2008. Accessed from:
http://uselectionatlas.org/?RESULTS/?national.php?year=2016&f=0&off=0&elect=0.
http://uselectionatlas.org/?RESULTS/?national.php?year=2012&f=0&off=0&elect=0.
http://uselectionatlas.org/?RESULTS/?national.php?year=2008&f=0&off=0&elect=0.
“Racial Capitalism”
Cedric Robinson: “racial capitalism”
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism (London: Zed Press, 1983), 2.
Michelle Alexander: “to decimate a multiracial alliance…”
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: New Press, 2012), 35.
Ronald Reagan: myth that food stamps were collected by “welfare queens”
“?‘Welfare Queen’ Becomes Issue in Reagan Campaign,” New York Times, February 15, 1976, http://www.nytimes.com/?1976/?02/?15/?archives/?welfare-queen-becomes-issue-in-reagan-campaign-hitting-a-nerve-now.html.
George Bliss, “Welfare Queen Jailed in Tucson,” Chicago Tribune, October 12, 1974, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/?1974/?10/?12/?page/?175/?article/?welfare-queen-jailed-in-tucson.
Trump and Central Park Five Ads
Lisa W. Foderaro, “Angered by Attack, Trump Urges Return of the Death Penalty,” New York Times, May 1, 1989, http://www.nytimes.com/?1989/?05/?01/?nyregion/?angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html.
Trump not apologizing to Central Park Five
Yusef Salaam, “I’m One of the Central Park Five. Donald Trump Won’t Leave Me Alone,” Washington Post, October 12, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?posteverything/?wp/?2016/?10/?12/?im-one-of-the-central-park-five-donald-trump-wont-leave-me-alone/??utm_term=.ff26990421cf.
Justice Department arguing social services and infrastructure in cities such as New York and Chicago are “crumbling…”
Julia Edwards Ainsley and Andy Sullivan, “Washington Threatens Funding Cut to California, Other ‘Sanctuary’ Areas,” Reuters.com, April 21, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/?article/?usa-immigration-sanctuary-idUSL1N1HT179.
Divide and Conquer
John Maynard Keynes: “vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp”
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, 1919), accessed from http://www.econlib.org/?library/?YPDBooks/?Keynes/?kynsCP7.html.
Lovelessness as Policy
Cornel West: “justice is what love looks like in public”
“Cornel West Talks to David Shuster,” Al Jazeera America website, February 24, 2017, http://america.aljazeera.com/?watch/?shows/?talk-to-aljazeera/?interviews-and-more/?2014/?2/?24/?cornel-west-talkstodavidshuster.html.
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw: the “intersectionality” framework
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43 (1993): 1.
CHAPTER 6
Politics Hate a Vacuum
Sean McGarvey: “nothing short of incredible”
“Trump Taps into Business Background during First Week in White House,” CBS New York website, January 26, 2017, http://newyork.cbslocal.com/?2017/?01/?26/?trump-makes-business-moves/.
Doug McCarron: “a great moment for working men and women”
Eliza Relman, “Trump and Union Leaders Find Shaky Common Ground: ‘He’s Promised That He’s Going to Create Good Jobs,’?” Business Insider, March 1, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/?trump-union-leaders-labor-secretary-2017-2.
Labor leaders, representing around a quarter of all unionized workers in the US
Naomi Klein, “Labor Leaders’ Cheap Deal with Trump,” New York Times, February 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?02/?07/?opinion/?labor-leaders-cheap-deal-with-trump.html.
Trump: “It’s a great thing for the American worker”
David Smith, “Trump Withdraws from Trans-Pacific Partnership amid Flurry of Orders,” Guardian, January 23, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2017/?jan/?23/?donaldtrump-first-orders-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp.
Trump: “bring back the jobs.”
Fox News, tweet, posted by @FoxNews, November 7, 2016, https://twitter.com/?foxnews/?status/?795466452132360192?lang=en.
The Race to the Bottom