Author: Reggie Jackson

“For weeks, President Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the steal” of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained — often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories — that he had won by a landslide. And when that day came, the president rallied thousands of his supporters with an incendiary speech. Then a large mob of those supporters, many waving Trump flags and wearing Trump regalia, violently stormed the Capitol to take over the...

“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 7, 1941 “We can now add January 6, 2021 to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy… The final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States — undoubtedly our worst.” – Chuck Schumer On January 6 the world saw something that will place a stain on the legacy of the worst President in the nation’s history. Armed thugs stormed the U.S. Capitol while Congress was in session voting to confirm the Electoral College...

“National protests against police violence and anti-Black racism demand more than minor changes in policy and practice. They require a systemic dismantling of a culture of policing that tolerates violence and abuse, accepts extreme racial disparities, and promotes a profound lack of transparency and accountability.” – The Vera Institute of Justice A 2017 study showed that 95% of the elected prosecutors in the country are White. So the results of these two cases, decided by White male prosecutors, is not outside of the norm. America has a way of constantly reminding Black people that our lives and bodies don’t...

Reggie Jackson details the institution of racial discrimination that White Americans continue to ignore or support. This feature is part of a special series of articles that takes a closer look at the issue of Racism in the United States, understanding what Racism is and its social impact, along with exploring the conditions of Racism in Milwaukee’s culture. http://mkeind.com/systemicracism “Man had marked this woman’s sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) In Hawthorne’s masterpiece,...

“In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in part by the striking persistence of racial/ethnic inequities in health and the empirical evidence that indicates that socioeconomic factors alone do not account for racial/ethnic inequities in health. Racism is considered a fundamental cause of adverse health outcomes for racial/ethnic minorities and racial/ethnic inequities in health.” – Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research Study (2019) It did not take the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor or Ahmaud Arbery for...