In America, white supremacy is the establishment — not part of it, but all of it, our politics, prisons, schools. And white supremacy dominates our food, our media, even our escapism.
Increasingly technology companies are aggressively gathering information on their unsuspecting customers even when they are not using a company’s app or software. The ride-hailing company Uber, for example, has changed its privacy policy to track its users through a “unique identifier,” even after they have arrived at their Uber destination. Yet these same tech execs are taking byzantine steps to keep their personal information out of the public domain.
The political manipulation of the irrational fear of immigrants spreading disease is part of an historic pattern in United States. The recent calls for a blanket prohibition on travel from West Africa is prejudice, plain, and simple: prejudging an entire group of people, based on the sickness of a small handful. They echo the kind of bigotry directed at other immigrant groups arriving in this country since the 1800s.
The small San Francisco Bay Area city of Richmond is no longer a company town, but the giant Chevron Corporation is attempting to use its tremendous wealth and influence to return the city to the days when its City Council majority was commonly known as the "Chevron Five."
"We certainly don't want anybody going without a place to live, but we have our orders."
When the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled Friday to
overturn President Obama's recess appointments to the
National Labor Relations Board, it handed a huge gift to Wall
Street, big corporations and the politicians they control.
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