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Byron
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Just me and the dog hanging out in Maine, along with my road-triping 90 year old mom.
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I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:

"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"

And see what happens.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30
REPORTER: Are you saying this crash was somehow was the result of diversity hiring?

TRUMP: It just could have been
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
Not even a hundred years ago and i never knew to learn about it~ Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported during the Great Depression in an effort to reserve jobs for white people
www.history.com/news/great-d...
The raids tore apart families and communities, leaving lasting trauma for Mexican Americans who remained in the U.S. as well. Former California State Senator Martha M. Escutia has said that growing up in East Los Angeles, her immigrant grandfather never even walked to the corner grocery store without his passport for fear of being stopped and deported. Even after he became a naturalized citizen, he continued to carry it with him. One of the issues is the ‘repatriation’ took place without any legal protections in place or any kind of due process,” says Kevin R. Johnson, a dean and professor of public interest law and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. “So you could argue that all of them were unconstitutional, all of them were illegal because no modicum of process was followed.” Instead, local governments and officers with little knowledge of immigrants’ rights simply arrested people and put them on trucks, buses or trains bound for Mexico, regardless of whether they were documented immigrants or even native-born citizens. Deporters rounded up children and adults however they could, often raiding public places where they thought Mexican Americans hung out. In 1931, one Los Angeles raid rounded up more than 400 people at La Placita Park and deported them to Mexico. Although there was no federal law or executive order authorizing the 1930s raids, President Herbert Hoover’s administration, which used the racially-coded slogan, “American jobs for real Americans,” implicitly approved of them. His secretary of labor, William Doak, also helped pass local laws and arrange agreements that prevented Mexican Americans from holding jobs. Some laws banned Mexican Americans from government employment, regardless of their citizenship status. Meanwhile, companies like Ford, U.S. Steel and the Southern Pacific Railroad agreed to lay off thousands of Mexican American workers. The next president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, didn’t officially sanction “repatriation drives,” but neither did he suppress them. These raids continued under his administration and only really died out during World War II, when the U.S. began recruiting temporary Mexican workers through the Bracero Program because it needed wartime labor.
May 28, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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carolinelosneck.bsky.social
Wanna take a peek at just some immersive oral history driven INSTALLATIONS I've created in collaboration with many talented artists (Chris Byron, Christoph Gelfand, Kelly Rioux) over the years? Documenting them is so tough. This video by Christoph Gelfand. vimeo.com/230955617
INSTALLATIONS by Christoph Gelfand + Caroline Losneck
Detailing immersive audio/visual installations by True Life Media. Music © Podington Bear
vimeo.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM