What happened in Washington, D.C. Wednesday has people reflecting and asking how and why questions; many are also drawing comparisons to the demonstrations that unfolded last year calling for racial justice in America. What we witnessed, quite openly, is there is a distinct difference in the justice system as it pertains to race, class and gender,” said Dr. Jack Monell, of Winston-Salem State University. “In the instance of yesterday’s insurrection and violence at the Capitol, what you saw was an allowing, of sorts, an apathetic response, to people who literally and deliberately had planned and orchestrated to basically take over the capitol. This wasn’t a surprise. Monell, an associate professor and the program coordinator of justice studies at WSSU, is an expert in social work, criminal justice and human services. He said while watching he was not surprised. This was a culmination of the last four years: every other day, every other week there was some issue, some tw
It s a stark contrast to rubber bullets and tear gas put out by police during BLM protests.
“If you look historically at how the justice system operates there s clearly two distinct justice systems. There s a justice system that responds to the African American and Latino individuals,” Monell said. “And you see how the justice system responds to Caucasian s and folks with a higher tax bracket.”
High Point University Historian Paul Ringel said he believes the difference is simply race.
“Those people were not only white but on the political right and there is not a very extensive history of law enforcement treating those kinds of activist with violence,” Ringel said.
Raphael Warnock is the latest HBCU grad to make history in US politics
The Rev. Raphael Warnock is the latest HBCU grad breaking barriers and standing up to shape the nation.
Students and alumni from historically Black colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Warnock winning his US Senate race in Georgia, hoping it will change the misconceptions around the institutions’ quality of education and graduates’ social mobility.
Warnock, a Morehouse College alum, has regularly credited his education as he was the first in his family to graduate college.
“I went to Morehouse College on a ‘full faith’ scholarship. I didn’t know how I would pay for it but I graduated college, earned a Ph.D. degree,” he said in a campaign ad.
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After a somber and unpredictable 2020, there appears to be one certainty about 2021.
As goes the COVID-19 vaccines, so goes the local, state and national economies, according to analysts, economists and business executives. How rapidly the economy will recover assumes widespread vaccine use by mid-2021, said Michael Walden, an economics professor at N.C. State University. Even by yearâs end, we wonât be completely recovered from COVID-19. Â
National and state health officials say they are hopeful that some vaccine version will be available to the general population during the spring, potentially as early as late March.
At that point, health officials say the challenge will be getting enough individuals locally and across the country to be vaccinated to achieve the 65-75% required to approach herd immunity status.