Black Lives Matter

Policy

25 May 2020

Read this policy we are writing to the United Nations, European Union, European Parliament and worldwide government bodies highlighting how the anti-racism, educational curriculum and training environment can be improved.

Policies Request To Educate Police, Academic, Institutions About Racial Injustices

As racism, institutional racism and racial discrimination continue to grow, many countries are facing challenges on how to protect the population against white privilege and police brutality. It’s our responsibility to ensure the population and police force are better educated on Black history and issues affecting BIPOCA communities. This is not an attempt to undermine the police force or the population. We believe that improving internal police organizational and educational structures with an anti-racist training program will integrate the police force and population into minority communities, increasing cognitive union of the police, government and population.

European Values 

Under your moral code you say that “The European Union’s fundamental values are respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law. These values unite all the member states – no country that does not recognise these values can belong to the Union.”, as promoting European values. To acknowledge European colonialist history and white privilege is paramount to these values. It’s important to ensure countries educate the population on the experiences of those who do not have the same advantages the privileged do.

We have highlighted important anti-racist policies that the population and the police force would benefit from:

Anti-Racism Academic Curriculum

1. There is a need to increase anti-racism education at all levels in society. We request enhancement of school education about Black history, European Imperialism and the continued existence of systemic racism and White privilege in modern society.
2. Eradicate from the European teaching history curriculum to any whitewashed European colonial past. By excluding the evils of Imperialism, along with how members of the African Diaspora contributed to the European values, students are robbed of understanding how colonialist ideology was implemented. The lack of accurate education allows for institutionalised racism and discrimination to thrive in our society.
3. Learning languages immerses you in the culture of that country, it makes the population less ignorant of that culture.  Besides native language, every student must learn two extra languages. At least one of those languages must be from another continent.
4. Add to history education contributions of all countries of the Allied Victory in World War II against the nazis.
5. Implement study cases showing historical injustices, for example; slavery, European colonialism, the impacts on the descendants of the victims worldwide and intergenerational trauma.
6. Assemblies, presentations, PSHE sessions and lessons exploring and celebrating the work of worldwide BIPOCA writers, economists, scientists and artists. 
7. Consulting with BIPOCA students, parents and community to share their ideas about the information they would benefit from going forward.
8. Ensuring students leave academic institutions fully aware of their privilege and what they can do to support BIPOCA communities around the world. 
9. Support for BIPOCA students and provide a space for them to express their thoughts and experiences without judgement.
10. Encouraging political engagement at an early age. By promoting early political discussion, we can encourage the next generation to become active citizens in our democracy.
11. Training for teachers to speak on certain topics through an anti-racist lens. This will allow for better recognition of extremist, racist and fascist actions of students and staff members which must also be addressed directly.

Rehabilitation and Reintegration Police Program Anti-Racism

1. We demand that the entire police force undergo immediate anti-racist training specified by the Black Lives Matter and  BIPOCA movements.
2. We must lay all police officers convicted of racism off from the police force.
3. Basic and advanced police training classes must constrain at least 30% of black individuals and 20% of individuals different from Caucasian ethnicities. 
4. Each police patrol must have at least one black police officer.
5. Reopen all cases of police injustice, brutality and create a specific multinational inclusive commission body to investigate these cases.

United Nations Accountability to End Racism

Countries are responsible to push for a multilateral approach via the UN to eradicate racism. There should be a commitment by all the UN members responsible to establish:

1. Appoint an Equality & Human Rights Commission body.
2. Every country, multinational corporation and organisation must submit data on racial ethnic, pay gaps to the commission. The same must have policies to eliminate pay gaps.
3. On a basis, every multinational corporation and organisation must publish this data on its website.
4. All countries must collect several types of data from BIPOCA communities with problems and solutions, encouraging an equal society. 
5. African countries must eliminate borders to boost intra-African trade. Removing borders will force good governance amongst African leaders. This will increase opportunities amongst African people which will reduce refugees going to other countries, and it makes an exploited underclass in developed countries less likely to happen.

Dialogue

To amplify and support the voices of our Black, Indigenous People of Color “BIPOCA” and Minority Ethnic groups in our community, we wish to improve the understanding and dialogue with the United Nations, European Union, European Parliament and worldwide government bodies about the injustices BIPOCA groups suffer. By participating in informed, open discussions, the Black Lives Matter and BIPOCA movements hope we will eradicate systemic racism, rather than contributing to it.

Statistics 

There is a racist culture worldwide. We believe that the United Nations, European Union, European Parliament and worldwide government bodies must do all they can to combat this unfair culture. Here are some figures exploring the racial injustices:

1. Statistically speaking, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour and Asians don’t exist in Germany. The German government doesn’t collect data from BIPOCA which is an alarming and racist indication that Black lives don’t matter for the German government. 
2. “Since the 1980s, income inequality in Germany has been rising. According to the German think-tank DIW, a typical citizen in the upper 1% of earnings in Germany holds a personal wealth of at least 800,000 euros ($1.09 million), whilst over 25% of all adults have either no wealth or negative wealth due to debt.“ 
3. “About three in every five black men say they have been unfairly stopped by the police because of their race, according to a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center. Also, about eight in every ten black people, with at least some college education, say they have been discriminated against because of their race.”
4. “According to a study by the organisation Safernet Brasil, in 2017 there were 63,698 reported cases of hate speech on the internet in Brazil, and a third of them comprised racist discourses against black people.”
5. In a study done by PhD Sociology Luiz Valerio P. Trindade from the University of Southampton, found that 81% of victims of racist discourse on Facebook in Brazil were middle-class black women aged 20-35. 
6.  Diverse Brazilian population is over 60 percent black which has for many years falsely portrayed itself as a “racial democracy” nation.
7. “In seven years, between 2012 and 2018, the number of Brazilians who identified as black — which also includes brown for census purposes — was up nearly 30%. Between 2018 and 2017, the jump was 32.2%.” By IBGE
8. “These are no isolated incidents, but part of an outrageous trend. In the last decade, police have killed more than 33,000 civilians — at least 75% of them were black men. There have been some protests, particularly within the communities most affected by that violence, but nothing like the uproar seen in the United States.“
9. “At the time of the abolition, Brazil’s population was mostly black or mixed race until the 1930s, when Brazil encouraged and received a large number of European immigrants as it sought to find new sources of labour. In the context of the scientific racism of the time, which deemed a non-white population as problematic to its future development, Brazilian officials explicitly encouraged European immigration while blocking Chinese and African immigrants. The growing population of European origin was also expected to mix with the non-white, further “whitening” the Brazilian population.” 
10. “Black Brazilians earn, on average, 57 percent less than white Brazilians. Brazil’s Congress is 71 percent white.” By IBGE.
11. “Nationwide, 71 percent of the more than 60,000 people murdered in Brazil in 2017 were black, according to the think tank the Brazilian Security Forum.“  By IPEA Atlas.
12. “In the workforce, Black people who leave school with A-levels get paid 14.3 percent less than their White peers “Equality And Human Rights Commission, 2018.“
13. “A study by the US Fed found that the median white household was 13 times wealthier than the median black household.”
14. “According to federalreserve.gov; “Black households have fewer and are in greater need of personal savings than their white counterparts. For a variety of reasons, blacks are more likely to experience negative income shocks but are less likely to have access to emergency savings. As a consequence, blacks are more likely to fall behind on their bills and go into debt during times of emergency.”
15. “African Americans, who make up 40 percent of the homeless population despite only representing 13 percent of the general population.” By endhomelessness.org.
16. “The median net worth of white households is about 10 times the median net worth of black households.” By Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances.
17. “According to the American Association of University Women, Black women graduate with the most debt — $30,400, on average — compared to $22,000 for White women and $19,500 for White men.”
18.  “As of the last quarter of 2019, the median White worker made 28 percent more than the typical Black worker and more than 35 more than the median Latino worker.” By BLS data.
19. “According to the Pew Research Center, for White families to make it into this tier of earners in their racial group, they need to have annual income of at least $117,986 — nearly twice as much as the threshold for Black families.”
20. “In 2018, Fortune 500 CEOs, who earned approximately $14.5 million on average, included just four Black people and 10 Latinos — less than 3 percent of the total. By contrast, these groups made up 44.1 percent of the U.S. workers who would benefit from a raise in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Blacks and Latinos comprise 31.7 percent of the U.S. population.”
21. “Systemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of household wealth, reflecting centuries of white privilege that have made it particularly difficult for people of color to achieve economic security. This series of charts begins with a look at the widening of racial wealth gaps in the United States that have coincided with the extreme concentration of U.S. wealth.”
22. “The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing racial inequalities in America that are rooted in systemic racism. People of color make up a disproportionate share of low-wage essential workers who’ve had to keep working in food processing plants, grocery stores, and other workplaces, despite risks to their health. They’ve also faced higher rates of mortality and joblessness related to the Covid-19 crisis — while also suffering racialized police brutality and militarization.”
23. “According to the APM Research Lab, Black Americans have mortality rates that are more than twice as high as other races. For each 100,000 Americans (of their respective group), about 55 Blacks have died from the coronavirus, compared to 24 Asians, 25 Latinx, and 23 Whites, as of May 26, 2020.”
24. “Racial justice protests are happening against the backdrop of an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression. U.S. billionaires are boosting their fortunes as tens of millions of people are losing their jobs. A Pew Research Center survey shows that Latinx and Black households are being hit with more job losses than White ones. Sixty-one percent of Latinx households and 44 percent of Black households have had a job or wage loss due to the pandemic, compared to 38 percent of White households.”
25. “By the middle of the 21st century, the United States will be a “majority minority” nation. If we hope to ensure a strong middle class, historically the backbone of the national economy, then improving the financial health of households of color will become even more urgent than it is today. Closing the persistent “wealth divide” between white households and households of color, already a matter of social justice, must become a priority for broader economic policy.”
26. “According to our Racial Wealth Divide report, the median Black family, with just over $3,500, owns just 2 percent of the wealth of the nearly $147,000 the median White family owns. The median Latino family, with just over $6,500, owns just 4 percent of the wealth of the median White family. Put differently, the median White family has 41 times more wealth than the median Black family and 22 times more wealth than the median Latino family.”
27. “Families that have zero or even “negative” wealth (meaning the value of their debts exceeds the value of their assets) live on the edge, just one minor economic setback away from tragedy. Our Racial Wealth Divide report shows that Black and Latino families are much more likely to be in this precarious situation. The proportion of Black families with zero or negative wealth rose by 8.5 percent to 37 percent between 1983 and 2016. The proportion of Latino families with zero or negative net worth declined by 19 percent over the past 30 years but is still more than twice as high as the rate for Whites.”
28. “As with total wealth, homeownership is heavily skewed towards White families, our Racial Wealth Divide report shows. In 2016, 72 percent of White families owned their home, compared to just 44 percent of Black families. Between 1983 and 2016, Latino homeownership increased by a dramatic nearly 40 percent, but it remains far below the rate for Whites, at just 45 percent.”
29. “According to 2018 US Census Data, the highest poverty rate by race is found among Native Americans (25.4%), with Blacks (20.8%) having the second highest poverty rate, and Hispanics (of any race) having the third highest poverty rate (17.6%). Whites had a poverty rate of 10.1%, while Asians had a poverty rate at 10.1%.”

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Published on: 02.02.2021

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To be continued…