By Mario Marcel Salas On October 31, 2007 the San Antonio Coalition on Human and Civil Rights (the Coalition) put into the hands of Police Chief William McManus, City Manager Sheryl Sculley, and Mayor Phil Hardberger a copy of a request, under the Texas Open Records Act, of some eleven elements that relate to data [...]
San Antonio Human and Civil Rights Coalition: Has Not Received Files
by Mario Salas on 16. Nov, 2007 in civil rights, human rights, race and racism
Manipulation and Control
by Mario Salas on 12. Nov, 2007 in boston, civil rights movement, race and racism
Desegregation, A Story of Quiescence and Violence By Mario Marcel Salas Violence against integration efforts would not end after the Brown v. Board decision, and patterns of hatred and segregation would be revealed in graphic media images in the North. In 1965, a decade after the desegregation of southern schools, school segregation in the North [...]
SAPOA Is The Real Problem
by Mario Salas on 17. Oct, 2007 in civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, race and racism
By Mario Marcel Salas Editor’s note: A couple of weeks ago I published information concerning the public body cavity search of Paschal Evans, a 27 year old Black man, by San Antonio police. Professor Salas provides some background to this and other human rights abuses by San Antonio police. —BG The San Antonio Police Officers [...]
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And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
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Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
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anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
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