Board Member for the Center for the Study of White American Culture
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Board Member for the US Human Rights Cities Alliance Steering Committee
Organizer for the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond
Organizer with Anti Racist Alliance
Social Media Strategist for the US Human Rights Network National Gathering
Organizer and Architect of the Racial Disparities Dashboard (Funding Needed)
"If its a System it can be Measured" ` ~rjb
How the Disparaties Dashboard evolved:
In 2014 I submitted a Letter of Intent with others for an International Online Platform for the UN Decade for People of African Descent
I had a design that I called the CERD Portal which placed Meta data in context of Discrimination and CERD Violations. I further developed the IT Framework of to formulate Data as Disparate Impact and Dis proportionality against the default population based on Race.
The purpose of the Platform is to support the UN General Assembly proclaimed International Decade for People of African Descent, and it’s implementation according to the programme of action as drafted by the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGPAD) including the theme Recognition, Justice and Development.
The Platform will serve as an instrument for individuals of African descent and organisations that represent people of African descent related to the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. It will be guided by the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and the Outcome Document of the Durban Review Conference as the framework of the Decade, and focused on the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) as its principal instrument.
Organizing
The next video captures a one hour presentation held at the CHRONIC Human Rights Conference held in 2016.
Onaje Muid moderator, Human Rights Educator. (0-20 minutes).
At 20 minutes we hear from
Professor Dwight Mullins, Social Policy at University of NC Asheville. He presents the work that he has engaged in for 10 years to produce an annual State of Black Asheville Report.
Robin Benton presents a formula developed to be used for local organizing. The Localized Power Analys is used engage local municipalities with an organizing apparatus to chart and improve the outcomes for people of color introducing a Human Rights Framework to address Systemic Racism.
CHRONIC 2016.mp4What is CERD?
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the principal international treaty for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, and other forms of intolerance.
CERD defines discrimination as “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.”
CERD requires countries to review governmental, national, and local policies, and to amend or repeal laws and regulations that have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination, including those that affect indigenous people, women and non-citizens. CERD also allows for, and in some cases obliges, positive measures such as affirmative action in order to redress historic and contemporary forms of racial inequalities.
CERD was adopted by the United Nations in 1965 and went into force in 1969. As of July 2007, 173 countries had agreed to be bound by the terms of CERD. The full text may be accessed at http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm.
Racial Disparity Dashboard:
A vital resource tool that displays real time visual analytics of discrimination. based on disparate impact and disproportionality in areas of Race, Ethnicity,Gender and Age.
This Equity Dashboard is expected to record and reveal disparate impact and disproportionality based on Race and Ethnicity in an exhaustive number of areas and sub categories of people activity including education, health, law, culture/religion, economics, environment, housing, criminal justice, and communication. Data will be collected across Government, Corporate and Civil Society sources.
ORGANIZING
Organizing with a Power Analysis and the Human Rights Framework of The Declaration of
Universal Human Rights
Convention to Eliminate Racial Discrimination CERD
The following two videos are brilliant regarding local antiracist organizing for self determination on the municipal level. The "Localized Power Analysis"
Robin Benton, Antiracist Organizer and Human Rights Educator presents from the Highlander Center, Tenn and offers a clear and concise 15 minute overview of the People's Institute Power Analysis within a Human Rights framework.
20161016_232447.mp4"We are Building a Mighty Network of Anti Racist"
Utilizing a Universalized definition of Racism and shared Analysis of Systemic Racism with Human Rights Framework.
Racism is race prejudice + power. Origin unknown (ca. 1970) Used by several groups doing anti racism education and analysis. I was introduced to this definition of Racism by The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond in 1995. I came to understand that while Anti Racist activist used this definition, mainstream society held to the definition of Racism codified in Merriam Webster Dictionary. Now there is a convergence of the working definition and now the published definition in Merriam Webster Dictionary. With a Universalized definition we move closer to Undoing the Systems of Racial Inequity.
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