UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, said that school police have a long history of singling out Black youth and that more training will not improve the underlying problem.
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“White Americans have defined the nation, its norms, what it means to be an American for decades. That means that, by definition, some individuals … have been on the outs,” said Efrén Pérez, a professor of political science and psychology at UCLA.
UCLA LPPI expert, Efren Perez, writes an op-ed on people of color protesting in today’s time. “But the many Latinos, Asian Americans and other nonwhites standing behind African Americans today are there in genuine support of their cause as “people of color.” They all have skin in today’s game of racial politics.”
“Many Latino youth, they are making the connection, they are pressing their families to have difficult conversations,” said Chris Zepeda-Millán, a professor of Chicano studies and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The report is part of ongoing advocacy by the UCLA Voting Rights Project, an effort led by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. The Project is pushing for the implementation of universal vote-by-mail for the November general election during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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