What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
“Tell us everything about martyrdom,” the 26-year-old Iraqi refugee was asked.
This is obscene. The FBI agents and Southwest employees involved should be dismissed for poor judgement and the airline folk should be charged and prosecuted for unlawful detention, hate crimes, and wasting tax-payer resources. I hope this young man sues Southwest, the airport and the FBI into the fucking stone ages.
Debating the 1994 law is, by and large, empty symbolism — and a distraction from real reform.
Bill Clinton Is Wrong About His Crime Bill. So Are the Protesters He Lectured. – The New York Times
hmmm
[President] Clinton offered his defense of the bill in response to a protester at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on April 7. In addition to Clinton’s inflated assessment of the bill’s effect on crime, we found fault with how both sides portrayed the crime bill in Clinton’s back-and-forth with the protester.
Bill Clinton and the 1994 Crime Bill
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Bill Clinton, while campaigning for his wife’s presidential bid Friday, addressed a fiery exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters earlier in the week, saying it bothers him when protesters drown him out but added that he “almost” wanted to apologize for his response.
Bill Clinton ‘almost’ sorry for protester fight – CNNPolitics.com
sigh… #42 could ave handled better but I have no respect for people who engage in that kind of protest. I think it does a disservice to an extremely important cause.
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines
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A 2001 Brookings Institution study showed that “wealthy minority neighborhoods had less home value per dollar of income than wealthy white neighborhoods.” The same study concluded that “poor white neighborhoods had more home value per income than poor minority neighborhoods.” The Brookings study was based on a comparison of home values to homeowner incomes in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, and it found that even when homeowners had similar incomes, black-owned homes were valued at 18% less than white-owned homes. The 100 metropolitan areas were home to 58% of all whites and 63% of all blacks in the country.
How Home Ownership Keeps Blacks Poorer Than Whites – Forbes
hmmmm
Bomani Jones wore a shirt that pointed out the racism behind the Cleveland Indians logo.
ESPN’s Bomani Jones riles fans up with Cleveland Caucasians shirt | Big League Stew – Yahoo Sports
nice!
San Francisco State University said Tuesday it was investigating an incident captured on video in which a black woman confronted a white man on campus for wearing dreadlocks.
San Francisco State investigating confrontation over man’s dreadlocks – LA Times
Sigh…
Watch This Poet Explore the Internal Struggle Her Attraction to a White Man Produces – Shine
This makes me so sad for the author and what she misses out on because of her own self-imposed limitations.
“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People
Sigh….
Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen:
Nixon Policy Advisor Admits He Invented War On Drugs to Suppress ‘Anti-War Left and Black People’
Sigh….
Six-year-old Lexi was removed from the home of the family she has been living with for four years because of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Although I support the spirit of Indian Child Welfare Act this is absolutely horrid; a perfect example of what a miscarriage of justice is.
New law requires photo ID for voters; of the eleven states with record black voter turnout in 2008, seven have enacted stricter voter ID laws
N.C. voters heading to polls face strict new voter ID law – CBS News
Backwards Motherfuckers. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The American Secret Service says it regrets delays which meant Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams did not attend a St Patrick’s Day reception at the White House.
US Secret Service regrets delays to Gerry Adams’ visit to White House St Patrick’s event – BBC News
If those assholes can’t keep simple lists straight, how the fuck are they supposed to keep anyone safe? I sincerely hope anyone involved in vetting that list and the officers who actually denied entry to Adams have all been fired for incompetence, dereliction of duty (and bad, bad, bad, seriously fuck up shit that needed to run smoothly, piss poor diplomacy – which isn’t their job but it should sure as hell be there job not to fuck up!) by now.
The conflation of indentured servitude with chattel slavery in the ‘Irish slaves’ narrative whitewashes history in the service of Irish nationalist and white supremacist causes. Its resurgence in the wake of Ferguson reflects many Americans’ denial of the entrenched racism still prevalent in their society.
‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth | openDemocracy
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CHICAGO — Voters have ousted the Chicago area’s top prosecutor in a Democratic primary race focused on the office’s handling of the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer.
Kim Foxx ousts Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez in primary | WGN-TV
Yeah!!!! Go, girl!
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Not only is this infantilizing, it has the potential to actively turn potential Black voters away.
A-fucking-men.
“I never conceived,” Merrill reported bluntly, “of such a state of social disorganization being possible in any civilized community.”
How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan.
Wild! Merrill was more than a hero, he was a true American.
On February 29, tangerine nightmare Donald Trump held an evening rally at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. But before he addressed the crowd, he instructed Secret Service agents to remove 30 black students standing silently at the top of the bleachers.
Black Students Kicked Out Of Donald Trump Rally in Valdosta, Georgia
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! If you had told me as a child that we would still tripping over these issues in 2016 I never would have believed you.
A small riot erupted in Salt Lake City after police shot a teenage boy near a homeless shelter on Saturday night.
The shooting occurred at around 8pm in the northern part of the city, near a shopping mall about five miles east of the airport. Witness Selam Mohammed, 19, told local news outlets that his friend was trying to break up a fight outside the Road Home, a homeless shelter, when police arrived on the scene.
Crowd Pelts Cops With Rocks and Debris After Shooting of Teen in Salt Lake City | VICE News
We need to stop tolerating cops who kill at will. They are not justified. It is not understandable. It is murder pure and simple. Betraying the public’s trust need to be severely punished, every single fucking time. There is no excuse for giving racist thugs special privileges. Shoot an unarmed person? Lose your badge and pension. Every single time. If it turns out a cop shoots someone when they were not in danger then it needs to be lengthy jail sentences. Every single time. The police involved need to be tried, convicted of murder, and jailed for 1st degree murder.
He says the incident left him embarrassed and he’ll be filing a complaint with the TSA.
Sigh… I hope he sues them into the ground.
Lawyer’s Twitter rant explains race issues in court system | Fusion
Yup. The American Injustice System at work.
40 years ago Alabama’s AG sent a legendary, three-word response to KKK threats – Yellowhammer News
Good on you, Bill Baxley! Nicely done. Good on ya!
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