August, 2014 archive
Happy Birthday to Me 2
This blog turns nine today and shows no sign of going away.
I’m old and I’m outraged and I’m not planning on going anywhere.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Listen to the conservatives try to explain away racism and its effects.
Vigil at Mount Trashmore (Sticky)
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The Virginia Beach NAACP and the Virginia Beach African-American Leadership Forum are hosting a Keep Our Children Alive prayer vigil at Mount Trashmore Park, Virginia Beach, at 7:00 p. m., Thursday, August 28, 2014.
Click for more information (PDF).
He Can’t Go Home Again 0
In the Seattle Times, Ace Robinson explains why he left St. Louis and plans not to move back. A nugget:
When the officer walked up to the car, I would say: “Good afternoon, Officer (Insert name),” announce the date and time, and ask why I was being stopped. This script might have saved my life more than once. After Rodney King, black men learned police may be held responsible when their actions are recorded. And even in Los Angeles, that was not guaranteed.
I used academics to get away by attending college on the East Coast, in the same way that my mother used education to flee the Jim Crow South 35 years prior to my birth.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It is not polite to lie.
His false claim led police from several agencies to swarm an area of St. Francis last week looking for the supposedly armed suspect.
The real story was that Lloyd R. Robinson, 24, of St. Francis was playing with his handgun at an E. Tesch Ave. apartment Thursday when he accidentally shot his girlfriend, police say.
Defining Characteristics 0
American Exceptionalism, n.: The propensity of the United States of America and its citizens to except themselves from accountability for their actions. See Viet Nam, Nicaragua, Granada, slavery, Jim Crow, asbestos, tar sands, fly ash, Halliburton, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, NSA, CIA, Ferguson, Birmingham, British Petroleum, Monsanto, DDT, honey bees . . . . .
A Whole New Twist on “Pay for Performance” 0
Please just make big-time football go away.
A Picture Is Worth, “Legal Intervention” Dept. 0
“Legal intervention” is a lawyers’ term for someone’s being killed by police while committing (or assumed to be committing) a crime.
er, yeah.
From the Sunlight Foundation, which has much more.
Quota System 0
I did not realize this. Did you? (Emphasis added.)
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The quota is unprecedented. No other federal or state agency is required by law to detain a specific number of people without any regard to whether the quota makes sense from a law-enforcement perspective. Indeed, the quota is so excessive that it has been criticized by the very immigration authorities charged with enforcing it.
This is what cruelty looks like when it’s made routine by force of law.
Read the rest.
Meta: Comment Spam 0
Akismet has caught well over 200 spam comments in the last 24 hours. The bottom-dwellers have been restless.
Not one of the spam comments has made it to the front page.
