There's no "race problem" in America. We all have black friends. I even have more than I need. [I call some of them relatives.] Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare. It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014
From
AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From
YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From
CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
From Reuters via
RSN: Off-duty, Black NYPD cops feel threat from White colleagues.
From
TheDailyBeast: After they fired the shots, they're the victims...
From
NYTimes: Police shootings reveal racial chasm... D'uh.
From
Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to White people feeling targeted by Ferguson protests - Welcome to our world.
From
MiamiHerald: The rules are indeed different for Black people seeking justice.
From
TheGuardian: Gentrifiers having to throw people out of their homes.
From
CNN: Racism without racists.
From the
GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we can still get justice for Mike Brown. I kinda doubt it, but I'm hopeful.
From
Esquire: The rise in police shootings, even in places like Utah.
From
YahooNews: Another black male with a toy gun shot to death by cops - this time the black male is a child.
From
CSMonitor: Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over the Pennsylvania law specifically meant to gag him.
From
RSN and
FirstLook: Yes, we do need someone to judge the judges because Judge Edith Jones is an ignorant racist bitch.
From
FirstLook: How the innocent are screwed into pleading guilty.
From
NPR: Black and dead in Brazil.
From
ConsortiumNews: Is Arlington, VA racist? Probably.
From
RSN: Did you know that Denver cops had killed an unarmed street preacher. It costs them $4.6 million? That was an expensive cap-popping.
From
RawStory: Dead in Alabama jails to save money.
From
TheNation: How racism stole black childhood.
From
RSN: Cops killed 77 people in September 2014.
From the
NYT: Civil asset forfeiture - makes me wanna support Clive Bundy.
From Demos via
RSN: A third of Americans live at or near poverty.
From
YahooNews: Expelled Nazis and SS still get Social Security paychecks.
From Think Progress via
RSN: Funny Ebola freak-outs.
From
YahooNews: Michael Dunn gets life for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
From
Truthout: Incarceration, mass murder, and genocide of Black men.
From
FreeThoughtProject: Cops with gang tattoos to celebrate the people they kill.
From
Truthout: Understanding our many Fergusons.
From
YahooNews: Another unarmed, innocent black teen attacked by white cops on a racial profiling rampage. Luckily, the cops didn't kill him.
From GQ via
RSN: An interesting article about murderer, George Zimmerman's crappy family.
From News 13 via
RSN: Michael Dunn found guilty of murdering black teenager, Jordan Davis.
From
Truthout: Cops retaliate against citizens group that monitor police activity.
From Salon via
RSN: America's summer of white supremacy.
From InformedComment via
RSN: $8.7 billion in food stamp cuts, but $22 billion to fight ISIS.
From TheNewYorkTimes: When Whites Just Don't Get It Part
One and Part
Two.
From the
HuffingtonPost: Los Angeles law enforcement kill about one person a week - I'm not surprised.
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From
YahooNews: JUSTICE: Woman beat up by CHiP cop, wins $1.5 million and cop resigns.
From
NPR: INJUSTICE: Grand Jury refuses to indict murders... I mean cops involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ohio Wal-Mart shooting.
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From
BearingArms: Family wants charges against fat lying bastard who made the 911 call that led to the murder of their son.
From Salon via
RSN: The strange death of Charles Smith. Shot to death while handcuffed, supposedly in possession of gun.
From Salon via
RSN: Rock the Vote joins militia group to intimidate Wisconsin African-American voters in November.
From
CBS: WHITE South Carolina state trooper charged in shooting of UNARMED BLACK MAN.
From Salon via
RSN: Yes, Justice Scalia is "an utter moral failure."
From the Guardian UK via
RSN: Cops act like gang in assault on Latino man.
From the AP via
RSN: Students walk-out in protest over conservative school board's attempt to make history education emphasize respect for authority and the free-market.
From the Guardian UK via
RSN: By the way, a federal judge approved New York City's settlement with the Central Park Five. Former mayor, Michael Bumberg, had fought the lawsuit.
From The Washington Post via
RSN: Cops seizing hundreds of millions in cash and property from motorists not charged with crimes. First heard about this a month ago, and I'm still shocked.
From Campus Reform via
RSN: Students and faculty have to tell Clemson University how many times they've had sex... Apparently, this is real.
From The Daily Beast via
RSN: Ferguson cops caught in a lie about blood on their uniforms and got away with it... for now.
From BuzzFlash via
Truthout: For Black youth, no mistakes allowed. It could be fatal.
From
TheWashingtonPost: White rage against Black progress.
From the GuardianUK via
RSN: Yep, the cops shot Darrien Hunt in the back. Had to admit it.
From Esquire via
RSN: It's never about race, right? Riiiiiight.
From The Intercept via
RSN: No heads in the sand on ISIS beheading videos.
From
Truthout: NRA hold "killer cop contest."Includes a "Head Shots Only" competition.
From the SPLC via
RSN: Neo-Confederate group forms paramilitary unit to advance a second secession.
From
YahooSports: Yeah, there are good cops...
From
CBSLocal via
RSN: Free
Patrick McLaw - A teacher an self-published science fiction author placed on administrative leave after his work was discovered.
Free Patrick McLaw.
From
ABCNews: John Crawford, Jr., the father of Wal-Mart shooting victime, John Crawford, III, hears his son's dying breaths.
From
YahooNews: So-called witness in John Crawford shooting - the guy who called 911, has changed his story.
From
BuzzFlash: Black men who "open carry" get a cap in the ass from cops.
From TomDisptach via
RSN: We made ISIS.
From
Truthout: U.S. slammed for failure to end all forms of racial discrimination
From Reuters via
RSN: Federal prosecutors will investigate the shooting death of
Victor White III, a Louisiana man whose death had been previously ruled a suicide. Supposedly, he shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car.
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From
LATimes: Two brothers who were wrongly convicted of the murder and rape of an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina were freed Wednesday morning, September 3, 2014. They spent 30 years in prison. One was 19 and the other were 15 when they were arrested in 1983.
So is a Black man in America more afraid of police and the justice system or of ISIL/ISIS?
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From ThinkProgress via
RSN: Ain't it the truth, girl - America has a real racial problem - Justice Ginsburg.
From
GlobalVoiceOnline: Israeli soldiers used Gazans as human shields This is not the first time I have heard of this. They way Israelis act, one would think Palestinians were the ones who caused the Holocaust.
From
Truthout: Black women on "Women's Equality Day."
From NateSilver via
RSN: Most police don't live in the cities they serve.
From
TheNation: How Trayvon Martin's death launched a new generation of black activism.
From
MotherJones: How indeed.
From
BuzzFlash: A piece on Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, and his racist speech given before the Oath Keepers in April 2014. From
TheAdvocate and
TheGuardian - Page's speech.
From
YouTube: Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, threatening CNN's Don Lemon.
From
Truthout: "We won't go back" - the march for Eric Garner.
From
Truthout: The killing of black men continues...
From
YahooNews: Activist carry the coffin of a black woman killed by a white Phoenix police sergeant to the steps of City Hall.
From
Valid: More commentary on
Michelle Cusseaux, the black woman killed by a white Phoenix police officer.
From BuzzFlash via
Truthout: Most whites still don't understand the danger of being a black man in the U.S. ...
From Esquire via
RSN: Charles Pierce - Ferguson: The Limits of Everything
From Reuters via
RSN: President Obama order review of police militirization
From Salon via
RSN:
How to Wreck the GOP in 3 Easy Steps! - Obama and weak-kneed Democratic leadership won't do this.
From
RSN:
Where Were the Soldier Cops at Bundy Ranch? - Good questions, Marc Ash. There is a markedly different response to black protestors in Ferguson, Missouri than there was to the white, gun-toting protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.
From Popular Resistance via
Truthout: The reality of militarized, racist policing
...according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.
From
Time via
RSN:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The Coming Race War Won't Be About Race." He says that it will be about class. He also wonders if the event in Ferguson, Missouri will disappear down the memory hole as the shootings at Jackson State in 1970 - 10 days after the Kent State shooting.
From
Salon via
RSN: The criminalization of Black mothers.
From
Truthout: It's worth standing with Keith Ellison.
From
BuzzFlash: President Nixon's Vietnam treason confirmed
OTHER:
From The Intercept via
RSN: How Gary Webb was destroyed.
MISC:
From
Suggest: 10 celebs you didn't know were black.
From
RedFlagNews, you will learn that everything is not peachy.
