ferguson
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Still A Nigger In Paris
“I don’t want to raise my children in this country.” I’ve seen many iterations of that sentiment on social media, and I get it. As should anyone who pays any attention to the news and/or has personally experienced the permanent and occasionally paralyzing anxiety present when raising a little Black or Brown boy or girl…
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A Peek Into The Secret Club Of Assumed Racism
My thoughts flash back about five months ago to South Avenue in Wilkinsburg: It’s around 5:30 p.m. and I’m driving to my dad’s house for dinner with my wife and two daughters, 14 and 11. Something bizarre awaits us. We’re pulling out from a stop sign when – seemingly out of nowhere – two girls,…
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Ferguson At Fairfax And Wilshire
You might recognize Leo Breckenridge from his role as “Andre” — the Panama character in our TV pilot. Here he is with a performance piece for Ferguson and Michael Brown, filmed in L.A. on Fairfax and Wilshire — the corner where the Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed.
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Just So You Know We're Not Making This Shit Up
From “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise” — today’s NY Times piece about Michael Brown. Who, by the way, was buried today, two weeks after getting killed by a police officer. Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and…
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On Being A Little Tired Of Being The "Safe Black Friend You Talk To About Race"
I was a junior in high school when a teacher came over to a group of us at lunch looking for one of our classmates. With four grades of students capped at no more than 100 each, we were a small school of folks who knew each other by name. In the liberal granola-crusted feel-goodism…
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Don Lemon Definitely Will Never Invite Talib Kweli To Sunday Brunch
A conversation in Ferguson today between Don Lemon and Talib Kweli quickly got heated. Not “We’re bout to fight” heated, but definitely “Don’t sit me next to that wack n*gga on the plane home” heated. As Talib tried to criticize CNN for inaccurate coverage of the protests and police response, the conversation quickly devolved into…
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And They Wonder Why We Say "F*ck The Police"
In a recent article posted on the Washington Post’s website entitled, “I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me”, former Los Angeles Police Department (the same local jurisdiction that housed the infamous Rampart Division and the scandal) officer Sunil Dutta offered a police officer’s perspective on how to deal with…
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The Type Of Funny Anecdote Michael Brown Will Never Be Able To Tell
(At EBONY, Damon shares a story about a shoplifting experience as a kid, and realizes the only difference between him and Michael Brown is that he was lucky enough to live long enough to tell it) I’m 35 now, almost two decades removed from that summer. The Hilfiger shirt from the picture with my mom still…