police brutality
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Eric Garner Choked To Death By Cop. In Broad Daylight. On Camera. Cop Gets Off. Fuck Everybody.
I don’t even know what to say now. Really, I don’t. Maybe I will later today or tomorrow. But now, I try to write and it feels like Groundhog Day. I could literally cut and paste everything I said the last two weeks about Michael Brown and just substitute Garner’s name for Brown’s, Staten Island for…
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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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Man Arrested For…Waiting While Black? Being Polite While Black? Being Black While Black?
Just watch this fucking shit.
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Negro Supercriminal Michael Brown Apparently Deserved To Die
This title is not hyperbole. There is also no sarcasm here. Well, let me rephrase that. For rational, clear-thinking, and thoughtful people, the sentiment expressed in the title is not true. This is also not true for Americans — Black, White, whoever — who’ve learned not to believe everything — or, in some cases, anything…
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President Obama Speaks On Ferguson…And Words Come Out Of His Mouth
I’m a huge President Obama fan. Which, these days, often makes me an Obama defender. Part of this defense is a personality-based relation. He’s a textbook introvert. I am as well. I know how it feels to have your pensive and deliberate nature interpreted as being robotic, arrogant, and aloof. I also know how it…
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That Time We Were Reminded That "Black American" Is An Oxymoron
I know we did something on Mike Brown already earlier this week, but with the way this situation in Ferguson has ballooned, I just can’t think/write about anything else. Even if I did, it wouldn’t feel appropriate. I’m also too stunned/shocked to write something coherent. And I’m assuming many of you feel the same way.…
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How Safe Do You Feel In America?
America is not a safe place for the Black American. It’s an obvious but sad truth, one every Mike Brown (and every Eric Garner, and every John Crawford, and every Oscar Grant, and…), every news story about weekend violence in whichever city you’re from, and every memory of how your life is impacted by a…
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Trying And Failing To Make Sense Of The Murder Of Mike Brown
I was at dinner with friends the night the Zimmerman verdict was announced, making plans for the rest of the evening. It was between bites that Twitter informed me about the jury’s decision, and my appetite and resolve that justice would be served evaporated in the same breath. We didn’t go out that night. Mike…