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What To Do When You're Stopped By Police - The ACLU & Elon James White
Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.
This video clearly demonstrates how racist America is as a country and how far we have to go to become a country that is civilized and actually values equal justice. We must not rest until this goal is achieved. I do not want my great grandchildren to live in a country like we have today. I wish for them to live in a country where differences of race and culture are not ignored but valued as a part of what makes America great.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Allies in Revolt - NYTimes.com
Here’s a quick summary: Saudi Arabia and Israel are deeply worried about the Obama administration’s decision to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran — their mortal enemy. Saudi Arabia and Turkey are sore at President Obama’s refusal to become militarily involved in ousting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in particular his decision not to respond with military strikes to Mr. Assad’s use of chemical weapons. Mr. Obama instead chose a diplomatic deal under which Syria’s chemical weapons would be dismantled.
The Saudis are also unhappy that Mr. Obama withdrew support for Hosni Mubarak, the deposed Egyptian president, and then worked with Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member who was elected to replace Mr. Mubarak but was later thrown out.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Judge Blocks Part of Texas Abortion Law - NYTimes.com
Judge Lee Yeakel of United States District Court in Austin declared that “the act’s admitting-privileges provision is without a rational basis and places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus.”
Saturday, October 26, 2013
1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People | Alternet
From the war on drugs to the war on terror, law enforcement's battle against minorities serves as pacification
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slavery Helped Universities Grow - NYTimes.com
Mr. Wilder, a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a new book, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” which argues provocatively that the nation’s early colleges, alongside church and state, were “the third pillar of a civilization based on bondage.”
Friday, October 18, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Racist Redskins - The Daily Beast
There’s a debate brewing—yet again—about whether the name of Washington’s football team is racist. Of course it is, says Michael Tomasky
Antonin Scalia, Affirmative Action Pick.
So this recollection from Peter Wallison on the nomination process when Ronald Reagan chose Antonin Scalia stuck out to me:
I think [Reagan] felt that it would be great to put an Italian American on the Supreme Court. He had all the usual American instincts: 'We don't have an Italian American on the court, so we ought to have one.' He really felt good about doing that. It wasn't principle so much as that kind of emotional commitment.
Monday, October 14, 2013
D.C. protestors wave Confederate flag, tell Obama to “put the Quran down” - Salon.com
I oppose the death penalty but I do believe in self defense. These people and their brethren ha killed many more of us than AL Qaeda. It is time we wake up to our biggest enemy.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Wisconsin Prisons Incarcerate Most Black Men In U.S. : Code Switch : NPR
Wisconsin Prisons Incarcerate Most Black Men In U.S. : Code Switch : NPR
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Another Story In The American System of Injustice
The movement for human rights and justice mourns the loss of Herman Wallace, a former prisoner of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola prison) who was held in solitary confinement for forty-one years before having his conviction and sentence for murder vacated by a judge this week.
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Friday, October 04, 2013
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Family says SUV driver in biker clash was 'placed in grave danger' by mob
In a statement released through a law firm on behalf of the family, the wife of the driver, Alexian Lien, said that her husband “was forced under the circumstances to take the actions that he did in order to protect the lives of our entire family.”
“We know in our hearts that we could not have done anything differently,” she said.
The highway clash, on Sunday, was recorded and has been viewed about 6 million times on YouTube. Police have said that the bikers chased Lien for 50 blocks before cornering him, smashing his windows, yanking him out and beating him in front of his wife and child.
One of the motorcyclists, Edwin “Jay” Mieses, was run over during the clash. He is in critical condition with a crushed spine and two broken legs and may be paralyzed. He has hired a media-savvy lawyer, Gloria Allred.