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Police and Surgeons Have This in Common: Both More Likely to Kill Black Men Than White Men, Professor Says - Atlanta Blackstar

talesofscienceandlove:

postracialcomments:

While it’s a well-established problem that too many Black men in the U.S. die every year at the hands of law enforcement, surgeons in the U.S. are also killing too many Black men — but thus far have largely escaped closer scrutiny, according to an analysis in The Washington Post on Tuesday by a public …

I’ve always had this belief but could never prove it. Bless this article

The old people used to always say, “Stay away from hospitals, you always come out sicker than when you went in.” I always thought they were talking about nosocomial infections. Eh, so it goes…

St. Louis County is overloaded with municipalities because white people kept creating new towns in their efforts to get away from black people. Now those towns have courthouses, police departments and a host of civil servants. All of them have to be paid. And extracting fines from people has become a critical way to raise the revenue to pay them.

Radley Balko: Why we need to fix St. Louis County - The Washington Post

The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It’s Gamergate

Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn’t have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors. This is how you get St. Louisans sincerely explaining that Ferguson protestors are the real racists, and how you end up with an organized group of precisely the same video game enthusiasts to whom an entire industry is catering honestly believing that they’re an oppressed minority. From this kind of ideological fortification, you can stage absolutely whatever campaigns you deem necessary.

breenewsome:

OH S***. That’s raw bruh. That’s a real billboard via .@dreamdefenders in FL where #TrayvonMartin & #JordanDavis were both gunned down by people who claimed FL’s #standyourground law cleared them of wrongdoing. Studies show this law primarily only benefits whites who kill blacks and claim self-defense. When Marissa Alexander, a black woman, fired a gunshot into the air to scare off her abusive husband, she was prosecuted & sentenced to 20 years. #BlackLivesMatter #handsupdontshoot #Ferguson #fergusonoctober

black-australia:

An iconic image showing Aboriginal rights activist, Gary Foley with a placard reading, “Pardon me for being born into a nation of racists”.

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igperish:

Aziz Ansari is a Feminist

If you’ve watched this clip, you can hear how uncomfortable the audience is throughout many points Ansari makes, and it’s so cool how he keeps plowing through. It’s really great stuff.

breenewsome:

via @vippieee 1 of several demonstrations that happened last night during #fergusonoctober protests. This was 1 of 3 Walmarts targeted by protesters as a sign if solidarity with those demanding justice for #JohnCrawford, gunned down by cops in Ohio.

America is swiftly becoming the First World’s Mos Eisely. Everything remotely connected with drug enforcement or counterterrorism carries with it the stench of corruption and abuse.

Canadian News Outlet Warns Canadians That US Law Enforcement Officers Will Pull Them Over And Seize Their Cash | Techdirt

It looks a little funny,

Huge Increase In Voter Registrations In Ferguson Apparently Never Happened

breenewsome:

FYI police got their start as slave patrols. The fundamental racial dynamics remain unchanged. #Ferguson #stl #policethepolice #policebrutality #handsup #dontshoot #ericgarner #mikebrown #JohnCrawford

Let me be clear about what I learned: Torture undermines all sound principles of good interrogation, intelligence collection, and assessment. It does not work, it is unnecessary, it is illegal, it betrays our ideals and our nation’s laws.

Glenn Carle: Torture is wrong, The Boston Globe.

ninjasexfarty:

Important, always-relevant comic done by the wonderful Ursa Eyer.

ibandoned:

I don’t have a great way to go home

Facebook’s ad platform will know who you are, what you buy, even offline

990000:

Facebook has officially relaunched the advertising platform Atlas in a new incarnation that will allow marketers to track users in new dimensions, according to a blog post from the company. Atlas will offer the ability to not only synthesize information about where users are seeing ads, but also to see how and whether those ad views play out into a purchase, even if it’s offline.

When I wrote in one of the controversial tweets, “Israel: transforming ‘antisemitism’ from something horrible to something honorable since 1948,” my point was not that there is any honor in anti-Semitism, but that calling legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies an act of anti-Semitism drains the word of meaning and undermines the very real experiences of those who suffer its horrors.

Steven Salaita: U. of I. destroyed my career - Chicago Tribune

Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven. In Malawi’s Chichewa language, which has 10m speakers, “cached pages” became mfutso wa tsamba, or bits of leftover food. The windowless houses of the 440,000 speakers of Zapotec, a family of indigenous languages in Mexico, meant that computer “windows” became “eyes”.

Minority languages, The Economist (via varanine)

thisiswhiteprivilege:

iwriteaboutfeminism:

Protesters are angry about these strange negotiations to release protesters. What kind of practice is this?

September 28th

The arrest of political dissidents

Holy shit.

Timothy always told everyone to “Question authority and think for yourself.” I remember after an event where he and I spoke, a bunch of kids came up to Tim and said, “so what should we do?!?!” and Tim shouted at them, “Think for yourself!!” What I realized as I spent time with Tim was that people wanted gurus and that the more you tried to explain that you weren’t a guru, the more many people became convinced that you were in fact a guru and that they wanted in on the secret. People wanted “answers” and wanted to get to some kind of goal. The thing is, there is no answer and there is no goal. You don’t ‘win.’

Joichi Ito at LinkedIn. Gurus, goals and mindfulness (via protoslacker)

jessamyn:

The engineers who sent a spacecraft into orbit around Mars (for 74 mil.)

madmo:

kindredsmile:

misterand:

Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill

my, my, my. I don’t reblog the nostalgic photos of Hill typically — because I know that they come from a very difficult/trying time in her personal/artistic life (even amidst her huge success) — but could not pass up the opportunity to share the power of this candid photo. 

socialjusticekoolaid:

revolutionarykoolaid:

Protesters from across St Louis turned up and turned out for the first St Louis County Council Meeting since Mike Brown’s Death. (Part II)

The St Louis County Council meeting was a fiery afar, as residents from across the county demanded Darren Wilson’s arrest, answers for Mike Brown’s death, and expressed frustration at their own police force being turned on them like they were enemies of the state. #staywoke #farfromover

Sept. 14 9:40 am

justice4mikebrown:

• **In Ferguson, still-boarded windows signal fears of more trouble **(Note: Author inappropriately uses the word riot to refer to looting)
• Protesters again call for the arrest of Darren Wilson
• Dred Scott, “Black Worth”, and Mike Brown
• How many ways can the city of…

Check out Misee Harris’ story, holy shit.

Given the endless ways we all often willingly grant these corporations and our government access into to our lives by how we use and sign up for these fucking devices and apps, I am unclear as to why so may folks are so shocked and angry about this.

Just say BO-NO: Mark Hosler of Negativland on Apple’s ‘U2rusion’

allakinwande:

All photos less than 24 hours ago. The fight in StLouis continues.

trilobiter:

poldberg:

While there is a lot of appropriate rage about Ferguson right now, the killing of John Crawford, III is getting less attention than it deserves. I put Shaun King’s tweets and history lesson on the matter in chronological order for easier consumption.

Links:

Autopsy and video show John Crawford shot from behind in Wal-Mart

Witness in murder of John Crawford changes story

You really should be following Shaun King on Twitter.

Too many.