‘I Hope My Son Stays White’ - News & Views - EBONY
âBefore my son was born, I hoped heâd be a girl. Iâve never been a black man in America, and I canât tell him what itâs like. I do know that much of society is still terrified of black males. But I also know that my sonâs blackness really only presents a danger to himself.â
While itâs 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 â but thus far have largely escaped closer scrutiny, according to an analysis in The Washington Post on Tuesday by a public âŚIâve always had this belief but could never prove it. Bless this article
The old people used to always say, âStay away from hospitals, you always come out sicker than when you went in.â I always thought they were talking about nosocomial infections. Eh, so it goesâŚ
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 shouldnât 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 theyâre an oppressed minority. From this kind of ideological fortification, you can stage absolutely whatever campaigns you deem necessary.
OH S***. Thatâs raw bruh. Thatâs a real billboard via .@dreamdefenders in FL where #TrayvonMartin & #JordanDavis were both gunned down by people who claimed FLâs #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
An iconic image showing Aboriginal rights activist, Gary Foley with a placard reading, âPardon me for being born into a nation of racistsâ.
If youâve watched this clip, you can hear how uncomfortable the audience is throughout many points Ansari makes, and itâs so cool how he keeps plowing through. Itâs really great stuff.
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 Worldâs Mos Eisely. Everything remotely connected with drug enforcement or counterterrorism carries with it the stench of corruption and abuse.
It looks a little funny,
Huge Increase In Voter Registrations In Ferguson Apparently Never Happened
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 nationâs laws.
Glenn Carle: Torture is wrong, The Boston Globe.
Important, always-relevant comic done by the wonderful Ursa Eyer.
I donât have a great way to go home
Facebookâs ad platform will know who you are, what you buy, even offline
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 itâs offline.
When I wrote in one of the controversial tweets, âIsrael: transforming âantisemitismâ from something horrible to something honorable since 1948,â 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. âCrashâ became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); âtimeoutâ became a honaama (your fish has got away). âAspect ratioâ became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven. In Malawiâs Chichewa language, which has 10m speakers, âcached pagesâ 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 âwindowsâ became âeyesâ.
Minority languages, The Economist (via varanine)
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 âQuestion authority and think for yourself.â I remember after an event where he and I spoke, a bunch of kids came up to Tim and said, âso what should we do?!?!â and Tim shouted at them, âThink for yourself!!â What I realized as I spent time with Tim was that people wanted gurus and that the more you tried to explain that you werenât 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 âanswersâ and wanted to get to some kind of goal. The thing is, there is no answer and there is no goal. You donât âwin.â
Joichi Ito at LinkedIn. Gurus, goals and mindfulness (via protoslacker)
The engineers who sent a spacecraft into orbit around Mars (for 74 mil.)
misterand:
Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill
my, my, my. I donât reblog the nostalgic photos of Hill typically â because I know that they come from a very difficult/trying time in her personal/artistic life (even amidst her huge success) â but could not pass up the opportunity to share the power of this candid photo.Â
Protesters from across St Louis turned up and turned out for the first St Louis County Council Meeting since Mike Brownâs Death. (Part II)
The St Louis County Council meeting was a fiery afar, as residents from across the county demanded Darren Wilsonâs arrest, answers for Mike Brownâs death, and expressed frustration at their own police force being turned on them like they were enemies of the state. #staywoke #farfromover
- **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, âBlack Worthâ, and Mike Brown
- How many ways can the city ofâŚ
Check out Misee Harrisâ 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 Appleâs âU2rusionâ
All photos less than 24 hours ago. The fight in StLouis continues.