Showing posts with label Mumia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mumia. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - 2015 - Updated #87

There's no "race problem" in America.  We all have black friends.  I even have more than I need.  [I call some of them relatives.]  Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare.  It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014

From TheDailyBeast:  Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.

From Truthout:  In praise of Bree Newsome.

From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.

From TheWashingtonPost:  Baltimore cop talks a horror show.

From TIME via RSN:  Baltimore is just the beginning.

From RSN:  Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.

From Truthout:  Swimming while black.

From Truthout:  Black and the U.S. military.

From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.

From Bloomberg:  How many indeed.

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From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!

From Truthout:  Two ways racists kill.

From TheDailyBeast:  John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."

From Intercept:  Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.

From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.

From YahooPolitics:  Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.

From TheNewYorker:  Charleston and the age of Obama.

From YahooNews:  I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.

From SPLC:  Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.

From YahooNews:  South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.

From GuardianUK:  More on Pastor Pinckney.

From YahooNews:  What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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From TheDailyBeast:  More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.

From the GuardianUK:  Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.

From YahooNews:  New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.

From RSN:   Obama remembers what happened to MLK.

From GuardianUK:  Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."

From RSN:  Baltimore explained.

From TheGuardian:  Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.

From AlJazeera:  Mexico's brothel state.

From RSN:  Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.

From WashPost:  Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.

From BuzzFlash:  40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.

From TPM:  White fragility.

From YahooNews:  30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.

From the WashingtonPost:  DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.

From Truthout:  Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.

From TheGuardian:  Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.

From Haaretz:  Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.

From ThePlayersTribune:  Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.

From the GuardianUK:  Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.

From  BuzzFlash:  Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.

From Truthout:  The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.

From RSN:  FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.

From SFGate:  Cornell West on more shootings.

From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.

From YahooNews:  After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.

From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end.  The white guy knows why.

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.

From WashPost:  In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters.  He may have been innocent.  Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.

From FreeThoughtProject:  DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...

From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.

From Truthout:  Hip hop and Palestine.

From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.

From RSN:  The roots of American racism run deep.  Sho' nuff.

From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.

From AmsterdamNews:  Mumia is in a diabetic coma.

From TheNewYorker:  Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.

From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.

From BuzzFlash:  The American terrorism of lynching.

From YahooSports:  College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.

From NPR via RSN:  A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.

From NPR:  The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.

From YahooNews:  ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.

From Time:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.

From RSN:  "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King

From RSN:  Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.

From the WashingtonPost:  I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs.  Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.

From YahooNews:  A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.

From BuzzFlash:  Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.

From AlJazeeraAmerica:  We need the Black Panthers.

From TheGuardian:  "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "

From DemocracyNow:  Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.

From RSN:  Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka

From Truthout:  Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.

From the NationalPost:  In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.

From NPR:  There is also a war on Black girls.

From ConsortiumNews:  How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.

From AlJazeera:  In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")

From Truthout:  Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.

From YahooSports:  The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed.  Now, he works for the NFL.

From AlJazeera:  2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.

From CrooksandLiars:  More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it.  By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.

From YahooNews:  South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.

From TheGuardian:  Yeah, why did they?

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...

From BuzzFlash:  Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.

From Truthout:  The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.

From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.

From AlterNet:  A great review of the new film, Selma.

From YahooParenting:  7 things I can do that my black son can't.

From CNN:  I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.


Sunday, December 28, 2014

Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - Update #77

There's no "race problem" in America.  We all have black friends.  I even have more than I need.  [I call some of them relatives.]  Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare.  It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014

From AlterNet:  A great review of the new film, Selma.

From YahooParenting:  7 things I can do that my black son can't.

From CNN:  I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.

From Reuters via RSN:  Off-duty, Black NYPD cops feel threat from White colleagues.

From TheDailyBeast:  After they fired the shots, they're the victims...

From NYTimes:  Police shootings reveal racial chasm... D'uh.

From Time:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to White people feeling targeted by Ferguson protests - Welcome to our world.

From MiamiHerald:  The rules are indeed different for Black people seeking justice.

From TheGuardian:  Gentrifiers having to throw people out of their homes.

From CNN:  Racism without racists.

From the GuardianUK:  Jesse Jackson says we can still get justice for Mike Brown.  I kinda doubt it, but I'm hopeful.

From Esquire:  The rise in police shootings, even in places like Utah.

From YahooNews:  Another black male with a toy gun shot to death by cops - this time the black male is a child.

From CSMonitor:  Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over the Pennsylvania law specifically meant to gag him.

From RSN and FirstLook:  Yes, we do need someone to judge the judges because Judge Edith Jones is an ignorant racist bitch.

From FirstLook:  How the innocent are screwed into pleading guilty.

From NPR:  Black and dead in Brazil.

From ConsortiumNews:  Is Arlington, VA racist?  Probably.

From RSN:  Did you know that Denver cops had killed an unarmed street preacher.  It costs them $4.6 million?  That was an expensive cap-popping.

From RawStory:  Dead in Alabama jails to save money.

From TheNation:  How racism stole black childhood.

From RSN:  Cops killed 77 people in September 2014.

From the NYT:  Civil asset forfeiture - makes me wanna support Clive Bundy.

From Demos via RSN:  A third of Americans live at or near poverty.

From YahooNews:  Expelled Nazis and SS still get Social Security paychecks.

From Think Progress via RSN:  Funny Ebola freak-outs.

From YahooNews:  Michael Dunn gets life for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.

From Truthout:  Incarceration, mass murder, and genocide of Black men.

From FreeThoughtProject:   Cops with gang tattoos to celebrate the people they kill.

From Truthout:  Understanding our many Fergusons.

From YahooNews:  Another unarmed, innocent black teen attacked by white cops on a racial profiling rampage.  Luckily, the cops didn't kill him.

From GQ via RSN:  An interesting article about murderer, George Zimmerman's crappy family.

From News 13 via RSN:  Michael Dunn found guilty of murdering black teenager, Jordan Davis.

From Truthout:  Cops retaliate against citizens group that monitor police activity.

From Salon via RSN:  America's summer of white supremacy.

From InformedComment via RSN:  $8.7 billion in food stamp cuts, but $22 billion to fight ISIS.

From TheNewYorkTimes:  When Whites Just Don't Get It Part One and Part Two.

From the HuffingtonPost:  Los Angeles law enforcement kill about one person a week - I'm not surprised.

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From YahooNews:  JUSTICE:  Woman beat up by CHiP cop, wins $1.5 million and cop resigns.

From NPR:  INJUSTICE:  Grand Jury refuses to indict murders... I mean cops involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ohio Wal-Mart shooting.
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From BearingArms:  Family wants charges against fat lying bastard who made the 911 call that led to the murder of their son.

From Salon via RSN:  The strange death of Charles Smith.  Shot to death while handcuffed, supposedly in possession of gun.

From Salon via RSN:  Rock the Vote joins militia group to intimidate Wisconsin African-American voters in November.

From CBS:  WHITE South Carolina state trooper charged in shooting of UNARMED BLACK MAN.

From Salon via RSN:  Yes, Justice Scalia is "an utter moral failure."

From the Guardian UK via RSN:  Cops act like gang in assault on Latino man.

From the AP via RSN:  Students walk-out in protest over conservative school board's attempt to make history education emphasize respect for authority and the free-market.

From the Guardian UK via RSN:  By the way, a federal judge approved New York City's settlement with the Central Park Five.  Former mayor, Michael Bumberg, had fought the lawsuit.

From The Washington Post via RSN:  Cops seizing hundreds of millions in cash and property from motorists not charged with crimes.  First heard about this a month ago, and I'm still shocked.

From Campus Reform via RSN:  Students and faculty have to tell Clemson University how many times they've had sex...  Apparently, this is real.

From The Daily Beast via RSN:  Ferguson cops caught in a lie about blood on their uniforms and got away with it... for now.

From BuzzFlash via Truthout:  For Black youth, no mistakes allowed.  It could be fatal.

From TheWashingtonPost:  White rage against Black progress.

From the GuardianUK via RSN:  Yep, the cops shot Darrien Hunt in the back.  Had to admit it.

From Esquire via RSN:  It's never about race, right?  Riiiiiight.

From The Intercept via RSN:  No heads in the sand on ISIS beheading videos.

From Truthout:  NRA hold "killer cop contest."Includes a "Head Shots Only" competition.

From the SPLC via RSN:  Neo-Confederate group forms paramilitary unit to advance a second secession.

From YahooSports:  Yeah, there are good cops...

From CBSLocal via RSN:  Free Patrick McLaw - A teacher an self-published science fiction author placed on administrative leave after his work was discovered.  Free Patrick McLaw.

From ABCNews:  John Crawford, Jr., the father of Wal-Mart shooting victime, John Crawford, III, hears his son's dying breaths.

From YahooNews:  So-called witness in John Crawford shooting - the guy who called 911, has changed his story.

From BuzzFlash:  Black men who "open carry" get a cap in the ass from cops.

From TomDisptach via RSN:  We made ISIS.

From Truthout: U.S. slammed for failure to end all forms of racial discrimination

From Reuters via RSN:  Federal prosecutors will investigate the shooting death of Victor White III, a Louisiana man whose death had been previously ruled a suicide.  Supposedly, he shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car.

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From LATimes:  Two brothers who were wrongly convicted of the murder and rape of an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina were freed Wednesday morning, September 3, 2014.  They spent 30 years in prison.  One was 19 and the other were 15 when they were arrested in 1983.

So is a Black man in America more afraid of police and the justice system or of ISIL/ISIS?
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From ThinkProgress via RSN:  Ain't it the truth, girl - America has a real racial problem - Justice Ginsburg.

From GlobalVoiceOnline:  Israeli soldiers used Gazans as human shields  This is not the first time I have heard of this.  They way Israelis act, one would think Palestinians were the ones who caused the Holocaust.

From Truthout:  Black women on "Women's Equality Day."

From NateSilver via RSN:  Most police don't live in the cities they serve.

From TheNation:  How Trayvon Martin's death launched a new generation of black activism.

From MotherJones:  How indeed.

From BuzzFlash: A piece on Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, and his racist speech given before the Oath Keepers in April 2014.  From TheAdvocate and TheGuardian - Page's speech.

From YouTube:  Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, threatening CNN's Don Lemon.

From Truthout:  "We won't go back" - the march for Eric Garner.

From Truthout:  The killing of black men continues...

From YahooNews:  Activist carry the coffin of a black woman killed by a white Phoenix police sergeant to the steps of City Hall.

From Valid:  More commentary on Michelle Cusseaux, the black woman killed by a white Phoenix police officer.

From BuzzFlash via Truthout:  Most whites still don't understand the danger of being a black man in the U.S. ...

From Esquire via RSN:  Charles Pierce - Ferguson: The Limits of Everything

From Reuters via RSN:  President Obama order review of police militirization

From Salon via RSN How to Wreck the GOP in 3 Easy Steps! - Obama and weak-kneed Democratic leadership won't do this.

From RSNWhere Were the Soldier Cops at Bundy Ranch?  - Good questions, Marc Ash.  There is a markedly different response to black protestors in Ferguson, Missouri than there was to the white, gun-toting protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.

From Popular Resistance via Truthout:  The reality of militarized, racist policing ...according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.

From Time via RSNKareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The Coming Race War Won't Be About Race." He says that it will be about class.  He also wonders if the event in Ferguson, Missouri will disappear down the memory hole as the shootings at Jackson State in 1970 - 10 days after the Kent State shooting.

From Salon via RSN: The criminalization of Black mothers.

From Truthout:  It's worth standing with Keith Ellison.

From BuzzFlash:  President Nixon's Vietnam treason confirmed


OTHER:

From The Intercept via RSN:  How Gary Webb was destroyed.


MISC:

From Suggest:  10 celebs you didn't know were black.

From RedFlagNews, you will learn that everything is not peachy.