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All Day, Every Day

by WaterGirl|  April 18, 20212:59 pm| 134 Comments

This post is in: Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Open Threads, Racial Justice, Shitty Cops

This post isn’t so much about George Floyd in particular, but the next George Floyd, and the one after that.  And the person before George Floyd, and the person before that. Here are a couple of good reads related to police actions and hopes for police accountability.  Once encouraging, one descriptive of the world that …

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: “Life Is Short. Make Something.”

by Anne Laurie|  February 25, 20184:18 am| 166 Comments

This post is in: Because of wow., Open Threads, Popular Culture, Post-racial America

So, this happened… Congrats to the entire #blackpanther team! Because of you, young people will finally see superheroes that look like them on the big screen. I loved this movie and I know it will inspire people of all backgrounds to dig deep and find the courage to be heroes of their own stories. — …

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The Impact of Watching Police Killings

by Elon James White|  April 15, 201511:47 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: This Week In Blackness

The good news about the use of camera phones, body and dash cams is that police are finally starting

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And Another Thing

by John Cole|  July 16, 20131:53 am| 46 Comments

This post is in: Post-racial America

There is so much sound and fury, self-justified white defensiveness, and other insanity in every Trayvon Martin thread (YOU WEREN’T THERE MAN, HOW DO YOU KNOW?), that I just want to make it clear where I stand. And here it is: If Trayvon Martin had been a white kid wearing ipod earbuds instead of a …

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This Will Be Bad

by John Cole|  July 8, 20107:26 pm| 136 Comments

This post is in: Shitty Cops

Young nigga got it bad cuz I’m brown And not the other color so police think They have the authority to kill a minority This is not going to end well: A former police officer who is white was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the killing of an unarmed black man in Oakland, …

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Riots in Oakland

by John Cole|  January 8, 20099:14 am| 346 Comments

This post is in: Outrage

I hadn’t commented on the Oscar Grant case because I figured everyone had already seen the video, and because what is there to say? The cop pulled a gun on an unarmed man who was pinned to the floor, and then shot and killed him. Twenty years ago, some ridiculous self-defense excuse would have been …

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War for Ukraine Day 747: An Air Raid Warning in Two Parts

by Adam L Silverman|  March 11, 20248:36 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Military, Open Threads, Russia, Silverman on Security, War, War in Ukraine

All of Ukraine went under an air raid warning earlier today because of one MiG-31K. Air raid over – MiG-31K has landed again or was judged no to have been a threat. Hardly time to get to a shelter before it's over. — Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) March 11, 2024 The good news is that it …

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