If there was any doubt about the true feelings of Michael Dunn, the Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis during an argument over loud music, the 46-year-old laid them to rest in letters that he wrote from jail to family members…
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“The popular mythology that has surrounded Christopher Columbus for the last five centuries, the exaltation of him as “discoverer” of the Americas a.k.a. the ‘New World’, was still being taught as part of elementary school curriculum and touted as historical fact in classrooms all across America as late as the dawn of the dawn of the 21st century, decades after many scholars had begun unmasking this lie.”
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“Mount Rushmore (1745m) is a mountain sacred to the Sioux called Six Grandfathers. Whites desecrated it with the faces of four white men carved into its side in the early 1900s.”
Another kickazz post by Abagond.
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“Tavis Talks: Ginia Bellafante. Tavis Smiley kicks off his new poverty initiative, titled “Ending Poverty: America’s Silent Spaces” with an interview with New York Times writer Ginia Bellafante, who has written several scathing stories about poverty in New York City.”
Poverty is the worst form of oppression and totally unnecessary.
– Ernest Callenbach
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Disturbing new evidence casts a new light on the death of high school student Kendrick Johnson. Victor Blackwell reports.
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An armor manufacturer shows affiliate WBOC its handheld whiteboard that it says can stop gunfire from point-blank range.
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“When tiny guests stop by, turn compassion into action. Plastic trap catches mice alive and unharmed so they can be released outdoors. Be sure to check the trap frequently, so mice won’t suffer needlessly. Each trap is reusable so that you can catch and release each mouse for relocation. We will enclose our Humane Control of Mice and Rats tip sheet with every order.
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“The power of these small groups lie in the fact that they represent the largest, most well-organized, unified and reliable minority of voters. This reactionary minority may not be big enough to win national elections anymore, but they are just large enough to swing local ones and that’s enough to wield powerful influence.
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Those of us who believe in pluralism and democracy must understand the power of thinking small and take action.
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we must act with the confidence that we can change the world, because the actions of small groups of committed people is the only thing that ever has.”
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update at 2:20 p.m. Monday]
Of the two killed in Monday morning’s shooting at a Nevada middle school, one was a staff member at the school, and the other “appears to be a student/suspect in this case,” Washoe County School District Police Chief Mike Mieras said. Two students were injured, he said. One underwent surgery, and the other is “doing well,” he said.
[Breaking news update at 1:58 p.m. Monday]
A 13-year-old student told the Reno Gazette Journal that a student fired a shot at a teacher at a Nevada middle school on Monday. “The student was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down, and the student fired a shot at the teacher, and the teacher fell, and everybody ran away,” the student said.
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“Change demands moments of crisis and conflict. In these moments of crisis, there are two options: to embrace the change and recognize the necessity of it, or to fight against it…”
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