Month: January 2015

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Florida shatters records with 346 inmate deaths in 2014

 

Nearly 350 inmates in Florida prisons died in 2014, shattering the record for most number of prisoner deaths in a single year. Many of the cases involve suspicious circumstances and involve allegations of harsh abuse by guards, which has prompted the firings of dozens of security officers and a large-scale Department of Justice investigation into the state’s correction system. RT’s Nicholas Sanchez O’Donovan is in Miami with more details.

 

Source: www.youtube.com

 

Florida has a horrible history – up to present day.

 

Going to prison is a death sentence for some people.

 

When we hear ‘genocide‘ and ‘population control‘ we need to take this seriously.

 

#BlackLivesMatter #LatinoLivesMatter #ShutITdown 

 

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Why I Cried Today

 

Last night was surreal. I tweeted about it seconds after it happened, when I was back safely inside my home. I can’t say as I felt that my life was threatened, but I was made to feel startled, scared, upset, like I was a criminal, and totally creeped out.
Right now, I don’t feel particularly safe in my own home.

Why do I live in a world where I have to feel a sense of relief that I wasn’t shot dead, or assaulted or beaten or sexually assaulted? –

Feelings that interfere with the feelings about being pretty much stalked by a police officer.

 

– Click through for whole story –

 

Source: awakeblackwoman.wordpress.com

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Must see Tweets 1.19 #BlackLivesMatter

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A Return to School Segregation in America? – Separate and Unequal – FRONTLINE

Public schools are more segregated now than in 1968. Does it matter? FRONTLINE goes inside one school district’s debate about education, class and race in the upcoming “Separate and Unequal.”

 

– Click through to watch the trailer –

 

Source: www.pbs.org

 

School integration without respect for ALL the students is also bad for the students who are disrespected.

 

Y’all. Do schools do enough to teach respect for ALL students?