“Not his story about the domestic violence incident. It’s Zimmerman’s story about February 26, 2012 and why he killed unarmed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin.”
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Author: Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson
#DecolonizeHistory: Storytelling & Resistance
“I started writing because there was an absence I was familiar with. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager… and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that.” –Ntozake Shange
#DecolonizeHistory is about storytelling that disrupts space to present narratives that have been actively silenced or neglected.
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“Colonialism set the foundation for all other ‘ism’s’”
– Krysta Williams
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See on decolonization.wordpress.com
Facebook Killer Derek Medina Indicted, Claims Stand Your Ground
A Miami man accused of killing his wife earlier this year, then posting a pic of her dead body on facebook, plans to use a stand your ground defense, and has been indicted
The white racist guide to reporting crime trends
With all the news stories in America about knockout games in November 2013, we got to see some prime examples of how White Americans report a crime trend. CNN, NBC, ABC and Fox News put the racist …
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From Arizona To Florida, Stand Your Ground Ends In Manslaughter
Cordell Jude charged with 2nd degree murder, convicted of reckless manslaughter, in what is called a “reverse Trayvon Martin” case.
“Two cases, over 2300 miles apart – in Florida and Arizona – are in the web of situations involving stand your ground laws.”
Although this situation was different than the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman case, in this “reverse” case, the darker “Stand your ground” Cordell Jude was convicted, where the lighter George Zimmerman was not.
A big difference however is that Cordell Jude said something like “I’m gonna get you”, or “kill you”, according to witnesses, where George Zimmerman didn’t say that.
72 Year-Old Man With Alzheimer’s Killed After Ringing Bell At Wrong House
72 year old Ronalld Westbrook, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, wandered away from home and was shot four times and killed after ringing the doorbell and turning a doorknob at a house in Geor…
Cops in Miami Gardens, FL Arrest & Abuse Residents Simply for Showing Up to Work (this is not an exaggeration!)
Miami Gardens, Florida is a place where racial profiling is carried out so often and so maliciously by police that even local business owners have had enough of it.
See on ushypocrisy.com
No Thanks to Thanksgiving
By Robert Jensen, AlterNet
“One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas.”
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Genocide and THE THANKSGIVING MYTH
By S. Brian Willson
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“Let us recognize that accounts of the first Thanksgiving are mythological, and that the holiday is actually a grotesque celebration of our arrogant ethnocentrism built on genocide.”
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After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace activist and pacifist.
Community Village‘s insight:
This post has a number of drawings I hadn’t seen before and it covers the history of brutal U.S. oppression from the U.S. East coast, to West coast, then all the way to the Philippines.
I never knew about the “kill every one over ten” by General Jacob H. Smith in 1901.
See on www.popularresistance.org
Happy National Genocide (Thanksgiving) Day!
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“People always tell me to forget the past. I should just let it go and move on. Why do people of color always have to forget?! Would you tell a Jewish person to forget about the holocaust and just move on?! Would you tell the family of those who lost their lives on 9/11 to just forget about it?! So why are our tragedies forgettable and others are not?! I WILL NEVER forget! I will ALWAYS honor those who lost their lives unjustifiable.”
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See on www.huffingtonpost.com