A generation of Pakistani artists focuses on expressing life under daily violence.
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Author: Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson
The New Jim Crow
Teen Thrown In Violent New York Prison For Years Without Ever Having Been Convicted
“Bronx resident Kalief Browder was walking home from a party when he was abruptly arrested by New York City police officers on May 14, 2010. A complete stranger said Browder had robbed him a few weeks earlier and, consequently, changed the 16-year-old’s life forever.
Browder was imprisoned for three years before the charges were dropped in June 2013, according to a WABC-TV Eyewitness News investigation.
At the time of the teen’s arrest, Browder’s family was unable to pay the $10,000 bail. He was placed in the infamously violent Rikers Island correctional facility, where he remained until earlier this year.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Kudos to this man for not taking the plea deal. The plea deal is bullsh*t that would have given him a permanent record making it nearly impossible for him to get a job at most companies for the rest of his life. #NewJimCrow
And remember, this happened in the “Freedom Loving” United States. Freedom for who?
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“If he had answered him in the appropriate manner,…there wouldn’t be any problem.”
“Anderson Cooper didn’t mince words with this questions during the interview:
AC: You know, a lot of people believe race played a factor in this. Form what you know about George Zimmerman, do you believe race played a factor?
Taaffe: Absolutely not.
AC: Why do you feel so strongly about that?
Taaffe: George is not a racist. He was just performing his duties as watch captain. Whether it be African American, Latino, Asian, or white, he would’ve done the same thing. He would have appropriate the person, asked him “What’s your business here?” and if he had just answered him in an appropriate manner, “I’m just here visiting. My mother’s house is around the corner,” and be upfront and truthful, there wouldn’t be any problem.
Out of all the things that have been said to defend George Zimmerman, that rationale by Taaffe ranks as the most offensive defense I’ve heard throughout this four-week long tragedy.
The idea that Taaffe believes its Zimmerman’s place to question a young black male because he appears to be “out of place” is seeped in the racist, patriarchal notion that black bodies are the possessions of whiteness. It’s seeped in the belief that people of color are not autonomous and deserved to be treated like children and criminals when whiteness judges our appearance to be suspect.
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Community Village‘s insight:
Anyone who says that race didn’t play a part in a situation is either lying or doesn’t have a clue about human tendancies to stereotype, presume and prejudge.
Any yes the Trayvon Martin tragedy is over a year old, but prejudice happens every day and as long as there are lessons to be learned, we will continue the conversation.
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Cooking the History Books: The Thanksgiving Massacre
By Laura Elliff, Vice President, Native American Student Association,
Republished from Republic of Lakotah
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“Was Thanksgiving really a massacre of 700 “Indians”? The present Thanksgiving may be a mixture of the 1621 three-day feast and the “Thanksgiving” proclaimed after the 1637 Pequot massacre. So next time you see the annual “Pilgrim and Indian display” in a shopping window or history about other massacres of Native Americans, think of the hurt and disrespect Native Americans feel. Thanksgiving is observed as a day of sorrow rather than a celebration. This year at Thanksgiving dinner, ponder why you are giving thanks.
William Bradford, in his famous History of the Plymouth Plantation, celebrated the Pequot massacre:
“Those that scraped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escapted. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stincke and sente there of, but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemise in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie.”
The Pequot massacre came after the colonists, angry at the murder of an English trader suspected by the Pequots of kidnapping children, sought revenge. rather than fighting the dangerous Pequot warriors, John Mason and John Underhill led a group of colonists and Native allies to the Indian fort in Mystic, and killed the old men, women, and children who were there. Those who escaped were later hunted down. The Pequot tribe numbered 8,000 when the Pilgrims arrived, but disease had brought their numbers down to 1,500 by 1637. The Pequot “War” killed all but a handful of remaining members of the tribe.
An illustration from John Underhill’s News from America, depicting how the village was surrounded.
Proud of their accomplishments, Underhill wrote a book depicted the burning of the village, and even made an illustration showing how they surrounded the village to kill all within it.
Laura Elliff is Vice President of Native American Student Association.
Originally published November 22nd, 2009″
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Border inc.
REMEMBER JORDAN DAVIS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
REMEMBER JORDAN ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH: One year ago today, 17-year-old Jordan Davis was shot to death in Florida by a stranger who felt he was playing his music too loud. His killer will use Stand Your Ground laws to defend himself in court next year. Jordan’s mother, Lucy McBath, is on a mission to roll back Stand Your Ground laws in honor of her son: VIDEO http://fcnews.tv/I6OyOk
Help Lucy get these laws off the books. Sign the petition against Stand Your Ground laws now:http://bit.ly/H2HdhX
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Wife: Zimmerman became a pacing lion – CNN.com Video
Shellie Zimmerman spoke out against her estranged husband, George, for the first time since his second arrest on “Katie.”
See on www.cnn.com
Hate Crime charges for 3 white San Jose State students
Prosecutors allege the white students harassed a black roommate with insulting nicknames and behavior including securing a bicycle lock around his neck.
Community Village‘s insight:
Notice the media often doesn’t show the photo’s of the white faces who commit crimes.
Click through to see the video report. However the article goes into more detail on how f’d up the taunting and abuse was.
See on www.mercurynews.com
TICKING TIME BOMB: Zimmerman’s Wife: He’s ‘Like A Monster’
George Zimmerman’s estranged wife says the infamous neighborhood watch guard is now acting “like a monster.” In an interview with Katie Couric, Shellie Zimmerman described how she hopes there are “no more casualties” caused by her husband’s…
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