Abuse of Power

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MUST SEE TWEETS #ChapelHillShooting

Muslim-Lives-Matter

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Must See Tweets 2.9 #BLACKLIVESMATTER #NATIVELIVESMATTER

We carry golf clubs, and at least one stave. #WilliamWingate #Seattle pic.twitter.com/DrGPMq2gi8 — MaxWelp (@local_maxima) February 7, 2015

Watch: Little children apologize for terrorism http://t.co/JsNyTixfYT — Asma ™ (@asooma) February 7, 2015

“First Amendment Area” brought to u by #Ferguson PD coming to a town near u pic via @HyperboleJ pic.twitter.com/5Yw13EFTYk — Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) …

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Source: oppressionmonitor.us

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Facing Evil With Maya Angelou

 

In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late Maya Angelou, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 documentary in which he and Angelou attended a conference on “Facing Evil,” held in the Hill Country of central Texas. Evil was a topic about which Angelou, the victim of childhood rape and virulent racism, had a lot to say.

 

Source: www.youtube.com

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The term “thug”

 

A “thug” (1810) is someone who is violent with little regard for the law. Like “savage” and “terrorist”, it has become highly racialized, especially since 2009.

Think like a White racist:

  • savages = Native American men;
  • terrorists = Muslim men;
  • thugs = Black American men.

White Americans use these words to stereotype the men of an out-group as dangerous and naturally violent, as lacking morals and empathy. Whites thenuse that as an excuse to act in just that way towards them: violent, no empathy, no morals. Drones, police brutality, genocide.


You can see how racialized the word “thug” has become in 2015. Here is how many web pages use the following phrases according to Google:

  • 497,000 “black thugs”
  • 88,700 “Latino thugs” + “Hispanic thugs”
  • 87,100 “white thugs”
  • 8,520 “Asian thugs”

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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Black Prophetic Fire: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Legacy of Leading African-American Voices [VIDEO]

 

“The renowned scholar, author and activist Dr. Cornel West, joins us to discuss his latest book, “Black Prophetic Fire.” West engages in conversation with the German scholar and thinker Christa Buschendorf about six revolutionary African-American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Ida B. Wells. Even as the United States is led by its first black president, West says he is fearful that we may be “witnessing the death of black prophetic fire in our time.”

 

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Source: www.democracynow.org

 

My favorite role model here.

Dr. Cornel West.

 

He is the closest living person that I know of to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his passion for social justice and oratory eloquence.

 

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Cops Tackle 11-Year-Old Girl and Hold Her at Gunpoint, In Her Own Home

A young girl is now left traumatized after police rushed into her home, threw her to the ground and held her at gunpoint while she watched cartoons.

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

I’m thinking it’s a bad idea to have those alarms that call the cops.

Sounds like the cops are likely to shoot the home owners and children of the home owners.

 

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The Shooting of Milton Hall

 

Learn more at http://www.aclumich.org/MiltonHall

Police officers in Saginaw, MI fired more than 45 shots at Jewel Hall’s son Milton. Despite abundant evidence that officers showed a reckless disregard for Milton’s life, the U.S. Justice Department did not charge any of the officers responsible for the killing.

 

Learn more at http://www.aclumich.org/MiltonHall

 

Source: www.youtube.com

 

This Is How UK Police Stop Someone With A Knife

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Detroit Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old Aiyana Stanley-Jones Walks Free

 

After two hung juries, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office has decided not to retry the police officer who killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones in a raid gone horribly wrong four years ago.

Detroit police office Joseph Weekley, 38, shot and killed the sleeping 7-year-old with an MP5 submachine gun as he led a SWAT-like team into her home in search of a murder suspect.

 

Weekley was indicted more than a year later and has been tried twice before in Stanley-Jones’ death, both times resulting in mistrials. Prosecutors maintain that the officer was negligent and reckless and didn’t follow proper protocol in the May 16, 2010 operation, reports The Detroit Free Press.

 

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Source: thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com

 

I’m outraged – but not surprised.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER #CHILDLIFEMATTERS #FEMALELIFEMATTERS

 

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Full Video of police shooting #KristianaCoignard age 17

Apparently this police station has no pepper spray and no K9.

And who is training these coward officers that they can’t each grab one of her arms so that she can’t pull out a weapon?

Why become an officer if you have no courage to subdue a child?

Why are we paying our officers to shoot our children? Any why do none of them make a move to stop the bleeding? Or give CPR?

#ChildLifeMatters