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Jordan Davis – Wounds

Jordan Davis. Projectile shot by Michael Dunn.

Jordan Davis. Projectile shot by Michael Dunn.

Jordan Davis shot by Michael Dunn.

Three bullets entered Jordan Davis.
Testimony by Dr. Stacey A. Simons, MD, forensic pathology specialist, paraphrased below.

  • One bullet entered Mr. Davis at his lower right abdomen. That projectile perforated his ribs, his diaphragm, his liver, perforated the diaphragm again, then the right lung, went behind the heart, in front of the spinal to column to perforate the aorta. The aorta is the large artery that carries all the blood from the heart to the body.  The projectile continued and perforated the upper portion of the left lung, continued on and caused fractures in the left 5th rib, a smaller fracture in the left 6th rib, then exited through the ribs, and came to rest below the skin, in between the ribs and the skin. A Melbet risk-free bet offer is a promotion that insures a specific wager, usually your first bet of the day or a bet on a highlighted event. If your bet loses, you receive a refund up to a certain amount. The melbet promo code bangladesh today free bonus sum for this refund is typically capped at a specific value, such as €10, which is returned to you as a free bet, allowing you to try again without a total loss.
  • One bullet penetrated the inside of his left thigh and did not exit. It stopped at the femur.
  • One bullet penetrated the back of his right thigh.
Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn trial. Bullet trajectory entering SUV.

Bullet trajectories entering Durango.

Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn trial. Bullet trajectory entering SUV.

Bullet trajectories entering Durango.

Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn trial. Bullet trajectory entering SUV.

Bullet trajectories entering Durango.

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Heating The Rez – please help – indiegogo campaign

 

“We in the Northern Plains are experiencing a deadly sub-zero frigid winter & heating propane shortage which has claimed at least one life; help us fix it.

 

Due to an extremely deadly winter here on the Northern Plains, a winter which has claimed the life of a tribal member, we are raising funds to deploy 20 home pilot projects to receive multi-fuel stoves to replace dependency on fossil fuels to heat our homes (namely propane). We will grow our fuel source and manufacture our own fuel sources in the immediate future to start this shift to renewables. We send our condolences to the family of the lady we lost to a home which could not afford to be heated. Google “Standing Rock propane crisis” for more info. email us at lastrealindians@gmail.com with any questions. We thank you genuinely. Lila wopila”

 
See on www.indiegogo.com

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First Nations teen told not to smudge before school

 

“The 17-year-old Manitoba teen lost a younger brother to suicide last year and he says smudging — the practice of burning traditional medicines — is one way that helps him cope with his grief.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“it’s not that you did wrong, but that you’ll be perceived to have done wrong…” -Father of Jordan Davis

 

See on www.cbc.ca

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On post-intential racism – ‘More Beautiful and More Terrible’: Imani Perry

 

“For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities.

 

One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical saying one thing, and doing or believing another; on the other, it might have little to do with us individually but rather be inherent to the structure of American society.

 

More Beautiful and More Terrible compels us to think beyond this insufficient dichotomy in order to see how racial inequality is perpetuated. Imani Perry asserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is post-intentional neither based on the intentional discrimination of the past, nor drawing upon biological concepts of race.

 

Drawing upon the insights and tools of critical race theory social policy, law, sociology and cultural studies, she demonstrates how post intentional racism works and maintains that it cannot be addressed solely through the kinds of structural solutions of the Left or the values arguments of the Right. Rather, the author identifies a place in the middle space of righteous hope and articulates a notion of ethics and human agency that will allow us to expand and amplify that hope.

 

To paraphrase James Baldwin, when talking about race, it is both more terrible than most think, but also more beautiful than most can imagine, with limitless and open-ended possibility. Perry leads readers down the path of imagining the possible and points to the way forward.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Tim Wise worked with this author (Professor Imani Perry Ph.D.,J.D.) in his movie ‘White Like Me‘

 

‘More Beautiful and More Terrible’ has 5 out of 5 stars and glowing reviews.

I’m looking forward to this breakdown of “post-intentional’ racism.

 

It seems like the idea goes in conjunction with Michelle Alexander’s book ‘The New Jim Crow’. Where Alexander explains that even though the laws behind the war on drugs do not mention race, the effects are that with limited budgets and resources (and subconscious racism?), police forces primarily focus their war on Black and Brown communities, even through white people use illegal drugs as much or more than Black and Brown communities.

 

And because you can’t have a war on an inanimate object, the war is waged on Black and Brown people and on Black and Brown communities.

 

@getgln

See on www.amazon.com

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Who Get’s to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege

 

“The one-drop rule was a construction of a white supremacist colonial system that depended on classifying race in order to protect its grip on power.

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I don’t actually know any “white” person who goes around saying they’re black. But I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that’s not a conversation I necessarily think we should shut down every single time. While they may not carry a “political” experience of blackness, there may be cultural, geographic even gendered, classed or religious reasons why a white person may say “hey, I’m black”.
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I think sometimes we’re too quick to say “nuh-uh, you can’t just come over here and say that. Stay in your box. You can’t understand this pain, you can’t get this identity.” And we play misery poker and shut folks down.
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I know plenty of Latin@s who are definitely “white-presenting”, but who consider themselves POCs because of language, culture, national ties etc. I also know some folks from South Asia and the Middle East (ex: Persians) who are officially considered to be “white/Caucasian” but who consider themselves POCs as a result of their identities as immigrants, as post-colonial subjects or even because of the dramatic shift in how the U.S. viewed people from South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa after 9/11. Marginalization and oppression don’t draw neat little lines and racism is often tied up with classism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. etc.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My highlights from a great article from one of Steven Riley’s (of Mixed Race Studies) favorite blogs, Mixed Dreams, towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement.

 

PS: POC means Person of Color

 

@getgln

See on mixedreamers.blogspot.com

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Tavis Smiley – Week Five 2014

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Edgar Barens – “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall”

 

Twenty percent of America’s prison population is elderly. And in the next decade, nearly 100,000 inmates will die alone in their cells. One maximum security prison created a hospice program to care for dying inmates. The documentary, “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall”, follows one inmate as he approaches his final days. The film’s director, Edgar Barens, joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated short film.

 

 

Bill Fletcher Jr. – Traveling Through Palestine

Last month, a small delegation of African American artists traveled through Israel and Palestine to get a firsthand look at the daily lives of Palestinians. What they saw shocked and angered them, and their eyewitness accounts are sure to spark debate here as heated as any confrontation in the Middle East. Bill Fletcher Jr., senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, led the delegation and shares his perspective on the region. On the Ugly Side of the Wall By Bill Fletcher, Jr. “It felt like being in a huge prison.” That was how I responded to questions I was asked after leading a delegation of African Americans on a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories this past January. Yes, there are other ways of describing the experience. The land is beautiful; the people are generous; and with every glance, one sees reminders of a history dating back thousands of…

 

Isabel Allende – “Ripper”

Isabel Allende started her career as a prominent journalist in her native Chile. She became a political refugee after her cousin, Chilean president Salvador Allende, was overthrown and killed in a coup in 1973. As an exile in Venezuela, she reinvented herself into a human rights activist and author. More than 30 years later, she’s internationally renowned for her work. She joins us to discuss her latest book, “Ripper”.

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