NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks speaks out about the video of African-American teenager being arrested by white police officers while crying out in pain.
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Teaching About Ferguson – History of Burning
1921
A mob of deputized whites looted and burned to the ground a black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This included the destruction of 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and 150 businesses. By the time the terror ended, 300 African-Americans had been killed.
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Source: zinnedproject.org
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Why Are We So Afraid of Young Black Men?
Videotaped beating of woman in L.A.: Is it Rodney King all over again? (+video)
The videotaped beating of a homeless African-American woman by a light-skinned California Highway Patrol officer is reopening the L.A. race-relations dialogue initiated by the Rodney King beating 23 years ago.
Source: www.csmonitor.com
Fruitvale Station
“Fruitvale Station” (2013) is an American film about the last day of Oscar Grant’s life. On January 1st 2009, Grant, an unarmed Black man, was shot in the back by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police at Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California. Octavia Spencer plays his mother. Ryan Coogler writes and directs, his first film. It won an NAACP Image Award, an award at Cannes, but no Oscar.
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Source: abagond.wordpress.com
I saw this movie. It has excellent acting and cinematography, it’s entertaining, and of course it’s heartbreaking like crazy.
Jasper, Texas (Movie 2003)
Directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. With Roy T. Anderson, Demore Barnes, John Bayliss, James Bearden. In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Community Village‘s insight:
I’m kind of shocked there’s a movie about this.
The movie poster makes me sick to my stomach.
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Jordan Davis’ Killer, Michael Dunn, Unleashes Racist Rant in Letters to Grandma – Atlanta Black Star
If there was any doubt about the true feelings of Michael Dunn, the Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis during an argument over loud music, the 46-year-old laid them to rest in letters that he wrote from jail to family members…
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Don’t shoot! I want to grow up.
News, photos, stories, and trouble from the borderland (by Claire Marie O’Brien)
Savages according to the 1959 Golden Book Encyclopedia
The Golden Book Encyclopedia was the best-selling children’s encyclopedia in America ever. The 1959 edition sold throughout the 1960s. It is the oldest encyclopedia in my possession – and it writes…
Community Village‘s insight:
Above is an except from Abagond’s blog.
I didn’t know an encyclopedia actually used the word ‘savages’ to describe any group of people.
I knew the word ‘savage’ had been common in speech; but in ‘professional’ writing as well!?
Who wants to bet that when you turn to the page on Europeans – it does not describe them as savages even though Europeans have commited savage acts throughout history and up to today.
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