Ferguson

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Ferguson: Witness 40

 

Chris Hayes & Shaun King examine the strange case of the witness who admitted to racist thoughts and statements and was allowed to testify to the Darren Wilson grand jury despite substantial holes in her story.

 

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Source: www.dailykos.com

 

Why would FOX news waste their time quoting the least credible witness?

 

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Knox College lifts suspension for player’s Ferguson protest

 

Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, reversed its decision to suspend a women’s basketball player who protested the Ferguson decision right before  a regulation game in St. Louis, County Missouri over the weekend.
“I could not go into that gymnasium and pretend that everything was okay. I could not, in good conscience, I could not play that game,” said Ariyana Smith, a junior from New Lenox, Illinois.

 

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Source: wqad.com

 

These ‘team players’ are the WORST, clueless uneducated about solidarity and uneducated about human rights and uneducated about social justice, college students to not back their Black teammate during the largest Civil Rights protest period since the 1960’s Civil Rights marches.

 

And if her ‘team players’ are not uneducated then they are heartless as hell – I’m calling out both heartless and uneducated.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT

#SHUTITDOWN

 

Privileged people who don’t get it are making me sick to my stomach.

 

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Hard Words: Preaching about Racial Violence and Police Brutality

 

The Christian Century initiates a conversation for pastors of predominately “white” congregations to talk about racial violence in general and Ferguson specifically in an article titled “How pastors talk about Ferguson.”  C. Browning Helsel offers “A Word to the Whites: Preaching about Racism in White Congregations,” challenging those who identify as socially colored white to consider their racial identity development and to create a “nonracist White racial white identity.”  The website http://www.preaching.com offers a sermon illustration that encourages persons to become “gracists,” outlining the points of David Anderson’s book Gracism: The Art of Inclusion.

 

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Source: racelessgospel.com

 

Wait… what’s hard about the words? Does she mean painful?

 

Are we talking about White pain? Or pain from talking to White people and calling them out on their racism? Is one pain that White is synonymous with being ignorant about racism even though it’s mostly Whites who are causing the oppression?

 

Or is the pain that White people are ashamed that they are not able to control their own White community from stopping their racist behaviors?

 

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Lisa Bloom takes Ferguson prosecutors to task

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Hundreds Block The Streets In Cleveland To Protest Police Killing 12 Year Old Boy

Cleveland, Ohio – As the riots and police state presence in Ferguson has taken center stage in the news, people in Cleveland protested the killing of a local 12-year-old boy, and also showed their support for the Michael Brown family as well. Young Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a cop this past Saturday, because…

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

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Police Shoot Peaceful #Ferguson Demonstator in Her Eye Socket and Cause Her to Lose Eye

 

Dornnella Conner was inspired this week to travel to Ferguson, Missouri and join along in the ongoing protests there against police brutality in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.

 

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Source: ushypocrisy.com

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Remembering Black Lives Unjustly Lost

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Hashtag BlackLivesMatter: “A riot is the language of the unheard”

 

Eyes from around the nation and world have been watching events in Ferguson, Missouri, for some time now.
The bifurcated nature of the responses is particularly problematic when it specifically comes to the inability of many people colorized (or racialized) as White, regardless of their otherwise everyday political leanings. Our nation, especially its institutions, have serious issues with all things related to racism/colorism, privilege, acknowledging history (and remember I define history as everything and anything from less than a microsecond ago), and seeing how this affects the future.

 

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Source: andrewpegoda.com