We will have several local grassroots activists in the studio including our regular Miguel Adams from Speak Up Florida-The Movement to End the New Jim Crow (more details will be posted with the podcast).
We’ll try to be pragmatic and realistic but we will NOT allow ourselves to fall into the disgusting white supremacist racist rhetoric of the majority of the mainstream press and politicians (including President Obama).
It’s going to get ugly >:/
via How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night’s post-protest violence – citypaper.com.
A tweet from City Paper contributor D. Watkins:
Some of the Oriole fans who got their asses whipped this weekend were taunting protesters , calling us “Apes, Niggers and Monkeys”
— D. (@dwatkinsworld) April 27, 2015
This is part of distancing our enlightened modern free civilization from the horrors on which it is built. It wasn’t “us’ who did all those things. It was some crazy barbarians that look a little like “us”. If truly pushed then we turn on poor rural “white trash” and blame THEM for it.
Nononono: The conquests, genocides, persecutions, holocausts, slaving, colonialism, etc, etc, were primarily funded and run by elites for their own benefit.
via The NYT wrote about lynching by white people without using the word “white” – Vox.
This is the individualistic / micro-level version of “humanitarian intervention” in the policy / macro-level.
>>> This comment is dedicated to all you #jesuischarlie tolerant loving bourgeois >:/
Chapel Hill murderer with his wife in Disneyland
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 