Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

November links, including a bit of rioting

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 These are non-election-related links. Not many of them, but the election didn't manage to wipe out everything. Another shooting by poli...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Big new vision for what the US should be

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I haven't been posting, but I've been very active following the huge news events in the US, where the covid pandemic and Black Lives...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Overview and link dump for US demonstrations and riots

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(Catching up on posts started a while ago. This one originally written around 6/9/20.) George Floyd, a very tall, robust black man, was kill...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Another roundup of links

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What to do about North Korea. This is very tricky, until you realize that the answer from history is obvious. Sometime last year I spent man...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Short: Experts discuss a shooting

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This is the kind of information we should get about all major shootings. It's a discussion by a group of experts , kind of like the anal...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Four stories on the Dallas shootings

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I'm deeply saddened by the shooting of police in Dallas during a friendly, non-violent protest against police shootings elsewhere. We...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Blaming the talkers, not the shooters

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Is Harry Reid right when he blames the murders and shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Republican politicians? There a...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

A vignette in America's racist history

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Sadly, I don't know enough of the history of my own country. That's part of the reason I'm only now realizing the extent of raci...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The fall of the Confederate flag

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I wish I could say that this was a victory for civility, but it's not. People like Nikki Haley , Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell aren...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Major black writer absolves the killer of Mike Brown

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Ta-Nehishi Coates, perhaps the pre-eminent black columnist in the US, writes very clearly that Darren Wilson, who shot Mike Brown in Fergus...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The strange struggle between NYC cops and mayor

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I'm having a very hard time understanding the disagreement between the New York City cops and the mayor. Why are the cops so incredibly ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Oh, the humanity in Ferguson, Missouri

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Real life is always more complicated than it seems. Always. Take the first impressions of the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. At first, it...