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It is known in police parlance as “contagious shooting” — gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat. It spreads like germs, like laughter, or fear. An officer fires, so his colleagues do, too
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“Instead of helping to provoke a serious conversation about race and racism in Hollywood and broader American society, McBride and Doss only reinforce the “race hustler” caricature that follows real activists and cultural critics…”
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“Of course, it’s scary to confront race. Beyond polite conversational conventions, we don’t even have much of a shared vocabulary. It’s a lot easier to learn the P.C. rules than confront any biases you might find within…”
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“For some reason it seems like racist incidents on college campuses have peaked during the fall semester this year. There have been several blackface incidents, and other random racist happenings. Here are a few…”
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“Can teaching poor children to act more like middle-class children help close the education gap?”
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“a group of white men taunting a group of Asian women — including Hai Vo’s sister — with dollar bills and suggestions that “Asian women cost five dollars”. We don’t know the extent to which Hai Vo attempted to defend his sister. All we know is that he
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“Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic foundi
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
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: From Indignant to Ignorant: Victims of Richards’ Rant Want Money – Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
If this is true, this is just as hurtful to the cause as those black people who “pull the race card” without warrant. (You know, the ones who get arrested for dealing drugs but want to blame the arrest on racism) Both are equally destructive to the fight against racism.
Posted 28 Nov 2006 at 12:21 pm ¶
Adrianna wrote:
As a foreigner I’m always appalled to find ways in which American History has been sanatize. The way people speak of the Founding fathers as if they were God among men.The fact that columbus day and thankskivingis celebrated is sickening . At least you still Have Native American tribes in the US.Thanks to Columbus they have all been massacred on my side of the Island of Haiti . I thing the best book on history right now is America the book by John Stewart it’s show the hypocresy of American history. I mean this is a great country,but damn do you have to lie, who are we trying to fool?
Posted 28 Nov 2006 at 2:03 pm ¶
Nina wrote:
Yeah firing 50 shots is just like hearing a really good joke. Hilarious! The “contagious shooting” theory is up there with “suicide by police”, an excuse that is used to justify the killing of an individual who supposedly is provoking a policemen. The thing that gets me is that we are supposed to wait for a full investigation before we characterize the shooting as excessive and inappropriate, but the NYPD has wasted no time trying to characterize the victim as a criminal. Did he know that the strip club he was at was a drug and prostitution hotbed under surveillance? Then again aren’t all strip clubs full of illegal activity? The victim’s arrest record was also quickly released but they never specified whether charges were filed. At least Bloomberg has said his piece and labeled the shooting inexplicable in his opinion. That is light years ahead of anything the former mayor and possible presidential candidate (help us all!) would have done.
Posted 28 Nov 2006 at 2:20 pm ¶