The protests and vigils that began in Ferguson, Missouri protesting the racial profiling of black and brown people by the police, the racist for-profit prison industrial complex and the rise of the American police state, have spread across the United States and the world. Anyone who has followed the events that have unfolded since the fatal shooting of Michael brown have more than likely read many racist myths and justifications for the vast inequalities in the number of people who are incarcerated or even murdered by the police for simply not being white.
One of these tropes that is without fail brought into conversation comes in one form or the other is “most crime is black-on-black.”
Well one poet in Chicago completely destroys this often repeated phrase by dissecting the racist meaning behind it.
Speaking to an enormous crowd at a vigil for Michael Brown at Chicago’s Daley Plaza, on August, 14th, Malcolm London, says “We don’t talk about white-on-white crime in the news though. We keep using this rhetoric of ‘black on black’ crime as if something is defective with black people.”
For the centers of Sunni and Shia power to acknowledge each other and indicate willingness to pursue jointly exploration of their mutual interests is profound change.
Ha. Some of us are used to a life filled with acronyms. Worked for the Navy for 30 years, and they had a bound book (before computers; no doubt online now) of ’em called the Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Of course, it had an acronym: DICNAVAB. The only one I like to recall (but it may not have actually been in the DICNAVAB, although it should have been) is BITOA (booze is the only answer).
LL, Blacks have always had these kinds of blacks, you know the kind who would side with the slave masters, side with the KKK, side with the Tea Party Republicans.
Once the so called Black conservatives are used up, they are discarded. For example: the Harvard educated Allan Keys. He pretty much went crazy and joined the “Birthers.” Obviously, part of his insanity was driven by the ass whooping he received from President Obama in the 2004 Senatorial election in illinois. Black conservative/Teabaggers are a sorry bunch.
Ohhhh… I saw a couple of funny tweets with this dude’s picture. Brutal, but HILARIOUS! Wondered what he’d done to get blasted so hard.. LOL! Now I get it! Almost feel sorry for him…. Wait, scratch that. No I don’t! 😀
I NEVER feel sorry for people who support those who would oppress them. There are so many working poor in my world who support the RW government – because those on “benefits” are just ripping off the taxpayers. It seems some cannot live unless they have someone to hate.
11 officers policing the protest in support of Darren Wilson. Five of them are on bicycles. http://t.co/iFVXABXEtc— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) August 17, 2014
LP08, I haven’t any doubt that there are armies of paid trolls who pack comment sections with right wing views. It’s probably irresistible to sit at home and get money for spewing hate.
NerdyW, may I add my little ‘1’ to the gazillions of thanks above? I continue to be awed by your commitment to your work* here – to the important issues, positive and negative that arise. (*We do know it’s work, but I do believe for you and CC it IS a labour of love.) THANKS! #PRESSON
It’s very effective in its entirety. I wonder if Capt Johnson has any interest in running for office – he seems to be who’s needed there for such a time as this.
LL – OT – I have a question when you have time. It’s a Twitter question. I want to display a picture or quotation in my tweet. For example your “The Washington Post” tweet. Can you provide a quick lesson for the Twitter challenged 🙂
Ok, with that tweet, if you go to the WaPo story and click on the “tweet” link, that’s what will show up. If you want to display a picture, you need to download the image to your computer, and then when you write a tweet click on the camera icon and upload the image.
Very nice Nerdy. Thank you. Lovely to see a little light in the midst of all the darkness. Loved Rev Al today. He was on fire. I am so inspired by his passion. In this arena he is without peer except perhaps Rev. Barber.
Any order restricting constitutional rights must clearly communicate to the public when and where it will apply, articulate valid justifications for the restrictions, and provide ample alternative locations where people may gather to express their views on the important issues being discussed in Ferguson,” they write. The groups argue that the current order “falls short of those requirements.”
The deputy chief refused to do so, he says, because the sheriff’s office was in such a “shambles,” and a state of “constant managed chaos and damage control.”
Um, as opposed to when, exactly?
Actually, throughout the book, Sands describes a dysfunctional law enforcement agency where PR flacks make law enforcement decisions, aged action heroes are granted carte blanche, and operations are organized primarily for the head honcho’s self-aggrandizement.
Arpaio is depicted both as a narcissist obsessed with publicity to the exclusion of all else (surprise, surprise), and an artifact of another era in law enforcement, one unconcerned about such niceties as “probable cause,” which Sands claims he’s had to explain to the sheriff more than once.
Sands describes Arpaio as an “aficionado of procuring controversy,” someone who could “develop anything into a press release.”
Sands writes, “Everything with Arpaio has to have something to do with him directly or he is completely apathetic.”
The man is a hot mess of nasty. He needs to go take care of animals, not people. Trust me when I say, he really does care for animals much better than he does people. MCSO is a wasteful moneypit with an incompetent, out of touch idiot at the helm. Time to go, Joe!
these acts provides confirmation on what we all know to be true. Sometimes it is critical for folks to see these images first hand to remove all remaining doubt on what this is.
“After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago — and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing — an African-American man approached me and said: “If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, imagine what we’ve been going through.”
Remember on an earlier thread, I shared a link from one of my conservative FB friends. (What’s going to be the cops story, complete w/video that I did not watch.) Right after that, I posted this status on FB: To all my Facebook friends: Please, let’s all spread and share love, respect, unity and trust. Please, don’t share things that spread hate, disrespect, intolerance and most importantly, lies.
It had only been a few short minutes and a posting showed up about some black minister who was responding to Rev. Al Sharpton. It was from http://www.theblaze.com. Obvously, did not click. Immediately posted a comment: Obviously, you did not see my status post from few minutes ago. Then, I got rid of her post. Few minutes ago, I checked her timeline and it had been deleted.
Nerdy, before this thread closes out I want to say how important this post is in reminding us all that Ferguson and other communities belong to the citizens, not the police. What makes a community real are the friendships, social supports, child raising and the joys and hard work of every day life. The police have a role to play in support of a community, but they should never be “in charge,” of it. In the photos in this post, we see the love of community and the pride of its citizens by those who live there. It’s important that this not get lost in all the anger and frustration, so thank you putting it front and center.
The Obama Diary 
Thank you so much, Nerdy…for all you do. Everyday.
Congrats on 1st df and all add another huge thank you to NW for her tireless efforts!!!
“… and I’ll add …”
Thank you, Bob.
You are a marvel, NW!!!
+ 50 gazillion!!!
Thank you Nerdy, your Ferguson posts have been brilliant.
I concur – brilliant. A well-rounded look at the community’s efforts to help each other.
Thanks, Ms. J’OB.
Thanks so much, Chips.
Thank you, DF.
Thank YOU, Nerdy…you have been tireless and spectacular…
Congrats on #1 df!
Ze Fleur de la Desert… You are Ze Winerrr! C’est Magnifique! Oooo-la-la! 😀
Bringing this over…
The protests and vigils that began in Ferguson, Missouri protesting the racial profiling of black and brown people by the police, the racist for-profit prison industrial complex and the rise of the American police state, have spread across the United States and the world. Anyone who has followed the events that have unfolded since the fatal shooting of Michael brown have more than likely read many racist myths and justifications for the vast inequalities in the number of people who are incarcerated or even murdered by the police for simply not being white.
One of these tropes that is without fail brought into conversation comes in one form or the other is “most crime is black-on-black.”
Well one poet in Chicago completely destroys this often repeated phrase by dissecting the racist meaning behind it.
Speaking to an enormous crowd at a vigil for Michael Brown at Chicago’s Daley Plaza, on August, 14th, Malcolm London, says “We don’t talk about white-on-white crime in the news though. We keep using this rhetoric of ‘black on black’ crime as if something is defective with black people.”
h/t Addicting Info
As we all know, our President is a master multi-tasker and extraordinary ‘community organizer.’ If we need any more evidence, well this is it …
For the centers of Sunni and Shia power to acknowledge each other and indicate willingness to pursue jointly exploration of their mutual interests is profound change.
#TrustBarack
In case any of you missed it on the previous thread, the announcements from the Iranian and Saudi FMs were reciprocal & released at the same time ….
#TrustBarack
Thank you, Bob. This is the kind of change that I didn’t expect to see in my lifetime.
Will read the Cleveland.com story, but what struck me was “former Congressman.”
What, he didn’t get a lobbying gig? Hats off to Lt Col Boccieri.
Ha. Some of us are used to a life filled with acronyms. Worked for the Navy for 30 years, and they had a bound book (before computers; no doubt online now) of ’em called the Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Of course, it had an acronym: DICNAVAB. The only one I like to recall (but it may not have actually been in the DICNAVAB, although it should have been) is BITOA (booze is the only answer).
“BITOA” could work for an infinite amount of *guidelines* 😎 here is the actual FBI document (if you want to humor yourself) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1199460-responsive-documents.html#document/p1
Thanks!
My military acronym is FUBAR!
my favorite…
That, too, rings a bell!
#6 and #15 << So Totally Me! 😀
I think AMK must have infiltrated the FBI…. #17 WAPCE (Women are pure concentrated evil) !!!
damn!
PREACH, Jesse!!!!!
I’m love… again! 🙂
So, I’ve been gone all afternoon, and I missed this AA who supports the killer cop.
Probably doesn’t want to be called “African American”…
Some the tweets about him have been hilarious, LL:
LL, Blacks have always had these kinds of blacks, you know the kind who would side with the slave masters, side with the KKK, side with the Tea Party Republicans.
Not only that, Annie, but some blacks owned slaves.
Once the so called Black conservatives are used up, they are discarded. For example: the Harvard educated Allan Keys. He pretty much went crazy and joined the “Birthers.” Obviously, part of his insanity was driven by the ass whooping he received from President Obama in the 2004 Senatorial election in illinois. Black conservative/Teabaggers are a sorry bunch.
Dear Ms Chips – when we keep our sense of humor – things just have to get better – the coffee hit the keyboard on that first tweet.
I’m with you 99. That 911 one put me on the floor! 😀
This is HILARIOUS
Someone at the link remarked that he looked ‘special’, and I’m inclined to agree.
Looks like he lost his primary. Aw! Guess he’s trying to keep from fading into the woodwork.
http://ballotpedia.org/Martin_D._Baker
Egg. sack. lee! Looking for a little attention (negative or otherwise) to keep his political hopes alive.
Ohhhh… I saw a couple of funny tweets with this dude’s picture. Brutal, but HILARIOUS! Wondered what he’d done to get blasted so hard.. LOL! Now I get it! Almost feel sorry for him…. Wait, scratch that. No I don’t! 😀
I NEVER feel sorry for people who support those who would oppress them. There are so many working poor in my world who support the RW government – because those on “benefits” are just ripping off the taxpayers. It seems some cannot live unless they have someone to hate.
Thank yu NERDY…for Shining a bright light on the humanity of the people in Ferguson…
they suspended sanitation services to Ferguson…..damn
Thanks, PF.
LP, the veteran perspective on Ferguson is important. The more you see how over the top the FPD acted and continues to act, the more insane it seems.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the photos where the FPD is more heavily equipped than deployed troops in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Probably the other 6 are on horses.
No tanks, no weapons, no tear gas, np guns pointed at them.
no guns.
Is it just me or the comments sections of all important newspapers and internet blogs are jam-packed with right wing comments ? How is it so ?
Is it possible that either the Kochs, or Rove’s friends, or republican strategists are paying lots of people to post comments everywhere?
LP08, I haven’t any doubt that there are armies of paid trolls who pack comment sections with right wing views. It’s probably irresistible to sit at home and get money for spewing hate.
NerdyW, may I add my little ‘1’ to the gazillions of thanks above? I continue to be awed by your commitment to your work* here – to the important issues, positive and negative that arise. (*We do know it’s work, but I do believe for you and CC it IS a labour of love.) THANKS! #PRESSON
Nerdy,
And I second vc on that – wow, thanks so much for making this the best place on the intertubes.
Thanks, Forus50.
Thank you so much, VC.
We will see much more of this LEADER in the days and years ahead and that will be very good for the United States of America and for humanity ….
This is what a TRUE LEADER and TRUE PUBLIC SERVANT looks like!
Agree 100% and have mentioned before.
He doesn’t get the airtime that the lying liar Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson does, however.
The right man for the job, at the right time. He’s in a tough position, with more than one boss, no clear chain of command. 😦
In_Deed, df. We will see much more of Capt Johnson!
If anyone missed Capt Johnson’s entire speech (as I had), it’s over at Smartypants.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2014/08/captain-ron-johnson-thats-my-baby.html
It’s very effective in its entirety. I wonder if Capt Johnson has any interest in running for office – he seems to be who’s needed there for such a time as this.
So true. Who’ll be the 1st?
Reporter calling it a protest is odd. WTF are they protesting? Darren Wilson is still getting full pay and living it large on vacation somewhere.
Question: is the curfew in force for tonight?
think so…I read it was extended for a second night. I assume that means tonight
LL – OT – I have a question when you have time. It’s a Twitter question. I want to display a picture or quotation in my tweet. For example your “The Washington Post” tweet. Can you provide a quick lesson for the Twitter challenged 🙂
Ok, with that tweet, if you go to the WaPo story and click on the “tweet” link, that’s what will show up. If you want to display a picture, you need to download the image to your computer, and then when you write a tweet click on the camera icon and upload the image.
Thanks LL. I’ll try again. The last time I just “view photo” and not the picture.
Sabreen, what’s your twitter handle? If you follow me @sonamie (and I follow you), I’ll DM you the ‘steps’ I shared with Jackie earlier today.
Thanks vc, because it’s not working for me. Sabreen60 @QueenMerytAmon
You need to follow me so I can DM you the info, rather than put it for general audience (who are all mostly experienced already). 😀
Sabreen, VC is a master tutor. She DM’s me steps that even a tech dummy like me could follow.
Yes.
Very nice Nerdy. Thank you. Lovely to see a little light in the midst of all the darkness. Loved Rev Al today. He was on fire. I am so inspired by his passion. In this arena he is without peer except perhaps Rev. Barber.
Thanks, Vetivera24
THIS! THIS! THIS!
Any order restricting constitutional rights must clearly communicate to the public when and where it will apply, articulate valid justifications for the restrictions, and provide ample alternative locations where people may gather to express their views on the important issues being discussed in Ferguson,” they write. The groups argue that the current order “falls short of those requirements.”
what are the supporters of Darren Wilson protesting against? That I don’t get.
Where’s Don? I think he was the one that said he thought Arpiao was not incompetent, or something like that. I disagreed.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2014/08/joe_arpaios_ex-deputy_chief_brian_sands_dishes_dirt_on_steven_seagal_birthers_and_more_in_e-book_arp.php
The deputy chief refused to do so, he says, because the sheriff’s office was in such a “shambles,” and a state of “constant managed chaos and damage control.”
Um, as opposed to when, exactly?
Actually, throughout the book, Sands describes a dysfunctional law enforcement agency where PR flacks make law enforcement decisions, aged action heroes are granted carte blanche, and operations are organized primarily for the head honcho’s self-aggrandizement.
Arpaio is depicted both as a narcissist obsessed with publicity to the exclusion of all else (surprise, surprise), and an artifact of another era in law enforcement, one unconcerned about such niceties as “probable cause,” which Sands claims he’s had to explain to the sheriff more than once.
Sands describes Arpaio as an “aficionado of procuring controversy,” someone who could “develop anything into a press release.”
Sands writes, “Everything with Arpaio has to have something to do with him directly or he is completely apathetic.”
The man is a hot mess of nasty. He needs to go take care of animals, not people. Trust me when I say, he really does care for animals much better than he does people. MCSO is a wasteful moneypit with an incompetent, out of touch idiot at the helm. Time to go, Joe!
Just so they know we are all paying attention ….
h/t to Ta-Nehisi Coates for reminding everyone of this incredible debate.
Saw that recently. Amazing.
Ssssh! Maybe if they made the terms and conditions shorter and simpler people *would* read them!
The WHOLE thing…
Straight and true. Thanks for posting this, Dudette. Must See.
Apologies for my bad grammar. You know I’m a poor typist/editor. 🙂
Excellent point Dudette! Thank you for this.
I wonder if the africa colonizers, brits, french and dutch treat their black citizens as badly as murka. Any statistics on this?
Dammit, the freaking jackbooted thugs are out with ARs and gas masks. Firing tear gas towards crowd marching with their hands up!!! WTF!!!
where do you see this??? WTF.
MSNBC
Alderman @AntonioFrench is live tweeting it — as he has been all week.
it’s 9:25 pm.
THEY SAID…
the curfew begins at MIDNIGHT.
It’s 9:25 pm
Showing it live on MSNBC. They’re shooting off tear gas. WHY?!!!
these acts provides confirmation on what we all know to be true. Sometimes it is critical for folks to see these images first hand to remove all remaining doubt on what this is.
“After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago — and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing — an African-American man approached me and said: “If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, imagine what we’ve been going through.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/what-i-did-after-police-killed-my-son-110038.html#ixzz3AhsppjQL
Remember on an earlier thread, I shared a link from one of my conservative FB friends. (What’s going to be the cops story, complete w/video that I did not watch.) Right after that, I posted this status on FB: To all my Facebook friends: Please, let’s all spread and share love, respect, unity and trust. Please, don’t share things that spread hate, disrespect, intolerance and most importantly, lies.
It had only been a few short minutes and a posting showed up about some black minister who was responding to Rev. Al Sharpton. It was from http://www.theblaze.com. Obvously, did not click. Immediately posted a comment: Obviously, you did not see my status post from few minutes ago. Then, I got rid of her post. Few minutes ago, I checked her timeline and it had been deleted.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/17/this-is-about-finding-justice-for-a-kid-that-was-shot/
Nerdy, before this thread closes out I want to say how important this post is in reminding us all that Ferguson and other communities belong to the citizens, not the police. What makes a community real are the friendships, social supports, child raising and the joys and hard work of every day life. The police have a role to play in support of a community, but they should never be “in charge,” of it. In the photos in this post, we see the love of community and the pride of its citizens by those who live there. It’s important that this not get lost in all the anger and frustration, so thank you putting it front and center.
Thanks, Jackie.