Don’t really need to say much. Enjoy.
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Sinnerman
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Mississippi Goddamn
Don’t really need to say much. Enjoy.
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Sinnerman
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Mississippi Goddamn
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#Ferguson http://t.co/7Tn8eCccMQ
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Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 21, 2014
@Lawrence YESTERDAY. Man brandishes GUN at people AND COPS. Shot ONCE. He lives. He's White.
sandiego6.com/news/local/Man… … http://t.co/8Fx6VP3MG0
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(@Only4RM) August 21, 2014
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#Ferguson My son has been dead almost 2½ yrs & I'm still waiting for my day in court huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/ram… #Ramarley http://t.co/gZmVvKBZoa
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Ferguson Solidarity (@FergusonUnity) August 21, 2014
Actor @TheOrlandoJones creates the #BulletBucketChallenge: bit.ly/YDFdG2 http://t.co/bYdIXGUQv2
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The Root (@TheRoot) August 21, 2014
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When St. Louis goes back to "normal" remember that for many normal is poverty, unemployment, lack of basic resources. Change "normal".
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 21, 2014
@sarahkendzior @CynthiaDBond Normal is also injustice, racism, systematic oppression & exploitation of minorities.
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(@semironic) August 21, 2014
@sarahkendzior And systemic harrassment & subjugation by law enforcement. Don't forget that. @OpFerguson
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Ed Cates (@EdCates) August 21, 2014
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#Ferguson http://t.co/rbfEmzb8eJ
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Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 21, 2014
TODAY IN RACISM: From yesterday's Columbia (MO) Tribune. Call 573/815-1700 or write editor@columbiatribune.com. http://t.co/oX9h5K6iNn
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Sam Cohen (@cohenss) August 21, 2014
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I keep coming back to what seems to me to be the most inhumane thing of all, the inhumane thing that happened before the rage began to rise, and before the backlash began to build, and before the cameras and television lights, and before the tear gas and the stun grenades and the chants and the prayers. I keep coming back to the one image that was there before the international event began, before it became a television show and a symbol in flames and something beyond what it was in the first place. I keep coming back to one simple moment, one ghastly fact. One image, from which all the other images have flowed.
They left the body in the street.
Dictators leave bodies in the street.
Petty local satraps leave bodies in the street.
Warlords leave bodies in the street.
A police officer shot Michael Brown to death. And they left his body in the street. For four hours. Bodies do not lie in the street for four hours. Not in an advanced society. Bodies lie in the street for four hours in small countries where they have perpetual civil war. Bodies lie in the street for four hours on back roads where people fight over the bare necessities of simple living, where they fight over food and water and small, useless parcels of land. Bodies lie in the street for four hours in places in which poor people fight as proxies for rich people in distant places, where they fight as proxies for the men who dig out the diamonds, or who drill out the oil, or who set ancient tribal grudges aflame for modern imperial purposes that are as far from the original grudges as bullets are from bows. Those are the places where they leave bodies in the street, as object lessons, or to make a point, or because there isn’t the money to take the bodies away and bury them, or because nobody gives a damn whether they are there or not. Those are the places where they leave bodies in the street.
More here
(Thanks for the heads up Japa, this is stunning)
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Morning – Happy Friday!
pd_shutterspeed: anonymous group lays 60 plus yards of roses at #MichaelBrown #Ferguson memorial; community lights candles in memoriam
brendan_lind: 1000 roses on Canfield for #MikeBrown #Ferguson #HealSTL
Koran Addo: Roses being laid down in the street outside the Canfield Green Apts. for #MikeBrown. #Ferguson
rlippman: Flowers in the street for Mike Brown #Ferguson
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